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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Hardcover. Today's Euroscepticism contrasts sharply with the idealism of the thousands of Poles thrust out of their country after 1939 by war, occupation and communism. How could a future Poland find security and progress, but by membership in a union of European states? This book explores how Poles in exile attempted to shape opinion in Poland and the West. Num Pages: 319 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW; JFSL; JPSN2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230229372
ISBN
9780230229372
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.77

Paperback. Editor(s): Langbehn, Volker; Salama, Mohammad. Num Pages: 360 pages, 3 illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1H; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 482. Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany. 327 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): Langbehn, Volker; Salama, Mohammad. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1H; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 17. Weight: 482.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
327
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231149730
ISBN
9780231149730
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.36

Paperback. Langston Hughes was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. This book offers a collection of letters between Hughes and four confidantes sheds light on his life and politics. It deals with his life and work. Editor(s): Crawford, Evelyn Louise; Patterson, Mary Louise. Num Pages: 424 pages, 30 b/w images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; BGL; BJ; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 0. .
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
424
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520285347
ISBN
9780520285347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Hardback. Langston Hughes was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. This book offers a collection of letters between Hughes and four confidantes sheds light on his life and politics. It deals with his life and work. Editor(s): Crawford, Evelyn Louise; Patterson, Mary Louise. Num Pages: 424 pages, 30 b/w images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; BGL; BJ; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 0. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520285330
ISBN
9780520285330
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.03
€ 73.24

Paperback. Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. In this work, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres propose a way to confront race in the 21st century. Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures. Num Pages: 400 pages, 3 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; JFFJ; JFSL; JPA; JPH; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674010840
ISBN
9780674010840
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 31.06

Hardcover. Covering the period between the Munich Agreement and the Communist Coup in February 1948, this groundbreaking work offers a novel, provocative analysis of the political activities and plans of the Czechoslovak exiles during and after the war years, and of the implementation of the plans in liberated Czechoslovakia after 1945. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVK; 3JJH; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230368743
ISBN
9780230368743
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.25

Paperback. The Revolutionary United Front (RUF), claimed to be freeing the country from corruption and the brutalities of its political class and their foreign allies, but their insurgency killed more than 75,000 people. This title charts in detail the decade long civil war that brought Sierra Leone to its knees from 1991-2001. Num Pages: 238 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1HFDE; 3JJPR; HBJH; HBLW3; HBW; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
238
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781850657422
ISBN
9781850657422
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.61

Paperback. A powerful chronicle of wartime London as experienced by five writers driving ambulances, fighting fires and falling passionately in love." Num Pages: 528 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 133 x 33. Weight in Grams: 422.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408830901
ISBN
9781408830901
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Hardcover. This book addresses the development of 'civil' anti-Semitism in twentieth-century Britain, a crucial and often critically neglected strand of anti-Jewish rhetoric that, prior to 1934, was essential to the legitimization of proto-fascist political and literary discourses, as well as stylistic practices within literary modernism. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; DSB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230391666
ISBN
9780230391666
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.13

Paperback. Recasting the meaning of women's work in the early fight for gender equality Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 232 pages, 10 photographs. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; JFFK; JFSJ1; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780252076619
ISBN
9780252076619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.56

Paperback. This authoritative chronicle of the 1950s gestation and modern reanimation of the Soyuz launcher details innumerable aspects of the history, including the measures taken by the Soviets to disguise their work on rocketry and the system's recent commercial use. Series: Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration. Num Pages: 500 pages, 122 black & white illustrations, 111 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJP; 3JM; TTDS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 169 x 19. Weight in Grams: 782.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Edition
2013th Edition
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9781461454588
ISBN
9781461454588
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.46

Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 4 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; 3JJPR; 3JM; JHMC; KCP; MBN; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 439.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253023827
ISBN
9780253023827
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 34.36

hardcover. Num Pages: 296 pages, 4 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; 3JJPR; 3JM; JHMC; KCP; MBN; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253023728
ISBN
9780253023728
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.25

Paperback. Documents crucial changes in performance practice and live electronics, computer music, notation and event scores, theater and installations, intermedia and technology, politics and the social roles of composers and performers, and innovations in the sound of music. Editor(s): Austin, Larry; Kahn, Douglas; Gurusinghe, Nilendra. Num Pages: 396 pages, 68 b/w photographs, 128 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; 3JJPL; AVGC6. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 26. Weight in Grams: 988. Music of the Avant-Garde, 1966-1973. 396 pages, illustrations. Editor(s): Austin, Larry; Kahn, Douglas; Gurusinghe, Nilendra. Documents crucial changes in performance practice and live electronics, computer music, notation and event scores, theater and installations, intermedia and technology, politics and the social roles of composers and performers, and innovations in the sound of music. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; 3JJPL; AVGC6. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 26. Weight: 950.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520267459
ISBN
9780520267459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.31

Hardback. Harold Macmillan's 'Wind of Change' speech, delivered to the South African parliament in Cape Town at the end of a landmark six-week African tour, presaged the end of the British Empire in Africa. This book, the first to focus on Macmillan's 'Wind of Change', comprises a series of essays by leading historians in the field. Editor(s): Butler, Larry; Stockwell, Sarah E. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1HFMS; 1QDB; 3JJPK; HBJD1; HBLW3; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 27. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230361034
ISBN
9780230361034
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.66

Chambers's timeless story of Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol Rangers in the Vietnam War--first published in 1992--is now reissued with a new Introduction from the author. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJF; HBJK; HBWS2; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 111 x 22. Weight in Grams: 164.
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Presidio Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780891418405
ISBN
9780891418405
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 9.90

Paperback. Howard, Muzammil M. Hussain, Rebecca MacKinnon, Patrick Meier, Evgeny Morozov, Xiao Qiang, Rafal Rohozinski, Mehdi Yahyanejad Editor(s): Diamond, Larry; Plattner, Marc F. Series: A Journal of Democracy Book. Num Pages: 208 pages, 2, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JMG; JFD; JPHV; JPW; UBJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421405681
ISBN
9781421405681
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.14

Hardcover. Significant recent research on the German Right between 1918 and 1933 calls into question received narratives of Weimar political history. The German Right in the Weimar Republic examines the role that the German Right played in the destabilization and overthrow of the Weimar Republic. Num Pages: 316 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JPFM; JPFN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 232 x 27. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782383529
ISBN
9781782383529
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 175.05

Hardback. Argues persuasively that the size, scope, and intensity of black resistance in the Second Seminole War makes it the largest sustained slave insurrection in American history. Series: The New Black Studies Series. Num Pages: 264 pages, 32 black and white photographs, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252036910
ISBN
9780252036910
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.11

Hardcover. Turns the canonical vision of those events on its head by demonstrating how the defenders of Greek literature rather than clinging to an outmoded tradition celebrated the radically different practices of the ancient world. This title explores how the authoritative status of Greek texts allowed them to justify literary depictions of the scandalous. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; 2AHA; 3JB; DSBB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226591483
ISBN
9780226591483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.89
€ 50.94

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