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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Paperback. In 2003, the author arrived in Egypt as a 23-year-old trainee journalist. She found a country on the brink of change. In this book, she unravels the complex forces shaping the lives of four young Egyptians caught between tradition and modernity, and what their stories mean for the future of the Middle East. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JM; HBJF1; HBLX; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846557637
ISBN
9781846557637
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.69

Hardcover. This book explores the ways in which Ayurveda, the oldest medical tradition of the Indian subcontinent, was transformed from a composite of 'ancient' medical knowledge into a 'modern' medical system, suited to the demands posed by apparatuses of health developed in late colonial India. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJ; HBTB; HBTQ; MBP; MX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230284555
ISBN
9780230284555
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.97

Hardback. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSC; 3JJ; 3JM; HBJK; JFFH1; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 585. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9781477311042
ISBN
9781477311042
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 43.93

Hardback. This book explores the decision of the British Empire to import Chinese labour to southern Africa despite the already tense racial situation in the region. It enables a clearer understanding of racial and political developments in southern Africa during the reconstruction period and places localised issues within a wider historiography. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 272 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 5 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 3JJC; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTQ; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 222 x 22. Weight in Grams: 466.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
2013th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230303775
ISBN
9780230303775
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.24

Hardback. For six terror-filled weeks in 1870 German armies bombarded Strasbourg, killing hundreds of citizens, wounding thousands, and destroying landmarks. Rachel Chrastil tells how the city became the epicenter of a new kind of warfare whose indiscriminate violence shocked contemporaries and led to debates over the wartime protection of civilians. Num Pages: 268 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBTB; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 624.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674728868
ISBN
9780674728868
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 46.60

Paperback. The Afro-Brazilian religion Candomble has long been recognised as a resource of African tradition, values, and identity among its adherents in Bahia, Brazil. This book describes development of religion as an "alternative" space in which subjugated and enslaved blacks were able to cultivate a sense of individual. Series: Blacks in the Diaspora. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 bibliog. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HRAX; HRKT; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253216106
ISBN
9780253216106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.33

Paperback. During the nineteenth-century, European women experienced dramatic and enduring changes in their familial, working and political lives. Breaking away from traditional categories, the authors of this book provide a sense of the variety and complexity of women's lives across national and regional boundaries. Series: Gender and History. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333676066
ISBN
9780333676066
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.18

Paperback. A witty and touching account of ten inspirational figures that makes us reconsider conventional ideas of the fifties woman. Num Pages: 384 pages, Section: 8, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 3JJPG; HBLW3; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 270. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Virago
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0006192
ISBN
9781844087419
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. "A fine treatment of this critical time in geology's history. Although it goes against our standard histories of the field, Laudan defends her views convincingly. Her style is direct, with carefully reasoned personal opinions and interpretations clearly defined." Jere H. Lipps, "The Scientist"" Series: Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S. Num Pages: 290 pages, 16ill. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; PDX; PNV; RBGK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
0002-
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226469478
ISBN
9780226469478
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.39

Hardback. Puts the Renaissance Faire back at the historical centre of the American counterculture Num Pages: 359 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
359
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814771389
ISBN
9780814771389
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.06

hardcover. Through a study of Malaysia, Taming Babel examines how empires and postcolonial nation-states struggle to govern multilingual and polyglot subjects. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FMM; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 22. Weight in Grams: 538.
Edition
First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107148536
ISBN
9781107148536
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.67

Paperback. Blackly funny, sharply observed and evocative memoir of growing up the weird and wonderful way on an ashram in India. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JJPN; BGA; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Printing
SKU
KLN0018110
ISBN
9780340898833
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.49

Hardback. This book explores the ongoing enchantment of much-loved stop-frame children's television programming of the 1960s and 1970s. Hand-Made Television analyses programmes in the social and historical contexts of their production, examining the power of their hand-made aesthetics and relationship to the world of children's play. Num Pages: 132 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; APFV; APT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 148 x 224 x 18. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137551627
ISBN
9781137551627
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.16

Paperback. When Rachel Polonsky went to live in Moscow, she found an apartment block in Romanov Street, once a residence of the Soviet elite. One of those ghostly neighbours was Stalin's henchman Vyacheslav Molotov. In his former apartment, Rachel Polonsky discovered his library and an old magic lantern. Num Pages: 416 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 28. Weight in Grams: 312.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571237814
ISBN
9780571237814
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Hardcover. Num Pages: 296 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JM; JFSG; KCG; KCU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 305 x 26. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226294483
ISBN
9780226294483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 40.43

Hardback. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JF; HBTB; HRCX7; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801446313
ISBN
9780801446313
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.04

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 11, 9 black & white halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JF; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780801478895
ISBN
9780801478895
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.47

Hardback. Provides a thorough examination of the role of women in Ascendancy Ireland. Series: Irish Historical Monographs. Num Pages: 222 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 23. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783270392
ISBN
9781783270392
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.73

hardcover. Num Pages: 253 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, 13 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK; JFFT; RNH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Number of pages
253
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137590619
ISBN
9781137590619
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 116.64

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781590706
ISBN
9781781590706
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 32.09

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