Modern period, c 1500 onwards
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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Oxbow Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781842174715
- ISBN
- 9781842174715
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Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 41.76
€ 49.99
€ 41.76
Hardback. William Charles Wells (1757-1817) was one of the foremost, and forgotten, American scientists of the eighteenth century. He should be acknowledged as laying the foundations for modern studies of vestibular function as well as eye movements. This book features his Essay on single vision with two eyes (1792) and his own Memoir of his life (1818). Series: History and Philosophy of Psychology. Num Pages: 310 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; JMM; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1850.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media United States
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306473852
- ISBN
- 9780306473852
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 195.08
€ 195.08
Hardback. The book investigates the rise, fall and possible re-emergence of a powerful Shia militia. The author draws on personal experience of occupied Baghdad, having been embedded with US troops in the city, to offer new evidence on an important chapter in modern Iraqi history. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 3JM; HBJF1; HBLX; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 148 x 27. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849044349
- ISBN
- 9781849044349
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 41.07
€ 45.99
€ 41.07
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JM; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 162 x 12. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The Peterson Institute for International Economics
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780881326260
- ISBN
- 9780881326260
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.48
€ 23.99
€ 18.48
Mason uses the antics of Romantic-era advertising to illustrate the profound implications of commercial modernity, both in economic practices governing the book trade and, more broadly, in the development of the modern idea of literature. Num Pages: 216 pages, 26, 26 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JF; DSA; DSBD; KNTY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421409986
- ISBN
- 9781421409986
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Condition: New
€ 63.73
€ 63.73
Hardcover. A study of Lancashire Quakers and the establishment between 1660 and 1730. Series: Studies in Protestant nonconformity. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; 3JD; 3JF; HRCC2; HRCC97. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 164 x 29. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Publisher
- Keele University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853310157
- ISBN
- 9781853310157
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.91€ 100.62
€ 104.91
€ 100.62
Hardcover. Series: National Gallery London Publications. Num Pages: 448 pages, 75 b/w + 225 color illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 1DST; 3JB; AFC; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 299 x 216 x 34. Weight in Grams: 2201.
- Publisher
- National Gallery Company Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857099089
- ISBN
- 9781857099089
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.42€ 71.16
€ 87.42
€ 71.16
Paperback. For years, Lefty provided the smarts, while Tony kept the bosses happy with weekly suitcases filled with millions in skimmed cash. Lefty's obsessions with running the town and Tony's obsession with Lefty's beautiful showgirl wife, Geri eventually led to betrayals and investigations that exploded into one of the greatest scandals in mob history. Num Pages: 432 pages, N/A. BIC Classification: 1KBBWN; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Ebury Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785031540
- ISBN
- 9781785031540
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.29
€ 21.99
€ 16.29
Paperback. In 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming had a brilliant idea: why not set up a unit of authorised looters, men who would go in hard with the front-line troops and steal enemy intelligence? Known as '30 Assault Unit', they took part in the major campaigns of the Second World War. This book tells 30 Assault Unit's story. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBWQ; JWH; JWKF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571250639
- ISBN
- 9780571250639
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.88
€ 17.99
€ 12.88
Paperback. By June 1940, most of Europe had fallen to the Nazis and Britain stood alone. So, with Winston Churchill in charge the British bluffed their way out of trouble, drawing on the trickery which had helped them win the First World War. Num Pages: 688 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWN; HBWQ; JWKF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 43. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571221967
- ISBN
- 9780571221967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.31
€ 19.99
€ 14.31
Paperback. Formally opened in May 1883 as Auckland University College, it then comprised a disused courthouse and jail, 95 students and just 4 teaching staff. Today it is New Zealand's largest university, hosting more than 40,000 students on its 5 Auckland campuses;. A remarkable history written to celebrate its 125th anniversary. Num Pages: 228 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBN; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; HBT; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 220 x 5. Weight in Grams: 595.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Auckland University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781869404130
- ISBN
- 9781869404130
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.59
€ 38.99
€ 33.59
Hardcover. The Great Rebellion claimed tens of thousands of lives and traumatized imperial psyches for decades. This work delves into the fractious relations between Indian communities and their clergy and the role that such tensions played as a major causal factor in the rebellion. Num Pages: 272 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; 1KLSR; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTV; HRCX1; JFSL9; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815631187
- ISBN
- 9780815631187
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.61€ 55.99
€ 60.61
€ 55.99
Hardback. Written over a period of six years, this book comprises a series of lectures, both for the Charles Lamb Society and at Lancaster and Leicester Universities, and an independent study. Writers such as John Augustus Bonney, Wordsworth, George Dyer and Southey are examined. Series: Studies in romanticism. Num Pages: 186 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 357.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333523148
- ISBN
- 9780333523148
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.60
€ 122.60
Hardcover. Taking into account developments in historical and ecological criticism, and incorporating fresh research into poetry and politics in the 1790s, the second edition of "The Politics of Nature" enlarges and updates Nicholas Roe's study of Romanticism. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333962756
- ISBN
- 9780333962756
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.49
€ 64.49
Paperback. Taking into account developments in historical and ecological criticism, and incorporating fresh research into poetry and politics in the 1790s, the second edition of "The Politics of Nature" enlarges and updates Nicholas Roe's study of Romanticism. Num Pages: 257 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333962763
- ISBN
- 9780333962763
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.57
€ 63.57
Paperback. For Priscilla, pre-war Paris was an exciting carousel of suitors, soirees and heartbreak, and eventually a lavish wedding to a French aristocrat. But the arrival of the Nazi tanks signalled the end of life as a Vicomtesse, and the beginning of a precarious existence under German Occupation. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; BGH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 201 x 34. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099555667
- ISBN
- 9780099555667
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.31
€ 17.99
€ 13.31
Paperback. By developing the concept of critical space, this title presents a fresh genealogy of twentieth-century American fiction. It argues that the radical American fiction of Jack London, Upton Sinclair, John Dos Passos, and Josephine Herbst re-imagines the spatial concerns of late nineteenth-century utopian American texts. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803220768
- ISBN
- 9780803220768
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.80
€ 29.99
€ 26.80
Paperback. The Second World War was a German war like no other. The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, turned it into the most horrific war in European history. Yet we still do not know what Germans thought they were fighting for and how they experienced the war. This book looks at how the German people experienced the Second World War. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 51. Weight in Grams: 568.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099539872
- ISBN
- 9780099539872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.66
€ 19.99
€ 14.66
Paperback. A sequel to Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Pacific War and Britain, Southeast Asia and the Onset of the Cold War, this book discusses Britain's policy towards Southeast Asia in the period 1950-55. Num Pages: 538 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FM; 3JJPG; HBJD1; HBLW3; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 780.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Singapore University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789971693152
- ISBN
- 9789971693152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.51
€ 38.99
€ 33.51
Hardback. This book takes advantage of new and often surprising biographical research on the Loder family as a whole and its four main figures, using them to illustrate aspects of music history in the 19th century. Editor(s): Temperley, Nicholas. Series: Music in Britain, 1600-2000. Num Pages: 314 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, 41 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; AVGC4; AVGC5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783270781
- ISBN
- 9781783270781
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.57
€ 107.57
Hardback. Renaissance debates about politics and gender led to pioneering forms of poor relief, devised to help women get a start in life. These included orphanages for illegitimate children and forced labor in workhouses, but also women's shelters and early forms of maternity benefits, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and credit union savings plans. Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History. Num Pages: 400 pages, 3 halftones, 13 line illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; JFFA; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 31. Weight in Grams: 736.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674067097
- ISBN
- 9780674067097
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.72€ 56.40
€ 61.72
€ 56.40
Paperback. Explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of Captain Cook. This title reveals that there was gain as well as loss, survival as well as suffering, and invention as well as exploitation. Num Pages: 356 pages, 50 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MK; 3JH; HBJM; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 231 x 26. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300180565
- ISBN
- 9780300180565
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.61
€ 21.99
€ 17.61
Paperback. An accessible and entertaining narrative history of the establishment, development and unravelling of the British Welfare State - now fully revised to cover Blair's first term. Lively writing in the style of Peter Hennessy. Num Pages: 720 pages, 22 b/w plates, With index. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; 3JJP; HBTB; JFF; JKSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 35. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 720
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007102648
- ISBN
- 9780007102648
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.67
€ 20.99
€ 16.67
Paperback. A lively and engaging introduction to one of the most charismatic figures in the history of British art, G.F. Watts. Covering all aspects of Watts's career, it places him back at the centre of the visual culture of the 19th century. Published to celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth. Num Pages: 132 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; ACV; AFC; AFKB; AGB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 170 x 242 x 13. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Publisher
- Paul Holberton Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781911300076
- ISBN
- 9781911300076
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.33
€ 23.99
€ 18.33