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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Paperback. Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences. Num Pages: 436 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 730.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Haymarket Books United States
Number of pages
436
Condition
New
SKU
V9781608462001
ISBN
9781608462001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.73

Paperback. Nicknamed 'The Desert Fox' for his cunning command of the Afrika Korps, Erwin Rommel remains one of the most popular and studied of Germany's World War II commanders. This book looks at the life of this daring soldier, focusing on his style of command and the tactical decisions that earned him his fearsome reputation. Illustrator(s): Dennis, Peter. Series: Command. Num Pages: 64 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBWN; HBWQ; JWT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 184 x 5. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846036859
ISBN
9781846036859
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.45

Hardback. Num Pages: 353 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJ; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
353
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575911281
ISBN
9781575911281
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 152.11

hardcover. A new generation of China scholars offers a fresh look at the unusual cross-cultural territory constituted by China's missionary-established Christian colleges before 1950 in this fascinating work. Num Pages: 432 pages, 2 tables, 14 figures, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; HBJF; HBTB; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804759489
ISBN
9780804759489
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 160.24

Paperback. An invaluable guide to identification and pricing of antique gas and electric lighting fixtures. Early twentieth century chandeliers and other hanging lamps, table lamps, desk lamps, shades, and accessories are shown, all with original wholesale prices plus current values. Num Pages: 208 pages, 770 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; WCN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 217 x 16. Weight in Grams: 988.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764316784
ISBN
9780764316784
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 25.30

Paperback. Beate Sirota Gordon was born in Vienna, but in 1929 her family moved to Japan so that her father, a noted pianist, could teach, and she grew up speaking German, English, and Japanese. In 1946, at age twenty-two, she helped to draft the new postwar Japanese constitution. This title chronicles the unlikely string of events that led her to that role. Num Pages: 176 pages, 47 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPG; BM; HBJF; HBLW3; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 162 x 10. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226132518
ISBN
9780226132518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 19.22

Hardback. Num Pages: 313 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ1; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 218 x 24. Weight in Grams: 552.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137574121
ISBN
9781137574121
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.38

Paperback. This volume surveys the role women have played in various types of business as owners and managers in Europe and North America since the sixteenth century. Drawing on the most recent scholarship, and paying particular attention to the influence of gender norms, Craig identifies the factors that have facilitated or restricted women's participation. Series: Gender and History. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 black & white tables, 13 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KB; 3J; HBTB; JFSJ1; KJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Macmillan Education UK United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2015
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137033222
ISBN
9781137033222
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 37.05

Hardback. A deeply researched and geographically wide-ranging study that reveals that widows were much more economically and socially active than is often thought. Num Pages: 344 pages, 14 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 764.
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783271771
ISBN
9781783271771
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.66

Paperback. First English translation of the diaries of John Castle's journey to the Kazakh steppe in 1736. Rich ethnographic writing offers insight into the political unrest of the Russian Empire, hidden practices such as exorcism, and the role of Islam in eighteenth-century Kazakhstan. Editor(s): Teissier, Beatrice. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Signal Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909930087
ISBN
9781909930087
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.42

Hardback. .
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Annotated
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473821231
ISBN
9781473821231
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.19

Paperback. Looks at America's long tradition of unequal access to health care. This title argues that two main features have characterized the US health system: a refusal to adopt a right to care and a particularly American approach to the rationing of care. Num Pages: 360 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; HBJK; MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226102191
ISBN
9780226102191
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 19.22

Paperback. Offers an account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. Drawing on interviews with peasants, community leaders, guerrillas, and paramilitary forces, the author creates a richly detailed political portrait of Santa Maria Tzeja, where highland Maya peasants seeking land settled in the 1970s. Series: California Series in Public Anthropology. Num Pages: 330 pages, 23 b/w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCG; 3JJPN; HBJK; HBLW3; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 546.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520246751
ISBN
9780520246751
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.81

Hardback. The Technical Imagination explores how technology entered the popular imagination in the Argentina of the 1920s and 1930s and how its products helped to shape modern thinking at all levels of Argentine society. Translator(s): Callahan, Xavier. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; JFC; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 381.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804735421
ISBN
9780804735421
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.75

In 1995, Kentucky Governor Brereton Jones granted parole to ten women convicted of killing, conspiring to kill or assaulting the men who had abused them for years. This work contains interviews with seven of the women, and reveals the horrific details of their abuse and their hopes for the future. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFFE3; JFSJ1; JKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 549.
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813121512
ISBN
9780813121512
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.64

Hardback. 17-year-old James P. Sullivan was among the first to answer Lincoln's call for volunteers in 1861. This is a collection of his writings about his days in President Lincoln's army, including accounts of the battles of Brawner Farm, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. Series: Irish in the Civil War. Num Pages: 189 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGHA; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JWD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
189
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823215003
ISBN
9780823215003
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.26

Paperback. This is the only general history of Britain's travelling communities in the twentieth century and covers state and legal developments affecting Travellers as well as their experiences of missions, education, warand welfare. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 17. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719091261
ISBN
9780719091261
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 26.77

hardcover. Num Pages: 132 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; GTF; HBTQ; HBTR; JFC; JHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
International Scholars Publications,U.S. United States
Number of pages
132
Condition
New
SKU
V9781573093613
ISBN
9781573093613
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.53

Paperback. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; AVGP; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 301 x 229 x 12. Weight in Grams: 646.
Publisher
Hal Leonard Corporation United States
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
SKU
V9780793504138
ISBN
9780793504138
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 32.14

Paperback. The essays in Modernism and Colonialism offer revisionary accounts of major British and Irish literary modernists relation to colonialism. Editor(s): Begam, Richard; Moses, Michael Valdez. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822340386
ISBN
9780822340386
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Based on extensive on-the-ground research, reveals the human stories behind China's extraordinary growth. Num Pages: 192 pages, 20 photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JM; GTF; HBJF; HBLX; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 227 x 12. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745332307
ISBN
9780745332307
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 21.20

Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUK; 3JMG; HBJD; HBLX; JPFN; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Germany
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9783838209647
ISBN
9783838209647
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 44.43

Hardback. As a first-hand, on-the-spot account, this is an invaluable source for historians of twentieth-century Europe, the lead-up to World War I and the decline of the Ottoman Empire. Editor(s): Destani, Bejtullah D.; Elsie, Robert. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DVW; 1QDT; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 146 x 29. Weight in Grams: 518.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780760766
ISBN
9781780760766
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 141.06
€ 125.57

Hardback. Bela Kiraly recounts his personal experiences of war, revolution, and regime change during a volatile century. Forced to become a professional officer, he rose to the position of commander in chief of Hungary's National Guard in the 1956 revolution and emigrated to the United States following Soviet suppression. Num Pages: 568 pages, ports., maps. BIC Classification: 1DVH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBLW; HBTV; HBW; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 34. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
East European Monographs United States
Number of pages
568
Condition
New
SKU
V9780880335799
ISBN
9780880335799
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.91

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