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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Paperback. 'The Spy Beside the Sea' reveals one of the strangest stories of espionage to emerge from the Second World War. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 233 x 15. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The History Press
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752479637
ISBN
9780752479637
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.60

paperback. This analysis of the social development of Spain since 1800 explores the social conflicts at the root of the Spanish Civil War and how that war and the subsequent changes, from democracy to Franco and back again, have shaped the social relations of the country. Num Pages: 308 pages, maps, graphs, chronology, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 157 x 233 x 19. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415090834
ISBN
9780415090834
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.02

Paperback. Mick Mannock, Fighter Pilot rediscovers Britain's most successful fighter pilot of the First World War. It traces the myth of an 'ace with one eye', examining how Mannock has been represented in both biography and in fiction, and asks why he is still commemorated today. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 black & white halftones, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWN; JWG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
2001st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137509826
ISBN
9781137509826
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.40

Hardback. The Hurricane was the most successful RAF fighter of the Second World War. Covers the operations of ten RAF squadrons in diverse theatres of war: France, Battle of Britain, the Mediterranean and North Africa Num Pages: 208 pages, 16 pages of black and white plates. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBWQ; JWG; JWMV3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 28. Weight in Grams: 576.
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473848429
ISBN
9781473848429
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.16

Paperback. Drawing on material, from furious royal proclamations to the private letters of pirates and their victims, as well as Islamic accounts, this title provides perspectives of the corsairs and an insight into what it meant to sacrifice all you have for a life so violent, so uncertain and so alien that it sets you apart from the rest of mankind. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1HB; 3JF; HBJH; HBLL; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099523864
ISBN
9780099523864
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. In the early hours of 2 September 1666 a small fire broke out in a bakery in Pudding Lane. In the five days that followed it grew into a conflagration that would devastate the third largest city in the Western world. This is a guide to the Great Fire of London and includes first-hand descriptions from the diaries of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 177 x 10. Weight in Grams: 76.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784872144
ISBN
9781784872144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.68

Paperback. This account of the Great Fire of London explores its history and consequences, from the first small blaze to the long work of rebuilding. It also describes the human story of the fire and its aftermath - the panic and terror, the hunt for scapegoats and the rebirth of a city. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations, facsims., maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780712668477
ISBN
9780712668477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

paperback. This portrait of Christopher Wren (1632-1723), the great British architect, aims to show us the man behind the legend - a man who was the Surveyor of the King's Works, a pioneering anatomist and mathematician, who devised new navigational instruments and lectured on planetary motion. Num Pages: 480 pages, 24pp halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; AMB; BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 32. Weight in Grams: 682.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780712673648
ISBN
9780712673648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 28.74

Paperback. * The definitive history of the SS by an acclaimed expert -- out now in paperback Num Pages: 496 pages, Section: 16, b/w. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; JPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 34. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Abacus
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349117522
ISBN
9780349117522
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.35

Paperback. Series: Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies. Num Pages: 298 pages, 10 b&w illus., 9 maps, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 3JJ; HBJK; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253023032
ISBN
9780253023032
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

hardcover. Series: Indiana Series in Sephardi and Mizrahi Studies. Num Pages: 298 pages, 10 b&w illus., 9 maps, 14 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253022714
ISBN
9780253022714
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 91.35

Paperback. For many of the 200,000 black soldiers sent to Europe with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, encounters with French civilians and colonial African troops led them to imagine a world beyond Jim Crow. This title illuminates how World War I mobilized a generation. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJF; HBJK; HBLW; HBWN; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 548.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674062054
ISBN
9780674062054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 29.74

Hardcover. Num Pages: 407 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JF; HBTB; HRAM1; HRAX; JKV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 245 x 32. Weight in Grams: 852.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Brepols Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
V9782503531748
ISBN
9782503531748
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 199.69

Paperback. On 1 October 1990, hundreds of Banyarawanda militants that served with the Ugandan Army deserted their posts to form the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and invade Rwanda. Thus began the Rwandan Civil War, which was to culminate in the famous genocide of nearly one million of Tutsi and moderate Hutus, in 1994. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; 3JJP; HBJH; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 297. .
Publisher
Helion & Company United Kingdom
Number of pages
72
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910294567
ISBN
9781910294567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.17

Hardback. Series: A Day with. Num Pages: 224 pages, 300 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; ACVT; WMB; WTHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 140. Weight in Grams: 567.
Publisher
Editions Flammarion
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Special edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9782080203069
ISBN
9782080203069
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 26.20

Paperback. In this collection of prose writings, one of America's foremost poets and feminist theorists reflects upon themes that have shaped her life and work. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; DNF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co New York
Number of pages
314
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393312850
ISBN
9780393312850
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.42

paperback. Whitney's two volumes of verse miscellany, "Sweet Nosegay" (1573) and "The Copy of a Letter" (1567), were part of a literary trend of combining classical and Biblical references with vernacular sources. As well a selection of her original poetry, this volume includes Mary Sidney's version of the Psalms of David and Petrach's "Triumph of Death". Editor(s): Clarke, Danielle. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3J; DCQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140424096
ISBN
9780140424096
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.29

Paperback. When Naser al-Din Shah, who ruled Iran from 1848 to 1896, claimed the title Shadow of God on Earth, his authority rested on pre-modern conceptions of sacred kingship. Between roughly 1870 and 1940, Iran's traditional monarchy was forged into a modern nation-state. This book explores the changes that made possible this transformation of Iran. Series: Studies in Modernity and National Identity. Num Pages: 200 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJF1; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 18. Weight in Grams: 326.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295988207
ISBN
9780295988207
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 33.91

Paperback. Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie's extensive and evocative letters and photographs from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part of the British trade mission for the famous 1924 Empire Exhibition. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDB; 3JJG; BJ; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 494.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007460687
ISBN
9780007460687
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.96

Paperback. A memoir that shares the true story behind "The Sound of Music". Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3JJG; 3JJH; BM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 136 x 15. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Original
Condition
New
SKU
V9780061998812
ISBN
9780061998812
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.70

Hardcover. Tackling issues ranging from Europe's legal, institutional and cultural identity to its border, citizenship and integration policies, and looking forward to its legacy for the future, this book features contributors who interrogate the various dimensions and contours of the European crisis. Editor(s): Czajka, Agnes; Isyar, Bora. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 422.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748683369
ISBN
9780748683369
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.78
€ 119.62

Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JB; HBJK; HBLH; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 143 x 9. Weight in Grams: 172.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Canada
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9781926971001
ISBN
9781926971001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. "The Other Schindlers: Why Some People Chose to Save Jews in the Holocaust". Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 185 x 23. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752459677
ISBN
9780752459677
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.50

Paperback. This is a comprehensive analysis of the main dynamics of modernity which discusses the technological, social and political elements of modernism, and analyzes the works of Hegel, Marx, Weber, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Arendt. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 532.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631216131
ISBN
9780631216131
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.88

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