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Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Paperback. Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, Admiral of the Fleet, was the second son of Queen Victoria. At 18 he was elected King of Greece, but not allowed to accept the crown. While touring Australia in 1868 he narrowly escaped assassination. His last years were clouded by alcoholism, ill-health, and the suicide of his only son and heir. Num Pages: 192 pages, 70 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; BGH; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Publisher
- Fonthill Media Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781553190
- ISBN
- 9781781553190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.42
€ 19.99
€ 15.42
Hardback. Focusing on the design and building practices developed in the Portuguese region of the Algarve over four decades, from Modern Movement influence to the eve of mass-tourism development, this book looks at three tropes of twentieth-century architecture - modernism, regionalism and popular building traditions commonly known as 'vernacular'. Num Pages: 398 pages, 199 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DSP; 3JJ; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 183 x 253 x 27. Weight in Grams: 924.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472456847
- ISBN
- 9781472456847
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 193.78
€ 193.78
Paperback. Offers an account of Indian work in diophantine equations during the 6th through 12th centuries and Italian work on solutions of cubic and biquadratic equations from the 11th through 16th centuries. The volume traces the historical development of algebra and the theory of equations from ancient times to the beginning of modern algebra. Editor(s): Varadarajan, Veeraualli Seshadri. Series: Mathematical World. Num Pages: 174 pages, index. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1FKA; 3F; 3H; 3J; PBF; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 184 x 10. Weight in Grams: 287.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- American Mathematical Society
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821809891
- ISBN
- 9780821809891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.98
€ 57.98
Hardcover. Presents a collection of essays that brings together scholarship on the subject of memory and identity in the France-Algeria colonial and postcolonial relationship. This book explores topics from history and photography to culture and religion. It includes such topics as migration, displacement, settler colonialism, racism, sexuality, and more. Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East. Num Pages: 312 pages, note, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1HBA; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 30. Weight in Grams: 853.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815630746
- ISBN
- 9780815630746
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.47
€ 67.47
Hardback. Algeria is noteworthy for its geopolitical position and the fact it has avoided destabilisation from grassroots uprisings along the lines of the Arab Spring and from hardline Islamists currently plaguing the region Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBA; 3JM; HBJH; HBLX; JPH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 145. Weight in Grams: 750.
- Publisher
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849045872
- ISBN
- 9781849045872
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.20
€ 53.20
Paperback. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Num Pages: 304 pages, 10. BIC Classification: 1HBA; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801489167
- ISBN
- 9780801489167
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 31.78
€ 34.99
€ 31.78
Hardback. By the 1990s, Algeria's revolutionary political model had collapsed, degenerating into a savage conflict between the military and Islamist guerillas that killed some 200,000 citizens. This work explores Algeria's bloody history, demonstrating how the high hopes of independence turned into anger as young Algerians grew increasingly alienated. Num Pages: 352 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HBA; 3JJ; HBJH; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 168 x 34. Weight in Grams: 760.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300108811
- ISBN
- 9780300108811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.28€ 50.75
€ 64.28
€ 50.75
Paperback. The first full account for a generation of the war against French colonialism in Algeria, setting out the long-term causes of the war from the French occupation of Algeria in 1830 onwards Num Pages: 496 pages, 42 black and white illustrations; 12 maps; 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1HBA; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBJD; HBJH; HBLW; HBWS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 234 x 37. Weight in Grams: 732.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199669035
- ISBN
- 9780199669035
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.89
€ 21.99
€ 16.89
Hardback. The most incisive and up-to-date analysis of Algeria's recent history in the second 25 years after independence. Editor(s): Crowley, Patrick. Series: Francophone Postcolonial Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBA; 3JJPR; 3JMC; HBJH; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163. .
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781786940216
- ISBN
- 9781786940216
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.94
€ 139.94
Hardback. * Pierre Bourdieu is one of the most influential sociologists and anthropologists of the late twentieth century. * This important new volume brings together his key writings on Algeria, where he did his first major fieldwork in the late 1950s and 1960s. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBA; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJH; HBLW3; HBLX; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 35. Weight in Grams: 674.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745646947
- ISBN
- 9780745646947
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.02
€ 72.02
Paperback. * Pierre Bourdieu is one of the most influential sociologists and anthropologists of the late twentieth century. * This important new volume brings together his key writings on Algeria, where he did his first major fieldwork in the late 1950s and 1960s. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBA; 3JJP; 3JM; HBJH; HBLW3; HBLX; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745646954
- ISBN
- 9780745646954
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.93
€ 26.93
Hardcover. This volume, bringing together leading experts in the field, focuses on the role of the French army in the Algerian War. It shows that the war was just as much about conflicts of ideas, beliefs and loyalties as it was about simple military operations. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HBA; 3JJPG; HBJD; HBJH; HBLW3; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333774564
- ISBN
- 9780333774564
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.24
€ 129.24
Paperback. Place of distribution from distributor's website. Num Pages: 320 pages, B&W photos throughout. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJPL; BGS; WSBX; WSTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 209 x 24. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- BenBella Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781942952190
- ISBN
- 9781942952190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.02
€ 18.99
€ 17.02
Paperback. It is 1935 and the author is living in the East Polish town of Buczacz. Although brought up in an atmosphere of anti-Semitism, nothing could prepare this young girl for the Russian invasion of Poland and the full horror of the Nazi Occupation. This book tells her story. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJH; BM; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 201 x 28. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857502612
- ISBN
- 9780857502612
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.37
€ 17.99
€ 13.37
Paperback. Explores the French physicist Leon Foucault's (1819-1868) proof that the world rotates and develops the experiment further. This book illustrates the playful exploration of space and time using recent pictures from the Schirn rotunda. Num Pages: 64 pages, 32 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJP; ACXJ; AFKN; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 269 x 208 x 8. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Hirmer Verlag
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783777424422
- ISBN
- 9783777424422
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.50
€ 19.99
€ 18.50
Alien Albion challenges assumptions about the origins of English national identity and the importance of religious, class, and local identities in the early modern era. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442647190
- ISBN
- 9781442647190
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Condition: New
€ 70.69
€ 70.69
Paperback. Between the early 1900s and the late 1950s, the attitudes of white Californians toward their Asian American neighbors evolved from outright hostility to relative acceptance. The author examines this transformation through the lens of California's urban housing markets. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 halftones, 9 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJ; HBTB; JFFB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226004181
- ISBN
- 9780226004181
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.64
€ 35.99
€ 28.64
Hardback. This remarkable study examines in depth and over a long time span how (anti-) alien policies were transformed, resulting in an illiberal exclusion of foreigners at the same time as democratization and the welfare state expanded. In this respect Belgium is certainly not unique but offers an interesting case study of developments.. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6 ills, 70 tables, 22 graphs. BIC Classification: 1DDB; 3JH; 3JJH; GTB; JFFD; JFFN; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 571.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571819864
- ISBN
- 9781571819864
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.51
€ 164.51
Hardcover. The Communist Party dictatorships in Hungary and East Germany sought to win over the "masses" with promises of providing for ever-increasing levels of consumption. This policy - successful at the outset - in the long-term proved to be detrimental for the regimes because it shifted working class political consciousness to the right.. Num Pages: 376 pages, 5 ills, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 1DVH; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 648.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782380252
- ISBN
- 9781782380252
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.79
€ 182.79
Paperback. Interpreting South Asian and diasporic texts, Parama Roy argues that who eats and with whom, who starves, and what is rejected as food are questions fundamental to empire, decolonization, and globalization. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FK; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBJF; HBTR; JFCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6147 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822348023
- ISBN
- 9780822348023
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.61
€ 36.99
€ 27.61
Paperback. 1972. A plane has crashed in the Andes mountains. The passengers are hopelessly lost in one of the most isolated places on earth. Almost three months later, two of the survivors, emaciated and frozen, reach the authorities and lead a rescue team to the remaining fourteen passengers. The rescue team are shocked when they reach the crash-site. Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; 3JJPL; BTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 198 x 31. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099574521
- ISBN
- 9780099574521
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.56
€ 12.99
€ 11.56
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Tundra Books Canada
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 32
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781770495142
- ISBN
- 9781770495142
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.42
€ 10.42
Hardback. Tells the story of the modern discovery of biodiversity. This work argues that the work begun by Linnaeus culminated around 1900, when collecting and inventory were organized on a grand scale in natural history surveys. Num Pages: 384 pages, 55 halftones. 1 table. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; RNCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 169 x 240 x 31. Weight in Grams: 786.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691125398
- ISBN
- 9780691125398
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 70.13€ 54.73
€ 70.13
€ 54.73
Paperback. A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of people around the world- soldiers, sailors and airmen; housewives, farm workers and children. Num Pages: 768 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 47. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007450725
- ISBN
- 9780007450725
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.54
€ 19.99
€ 14.54