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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Paperback. In early 1970, the Commanding Officer of 22 SAS flew into the strategically critical Sultanate of Oman on a covert intelligence mission to monitor a Communist rebellion threatening the Arabian Peninsula. This book deals with this intelligence mission. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), maps, ports. (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: 1FBXM; 3JJPL; HBJF1; HBWS; JWG; JWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 139 x 197 x 35. Weight in Grams: 422.
Publisher
Corgi
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552160216
ISBN
9780552160216
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Hardcover. This text presents satirical dialogues written in Amsterdam Yiddish between members of the established and the breakaway Jewish communities in 18th-century Amsterdam. These dialogues allowed the breakaway community to expose the inequalities and foibles of the establishment community. Editor(s): Michman, Jozeph; Aptroot, Marion. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 2ACY; 3JH; DNF; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 46. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Hebrew Union College Press
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9780878202201
ISBN
9780878202201
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.43

Hardback. Prominent historian Justus Doenecke analyzes the personalities, leading action groups, and major congressional debates surrounding the U.S. decision to participate in World War II. Num Pages: 551 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJD; HBJK; HBWQ; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 37. Weight in Grams: 858.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
551
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742507845
ISBN
9780742507845
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.89

Paperback. Prominent historian Justus Doenecke analyzes the personalities, leading action groups, and major congressional debates surrounding the U.S. decision to participate in World War II. Num Pages: 576 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJD; HBJK; HBWQ; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 31. Weight in Grams: 740.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780742507852
ISBN
9780742507852
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 80.96

Paperback. In a mountain resort in the Alps, Hitler built his 'Eagle's Nest' from which he conceived and directed the war. Skiing resorts were turned into training centres for mountain warfare, plans were made to invade Switzerland, and concentration camps were seeded. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1DFHA; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571282395
ISBN
9780571282395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.09

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; JFSK2; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 23. Weight in Grams: 562.
Publisher
Harrington Park Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781939594051
ISBN
9781939594051
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; 3JJH; JFSK2; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 167 x 28. Weight in Grams: 882.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harrington Park Press Inc
Condition
New
SKU
V9781939594044
ISBN
9781939594044
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.12
€ 68.86

Paperback. A comprehensive , ambitious, and demanding critique of eighteenth-century English and French fiction, Story and History rereads the major works of the period as components in a systematic exploration of how the ordering of experience by individuals might relate to larger orders of authority. Num Pages: 400 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2ADF; 3JF; DSA; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
No Edition Stated
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631175124
ISBN
9780631175124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.78

Hardback. Presents and dissects one of the most tragic events of the 20th Century in a dramatic insight into the Titanic's construction and fit-out, to its maiden voyage. This title includes the tales of the people on board including the captain, members of the crew, and passengers from first, second, and third class. Illustrator(s): Noon, Steve. Num Pages: 48 pages, chiefly Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: 1QSAN; 3JJC; 5AH; YFY; YNH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 304 x 258 x 9. Weight in Grams: 528.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781409383390
ISBN
9781409383390
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. Fearing that his SS and Police convicts National Socialist spirit was irrevocably damaged in civil and military gaols, the Reichsfuhrer-SS, Heinrich Himmler, commanded the HA SS-Gericht in the spring of 1940 to establish a Waffen-SS prison within the environs of the dreaded KL Dachau. Here, he incarcerated the malodourous elements of the SS. Num Pages: 576 pages, 36 black and white photographs and 10 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 264 x 166 x 55. Weight in Grams: 1126.
Publisher
Fonthill Media
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781555606
ISBN
9781781555606
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 36.28

Paperback. Reissue of the acclaimed biography of Beryl Markham Num Pages: 448 pages, Section: 16, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 3JJ; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 199 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349121758
ISBN
9780349121758
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJP; 3JM; BGSA; WSBX; WSWY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 281 x 209 x 23. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Anchor Canada
Condition
New
SKU
V9780385681100
ISBN
9780385681100
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.63

Hardcover. Considers how foreign-exchange intervention was affected by changing economic and institutional circumstances - most notably the abandonment of the international gold standard - and how political and bureaucratic factors affected this aspect of public policy. Num Pages: 496 pages, 72 line drawings, 18 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; KCBM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 726.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226051482
ISBN
9780226051482
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.81
€ 83.43

Paperback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 126 x 20. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
SKU
V9781616083953
ISBN
9781616083953
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.22

Hardback. The first book about Albatross Press, a Penguin precursor that entered into an uneasy relationship with the Nazi regime to keep Anglo-American literature alive under fascism Series: New Directions in Narrative History. Num Pages: 440 pages, 30 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; HBWQ; KJZ; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. .
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300215687
ISBN
9780300215687
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

paperback. Now in paperback, this 'wonderful book' (Jane Stevenson, Daily Telegraph) describes the remarkable lives and times of the John Tradescants, father and son, immortalized in Philippa Gregory's bestselling novels Earthly Joys and Virgin Earth. Num Pages: 496 pages, Integrated black & white images throughout. 2 x 8pp black & white plates and 4pp colour p. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JD; BGH; WM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 38. Weight in Grams: 482.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781843543350
ISBN
9781843543350
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.27

Paperback. Stevenson's short novel, published in 1886, became an instant classic. It was a Gothic horror originating in a feverish nightmare, that has thrilled readers ever since. Also included in this edition are a number of short stories and essays of the 1880s and extracts from writings on personality disorder that set the works in their historical context. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199536221
ISBN
9780199536221
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.18

Paperback. Num Pages: 278 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
NeWest Press Canada
Number of pages
278
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897126820
ISBN
9781897126820
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.69

Paperback. 'If the 1960s were a wild weekend and the 1980s a hectic day at the office, the 1970s were a long Sunday evening in winter, with cold leftovers for supper and a power cut expected at any moment.'A jaw-droppingly brilliant account of how the seventies was defined by mass paranoia told with Francis Wheen's wonderfully acute sense of the absurd. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JJPL; HBJD1; HBJK; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 23. Weight in Grams: 252.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
9780007244287
ISBN
9780007244287
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. Billie Holiday's signature tune, 'Strange Fruit', with its graphic and heart-wrenching portrayal of a lynching in the South, brought home the evils of racism as well as being an inspiring mark of resistance. In 1939, its performance sparked controversy (and sometimes violence) wherever Billie Holiday went. Num Pages: 176 pages, 8pp plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; 3JJP; AVGK; AVH; BGF; HBJK; HBLW; JFFJ; JFSL; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 199 x 11. Weight in Grams: 129.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841952840
ISBN
9781841952840
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.57

Paperback. A collection of essays and articles that show how Latin Americans travels and residency abroad helped them re-examine their own origins and perceptions of their homeland. Editor(s): Fey, Ingrid E.; Racine, Karen. Series: Jaguar Books on Latin America. Num Pages: 258 pages, photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLS; 3JH; 3JJ; DN; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFSL; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 164 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780842026949
ISBN
9780842026949
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.48

Paperback. An account of the five dramatic counterrevolutions that occurred in 1979, showing how the combined forces unleashed by Deng Xiaopeng, Margaret Thatcher, the Pope, the Iranian Ayatollah, and the Afghan mujahedin set the stage for the 21st century. It offers a new argument about the hinge on which the twentieth century turned. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; HBG; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 554.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Basic Books
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780465065677
ISBN
9780465065677
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99

Paperback. Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JF; FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 203 x 29. Weight in Grams: 422.
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804849081
ISBN
9780804849081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.19

Paperback. A moving and revealing insight into the real experiences of women welcoming home their menfolk from the Second World War Num Pages: 352 pages, 8pp b-w. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781416526841
ISBN
9781416526841
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.05

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