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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Hardback. A spirited account of the life and times of one of the seminal figures in history of English grammar which dispels the myth of Lowth as the icon of prescriptivism, and establishes him as a key figure in the history of English grammar. It will appeal to everyone interested in the history of English the long-running debate on linguistic correctness. Num Pages: 360 pages, Figures. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JF; CFF; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 247 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780199579273
ISBN
9780199579273
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 174.90

Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 178 b/w, 190 colour plates, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNT; 3JJ; 3JM; WGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 254 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816675913
ISBN
9780816675913
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.43

Hardback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 170 halftones, 26 colour photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJG; AMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 267 x 191 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1275.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816648368
ISBN
9780816648368
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.08

Hardback. Digs into the human drama behind the Eighth Wonder of the World Num Pages: 320 pages, 56 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; TBX; TNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 621.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814742990
ISBN
9780814742990
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 44.74

Hardback. A study of US imperialism that argues America's leaders have chosen to go to war for influence and power ever since the declaration of independence. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745327655
ISBN
9780745327655
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 100.78
€ 83.19

Paperback. Series: Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America. Num Pages: 392 pages, 10 halftones. 4 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691156163
ISBN
9780691156163
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.60

Hardback. An examination of the factors which led to the breakdown of the Soviet Union. The author argues the main factor was that weak mechanisms for controlling bureaucrats within Soviet organizations meant they were able to seize the organizational assets they were supposed to be managing. Series: Russian Research Center Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, 5 line illustrations, 21 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JPA; JPH; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 169 x 27. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
1St Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674836808
ISBN
9780674836808
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.61
€ 83.98

Hardback. Tracing teachers' experiences in the Third Reich and East Germany, this title analyzes developments in education of crucial importance to both dictatorships. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HBTB; JN; JPFC; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 167 x 29. Weight in Grams: 656.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674050532
ISBN
9780674050532
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 106.65
€ 95.28

Hardback. Tells the story of postwar America's political evolution through two fascinating figures: Lionel Trilling and Whittaker Chambers. Born at the turn of the twentieth century, they were college classmates who went on to intellectual prominence, sharing the questions, crises, and challenges of their generation. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JPF. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 818.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032583
ISBN
9780674032583
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.15
€ 59.21

Hardcover. In 1911, when a professor took his students to tour Nanjing's shantytowns, one student was grateful as his eyes had been opened to the poverty in his own city. Years later, when another professor showed his students a film on the poor quarters of Nanjing, they demanded his expulsion. This book explores the reasons for these different reactions. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 424 pages, 35 b/w figures, 5 maps, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJG; HBJF; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 164 x 36. Weight in Grams: 758.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674021327
ISBN
9780674021327
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 45.96

Paperback. Maps a series of historical events - since the Raj in the mid-nineteenth century - through which India was made fashionable to Western audiences within the popular cultural arenas of the imperial metropole. This book presents an examination of India as represented in department stores, exhibitions, painting, and picture postcards of the era. Num Pages: 230 pages, 48 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JF; 3JJ; HBJF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 59.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520252318
ISBN
9780520252318
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.28

Paperback. Joined together in an extraordinarily close relationship, Walt Disney World and Orlando, Florida, have become the world's most popular tourist destination. This title traces the history of this "marriage" and tells the story of Disney's use and abuse of unparalleled governmental powers. Num Pages: 274 pages, 16 b/w illus. + 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; 3JJP; HBT; JPV; KNSG; KNSP; RP. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300098280
ISBN
9780300098280
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.72

Paperback. Historian Peter Gay tells of his youth as an assimilated, antireligious Jew in Nazi Germany from 1933-39. He describes his family, the life they led, and the reasons they did not emigrate sooner, and he explores his own ambivalent feelings - then and now - toward Germany and the Germans. Num Pages: 218 pages, 50 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJG; BGA; HBJD; HBLW; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300080704
ISBN
9780300080704
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 28.70

Hardcover. The Choice of the Jews under Vichy is written from the joint perspective of a historian and a participant in the events he describes. An organizer of the communist faction of the Jewish resistance in France, Rayski buttresses his analysis of war-era archival materials with his own personal testimony. Translator(s): Sayers, Will. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD; HBTB; HBWQ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 239 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 762.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268040215
ISBN
9780268040215
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.95

Paperback. A comprehensive look at the Boxer Rebellion of 1898-1900, a bloody uprising in north China against native Christians and foreign missionaries. Num Pages: 428 pages, 36 photos. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBTV; HRC; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 228 x 23. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
428
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231106511
ISBN
9780231106511
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.37

Hardback. The short, both tragic and happy life, of Julian Bell, poet, younger member of Bloomsbury, son of Vanessa Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, from his birth in 1908 until his death in 1937 in the Spanish Civil War. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; DSBH; DSC; HBLW; HBWP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804774130
ISBN
9780804774130
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.80

Hardback. This book is a major reassessment of the early Cold War U.S.-Japan security relationship. It draws on new archival material and the latest scholarship to demonstrate the constructive efforts of U.S. policymakers in building a lasting, albeit limited partnership with America's most important East Asian ally. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 3JJPG; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804739610
ISBN
9780804739610
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.31

Hardback. For the most part, Brazil's forests were not harvested, but annihilated, and relatively little was extracted for the benefit of Brazilians. This text aims to make sense of what at first glance appears to be the senseless destruction of Brazil's incomparable timber. Num Pages: 344 pages, 6 half-tones 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3J; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804733960
ISBN
9780804733960
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 86.02

Hardback. Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JMC; HBJK; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801447655
ISBN
9780801447655
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.39

Hardcover. Twentieth Century Music is the third volume to appear in this series. Num Pages: 576 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AVGC6. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 0. Weight in Grams: 920.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
572
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393952728
ISBN
9780393952728
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 47.71

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