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Days in the Caucasus
We all know families that are poor but 'respectable'. Mine, in contrast, was extremely rich but not 'respectable' at all... This is the extraordinary memoir of an 'odd, rich, exotic'...
At Day's Close: A History of Nighttime
A fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime. 'A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness' SPECTATOR 'Fascinating' SUNDAY TIMES 'A splendid book ... great entertainment' Sir Patrick...
Larissa Reisner: A Biography
The book titled Larissa Reisner: A Biography by the author Cathy Porter. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Occupation: The Ordeal of France 1940-1944
Defeat in 1940 left the French so chastened and demoralized that they readily supported the Vichy regime, committed not just to pragmatic collaberation but to finding scapegoats for the nation's...
The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance
A lucid guide through the labyrinth of Lacanian theory This book provides an illuminating account of the theory of subjectivity found in the work of Jacques Lacan. Guiding readers through...
A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much...
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest
In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of...
Lorca's Granada: A Practical Guide
This book aims to provide the reader with a guide to Granada. Divided into ten routes, it takes the visitor, step-by-step, from the poet Federico Garcia Lorca's birthplace in the...
The Incas and their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peru
Described as a 'masterly study' and 'an outstanding volume' on its first publication, The Incas and Their Ancestors quickly established itself as the best general introduction to the cultures and...
The Maya
In this revised and expanded introduction to the Maya, Professor Coe incorporates the latest ideas and research in a fast-changing field. Spectacular tomb discoveries at the city of Copan reveal...
The Black Death
The book titled The Black Death by the author Robert Steven Gottfried. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Long Affair
As controversial and explosive as it is elegant and learned, The Long Affair is Conor Cruise O'Brien's examination of Thomas Jefferson, as man and icon, through the critical lens of...
The Spaniards: A Portrait of the New Spain
The book titled The Spaniards: A Portrait of the New Spain by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Phoenix Crown
An unforgettable story about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles... San Francisco, 1906. In...
These Wicked Devices
THE HOLY CITY IS NO PLACE FOR MERCY 'Matthew Plampin should rank with the best' Sunday Times 'Plampin is heartbreakingly good' The Times 'Gripping, immersive, at times very funny and...
Thomas Mann and His Family
The book titled Thomas Mann and His Family by the author Marcel Reich-Ranicki. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
To Arras, 1917: A Volunteer's Odyssey
A biography of the author's uncle, Ernest Reid, who died in 1917, an officer in the Black Watch, of wounds sustained in the Battle of Arras. Born and raised in...
Travelers to an Antique Land: The History and Literature of Travel to
In Travelers to an Antique Land, Robert Eisner embarks on an engaging journey through centuries of fascination with Greece-a land alternately imagined, idealized, and rediscovered by visitors from across the...
Chateaux of the Loire - Michelin Green Guide: The Green Guide
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The newly updated Green Guide Chateaux of the Loire features the treasures of France's picturesque Loire Valley. Discover the top attractions, most interesting villages and towns, and shopping hot spots....
Shooting Leave: Spying out Central Asia in the Great Game
Snow leopards and Cossacks can both be dangerous. But to young British officers in India in the nineteenth century there was only one thing more exciting than shooting wild game...
Victoria and Albert
'He seems perfection and I think that I have the prospect of very great happiness before me...' Victoria in a letter of 15 October 1839 One of the greatest royal...
A Victorian Christmas
At the darkest moment of the year, when the nights seem endless and the days very short, comes that most joyful of festivals. Christmas is a truly magical season, bringing...
Never Greener
The Sunday Times number one bestselling debut from screenwriter and actress Ruth Jones. A warm, witty and wise story of life's second chances and the dangers of taking them. The...
A Mother's Promise: My true story of surviving Auschwitz and the
'Mama, it's me.' I held her hand in mine, hoping it would give her the strength to hold on. Finally, she spoke, her voice barely above a whisper. ' Do...
Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End
After the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the three great powers...
The Spirit of Prague
This is a collection of essays, charting five critical decades in the history of Czechoslovakia. Ivan Klima was a witness to the horrors of Nazi occupation, to the Stalinist regimes...
The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five
A Holocaust historian, archivist, and history blogger adds a new dimension to the story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising during World War II, shining a long overdue spotlight on five...
France, 1815-1914: The Bourgeois Century
The book titled France, 1815-1914: The Bourgeois Century by the author Roger Magraw. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Pianist
The powerful memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. 'You can learn more about human nature from this brief account of the...
A History Of Hull
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA comprehensive work of regional history, A History of Hull chronicles the development of...
Marxism And Imperialism
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA rigorous work of Marxist political theory and historical analysis, Marxism and Imperialism presents...
National Communism In Western Europe: A Third Way To Socialism?
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA rigorous work of political science and comparative European studies, National Communism in Western...
An Exhibition Of Modern European Paintings & Sculpture
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Historians And The Causes Of The French Revolution
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work of historiographical scholarship, Historians and the Causes of the...
Britain In Transition: The Twentieth Century
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Satan In Goray
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet in a devastated seventeenth-century Polish village still reeling from the Cossack massacres, Satan...
Four Short Plays: The Bear; The Proposal; The Wedding; The Anniversary
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA cornerstone of dramatic literature, this collection presents four of Anton Chekhov's most beloved...
The Oak And The Calf: Sketches Of Literary Life In The Soviet Union
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work of literary memoir and political testimony, The Oak and the Calf...
Foragers And Farmers: Population Interaction And Agricultural Expansion In Prehistoric Europe
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA rigorous work of archaeological scholarship, Foragers and Farmers: Population Interaction and Agricultural Expansion...
The Revolution Of Cola Di Rienzo
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work of medieval political literature, The Revolution of Cola di Rienzo chronicles...
Modern German Poetry
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark anthology in the study of German literature, Modern German Poetry presents a...
The Barbed Wire Waltz: The Memoirs Of The Last Waltz King
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA richly layered work of memoir and cultural history, The Barbed Wire Waltz: The...
Visitor's Guide - The First Day of the Somme
Many guidebooks cover the Somme offensive in 1916, the five-month struggle that has come to be seen as one of the defining episodes in the history of the fighting on...
French Army in the First World War
The French army of the First World War withstood the main force of the German onslaught on the Western Front, but often it is neglected in English histories of the...
Germany in the Great War - The Opening Year: Mobilisation, the Advance
Germany in the Great War Illustrated - Mobilisation and the Western Advance is the first volume of a projected six-part series that details, graphically, the Central Powers - Germany and...
The Forging of a Rebel
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Originally published in the late 1940s, and never before available in paperback in the United States, Arturo Barea's astonishing Spanish trilogy is both the autobiography of a man and the...
Voice Of The Wind: The Family Of Alice Syme From The Scottish Covenanters To 1978
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA richly detailed work of genealogical and social history, Voice of the Wind chronicles...
The Trial Of The Templars
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work of medieval history, The Trial of the Templars chronicles the dramatic...