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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the spring of 1918, the Western Front teetered on the edge of catastrophe — Saving the Channel...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the twentieth century's most brilliant scientific minds turns his gaze inward in Disturbing the Universe, a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn February 1956, the Kremlin became the stage for one of the most seismic political events of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Cold War, understanding the machinery of Soviet power was not merely an academic...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat drives a scientific genius to overturn centuries of accepted wisdom, and what does the inner life of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn late eighteenth-century France, a feral child emerged naked and speechless from the forests of Aveyron, igniting one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of Shakespeare's most magnificent and turbulent tragedies, Antony and Cleopatra chronicles the doomed love affair between Mark...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Cold War, when American public opinion on China was shaped almost entirely by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most extraordinary eyewitness accounts ever committed to parchment, The Jewish War chronicles the catastrophic first-century...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerLong before the elegance of algebra or the precision of calculus, humanity's relationship with number began as a...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind every immortal opera lies a forgotten genius — and Papageno: Emanuel Schikaneder, Man of the Theater in Mozart's Time finally restores one such...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of revolution and reconstruction, The Spirit of Post-war Russia: Soviet Ideology 1917-1946 by...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn 1898, Sidney and Beatrice Webb — the towering intellectual architects of British Fabian socialism — embarked on a remarkable journey to the antipodes,...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: Note: unclipped dj. Clean and bright copy. At the crossroads of monarchy, religion, and political power, The Commander of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFrom the gilded halls of St. Petersburg to the smouldering barricades of 1917, The Shadow of the Winter Palace chronicles nearly a century of...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt a pivotal moment in the twentieth century, when the revolutionary...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the height of the Victorian gold rush era, Melbourne transformed itself from a colonial outpost into one of the most spectacular and ambitious...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAt the intersection of ideology, ethnicity, and state power, The Jewish Minority in the Soviet Union presents...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: annotated with some underlining. At the crossroads of tradition and revolution, Joseph R. Levenson's landmark study chronicles the intellectual crisis that unfolded...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in the history of revolutionary socialism burn as brightly as James Connolly — Irish nationalist, Marxist...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the heart of Britain's most turbulent wartime years, Men and Power: 1917-1918 offers a gripping, insider account of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the blood-soaked second volume of his monumental chronicle of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption continues his magisterial account of one of history's...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedAt the height of the Cold War, when the African continent was a critical theatre of ideological contest, Soviet scholars trained their analytical gaze...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt the crossroads of ideas, history, and human behaviour stands sociological theory — and Don Martindale's The Nature and Types...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhat happens when one of the twentieth century's most rigorous historical minds turns her attention to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn one of the most harrowing and intimate accounts of life under the Third Reich, Victor Klemperer —...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: N/APages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsAt the crossroads of ideology and identity, Turkism and the Soviets: The Turks of the World and Their Political Objectives presents a...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century European history command the reverence and complexity of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk — philosopher, statesman, and founding father of...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the uneasy decades between two catastrophic world conflicts, the fragile architecture of international order was...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: FEP missingThe high seas have never been more treacherous than in the world conjured by Alexei Novikov-Priboi in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn a work that permanently altered how the world thinks about commerce, culture, and connectivity, Thomas L. Friedman argues that...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerPublished in 1975 to immediate critical acclaim, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory is a landmark work of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the late eighteenth century, a ragged fleet of British ships deposited a cast of convicts, marines, and administrators onto the sun-scorched shores of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the mist-shrouded highlands of New Guinea, where ancient clan traditions collide with the unstoppable forces of modernity, Paula Brown's The Chimbu:...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the turbulent crossroads of Victorian faith and doubt stands Leslie Stephen — mountaineer, philosopher, editor, and father of Virginia Woolf — a man who...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn an era defined by strict moral codes and sweeping social change, Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories by Barbara T. Gates confronts one...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodVictorian England harboured few monsters as chilling as Mary Ann Cotton — a soft-spoken widow who buried husband after husband, child after child, collecting...