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Apartheid Israel! considers how the policies of the State of Israel, in violently dispossessing Palestinians of their land, nationality, and human rights, replicates policies of South Africa’s era of Grand Apartheid.It... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61100K Georgina Ferry / Dorothy Hodgkin : A Life Dorothy Hodgkin was an eminent crystallographer whose research contributed to an extraordinary period of scientific discovery. She was also passionate about international affairs and an active peace campaigner. This biography reveals the inner life... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 60965K Antjie Krog / Country of My Skull Krog captures the complexity of South Africa's Truth and Reconcilliation Commission in a personal narrative, taking the reader beneath the big movements of the Truth Commission and beyond, into the heart of what it means to be a South African in a post... 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Apartheid Israel! considers how the policies of the State of Israel, in violently dispossessing Palestinians of their land, nationality, and human rights, replicates policies of South Africa’s era of Grand Apartheid.It... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61100K Georgina Ferry / Dorothy Hodgkin : A Life Dorothy Hodgkin was an eminent crystallographer whose research contributed to an extraordinary period of scientific discovery. She was also passionate about international affairs and an active peace campaigner. This biography reveals the inner life... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 60965K Antjie Krog / Country of My Skull Krog captures the complexity of South Africa's Truth and Reconcilliation Commission in a personal narrative, taking the reader beneath the big movements of the Truth Commission and beyond, into the heart of what it means to be a South African in a post... 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Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... 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Quick view sku: wW7710H Boutros Boutros-Ghali / Unvanquished: A US-UN Saga (Hardback) The Secretary General of the United Nations from January 1992 to December 1996, Boutros-Ghali writes bluntly of the conflict between the US and the UN. He tells the inside story of debacles in the Middle East, Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda and Haiti, and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X85937K Lee Edwards / William F. Buckley Jr.: The Maker of a Movement (Hardback) “If you want to understand not only the rise of the modern conservative movement but also how conservatives can regain their footing during these perilous times, you must read William F. Buckley The Maker of a Movement . Lee Edwards,... 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Jones / The New American Politics: Reflections On Political Change And The Clinton Administration (Large Paperback) Was 1992 a realigning election? Did the midterm elections of 1994 realign the realignment? Will 1996 carry the United States forward on yet another changed trajectory? In this volume of original essays, leading political scientists examine key... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X85462K Bruce E. Keith / The Myth of the Independent Voter (Large Paperback) Few events in American politics over the past two decades have generated more attention than the increasing number of voters calling themselves Independent. By the early 1970s Independents outnumbered Republicans, according to many eminent experts on... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85456K Zoë Playdon / The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes (Large Paperback) Ewan Forbes was born Elisabeth Forbes to a wealthy landowning family in 1912. 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Keith / The Myth of the Independent Voter (Large Paperback) Few events in American politics over the past two decades have generated more attention than the increasing number of voters calling themselves Independent. By the early 1970s Independents outnumbered Republicans, according to many eminent experts on... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85456K Zoë Playdon / The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes (Large Paperback) Ewan Forbes was born Elisabeth Forbes to a wealthy landowning family in 1912. It quickly became clear that the gender applied to him at birth was not correct, and from the age of six he began to see specialists in Europe for help. With the financial... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X85394K Anne de Courcy / Snowdon - The Biography (Large Paperback) How did a photographer who was a relentless playboy, an unashamed womaniser and a leather-clad motorcyclist marry the Queen's sister and become the Establishment figure Lord Snowdon? 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Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... 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Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... 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All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84914H William Hague / William Wilberforce Following his 'William Pitt the Younger', Hague turns his attentions to William Wilberforce. He portrays a man full of contradictions: conservative in many ways, but a tireless campaigner for change on the subject of slavery... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61737K John Gapper, Nicholas Denton / All That Glitters: The Fall of Barings Bank The definitive, classic account of the fall of the House of Baring and the ultimate rogue trader Nick Leeson. John Gapper, associate editor of the Financial Times, and his co-author Nick Denton, now founder of Gawker Media, interviewed the major... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61733K Karolyn Shindler / Discovering Dorothea : The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-hunter Dorothea Bate In 1898, a 19-year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, England and demanded a job. At the time, no women were employed there as scientists. For the determined Dorothea Bate, however, this was the first step in an... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61731K Lord Butler / Lord Butler's Report: Espionage And The Iraq War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... 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Keith / The Myth of the Independent Voter (Large Paperback) Few events in American politics over the past two decades have generated more attention than the increasing number of voters calling themselves Independent. By the early 1970s Independents outnumbered Republicans, according to many eminent experts on... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85456K Zoë Playdon / The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes (Large Paperback) Ewan Forbes was born Elisabeth Forbes to a wealthy landowning family in 1912. It quickly became clear that the gender applied to him at birth was not correct, and from the age of six he began to see specialists in Europe for help. With the financial... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X85394K Anne de Courcy / Snowdon - The Biography (Large Paperback) How did a photographer who was a relentless playboy, an unashamed womaniser and a leather-clad motorcyclist marry the Queen's sister and become the Establishment figure Lord Snowdon? 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Apartheid Israel! considers how the policies of the State of Israel, in violently dispossessing Palestinians of their land, nationality, and human rights, replicates policies of South Africa’s era of Grand Apartheid.It... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61100K Georgina Ferry / Dorothy Hodgkin : A Life Dorothy Hodgkin was an eminent crystallographer whose research contributed to an extraordinary period of scientific discovery. She was also passionate about international affairs and an active peace campaigner. This biography reveals the inner life... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 60965K Antjie Krog / Country of My Skull Krog captures the complexity of South Africa's Truth and Reconcilliation Commission in a personal narrative, taking the reader beneath the big movements of the Truth Commission and beyond, into the heart of what it means to be a South African in a post... 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Abelard was a brilliant philosopher in Paris. Heloise, his student 15 years his junior, was a poet already... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 69250H Graham Leach / South Africa : No Easy Path to Peace A 1987 look at the viewpoints of key political figures in South Africa before the collapse of apartheid. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84914H William Hague / William Wilberforce Following his 'William Pitt the Younger', Hague turns his attentions to William Wilberforce. He portrays a man full of contradictions: conservative in many ways, but a tireless campaigner for change on the subject of slavery... 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61322K Harrison E. Salisbury / The New Emperors: Mao and Deng, a Dual Biography The concept of emperor in China is intimately associated with that of the dragon. China's dragons, guardians of the throne, are unlike those of the West. They are benign and protective but can turn like terrible emperors on the people. If they do so,... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11162H Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher : The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning Not for Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10758H Martin Meredith / The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of de-colonialisation began in the mid-1950s, and arguably before, the continent has... 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Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... 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It quickly became clear that the gender applied to him at birth was not correct, and from the age of six he began to see specialists in Europe for help. With the financial... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X85394K Anne de Courcy / Snowdon - The Biography (Large Paperback) How did a photographer who was a relentless playboy, an unashamed womaniser and a leather-clad motorcyclist marry the Queen's sister and become the Establishment figure Lord Snowdon? The brilliantly talented Antony Armstrong-Jones often humiliated... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85128K J Blondel & Ferdinand Muller-Rommel / Cabinets in Western Europe (Large Paperback) A presentation of the structure and workings of the national cabinets in Western European countries today, based on a common framework which enables the reader to compare their origins, structure, composition and activities. Emphasis is placed on the... 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In this touching book, he returns to his youth to recapture the images of his Bohemian family life. In 1913,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85027K Brian J Brown / Apartheid South Africa! Apartheid Israel?: ticking the boxes of occupation and dispossession (Large Paperback) Apartheid South Africa! Apartheid Israel! considers how the policies of the State of Israel, in violently dispossessing Palestinians of their land, nationality, and human rights, replicates policies of South Africa’s era of Grand Apartheid.It... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61100K Georgina Ferry / Dorothy Hodgkin : A Life Dorothy Hodgkin was an eminent crystallographer whose research contributed to an extraordinary period of scientific discovery. She was also passionate about international affairs and an active peace campaigner. This biography reveals the inner life... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 60965K Antjie Krog / Country of My Skull Krog captures the complexity of South Africa's Truth and Reconcilliation Commission in a personal narrative, taking the reader beneath the big movements of the Truth Commission and beyond, into the heart of what it means to be a South African in a post... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view France | sku: 60835K Mark Steel / Vive La Revolution - A Stand-Up History of teh French Revolution For most of us, the French Revolution has been reduced to jokes about Marie-Antoinette, guillotines and the Scarlet Pimpernel. But for Mark Steel the French Revolution was one of the most inspirational moments in human history - a moment when... 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All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84914H William Hague / William Wilberforce Following his 'William Pitt the Younger', Hague turns his attentions to William Wilberforce. He portrays a man full of contradictions: conservative in many ways, but a tireless campaigner for change on the subject of slavery... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61737K John Gapper, Nicholas Denton / All That Glitters: The Fall of Barings Bank The definitive, classic account of the fall of the House of Baring and the ultimate rogue trader Nick Leeson. John Gapper, associate editor of the Financial Times, and his co-author Nick Denton, now founder of Gawker Media, interviewed the major... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61733K Karolyn Shindler / Discovering Dorothea : The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-hunter Dorothea Bate In 1898, a 19-year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, England and demanded a job. At the time, no women were employed there as scientists. For the determined Dorothea Bate, however, this was the first step in an... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61731K Lord Butler / Lord Butler's Report: Espionage And The Iraq War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... 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The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the industrial revolutions, the development of mass media - the middle class is never far away, drawing up... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61520K Nigel West / Molehunt An intelligence expert probes the involvement of British intelligence agents in spy rings, questioning the activities of top officials and describing the plots, molehunts, and cover-ups surrounding their deeds All of... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 61439K Christopher Andrew / For the President's Eyes Only - Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush This work shows how the US Presidency both transformed, and was itself transformed by the activities of US Intelligence. The book answers controversial questions about the Cold War, suggests how Reagan survived the Iran-Contra affair and offers... 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61322K Harrison E. Salisbury / The New Emperors: Mao and Deng, a Dual Biography The concept of emperor in China is intimately associated with that of the dragon. China's dragons, guardians of the throne, are unlike those of the West. They are benign and protective but can turn like terrible emperors on the people. If they do so,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61306K Ruth Brandon / The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini When Harry Houdini died in 1926, he was one of the most famous men in the world. Having started out as a vaudeville magician, he soon began to specialize in the escapes for which his name remains a byword. In this biography, Ruth Brandon explains in... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR5449H Rodric Braithwaite / Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 As former ambassador to Moscow, Rodric Braithwaite brings unique insights to the Soviet war in Afghanistan. The story has been distorted not only by Cold War propaganda but also by the myths of the nineteenth century Great Game. It moves from the high... 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Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: X85518K Mark Alan Healey / The Ruins of the New Argentina: Peronism and the Remaking of San Juan after the 1944 Earthquake (Large Paperback) In January 1944, an earthquake reduced the province of San Juan, Argentina, to rubble, leaving perhaps ten thousand dead and one hundred thousand homeless. In The Ruins of the New Argentina , Mark A. Healey argues that the disaster and the massive... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85517K Sterling Seagrave / Dragon Lady : The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China (Large Paperback) he last empress of China--Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi (1835-1908)--is remembered as one of history's monsters, an iron-willed concubine who, after usurping power in 1861, ruled from the Dragon Throne for half a century. Her reign, in the aftermath of the... 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Keith / The Myth of the Independent Voter (Large Paperback) Few events in American politics over the past two decades have generated more attention than the increasing number of voters calling themselves Independent. By the early 1970s Independents outnumbered Republicans, according to many eminent experts on... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85456K Zoë Playdon / The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes (Large Paperback) Ewan Forbes was born Elisabeth Forbes to a wealthy landowning family in 1912. It quickly became clear that the gender applied to him at birth was not correct, and from the age of six he began to see specialists in Europe for help. With the financial... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X85394K Anne de Courcy / Snowdon - The Biography (Large Paperback) How did a photographer who was a relentless playboy, an unashamed womaniser and a leather-clad motorcyclist marry the Queen's sister and become the Establishment figure Lord Snowdon? The brilliantly talented Antony Armstrong-Jones often humiliated... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85128K J Blondel & Ferdinand Muller-Rommel / Cabinets in Western Europe (Large Paperback) A presentation of the structure and workings of the national cabinets in Western European countries today, based on a common framework which enables the reader to compare their origins, structure, composition and activities. Emphasis is placed on the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85087K Phil Robins / Can I Come Home, Please? (Large Paperback) Using taped interviews from the Imperial War Museum's Sound Archive, Phil Robins gathered together this compelling collection of first-hand accounts from people who grew up during the Second World War. As well as British children's stories of... 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Apartheid Israel! considers how the policies of the State of Israel, in violently dispossessing Palestinians of their land, nationality, and human rights, replicates policies of South Africa’s era of Grand Apartheid.It... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61100K Georgina Ferry / Dorothy Hodgkin : A Life Dorothy Hodgkin was an eminent crystallographer whose research contributed to an extraordinary period of scientific discovery. She was also passionate about international affairs and an active peace campaigner. This biography reveals the inner life... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 60965K Antjie Krog / Country of My Skull Krog captures the complexity of South Africa's Truth and Reconcilliation Commission in a personal narrative, taking the reader beneath the big movements of the Truth Commission and beyond, into the heart of what it means to be a South African in a post... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view France | sku: 60835K Mark Steel / Vive La Revolution - A Stand-Up History of teh French Revolution For most of us, the French Revolution has been reduced to jokes about Marie-Antoinette, guillotines and the Scarlet Pimpernel. But for Mark Steel the French Revolution was one of the most inspirational moments in human history - a moment when... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82990H Magda Hellinger / The Nazis Knew My Name The extraordinarily moving memoir by a Holocaust survivor who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage and kindness—in the vein of A Bookshop in Berlin and The Nazi Officer’s Wife.In March... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61991K James Burge / Heloise and Abelard : A Twelfth-Century Love Story Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet- the names of Heloise and Abelard stand beside those in the register of 'great lovers'. Abelard was a brilliant philosopher in Paris. Heloise, his student 15 years his junior, was a poet already... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 69250H Graham Leach / South Africa : No Easy Path to Peace A 1987 look at the viewpoints of key political figures in South Africa before the collapse of apartheid. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84914H William Hague / William Wilberforce Following his 'William Pitt the Younger', Hague turns his attentions to William Wilberforce. He portrays a man full of contradictions: conservative in many ways, but a tireless campaigner for change on the subject of slavery... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61737K John Gapper, Nicholas Denton / All That Glitters: The Fall of Barings Bank The definitive, classic account of the fall of the House of Baring and the ultimate rogue trader Nick Leeson. John Gapper, associate editor of the Financial Times, and his co-author Nick Denton, now founder of Gawker Media, interviewed the major... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61733K Karolyn Shindler / Discovering Dorothea : The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-hunter Dorothea Bate In 1898, a 19-year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, England and demanded a job. At the time, no women were employed there as scientists. For the determined Dorothea Bate, however, this was the first step in an... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61731K Lord Butler / Lord Butler's Report: Espionage And The Iraq War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61730K Amin Maalouf / Disordered World: A Vision for the Post-9/11 World In this brilliant exploration of the post-September 11, 2001 world, leading Lebanese novelist and intellectual Amin Maalouf sets out to understand the urgent challenges the world faces today. Instead of seeing the current disorder of the post-September... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 61558K Taylor Branch / The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6391H Lawrence James / The Middle Class : A History For Lawrence James, the middle class is the great powerhouse of British history. The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the industrial revolutions, the development of mass media - the middle class is never far away, drawing up... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61520K Nigel West / Molehunt An intelligence expert probes the involvement of British intelligence agents in spy rings, questioning the activities of top officials and describing the plots, molehunts, and cover-ups surrounding their deeds All of... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 61439K Christopher Andrew / For the President's Eyes Only - Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush This work shows how the US Presidency both transformed, and was itself transformed by the activities of US Intelligence. The book answers controversial questions about the Cold War, suggests how Reagan survived the Iran-Contra affair and offers... 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61322K Harrison E. Salisbury / The New Emperors: Mao and Deng, a Dual Biography The concept of emperor in China is intimately associated with that of the dragon. China's dragons, guardians of the throne, are unlike those of the West. They are benign and protective but can turn like terrible emperors on the people. If they do so,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61306K Ruth Brandon / The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini When Harry Houdini died in 1926, he was one of the most famous men in the world. Having started out as a vaudeville magician, he soon began to specialize in the escapes for which his name remains a byword. In this biography, Ruth Brandon explains in... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR5449H Rodric Braithwaite / Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 As former ambassador to Moscow, Rodric Braithwaite brings unique insights to the Soviet war in Afghanistan. The story has been distorted not only by Cold War propaganda but also by the myths of the nineteenth century Great Game. It moves from the high... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11162H Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher : The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning Not for Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10758H Martin Meredith / The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of de-colonialisation began in the mid-1950s, and arguably before, the continent has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61151K Daniel Johnson / White King and Red Queen - How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard Daniel Johnson's gripping account of the Cold War reveals that, for the Soviet Union, chess was more than just a game: it was war by another means. The game had become the national sport, taught in schools, and those with talent were moulded into... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 60108K L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: Set1024K Jan Luiten Van Zaanden / A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) Covering the period 1890-2007, 3 history volumes, and a seperate volume of appendices. MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84197K Edward Verrall Lucas / What a Life! : An Autobiography of E.V.L. and G.M. (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: X85517K Sterling Seagrave / Dragon Lady : The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China (Large Paperback) he last empress of China--Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi (1835-1908)--is remembered as one of history's monsters, an iron-willed concubine who, after usurping power in 1861, ruled from the Dragon Throne for half a century. Her reign, in the aftermath of the... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X89583H Robert Stone, Alan Andres / Chasing the Moon (Large Paperback) In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission of the Apollo 11 mission. To watch as humanity took a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X85507K Bryan D. Jones / The New American Politics: Reflections On Political Change And The Clinton Administration (Large Paperback) Was 1992 a realigning election? Did the midterm elections of 1994 realign the realignment? Will 1996 carry the United States forward on yet another changed trajectory? In this volume of original essays, leading political scientists examine key... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X85462K Bruce E. Keith / The Myth of the Independent Voter (Large Paperback) Few events in American politics over the past two decades have generated more attention than the increasing number of voters calling themselves Independent. By the early 1970s Independents outnumbered Republicans, according to many eminent experts on... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85456K Zoë Playdon / The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes (Large Paperback) Ewan Forbes was born Elisabeth Forbes to a wealthy landowning family in 1912. It quickly became clear that the gender applied to him at birth was not correct, and from the age of six he began to see specialists in Europe for help. With the financial... 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Keith / The Myth of the Independent Voter (Large Paperback) Few events in American politics over the past two decades have generated more attention than the increasing number of voters calling themselves Independent. By the early 1970s Independents outnumbered Republicans, according to many eminent experts on... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85456K Zoë Playdon / The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes (Large Paperback) Ewan Forbes was born Elisabeth Forbes to a wealthy landowning family in 1912. It quickly became clear that the gender applied to him at birth was not correct, and from the age of six he began to see specialists in Europe for help. With the financial... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: X85394K Anne de Courcy / Snowdon - The Biography (Large Paperback) How did a photographer who was a relentless playboy, an unashamed womaniser and a leather-clad motorcyclist marry the Queen's sister and become the Establishment figure Lord Snowdon? 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Apartheid Israel! considers how the policies of the State of Israel, in violently dispossessing Palestinians of their land, nationality, and human rights, replicates policies of South Africa’s era of Grand Apartheid.It... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61100K Georgina Ferry / Dorothy Hodgkin : A Life Dorothy Hodgkin was an eminent crystallographer whose research contributed to an extraordinary period of scientific discovery. She was also passionate about international affairs and an active peace campaigner. This biography reveals the inner life... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 60965K Antjie Krog / Country of My Skull Krog captures the complexity of South Africa's Truth and Reconcilliation Commission in a personal narrative, taking the reader beneath the big movements of the Truth Commission and beyond, into the heart of what it means to be a South African in a post... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61737K John Gapper, Nicholas Denton / All That Glitters: The Fall of Barings Bank The definitive, classic account of the fall of the House of Baring and the ultimate rogue trader Nick Leeson. John Gapper, associate editor of the Financial Times, and his co-author Nick Denton, now founder of Gawker Media, interviewed the major... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61733K Karolyn Shindler / Discovering Dorothea : The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-hunter Dorothea Bate In 1898, a 19-year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, England and demanded a job. At the time, no women were employed there as scientists. For the determined Dorothea Bate, however, this was the first step in an... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61520K Nigel West / Molehunt An intelligence expert probes the involvement of British intelligence agents in spy rings, questioning the activities of top officials and describing the plots, molehunts, and cover-ups surrounding their deeds All of... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 61439K Christopher Andrew / For the President's Eyes Only - Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush This work shows how the US Presidency both transformed, and was itself transformed by the activities of US Intelligence. The book answers controversial questions about the Cold War, suggests how Reagan survived the Iran-Contra affair and offers... 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61322K Harrison E. Salisbury / The New Emperors: Mao and Deng, a Dual Biography The concept of emperor in China is intimately associated with that of the dragon. China's dragons, guardians of the throne, are unlike those of the West. They are benign and protective but can turn like terrible emperors on the people. If they do so,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61306K Ruth Brandon / The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini When Harry Houdini died in 1926, he was one of the most famous men in the world. Having started out as a vaudeville magician, he soon began to specialize in the escapes for which his name remains a byword. In this biography, Ruth Brandon explains in... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR5449H Rodric Braithwaite / Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 As former ambassador to Moscow, Rodric Braithwaite brings unique insights to the Soviet war in Afghanistan. The story has been distorted not only by Cold War propaganda but also by the myths of the nineteenth century Great Game. It moves from the high... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11162H Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher : The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning Not for Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10758H Martin Meredith / The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of de-colonialisation began in the mid-1950s, and arguably before, the continent has... 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Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next Compare Selected × OK
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In 1913,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85027K Brian J Brown / Apartheid South Africa! Apartheid Israel?: ticking the boxes of occupation and dispossession (Large Paperback) Apartheid South Africa! Apartheid Israel! considers how the policies of the State of Israel, in violently dispossessing Palestinians of their land, nationality, and human rights, replicates policies of South Africa’s era of Grand Apartheid.It... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61100K Georgina Ferry / Dorothy Hodgkin : A Life Dorothy Hodgkin was an eminent crystallographer whose research contributed to an extraordinary period of scientific discovery. She was also passionate about international affairs and an active peace campaigner. This biography reveals the inner life... 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All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84914H William Hague / William Wilberforce Following his 'William Pitt the Younger', Hague turns his attentions to William Wilberforce. He portrays a man full of contradictions: conservative in many ways, but a tireless campaigner for change on the subject of slavery... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61737K John Gapper, Nicholas Denton / All That Glitters: The Fall of Barings Bank The definitive, classic account of the fall of the House of Baring and the ultimate rogue trader Nick Leeson. John Gapper, associate editor of the Financial Times, and his co-author Nick Denton, now founder of Gawker Media, interviewed the major... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61733K Karolyn Shindler / Discovering Dorothea : The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-hunter Dorothea Bate In 1898, a 19-year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, England and demanded a job. At the time, no women were employed there as scientists. For the determined Dorothea Bate, however, this was the first step in an... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61731K Lord Butler / Lord Butler's Report: Espionage And The Iraq War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61730K Amin Maalouf / Disordered World: A Vision for the Post-9/11 World In this brilliant exploration of the post-September 11, 2001 world, leading Lebanese novelist and intellectual Amin Maalouf sets out to understand the urgent challenges the world faces today. Instead of seeing the current disorder of the post-September... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 61558K Taylor Branch / The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6391H Lawrence James / The Middle Class : A History For Lawrence James, the middle class is the great powerhouse of British history. The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the industrial revolutions, the development of mass media - the middle class is never far away, drawing up... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61520K Nigel West / Molehunt An intelligence expert probes the involvement of British intelligence agents in spy rings, questioning the activities of top officials and describing the plots, molehunts, and cover-ups surrounding their deeds All of... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 61439K Christopher Andrew / For the President's Eyes Only - Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush This work shows how the US Presidency both transformed, and was itself transformed by the activities of US Intelligence. The book answers controversial questions about the Cold War, suggests how Reagan survived the Iran-Contra affair and offers... 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61322K Harrison E. Salisbury / The New Emperors: Mao and Deng, a Dual Biography The concept of emperor in China is intimately associated with that of the dragon. China's dragons, guardians of the throne, are unlike those of the West. They are benign and protective but can turn like terrible emperors on the people. If they do so,... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11162H Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher : The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning Not for Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10758H Martin Meredith / The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of de-colonialisation began in the mid-1950s, and arguably before, the continent has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61151K Daniel Johnson / White King and Red Queen - How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard Daniel Johnson's gripping account of the Cold War reveals that, for the Soviet Union, chess was more than just a game: it was war by another means. The game had become the national sport, taught in schools, and those with talent were moulded into... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 60108K L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 60965K Antjie Krog / Country of My Skull Krog captures the complexity of South Africa's Truth and Reconcilliation Commission in a personal narrative, taking the reader beneath the big movements of the Truth Commission and beyond, into the heart of what it means to be a South African in a post... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view France | sku: 60835K Mark Steel / Vive La Revolution - A Stand-Up History of teh French Revolution For most of us, the French Revolution has been reduced to jokes about Marie-Antoinette, guillotines and the Scarlet Pimpernel. But for Mark Steel the French Revolution was one of the most inspirational moments in human history - a moment when... 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All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84914H William Hague / William Wilberforce Following his 'William Pitt the Younger', Hague turns his attentions to William Wilberforce. He portrays a man full of contradictions: conservative in many ways, but a tireless campaigner for change on the subject of slavery... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61737K John Gapper, Nicholas Denton / All That Glitters: The Fall of Barings Bank The definitive, classic account of the fall of the House of Baring and the ultimate rogue trader Nick Leeson. John Gapper, associate editor of the Financial Times, and his co-author Nick Denton, now founder of Gawker Media, interviewed the major... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61733K Karolyn Shindler / Discovering Dorothea : The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-hunter Dorothea Bate In 1898, a 19-year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, England and demanded a job. At the time, no women were employed there as scientists. For the determined Dorothea Bate, however, this was the first step in an... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61731K Lord Butler / Lord Butler's Report: Espionage And The Iraq War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61730K Amin Maalouf / Disordered World: A Vision for the Post-9/11 World In this brilliant exploration of the post-September 11, 2001 world, leading Lebanese novelist and intellectual Amin Maalouf sets out to understand the urgent challenges the world faces today. Instead of seeing the current disorder of the post-September... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 61558K Taylor Branch / The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6391H Lawrence James / The Middle Class : A History For Lawrence James, the middle class is the great powerhouse of British history. The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the industrial revolutions, the development of mass media - the middle class is never far away, drawing up... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61520K Nigel West / Molehunt An intelligence expert probes the involvement of British intelligence agents in spy rings, questioning the activities of top officials and describing the plots, molehunts, and cover-ups surrounding their deeds All of... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 61439K Christopher Andrew / For the President's Eyes Only - Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush This work shows how the US Presidency both transformed, and was itself transformed by the activities of US Intelligence. The book answers controversial questions about the Cold War, suggests how Reagan survived the Iran-Contra affair and offers... 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61322K Harrison E. Salisbury / The New Emperors: Mao and Deng, a Dual Biography The concept of emperor in China is intimately associated with that of the dragon. China's dragons, guardians of the throne, are unlike those of the West. They are benign and protective but can turn like terrible emperors on the people. If they do so,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61306K Ruth Brandon / The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini When Harry Houdini died in 1926, he was one of the most famous men in the world. Having started out as a vaudeville magician, he soon began to specialize in the escapes for which his name remains a byword. In this biography, Ruth Brandon explains in... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR5449H Rodric Braithwaite / Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 As former ambassador to Moscow, Rodric Braithwaite brings unique insights to the Soviet war in Afghanistan. The story has been distorted not only by Cold War propaganda but also by the myths of the nineteenth century Great Game. It moves from the high... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11162H Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher : The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning Not for Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10758H Martin Meredith / The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of de-colonialisation began in the mid-1950s, and arguably before, the continent has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61151K Daniel Johnson / White King and Red Queen - How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard Daniel Johnson's gripping account of the Cold War reveals that, for the Soviet Union, chess was more than just a game: it was war by another means. The game had become the national sport, taught in schools, and those with talent were moulded into... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 60108K L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: Set1024K Jan Luiten Van Zaanden / A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) Covering the period 1890-2007, 3 history volumes, and a seperate volume of appendices. MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84197K Edward Verrall Lucas / What a Life! : An Autobiography of E.V.L. and G.M. (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next Compare Selected × OK
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The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the industrial revolutions, the development of mass media - the middle class is never far away, drawing up... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61520K Nigel West / Molehunt An intelligence expert probes the involvement of British intelligence agents in spy rings, questioning the activities of top officials and describing the plots, molehunts, and cover-ups surrounding their deeds All of... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 61439K Christopher Andrew / For the President's Eyes Only - Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush This work shows how the US Presidency both transformed, and was itself transformed by the activities of US Intelligence. The book answers controversial questions about the Cold War, suggests how Reagan survived the Iran-Contra affair and offers... 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Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next Compare Selected × OK
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Apartheid Israel! considers how the policies of the State of Israel, in violently dispossessing Palestinians of their land, nationality, and human rights, replicates policies of South Africa’s era of Grand Apartheid.It... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61100K Georgina Ferry / Dorothy Hodgkin : A Life Dorothy Hodgkin was an eminent crystallographer whose research contributed to an extraordinary period of scientific discovery. She was also passionate about international affairs and an active peace campaigner. This biography reveals the inner life... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 60965K Antjie Krog / Country of My Skull Krog captures the complexity of South Africa's Truth and Reconcilliation Commission in a personal narrative, taking the reader beneath the big movements of the Truth Commission and beyond, into the heart of what it means to be a South African in a post... 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61322K Harrison E. Salisbury / The New Emperors: Mao and Deng, a Dual Biography The concept of emperor in China is intimately associated with that of the dragon. China's dragons, guardians of the throne, are unlike those of the West. They are benign and protective but can turn like terrible emperors on the people. If they do so,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61306K Ruth Brandon / The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini When Harry Houdini died in 1926, he was one of the most famous men in the world. Having started out as a vaudeville magician, he soon began to specialize in the escapes for which his name remains a byword. In this biography, Ruth Brandon explains in... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR5449H Rodric Braithwaite / Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 As former ambassador to Moscow, Rodric Braithwaite brings unique insights to the Soviet war in Afghanistan. The story has been distorted not only by Cold War propaganda but also by the myths of the nineteenth century Great Game. It moves from the high... 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Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: X85053K Henry James / A Small Boy and Others (Large Paperback) Of Irish and Scottish extraction, Henry James grew up in New York when it was still dominated by Arcadian panoramas of trees and water. In this touching book, he returns to his youth to recapture the images of his Bohemian family life. In 1913,... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X85027K Brian J Brown / Apartheid South Africa! Apartheid Israel?: ticking the boxes of occupation and dispossession (Large Paperback) Apartheid South Africa! Apartheid Israel! considers how the policies of the State of Israel, in violently dispossessing Palestinians of their land, nationality, and human rights, replicates policies of South Africa’s era of Grand Apartheid.It... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61100K Georgina Ferry / Dorothy Hodgkin : A Life Dorothy Hodgkin was an eminent crystallographer whose research contributed to an extraordinary period of scientific discovery. She was also passionate about international affairs and an active peace campaigner. This biography reveals the inner life... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 60965K Antjie Krog / Country of My Skull Krog captures the complexity of South Africa's Truth and Reconcilliation Commission in a personal narrative, taking the reader beneath the big movements of the Truth Commission and beyond, into the heart of what it means to be a South African in a post... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view France | sku: 60835K Mark Steel / Vive La Revolution - A Stand-Up History of teh French Revolution For most of us, the French Revolution has been reduced to jokes about Marie-Antoinette, guillotines and the Scarlet Pimpernel. But for Mark Steel the French Revolution was one of the most inspirational moments in human history - a moment when... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82990H Magda Hellinger / The Nazis Knew My Name The extraordinarily moving memoir by a Holocaust survivor who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage and kindness—in the vein of A Bookshop in Berlin and The Nazi Officer’s Wife.In March... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61991K James Burge / Heloise and Abelard : A Twelfth-Century Love Story Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet- the names of Heloise and Abelard stand beside those in the register of 'great lovers'. Abelard was a brilliant philosopher in Paris. Heloise, his student 15 years his junior, was a poet already... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 69250H Graham Leach / South Africa : No Easy Path to Peace A 1987 look at the viewpoints of key political figures in South Africa before the collapse of apartheid. 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61733K Karolyn Shindler / Discovering Dorothea : The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-hunter Dorothea Bate In 1898, a 19-year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, England and demanded a job. At the time, no women were employed there as scientists. For the determined Dorothea Bate, however, this was the first step in an... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61731K Lord Butler / Lord Butler's Report: Espionage And The Iraq War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... 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The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the industrial revolutions, the development of mass media - the middle class is never far away, drawing up... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61520K Nigel West / Molehunt An intelligence expert probes the involvement of British intelligence agents in spy rings, questioning the activities of top officials and describing the plots, molehunts, and cover-ups surrounding their deeds All of... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 61439K Christopher Andrew / For the President's Eyes Only - Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush This work shows how the US Presidency both transformed, and was itself transformed by the activities of US Intelligence. The book answers controversial questions about the Cold War, suggests how Reagan survived the Iran-Contra affair and offers... 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61322K Harrison E. Salisbury / The New Emperors: Mao and Deng, a Dual Biography The concept of emperor in China is intimately associated with that of the dragon. China's dragons, guardians of the throne, are unlike those of the West. They are benign and protective but can turn like terrible emperors on the people. If they do so,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61306K Ruth Brandon / The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini When Harry Houdini died in 1926, he was one of the most famous men in the world. Having started out as a vaudeville magician, he soon began to specialize in the escapes for which his name remains a byword. In this biography, Ruth Brandon explains in... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR5449H Rodric Braithwaite / Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 As former ambassador to Moscow, Rodric Braithwaite brings unique insights to the Soviet war in Afghanistan. The story has been distorted not only by Cold War propaganda but also by the myths of the nineteenth century Great Game. It moves from the high... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11162H Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher : The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning Not for Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10758H Martin Meredith / The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of de-colonialisation began in the mid-1950s, and arguably before, the continent has... 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Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: X85027K Brian J Brown / Apartheid South Africa! Apartheid Israel?: ticking the boxes of occupation and dispossession (Large Paperback) Apartheid South Africa! Apartheid Israel! considers how the policies of the State of Israel, in violently dispossessing Palestinians of their land, nationality, and human rights, replicates policies of South Africa’s era of Grand Apartheid.It... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61100K Georgina Ferry / Dorothy Hodgkin : A Life Dorothy Hodgkin was an eminent crystallographer whose research contributed to an extraordinary period of scientific discovery. She was also passionate about international affairs and an active peace campaigner. This biography reveals the inner life... 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 82990H Magda Hellinger / The Nazis Knew My Name The extraordinarily moving memoir by a Holocaust survivor who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage and kindness—in the vein of A Bookshop in Berlin and The Nazi Officer’s Wife.In March... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61991K James Burge / Heloise and Abelard : A Twelfth-Century Love Story Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet- the names of Heloise and Abelard stand beside those in the register of 'great lovers'. Abelard was a brilliant philosopher in Paris. Heloise, his student 15 years his junior, was a poet already... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 69250H Graham Leach / South Africa : No Easy Path to Peace A 1987 look at the viewpoints of key political figures in South Africa before the collapse of apartheid. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84914H William Hague / William Wilberforce Following his 'William Pitt the Younger', Hague turns his attentions to William Wilberforce. He portrays a man full of contradictions: conservative in many ways, but a tireless campaigner for change on the subject of slavery... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61737K John Gapper, Nicholas Denton / All That Glitters: The Fall of Barings Bank The definitive, classic account of the fall of the House of Baring and the ultimate rogue trader Nick Leeson. John Gapper, associate editor of the Financial Times, and his co-author Nick Denton, now founder of Gawker Media, interviewed the major... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61733K Karolyn Shindler / Discovering Dorothea : The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-hunter Dorothea Bate In 1898, a 19-year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, England and demanded a job. At the time, no women were employed there as scientists. For the determined Dorothea Bate, however, this was the first step in an... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61731K Lord Butler / Lord Butler's Report: Espionage And The Iraq War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61730K Amin Maalouf / Disordered World: A Vision for the Post-9/11 World In this brilliant exploration of the post-September 11, 2001 world, leading Lebanese novelist and intellectual Amin Maalouf sets out to understand the urgent challenges the world faces today. Instead of seeing the current disorder of the post-September... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 61558K Taylor Branch / The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6391H Lawrence James / The Middle Class : A History For Lawrence James, the middle class is the great powerhouse of British history. 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61733K Karolyn Shindler / Discovering Dorothea : The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-hunter Dorothea Bate In 1898, a 19-year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, England and demanded a job. At the time, no women were employed there as scientists. For the determined Dorothea Bate, however, this was the first step in an... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61731K Lord Butler / Lord Butler's Report: Espionage And The Iraq War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61322K Harrison E. Salisbury / The New Emperors: Mao and Deng, a Dual Biography The concept of emperor in China is intimately associated with that of the dragon. China's dragons, guardians of the throne, are unlike those of the West. They are benign and protective but can turn like terrible emperors on the people. If they do so,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61306K Ruth Brandon / The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini When Harry Houdini died in 1926, he was one of the most famous men in the world. Having started out as a vaudeville magician, he soon began to specialize in the escapes for which his name remains a byword. In this biography, Ruth Brandon explains in... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR5449H Rodric Braithwaite / Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 As former ambassador to Moscow, Rodric Braithwaite brings unique insights to the Soviet war in Afghanistan. The story has been distorted not only by Cold War propaganda but also by the myths of the nineteenth century Great Game. It moves from the high... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11162H Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher : The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning Not for Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10758H Martin Meredith / The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of de-colonialisation began in the mid-1950s, and arguably before, the continent has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61151K Daniel Johnson / White King and Red Queen - How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard Daniel Johnson's gripping account of the Cold War reveals that, for the Soviet Union, chess was more than just a game: it was war by another means. The game had become the national sport, taught in schools, and those with talent were moulded into... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 60108K L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: Set1024K Jan Luiten Van Zaanden / A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) Covering the period 1890-2007, 3 history volumes, and a seperate volume of appendices. MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84197K Edward Verrall Lucas / What a Life! : An Autobiography of E.V.L. and G.M. (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next Compare Selected × OK
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SALE Quick view sku: 69250H Graham Leach / South Africa : No Easy Path to Peace A 1987 look at the viewpoints of key political figures in South Africa before the collapse of apartheid. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: 84914H William Hague / William Wilberforce Following his 'William Pitt the Younger', Hague turns his attentions to William Wilberforce. He portrays a man full of contradictions: conservative in many ways, but a tireless campaigner for change on the subject of slavery... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61737K John Gapper, Nicholas Denton / All That Glitters: The Fall of Barings Bank The definitive, classic account of the fall of the House of Baring and the ultimate rogue trader Nick Leeson. John Gapper, associate editor of the Financial Times, and his co-author Nick Denton, now founder of Gawker Media, interviewed the major... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61733K Karolyn Shindler / Discovering Dorothea : The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-hunter Dorothea Bate In 1898, a 19-year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, England and demanded a job. At the time, no women were employed there as scientists. For the determined Dorothea Bate, however, this was the first step in an... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61731K Lord Butler / Lord Butler's Report: Espionage And The Iraq War All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61730K Amin Maalouf / Disordered World: A Vision for the Post-9/11 World In this brilliant exploration of the post-September 11, 2001 world, leading Lebanese novelist and intellectual Amin Maalouf sets out to understand the urgent challenges the world faces today. Instead of seeing the current disorder of the post-September... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 61558K Taylor Branch / The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6391H Lawrence James / The Middle Class : A History For Lawrence James, the middle class is the great powerhouse of British history. The death of feudalism, the advancement of democracy, the industrial revolutions, the development of mass media - the middle class is never far away, drawing up... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61520K Nigel West / Molehunt An intelligence expert probes the involvement of British intelligence agents in spy rings, questioning the activities of top officials and describing the plots, molehunts, and cover-ups surrounding their deeds All of... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: 61439K Christopher Andrew / For the President's Eyes Only - Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency from Washington to Bush This work shows how the US Presidency both transformed, and was itself transformed by the activities of US Intelligence. The book answers controversial questions about the Cold War, suggests how Reagan survived the Iran-Contra affair and offers... 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61325K Gillian Bagwell / The Darling Strumpet: A Novel of Nell Gwynn, Who Captured the Heart of England and King Charles Growing up in the bawdy atmosphere of 17th century Covent Garden, Nell Gwynn is little more than a girl when she enters the world of the courtesan. Here she learns the hard way that to be at the mercy of unscrupulous men is no life at all.With London's... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61322K Harrison E. Salisbury / The New Emperors: Mao and Deng, a Dual Biography The concept of emperor in China is intimately associated with that of the dragon. China's dragons, guardians of the throne, are unlike those of the West. They are benign and protective but can turn like terrible emperors on the people. If they do so,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61306K Ruth Brandon / The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini When Harry Houdini died in 1926, he was one of the most famous men in the world. Having started out as a vaudeville magician, he soon began to specialize in the escapes for which his name remains a byword. In this biography, Ruth Brandon explains in... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia | sku: rR5449H Rodric Braithwaite / Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 As former ambassador to Moscow, Rodric Braithwaite brings unique insights to the Soviet war in Afghanistan. The story has been distorted not only by Cold War propaganda but also by the myths of the nineteenth century Great Game. It moves from the high... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR11162H Charles Moore / Margaret Thatcher : The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not for Turning Not for Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR10758H Martin Meredith / The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of de-colonialisation began in the mid-1950s, and arguably before, the continent has... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 61151K Daniel Johnson / White King and Red Queen - How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard Daniel Johnson's gripping account of the Cold War reveals that, for the Soviet Union, chess was more than just a game: it was war by another means. The game had become the national sport, taught in schools, and those with talent were moulded into... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 60123K Chandler Burr / The Emperor of Scent : A True Story of Perfume and Obsession The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 60108K L.T.C. Rolt / George & Robert Stephenson The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times and we owe them to these two men, the most important engineers of their time. returncharacterreturncharacterThey carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed,... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG829 Karen Blixen - Out of Africa - HB Illustrated Edition Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is a lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya.'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X84230K Joe Conason & Gene Lyons / The Hunting of the President: The Ten-year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (Hardback) Unhappy reading for Republicans or political naïfs, The Hunting of the President is the story of a sustained and well-funded effort to discredit and defeat Bill Clinton, dating from his gubernatorial days in Arkansas and eventually... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: Set1024K Jan Luiten Van Zaanden / A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) Covering the period 1890-2007, 3 history volumes, and a seperate volume of appendices. MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84197K Edward Verrall Lucas / What a Life! : An Autobiography of E.V.L. and G.M. (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. 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Quick view sku: Set1024K Jan Luiten Van Zaanden / A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) A History of Royal Dutch Shell (4 Book Box Set) Covering the period 1890-2007, 3 history volumes, and a seperate volume of appendices. MSRP: Now: €40.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84197K Edward Verrall Lucas / What a Life! : An Autobiography of E.V.L. and G.M. (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next Compare Selected × OK
Quick view sku: X84197K Edward Verrall Lucas / What a Life! : An Autobiography of E.V.L. and G.M. (Hardback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next Compare Selected
Quick view sku: X84167K Donald J. Savoie / "Thanks for the Business": K.C. Irving, Arthur Irving, and the Story of Irving Oil (Hardback) Are entrepreneurs born or are they made? "Thanks for the Business" seeks to address this age-old question through the compelling stories of Maritime business tycoons Arthur Irving and K. C. Irving, and the story of Irving Oil. As one keen... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next Previous 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next Compare Selected
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