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(Large Paperback) Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters they spent two years in Hong Kong (1927-1929) and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73592K Matthew Blackman / Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC (Large Paperback) If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. 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Robinson / Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Books on France | sku: rR45160H Stephen Clarke / 1000 Years Of Annoying The French Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory?Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French.Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc?Non! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers.Was the guillotine... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR36724H Norman Ohler / The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis arro Schulze-Boysen already had shed blood in the fight against Nazism by the time he and Libertas Haas-Heye began their whirlwind romance. She joined the cause, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of anti-fascist fighters that stretched... 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23043H Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR54105H Roger Scruton / The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat In this astonishing new book, Roger Scruton argues that to understand adequately the roots of Islamic terrorism, one must understand both the unique historical evolution of the state and the dynamic of globalization. With extraordinary perception,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR54582H Shashi Tharoor / Inglorious Empire - What the British Did to India In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. The Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x68023K Gail Collins / When Everything Changed : The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present (Hardback) Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years, with her usual "sly wit and unfussy style" (People).When Everything Changed begins in 1960, when... MSRP: €4.00 Was: €4.00 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED4585,MED5071,MED7478 Des Ekin - The Brutish Empire : Four Centuries of Colonial Atrocities- PB - BRAND NEW For centuries, a small island nation cast a shadow across the world. The British Empire’s methods of expansion were often brutal, usually devastating. From Amritsar to Zululand, from the Opium Wars in China to the deliberate infection of Native... 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Quick view sku: X73958K Mabel Winifred Redwood / It Was Like This... (Large Paperback) Mabel Winifred Redwood completed these memoirs at the age of 80, a few months before she died. She was born in 1895 and remembers vividly the horrors of both World Wars. With their three daughters they spent two years in Hong Kong (1927-1929) and... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X73604K Adrian Levy , Cathy Scott-Clark / The Siege - Three Days of Terror inside the Taj (Large Paperback) In the page-turning tradition of Black Hawk Down, the definitive account of the 2008 terrorist attacks in MumbaiMumbai, 2008. On the night of November 26, Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists attacked targets throughout the city, including the Taj Mahal... 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'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Books on France | sku: rR45160H Stephen Clarke / 1000 Years Of Annoying The French Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory?Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French.Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc?Non! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers.Was the guillotine... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... 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Robinson / Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Books on France | sku: rR45160H Stephen Clarke / 1000 Years Of Annoying The French Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory?Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French.Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc?Non! 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR54105H Roger Scruton / The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat In this astonishing new book, Roger Scruton argues that to understand adequately the roots of Islamic terrorism, one must understand both the unique historical evolution of the state and the dynamic of globalization. With extraordinary perception,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR54582H Shashi Tharoor / Inglorious Empire - What the British Did to India In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. The Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched... 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MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3716 David Thomson - England in the Nineteenth Century ( 1815-1914) - Vintage Pelican PB Discusses the many social changes experienced by the English - primarily in a domestic context, from the time of the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War. This edition 1964, originally 1950. Previous owner's name to title... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view David Thomson - England in the Nineteenth Century - Vintage Pelican PB Discusses the many social changes experienced by the English - primarily in a domestic context, from the time of the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War. This edition 1969, originally 1950. 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA12294H Kelly Knauer / Great Events of the 20th Century (Coffee Table Book) Since 1923, one magazine -- TIME -- has taken the pulse of the century week by week, and the result is an unparalleled chronicle of our times. Now, the editors of TIME have opened their archives to create this lasting portrait of one of history's most... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20643H Thomas Morris / The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine "Delightfully horrifying."--Popular ScienceOne of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018· A mysterious epidemic of dental explosions… · A teenage boy who got his wick stuck... 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'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Books on France | sku: rR45160H Stephen Clarke / 1000 Years Of Annoying The French Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory?Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French.Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc?Non! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers.Was the guillotine... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 51426K Douglas Buck & Iain Dey / The Cryotron Files : The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x68023K Gail Collins / When Everything Changed : The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present (Hardback) Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years, with her usual "sly wit and unfussy style" (People).When Everything Changed begins in 1960, when... MSRP: €4.00 Was: €4.00 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED4585,MED5071,MED7478 Des Ekin - The Brutish Empire : Four Centuries of Colonial Atrocities- PB - BRAND NEW For centuries, a small island nation cast a shadow across the world. The British Empire’s methods of expansion were often brutal, usually devastating. From Amritsar to Zululand, from the Opium Wars in China to the deliberate infection of Native... 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Quick view Irish Politics and Political Biography. Patrick Marrinan - Paisley : Man of Wrath - PB - 1973 Published by Anvil Press, 1973. 'He appealed to dragons and they appeared on both sides' - an account by Enniskillen author Patrick Marrinan on the rapid rise of Ian Paisley to prominence in the late 1960's and early 1970's. MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view Books on France | sku: rR45160H Stephen Clarke / 1000 Years Of Annoying The French Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory?Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French.Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc?Non! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers.Was the guillotine... 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MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3716 David Thomson - England in the Nineteenth Century ( 1815-1914) - Vintage Pelican PB Discusses the many social changes experienced by the English - primarily in a domestic context, from the time of the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War. This edition 1964, originally 1950. Previous owner's name to title... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view David Thomson - England in the Nineteenth Century - Vintage Pelican PB Discusses the many social changes experienced by the English - primarily in a domestic context, from the time of the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War. This edition 1969, originally 1950. 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x68023K Gail Collins / When Everything Changed : The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present (Hardback) Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years, with her usual "sly wit and unfussy style" (People).When Everything Changed begins in 1960, when... MSRP: €4.00 Was: €4.00 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED4585,MED5071,MED7478 Des Ekin - The Brutish Empire : Four Centuries of Colonial Atrocities- PB - BRAND NEW For centuries, a small island nation cast a shadow across the world. The British Empire’s methods of expansion were often brutal, usually devastating. From Amritsar to Zululand, from the Opium Wars in China to the deliberate infection of Native... 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR58744H Noam Chomsky / Power Systems: Conversations with David Barsamian on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire A compelling new set of interviews on our changing and turbulent times with Noam Chomsky, one of the world's foremost thinkersIn this new collection of conversations, conducted from 2010 to 2012, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR43939H Aiping Mu / Vermilion Gate: An Extraordinary Story of Growing Up in Communist China Aiping Mu was born to parents prominent in the Communist hierarchy—her father was Political Commissar for the Beijing region and her mother ran one of the city's universities—and in her early years lived the pampered life of the Party elite... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23043H Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR54105H Roger Scruton / The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat In this astonishing new book, Roger Scruton argues that to understand adequately the roots of Islamic terrorism, one must understand both the unique historical evolution of the state and the dynamic of globalization. With extraordinary perception,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR54582H Shashi Tharoor / Inglorious Empire - What the British Did to India In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. The Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33302H Jim Quillen / Alcatraz from Inside - One Man's Climb from Desperation to Redemption At 22, Jim Quillen is on the run from San Quentin prison. He thinks he made a lucky escape, until he is caught and sentenced to 45 years inside America's toughest prison, US Penitentiary Alcatraz Island.This is one man's true story of life inside... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 80853H Adrian Bridget Plass / The Son of God is Dancing AIDS. Africa. Sickness. Read these words and what comes into your mind? Death? Destruction? Hopelessness? Definitely not my problem? Well, Adrian and Bridget Plass went to Zambia and found out for themselves that the West's image of the truth is far from... 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MSRP: €10.00 Was: €10.00 Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: VP1511 Margaret Irwin / The Proud Servant (Vintage Paperback) Compelling biography of James Graham, first Marquis of Montrose known for his passionate loyalty to his monarch. A tale of seduction and witchcraft and a promise made to Charles I to "raise Scotland for the King" regardless of the personal cost... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3716 David Thomson - England in the Nineteenth Century ( 1815-1914) - Vintage Pelican PB Discusses the many social changes experienced by the English - primarily in a domestic context, from the time of the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War. This edition 1964, originally 1950. Previous owner's name to title... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view David Thomson - England in the Nineteenth Century - Vintage Pelican PB Discusses the many social changes experienced by the English - primarily in a domestic context, from the time of the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War. This edition 1969, originally 1950. Creases to back cover MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Betty Miller - Robert Browning : A Portrait - Vintage Penguin PB -1958 ( Originally 1952) Originally published in 1952, this is the first Penguin paperback edition, 1958 ( Penguin 1264) - vertical ornage triband design, caricature drwing of Browning to centre cover. Spine lean, usual age tanning to pages. A detailed biogarphy of... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Books on France | sku: MED43, Jean Guitton - Abbé Pouget : Discourses - HB - 1959 ( Ex-libris copy) Guillaume Pouget (14 October 1847 – 24 February 1933) was a French Vincentian priest who had great influence on many Christian scholars in the early 20th century. Translated from the original French by Fergus Murphy, published by Clonmore &... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED701,MED787 Angela Byrne - Anarchy and Authority : Irish Encounters with Romanov Russia - PB - BRAND NEW From the ascent of Peter the Great to the Russian Revolution. From the Battle of the Boyne to the Easter Rising. Between these epochal events were two astounding centuries of war, diplomacy, intrigue, innovation and international radical political... MSRP: €18.95 Was: €18.95 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG15 Bruce Kellner - The Harlem Renaissance : A Historical Dictionary for the Era - PB 1987 ( Originally 1984) Covers '18 years of Afro-American artistic and intellectual ferment, characterized as the Harlem Renaissance but which encompassed much of urban Afro-America. Over 800 entries, on individuals, societies, locations, publications and business... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: x68023K Gail Collins / When Everything Changed : The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present (Hardback) Gail Collins, New York Times columnist and bestselling author, recounts the astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years, with her usual "sly wit and unfussy style" (People).When Everything Changed begins in 1960, when... MSRP: €4.00 Was: €4.00 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED4585,MED5071,MED7478 Des Ekin - The Brutish Empire : Four Centuries of Colonial Atrocities- PB - BRAND NEW For centuries, a small island nation cast a shadow across the world. The British Empire’s methods of expansion were often brutal, usually devastating. From Amritsar to Zululand, from the Opium Wars in China to the deliberate infection of Native... 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23043H Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR54105H Roger Scruton / The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat In this astonishing new book, Roger Scruton argues that to understand adequately the roots of Islamic terrorism, one must understand both the unique historical evolution of the state and the dynamic of globalization. With extraordinary perception,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR54582H Shashi Tharoor / Inglorious Empire - What the British Did to India In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. The Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched... 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MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3716 David Thomson - England in the Nineteenth Century ( 1815-1914) - Vintage Pelican PB Discusses the many social changes experienced by the English - primarily in a domestic context, from the time of the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War. This edition 1964, originally 1950. Previous owner's name to title... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view David Thomson - England in the Nineteenth Century - Vintage Pelican PB Discusses the many social changes experienced by the English - primarily in a domestic context, from the time of the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War. This edition 1969, originally 1950. 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA12294H Kelly Knauer / Great Events of the 20th Century (Coffee Table Book) Since 1923, one magazine -- TIME -- has taken the pulse of the century week by week, and the result is an unparalleled chronicle of our times. Now, the editors of TIME have opened their archives to create this lasting portrait of one of history's most... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20643H Thomas Morris / The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine "Delightfully horrifying."--Popular ScienceOne of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018· A mysterious epidemic of dental explosions… · A teenage boy who got his wick stuck... 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MSRP: €4.95 Was: €4.95 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED6786,MED7334 Clodagh Finn & John Morgan - The Irish in the Resistance - PB In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous radio speech, broadcast from the BBC in London, was later credited... MSRP: €19.99 Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR43939H Aiping Mu / Vermilion Gate: An Extraordinary Story of Growing Up in Communist China Aiping Mu was born to parents prominent in the Communist hierarchy—her father was Political Commissar for the Beijing region and her mother ran one of the city's universities—and in her early years lived the pampered life of the Party elite... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 50728K Anne Summers / Ducks on the Pond : An Autobiography 1945-1976 An unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.The call was a signal to all the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR23043H Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. 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MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3716 David Thomson - England in the Nineteenth Century ( 1815-1914) - Vintage Pelican PB Discusses the many social changes experienced by the English - primarily in a domestic context, from the time of the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War. This edition 1964, originally 1950. Previous owner's name to title... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view David Thomson - England in the Nineteenth Century - Vintage Pelican PB Discusses the many social changes experienced by the English - primarily in a domestic context, from the time of the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War. This edition 1969, originally 1950. 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MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3716 David Thomson - England in the Nineteenth Century ( 1815-1914) - Vintage Pelican PB Discusses the many social changes experienced by the English - primarily in a domestic context, from the time of the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War. This edition 1964, originally 1950. Previous owner's name to title... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view David Thomson - England in the Nineteenth Century - Vintage Pelican PB Discusses the many social changes experienced by the English - primarily in a domestic context, from the time of the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War. This edition 1969, originally 1950. Creases to back cover MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Betty Miller - Robert Browning : A Portrait - Vintage Penguin PB -1958 ( Originally 1952) Originally published in 1952, this is the first Penguin paperback edition, 1958 ( Penguin 1264) - vertical ornage triband design, caricature drwing of Browning to centre cover. Spine lean, usual age tanning to pages. A detailed biogarphy of... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Books on France | sku: MED43, Jean Guitton - Abbé Pouget : Discourses - HB - 1959 ( Ex-libris copy) Guillaume Pouget (14 October 1847 – 24 February 1933) was a French Vincentian priest who had great influence on many Christian scholars in the early 20th century. Translated from the original French by Fergus Murphy, published by Clonmore &... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: aA12294H Kelly Knauer / Great Events of the 20th Century (Coffee Table Book) Since 1923, one magazine -- TIME -- has taken the pulse of the century week by week, and the result is an unparalleled chronicle of our times. Now, the editors of TIME have opened their archives to create this lasting portrait of one of history's most... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR20643H Thomas Morris / The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine "Delightfully horrifying."--Popular ScienceOne of Mental Floss's Best Books of 2018One of Science Friday's Best Science Books of 2018· A mysterious epidemic of dental explosions… · A teenage boy who got his wick stuck... 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Quick view sku: rR23043H Anchee Min / Red Azalea : Life and Love in China - PB A biographical account of growing up in China's turbulent culturalrevolution years in the 1960's and 1970's. "Mysterious and moving....brave and uplifting" and Mary Wesley thinks it "Absolutely fascinating and beautifully... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 49970K Ernest C Brown / Service in a Sari: Story of Nan Dunlop, Missionary in Central India 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: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR54105H Roger Scruton / The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat In this astonishing new book, Roger Scruton argues that to understand adequately the roots of Islamic terrorism, one must understand both the unique historical evolution of the state and the dynamic of globalization. With extraordinary perception,... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR54582H Shashi Tharoor / Inglorious Empire - What the British Did to India In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. The Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR33302H Jim Quillen / Alcatraz from Inside - One Man's Climb from Desperation to Redemption At 22, Jim Quillen is on the run from San Quentin prison. 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MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED383 John Lahr - Prick Up Your Ears : The Biography of Joe Orton John Lahr, New Yorker critic, novelist, and biographer reconstructs both the life and death of Joe Orton, an extraordinary and anarchic playwright, whose plays scandalised and delighted the public, and whose indecisive loyalty to a friend caused... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3716 David Thomson - England in the Nineteenth Century ( 1815-1914) - Vintage Pelican PB Discusses the many social changes experienced by the English - primarily in a domestic context, from the time of the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War. This edition 1964, originally 1950. Previous owner's name to title... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view David Thomson - England in the Nineteenth Century - Vintage Pelican PB Discusses the many social changes experienced by the English - primarily in a domestic context, from the time of the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War. This edition 1969, originally 1950. Creases to back cover MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view Betty Miller - Robert Browning : A Portrait - Vintage Penguin PB -1958 ( Originally 1952) Originally published in 1952, this is the first Penguin paperback edition, 1958 ( Penguin 1264) - vertical ornage triband design, caricature drwing of Browning to centre cover. Spine lean, usual age tanning to pages. A detailed biogarphy of... MSRP: Now: €6.50 Add to Cart Quick view Books on France | sku: MED43, Jean Guitton - Abbé Pouget : Discourses - HB - 1959 ( Ex-libris copy) Guillaume Pouget (14 October 1847 – 24 February 1933) was a French Vincentian priest who had great influence on many Christian scholars in the early 20th century. Translated from the original French by Fergus Murphy, published by Clonmore &... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED701,MED787 Angela Byrne - Anarchy and Authority : Irish Encounters with Romanov Russia - PB - BRAND NEW From the ascent of Peter the Great to the Russian Revolution. From the Battle of the Boyne to the Easter Rising. Between these epochal events were two astounding centuries of war, diplomacy, intrigue, innovation and international radical political... 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MSRP: €4.00 Was: €4.00 Now: €2.00 Add to Cart Quick view O'Brien Press | sku: MED4585,MED5071,MED7478 Des Ekin - The Brutish Empire : Four Centuries of Colonial Atrocities- PB - BRAND NEW For centuries, a small island nation cast a shadow across the world. The British Empire’s methods of expansion were often brutal, usually devastating. From Amritsar to Zululand, from the Opium Wars in China to the deliberate infection of Native... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x67604K B.A. Young / The Rattigan Version: Sir Terence Rattigan and the Theatre of Character (Large Paperback) A financially successful playwright (The Winslow Boy, The Browning Version, Separate Tables and 20 others), an intimate of John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, notable enough to lunch with the Queen at Buckingham Palace, "Terry" Rattigan... MSRP: Now: €3.00 Add to Cart Quick view First World War | sku: x67541K Daniel Schönpflug / A World on Edge: The End of the Great War and the Dawn of a New Age (Large Paperback) 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: €3.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW41530H Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook / The Rest is History : History's most Curious Questions Answered (Large Paperback) Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys . . . There's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History , a whistle-stop tour through the past - from Alexander the Great to Tolkien, the Wars of the Roses to... 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MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED3716 David Thomson - England in the Nineteenth Century ( 1815-1914) - Vintage Pelican PB Discusses the many social changes experienced by the English - primarily in a domestic context, from the time of the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War. This edition 1964, originally 1950. Previous owner's name to title... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view David Thomson - England in the Nineteenth Century - Vintage Pelican PB Discusses the many social changes experienced by the English - primarily in a domestic context, from the time of the Battle of Waterloo until the beginning of the First World War. This edition 1969, originally 1950. 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