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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28600H Robert Kaplan / The Nothing That is : A Natural History of Zero (Hardback) n this text, Robert Kaplan explores the peculiar course that the notion of "nothing" or its mathematical representative, zero, has taken throughout history. Forced into our awareness 4000 years ago by the need to count ever larger multitudes, zero... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27835H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... 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Bercuson / One Christmas in Washington : Churchill and Roosevelt Forge the Grand Alliance (Hardback) By Christmas Eve 1941 the war could hardly have been worse for Britain or the United States. The Japanese had entered the war, first bombing Pearl Harbor where they sank five US battleships; a few days later Japanese torpedo-bombers sank the Royal... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13098H Amy Goldstein / Janesville : An American Story (Hardback) Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. 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MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW15357H Michael Burleigh / Sacred Causes : Religion and Politics from the European Dictators to Al Qaeda (Hardback) Populated by many of the most iconic figures of the twentieth century, "Sacred Causes" provides a brilliant examination of how religion has shaped 20th-century Europe from the Great War until the modern-day War on Terror. Beginning with the chaotic... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28600H Robert Kaplan / The Nothing That is : A Natural History of Zero (Hardback) n this text, Robert Kaplan explores the peculiar course that the notion of "nothing" or its mathematical representative, zero, has taken throughout history. Forced into our awareness 4000 years ago by the need to count ever larger multitudes, zero... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW27835H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28821H Patrick Devaney / Through The Gate Of Ivory (Large Paperback) Trinity student Charles Stanihurst, the son of a Dublin merchant and a Roscommon chambermaid, flees his native city after assaulting an English officer and heads for the West of Ireland, where he encounters a culture virtually unknown within the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X95226H David J. Bercuson / One Christmas in Washington : Churchill and Roosevelt Forge the Grand Alliance (Hardback) By Christmas Eve 1941 the war could hardly have been worse for Britain or the United States. The Japanese had entered the war, first bombing Pearl Harbor where they sank five US battleships; a few days later Japanese torpedo-bombers sank the Royal... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13098H Amy Goldstein / Janesville : An American Story (Hardback) Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2887 Constitution of the United States of America - HB The Constitution of the United states, full text, with full text of amendments ( the last amendment ( ratified) being the 27th Amendment , 1992) Small format hardcover, 30 pages with red and white colour endpapers, , seal of the USA on the front... 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21646H Gail MacColl / To Marry an English Lord : Tales of Wealth and Marriage in the Gilded Age(Large Paperback) From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21895H Julian Sancton / Madhouse at the End of the Earth (Large Paperback) 'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMES***A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021***The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. 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Bercuson / One Christmas in Washington : Churchill and Roosevelt Forge the Grand Alliance (Hardback) By Christmas Eve 1941 the war could hardly have been worse for Britain or the United States. The Japanese had entered the war, first bombing Pearl Harbor where they sank five US battleships; a few days later Japanese torpedo-bombers sank the Royal... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13098H Amy Goldstein / Janesville : An American Story (Hardback) Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. 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From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28821H Patrick Devaney / Through The Gate Of Ivory (Large Paperback) Trinity student Charles Stanihurst, the son of a Dublin merchant and a Roscommon chambermaid, flees his native city after assaulting an English officer and heads for the West of Ireland, where he encounters a culture virtually unknown within the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW14119H Dan Snow / On This Day in History (Hardback) On which day was history's shortest war waged and won (in roughly 40 minutes)? How was Napoleon bested by a group of rabbits in 1807? Why did a dispute about beer in an Oxford pub lead to over 100 deaths and 470 years of penance? Why in... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X95226H David J. Bercuson / One Christmas in Washington : Churchill and Roosevelt Forge the Grand Alliance (Hardback) By Christmas Eve 1941 the war could hardly have been worse for Britain or the United States. The Japanese had entered the war, first bombing Pearl Harbor where they sank five US battleships; a few days later Japanese torpedo-bombers sank the Royal... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13098H Amy Goldstein / Janesville : An American Story (Hardback) Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2887 Constitution of the United States of America - HB The Constitution of the United states, full text, with full text of amendments ( the last amendment ( ratified) being the 27th Amendment , 1992) Small format hardcover, 30 pages with red and white colour endpapers, , seal of the USA on the front... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30574H Gordon Kerr / A Short History of the Middle East Situated at the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East has confounded the ambition of conquerors and peacemakers alike. Christianity, Judaism and Islam all had their genesis in the region but with them came not just civilisation and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21646H Gail MacColl / To Marry an English Lord : Tales of Wealth and Marriage in the Gilded Age(Large Paperback) From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. 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He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW14119H Dan Snow / On This Day in History (Hardback) On which day was history's shortest war waged and won (in roughly 40 minutes)? How was Napoleon bested by a group of rabbits in 1807? Why did a dispute about beer in an Oxford pub lead to over 100 deaths and 470 years of penance? Why in... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X95226H David J. Bercuson / One Christmas in Washington : Churchill and Roosevelt Forge the Grand Alliance (Hardback) By Christmas Eve 1941 the war could hardly have been worse for Britain or the United States. The Japanese had entered the war, first bombing Pearl Harbor where they sank five US battleships; a few days later Japanese torpedo-bombers sank the Royal... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13098H Amy Goldstein / Janesville : An American Story (Hardback) Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. 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MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30574H Gordon Kerr / A Short History of the Middle East Situated at the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East has confounded the ambition of conquerors and peacemakers alike. Christianity, Judaism and Islam all had their genesis in the region but with them came not just civilisation and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... 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MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW22646H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : Mastering the Presidency (Hardback) A decade-and-a-half after President William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW27835H Simon Schama / The American Future (Large Paperback) In November 2008 the United States will elect a new President. But the imminent collapse of twenty years of Republican conservativism means the country is already conducting an intense self-examination about the trajectory of its history; how it... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW28821H Patrick Devaney / Through The Gate Of Ivory (Large Paperback) Trinity student Charles Stanihurst, the son of a Dublin merchant and a Roscommon chambermaid, flees his native city after assaulting an English officer and heads for the West of Ireland, where he encounters a culture virtually unknown within the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW14119H Dan Snow / On This Day in History (Hardback) On which day was history's shortest war waged and won (in roughly 40 minutes)? How was Napoleon bested by a group of rabbits in 1807? Why did a dispute about beer in an Oxford pub lead to over 100 deaths and 470 years of penance? Why in... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X95226H David J. Bercuson / One Christmas in Washington : Churchill and Roosevelt Forge the Grand Alliance (Hardback) By Christmas Eve 1941 the war could hardly have been worse for Britain or the United States. The Japanese had entered the war, first bombing Pearl Harbor where they sank five US battleships; a few days later Japanese torpedo-bombers sank the Royal... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13098H Amy Goldstein / Janesville : An American Story (Hardback) Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2887 Constitution of the United States of America - HB The Constitution of the United states, full text, with full text of amendments ( the last amendment ( ratified) being the 27th Amendment , 1992) Small format hardcover, 30 pages with red and white colour endpapers, , seal of the USA on the front... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30574H Gordon Kerr / A Short History of the Middle East Situated at the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East has confounded the ambition of conquerors and peacemakers alike. Christianity, Judaism and Islam all had their genesis in the region but with them came not just civilisation and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21646H Gail MacColl / To Marry an English Lord : Tales of Wealth and Marriage in the Gilded Age(Large Paperback) From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21895H Julian Sancton / Madhouse at the End of the Earth (Large Paperback) 'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMES***A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021***The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW22646H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : Mastering the Presidency (Hardback) A decade-and-a-half after President William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: wW28821H Patrick Devaney / Through The Gate Of Ivory (Large Paperback) Trinity student Charles Stanihurst, the son of a Dublin merchant and a Roscommon chambermaid, flees his native city after assaulting an English officer and heads for the West of Ireland, where he encounters a culture virtually unknown within the... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG241 John A. Barnes - Irish-American Landmarks : A Traveller's Guide - PB A first-rate traveler's guide as well as an admirable addition to American ethnic studies". -- Chicago Tribune Take a tour of 3,000 sites and memorials of the Irish in America with this exciting travel book. More than just a travelogue, Irish-American... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86896H Rageh Omaar / Only Half of Me : Being a Muslim in Britain (Hardback) A Muslim boy goes to a madrassa in Mogadishu to learn the Koran. His parents take him on two pilgrimages to Mecca. He arrives in Britain as a child just as Somalia collapses into a state of civil war, which will continue throughout his childhood and... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW14119H Dan Snow / On This Day in History (Hardback) On which day was history's shortest war waged and won (in roughly 40 minutes)? How was Napoleon bested by a group of rabbits in 1807? Why did a dispute about beer in an Oxford pub lead to over 100 deaths and 470 years of penance? Why in... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy | sku: BIG133, BIG134 Cecil Woodham-Smith - Queen Victoria : Her Life and Times 1819-1861 - HB -1972 Covers the initiual years of Victoria's life, from her youth to 1861 Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton UK , 1972 MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: X95226H David J. Bercuson / One Christmas in Washington : Churchill and Roosevelt Forge the Grand Alliance (Hardback) By Christmas Eve 1941 the war could hardly have been worse for Britain or the United States. The Japanese had entered the war, first bombing Pearl Harbor where they sank five US battleships; a few days later Japanese torpedo-bombers sank the Royal... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13098H Amy Goldstein / Janesville : An American Story (Hardback) Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2887 Constitution of the United States of America - HB The Constitution of the United states, full text, with full text of amendments ( the last amendment ( ratified) being the 27th Amendment , 1992) Small format hardcover, 30 pages with red and white colour endpapers, , seal of the USA on the front... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30574H Gordon Kerr / A Short History of the Middle East Situated at the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East has confounded the ambition of conquerors and peacemakers alike. Christianity, Judaism and Islam all had their genesis in the region but with them came not just civilisation and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2887 Constitution of the United States of America - HB The Constitution of the United states, full text, with full text of amendments ( the last amendment ( ratified) being the 27th Amendment , 1992) Small format hardcover, 30 pages with red and white colour endpapers, , seal of the USA on the front... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. 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MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21646H Gail MacColl / To Marry an English Lord : Tales of Wealth and Marriage in the Gilded Age(Large Paperback) From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create... 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Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13098H Amy Goldstein / Janesville : An American Story (Hardback) Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2887 Constitution of the United States of America - HB The Constitution of the United states, full text, with full text of amendments ( the last amendment ( ratified) being the 27th Amendment , 1992) Small format hardcover, 30 pages with red and white colour endpapers, , seal of the USA on the front... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30574H Gordon Kerr / A Short History of the Middle East Situated at the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East has confounded the ambition of conquerors and peacemakers alike. Christianity, Judaism and Islam all had their genesis in the region but with them came not just civilisation and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21646H Gail MacColl / To Marry an English Lord : Tales of Wealth and Marriage in the Gilded Age(Large Paperback) From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21895H Julian Sancton / Madhouse at the End of the Earth (Large Paperback) 'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMES***A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021***The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... 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MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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The Japanese had entered the war, first bombing Pearl Harbor where they sank five US battleships; a few days later Japanese torpedo-bombers sank the Royal... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X86366H Travis Elborough / Our History of the 20th Century : As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters (Hardback) What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate insights not only into the headline-grabbing... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW13098H Amy Goldstein / Janesville : An American Story (Hardback) Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2887 Constitution of the United States of America - HB The Constitution of the United states, full text, with full text of amendments ( the last amendment ( ratified) being the 27th Amendment , 1992) Small format hardcover, 30 pages with red and white colour endpapers, , seal of the USA on the front... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2873 A.J.A Symons - The Quest For Corvo : An Experiment in Biography ( Vintage Penguin PB 1969 - Originally 1934) One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"-- and no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: VP615 William L. Riordon / Plunkitt Of Tammany Hall (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Plunkitt of Tammany HallA Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher,... MSRP: €4.50 Was: €4.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG318, Robert H. Wiebe - The Search For Order : The Making of America : 1877-1920 - PB ( American Century Series ) At the end of the Reconstruction, the spread of science and technology, industrialism, urbanization, immigration, and economic depressions eroded Americans' conventional beliefs in individualism and a divinely ordained social system. In The Search... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR30574H Gordon Kerr / A Short History of the Middle East Situated at the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East has confounded the ambition of conquerors and peacemakers alike. Christianity, Judaism and Islam all had their genesis in the region but with them came not just civilisation and... MSRP: Now: €2.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG942 Elizabeth Simpson - The Spoils of War - World War Two : The Loss , Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property - PB - 1997 An illustrated volume features records of the 1995 international symposium among government representatives, curators, archaeologists, and historians dealing with the disputed ownership of the vast cultural property stolen or lost during World War... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21646H Gail MacColl / To Marry an English Lord : Tales of Wealth and Marriage in the Gilded Age(Large Paperback) From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles - just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW21895H Julian Sancton / Madhouse at the End of the Earth (Large Paperback) 'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMES***A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021***The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition... MSRP: Now: €3.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG711 Jacob Bronowski - The Ascent of Man - Vintage HB 1974 Dr Jacob Bronowksi's The Ascent of Man traces the development of human society through our understanding of science.First published in 1973 - the year before the author's death - to accompany a groundbreaking BBC television series, it is considered one... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view US Politics & Presidency | sku: wW22646H Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : Mastering the Presidency (Hardback) A decade-and-a-half after President William Jefferson Clinton first took the oath of office, biographer Nigel Hamilton tells the riveting story of what was possibly the greatest self-reinvention of a president in office in modern times. The... MSRP: Now: €4.95 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW2762H Michael Allin / Zarafa : A Giraffe's True Story (Hardback) In 1826 Zarafa, a Masai giraffe, was presented to Charles X of France by the Viceroy of Egypt. From Parisienne women with their hair coiffured so high they had to sit on the floor of their carriages to men sporting hats and ties in elongated... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG Caroline Williams - Cincinnati Scenes - HB- Illustrated - 1968 Edition This book of sketches made in and around Cincinnati in the late 1950's and early 1960's is a selection chosen from the many which have appeared over a period of years in the Cincinnati Enquirer. Most of the subjects are as sketched at the moment and will... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG106 Rhys Davies - My Wales - HB US 1ST Edition 1938 - Illustrated Vivian Rees Davies (1901 - 1978), known as Rhys Davies, was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. This is a US edition ( Funak and Wagnalls. USA 1938) . having been previously published in teh UK in 1937. Condition - Book -... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. 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Quick view sku: MED2888 Vincent Wilson Jr. ( Editor) - Book of Great American Documents : Bicentennial Edition - PB This thin but thought filled and thought provoking little volume is a compilation of great American documents and speeches. With everything from the Constitution and Fundamental Orders to President Lincoln's Second Inaugural and President Kennedy's... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: MED4237 Gerald S. Hawkins - Stonehenge Decoded - Vintage PB 1972 ( Originally 1966) A classic and it is focused on the archeoastronomy of the Stonehenge site. It is a pioneering work full of new ideas, the author is a mainstream scientist. It was a notable work at the time of publication and opened so new lines of research. MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR6919H Catherine Bailey / Fey's War **Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: rR18470H,rR23480H Charlotte Higgins / It's All Greek to Me Featuring things from Achilles' heel to Pythagoras' theorem, from Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just how profoundly it has informed our own... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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