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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... 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Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... 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Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... 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Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... 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Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... 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Gallie / Understanding War : An Essay on the Nuclear Age This clear and reflective book is based around two main that the destructiveness of war is a cumulative process; and that the superpowers must act together to prevent future nuclear destruction. All of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Michael Banton - Racial Minorities - PB 1972 Published by Fontana UK, 1972. Banton bases his study of racial minorities in post war Britain - examining social isolation of immigrants in the UK, urban pressurea, and the relationships between immigrant and host society. Banton spent his long... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA Alan Moorehead - The Fatal Impact : An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840 When Captain Cook entered the Pacific in 1769, it was a virgin ocean, pristine and savage, and its inhabitants lived a life of primeval innocence. 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... 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All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73513K Peter Harclerode, Brendan Pittaway / The Lost Masters: Looting of Europe's Treasurehouses 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: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... 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Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73287K Multatuli / Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is also a flawed idealist whose... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73275K Karl Meyer / Tournament of Shadows : The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia The original Great Game (1800-1917), the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. The prize, control of the vast Eurasian heartland,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73269K Charles Nicholl / Somebody Else - Arthur Rimbaud in Africa Rimbaud was the original enfant terrible. 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... 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Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... 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Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... 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Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... 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A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73239K Kavita Bhanot / The Book of Birmingham: A City in Short Fiction Birmingham is a writer’s city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge and Jim Crace have spent most of their writing lives there, and the city continues to support and inspire a new... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... 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All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73513K Peter Harclerode, Brendan Pittaway / The Lost Masters: Looting of Europe's Treasurehouses 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: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... 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Gallie / Understanding War : An Essay on the Nuclear Age This clear and reflective book is based around two main that the destructiveness of war is a cumulative process; and that the superpowers must act together to prevent future nuclear destruction. All of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Michael Banton - Racial Minorities - PB 1972 Published by Fontana UK, 1972. Banton bases his study of racial minorities in post war Britain - examining social isolation of immigrants in the UK, urban pressurea, and the relationships between immigrant and host society. Banton spent his long... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA Alan Moorehead - The Fatal Impact : An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840 When Captain Cook entered the Pacific in 1769, it was a virgin ocean, pristine and savage, and its inhabitants lived a life of primeval innocence. Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... 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Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... 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All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73513K Peter Harclerode, Brendan Pittaway / The Lost Masters: Looting of Europe's Treasurehouses 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: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... 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Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... 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Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... 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All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73513K Peter Harclerode, Brendan Pittaway / The Lost Masters: Looting of Europe's Treasurehouses 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: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73436K Russell Davies / Foreign Body - The Secret Life of Robert Maxwell This is an account of the origins of Robert Maxwell's business success in the intelligence community, his links thereafter with the world's foremost intelligence agencies, and the backroom diplomacy which took him to the heart of world affairs... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73432K Christopher Hill / The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714 There is an immense range of books about the English Civil War, but one historian stands head and shoulders above all others for the quality of his work on the subject. In 1961 Christopher Hill first published what has come to be acknowledged as the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73375K W. B. Gallie / Understanding War : An Essay on the Nuclear Age This clear and reflective book is based around two main that the destructiveness of war is a cumulative process; and that the superpowers must act together to prevent future nuclear destruction. All of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Michael Banton - Racial Minorities - PB 1972 Published by Fontana UK, 1972. Banton bases his study of racial minorities in post war Britain - examining social isolation of immigrants in the UK, urban pressurea, and the relationships between immigrant and host society. Banton spent his long... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA Alan Moorehead - The Fatal Impact : An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840 When Captain Cook entered the Pacific in 1769, it was a virgin ocean, pristine and savage, and its inhabitants lived a life of primeval innocence. Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... 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A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73239K Kavita Bhanot / The Book of Birmingham: A City in Short Fiction Birmingham is a writer’s city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge and Jim Crace have spent most of their writing lives there, and the city continues to support and inspire a new... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... 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Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... 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Gallie / Understanding War : An Essay on the Nuclear Age This clear and reflective book is based around two main that the destructiveness of war is a cumulative process; and that the superpowers must act together to prevent future nuclear destruction. All of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Michael Banton - Racial Minorities - PB 1972 Published by Fontana UK, 1972. Banton bases his study of racial minorities in post war Britain - examining social isolation of immigrants in the UK, urban pressurea, and the relationships between immigrant and host society. Banton spent his long... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA Alan Moorehead - The Fatal Impact : An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840 When Captain Cook entered the Pacific in 1769, it was a virgin ocean, pristine and savage, and its inhabitants lived a life of primeval innocence. Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... 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A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73239K Kavita Bhanot / The Book of Birmingham: A City in Short Fiction Birmingham is a writer’s city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge and Jim Crace have spent most of their writing lives there, and the city continues to support and inspire a new... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... 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Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... 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All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73513K Peter Harclerode, Brendan Pittaway / The Lost Masters: Looting of Europe's Treasurehouses 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: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... 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Gallie / Understanding War : An Essay on the Nuclear Age This clear and reflective book is based around two main that the destructiveness of war is a cumulative process; and that the superpowers must act together to prevent future nuclear destruction. All of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Michael Banton - Racial Minorities - PB 1972 Published by Fontana UK, 1972. Banton bases his study of racial minorities in post war Britain - examining social isolation of immigrants in the UK, urban pressurea, and the relationships between immigrant and host society. Banton spent his long... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA Alan Moorehead - The Fatal Impact : An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840 When Captain Cook entered the Pacific in 1769, it was a virgin ocean, pristine and savage, and its inhabitants lived a life of primeval innocence. Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73287K Multatuli / Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is also a flawed idealist whose... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73275K Karl Meyer / Tournament of Shadows : The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia The original Great Game (1800-1917), the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. The prize, control of the vast Eurasian heartland,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73269K Charles Nicholl / Somebody Else - Arthur Rimbaud in Africa Rimbaud was the original enfant terrible. A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73239K Kavita Bhanot / The Book of Birmingham: A City in Short Fiction Birmingham is a writer’s city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge and Jim Crace have spent most of their writing lives there, and the city continues to support and inspire a new... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... 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Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73065K Jonathan Schneer / The Thames: England's River Combining well-chosen historical stories, strong characters and thrilling events, THE THAMES reveals a vital, yet silent, figure that has helped shape British history.The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943)As the silver thread woven... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73513K Peter Harclerode, Brendan Pittaway / The Lost Masters: Looting of Europe's Treasurehouses 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: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... 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Gallie / Understanding War : An Essay on the Nuclear Age This clear and reflective book is based around two main that the destructiveness of war is a cumulative process; and that the superpowers must act together to prevent future nuclear destruction. All of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Michael Banton - Racial Minorities - PB 1972 Published by Fontana UK, 1972. Banton bases his study of racial minorities in post war Britain - examining social isolation of immigrants in the UK, urban pressurea, and the relationships between immigrant and host society. Banton spent his long... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA Alan Moorehead - The Fatal Impact : An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840 When Captain Cook entered the Pacific in 1769, it was a virgin ocean, pristine and savage, and its inhabitants lived a life of primeval innocence. Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... 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A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73239K Kavita Bhanot / The Book of Birmingham: A City in Short Fiction Birmingham is a writer’s city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge and Jim Crace have spent most of their writing lives there, and the city continues to support and inspire a new... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... 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Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73065K Jonathan Schneer / The Thames: England's River Combining well-chosen historical stories, strong characters and thrilling events, THE THAMES reveals a vital, yet silent, figure that has helped shape British history.The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943)As the silver thread woven... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details Lilliput Press Lin Rose Clark - Swift Blaze Of Fire : The Life of Robert Hilliard - PB - BRAND NEW MSRP: €18.95 Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: X89160K Hugh Brody / The Other Side of Eden : Hunter-gatherers, Farmers and the Shaping of the World (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: X89155K Ann Wright / The Wall of Death (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73547K Donald Keene / Appreciations of Japanese Culture Chapters on aesthetics, traditional poetry, modern poetry, novelists, eccentrics, literature and war. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73513K Peter Harclerode, Brendan Pittaway / The Lost Masters: Looting of Europe's Treasurehouses 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: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73436K Russell Davies / Foreign Body - The Secret Life of Robert Maxwell This is an account of the origins of Robert Maxwell's business success in the intelligence community, his links thereafter with the world's foremost intelligence agencies, and the backroom diplomacy which took him to the heart of world affairs... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73432K Christopher Hill / The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714 There is an immense range of books about the English Civil War, but one historian stands head and shoulders above all others for the quality of his work on the subject. In 1961 Christopher Hill first published what has come to be acknowledged as the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73375K W. B. Gallie / Understanding War : An Essay on the Nuclear Age This clear and reflective book is based around two main that the destructiveness of war is a cumulative process; and that the superpowers must act together to prevent future nuclear destruction. All of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Michael Banton - Racial Minorities - PB 1972 Published by Fontana UK, 1972. Banton bases his study of racial minorities in post war Britain - examining social isolation of immigrants in the UK, urban pressurea, and the relationships between immigrant and host society. Banton spent his long... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA Alan Moorehead - The Fatal Impact : An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840 When Captain Cook entered the Pacific in 1769, it was a virgin ocean, pristine and savage, and its inhabitants lived a life of primeval innocence. Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73287K Multatuli / Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is also a flawed idealist whose... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73275K Karl Meyer / Tournament of Shadows : The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia The original Great Game (1800-1917), the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. The prize, control of the vast Eurasian heartland,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73269K Charles Nicholl / Somebody Else - Arthur Rimbaud in Africa Rimbaud was the original enfant terrible. A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73239K Kavita Bhanot / The Book of Birmingham: A City in Short Fiction Birmingham is a writer’s city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge and Jim Crace have spent most of their writing lives there, and the city continues to support and inspire a new... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73065K Jonathan Schneer / The Thames: England's River Combining well-chosen historical stories, strong characters and thrilling events, THE THAMES reveals a vital, yet silent, figure that has helped shape British history.The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943)As the silver thread woven... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: X89160K Hugh Brody / The Other Side of Eden : Hunter-gatherers, Farmers and the Shaping of the World (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: X89155K Ann Wright / The Wall of Death (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73547K Donald Keene / Appreciations of Japanese Culture Chapters on aesthetics, traditional poetry, modern poetry, novelists, eccentrics, literature and war. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73513K Peter Harclerode, Brendan Pittaway / The Lost Masters: Looting of Europe's Treasurehouses 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: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73436K Russell Davies / Foreign Body - The Secret Life of Robert Maxwell This is an account of the origins of Robert Maxwell's business success in the intelligence community, his links thereafter with the world's foremost intelligence agencies, and the backroom diplomacy which took him to the heart of world affairs... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73432K Christopher Hill / The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714 There is an immense range of books about the English Civil War, but one historian stands head and shoulders above all others for the quality of his work on the subject. In 1961 Christopher Hill first published what has come to be acknowledged as the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73375K W. B. Gallie / Understanding War : An Essay on the Nuclear Age This clear and reflective book is based around two main that the destructiveness of war is a cumulative process; and that the superpowers must act together to prevent future nuclear destruction. All of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Michael Banton - Racial Minorities - PB 1972 Published by Fontana UK, 1972. Banton bases his study of racial minorities in post war Britain - examining social isolation of immigrants in the UK, urban pressurea, and the relationships between immigrant and host society. Banton spent his long... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA Alan Moorehead - The Fatal Impact : An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840 When Captain Cook entered the Pacific in 1769, it was a virgin ocean, pristine and savage, and its inhabitants lived a life of primeval innocence. Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73287K Multatuli / Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is also a flawed idealist whose... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73275K Karl Meyer / Tournament of Shadows : The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia The original Great Game (1800-1917), the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. The prize, control of the vast Eurasian heartland,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73269K Charles Nicholl / Somebody Else - Arthur Rimbaud in Africa Rimbaud was the original enfant terrible. A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73239K Kavita Bhanot / The Book of Birmingham: A City in Short Fiction Birmingham is a writer’s city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge and Jim Crace have spent most of their writing lives there, and the city continues to support and inspire a new... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73065K Jonathan Schneer / The Thames: England's River Combining well-chosen historical stories, strong characters and thrilling events, THE THAMES reveals a vital, yet silent, figure that has helped shape British history.The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943)As the silver thread woven... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Details sku: X89155K Ann Wright / The Wall of Death (Hardback) MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73547K Donald Keene / Appreciations of Japanese Culture Chapters on aesthetics, traditional poetry, modern poetry, novelists, eccentrics, literature and war. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73513K Peter Harclerode, Brendan Pittaway / The Lost Masters: Looting of Europe's Treasurehouses 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: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73436K Russell Davies / Foreign Body - The Secret Life of Robert Maxwell This is an account of the origins of Robert Maxwell's business success in the intelligence community, his links thereafter with the world's foremost intelligence agencies, and the backroom diplomacy which took him to the heart of world affairs... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73432K Christopher Hill / The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714 There is an immense range of books about the English Civil War, but one historian stands head and shoulders above all others for the quality of his work on the subject. In 1961 Christopher Hill first published what has come to be acknowledged as the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73375K W. B. Gallie / Understanding War : An Essay on the Nuclear Age This clear and reflective book is based around two main that the destructiveness of war is a cumulative process; and that the superpowers must act together to prevent future nuclear destruction. All of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Michael Banton - Racial Minorities - PB 1972 Published by Fontana UK, 1972. Banton bases his study of racial minorities in post war Britain - examining social isolation of immigrants in the UK, urban pressurea, and the relationships between immigrant and host society. Banton spent his long... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA Alan Moorehead - The Fatal Impact : An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840 When Captain Cook entered the Pacific in 1769, it was a virgin ocean, pristine and savage, and its inhabitants lived a life of primeval innocence. Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73287K Multatuli / Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is also a flawed idealist whose... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73275K Karl Meyer / Tournament of Shadows : The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia The original Great Game (1800-1917), the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. The prize, control of the vast Eurasian heartland,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73269K Charles Nicholl / Somebody Else - Arthur Rimbaud in Africa Rimbaud was the original enfant terrible. A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73239K Kavita Bhanot / The Book of Birmingham: A City in Short Fiction Birmingham is a writer’s city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge and Jim Crace have spent most of their writing lives there, and the city continues to support and inspire a new... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73065K Jonathan Schneer / The Thames: England's River Combining well-chosen historical stories, strong characters and thrilling events, THE THAMES reveals a vital, yet silent, figure that has helped shape British history.The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943)As the silver thread woven... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73547K Donald Keene / Appreciations of Japanese Culture Chapters on aesthetics, traditional poetry, modern poetry, novelists, eccentrics, literature and war. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73513K Peter Harclerode, Brendan Pittaway / The Lost Masters: Looting of Europe's Treasurehouses 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: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73436K Russell Davies / Foreign Body - The Secret Life of Robert Maxwell This is an account of the origins of Robert Maxwell's business success in the intelligence community, his links thereafter with the world's foremost intelligence agencies, and the backroom diplomacy which took him to the heart of world affairs... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73432K Christopher Hill / The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714 There is an immense range of books about the English Civil War, but one historian stands head and shoulders above all others for the quality of his work on the subject. In 1961 Christopher Hill first published what has come to be acknowledged as the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73375K W. B. Gallie / Understanding War : An Essay on the Nuclear Age This clear and reflective book is based around two main that the destructiveness of war is a cumulative process; and that the superpowers must act together to prevent future nuclear destruction. All of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Michael Banton - Racial Minorities - PB 1972 Published by Fontana UK, 1972. Banton bases his study of racial minorities in post war Britain - examining social isolation of immigrants in the UK, urban pressurea, and the relationships between immigrant and host society. Banton spent his long... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA Alan Moorehead - The Fatal Impact : An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840 When Captain Cook entered the Pacific in 1769, it was a virgin ocean, pristine and savage, and its inhabitants lived a life of primeval innocence. Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73287K Multatuli / Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is also a flawed idealist whose... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73275K Karl Meyer / Tournament of Shadows : The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia The original Great Game (1800-1917), the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. The prize, control of the vast Eurasian heartland,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73269K Charles Nicholl / Somebody Else - Arthur Rimbaud in Africa Rimbaud was the original enfant terrible. A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73239K Kavita Bhanot / The Book of Birmingham: A City in Short Fiction Birmingham is a writer’s city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge and Jim Crace have spent most of their writing lives there, and the city continues to support and inspire a new... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73065K Jonathan Schneer / The Thames: England's River Combining well-chosen historical stories, strong characters and thrilling events, THE THAMES reveals a vital, yet silent, figure that has helped shape British history.The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943)As the silver thread woven... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73513K Peter Harclerode, Brendan Pittaway / The Lost Masters: Looting of Europe's Treasurehouses 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: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73436K Russell Davies / Foreign Body - The Secret Life of Robert Maxwell This is an account of the origins of Robert Maxwell's business success in the intelligence community, his links thereafter with the world's foremost intelligence agencies, and the backroom diplomacy which took him to the heart of world affairs... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73432K Christopher Hill / The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714 There is an immense range of books about the English Civil War, but one historian stands head and shoulders above all others for the quality of his work on the subject. In 1961 Christopher Hill first published what has come to be acknowledged as the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73375K W. B. Gallie / Understanding War : An Essay on the Nuclear Age This clear and reflective book is based around two main that the destructiveness of war is a cumulative process; and that the superpowers must act together to prevent future nuclear destruction. All of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Michael Banton - Racial Minorities - PB 1972 Published by Fontana UK, 1972. Banton bases his study of racial minorities in post war Britain - examining social isolation of immigrants in the UK, urban pressurea, and the relationships between immigrant and host society. Banton spent his long... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA Alan Moorehead - The Fatal Impact : An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840 When Captain Cook entered the Pacific in 1769, it was a virgin ocean, pristine and savage, and its inhabitants lived a life of primeval innocence. Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73287K Multatuli / Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is also a flawed idealist whose... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73275K Karl Meyer / Tournament of Shadows : The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia The original Great Game (1800-1917), the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. The prize, control of the vast Eurasian heartland,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73269K Charles Nicholl / Somebody Else - Arthur Rimbaud in Africa Rimbaud was the original enfant terrible. A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73239K Kavita Bhanot / The Book of Birmingham: A City in Short Fiction Birmingham is a writer’s city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge and Jim Crace have spent most of their writing lives there, and the city continues to support and inspire a new... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... 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Quick view sku: 73484K James Cook / Hunt For The Southern Continent Burying the bottle, James Cook wondered if it would ever be found. He was leaving New Zealand on a search for the great Southern Continent and knew he faced unimaginable dangers in his small ship. Embarking on his second loop of the south Pacific, Cook... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73436K Russell Davies / Foreign Body - The Secret Life of Robert Maxwell This is an account of the origins of Robert Maxwell's business success in the intelligence community, his links thereafter with the world's foremost intelligence agencies, and the backroom diplomacy which took him to the heart of world affairs... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73432K Christopher Hill / The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714 There is an immense range of books about the English Civil War, but one historian stands head and shoulders above all others for the quality of his work on the subject. In 1961 Christopher Hill first published what has come to be acknowledged as the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73375K W. B. Gallie / Understanding War : An Essay on the Nuclear Age This clear and reflective book is based around two main that the destructiveness of war is a cumulative process; and that the superpowers must act together to prevent future nuclear destruction. All of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Michael Banton - Racial Minorities - PB 1972 Published by Fontana UK, 1972. Banton bases his study of racial minorities in post war Britain - examining social isolation of immigrants in the UK, urban pressurea, and the relationships between immigrant and host society. Banton spent his long... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA Alan Moorehead - The Fatal Impact : An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840 When Captain Cook entered the Pacific in 1769, it was a virgin ocean, pristine and savage, and its inhabitants lived a life of primeval innocence. Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73287K Multatuli / Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is also a flawed idealist whose... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73275K Karl Meyer / Tournament of Shadows : The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia The original Great Game (1800-1917), the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. The prize, control of the vast Eurasian heartland,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73269K Charles Nicholl / Somebody Else - Arthur Rimbaud in Africa Rimbaud was the original enfant terrible. A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73239K Kavita Bhanot / The Book of Birmingham: A City in Short Fiction Birmingham is a writer’s city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge and Jim Crace have spent most of their writing lives there, and the city continues to support and inspire a new... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73065K Jonathan Schneer / The Thames: England's River Combining well-chosen historical stories, strong characters and thrilling events, THE THAMES reveals a vital, yet silent, figure that has helped shape British history.The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943)As the silver thread woven... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73436K Russell Davies / Foreign Body - The Secret Life of Robert Maxwell This is an account of the origins of Robert Maxwell's business success in the intelligence community, his links thereafter with the world's foremost intelligence agencies, and the backroom diplomacy which took him to the heart of world affairs... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73432K Christopher Hill / The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714 There is an immense range of books about the English Civil War, but one historian stands head and shoulders above all others for the quality of his work on the subject. In 1961 Christopher Hill first published what has come to be acknowledged as the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73375K W. B. Gallie / Understanding War : An Essay on the Nuclear Age This clear and reflective book is based around two main that the destructiveness of war is a cumulative process; and that the superpowers must act together to prevent future nuclear destruction. All of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Michael Banton - Racial Minorities - PB 1972 Published by Fontana UK, 1972. Banton bases his study of racial minorities in post war Britain - examining social isolation of immigrants in the UK, urban pressurea, and the relationships between immigrant and host society. Banton spent his long... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA Alan Moorehead - The Fatal Impact : An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840 When Captain Cook entered the Pacific in 1769, it was a virgin ocean, pristine and savage, and its inhabitants lived a life of primeval innocence. Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73287K Multatuli / Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is also a flawed idealist whose... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73275K Karl Meyer / Tournament of Shadows : The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia The original Great Game (1800-1917), the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. The prize, control of the vast Eurasian heartland,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73269K Charles Nicholl / Somebody Else - Arthur Rimbaud in Africa Rimbaud was the original enfant terrible. A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73239K Kavita Bhanot / The Book of Birmingham: A City in Short Fiction Birmingham is a writer’s city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge and Jim Crace have spent most of their writing lives there, and the city continues to support and inspire a new... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73065K Jonathan Schneer / The Thames: England's River Combining well-chosen historical stories, strong characters and thrilling events, THE THAMES reveals a vital, yet silent, figure that has helped shape British history.The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943)As the silver thread woven... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73432K Christopher Hill / The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714 There is an immense range of books about the English Civil War, but one historian stands head and shoulders above all others for the quality of his work on the subject. In 1961 Christopher Hill first published what has come to be acknowledged as the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73375K W. B. Gallie / Understanding War : An Essay on the Nuclear Age This clear and reflective book is based around two main that the destructiveness of war is a cumulative process; and that the superpowers must act together to prevent future nuclear destruction. All of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Michael Banton - Racial Minorities - PB 1972 Published by Fontana UK, 1972. Banton bases his study of racial minorities in post war Britain - examining social isolation of immigrants in the UK, urban pressurea, and the relationships between immigrant and host society. Banton spent his long... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA Alan Moorehead - The Fatal Impact : An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840 When Captain Cook entered the Pacific in 1769, it was a virgin ocean, pristine and savage, and its inhabitants lived a life of primeval innocence. Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73287K Multatuli / Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is also a flawed idealist whose... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73275K Karl Meyer / Tournament of Shadows : The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia The original Great Game (1800-1917), the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. The prize, control of the vast Eurasian heartland,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73269K Charles Nicholl / Somebody Else - Arthur Rimbaud in Africa Rimbaud was the original enfant terrible. A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73239K Kavita Bhanot / The Book of Birmingham: A City in Short Fiction Birmingham is a writer’s city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge and Jim Crace have spent most of their writing lives there, and the city continues to support and inspire a new... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... 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Quick view sku: 73375K W. B. Gallie / Understanding War : An Essay on the Nuclear Age This clear and reflective book is based around two main that the destructiveness of war is a cumulative process; and that the superpowers must act together to prevent future nuclear destruction. All of our books... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Michael Banton - Racial Minorities - PB 1972 Published by Fontana UK, 1972. Banton bases his study of racial minorities in post war Britain - examining social isolation of immigrants in the UK, urban pressurea, and the relationships between immigrant and host society. Banton spent his long... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA Alan Moorehead - The Fatal Impact : An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840 When Captain Cook entered the Pacific in 1769, it was a virgin ocean, pristine and savage, and its inhabitants lived a life of primeval innocence. Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... 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A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73239K Kavita Bhanot / The Book of Birmingham: A City in Short Fiction Birmingham is a writer’s city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge and Jim Crace have spent most of their writing lives there, and the city continues to support and inspire a new... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... 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Quick view Michael Banton - Racial Minorities - PB 1972 Published by Fontana UK, 1972. Banton bases his study of racial minorities in post war Britain - examining social isolation of immigrants in the UK, urban pressurea, and the relationships between immigrant and host society. Banton spent his long... MSRP: Now: €6.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA Alan Moorehead - The Fatal Impact : An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840 When Captain Cook entered the Pacific in 1769, it was a virgin ocean, pristine and savage, and its inhabitants lived a life of primeval innocence. Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... 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A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73239K Kavita Bhanot / The Book of Birmingham: A City in Short Fiction Birmingham is a writer’s city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge and Jim Crace have spent most of their writing lives there, and the city continues to support and inspire a new... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73065K Jonathan Schneer / The Thames: England's River Combining well-chosen historical stories, strong characters and thrilling events, THE THAMES reveals a vital, yet silent, figure that has helped shape British history.The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943)As the silver thread woven... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view AUSTRALIA Alan Moorehead - The Fatal Impact : An Account of the Invasion of the South Pacific 1767-1840 When Captain Cook entered the Pacific in 1769, it was a virgin ocean, pristine and savage, and its inhabitants lived a life of primeval innocence. Seventy years later, firearms, disease and alcohol had hammered away at this way of life until it crumbled... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73287K Multatuli / Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is also a flawed idealist whose... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73275K Karl Meyer / Tournament of Shadows : The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia The original Great Game (1800-1917), the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. The prize, control of the vast Eurasian heartland,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73269K Charles Nicholl / Somebody Else - Arthur Rimbaud in Africa Rimbaud was the original enfant terrible. A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73239K Kavita Bhanot / The Book of Birmingham: A City in Short Fiction Birmingham is a writer’s city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge and Jim Crace have spent most of their writing lives there, and the city continues to support and inspire a new... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73065K Jonathan Schneer / The Thames: England's River Combining well-chosen historical stories, strong characters and thrilling events, THE THAMES reveals a vital, yet silent, figure that has helped shape British history.The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943)As the silver thread woven... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Russia Robert Conquest - The Nation Killers : A study of Genocide in Stalin's Russia - PB 1972 Originally published 1970, this paperback edition 1972. Some underlining in pen to the introductory chapters. Explores the littleknownpurges of 1943-4 when Stalin deported natives of the North Caucasus and Crimea to Siberia and Central Asia. The... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73287K Multatuli / Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is also a flawed idealist whose... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73275K Karl Meyer / Tournament of Shadows : The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia The original Great Game (1800-1917), the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. The prize, control of the vast Eurasian heartland,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73269K Charles Nicholl / Somebody Else - Arthur Rimbaud in Africa Rimbaud was the original enfant terrible. A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73239K Kavita Bhanot / The Book of Birmingham: A City in Short Fiction Birmingham is a writer’s city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge and Jim Crace have spent most of their writing lives there, and the city continues to support and inspire a new... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73065K Jonathan Schneer / The Thames: England's River Combining well-chosen historical stories, strong characters and thrilling events, THE THAMES reveals a vital, yet silent, figure that has helped shape British history.The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943)As the silver thread woven... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view British Monarchy Janice Dunlop - Charles and Diana : A Royal Romance - 1981 Published by Coronet UK, 1981 . What could possibly go wrong ? A look at the backgrounds and history of the Charles and Diana relationship. the first published account of the 1980-81 royal romance, published before the marriage itself. MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. Horden had been the biggest colliery in Britain and among the men who had worked there were Mark Hudson's great grandfather and grandfather. The... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73287K Multatuli / Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is also a flawed idealist whose... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73275K Karl Meyer / Tournament of Shadows : The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia The original Great Game (1800-1917), the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. The prize, control of the vast Eurasian heartland,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73269K Charles Nicholl / Somebody Else - Arthur Rimbaud in Africa Rimbaud was the original enfant terrible. A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73239K Kavita Bhanot / The Book of Birmingham: A City in Short Fiction Birmingham is a writer’s city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge and Jim Crace have spent most of their writing lives there, and the city continues to support and inspire a new... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... 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Quick view sku: MED386 W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985) A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martin Luther King - The Trumpet of Conscience - PB - 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience features five speeches that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered in November and Decemb Prior to King’s assassination, the book was released under the title Conscience for Change. After King’s death in 1968, the book... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73325K Mark Hudson / Coming Back Brockens: A Year in a Mining Village A few years ago Mark Hudson went to live in Horden, a mining village on the bleak east coast of Durham. 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John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... 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MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... 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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73065K Jonathan Schneer / The Thames: England's River Combining well-chosen historical stories, strong characters and thrilling events, THE THAMES reveals a vital, yet silent, figure that has helped shape British history.The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943)As the silver thread woven... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73275K Karl Meyer / Tournament of Shadows : The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia The original Great Game (1800-1917), the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. The prize, control of the vast Eurasian heartland,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73269K Charles Nicholl / Somebody Else - Arthur Rimbaud in Africa Rimbaud was the original enfant terrible. A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73239K Kavita Bhanot / The Book of Birmingham: A City in Short Fiction Birmingham is a writer’s city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge and Jim Crace have spent most of their writing lives there, and the city continues to support and inspire a new... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73065K Jonathan Schneer / The Thames: England's River Combining well-chosen historical stories, strong characters and thrilling events, THE THAMES reveals a vital, yet silent, figure that has helped shape British history.The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943)As the silver thread woven... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73287K Multatuli / Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is also a flawed idealist whose... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73275K Karl Meyer / Tournament of Shadows : The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia The original Great Game (1800-1917), the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. The prize, control of the vast Eurasian heartland,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73269K Charles Nicholl / Somebody Else - Arthur Rimbaud in Africa Rimbaud was the original enfant terrible. A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73239K Kavita Bhanot / The Book of Birmingham: A City in Short Fiction Birmingham is a writer’s city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge and Jim Crace have spent most of their writing lives there, and the city continues to support and inspire a new... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... 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Quick view sku: 73275K Karl Meyer / Tournament of Shadows : The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia The original Great Game (1800-1917), the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. The prize, control of the vast Eurasian heartland,... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73269K Charles Nicholl / Somebody Else - Arthur Rimbaud in Africa Rimbaud was the original enfant terrible. A poetic genius, he destroyed all those who attempted to befriend him, most notoriously wrecking the marriage and sanity of the poet Verlaine. Having conquered the literary world of Paris, he abandoned France and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73239K Kavita Bhanot / The Book of Birmingham: A City in Short Fiction Birmingham is a writer’s city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge and Jim Crace have spent most of their writing lives there, and the city continues to support and inspire a new... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73065K Jonathan Schneer / The Thames: England's River Combining well-chosen historical stories, strong characters and thrilling events, THE THAMES reveals a vital, yet silent, figure that has helped shape British history.The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943)As the silver thread woven... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: 73239K Kavita Bhanot / The Book of Birmingham: A City in Short Fiction Birmingham is a writer’s city with a long tradition of distinctive literary subcultures. Long-established novelists such as David Lodge and Jim Crace have spent most of their writing lives there, and the city continues to support and inspire a new... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73065K Jonathan Schneer / The Thames: England's River Combining well-chosen historical stories, strong characters and thrilling events, THE THAMES reveals a vital, yet silent, figure that has helped shape British history.The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943)As the silver thread woven... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view Folio Society Editions John Aubrey - Brief Lives - HB Folio Society Slipcased - 1975 Aubrey's portraits of great figures of 16th -17th century England, from Sir Walter Raleigh to John Milton. John Aubrey's biographies stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire;... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Howell Rees Gronow - Selections from the Reminiscenses of Captain Gronow - HB Folio Society 1977 Captain Gronow was an entertaining raconteur who brings his own experiences in the Regency period and the wars with France delightfully to life. Gronow published several sets of memoirs in the 19th century, this is a collection , edited and selected by... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 The (long) subtitle to this edition is ''Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable affairs of state during the sixteenth century, not mentioned by other historians: more particularly relating to the kingdoms of England and Scotland, under... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73065K Jonathan Schneer / The Thames: England's River Combining well-chosen historical stories, strong characters and thrilling events, THE THAMES reveals a vital, yet silent, figure that has helped shape British history.The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943)As the silver thread woven... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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Quick view sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age The "modern times" of the early twentieth century saw the rise of the assembly line and the belief that standardization would make the world a better place. Yet along with greater production efficiency came dehumanization, as the division of labor... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73065K Jonathan Schneer / The Thames: England's River Combining well-chosen historical stories, strong characters and thrilling events, THE THAMES reveals a vital, yet silent, figure that has helped shape British history.The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943)As the silver thread woven... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73156K Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73065K Jonathan Schneer / The Thames: England's River Combining well-chosen historical stories, strong characters and thrilling events, THE THAMES reveals a vital, yet silent, figure that has helped shape British history.The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943)As the silver thread woven... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency The definitive biography of the first "efficiency expert." Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man―the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73065K Jonathan Schneer / The Thames: England's River Combining well-chosen historical stories, strong characters and thrilling events, THE THAMES reveals a vital, yet silent, figure that has helped shape British history.The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943)As the silver thread woven... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker Alfred Barratt Brown (1887-1947) was a Woodbrooke lecturer and later Principal of Ruskin College. He was a conscientious objector, and was imprisoned in 1916 for distributing an anti-conscription pamphlet. He also wrote on socialism, labour rights and... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73065K Jonathan Schneer / The Thames: England's River Combining well-chosen historical stories, strong characters and thrilling events, THE THAMES reveals a vital, yet silent, figure that has helped shape British history.The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943)As the silver thread woven... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 In this first volume of his two-volume autobiography, Wiesel takes us from his childhood memories of a traditional and loving Jewish family in the Romanian village of Sighet through the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the years of spiritual... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73065K Jonathan Schneer / The Thames: England's River Combining well-chosen historical stories, strong characters and thrilling events, THE THAMES reveals a vital, yet silent, figure that has helped shape British history.The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943)As the silver thread woven... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73072K James Benson / Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes It was the Italians who pioneered the use of two-man human torpedoes or 'chariots', and their attacks on ships of the Royal Navy in Alexandria Harbour in 1941 caused Winston Churchill to write to the Chief of Staff's committee to enquire what was being... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 73065K Jonathan Schneer / The Thames: England's River Combining well-chosen historical stories, strong characters and thrilling events, THE THAMES reveals a vital, yet silent, figure that has helped shape British history.The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943)As the silver thread woven... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
Quick view sku: 73065K Jonathan Schneer / The Thames: England's River Combining well-chosen historical stories, strong characters and thrilling events, THE THAMES reveals a vital, yet silent, figure that has helped shape British history.The Thames is liquid history' John Burns MP (1858-1943)As the silver thread woven... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view
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