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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97666K Stephen Jones Sr. / Black History (Large Paperback) Black History is World History. This book is intended for kids to enjoy. It is my intentions for parents and teachers to read along with kids and explain any difficulties they may run across. This book will not only raise awareness but it will also... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97659K Kathleen Coyle / The Magical Realm - An Irish Childhood (Large Paperback) A magical evocation of growing up in Co. Derry in the north of Ireland toward the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97655K Heinrich Hoffmann / Hitler Was My Friend: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Photographer (Large Paperback) Heinrich Hoffmann played a key part in the making of the Hitler legend. 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Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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... 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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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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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Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
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Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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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Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
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Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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. 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Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97666K Stephen Jones Sr. / Black History (Large Paperback) Black History is World History. This book is intended for kids to enjoy. It is my intentions for parents and teachers to read along with kids and explain any difficulties they may run across. This book will not only raise awareness but it will also... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97659K Kathleen Coyle / The Magical Realm - An Irish Childhood (Large Paperback) A magical evocation of growing up in Co. Derry in the north of Ireland toward the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97655K Heinrich Hoffmann / Hitler Was My Friend: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Photographer (Large Paperback) Heinrich Hoffmann played a key part in the making of the Hitler legend. 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Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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... 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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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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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Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
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Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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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Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
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Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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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Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
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Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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. 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Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97666K Stephen Jones Sr. / Black History (Large Paperback) Black History is World History. This book is intended for kids to enjoy. It is my intentions for parents and teachers to read along with kids and explain any difficulties they may run across. This book will not only raise awareness but it will also... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97659K Kathleen Coyle / The Magical Realm - An Irish Childhood (Large Paperback) A magical evocation of growing up in Co. Derry in the north of Ireland toward the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97655K Heinrich Hoffmann / Hitler Was My Friend: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Photographer (Large Paperback) Heinrich Hoffmann played a key part in the making of the Hitler legend. 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Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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. 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97666K Stephen Jones Sr. / Black History (Large Paperback) Black History is World History. This book is intended for kids to enjoy. It is my intentions for parents and teachers to read along with kids and explain any difficulties they may run across. This book will not only raise awareness but it will also... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97659K Kathleen Coyle / The Magical Realm - An Irish Childhood (Large Paperback) A magical evocation of growing up in Co. Derry in the north of Ireland toward the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97655K Heinrich Hoffmann / Hitler Was My Friend: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Photographer (Large Paperback) Heinrich Hoffmann played a key part in the making of the Hitler legend. 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Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97666K Stephen Jones Sr. / Black History (Large Paperback) Black History is World History. This book is intended for kids to enjoy. It is my intentions for parents and teachers to read along with kids and explain any difficulties they may run across. This book will not only raise awareness but it will also... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97659K Kathleen Coyle / The Magical Realm - An Irish Childhood (Large Paperback) A magical evocation of growing up in Co. Derry in the north of Ireland toward the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97655K Heinrich Hoffmann / Hitler Was My Friend: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Photographer (Large Paperback) Heinrich Hoffmann played a key part in the making of the Hitler legend. 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Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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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Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
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Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97666K Stephen Jones Sr. / Black History (Large Paperback) Black History is World History. This book is intended for kids to enjoy. It is my intentions for parents and teachers to read along with kids and explain any difficulties they may run across. This book will not only raise awareness but it will also... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97659K Kathleen Coyle / The Magical Realm - An Irish Childhood (Large Paperback) A magical evocation of growing up in Co. Derry in the north of Ireland toward the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97655K Heinrich Hoffmann / Hitler Was My Friend: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Photographer (Large Paperback) Heinrich Hoffmann played a key part in the making of the Hitler legend. 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He came from a socialist-republican backround (his father, Francis, a pacifist, murdered in 1916;... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED621 Kalmán Mikszáth - St Peter's Umbrella - HB Slipcased Folio Society St. Peter's Umbrella (Hungarian: Szent Péter esernyője) is an 1895 novel by the Hungarian writer Kálmán Mikszáth. It is set in the town of Besztercebánya (now Banská Bystrica), describing the rural life of the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85769K Askold Krushelnycky / An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History In December 2004 the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was disfigured after being poisoned by his... 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Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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... 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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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... 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Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
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It stands for a man, a hotel, and a legend : César Ritz. Swiss by birth, he was the genius who, with his friend Auguste Escoffier, created the hotel business as we know it. This most famous of luxury hotels... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED718 Geoffrey Marcus - The Maiden Voyage : A Complete and Documented Account of the Titanic Disaster - HB - 1969 This 1969 work on the Titanic disaster, and more importantly, its legal aftermath, makes clear the dramatic impact the sinking had on society at the time, and how it changed navigation of the Atlantic and the Western world's view of the power, and... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97666K Stephen Jones Sr. / Black History (Large Paperback) Black History is World History. This book is intended for kids to enjoy. It is my intentions for parents and teachers to read along with kids and explain any difficulties they may run across. This book will not only raise awareness but it will also... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97659K Kathleen Coyle / The Magical Realm - An Irish Childhood (Large Paperback) A magical evocation of growing up in Co. Derry in the north of Ireland toward the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97655K Heinrich Hoffmann / Hitler Was My Friend: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Photographer (Large Paperback) Heinrich Hoffmann played a key part in the making of the Hitler legend. He was the photographer who carefully crafted the image of the Fuhrer as a godlike figure. In 1920 Hoffmann joined the Nazi party, and his association with Hitler began. He became... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3815H Lucy Adlington / The Dressmakers of Auschwitz (Large Paperback) A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97602K Dominic Sandbrook / The Rest is History Returns (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85930K Jo Manton / Elizabeth Garrett Anderson The first full biography of England's first woman doctor. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85826K Matthew Carr / Fortress Europe Inside War Against Immigration When the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, a euphoric continent hailed the advent of a new ‘borderless’ Europe in which such barriers would become obsolete. More than twenty-five years later, in the midst of the continent’s worst refugee... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED634 Andrée Sheehy Skeffington - Skeff : A Life of Owen Sheehy Skeffington 1909-1970 - HB Owen Sheehy Skeffington was one of the few Irish public figures who carried a flame for individual conscience and humanitarianism during the mid century. He came from a socialist-republican backround (his father, Francis, a pacifist, murdered in 1916;... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED621 Kalmán Mikszáth - St Peter's Umbrella - HB Slipcased Folio Society St. Peter's Umbrella (Hungarian: Szent Péter esernyője) is an 1895 novel by the Hungarian writer Kálmán Mikszáth. It is set in the town of Besztercebánya (now Banská Bystrica), describing the rural life of the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85769K Askold Krushelnycky / An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History In December 2004 the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was disfigured after being poisoned by his... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG958 Holocaust Education Trust Ireland - Holocaust Timeline / Amlíne an Uileoiscthe ( Teacher's Handbook) ( Duaal Lnaguage Edition - Gaeilge & English) A guide for teachers at second level history for teaching the Holocaust, and events surrounding it, at both Junior Cert and Leaving Cert Level Text in Irish (one half) and English in the other) MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85613K Mark Williamson / A Blueprint for Revival - Lessons from the Life of John Wesley A Blueprint for Revival tells John Wesley's story using journal extracts, letters and writings to give new insight into both the personal and professional life of the founder of Methodism.For centuries God has used committed men and women to share... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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... 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MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... 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Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
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Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97666K Stephen Jones Sr. / Black History (Large Paperback) Black History is World History. This book is intended for kids to enjoy. It is my intentions for parents and teachers to read along with kids and explain any difficulties they may run across. This book will not only raise awareness but it will also... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97659K Kathleen Coyle / The Magical Realm - An Irish Childhood (Large Paperback) A magical evocation of growing up in Co. Derry in the north of Ireland toward the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97655K Heinrich Hoffmann / Hitler Was My Friend: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Photographer (Large Paperback) Heinrich Hoffmann played a key part in the making of the Hitler legend. 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Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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... 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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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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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Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97666K Stephen Jones Sr. / Black History (Large Paperback) Black History is World History. This book is intended for kids to enjoy. It is my intentions for parents and teachers to read along with kids and explain any difficulties they may run across. This book will not only raise awareness but it will also... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97659K Kathleen Coyle / The Magical Realm - An Irish Childhood (Large Paperback) A magical evocation of growing up in Co. Derry in the north of Ireland toward the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97655K Heinrich Hoffmann / Hitler Was My Friend: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Photographer (Large Paperback) Heinrich Hoffmann played a key part in the making of the Hitler legend. 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG958 Holocaust Education Trust Ireland - Holocaust Timeline / Amlíne an Uileoiscthe ( Teacher's Handbook) ( Duaal Lnaguage Edition - Gaeilge & English) A guide for teachers at second level history for teaching the Holocaust, and events surrounding it, at both Junior Cert and Leaving Cert Level Text in Irish (one half) and English in the other) MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85613K Mark Williamson / A Blueprint for Revival - Lessons from the Life of John Wesley A Blueprint for Revival tells John Wesley's story using journal extracts, letters and writings to give new insight into both the personal and professional life of the founder of Methodism.For centuries God has used committed men and women to share... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. 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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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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. 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Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG958 Holocaust Education Trust Ireland - Holocaust Timeline / Amlíne an Uileoiscthe ( Teacher's Handbook) ( Duaal Lnaguage Edition - Gaeilge & English) A guide for teachers at second level history for teaching the Holocaust, and events surrounding it, at both Junior Cert and Leaving Cert Level Text in Irish (one half) and English in the other) MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85613K Mark Williamson / A Blueprint for Revival - Lessons from the Life of John Wesley A Blueprint for Revival tells John Wesley's story using journal extracts, letters and writings to give new insight into both the personal and professional life of the founder of Methodism.For centuries God has used committed men and women to share... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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... 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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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
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He came from a socialist-republican backround (his father, Francis, a pacifist, murdered in 1916;... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED621 Kalmán Mikszáth - St Peter's Umbrella - HB Slipcased Folio Society St. Peter's Umbrella (Hungarian: Szent Péter esernyője) is an 1895 novel by the Hungarian writer Kálmán Mikszáth. It is set in the town of Besztercebánya (now Banská Bystrica), describing the rural life of the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85769K Askold Krushelnycky / An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History In December 2004 the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was disfigured after being poisoned by his... 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Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. 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What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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... 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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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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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Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
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Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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... 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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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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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He came from a socialist-republican backround (his father, Francis, a pacifist, murdered in 1916;... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED621 Kalmán Mikszáth - St Peter's Umbrella - HB Slipcased Folio Society St. Peter's Umbrella (Hungarian: Szent Péter esernyője) is an 1895 novel by the Hungarian writer Kálmán Mikszáth. It is set in the town of Besztercebánya (now Banská Bystrica), describing the rural life of the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85769K Askold Krushelnycky / An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History In December 2004 the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was disfigured after being poisoned by his... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG958 Holocaust Education Trust Ireland - Holocaust Timeline / Amlíne an Uileoiscthe ( Teacher's Handbook) ( Duaal Lnaguage Edition - Gaeilge & English) A guide for teachers at second level history for teaching the Holocaust, and events surrounding it, at both Junior Cert and Leaving Cert Level Text in Irish (one half) and English in the other) MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85613K Mark Williamson / A Blueprint for Revival - Lessons from the Life of John Wesley A Blueprint for Revival tells John Wesley's story using journal extracts, letters and writings to give new insight into both the personal and professional life of the founder of Methodism.For centuries God has used committed men and women to share... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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... 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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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... 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Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
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He was the photographer who carefully crafted the image of the Fuhrer as a godlike figure. In 1920 Hoffmann joined the Nazi party, and his association with Hitler began. He became... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3815H Lucy Adlington / The Dressmakers of Auschwitz (Large Paperback) A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97602K Dominic Sandbrook / The Rest is History Returns (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... 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He came from a socialist-republican backround (his father, Francis, a pacifist, murdered in 1916;... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED621 Kalmán Mikszáth - St Peter's Umbrella - HB Slipcased Folio Society St. Peter's Umbrella (Hungarian: Szent Péter esernyője) is an 1895 novel by the Hungarian writer Kálmán Mikszáth. It is set in the town of Besztercebánya (now Banská Bystrica), describing the rural life of the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85769K Askold Krushelnycky / An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History In December 2004 the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was disfigured after being poisoned by his... 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Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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... 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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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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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Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
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Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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... 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Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85930K Jo Manton / Elizabeth Garrett Anderson The first full biography of England's first woman doctor. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85826K Matthew Carr / Fortress Europe Inside War Against Immigration When the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, a euphoric continent hailed the advent of a new ‘borderless’ Europe in which such barriers would become obsolete. More than twenty-five years later, in the midst of the continent’s worst refugee... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED634 Andrée Sheehy Skeffington - Skeff : A Life of Owen Sheehy Skeffington 1909-1970 - HB Owen Sheehy Skeffington was one of the few Irish public figures who carried a flame for individual conscience and humanitarianism during the mid century. He came from a socialist-republican backround (his father, Francis, a pacifist, murdered in 1916;... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED621 Kalmán Mikszáth - St Peter's Umbrella - HB Slipcased Folio Society St. Peter's Umbrella (Hungarian: Szent Péter esernyője) is an 1895 novel by the Hungarian writer Kálmán Mikszáth. It is set in the town of Besztercebánya (now Banská Bystrica), describing the rural life of the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85769K Askold Krushelnycky / An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History In December 2004 the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was disfigured after being poisoned by his... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG958 Holocaust Education Trust Ireland - Holocaust Timeline / Amlíne an Uileoiscthe ( Teacher's Handbook) ( Duaal Lnaguage Edition - Gaeilge & English) A guide for teachers at second level history for teaching the Holocaust, and events surrounding it, at both Junior Cert and Leaving Cert Level Text in Irish (one half) and English in the other) MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85613K Mark Williamson / A Blueprint for Revival - Lessons from the Life of John Wesley A Blueprint for Revival tells John Wesley's story using journal extracts, letters and writings to give new insight into both the personal and professional life of the founder of Methodism.For centuries God has used committed men and women to share... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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... 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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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... 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Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
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Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG912 Eric R. Delderfield - West Country Historic Houses and their Families - Hb 1968 ( Cornwall, Devon & West Somerset) Hardcover, published by David & Charles Publishers UK, 1968. Illustrated giude to 36 country houses and estates in southwestern England ( as they were 50 years ago) Edgewear to dustjacket edges,age darkening to page block ends. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97824K Carol Bleser / Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, A Southern Slaveholder (Large Paperback) Historians, economists, psychologists, novelists, dramatists, and moviemakers alike have perpetuated myths and legends about the planter aristocracy of the antebellum South. Presenting this remarkable set of diaries which span the critical period between... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97666K Stephen Jones Sr. / Black History (Large Paperback) Black History is World History. This book is intended for kids to enjoy. It is my intentions for parents and teachers to read along with kids and explain any difficulties they may run across. This book will not only raise awareness but it will also... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97659K Kathleen Coyle / The Magical Realm - An Irish Childhood (Large Paperback) A magical evocation of growing up in Co. Derry in the north of Ireland toward the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97655K Heinrich Hoffmann / Hitler Was My Friend: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Photographer (Large Paperback) Heinrich Hoffmann played a key part in the making of the Hitler legend. He was the photographer who carefully crafted the image of the Fuhrer as a godlike figure. In 1920 Hoffmann joined the Nazi party, and his association with Hitler began. He became... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3815H Lucy Adlington / The Dressmakers of Auschwitz (Large Paperback) A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97602K Dominic Sandbrook / The Rest is History Returns (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85930K Jo Manton / Elizabeth Garrett Anderson The first full biography of England's first woman doctor. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85826K Matthew Carr / Fortress Europe Inside War Against Immigration When the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, a euphoric continent hailed the advent of a new ‘borderless’ Europe in which such barriers would become obsolete. More than twenty-five years later, in the midst of the continent’s worst refugee... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED634 Andrée Sheehy Skeffington - Skeff : A Life of Owen Sheehy Skeffington 1909-1970 - HB Owen Sheehy Skeffington was one of the few Irish public figures who carried a flame for individual conscience and humanitarianism during the mid century. He came from a socialist-republican backround (his father, Francis, a pacifist, murdered in 1916;... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED621 Kalmán Mikszáth - St Peter's Umbrella - HB Slipcased Folio Society St. Peter's Umbrella (Hungarian: Szent Péter esernyője) is an 1895 novel by the Hungarian writer Kálmán Mikszáth. It is set in the town of Besztercebánya (now Banská Bystrica), describing the rural life of the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85769K Askold Krushelnycky / An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History In December 2004 the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was disfigured after being poisoned by his... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. 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Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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... 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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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... 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Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view Details Folio Society Editions Jamesz Melville - The Memoirs of James Melville of Halhill - HB SLIPCASED 1969 MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: 73168K Daniel Cohen / Our Modern Times: The New Nature of Capitalism in the Information Age MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: 73149K Robert Kanigel / The One Best Way : Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: 73139K Alfred Barratt Brown / The Machine And The Worker MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: 73078K Elie Wiesel / All Rivers Run to the Sea - 1928-69 : Memoirs Volume 1 MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details US Politics & Presidency | sku: 72758K Ben Fountain / Beautiful Country Burn Again: Trump's Rise to Power and the State of the Country that Voted for Him MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Details sku: rR3286H Alison Weir / The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Details US Politics & Presidency | sku: 72623K Nigel Hamilton / Bill Clinton : Mastering the Presidency - Volume 2 MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view France | sku: X97841K Claude Roulet / Ritz: A Story That Outshines the Legend (Large Paperback) The Ritz has celebrated its centennial. 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He was the photographer who carefully crafted the image of the Fuhrer as a godlike figure. In 1920 Hoffmann joined the Nazi party, and his association with Hitler began. He became... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3815H Lucy Adlington / The Dressmakers of Auschwitz (Large Paperback) A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97602K Dominic Sandbrook / The Rest is History Returns (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... 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He came from a socialist-republican backround (his father, Francis, a pacifist, murdered in 1916;... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED621 Kalmán Mikszáth - St Peter's Umbrella - HB Slipcased Folio Society St. Peter's Umbrella (Hungarian: Szent Péter esernyője) is an 1895 novel by the Hungarian writer Kálmán Mikszáth. It is set in the town of Besztercebánya (now Banská Bystrica), describing the rural life of the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85769K Askold Krushelnycky / An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History In December 2004 the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was disfigured after being poisoned by his... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG958 Holocaust Education Trust Ireland - Holocaust Timeline / Amlíne an Uileoiscthe ( Teacher's Handbook) ( Duaal Lnaguage Edition - Gaeilge & English) A guide for teachers at second level history for teaching the Holocaust, and events surrounding it, at both Junior Cert and Leaving Cert Level Text in Irish (one half) and English in the other) MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85613K Mark Williamson / A Blueprint for Revival - Lessons from the Life of John Wesley A Blueprint for Revival tells John Wesley's story using journal extracts, letters and writings to give new insight into both the personal and professional life of the founder of Methodism.For centuries God has used committed men and women to share... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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... 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Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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He came from a socialist-republican backround (his father, Francis, a pacifist, murdered in 1916;... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED621 Kalmán Mikszáth - St Peter's Umbrella - HB Slipcased Folio Society St. Peter's Umbrella (Hungarian: Szent Péter esernyője) is an 1895 novel by the Hungarian writer Kálmán Mikszáth. It is set in the town of Besztercebánya (now Banská Bystrica), describing the rural life of the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85769K Askold Krushelnycky / An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History In December 2004 the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was disfigured after being poisoned by his... 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Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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... 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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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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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He came from a socialist-republican backround (his father, Francis, a pacifist, murdered in 1916;... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED621 Kalmán Mikszáth - St Peter's Umbrella - HB Slipcased Folio Society St. Peter's Umbrella (Hungarian: Szent Péter esernyője) is an 1895 novel by the Hungarian writer Kálmán Mikszáth. It is set in the town of Besztercebánya (now Banská Bystrica), describing the rural life of the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85769K Askold Krushelnycky / An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History In December 2004 the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was disfigured after being poisoned by his... 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Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... 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Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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... 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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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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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Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... 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Delderfield - West Country Historic Houses and their Families - Hb 1968 ( Cornwall, Devon & West Somerset) Hardcover, published by David & Charles Publishers UK, 1968. Illustrated giude to 36 country houses and estates in southwestern England ( as they were 50 years ago) Edgewear to dustjacket edges,age darkening to page block ends. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97824K Carol Bleser / Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, A Southern Slaveholder (Large Paperback) Historians, economists, psychologists, novelists, dramatists, and moviemakers alike have perpetuated myths and legends about the planter aristocracy of the antebellum South. Presenting this remarkable set of diaries which span the critical period between... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97666K Stephen Jones Sr. / Black History (Large Paperback) Black History is World History. This book is intended for kids to enjoy. 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Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG958 Holocaust Education Trust Ireland - Holocaust Timeline / Amlíne an Uileoiscthe ( Teacher's Handbook) ( Duaal Lnaguage Edition - Gaeilge & English) A guide for teachers at second level history for teaching the Holocaust, and events surrounding it, at both Junior Cert and Leaving Cert Level Text in Irish (one half) and English in the other) MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85613K Mark Williamson / A Blueprint for Revival - Lessons from the Life of John Wesley A Blueprint for Revival tells John Wesley's story using journal extracts, letters and writings to give new insight into both the personal and professional life of the founder of Methodism.For centuries God has used committed men and women to share... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... 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In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... 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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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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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Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
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Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: MED718 Geoffrey Marcus - The Maiden Voyage : A Complete and Documented Account of the Titanic Disaster - HB - 1969 This 1969 work on the Titanic disaster, and more importantly, its legal aftermath, makes clear the dramatic impact the sinking had on society at the time, and how it changed navigation of the Atlantic and the Western world's view of the power, and... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG912 Eric R. Delderfield - West Country Historic Houses and their Families - Hb 1968 ( Cornwall, Devon & West Somerset) Hardcover, published by David & Charles Publishers UK, 1968. Illustrated giude to 36 country houses and estates in southwestern England ( as they were 50 years ago) Edgewear to dustjacket edges,age darkening to page block ends. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97824K Carol Bleser / Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, A Southern Slaveholder (Large Paperback) Historians, economists, psychologists, novelists, dramatists, and moviemakers alike have perpetuated myths and legends about the planter aristocracy of the antebellum South. Presenting this remarkable set of diaries which span the critical period between... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97666K Stephen Jones Sr. / Black History (Large Paperback) Black History is World History. This book is intended for kids to enjoy. It is my intentions for parents and teachers to read along with kids and explain any difficulties they may run across. This book will not only raise awareness but it will also... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97659K Kathleen Coyle / The Magical Realm - An Irish Childhood (Large Paperback) A magical evocation of growing up in Co. Derry in the north of Ireland toward the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97655K Heinrich Hoffmann / Hitler Was My Friend: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Photographer (Large Paperback) Heinrich Hoffmann played a key part in the making of the Hitler legend. He was the photographer who carefully crafted the image of the Fuhrer as a godlike figure. In 1920 Hoffmann joined the Nazi party, and his association with Hitler began. He became... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3815H Lucy Adlington / The Dressmakers of Auschwitz (Large Paperback) A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97602K Dominic Sandbrook / The Rest is History Returns (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85930K Jo Manton / Elizabeth Garrett Anderson The first full biography of England's first woman doctor. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85826K Matthew Carr / Fortress Europe Inside War Against Immigration When the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, a euphoric continent hailed the advent of a new ‘borderless’ Europe in which such barriers would become obsolete. More than twenty-five years later, in the midst of the continent’s worst refugee... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED634 Andrée Sheehy Skeffington - Skeff : A Life of Owen Sheehy Skeffington 1909-1970 - HB Owen Sheehy Skeffington was one of the few Irish public figures who carried a flame for individual conscience and humanitarianism during the mid century. He came from a socialist-republican backround (his father, Francis, a pacifist, murdered in 1916;... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED621 Kalmán Mikszáth - St Peter's Umbrella - HB Slipcased Folio Society St. Peter's Umbrella (Hungarian: Szent Péter esernyője) is an 1895 novel by the Hungarian writer Kálmán Mikszáth. It is set in the town of Besztercebánya (now Banská Bystrica), describing the rural life of the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85769K Askold Krushelnycky / An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History In December 2004 the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was disfigured after being poisoned by his... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG958 Holocaust Education Trust Ireland - Holocaust Timeline / Amlíne an Uileoiscthe ( Teacher's Handbook) ( Duaal Lnaguage Edition - Gaeilge & English) A guide for teachers at second level history for teaching the Holocaust, and events surrounding it, at both Junior Cert and Leaving Cert Level Text in Irish (one half) and English in the other) MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85613K Mark Williamson / A Blueprint for Revival - Lessons from the Life of John Wesley A Blueprint for Revival tells John Wesley's story using journal extracts, letters and writings to give new insight into both the personal and professional life of the founder of Methodism.For centuries God has used committed men and women to share... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: MED710 Howard Marshall - With Scott to the Pole - HB 1947 Reprint ( Originally 1936) A hardcover Country Life Edition, reprint, 1947, Larger format hardcover without dustjacket, titles in black to front cover and to teh ( sun faded) spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white with original photographs from the ill- fated 1910... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG912 Eric R. Delderfield - West Country Historic Houses and their Families - Hb 1968 ( Cornwall, Devon & West Somerset) Hardcover, published by David & Charles Publishers UK, 1968. Illustrated giude to 36 country houses and estates in southwestern England ( as they were 50 years ago) Edgewear to dustjacket edges,age darkening to page block ends. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97824K Carol Bleser / Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, A Southern Slaveholder (Large Paperback) Historians, economists, psychologists, novelists, dramatists, and moviemakers alike have perpetuated myths and legends about the planter aristocracy of the antebellum South. Presenting this remarkable set of diaries which span the critical period between... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97666K Stephen Jones Sr. / Black History (Large Paperback) Black History is World History. This book is intended for kids to enjoy. It is my intentions for parents and teachers to read along with kids and explain any difficulties they may run across. This book will not only raise awareness but it will also... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97659K Kathleen Coyle / The Magical Realm - An Irish Childhood (Large Paperback) A magical evocation of growing up in Co. Derry in the north of Ireland toward the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97655K Heinrich Hoffmann / Hitler Was My Friend: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Photographer (Large Paperback) Heinrich Hoffmann played a key part in the making of the Hitler legend. He was the photographer who carefully crafted the image of the Fuhrer as a godlike figure. In 1920 Hoffmann joined the Nazi party, and his association with Hitler began. He became... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3815H Lucy Adlington / The Dressmakers of Auschwitz (Large Paperback) A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97602K Dominic Sandbrook / The Rest is History Returns (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85930K Jo Manton / Elizabeth Garrett Anderson The first full biography of England's first woman doctor. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85826K Matthew Carr / Fortress Europe Inside War Against Immigration When the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, a euphoric continent hailed the advent of a new ‘borderless’ Europe in which such barriers would become obsolete. More than twenty-five years later, in the midst of the continent’s worst refugee... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED634 Andrée Sheehy Skeffington - Skeff : A Life of Owen Sheehy Skeffington 1909-1970 - HB Owen Sheehy Skeffington was one of the few Irish public figures who carried a flame for individual conscience and humanitarianism during the mid century. He came from a socialist-republican backround (his father, Francis, a pacifist, murdered in 1916;... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED621 Kalmán Mikszáth - St Peter's Umbrella - HB Slipcased Folio Society St. Peter's Umbrella (Hungarian: Szent Péter esernyője) is an 1895 novel by the Hungarian writer Kálmán Mikszáth. It is set in the town of Besztercebánya (now Banská Bystrica), describing the rural life of the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85769K Askold Krushelnycky / An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History In December 2004 the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was disfigured after being poisoned by his... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG958 Holocaust Education Trust Ireland - Holocaust Timeline / Amlíne an Uileoiscthe ( Teacher's Handbook) ( Duaal Lnaguage Edition - Gaeilge & English) A guide for teachers at second level history for teaching the Holocaust, and events surrounding it, at both Junior Cert and Leaving Cert Level Text in Irish (one half) and English in the other) MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85613K Mark Williamson / A Blueprint for Revival - Lessons from the Life of John Wesley A Blueprint for Revival tells John Wesley's story using journal extracts, letters and writings to give new insight into both the personal and professional life of the founder of Methodism.For centuries God has used committed men and women to share... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... 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Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG912 Eric R. Delderfield - West Country Historic Houses and their Families - Hb 1968 ( Cornwall, Devon & West Somerset) Hardcover, published by David & Charles Publishers UK, 1968. Illustrated giude to 36 country houses and estates in southwestern England ( as they were 50 years ago) Edgewear to dustjacket edges,age darkening to page block ends. MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97824K Carol Bleser / Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, A Southern Slaveholder (Large Paperback) Historians, economists, psychologists, novelists, dramatists, and moviemakers alike have perpetuated myths and legends about the planter aristocracy of the antebellum South. Presenting this remarkable set of diaries which span the critical period between... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97666K Stephen Jones Sr. / Black History (Large Paperback) Black History is World History. This book is intended for kids to enjoy. It is my intentions for parents and teachers to read along with kids and explain any difficulties they may run across. This book will not only raise awareness but it will also... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97659K Kathleen Coyle / The Magical Realm - An Irish Childhood (Large Paperback) A magical evocation of growing up in Co. Derry in the north of Ireland toward the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97655K Heinrich Hoffmann / Hitler Was My Friend: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Photographer (Large Paperback) Heinrich Hoffmann played a key part in the making of the Hitler legend. He was the photographer who carefully crafted the image of the Fuhrer as a godlike figure. In 1920 Hoffmann joined the Nazi party, and his association with Hitler began. He became... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3815H Lucy Adlington / The Dressmakers of Auschwitz (Large Paperback) A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97602K Dominic Sandbrook / The Rest is History Returns (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85930K Jo Manton / Elizabeth Garrett Anderson The first full biography of England's first woman doctor. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85826K Matthew Carr / Fortress Europe Inside War Against Immigration When the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, a euphoric continent hailed the advent of a new ‘borderless’ Europe in which such barriers would become obsolete. More than twenty-five years later, in the midst of the continent’s worst refugee... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED634 Andrée Sheehy Skeffington - Skeff : A Life of Owen Sheehy Skeffington 1909-1970 - HB Owen Sheehy Skeffington was one of the few Irish public figures who carried a flame for individual conscience and humanitarianism during the mid century. He came from a socialist-republican backround (his father, Francis, a pacifist, murdered in 1916;... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED621 Kalmán Mikszáth - St Peter's Umbrella - HB Slipcased Folio Society St. Peter's Umbrella (Hungarian: Szent Péter esernyője) is an 1895 novel by the Hungarian writer Kálmán Mikszáth. It is set in the town of Besztercebánya (now Banská Bystrica), describing the rural life of the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85769K Askold Krushelnycky / An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History In December 2004 the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was disfigured after being poisoned by his... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG958 Holocaust Education Trust Ireland - Holocaust Timeline / Amlíne an Uileoiscthe ( Teacher's Handbook) ( Duaal Lnaguage Edition - Gaeilge & English) A guide for teachers at second level history for teaching the Holocaust, and events surrounding it, at both Junior Cert and Leaving Cert Level Text in Irish (one half) and English in the other) MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85613K Mark Williamson / A Blueprint for Revival - Lessons from the Life of John Wesley A Blueprint for Revival tells John Wesley's story using journal extracts, letters and writings to give new insight into both the personal and professional life of the founder of Methodism.For centuries God has used committed men and women to share... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... 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MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: X97824K Carol Bleser / Secret and Sacred: The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, A Southern Slaveholder (Large Paperback) Historians, economists, psychologists, novelists, dramatists, and moviemakers alike have perpetuated myths and legends about the planter aristocracy of the antebellum South. Presenting this remarkable set of diaries which span the critical period between... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97666K Stephen Jones Sr. / Black History (Large Paperback) Black History is World History. This book is intended for kids to enjoy. It is my intentions for parents and teachers to read along with kids and explain any difficulties they may run across. This book will not only raise awareness but it will also... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97659K Kathleen Coyle / The Magical Realm - An Irish Childhood (Large Paperback) A magical evocation of growing up in Co. Derry in the north of Ireland toward the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97655K Heinrich Hoffmann / Hitler Was My Friend: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Photographer (Large Paperback) Heinrich Hoffmann played a key part in the making of the Hitler legend. He was the photographer who carefully crafted the image of the Fuhrer as a godlike figure. In 1920 Hoffmann joined the Nazi party, and his association with Hitler began. He became... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3815H Lucy Adlington / The Dressmakers of Auschwitz (Large Paperback) A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97602K Dominic Sandbrook / The Rest is History Returns (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85930K Jo Manton / Elizabeth Garrett Anderson The first full biography of England's first woman doctor. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85826K Matthew Carr / Fortress Europe Inside War Against Immigration When the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, a euphoric continent hailed the advent of a new ‘borderless’ Europe in which such barriers would become obsolete. More than twenty-five years later, in the midst of the continent’s worst refugee... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED634 Andrée Sheehy Skeffington - Skeff : A Life of Owen Sheehy Skeffington 1909-1970 - HB Owen Sheehy Skeffington was one of the few Irish public figures who carried a flame for individual conscience and humanitarianism during the mid century. He came from a socialist-republican backround (his father, Francis, a pacifist, murdered in 1916;... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED621 Kalmán Mikszáth - St Peter's Umbrella - HB Slipcased Folio Society St. Peter's Umbrella (Hungarian: Szent Péter esernyője) is an 1895 novel by the Hungarian writer Kálmán Mikszáth. It is set in the town of Besztercebánya (now Banská Bystrica), describing the rural life of the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85769K Askold Krushelnycky / An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History In December 2004 the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was disfigured after being poisoned by his... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG958 Holocaust Education Trust Ireland - Holocaust Timeline / Amlíne an Uileoiscthe ( Teacher's Handbook) ( Duaal Lnaguage Edition - Gaeilge & English) A guide for teachers at second level history for teaching the Holocaust, and events surrounding it, at both Junior Cert and Leaving Cert Level Text in Irish (one half) and English in the other) MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85613K Mark Williamson / A Blueprint for Revival - Lessons from the Life of John Wesley A Blueprint for Revival tells John Wesley's story using journal extracts, letters and writings to give new insight into both the personal and professional life of the founder of Methodism.For centuries God has used committed men and women to share... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: X97666K Stephen Jones Sr. / Black History (Large Paperback) Black History is World History. This book is intended for kids to enjoy. It is my intentions for parents and teachers to read along with kids and explain any difficulties they may run across. This book will not only raise awareness but it will also... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97659K Kathleen Coyle / The Magical Realm - An Irish Childhood (Large Paperback) A magical evocation of growing up in Co. Derry in the north of Ireland toward the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97655K Heinrich Hoffmann / Hitler Was My Friend: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Photographer (Large Paperback) Heinrich Hoffmann played a key part in the making of the Hitler legend. He was the photographer who carefully crafted the image of the Fuhrer as a godlike figure. In 1920 Hoffmann joined the Nazi party, and his association with Hitler began. He became... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3815H Lucy Adlington / The Dressmakers of Auschwitz (Large Paperback) A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97602K Dominic Sandbrook / The Rest is History Returns (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85930K Jo Manton / Elizabeth Garrett Anderson The first full biography of England's first woman doctor. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85826K Matthew Carr / Fortress Europe Inside War Against Immigration When the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, a euphoric continent hailed the advent of a new ‘borderless’ Europe in which such barriers would become obsolete. More than twenty-five years later, in the midst of the continent’s worst refugee... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED634 Andrée Sheehy Skeffington - Skeff : A Life of Owen Sheehy Skeffington 1909-1970 - HB Owen Sheehy Skeffington was one of the few Irish public figures who carried a flame for individual conscience and humanitarianism during the mid century. He came from a socialist-republican backround (his father, Francis, a pacifist, murdered in 1916;... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED621 Kalmán Mikszáth - St Peter's Umbrella - HB Slipcased Folio Society St. Peter's Umbrella (Hungarian: Szent Péter esernyője) is an 1895 novel by the Hungarian writer Kálmán Mikszáth. It is set in the town of Besztercebánya (now Banská Bystrica), describing the rural life of the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85769K Askold Krushelnycky / An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History In December 2004 the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was disfigured after being poisoned by his... 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG958 Holocaust Education Trust Ireland - Holocaust Timeline / Amlíne an Uileoiscthe ( Teacher's Handbook) ( Duaal Lnaguage Edition - Gaeilge & English) A guide for teachers at second level history for teaching the Holocaust, and events surrounding it, at both Junior Cert and Leaving Cert Level Text in Irish (one half) and English in the other) MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85613K Mark Williamson / A Blueprint for Revival - Lessons from the Life of John Wesley A Blueprint for Revival tells John Wesley's story using journal extracts, letters and writings to give new insight into both the personal and professional life of the founder of Methodism.For centuries God has used committed men and women to share... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: X97659K Kathleen Coyle / The Magical Realm - An Irish Childhood (Large Paperback) A magical evocation of growing up in Co. Derry in the north of Ireland toward the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97655K Heinrich Hoffmann / Hitler Was My Friend: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Photographer (Large Paperback) Heinrich Hoffmann played a key part in the making of the Hitler legend. He was the photographer who carefully crafted the image of the Fuhrer as a godlike figure. In 1920 Hoffmann joined the Nazi party, and his association with Hitler began. He became... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3815H Lucy Adlington / The Dressmakers of Auschwitz (Large Paperback) A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97602K Dominic Sandbrook / The Rest is History Returns (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85930K Jo Manton / Elizabeth Garrett Anderson The first full biography of England's first woman doctor. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85826K Matthew Carr / Fortress Europe Inside War Against Immigration When the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, a euphoric continent hailed the advent of a new ‘borderless’ Europe in which such barriers would become obsolete. More than twenty-five years later, in the midst of the continent’s worst refugee... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED634 Andrée Sheehy Skeffington - Skeff : A Life of Owen Sheehy Skeffington 1909-1970 - HB Owen Sheehy Skeffington was one of the few Irish public figures who carried a flame for individual conscience and humanitarianism during the mid century. He came from a socialist-republican backround (his father, Francis, a pacifist, murdered in 1916;... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED621 Kalmán Mikszáth - St Peter's Umbrella - HB Slipcased Folio Society St. Peter's Umbrella (Hungarian: Szent Péter esernyője) is an 1895 novel by the Hungarian writer Kálmán Mikszáth. It is set in the town of Besztercebánya (now Banská Bystrica), describing the rural life of the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85769K Askold Krushelnycky / An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History In December 2004 the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was disfigured after being poisoned by his... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG958 Holocaust Education Trust Ireland - Holocaust Timeline / Amlíne an Uileoiscthe ( Teacher's Handbook) ( Duaal Lnaguage Edition - Gaeilge & English) A guide for teachers at second level history for teaching the Holocaust, and events surrounding it, at both Junior Cert and Leaving Cert Level Text in Irish (one half) and English in the other) MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85613K Mark Williamson / A Blueprint for Revival - Lessons from the Life of John Wesley A Blueprint for Revival tells John Wesley's story using journal extracts, letters and writings to give new insight into both the personal and professional life of the founder of Methodism.For centuries God has used committed men and women to share... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: X97655K Heinrich Hoffmann / Hitler Was My Friend: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Photographer (Large Paperback) Heinrich Hoffmann played a key part in the making of the Hitler legend. He was the photographer who carefully crafted the image of the Fuhrer as a godlike figure. In 1920 Hoffmann joined the Nazi party, and his association with Hitler began. He became... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: wW3815H Lucy Adlington / The Dressmakers of Auschwitz (Large Paperback) A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97602K Dominic Sandbrook / The Rest is History Returns (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85930K Jo Manton / Elizabeth Garrett Anderson The first full biography of England's first woman doctor. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85826K Matthew Carr / Fortress Europe Inside War Against Immigration When the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, a euphoric continent hailed the advent of a new ‘borderless’ Europe in which such barriers would become obsolete. More than twenty-five years later, in the midst of the continent’s worst refugee... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED634 Andrée Sheehy Skeffington - Skeff : A Life of Owen Sheehy Skeffington 1909-1970 - HB Owen Sheehy Skeffington was one of the few Irish public figures who carried a flame for individual conscience and humanitarianism during the mid century. He came from a socialist-republican backround (his father, Francis, a pacifist, murdered in 1916;... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED621 Kalmán Mikszáth - St Peter's Umbrella - HB Slipcased Folio Society St. Peter's Umbrella (Hungarian: Szent Péter esernyője) is an 1895 novel by the Hungarian writer Kálmán Mikszáth. It is set in the town of Besztercebánya (now Banská Bystrica), describing the rural life of the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85769K Askold Krushelnycky / An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History In December 2004 the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was disfigured after being poisoned by his... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG958 Holocaust Education Trust Ireland - Holocaust Timeline / Amlíne an Uileoiscthe ( Teacher's Handbook) ( Duaal Lnaguage Edition - Gaeilge & English) A guide for teachers at second level history for teaching the Holocaust, and events surrounding it, at both Junior Cert and Leaving Cert Level Text in Irish (one half) and English in the other) MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85613K Mark Williamson / A Blueprint for Revival - Lessons from the Life of John Wesley A Blueprint for Revival tells John Wesley's story using journal extracts, letters and writings to give new insight into both the personal and professional life of the founder of Methodism.For centuries God has used committed men and women to share... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: wW3815H Lucy Adlington / The Dressmakers of Auschwitz (Large Paperback) A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching beautiful clothes at an extraordinary fashion workshop created within one of the most notorious WWII death camps. At the height of the Holocaust... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X97602K Dominic Sandbrook / The Rest is History Returns (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85930K Jo Manton / Elizabeth Garrett Anderson The first full biography of England's first woman doctor. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85826K Matthew Carr / Fortress Europe Inside War Against Immigration When the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, a euphoric continent hailed the advent of a new ‘borderless’ Europe in which such barriers would become obsolete. More than twenty-five years later, in the midst of the continent’s worst refugee... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED634 Andrée Sheehy Skeffington - Skeff : A Life of Owen Sheehy Skeffington 1909-1970 - HB Owen Sheehy Skeffington was one of the few Irish public figures who carried a flame for individual conscience and humanitarianism during the mid century. He came from a socialist-republican backround (his father, Francis, a pacifist, murdered in 1916;... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED621 Kalmán Mikszáth - St Peter's Umbrella - HB Slipcased Folio Society St. Peter's Umbrella (Hungarian: Szent Péter esernyője) is an 1895 novel by the Hungarian writer Kálmán Mikszáth. It is set in the town of Besztercebánya (now Banská Bystrica), describing the rural life of the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85769K Askold Krushelnycky / An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History In December 2004 the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was disfigured after being poisoned by his... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG958 Holocaust Education Trust Ireland - Holocaust Timeline / Amlíne an Uileoiscthe ( Teacher's Handbook) ( Duaal Lnaguage Edition - Gaeilge & English) A guide for teachers at second level history for teaching the Holocaust, and events surrounding it, at both Junior Cert and Leaving Cert Level Text in Irish (one half) and English in the other) MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85613K Mark Williamson / A Blueprint for Revival - Lessons from the Life of John Wesley A Blueprint for Revival tells John Wesley's story using journal extracts, letters and writings to give new insight into both the personal and professional life of the founder of Methodism.For centuries God has used committed men and women to share... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: X97602K Dominic Sandbrook / The Rest is History Returns (Large Paperback) All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85930K Jo Manton / Elizabeth Garrett Anderson The first full biography of England's first woman doctor. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85826K Matthew Carr / Fortress Europe Inside War Against Immigration When the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, a euphoric continent hailed the advent of a new ‘borderless’ Europe in which such barriers would become obsolete. More than twenty-five years later, in the midst of the continent’s worst refugee... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED634 Andrée Sheehy Skeffington - Skeff : A Life of Owen Sheehy Skeffington 1909-1970 - HB Owen Sheehy Skeffington was one of the few Irish public figures who carried a flame for individual conscience and humanitarianism during the mid century. He came from a socialist-republican backround (his father, Francis, a pacifist, murdered in 1916;... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED621 Kalmán Mikszáth - St Peter's Umbrella - HB Slipcased Folio Society St. Peter's Umbrella (Hungarian: Szent Péter esernyője) is an 1895 novel by the Hungarian writer Kálmán Mikszáth. It is set in the town of Besztercebánya (now Banská Bystrica), describing the rural life of the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85769K Askold Krushelnycky / An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History In December 2004 the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was disfigured after being poisoned by his... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG958 Holocaust Education Trust Ireland - Holocaust Timeline / Amlíne an Uileoiscthe ( Teacher's Handbook) ( Duaal Lnaguage Edition - Gaeilge & English) A guide for teachers at second level history for teaching the Holocaust, and events surrounding it, at both Junior Cert and Leaving Cert Level Text in Irish (one half) and English in the other) MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85613K Mark Williamson / A Blueprint for Revival - Lessons from the Life of John Wesley A Blueprint for Revival tells John Wesley's story using journal extracts, letters and writings to give new insight into both the personal and professional life of the founder of Methodism.For centuries God has used committed men and women to share... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: 85930K Jo Manton / Elizabeth Garrett Anderson The first full biography of England's first woman doctor. 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... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85826K Matthew Carr / Fortress Europe Inside War Against Immigration When the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, a euphoric continent hailed the advent of a new ‘borderless’ Europe in which such barriers would become obsolete. More than twenty-five years later, in the midst of the continent’s worst refugee... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED634 Andrée Sheehy Skeffington - Skeff : A Life of Owen Sheehy Skeffington 1909-1970 - HB Owen Sheehy Skeffington was one of the few Irish public figures who carried a flame for individual conscience and humanitarianism during the mid century. He came from a socialist-republican backround (his father, Francis, a pacifist, murdered in 1916;... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED621 Kalmán Mikszáth - St Peter's Umbrella - HB Slipcased Folio Society St. Peter's Umbrella (Hungarian: Szent Péter esernyője) is an 1895 novel by the Hungarian writer Kálmán Mikszáth. It is set in the town of Besztercebánya (now Banská Bystrica), describing the rural life of the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85769K Askold Krushelnycky / An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History In December 2004 the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was disfigured after being poisoned by his... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG958 Holocaust Education Trust Ireland - Holocaust Timeline / Amlíne an Uileoiscthe ( Teacher's Handbook) ( Duaal Lnaguage Edition - Gaeilge & English) A guide for teachers at second level history for teaching the Holocaust, and events surrounding it, at both Junior Cert and Leaving Cert Level Text in Irish (one half) and English in the other) MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85613K Mark Williamson / A Blueprint for Revival - Lessons from the Life of John Wesley A Blueprint for Revival tells John Wesley's story using journal extracts, letters and writings to give new insight into both the personal and professional life of the founder of Methodism.For centuries God has used committed men and women to share... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: 85826K Matthew Carr / Fortress Europe Inside War Against Immigration When the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, a euphoric continent hailed the advent of a new ‘borderless’ Europe in which such barriers would become obsolete. More than twenty-five years later, in the midst of the continent’s worst refugee... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED634 Andrée Sheehy Skeffington - Skeff : A Life of Owen Sheehy Skeffington 1909-1970 - HB Owen Sheehy Skeffington was one of the few Irish public figures who carried a flame for individual conscience and humanitarianism during the mid century. He came from a socialist-republican backround (his father, Francis, a pacifist, murdered in 1916;... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED621 Kalmán Mikszáth - St Peter's Umbrella - HB Slipcased Folio Society St. Peter's Umbrella (Hungarian: Szent Péter esernyője) is an 1895 novel by the Hungarian writer Kálmán Mikszáth. It is set in the town of Besztercebánya (now Banská Bystrica), describing the rural life of the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85769K Askold Krushelnycky / An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History In December 2004 the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was disfigured after being poisoned by his... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG958 Holocaust Education Trust Ireland - Holocaust Timeline / Amlíne an Uileoiscthe ( Teacher's Handbook) ( Duaal Lnaguage Edition - Gaeilge & English) A guide for teachers at second level history for teaching the Holocaust, and events surrounding it, at both Junior Cert and Leaving Cert Level Text in Irish (one half) and English in the other) MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85613K Mark Williamson / A Blueprint for Revival - Lessons from the Life of John Wesley A Blueprint for Revival tells John Wesley's story using journal extracts, letters and writings to give new insight into both the personal and professional life of the founder of Methodism.For centuries God has used committed men and women to share... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED634 Andrée Sheehy Skeffington - Skeff : A Life of Owen Sheehy Skeffington 1909-1970 - HB Owen Sheehy Skeffington was one of the few Irish public figures who carried a flame for individual conscience and humanitarianism during the mid century. He came from a socialist-republican backround (his father, Francis, a pacifist, murdered in 1916;... MSRP: Now: €12.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED621 Kalmán Mikszáth - St Peter's Umbrella - HB Slipcased Folio Society St. Peter's Umbrella (Hungarian: Szent Péter esernyője) is an 1895 novel by the Hungarian writer Kálmán Mikszáth. It is set in the town of Besztercebánya (now Banská Bystrica), describing the rural life of the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85769K Askold Krushelnycky / An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History In December 2004 the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was disfigured after being poisoned by his... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG958 Holocaust Education Trust Ireland - Holocaust Timeline / Amlíne an Uileoiscthe ( Teacher's Handbook) ( Duaal Lnaguage Edition - Gaeilge & English) A guide for teachers at second level history for teaching the Holocaust, and events surrounding it, at both Junior Cert and Leaving Cert Level Text in Irish (one half) and English in the other) MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85613K Mark Williamson / A Blueprint for Revival - Lessons from the Life of John Wesley A Blueprint for Revival tells John Wesley's story using journal extracts, letters and writings to give new insight into both the personal and professional life of the founder of Methodism.For centuries God has used committed men and women to share... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED621 Kalmán Mikszáth - St Peter's Umbrella - HB Slipcased Folio Society St. Peter's Umbrella (Hungarian: Szent Péter esernyője) is an 1895 novel by the Hungarian writer Kálmán Mikszáth. It is set in the town of Besztercebánya (now Banská Bystrica), describing the rural life of the... MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85769K Askold Krushelnycky / An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History In December 2004 the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was disfigured after being poisoned by his... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG958 Holocaust Education Trust Ireland - Holocaust Timeline / Amlíne an Uileoiscthe ( Teacher's Handbook) ( Duaal Lnaguage Edition - Gaeilge & English) A guide for teachers at second level history for teaching the Holocaust, and events surrounding it, at both Junior Cert and Leaving Cert Level Text in Irish (one half) and English in the other) MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85613K Mark Williamson / A Blueprint for Revival - Lessons from the Life of John Wesley A Blueprint for Revival tells John Wesley's story using journal extracts, letters and writings to give new insight into both the personal and professional life of the founder of Methodism.For centuries God has used committed men and women to share... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: 85769K Askold Krushelnycky / An Orange Revolution: A Personal Journey Through Ukrainian History In December 2004 the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election. The charismatic popular candidate, Viktor Yushchenko, was disfigured after being poisoned by his... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG958 Holocaust Education Trust Ireland - Holocaust Timeline / Amlíne an Uileoiscthe ( Teacher's Handbook) ( Duaal Lnaguage Edition - Gaeilge & English) A guide for teachers at second level history for teaching the Holocaust, and events surrounding it, at both Junior Cert and Leaving Cert Level Text in Irish (one half) and English in the other) MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85613K Mark Williamson / A Blueprint for Revival - Lessons from the Life of John Wesley A Blueprint for Revival tells John Wesley's story using journal extracts, letters and writings to give new insight into both the personal and professional life of the founder of Methodism.For centuries God has used committed men and women to share... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: MED619 Lynne Withey - Voyages of Discovery : Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific - PB -1987 Angled creases to front cover. Published by University of California Press, larger format trade paperback. MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG958 Holocaust Education Trust Ireland - Holocaust Timeline / Amlíne an Uileoiscthe ( Teacher's Handbook) ( Duaal Lnaguage Edition - Gaeilge & English) A guide for teachers at second level history for teaching the Holocaust, and events surrounding it, at both Junior Cert and Leaving Cert Level Text in Irish (one half) and English in the other) MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85613K Mark Williamson / A Blueprint for Revival - Lessons from the Life of John Wesley A Blueprint for Revival tells John Wesley's story using journal extracts, letters and writings to give new insight into both the personal and professional life of the founder of Methodism.For centuries God has used committed men and women to share... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: BIG958 Holocaust Education Trust Ireland - Holocaust Timeline / Amlíne an Uileoiscthe ( Teacher's Handbook) ( Duaal Lnaguage Edition - Gaeilge & English) A guide for teachers at second level history for teaching the Holocaust, and events surrounding it, at both Junior Cert and Leaving Cert Level Text in Irish (one half) and English in the other) MSRP: Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85613K Mark Williamson / A Blueprint for Revival - Lessons from the Life of John Wesley A Blueprint for Revival tells John Wesley's story using journal extracts, letters and writings to give new insight into both the personal and professional life of the founder of Methodism.For centuries God has used committed men and women to share... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: 85613K Mark Williamson / A Blueprint for Revival - Lessons from the Life of John Wesley A Blueprint for Revival tells John Wesley's story using journal extracts, letters and writings to give new insight into both the personal and professional life of the founder of Methodism.For centuries God has used committed men and women to share... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: 85584K Leland Gregory / Bush-Whacked: Chronicles of Government Stupidity "It's important for people to know that I'm the president of everybody." --President George W. Bush, from Air Force One, January 14, 2005Who Leland Gregory voted for in the 2004 presidential election is his business. But when George W. Bush won a second... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: 85444K Elizabeth Speller / The Sunlight on the Garden In 1880, housemaid Ada Curtis bore the first of several illegitimate children from her employer, the son of a once-grand family obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. More than a century later, Elizabeth Speller—Ada's... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: 85342K Jon E. Lewis / The Mammoth Book Of How It Happened : Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments The Mammoth Book of How It Happened is a superb collection that provides first-hand accounts in the form of journals, diaries, news reports, and the like. This book offers historical writings of the most monumental events of our time—military... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: 85293K Warren Nelson / T.C. Hammond: His Life and Legacy in Ireland and Australia T. C. Hammond, well-known as the author of the widely used in Understanding Be Men, comes to life in this biography. Here he appears as scholar, evangelist, pioneer, pastor and college principal - but chiefly as an outstanding Mr Standfast for Jesus... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: 85179K Parker Derek / Governor Macquarie: His Life, Times, and Revolutionary Vision for Australia The first new biography of Lachlan Macquarie in decades, this book draws on a wealth of sources, both in Australia and overseas, to paint a picture of the man and his times. It must be seen as one of the great ironies of Australian history that as... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: 84857H Nicola Pittam / The Rebel Pianist of Majdanek When Nazi soldiers capture Polish Mosha Gebert and take her to Majdanek, the commandant of the concentration camp recognizes her from her piano-playing prime — but her refusal to perform for him leads to far-reaching consequences. All... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: MED2452 Russell Braddon - End of a Hate - Vintage Pan PB 1960 Russell Braddon was born in Sydney in 1921. In addition to The Naked Island, his bestselling memoir of four years spent as a prisoner of war during the Second World War, he also wrote a number of biographies, novels, histories and TV scripts. He lived in... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: MED499 Florian Illies - 1913 : The Year Before the Storm The year 1913 heraldED a new age of unlimited possibility. Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet. Kafka is in love and writes endlessly long, endlessly beautiful letters to Felice Bauer. Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract.Yet everywhere... MSRP: Now: €5.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: MED665,MED666,MED667,MED668,MED669,MED670 Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore) Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: MED1439 Richard Storry - A History of Modern Japan - Vintage PB 1979 The author has presented the great spectrum of Japanese history -- from its beginning shrouded in mythology till the recent well documented past -- from the perspective of three generations of an imaginary Saito family. The family members’... MSRP: Now: €7.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
SALE Quick view sku: 73597K Susan George / We the Peoples of Europe Published 2008 , Pluto Press UK. What should European people be fighting for? Leading writer and alter-globalisation activist Susan George explains what is at stake for all peoples of Europe. Who does the EU really empower--corporations or... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
Quick view sku: MED2443 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: €5.00 Add to Cart Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. 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MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. 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Quick view AUSTRALIA | sku: MED1020 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 British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view British Monarchy | sku: MED924 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: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: MED2449 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: €6.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
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SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart
Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: MED685 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 | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view Folio Society Editions | sku: BIG620 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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
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 SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE 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: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 73002K Luigi Barzini / The Italians The 'fatal charm of Italy' has held Lord Byron - and millions of tourists ever since - in its spell. Yet, beneath 'the brilliant and vivacious surface', what are the realities of Italian life? Few writers have ever painted a portrait of their compatriots... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
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Quick view sku: rR12108H Anna Reid / Borderland - A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and is transforming the world’s energy policies and security architecture. As celebrated journalist Anna Reid shows in Borderland, this conflict is the... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: MED347 Spike Milligan - Monty : His Part in My Victory - HB Britain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trousers on (the battery that is; the aqueduct was very well-dressed). Five... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
Quick view sku: MED299 Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs - The Holocaust : Voices of Scholars - HB - 2009 Ambrosewicz - Jacobs , Jolanta ( Ed .): The Holocaust. Voices of Scholars. Published - Cracow; Austeria Publishing House, Centre for Holocaust Studies, Jagiellonian University Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2009. 297 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 9788389129888... MSRP: Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: 72913K Chris Wrigley / Churchill Winston Churchill was Prime minister from 1940-45 and again from 1951-55. Perhaps the most determined and inspirational war leader in Britain's history, it was during that darkest summer of 1940 that Churchill's astonishing oratory seemed to rally... MSRP: €2.50 Was: €2.50 Now: €1.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: BIG373 Steve Crawshaw - Goodbye to the USSR : The Collapse of Soviet Power - PB 1992 An account of Russia during the Gorbachev years which presents events from the viewpoint of both the politicians and the people. This book describes the revolutionary changes in the Baltic republics, anti-Kremlin feeling in the Caucasus, and the growing... MSRP: Now: €5.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view
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