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St Petersburg
ISBN: PB: 9781909930490, Signal Books, May 2017
256 pp., 20.2x13.5 cm, colour illus.
For sale in CIS only! St Petersburg is one of the world's most beautiful cities. Most of its baroque and neoclassical palaces and churches are modelled on those of Italy and France, in turn inspired by the temples of classical Greek and Rome. Yet it...
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Smoking Kills The Revolutionary Life of Richard Doll
ISBN: PB: 9781909930049, Signal Books, July 2014
351 pp., 21.5x14.3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
For sale in CIS only! At the end of the Second World War, Britain had the highest incidence of lung cancer in the world. For the first time lung cancer deaths exceeded those from tuberculosis – and no one knew why. On 30 September 1950, a young phys...
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£14,99
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Oxford Past Times The Changing Face of City and County
ISBN: PB: 9781908493651, Signal Books, November 2012
288 pp., 22.2x15.2 cm, 70 black&white illus.
For sale in CIS only! For more than ten years Chris Koenig's "Past Times" column has been a regular favourite in the Oxford Times , bringing to life unexpected and sometimes unusual aspects of the city and county's history. Ranging over Oxford and i...
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£12,00
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Flood Cycle Notes from a Changing Planet
ISBN: PB: 9781904955597, Signal Books, April 2009
64 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! 26.6.2008. 9.00 hours. Cloud level has risen sufficiently to see the heights of the island of Hoy. The margin of existence that I had noticed in North Ronaldsay, with its apparent make do approach to the problem of sea encroach...
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£6,99
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Paradise Divided A Portrait of Lebanon
ISBN: PB: 9781904955351, Signal Books, April 2007
320 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! This timely portrait of Lebanon exposes the fault lines that underlie the current crisis in the Middle East, and charts the country's attempts to rebuild a fragile peace after its long civil war and recent conflict with Israel....
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£12,99
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Other Routes 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing
ISBN: PB: 9781904955122, Signal Books, January 2006
432 pp., 19.6x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! The collection includes pilgrimage accounts, which describe a 'national' circuit (as in Lady Nijo's, c. 1280, or Sei Shonagon's, c. 990, accounts) or move across vast regions to places of learning and pilgrimage or to a particu...
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£14,99
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Dublin A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781902669991, Signal Books, July 2005
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Europe's most westerly capital city was established by invaders and was for most of its history the locus of colonial administration, the engine room of foreign power and a major site of indigenous resistance. From The Act of U...
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£12,00
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Due South An Antarctic Journal
ISBN: PB: 9781902669908, Signal Books, March 2004
64 pp., 21.7x14 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Due South" catalogues moments in time experienced during a journey to Antarctica, the last great wilderness. As selected artist with the British Antarctic Survey, my work is an attempt to present the reality of Antarctica, not...
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