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Caribbean Winter
ISBN: PB: 9781909930681, Signal Books, October 2018
176 pp., 21.5x16 cm
For sale in CIS only! In 1927, Paul Morand – a French diplomat and noted European author – made two extended trips to the Caribbean, Latin America and the American South. Published in 1929, his travel account begins as a diary about his experience o...
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£12,99
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Colouring the Nation Race and Ethnicity in the Dominican Republic
ISBN: PB: 9781902669113, Signal Books, February 2017
288 pp., 21.6x14.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In few countries are concepts of race and colour as important or controversial as in the Dominican Republic. Sharing the Caribbean island of Hispaniola with Haiti, the country has coexisted uneasily with its predominantly Afric...
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£19,99
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Cowley Road A History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955108, Signal Books, February 2017
164 pp., 20x13.4 cm
For sale in CIS only! Once a "respectable" white working-class suburb, Cowley Road is today the heartland of alternative Oxford. Famous for its restaurants and specialist shops, the street has also developed an enviable reputation for its music and...
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£5,99
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Camisard Uprising War and Religion in the Cevennes
ISBN: PB: 9781909930209, Signal Books, December 2015
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Protestant numbers in France fell from ten per cent of the population in 1598, when Henri IV gave protection by the Edict of Nantes, to a persecuted two per cent in 1700 following its revocation in 1685 by Louis XIV. The destru...
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Cowley Road Cookbook Culinary Tales and Recipes from Oxford's Most Eclectic Street
ISBN: PB: 9781909930322, Signal Books, October 2015
128 pp., 21.1x21.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! Cowley Road, Oxford, is a wonderfully chaotic, cultural and culinary crossroads. Geographically adjacent to the university's dreaming spires, ethnographically it might as well be on another planet. From its holy medieval origin...
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£14,99
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Cotswolds A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781909930223, Signal Books, March 2015
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Cotswolds have featured on a thousand country calendars, but what is the real story behind the picture-perfect rural scene? Jane Bingham reveals a history of privilege and poverty, idyll and conflict, through the eyes of tr...
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£12,00
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Canary Islands A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781908493996, Signal Books, July 2014
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! The seven volcanic Canary Islands that bask in the Atlantic off shore from the north-west African coast have long had legendary connotations. To the Greeks they were the Gardens of the Hesperides, blessed with a perennial sprin...
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£12,00
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City of Soldiers A Year of Life, Death and Survival in Afghanistan
ISBN: PB: 9781908493088, Signal Books, May 2012
288 pp., 21.5x14 cm
For sale in CIS only! Behind the headlines, the strategies, the surges, what is life really like in Afghanistan? What is it like to live and work there as a civilian on state-building with its people, fighting the Taliban with flip-charts and pens,...
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£12,99
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Creativity of Crete City States and the Foundations of the Modern World
ISBN: PB: 9781904955955, Signal Books, October 2011
256 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm
For sale in CIS only! Crete is famous for its Minoan civilization, which by 1200BC had come to an end. It is far less well known that less than 600 years later, Crete pioneered the idea of the "city-state" and developed it for longer than anywhere e...
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£12,99
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Che Guevara
ISBN: PB: 9781904955559, Signal Books, September 2009
208 pp., 18.2x12.4 cm
For sale in CIS only! Argentine by birth, Ernesto Che Guevara came to embody the spirit of the Cuban revolution led by Fidel Castro. Guevara spent two years fighting in the sierras of Cuba, and after the revolutionaries victory became one of the mos...
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£9,99
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