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My Formative Years
ISBN: PB: 9781908493668, Signal Books, November 2012
256 pp., 21.5x14.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Joaquim Nabuco, for more than three decades a dominant figure in the literary, intellectual and political life of Brazil, was born in Recife in the country's Northeast in 1849 and died in Washington in 1910. He was what we woul...
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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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Prague
ISBN: PB: 9781908493637, Signal Books, November 2012
224 pp., 19.8x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! Since its foundation in the ninth century Prague has punched way above its weight to become a fulcrum of European culture. The city s most illustrious figures in the fields of music, literature and film are well known: Mozart s...
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Lagos A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781908493057, Signal Books, October 2012
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Made up of a curious network of islands and lagoons, Lagos is one of the fastest growing cities in the world The unique melting pot culture of Lagos has produced literary and artistic achievements that are only just beginning t...
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Marseille
ISBN: PB: 9781908493118, Signal Books, October 2012
224 pp., 20.5x13.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! The reality of Marseille, with its secret life and scarred beauty, has little in common with its sulphurous reputation. Its inhabitants, who like to keep themselves and their city's true character to themselves, prefer it that...
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Black Carib Wars Freedom, Survival and the Making of the Garifuna
ISBN: PB: 9781908493040, Signal Books, August 2012
288 pp., 21.5x14 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Garifuna people today live all along the Caribbean littoral of Central America, from Belize, through Guatemala and Honduras down to Nicaragua, and also in some of the biggest cities of the United States. For more than two h...
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Isle Of Wight, Portsmouth and Solent A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781908493071, Signal Books, July 2012
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Isle of Wight is England's largest island, but its diamond-shape is at most 23 miles long and 13 miles wide. Anchored close to the Hampshire coast, its location has created a sheltered waterway, the Solent, with its own loc...
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Peak District A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781908493064, Signal Books, May 2012
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! "The Peak District" was Britain's first National Park and the "breathing space" for people in the great cities of the industrial north. Prehistoric man built stone circles at Stanton-in-the-Moor and Arbor Low and the Romans had...
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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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Walking Palestine 25 Journeys into the West Bank
ISBN: PB: 9781908493613, Signal Books, April 2012
288 pp., 21.6x15.4 cm
For sale in CIS only! With the images of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict so dominant in our minds, walking for leisure is the one activity probably least associated with the West Bank region. But Stefan Szepesi s book wanders well off the beaten tr...
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