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Paperback. The essays collected in "Persecution and the Art of Writing" all deal with one problem-the relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many philosophers, especially political philosophers, have reacted to the threat of persecution by disguising their most controversial and heterodox ideas. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; JPVH2; JPVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 12. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226777115
- ISBN
- 9780226777115
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.94
€ 31.99
€ 24.94
Paperback. Tells the story of two Persian noblemen who have left their country - the modern Iran - to journey to Europe in search of wisdom. This title explains the libertarian, critical spirit of the early eighteenth century. Translator(s): Betts, C. J. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AFS; BG; BJ; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140442816
- ISBN
- 9780140442816
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.82
€ 16.99
€ 14.82
Paperback. Love is everywhere in Persian poetry and can be interpreted in various ways: as mystic love, the basis of the relationship between humans and God; even as patriotic love for Iran. This title offers a collection of Persian love poetry that is illustrated with images from the British Museum's world. Num Pages: 96 pages, 40 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 171 x 9. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- British Museum Press
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714124759
- ISBN
- 9780714124759
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.34
€ 13.99
€ 11.34
Hardcover. Celebrating the beauty of the world in poems about love, wine and poetry itself, or telling anecdotes of everyday life, this book set these themes in the wider religious and philosophical context of Islam. Editor(s): Washington, Peter. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 114 x 19. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841597430
- ISBN
- 9781841597430
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.18
€ 15.99
€ 12.18
Hardback. This volume is an invaluable companion for anyone who wants to understand the continuing relevance and influence of Classical Persian Poetry. Editor(s): Ashtiany, Mohsen; Bruijn, J. T. P. de; Yarshater, Ehsan. Series: History of Persian Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSBB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 28. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781845119041
- ISBN
- 9781845119041
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.46
€ 89.46
Hardback. Editor(s): Utas, Bo. Series: History of Persian Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSC; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845119065
- ISBN
- 9781845119065
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.60
€ 99.60
Hardcover. Editor(s): Marashi, Mehdi. Num Pages: 576 pages, tables & illus. BIC Classification: 2BXF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 161 x 31. Weight in Grams: 920.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- IBEX Publishers,U.S. United States
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780936347356
- ISBN
- 9780936347356
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.07€ 86.01
€ 115.07
€ 86.01
Paperback. A ghost summoned with bizarre rituals from the underworld, the elaborate protocol of the Persian court, a thrilling eye-witness account of the battle of Salamis - as the earliest surviving European drama it is of incalculable interest for students of ancient literature: as the only extended account of the Persian wars by an author who fought in .. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 147 x 13. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856685972
- ISBN
- 9780856685972
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.82
€ 33.99
€ 29.82
Paperback. An accurate and highly readable new translation with introduction, extensive explanatory notes, and up-to-date bibliography of four of Aeschylus' plays, including the unique historical tragedy Persians and the hugely influential Prometheus Bound. Translator(s): Collard, Christopher. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 3D; DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 173 x 23. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192832825
- ISBN
- 9780192832825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.16
€ 14.99
€ 12.16
Intended to be both read as literature and performed as plays, these translations are lucid and readable, while remaining staunchly faithful to the texts. Translator(s): Poochigian, Aaron. Series: Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 232 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421400631
- ISBN
- 9781421400631
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 70.62
€ 70.62
Paperback. Intended to be both read as literature and performed as plays, these translations are lucid and readable, while remaining staunchly faithful to the texts. Translator(s): Poochigian, Aaron. Series: Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 12. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421400648
- ISBN
- 9781421400648
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.83
€ 37.83
Hardcover. New essays by prominent scholars in German and Holocaust Studies exploring the boundaries and confluences between the fields and examining new transnational approaches to the Holocaust. Num Pages: 328 pages, 31 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571139610
- ISBN
- 9781571139610
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.15
€ 122.15
Hardcover. Features poems of a Roman poet and satirist. This book argues that author sets his own bizarre metaphors of food, digestion, and sexuality against more appealing imagery to show that the latter - and the poetry containing it - harms rather than helps its audience. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226241845
- ISBN
- 9780226241845
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.63€ 43.11
€ 50.63
€ 43.11
Paperback. The Satires contain six Latin poems of moderate length in the hexameter metre. Persius belonged to the well-to-do and landowning gentry of Italy and the tone and philosophical content of the Satires suggest that he pursued philosophy with an ardour beyond that conventionally thought proper by Romans. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1981
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856681738
- ISBN
- 9780856681738
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.85
€ 33.99
€ 29.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 201 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571206575
- ISBN
- 9780571206575
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 13.72
€ 21.99
€ 13.72
Paperback. Num Pages: 174 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 139 x 11. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Skoob Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 174
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781871438772
- ISBN
- 9781871438772
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.93
€ 11.99
€ 9.93
hardcover. This book studies identity formation and transformation in twentieth-century China by focusing on women's autobiographical writing. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JJ; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 535.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804750059
- ISBN
- 9780804750059
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 101.11
€ 101.11
Paperback. Faced with cancer and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president, Ulysses S Grant wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future. In doing so, he won himself a unique place in American letters. This title deals with his life as a soldier. Num Pages: 704 pages, 48 pp b&w illustrations & maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGHA; DSBF; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 195 x 33. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 704
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140437010
- ISBN
- 9780140437010
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.99
€ 16.99
€ 12.99
Paperback. Oft-neglected Personalist writers of 1930s-40s comprise a missing link between modernist and postmodernist literatures. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781772120011
- ISBN
- 9781772120011
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.00
€ 38.99
€ 28.00
paperback. One of the greatest 19th-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he had won international fame for his scientific discoveries, his observations of Native American peoples and his descriptions of the flora and fauna of the continent'. Translator(s): Wilson, Jason. Num Pages: 384 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: DNF; PD; RGR; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Abridged
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140445534
- ISBN
- 9780140445534
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.43
€ 19.99
€ 15.43
Hardcover. "243 p. Publishers cloth. Good copy with slight shelf wear to spine bands, clean but slightly sunned cloth, minor wear to edges of the paper title label on the spine, spine is starting but binding remains strong." Keywords: "Literature. , English literature"
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- Ex-library
- Publisher
- M. Secker
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1913
- SKU
- KEX0053203
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 27.99€ 4.99
€ 27.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The fairytale ending was just the beginning.. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 304. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KAK0000611
- ISBN
- 9781847562081
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The fairytale ending was just the beginning.. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 304. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0008389
- ISBN
- 9781847562081
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The fairytale ending was just the beginning.. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 304. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KOC0009443
- ISBN
- 9781847562081
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99