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Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, index. BIC Classification: DNF; JPA; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1977
Publisher
Liberty Fund Inc United States
Edition
3rd
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780913966327
ISBN
9780913966327
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.70

Paperback / so. This collection of more than 200 of bestselling author Hiaasen's "Miami Herald" columns. . . shows you that Hiaasen's seemingly implausible fictional premises aren't really far-fetched at all. He just knows Florida ("Playboy"). Editor(s): Stevenson, Diane. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 150 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Edition
10
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813034294
ISBN
9780813034294
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.23

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780345422804
ISBN
9780345422804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.32

Hardcover. In this new edition the additional fragments contained in the appendix of the 2nd edition are incorporated into the main text, and some further discoveries have been included. The result is an accurate reading of Hesiod's works. Editor(s): Merkelbach, R.; West, M.L. (Professor of Greek Literature, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London). Series: Oxford Classical Texts. Num Pages: 266 pages, index. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 130 x 193 x 22. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Edition
3rd Edition
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198140719
ISBN
9780198140719
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 81.27

Paperback. .
Publisher
Focus Information Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780941051002
ISBN
9780941051002
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.19

Hardcover. The finest essays of Nobel Prize winner Herta Muller, selected from twenty years of her fearless, intelligent, unsettling truth-telling in a life lived in opposition, courage, secrecy and uncertainty Translator(s): Mulligan, Geoffrey. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JPHX; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 199 x 18. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846274756
ISBN
9781846274756
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.29

Hardcover. Traditionally known as the Father of History, the Greek writer Herodotus(c 484-420 BC), was the first man to tell a story in prose on the scale of the ILIAD and the ODYSSEY. This book deals with his work. Editor(s): Blakeney, E.H. Translator(s): Rawlinson, George; Thomas, Rosalind. Num Pages: 772 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBB; HBG; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 133 x 44. Weight in Grams: 852.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
800
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857152340
ISBN
9781857152340
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.58

Hardcover. After personal inquiry and study of hearsay and other evidence, Herodotus (born c. 484 BCE) gives us in his famous history of warfare between the Greeks and the Persians a not uncritical estimate of the best that he could find. Translator(s): Godley, A.D. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 418 pages, 3M. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 171 x 110 x 25. Weight in Grams: 402.
Publisher
Loeb
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1922
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674991330
ISBN
9780674991330
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 32.10

Hardcover. After personal inquiry and study of hearsay and other evidence, Herodotus (born c. 484 BCE) gives us in his famous history of warfare between the Greeks and the Persians a not uncritical estimate of the best that he could find. Translator(s): Godley, A.D. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 434 pages, 2M. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 170 x 110 x 21. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Loeb Classical Library
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1921
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674991316
ISBN
9780674991316
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.09

Hardcover. After personal inquiry and study of hearsay and other evidence, Herodotus (born c. 484 BCE) gives us in his famous history of warfare between the Greeks and the Persians a not uncritical estimate of the best that he could find. Translator(s): Godley, A.D. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 417 pages, 2M. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 170 x 110 x 21. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Loeb
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1925
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674991347
ISBN
9780674991347
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 32.17

Paperback. Translator(s): Grene, D. Num Pages: 710 pages, 8 maps. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 201 x 135 x 47. Weight in Grams: 670.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226327723
ISBN
9780226327723
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.87

Paperback. Describes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states united to repel the might of the Persian empire. Frequently giving rise to colorful digressions, this book blends fact and legend to offer a compelling Greek view of the world of the fifth century BC. Translator(s): De Selincourt, Aubrey. Num Pages: 784 pages, bibliog , chronology, notes, glossary. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 532.
Edition
Reissue
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140449082
ISBN
9780140449082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.79

Paperback. Originally published: Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Translator(s): Waterfield, Robin. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 848 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; HBG; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 39. Weight in Grams: 560.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
848
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
unknown
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199535668
ISBN
9780199535668
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.32

Paperback. Series: Greek Commentaries Series. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DNF; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 66. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Bryn Mawr Commentaries United States
Number of pages
292
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780929524139
ISBN
9780929524139
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.65

Paperback. Originally published in 1551, Hernan Chacon's Tractado de la Caualleria de la Gineta reflects an era of radical changes in the chivalresque-military world of renaissance Spain. This new paperback volume in the Exeter Hispanic Texts series provides a text in the original Spanish, edited and introduced in Spanish by Noel Fallows. Series: Exeter Hispanic Texts. Num Pages: 60 pages, 5 b&w halftones. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 2ADS; DNF; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; JW; WSNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 8. Weight in Grams: 155.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
60
Condition
New
SKU
V9780859895422
ISBN
9780859895422
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.53

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Daunt Books
Number of pages
96
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907970429
ISBN
9781907970429
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.48

Paperback. Presents an Icelandic saga which mixes realism with gothic imagination and history with tales of hauntings. This title dramatizes a 13th century view of the past, from the pagan anarchy of the Viking age to the settlement of Iceland, the coming of Christianity and the beginnings of organized society. Translator(s): Palsson, Hermann; Edwards, Paul. Num Pages: 192 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 148.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140445305
ISBN
9780140445305
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.91

paperback. Translator(s): Palsson, Hermann. Num Pages: 144 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1971
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140442380
ISBN
9780140442380
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.99

paperback. Magnificent and strange, Pierre is a richly allusive novel mirroring both antebellum America and Herman Melville's own life. Editor(s): Levine, Robert S.; Weinstein, Cindy. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DNF; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Critical
SKU
V9780393938944
ISBN
9780393938944
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.83

paperback. In the Germania Tacitus provides the most-detailed extant account of the German peoples in Antiquity. This edition is one of two which claim to be the first in English for over sixty years. It contains both text and translation and a brief commentary, with an appendix of illustrations of Domitianic coins. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 128 pages, text, translation, commentary. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 8. Weight in Grams: 231.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780856687174
ISBN
9780856687174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.62

Hardcover. Num Pages: 1136 pages, indexes. BIC Classification: DNF; HPQ; JPFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 166 x 81. Weight in Grams: 2140.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
Liberty Fund Inc United States
Number of pages
1136
Condition
New
SKU
V9780913966334
ISBN
9780913966334
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 27.32

paperback. This book, first published in 1957, is a collection of Herbert Read s essays on various topics. The essays explore many different subjects and themes, including art, literature, religion and philosophy. This title will be of interest to a variety of readers. " Num Pages: 348 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
SKU
V9781138913981
ISBN
9781138913981
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.59

Paperback. Self-described as 'a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot', Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. This edition is suitable for those interested in discovering the great thinker's influential ideas about everything from environmentalism to limited government. Num Pages: 656 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: DCF; DN; HPCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 195 x 29. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
656
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Updated ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143106500
ISBN
9780143106500
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.64

paperback. If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.' Henry Rollins has a unique hard- edged view of the world. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 133 x 38. Weight in Grams: 120.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Virgin Books
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
9780753510353
ISBN
9780753510353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.99

Paperback. 'I believe that one defines oneself by re-invention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 130.
Publisher
Virgin Paperbacks
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753510407
ISBN
9780753510407
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.99

Paperback. A title, in which the author argues that sex is at the heart of his writing because it is at the heart of life - a vital force as essential as bread, money, work or play. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 111 x 14. Weight in Grams: 66.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141399157
ISBN
9780141399157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 7.62

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811222174
ISBN
9780811222174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.25

Paperback. An account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition. Series Editor(s): Griffith, Tom. Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature. Num Pages: 688 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JH; DNJ; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 37. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781840226195
ISBN
9781840226195
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.29

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, index. BIC Classification: DNF; JPH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
Liberty Fund Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1977
Condition
New
SKU
V9780913966150
ISBN
9780913966150
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 115 x 185 x 15. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226408545
ISBN
9780226408545
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.76

Hardcover. Num Pages: 1011 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HBA; HPC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 86. Weight in Grams: 2152.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Liberty Fund Inc United States
Number of pages
1011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780865975002
ISBN
9780865975002
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.70
€ 49.79

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
309
Condition
New
SKU
V9780460876353
ISBN
9780460876353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.81

Paperback. Includes thirteen selections from the polemical writings of Henry D Thoreau that represent various stages in his twenty-two years of active writing. This title offers a microcosm of Thoreau's literary career. It allows the reader to achieve a full sense of Thoreau's evolution as a writer and thinker. Editor(s): Glick, Wendell. Series: Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 204 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691118765
ISBN
9780691118765
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.14

Hardback. In the late summer of 1839 Thoreau and his elder brother John made a two-week boat-and-hiking trip from Concord, Massachusetts, to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. After John's sudden death in 1842, Henry began to prepare a memorial account of their excursion. Editor(s): Hovde, Carl F.; Howarth, William L.; Witherell, Elizabeth Hall. Series: Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. Num Pages: 624 pages, facsims., 1map, 2 ports. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DN; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 139 x 211 x 44. Weight in Grams: 764.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
624
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691063768
ISBN
9780691063768
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 175.33

Hardback. A collection of fifty-three early pieces by Thoreau representing the full range of his youthful imagination. Collected, arranged, and edited, these writings date from 1828 to 1852 and cover a range of subjects, such as: learning, morals, literature, history, politics, and love. Editor(s): Moldenhauer, Joseph J.; Moser, Erwin. Series: Writings of Henry D. Thoreau. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 34. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
430
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691062860
ISBN
9780691062860
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 175.75

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Edition
Annotated
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300164985
ISBN
9780300164985
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 49.72

Paperback. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 111 x 8. Weight in Grams: 72.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books
Number of pages
112
Publication date
2005
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141023977
ISBN
9780141023977
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.27

Hardback. Thoreau's literary classic, an elegantly written record of his experiment in simple living, has engaged readers and thinkers for a century and a half. This edition of Walden is the first to set forth an authoritative text with generous annotations. Cramer has meticulously corrected errors and omissions of previous editions. Editor(s): Cramer, Jeffrey S. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6ill. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 202 x 35. Weight in Grams: 920.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Annotated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300104660
ISBN
9780300104660
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 30.01

Hardcover. The author gives an account of his two years experience of the 'simple life' in the woods. In this book, he tells how he sought and found material and spiritual sustenance in the solitude of the cabin which he built for himself on the shore of Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts. Num Pages: 295 pages. BIC Classification: BG; DNF; RNA; WND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 137 x 27. Weight in Grams: 472.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
295
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857151367
ISBN
9781857151367
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 15.75

Paperback. Disdainful of America's booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods near Walden Pond. Walden, the account of his stay, conveys at once a naturalist's wonder at the commonplace and a Transcendentalist's yearning for spiritual truth and self-reliance. Num Pages: 432 pages, bibliog. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Penguin Classic Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140390445
ISBN
9780140390445
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.86