Empires & historical states
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Empires & historical states
Hardcover. A unique contribution to better understandings of ancient Greek writing and the various ways writers in antiquity used sleep to deal with major aspects of plot and character development. Num Pages: 336 pages, 25 bw integrated. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Sew
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784533519
- ISBN
- 9781784533519
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.57€ 133.89
€ 151.57
€ 133.89
Paperback. The definitive account of the extraordinary people of Sparta, from the world's leading expert. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Unabridged edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447237204
- ISBN
- 9781447237204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.11
€ 17.99
€ 13.11
Hardback. An authoritative and refreshingly original consideration of the government and culture of ancient Sparta and her place in Greek history Series: Yale Library of Military History. Num Pages: 232 pages, 7 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 247 x 27. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300219012
- ISBN
- 9780300219012
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.57
€ 36.99
€ 26.57
Paperback. Series: Stackpole Military History. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBLA1; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Stackpole Books United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811710848
- ISBN
- 9780811710848
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.83
€ 19.99
€ 16.83
Hardcover. Editor(s): MacDonald, Burton. Series: Sheffield Archaeological Monographs. Num Pages: 304 pages, 71ill.33figs.64tabs. BIC Classification: 1QDA; HBJH; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 290. Weight in Grams: 1374.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- J.R. Collis Publications United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780906090435
- ISBN
- 9780906090435
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.11
€ 92.11
Hardcover. Analyzes works by Homer, Herodotus, Euripides, Plato, and Aristotle to reveal how the ancient Greeks portrayed and understood what the author calls 'the fully human soul'. Beginning with Homer's "Iliad", this work lays out the tension within the soul of Achilles between immortality and life. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226137964
- ISBN
- 9780226137964
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.27€ 77.41
€ 93.27
€ 77.41
Paperback. The understanding of the soul in the West has been profoundly shaped by Christianity. This book analyzes works by Homer, Herodotus, Euripides, Plato, and Aristotle to reveal how the ancient Greeks portrayed and understood what the author calls the fully human soul. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 13. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226004495
- ISBN
- 9780226004495
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.22
€ 31.99
€ 25.22
Paperback. An examination of the cultural occupations of Egypt over the past two millennia and how we can return to the sacred harmony of ancient Egypt Num Pages: 256 pages, Includes 16-page color insert and 50 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; HRKP1; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 19. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Publisher
- Inner Traditions Bear and Company
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781591431862
- ISBN
- 9781591431862
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.72
€ 17.99
€ 12.72
Paperback. An inquiry into the collective psychology of the ancient Romans that speaks not about military conquest, sober law, and practical politics, but about extremes of despair, desire, and envy. This title makes us uncomfortably familiar with a society struggling at or beyond the limits of human endurance. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691010915
- ISBN
- 9780691010915
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.47€ 41.17
€ 52.47
€ 41.17
paperback. This book offers a new interpretation of Roman painting as found in domestic spaces of the elite classes of ancient Rome and Campania. Num Pages: 370 pages, 212 b/w illus. 12 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; ACG; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 280 x 214 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1004.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107690462
- ISBN
- 9781107690462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.97
€ 63.97
Paperback. Sex is beyond reason, and yet we constantly reason about it. So, too, did the peoples of Ancient Greece and Rome.This work considers how erotic experience is understood in classical texts, and what ethical and philosophical arguments are made about sex? Editor(s): Nussbaum, Martha C.; Sihvola, Juha. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; HBG; HBLA; JFCX; JFSJ; VFVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 26. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226609157
- ISBN
- 9780226609157
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 36.57
€ 46.99
€ 36.57
Paperback. Offers satirical and bitter denunciation of the degeneracy of Roman society. This work draws forth a world of whores, fortune-tellers, boozy politicians, slick lawyers, shameless sycophants, ageing flirts and downtrodden teachers. It portraits of decadent aristocrats - male and female - and the jumped-up sons of newly-rich former slaves. Translator(s): Green, Peter. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ACD; 2ADL; DNF; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 236. Good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks and creases, remains a good readable copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KCW0017533
- ISBN
- 9780140447040
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 15.99€ 11.12
€ 15.99
€ 11.12
Hardcover. A perfect introduction to the ancient sites of Greece. Num Pages: 160 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 1QDAG; AJRK; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 296 x 227 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1232.
- Publisher
- Phaidon Press
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714860848
- ISBN
- 9780714860848
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 51.99€ 34.07
€ 51.99
€ 34.07
Paperback. Uses English language education for women in India between 1850 and 1940 as a way to explore how and why the English language became a powerful tool in struggles over caste hierarchy. This book shows how elite men linked ideas of matrimony, chastity, and heteronormativity with modernity in order to claim power on a national level. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1QDB; 2AB; CFB; JFS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822352273
- ISBN
- 9780822352273
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 29.14
€ 31.99
€ 29.14
The Secret of the Great Pyramid. How One Man's Obsession Led to the So...
Brier, Bob; Houdin, Jean-Pierre
Paperback. It took 20 years to build the Great Pyramid. By the time its capstone was laid in 2560 BC, the innovations born of the building quest had transformed agrarian Egypt into the world's most modern, most powerful nation. This book follows the progress of Hemienu, the architect who planned, organized and oversaw construction of the Great Pyramid. Num Pages: 240 pages, black and white illustrations and photographs. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; AMX; HDDG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780061655531
- ISBN
- 9780061655531
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.41
€ 18.99
€ 16.41
Hardback. By exposing the perversion, repression, corruption, and injustice at the heart of Justinian's regime, Prokopios' "The Secret History" destroyed forever that emperor's reputation as the great and benevolent ruler of a vast Byzantine state. In this title, Prokopios' tell-all is faithfully rendered in blunt and idiomatic English. Editor(s): Kaldellis, Anthony. Num Pages: 276 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 149 x 22. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 195
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603841818
- ISBN
- 9781603841818
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 54.79€ 42.10
€ 54.79
€ 42.10
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 195
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781603841801
- ISBN
- 9781603841801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.51
€ 21.99
€ 17.51
paperback. Portrays the 'great lawgiver' Justinian as a rampant king of corruption and tyranny, the Empress Theodora as a sorceress and whore, and the general Belisarius as the pliable dupe of his scheming wife Antonina. This book depicts holy Byzantium as a hell of murder and misrule. Editor(s): Sarris, Peter. Translator(s): Williamson, G. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; DNF; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- New Ed. /
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140455281
- ISBN
- 9780140455281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.66
€ 14.99
€ 11.66
Hardcover. Contains work by 20 contributors, representing six nations on three continents, reflecting the most recent research on a crusade which mobilized Europe on a larger scale than any expedition undertaken since the Roman Empire. Particular attention is paid to the role played by St Bernard. Editor(s): Gervers, Michael. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 3H; HBG; HBLA; HBLC; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UA) A / AS level; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780312056070
- ISBN
- 9780312056070
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 123.04
€ 123.04
Hardback. Series: Critical Issues in World and International History. Num Pages: 282 pages, 2 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDB; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 169 x 25. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742520509
- ISBN
- 9780742520509
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.30
€ 119.30