Empires & historical states
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Empires & historical states
Paperback. Will provide the reader with a clearly drawn and vivid picture of the main events and leading personalities in this decisive period of Greek history. Editor(s): Tritle, Lawrence A. Num Pages: 316 pages, 6 line figures, 23 b&w photosheets, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415105835
- ISBN
- 9780415105835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.72
€ 56.72
Hardback. Woodman's translation masterfully conveys Tacitus' distinctive and powerful literary style and reflects the best of relevant current scholarship. His introduction provides a wealth of insight into the period about which Tacitus wrote, Tacitus himself, and the principles of translation that have shaped this rendering. Translator(s): Woodman, A. J. Num Pages: 448 pages, 1 Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; 3D; DNF; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 734.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 412
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872205598
- ISBN
- 9780872205598
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.97€ 62.99
€ 63.97
€ 62.99
Paperback. The British amateur military tradition of raising auxiliary forces for home defence long preceded the establishment of a standing army. This was a model that was widely emulated in British colonies. This volume of essays seeks to examine the role of citizen soldiers in Britain and its empire during the Victorian period. Series: Warfare, Society and Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDB; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTQ; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9781138661653
- ISBN
- 9781138661653
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.72
€ 67.72
Hardcover. Editor(s): Rebillard, Eric; Rupke, Jorg. Series: CUA Studies in Early Christianity. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDA; HRAX; HRCC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813227436
- ISBN
- 9780813227436
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 100.70
€ 100.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 30 bw in 16pp plates, 3-5 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA1; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 134. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780762753
- ISBN
- 9781780762753
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.56
€ 32.56
Paperback. Presenting a personal history of Alexander the Great, this book discusses not only his dashing image and heroism, but also the downsides to his personality and the disintegration of his empire, to question whether he really deserves to be called 'Great'. It argues that Alexander sacrificed the empire for his own personal ends. Num Pages: 388 pages, Illustrations , maps , ports. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; BGH; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1033.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405801621
- ISBN
- 9781405801621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.11
€ 47.11
Hardcover. Livy Ab Urbe Condita Books I-V Editor(s): Ogilvie, Robert Maxwell. Series: Oxford Classical Texts. Num Pages: 416 pages, One line drawing. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 130 x 187 x 28. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1974
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198146612
- ISBN
- 9780198146612
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.57
€ 38.57
Hardback. Traces the roots of the Chinese empire's exceptional longevity and unparalleled political durability, and shows how lessons from the imperial past are relevant for China today. This book demonstrates that the empire survived and adjusted to a variety of domestic and external challenges through a peculiar combination of rigid ideological premises. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1QDA; HBJF; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691134956
- ISBN
- 9780691134956
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.50
€ 74.50
Hardback. In the "Introduction to the Phenomena", Geminos provided a clear view of Greek astronomy in the period between Hipparchos and Ptolemy. This book, an English translation of Geminos' work, is accompanied by an introduction and commentary that set Geminos' work in its historical, scientific, and philosophical context. Num Pages: 328 pages, 9 halftones. 38 line illus. 23 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; PGK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 169 x 243 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691123394
- ISBN
- 9780691123394
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.27€ 63.61
€ 82.27
€ 63.61
Hardcover. Explores how modesty became a creative and performative mode of being for late Roman Christian ascetic women. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1; HRC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107030275
- ISBN
- 9781107030275
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 95.96
€ 95.96
Paperback. From the NEW HORIZONS series of pocket-sized information books, an introduction to the life and times of Pompeii as revealed by modern archaeology. With foldouts and double-page spreads. Translator(s): Palmer, Caroline. Series: New Horizons S. Num Pages: 216 pages, 180 illustrations, 110 in colour. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 1QSM; HBG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 126 x 15. Weight in Grams: 360. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KOG0007751
- ISBN
- 9780500300114
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Classical Press of Wales United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 493
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905125531
- ISBN
- 9781905125531
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.22
€ 51.22
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. This title brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HRCC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 110 x 7. Weight in Grams: 64. Very good copy with light shelf wear
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0017067
- ISBN
- 9780141018898
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
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€ 11.39
€ 15.99
€ 11.39
Paperback. The Greeks were extraordinary not least because they evolved 'a totally new conception of what human life was for'. Describing that claim, this title explores the life, culture and history of classical Greece. Num Pages: 256 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 190. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0017535
- ISBN
- 9780140135213
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India, was perhaps the most successful conqueror the world has ever seen. Yet although no other individual has attracted so much speculation across the centuries, Alexander himself remains an enigma. Translator(s): Yardley, John C. Num Pages: 352 pages, maps, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; BGH; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254. Clean copy with slight shelf wear and sunning to cover and spine but remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKE0000396
- ISBN
- 9780140444124
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 9.31
€ 9.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; WST. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 256 x 20. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Inner Traditions Bear and Company United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781594771927
- ISBN
- 9781594771927
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.98
€ 47.98
Paperback. This study explores the relationship between burial rituals and social structures in Early Iron Age Greece. Series Editor(s): Renfrew, Lord Colin; Ashmore, Wendy; Gamble, Clive; O'Shea, John. Series: New Studies in Archaeology. Num Pages: 276 pages, 10 half-tones, 17 tables, 69 line diagrams. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HDDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 191 x 246 x 25. Weight in Grams: 536. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0018549
- ISBN
- 9780521387385
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
Hardback. On 3 September 1939, Robert Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, broadcast to the Australian people the news that their country was at war with Germany. This book provides fresh insights into the making of imperial foreign policy in the inter-war era, imperial history, the origins of World War II and Australian history. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 integrated bw illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 1QDB; 3JJG; HBJM; HBLW; HBWQ; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 29. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848859982
- ISBN
- 9781848859982
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.21
€ 114.21
Paperback. A contribution to understanding the development of urban culture and social stratification in the Near East. It illuminates the changes in scale, complexity and hierarchy which accompany the development of civilization and draws conclusions about the processes of social evolution in general. Num Pages: 416 pages, 65 line drawings, 20 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 1QSM; HBG; HBJD; HBJF1; HBLA; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415096591
- ISBN
- 9780415096591
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.97
€ 53.97