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Hardback. Roman Disasters looks at how the Romans coped with, thought about, and used disasters for their own ends. Rome has been famous throughout history for its great triumphs. Yet Rome also suffered colossal disasters. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 163 x 27. Weight in Grams: 506.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745651026
ISBN
9780745651026
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.61

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230243644
ISBN
9780230243644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 16.03

Hardcover. Utilizing a great variety of previously unknown cuneiform tablets, Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice examines the way medicine was practiced by various Babylonian professionals of the 2nd and 1st millennium B.C. Series: Ancient Cultures. Num Pages: 234 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAB; 3D; HBJF1; HBLA1; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 18. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
221
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405126526
ISBN
9781405126526
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 41.78

Paperback. Michael Meeker combines anthropological and historical methods to examine the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in a major region of the country, the eastern Black Sea coast. Num Pages: 438 pages, 13 b/w photographs, 2 maps, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1FB; 1QDT; HBJF1; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
438
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520234826
ISBN
9780520234826
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 36.40

Paperback. Selection of translated texts focusing primarily on political institutions and political activity in ancient Greece. Num Pages: 356 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522. A Sourcebook. 356 pages, 2 maps. Selection of translated texts focusing primarily on political institutions and political activity in ancient Greece. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JPS. Dimension: 225 x 153 x 25. Weight: 580.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521615563
ISBN
9780521615563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.11

Hardcover. This text examines the British government's policy towards Ireland during the imperial crisis of 1750-83, focusing on its attempts to reassert control over Ireland's increasingly hostile Protestant parliament and populace. Num Pages: 290 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDB; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTQ; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333994023
ISBN
9780333994023
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.14

Paperback. The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II offers a transnational perspective on the age of King Ramesses II of Egypt during the centuries of 1500 to 1200 BC. Providing a compelling narrative, synthesis of current research, and rich illustrations, this book offers a wide perspective on the age of Ramesses II. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1QDA; 3D; HBJF1; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444332209
ISBN
9781444332209
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.03

Hardback. The region of Mesoamerica, extending from central Mexico through Honduras and El Salvador, was home to a variety of advanced civilizations in ancient times. This reader contains 25 chapters written by scholars that explore the nature of these ancient Mesoamerican civilizations. Editor(s): Smith, Michael Ernest; Masson, Marilyn A. Num Pages: 520 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1QDA; 3D; 3F; HBJK; HBLC; HDD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 253 x 171 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1004.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
520
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631211150
ISBN
9780631211150
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.44

Paperback. aeo Adds to explosion of interest in issues of gender, the body, and history. aeo Investigates the centrality of gender distinctions to ancient societies. aeo Complements the study of women in antiquity. Editor(s): Wyke, Maria. Series: Gender and History Special Issues. Num Pages: 232 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 1QSM; HBG; HBLA; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 149 x 11. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631205241
ISBN
9780631205241
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.82

Paperback. An exploration of the ways in which children learned and were taught to read, against the background of the transition from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic. This study gives us a fresh perspective on the transition from empire to republic by showing us the ways that reading was central to the construction of modernity. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1QDT; 3JH; CJCR; HBTB; JNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137270931
ISBN
9781137270931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.84
€ 36.15

Hardback. This book offers a comprehensive survey of the philosophy of Antisthenes in all its aspects. Editor(s): Stork, Peter. Num Pages: 222 pages, 0 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPCA; HPK; HPQ; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9789462982987
ISBN
9789462982987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.18

Paperback. Focusing on the ancient modalities and conceptual filters through which the figure and the songs of Sappho were perceived, this book offers the anthropological and systematic investigation of the pluralities of what ancient discourses defined as the songs of Sappho. Series: Hellenic Studies. Num Pages: 300 pages, 24 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674026865
ISBN
9780674026865
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 19.81

Hardback. This volume provides a new perspective on the emergence of the modern study of antiquity, Altertumswissenschaft, in eighteenth-century Germany through an exploration of debates that arose over the work of the art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann between his death in 1768 and the end of the century. Series: Classical Presences. Num Pages: 304 pages, 3 black and white in-text illustrations. BIC Classification: 3D; 3JF; ACG; HBLA; HBLA1; HDDK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 147 x 23. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199695843
ISBN
9780199695843
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 177.16

Paperback. Ancient Greek vase-paintings offer broad-ranging and unprecedented early perspectives on the often intricate interplay of images and texts. This book investigates both epigraphic technicalities of Attic and non-Attic inscriptions, and their broader, iconographic and sociocultural, significance. Editor(s): Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HDDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 207 x 290 x 20. Weight in Grams: 834.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Archaeopress United Kingdom
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784914868
ISBN
9781784914868
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.57
€ 43.97

Hardback. For over two millennia, the "Cyropaedia", an imaginative biography of the Persian king Cyrus the Great, was Xenophon's most popular work. This study examines the work, demonstrating its overall coherence and unity and focusing, in particular, on the notoriously difficult ending. Num Pages: 211 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAP; 2AHA; DSBB; DSK; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
211
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520224049
ISBN
9780520224049
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.25
€ 43.81

Paperback. Examines the complex fate of classical Egyptian religion during the centuries from the period when Christianity first made its appearance in Egypt to when it became the region's dominant religion. This book describes how an ancient culture maintained itself while also being transformed through influences such as Hellenism, and Roman government. Series: Mythos: The Princeton-Bollingen Series in World Mythology. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 map, 1 line illus., 23 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HBE; 1QDAE; HBJH; HBLA; HRC; HRKP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691070544
ISBN
9780691070544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 36.40

Paperback. How the Ottomans understood themselves within their court and in relation to non-Ottoman others Editor(s): Cipa, H. Erdem; Fetvaci, Emine. Num Pages: 200 pages, 9 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDT; HBAH; HBJF1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 227 x 12. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253008640
ISBN
9780253008640
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.41

Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; HDDG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 296 x 211 x 12. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Czech Institute of Egyptology
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9788070362563
ISBN
9788070362563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 90.61
€ 72.21

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 396 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
396
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691648439
ISBN
9780691648439
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.60
€ 117.85

Hardback. The mass of the Roman people constituted well over 90 per cent of the population. Much ancient history, however, has focused on the lives, politics and culture of the minority elite. This book helps redress the balance by focusing on the non-elite in the Roman world. It builds an account of the everyday lives of the masses. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA1; HBTB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745643090
ISBN
9780745643090
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 69.64

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

Paperback. This edition contains the thirty-three letters which survive from those exchanged between Cicero and his correspondents between the beginning of January and the end of April, 43 B.C. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; BG; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 214 x 14. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856686320
ISBN
9780856686320
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.85

Paperback. Book IV 2-41 of the Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War concerns the events of the campaign fought at Pylos and the island of Sphacteria between the Athenians and the Spartans in 425 BC. J.B. Wilson's much cited edition includes a Greek text and translation, followed by supplementary tets. Editor(s): Wilson, J. B. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DNF; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 151 x 210 x 11. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856681790
ISBN
9780856681790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 30.01

Paperback. Editor(s): Godfrey, Barry; Dunstall, Graeme. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 1QDB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBT; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 521.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781843921073
ISBN
9781843921073
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.03

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