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History: earliest times to present day

Paperback. Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Num Pages: 528 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 37. Weight in Grams: 808.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Zone Books United States
Edition
New ed of 2 Revised ed
Number of pages
538
Condition
New
SKU
V9780942299199
ISBN
9780942299199
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.55

Paperback. Jean-Pierre Vernant delineates a compelling new vision of ancient Greece that takes us far from the calm and familiar images of Polykleitos and the Parthenon, and reveals a culture of slavery, of blood sacrifice, of perpetual and ritualized warfare, of ceremonial hunting and ecstasies. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 226 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Zone Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9780942299175
ISBN
9780942299175
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.47

Paperback. A classic work that rereads questions of "muthos" and "logos" in multifaceted contexts. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet; Fort, Jeff. Num Pages: 505 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 33. Weight in Grams: 698.
Publisher
Zone Books United States
Number of pages
505
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781890951603
ISBN
9781890951603
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.39

Paperback. The discovery of Bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, was a remarkable technological development, permitting the casting of much stronger tools and weapons. In this text, the authors explore the story of the Bronze Age in Europe, tracing it back beyond the borders of history. Series: New Horizons S. Num Pages: 160 pages, 180 illustrations, 139 in colour. BIC Classification: 1D; 3B; HBJD; HBLA; HDDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 178 x 126 x 10. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780500301012
ISBN
9780500301012
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 4.99

Hardcover. Traces the history of early Judaism, Christianity and Islam against the geographical canvas of the Ancient Near East. This book draws from the insights in archeology, paleo-anthropology, forensic science and biblical literature to narrate the story of how three cultures originated from the same cradle in the Fertile Crescent. Num Pages: 384 pages, ill. BIC Classification: HBJF1; HBLA; HRAC; HRC; HRH; HRJ; WTRM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 283 x 242 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1558.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Condition
New
SKU
V9781426201387
ISBN
9781426201387
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 39.25

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HB; 3JMG; HBJF1; HBLX; HBTV; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 139 x 29. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849045469
ISBN
9781849045469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.89

Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, Black and White Photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 215 x 26. Weight in Grams: 480.
Publisher
Rizzoli Ex Libris
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847841295
ISBN
9780847841295
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.69

Hardcover. A detailed personal commentary from one of Napoleon's senior artillery officers. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrated with a separate plate section. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBWH; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848328358
ISBN
9781848328358
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 36.99

Paperback. Diary of the Dark Years is a sharply observed record of day-to-day life in occupied Paris, but far more: it is "a remarkable essay on courage and cowardice" (Wall Street Journal), expressing both shame at French collaboration with the Nazis and the stubborn resistance of an intellectual under great pressure. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; BGHA; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 24. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190495848
ISBN
9780190495848
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.25

Paperback. This text encompasses aspects of the transformation that raised Japan from the ashes of defeat to "an economic model". It relates economic growth to social change and politics, and shows how these upheavals reverberated upon the Japanese value system, collective mind, way of living and culture. Translator(s): Derrick, Jonathan. Num Pages: 394 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJP; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
C Hurst & Co (Publishers)Ltd
Number of pages
394
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781850655695
ISBN
9781850655695
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.88

Hardcover. A dramatic and compelling account of the aftermath of one fateful day during the French resistance Translator(s): McAuley, Gay. Num Pages: 256 pages, 12 bw integrated, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 25. .
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784536220
ISBN
9781784536220
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 43.97

Paperback. Originally published in French under title: La Chine m'inquiaete. Paris: Perrin, c2008. Translator(s): Holoch, George. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JM; HBJF; HBLX; JP; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 132 x 203 x 13. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231152259
ISBN
9780231152259
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.74

Hardback. 208 pages. Originally published in French under title: La Chine m'inquiaete. Paris: Perrin, c2008. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLX; JP. Dimension: 216 x 149 x 21. Weight: 390. Translator(s): Holoch, George.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231152242
ISBN
9780231152242
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.07
€ 72.21

Paperback. Jean-Claude Schmitt examines a unique and controversial conversion narrative to explore its meaning within the society and culture of its period as well as what it has to tell us about the way historians think and write. Translator(s): Novikoff, Alex J. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 9 illus. BIC Classification: HBLC1; HRJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 144 x 225 x 23. Weight in Grams: 530.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812222197
ISBN
9780812222197
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.93

paperback. This study examines medieval religious culture and the significance of the widespread belief in ghosts, revealing the ways in which the dead and the living related to each other during the Middle Ages. It discusses Augustine's influence on medieval authors, and monastic visions and folklore. Translator(s): Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Num Pages: 290 pages, 28 colour plates, 3 halftones, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC; HRAC; JFHF; VXQG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226738888
ISBN
9780226738888
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.58

Paperback. .
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784786441
ISBN
9781784786441
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.67

Paperback. Translator(s): Holoch, George. Num Pages: 360 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; HBG; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 171 x 27. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268042233
ISBN
9780268042233
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.01

Hardback. A concise synthesis of the early years of the women's rights movement, 1828-1876, showing how early feminists wanted a complete rethinking of what womanhood meant, and how their concerns resembled the revived feminism of the 1970s. American Ways Series. Series: American Ways Series. Num Pages: 223 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFFK; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566631457
ISBN
9781566631457
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.76

Paperback. A concise synthesis of the early years of the women's rights movement, 1828-1876, showing how early feminists wanted a complete rethinking of what womanhood meant, and how their concerns resembled the revived feminism of the 1970s. American Ways Series. Series: American Ways Series. Num Pages: 223 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JFFK; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566631464
ISBN
9781566631464
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.86

Hardback. Describes the voyages of East India Company's ships to India and China in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, discussing the nature of trade and the involvement of the Company's ships in maritime warfare. Series: Worlds of the East India Company. Num Pages: 324 pages, 24, 14 black and white, 10 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; 3JF; 3JH; HBJF; HBLL; HBTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 624.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843835837
ISBN
9781843835837
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.97

Paperback. Tells the true story of a young woman caught up in Saddam Hussein's genocide of the Kurdish people of Iraq. Num Pages: 432 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBXS; BG; HBJF1; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 107 x 28. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Bantam Books Ltd
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553818147
ISBN
9780553818147
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.21

Hardback. A concise, general history of the crusades from the beginnings to the fall of the last strongholds in 1291. Translator(s): Birrell, Jean. Series: Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. Num Pages: 536 pages, 19 maps 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1D; HBG; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 33. Weight in Grams: 823.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
536
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521623698
ISBN
9780521623698
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.19

Hardback. Num Pages: 544 pages, 530 colour & bw illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 1QDAP; HBLA; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 305 x 242 x 53. Weight in Grams: 3556.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848856219
ISBN
9781848856219
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 166.37
€ 139.97

Paperback. The history and philosophy of the mysterious Cathar religion and its lost treasure. Num Pages: 312 pages, Includes 8-page b&w insert. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC; HRCS1; HRLP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 231 x 44. Weight in Grams: 500.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Inner Traditions
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780892810901
ISBN
9780892810901
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 15.32

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