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History: earliest times to present day

paperback. This is the first general account of Dutch hegemony in trade, shipping, and finance between 1585 and 1740. Professor Israel, the leading historian in this field, uses a wide range of sources to explain why, despite its small size and population, the Dutch Republic functioned as the hub of world trade for nearly two centuries. Series: Clarendon Paperbacks. Num Pages: 484 pages, 4 figures, 12 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 27. Weight in Grams: 654.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
484
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198211396
ISBN
9780198211396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 88.23

paperback. This book examines dwarfs in myth and everyday life in ancient Egypt and Greece. The spectacular forms of dwarfism were always a focus of interest, and it is the most depicted disorder in antiquity. Dasen brings together a whole range of mostly unpublished or little-known iconographic, epigraphic, literary, and anthropological evidence. Series: Oxford Monographs on Classical Archaeology. Num Pages: 440 pages, 50 in-text illustrations and 80 pages of black and white plates. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; 1QDAG; HBLA; HBLA1; HDDG; HDDK. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 246 x 189 x 25. Weight in Grams: 840.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780199680863
ISBN
9780199680863
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 103.14

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 24 illustrations; 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 19. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780307743749
ISBN
9780307743749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.76

Hardcover. Editor(s): Wang, David Der-Wei; Wei, Shang-Jin. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 575 pages, 7fig. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 170 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1030.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
575
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674017818
ISBN
9780674017818
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.27
€ 55.74

Paperback. A masterful history of Rome's first imperial dynasty by the award-winning author of Rubicon, Persian Fire and In the Shadow of the Sword. Num Pages: 544 pages, Section: 24, b/w and col photos. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 40. Weight in Grams: 452.
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349123837
ISBN
9780349123837
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.43

Paperback. Num Pages: 386 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 634.
Publisher
Liberty Fund Inc United States
Number of pages
386
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Edition
2nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780913966594
ISBN
9780913966594
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.94

Paperback. Eric Rudsdale's role as a curator and air-raid shelter superintendent at Colchester Castle during the Second World War gave him the perfect opportunity to record life on the home front in his diaries. Num Pages: 224 pages, 30 b&w. BIC Classification: 1DBKESK; 3JJH; BJ; HBJD1; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752458212
ISBN
9780752458212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.54

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 32 Pages of B&W plates and 18 maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWKT; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 233 x 21. Weight in Grams: 496.
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
2010th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848841253
ISBN
9781848841253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.25

Paperback. The mainland and islands of Greece were settled by peoples moving from Asia Minor in c.5000 BC, while a further wave in c.5000 BC introduced bronze-working to the region. This title recreates the world of these peoples through an examination of their material culture. Illustrator(s): Rava, Giuseppe. Series: Warrior. Num Pages: 64 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 183 x 4. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780968582
ISBN
9781780968582
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.50

Paperback. "Writing with erudition and a broad grasp of the history of social thought, Hodgen demonstrates the debt owed to the period of the late Renaissance and even the centuries prior to that."-American Anthropologist Num Pages: 528 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 30. Weight in Grams: 669.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812210149
ISBN
9780812210149
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 46.36

Paperback. Charlemagne could not have revived the Roman empire in the West without the military machine built up over the course of the eighth century. Early Carolingian Warfare is the first book to study how the Frankish dynasty established its power and cultivated its military expertise in order to reestablish the regnum Francorum. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBLC1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 154 x 36. Weight in Grams: 622.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812221442
ISBN
9780812221442
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.49

Paperback. A critical new interpretation of the early history of Chinese civilization based on the most recent scholarship and archaeological discoveries. Series: New Approaches to Asian History. Num Pages: 367 pages, 82 b/w illus. 17 maps 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3D; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 586.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780521719810
ISBN
9780521719810
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 35.04

Paperback. Covers the five centuries preceding the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza. This book examines the background to that great achievement, the mechanisms by which it was accomplished, and the character of life in the Nile valley during the first 500 years of Pharaonic rule. Num Pages: 440 pages, 11 maps and 17 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; HBJF1; HBJH; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 678.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
440
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415260114
ISBN
9780415260114
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.23

paperback. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: AB; ACB; HBLC1; HRA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 172. .
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781138279612
ISBN
9781138279612
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.42

Hardcover. Volume IX of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the so-called sophists Antiphon, Lycophron, and Xeniades, along with the Anonymous of Iamblichus, the Dissoi Logoi, a chapter on characterizations of the 'sophists' as a group, and an appendix on philosophy and philosophers in Greek drama. Translator(s): Laks, Andre (Princeton University New Jersey); Most, Glenn W (Princeton University New Jersey). Series: Loeb Classical Library. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBLA1; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 115 x 22. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674997103
ISBN
9780674997103
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.84

Hardcover. Volume V of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the western Greek thinkers Parmenides, Zeno, Melissus, Empedocles, Alcmaeon, and Hippo. Translator(s): Laks, Andre (Princeton University New Jersey); Most, Glenn W (Princeton University New Jersey). Series: Loeb Classical Library. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBLA1; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 119 x 169 x 40. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674997066
ISBN
9780674997066
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.91

Hardcover. Volume VI of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the later Ionian and Athenian thinkers Anaxagoras, Archelaus, and Diogenes of Apollonia, along with chapters on early Greek medicine and the Derveni Papyrus. Translator(s): Laks, Andre (Princeton University New Jersey); Most, Glenn W (Princeton University New Jersey). Series: Loeb Classical Library. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBLA1; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 115 x 171 x 26. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674997073
ISBN
9780674997073
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.79

Hardcover. Volume VII of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the atomists Leucippus and Democritus. Translator(s): Laks, Andre (Princeton University New Jersey); Most, Glenn W (Princeton University New Jersey). Series: Loeb Classical Library. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBLA1; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 116 x 170 x 29. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674997080
ISBN
9780674997080
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.91

Hardcover. Volume VIII of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the so-called sophists Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Thrasymachus, and Hippias, along with testimonia relating to the life, views, and argumentative style of Socrates. Translator(s): Laks, Andre (Princeton University New Jersey); Most, Glenn W (Princeton University New Jersey). Series: Loeb Classical Library. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DSBB; HBLA1; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 118 x 245 x 31. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Bilingual
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674997097
ISBN
9780674997097
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.79

Paperback. Although there is no exact equivalent to our term science in Greek, Western science may still be said to have originated with the Greeks, for they were the first to attempt to explain natural phenomena consistently in naturalistic terms, and they initiated the practices of rational criticism of scientific theories. Num Pages: 176 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 197 x 132 x 11. Weight in Grams: 134.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
174
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1974
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393005837
ISBN
9780393005837
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.46

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Rava, Giuseppe. Series: Warrior. Num Pages: 64 pages, 35 b/w; 43 col. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; HBW; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 249 x 7. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472815590
ISBN
9781472815590
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.76

Hardback. How did Iran remain distinctively Iranian in the centuries which followed the Arab Conquest? How did it retain its cultural distinctiveness after the displacement of Zoroastrianism - state religion of the Persian empire - by Islam? This title traces that critical moment in Iranian history. Editor(s): Herzig, Edmund; Stewart, Sarah. Num Pages: 192 pages, 15 integrated bw. BIC Classification: 1FBN; HBJF1; HBLC1; HRHP; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 209 x 24. Weight in Grams: 506.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780760612
ISBN
9781780760612
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.90
€ 70.11

Hardback. This classic text-continually in print for more than half a century-analyzes the architecture of societies in western Europe up to the twelfth century that aspired to be the heirs to the Roman Empire. Translator(s): Wallis, Kendall. Num Pages: 368 pages, 80 illus. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; AM; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231127042
ISBN
9780231127042
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 82.81
€ 64.07

Paperback. Editor(s): Swartz, Wendy; Campany, Robert Ford; Lu, Yang; Choo, Jessey Jiun-Chyi. Num Pages: 744 pages, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3D; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 234 x 34. Weight in Grams: 992.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
744
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231159876
ISBN
9780231159876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 36.34

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