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Paperback. A collection that not only explores many aspects of the ancient Olympics and the programme of competitive festivals in democratic Athens but also the broader religious, social and political contexts in which sport and festival flourished in ancient Greece. It shows how the values of sport pervaded Greek society. Num Pages: 416 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBLA1; HBTB; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 234 x 20. Weight in Grams: 780.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Classical Press of Wales United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905125524
- ISBN
- 9781905125524
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.91
€ 33.99
€ 28.91
Paperback. In this first of its kind book, Jessica Finley of the renowned medieval martial arts association, the Selohaar Fechtschule, guides the reader on a journey that begins with the historical background of Ott's wrestling and culminates in step-by-step instruction for practicing the techniques of this ancient fighting art. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLC; JWXZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 181 x 254 x 15. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- FreeLance Academy Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781937439118
- ISBN
- 9781937439118
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 42.95
€ 42.99
€ 42.95
Hardcover. his study argues that permissive legislation facilitated ocal initiative and debate, and that local initiatives were ften more effective than national legislation. Num Pages: 248 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; JPR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 221 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198201755
- ISBN
- 9780198201755
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.50
€ 59.50
Paperback. An important historical account by a senior official of the South Vietnamese government, covering the period after World War II to the end of the Vietnam War. Series: Vietnam War Era Classics Series. Num Pages: 384 pages, 28 plates. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW3; JPA; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 592.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253213013
- ISBN
- 9780253213013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.29
€ 27.99
€ 26.29
Hardcover. Demonstrates the central significance of rhetoric in ancient responses to and receptions of Roman art. Editor(s): Elsner, Jas; Meyer, Michel. Num Pages: 524 pages, 129 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 183 x 248 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1190.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107000711
- ISBN
- 9781107000711
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 154.40
€ 154.40
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
€ 195.37
€ 195.37
Paperback. Clavius was influential throughout Europe in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. This book uses his own publications, as well as archival materials, to trace the central role he played in integrating traditional Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian natural philosophy into an orthodox cosmology. Num Pages: 314 pages, 17 half-tones, 7 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBLH; PGK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226469294
- ISBN
- 9780226469294
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 37.34
€ 47.99
€ 37.34
Paperback. Explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of Captain Cook. This title reveals that there was gain as well as loss, survival as well as suffering, and invention as well as exploitation. Num Pages: 356 pages, 50 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MK; 3JH; HBJM; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 231 x 26. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300180565
- ISBN
- 9780300180565
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.96
€ 23.99
€ 17.96
Paperback.
A succinct analysis of the causes and course of the Civil War xxx;going up to Franco's new Spain. For the Second Edition there is a fuller examination of the politics of the Second Republic and there is also a more detailed account of the military conduct of the war and of the extent of international involvement.
Series: Seminar Studies. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBW; HBWP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 137 x 11. Weight in Grams: 449.- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Longman Publishing Group
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9780582289888
- ISBN
- 9780582289888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.98
€ 49.98
Hardcover. This stimulating new study provides a narrative of the monumental conflict of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, and examines the realities of the war and its effects on the average Athenian. The book offers an original interpretation of how and why the war began, and challenges the approach of Thucydides in his account of the war. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBLA1; JWLF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405122504
- ISBN
- 9781405122504
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 113.21
€ 113.21
Hardback. The riveting story of the sex scandal that threatened the life of the young Elizabeth Tudor, and whose outcome was pivotal to the creation of the public persona of Elizabeth I. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; BGH; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 242 x 35. Weight in Grams: 600.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784081720
- ISBN
- 9781784081720
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.64
€ 18.64
Paperback. The contributors to New Countries examine how eight newly independent nations in the Western Hemisphere between 1750 and 1870 played fundamental roles in the global transformation from commercial to industrial capitalism. Editor(s): Tutino, John. Num Pages: 408 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLW; KCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822361336
- ISBN
- 9780822361336
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.82
€ 32.99
€ 29.82
Hardcover. Caught In the Machinery examines the social, legal, cultural and political history of workplace accidents and injured workers in 19th-century Britain and in the broader Anglo-American context. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTK; KNXC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804700085
- ISBN
- 9780804700085
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.63
€ 81.63
Paperback. Num Pages: 404 pages, 4ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306803505
- ISBN
- 9780306803505
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.01
€ 26.99
€ 19.01
Paperback. This history of the Confederacy, from rebellion to surrender, gives a sympathetic and inclusive account of the confusing events of the rise and fall of the Confederate states during the American Civil War. The author's other books on this subject include "The Story of the Mexican War". Num Pages: 528 pages, M. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 137 x 28. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306803703
- ISBN
- 9780306803703
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 20.59
€ 30.99
€ 20.59
Paperback. A detailed account of the biggest battle in the Civil War up to that point, and the sudden fame of Ulysses S. Grant. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 319.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306812590
- ISBN
- 9780306812590
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 17.41
€ 24.99
€ 17.41
Paperback. Preeminent historian Stanley Weintraub's compelling history of perhaps the most remarkable holiday season in twentieth-century history--December 1941 Num Pages: 224 pages, More than 20 photos and illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJH; 5HC; HBLW; HBTB; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 257.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Cambridge, MA
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306821530
- ISBN
- 9780306821530
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.58
€ 23.99
€ 16.58
Paperback. 46 Pages is a dramatic look at a pivotal moment in our country's formation, a scholar's meticulous recreation of the turbulent years leading up to the Revolutionary War, retold with excitement and new insight. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBG; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Running Press,U.S.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762418138
- ISBN
- 9780762418138
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.62
€ 23.99
€ 16.62
Hardback. This book is the story of the lives and work of the prominent intellectuals who taught or studied at Lianda University under extraordinary wartime conditions. Num Pages: 480 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLW; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 844.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729291
- ISBN
- 9780804729291
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.15
€ 97.15
Paperback. A book based on eyewitness accounts of the American Civil War by 120 children between the ages of four and 16. Their diaries, letters and reminiscences are a testimony to their resilience in the face of great adversity and their capacity to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BG; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JFSP1; JFSP2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813328232
- ISBN
- 9780813328232
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.62
€ 23.99
€ 16.62