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Paperback. This introductory text offers a chronological account of the main Greek myths in surviving literary and artistic sources, and also examines the history of interpretation of Greek mythology from the 17th century to the present. It examines the relationship between Greek myths and epic poetry. Translator(s): Marier, Thomas. Num Pages: 264 pages, 12, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HRKP; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801853951
ISBN
9780801853951
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 30.51

Hardcover. Our common image of the Middle Ages, constructed partly from popular accounts by Tuchman and Huizinga, is a period in European history when cultural activity was in decay. This title convincingly challenges this notion by presenting evidence of a lively medieval court culture in the northern Netherlands. Translator(s): Pomerans, Arnold J. Num Pages: 392 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 2ACD; 3H; DSBB; HBJD; HBLC; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 29. Weight in Grams: 513.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780520067776
ISBN
9780520067776
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.00
€ 49.03

Hardcover. Num Pages: 692 pages. BIC Classification: DS; HBTQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 252 x 58. Weight in Grams: 1942.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Aarhus Univ Pr
Condition
New
SKU
V9788771248531
ISBN
9788771248531
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.45

Paperback. A bilingual English-German edition containing sections on: Beauty, Human Questions, Doctrine, Recollections, Images, and the Soul. Series: Writings of Frithjof Schuon. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
World Wisdom Books United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781935493174
ISBN
9781935493174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.52

Paperback. A four-volume collection of spiritual poetry by Frithjof Schuon, who wrote approximately 3,500 poems in his mother tongue German. These poems express the experience of the sacred through the medium of poetry. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
World Wisdom Books United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933316253
ISBN
9781933316253
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.09

Paperback. A four-volume collection of spiritual poetry by Frithjof Schuon who wrote approximately 3,500 poems in his mother tongue German. These poems express our experience of the sacred through the medium of poetry. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
World Wisdom Books United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933316239
ISBN
9781933316239
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.50

Paperback. A four-volume collection of spiritual poetry by Frithjof Schuon, who wrote approximately 3,500 poems in his mother tongue German. These poems express the experience of the sacred through the medium of poetry. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
World Wisdom Books United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933316314
ISBN
9781933316314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.25

Paperback. The spiritual traveler may carry this German/English bilingual book of poems for a lifetime and not exhaust its content. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
World Wisdom Books United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780941532563
ISBN
9780941532563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.72

Paperback. A bold and urgent collection of contemporary plays by writers from England, exploring the various identities of a nation that is at once traditional, nationalistic and multicultural. Editor(s): Sierz, Aleks. Series: Play Anthologies. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DD; DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 199 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472587985
ISBN
9781472587985
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.97

Paperback. Editor(s): Dymoke, Sue; Lambirth, Andrew; Wilson, Anthony. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JNU; YQE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 370.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472515056
ISBN
9781472515056
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.99
€ 41.25

Paperback. Editor(s): Paulin, Roger. Series: Great Shakespeareans. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 233 x 10. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472577184
ISBN
9781472577184
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 38.97

Paperback. Translator(s): Mainland, W.F. Series: German Literary Classics in Translation. Num Pages: 190 pages, xxxiv, 156 p. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 136 x 10. Weight in Grams: 206.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1973
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226738017
ISBN
9780226738017
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.96

Paperback / so. Series: Abhandlungen Der Rheinisch-Westfalischen Akademie Der Wissen. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: 2AG; CF; CJB; DSB; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 170 x 19. Weight in Grams: 572.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Vs Verlag Fur Sozialwissenschaften United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9783531050973
ISBN
9783531050973
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 81.77

paperback. Features the play "Robbers" that presents a passionate consideration of liberty, fraternity and deep betrayal; and "Wallenstein" that explores a flawed general's struggle to bring the Thirty Years War to an end against the will of his Emperor. Translator(s): Lamport, F.J. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Penguin Books
Condition
New
SKU
9780140443684
ISBN
9780140443684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. Schiller's masterpiece of power and politics in a new version by Mike Poulton (Morte D'Arthur, Don Carlos) explores the battle between honour and corruption, between truth and betrayal. This new version debuted at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in 2011. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 143 x 7. Weight in Grams: 102.
Publisher
Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848421479
ISBN
9781848421479
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.35

mass_market. Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional notions of morality to celebrate the individual's 'will to power'. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 113 x 7. Weight in Grams: 64.
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141036687
ISBN
9780141036687
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.06

Paperback. Presents an argument for the necessity for art in life. This book is based on the author's enthusiasms for Greek tragedy, for the philosophy of Schopenhauer and for the music of Wagner. It outlines a distinction between two central forces: the Apolline, representing beauty and order, and the Dionysiac, a primal or ecstatic reaction to the sublime. Editor(s): Tanner, Michael. Translator(s): Whiteside, Shaun. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 124.
Edition
Revised ed.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140433395
ISBN
9780140433395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.26

Paperback. Translator(s): Sieburth, Richard. Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DC; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780691014128
ISBN
9780691014128
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.43

Paperback. Friedrich Holderlin is recognized as one of Europe's supreme poets. Together the works collected here show Holderlin's use of Classical and Christian imagery and his exploration of cosmology and history in an attempt to find meaning in an uncertain world. Editor(s): Adler, Jeremy. Translator(s): Hamburger, Michael. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
Abridged Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140424164
ISBN
9780140424164
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.00

Paperback. One of Germany's greatest poets, Johann Christian Friedrich Holderlin (1770-1843) was also a prose writer of intense feeling, intelligence and perception. This title includes translation of selected letters and essays that traces the life and thoughts of this extraordinary writer. Editor(s): Adler, Jeremy. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: BJ; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140447088
ISBN
9780140447088
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

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