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Hardcover. The historian Polybius (ca 200-118 BCE) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. This title offers a translation of Polybius' work. Translator(s): Paton, W. R. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 2ADL; 3D; DB; DSBB; HBLA1; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 168 x 117 x 31. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
576
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996380
ISBN
9780674996380
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.45

Hardcover. The main part of Polybius' history covers the years 264--146 BCE, describing the rise of Rome, her destruction of Carthage, and her eventual domination of the Greek world. For this edition, W. R. Paton's excellent translation has been thoroughly revised, and explanatory notes and a new introduction added. Translator(s): Paton, W. R. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; DB; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
624
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996588
ISBN
9780674996588
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.19

Hardcover.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
512
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996373
ISBN
9780674996373
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.46

Hardcover. For this six-volume edition of The Histories, W. R. Paton's 1922 translation has been thoroughly revised, the Buttner-Wobst Greek text corrected, and explanatory notes and a new introduction added. All but the first five of forty volumes survive in an incomplete state. Volume VI includes fragments unattributed to particular books of The Histories. Translator(s): Paton, W. R. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 116 x 32. Weight in Grams: 450.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
640
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Sew Rev
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996618
ISBN
9780674996618
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.19

Paperback. Polybius' account of Rome's rise to world power and her method of rule is a major source for the history of the years 220-146 BC. This new translation includes Books 1-5 in their entirety and all of the fragmentary Books 6 and 12 on the Roman constitution and historiography. It is accompanied by an illuminating introduction and notes. Translator(s): Waterfield, Robin. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 560 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199534708
ISBN
9780199534708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.31

Hardcover.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
520
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996601
ISBN
9780674996601
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.18

Hardcover. Polybius' overall theme is how and why the Romans spread their power as they did. The main part of his history describes the rise of Rome, her destruction of Carthage, and her eventual domination of the Greek world. It is a vital achievement despite its incomplete state; all but the first five of its original forty books survive. Translator(s): Paton, W. R. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; DB; DSBB; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 116 x 33. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
640
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996595
ISBN
9780674996595
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.46

Paperback. Editor(s): Poole, Adrian. Series: Great Shakespeareans. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 14. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472518507
ISBN
9781472518507
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 38.69

Paperback. Introduces students to a wide range of modernist writers and critical debates in modernism studies Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334. Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature. 256 pages. Introduces students to a wide range of modernist writers and critical debates in modernism studies. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 15. Weight: 334.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748634323
ISBN
9780748634323
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.39

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 203 x 134 x 17. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811218931
ISBN
9780811218931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.82

Paperback. Combines Nayar s The Postcolonial Studies Dictionary and Postcolonial Studies: An Anthology within one student set offering uniquely broad coverage of terms, concepts, and debates within the field. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5; GBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 275 x 203 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1294.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781119120308
ISBN
9781119120308
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.62

Paperback. This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants. Series: Polity Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745662411
ISBN
9780745662411
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.38

Hardcover. This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants. Series: Polity Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745662404
ISBN
9780745662404
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.81

Paperback. This new Dictionary features a thoughtfully collated collection of over 150 jargon-free definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonial theory. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118781043
ISBN
9781118781043
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.33

Hardback. This new Dictionary features a thoughtfully collated collection of over 150 jargon-free definitions of key terms and concepts in postcolonial theory. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118781050
ISBN
9781118781050
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.54

hardcover. Exploring the fate of the ideal of the English gentleman once the empire he was meant to embody declined, Praseeda Gopinath argues that the stylisation of English masculinity became the central theme, focus, and conceit for many literary texts that represented the ""condition of Britain"" in the 1930s and the immediate postwar era. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
New
SKU
V9780813933818
ISBN
9780813933818
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.03

hardcover. Investigates how French Romanticism was shaped by and contributed to colonial discourses of race. This title studies the ways in which metropolitan Romantic novels comprehend and construct colonized peoples, fashion French identity in the context of colonialism, and record the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans. Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; DSK; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 164 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780415994675
ISBN
9780415994675
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 184.68

hardcover. This edition of E.J. Pratt's letters is the final volume in the Collected Works series. The letters take us into his "workshop," illuminating the research behind his distinctive documentary long poems and the social nature of his creative production. Editor(s): Popham, Elizabeth A.; Pitt, David G. Series: Collected Works of E.J.Pratt. Num Pages: 792 pages, 11. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; 3JJ; ACX; BJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1190.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
792
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442650237
ISBN
9781442650237
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 147.77

Paperback. The first reference work to provide an integrated and authoritative body of information about the political, cultural and economic contexts of postcolonial literatures that have their provenance in the major European Empires of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Latin America and the Philippines. Editor(s): Poddar, Prem; Patke, Rajeev S.; Jensen, Lars. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH5; DSRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 175 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1162.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
688
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748644827
ISBN
9780748644827
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.07

Paperback. What is the relationship between the British colonial project and English literature in India? In this historical study, Prem Poddar shows how colonisers and the nationalists who suceeded them tended to inhabit the same discursive space. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; DSBF; GTB; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Aarhus University Press Denmark
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772887678
ISBN
9788772887678
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.45

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