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Paperback. Recounts the ancient war between Athens and Sparta in the translation by the seventeenth century British philosopher. Translator(s): Hobbes, T. Num Pages: 638 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; DNF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 131 x 35. Weight in Grams: 679.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 638
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Edition
- The Univ of Chicago Pr Edition, 1989
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226801063
- ISBN
- 9780226801063
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.09
€ 32.99
€ 26.09
Paperback. Thucydides' account of the war fought in the fifth century BC between the Athenian and Spartan alliances established a paradigm for the war monograph. The complete text appears here and supporting information is provided by the introduction and annotations. Editor(s): Blanco, Walter; Roberts, Jennifer Tolbert. Translator(s): Blanco, Walter. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 592 pages, 13 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DNF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 145 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 799
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393971675
- ISBN
- 9780393971675
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.71
€ 21.99
€ 19.71
Paperback. From Boccaccio and Machiavelli through to Moravia and Tabucchi, from the Stil Novo to Divisionism, across centuries of history and intellectual movements, these essays will give English readers, and lovers of the Bel Paese and its culture, the lay of the literary land of Italy. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADT; DNF; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. .
- Publisher
- Alma Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846883910
- ISBN
- 9781846883910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Includes D H Lawrence's fundamental belligerence, and how all the significant relationships in his life, including those with his readers and critics, were characterised by intense intimacy and ferocious conflict. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099513322
- ISBN
- 9780099513322
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
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€ 10.78
Hardback. This collection of essays offers a wide-ranging examination of the place of AIDS in gay activism, literature, film, news reporting and gay culture. The contributors stress the connection between language and moral responsibility. Editor(s): Murphy, Timothy F.; Poirier, Suzanne. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 352 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231078641
- ISBN
- 9780231078641
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.39€ 83.75
€ 109.39
€ 83.75
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 236 x 30. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857423337
- ISBN
- 9780857423337
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 22.75
€ 27.99
€ 22.75
Hardback. A newspaper columnist and an outstanding painter, Hennessey writes about the rapidly vanishing era when the woods held supreme. Num Pages: 1 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 264 x 17. Weight in Grams: 753.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 1
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780892724932
- ISBN
- 9780892724932
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.75
€ 26.75
paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781681370866
- ISBN
- 9781681370866
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.00€ 14.52
€ 19.00
€ 14.52
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Oldcastle Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781842431719
- ISBN
- 9781842431719
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.81
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€ 10.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781555974404
- ISBN
- 9781555974404
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.54
€ 16.99
€ 16.54
Paperback. The author's first collection of essays, Reappraisals, was centred on twentieth-century Europe in history and memory. In this book, his widow and fellow historian, gathers together important essays from the span of his career that chronicle both the evolution of his thought and the consistency of his passionate engagement and intellectual elan. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HBG; HBLW; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 201 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099593430
- ISBN
- 9780099593430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Paperback. Features the essays that chart some of the author's experiences or remembrances: his youthful love of a particular London bus route that evolves into a reflection on public civility and interwar urban planning; and memories of the 1968 student riots of Paris that meander through the divergent sex politics of Europe. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099555599
- ISBN
- 9780099555599
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.93
€ 15.99
€ 11.93
Hardcover. Num Pages: 80 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 270 x 220. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Thomas Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780911487008
- ISBN
- 9780911487008
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.53€ 57.31
€ 62.53
€ 57.31
Paperback. Fanny Trollope set sail for America with hopes of joining a Utopian community of emancipated slaves, taking with her three of her children and a young French artist, leaving behind her son Anthony, growing debts, and a husband going slowly mad from mercury poisoning. This book describes her misfortunes, and is a satirical account of a nation. Editor(s): Neville-Singleton, Pamela. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ACD; 3JF; 3JH; DNF; DSBF; WT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140435610
- ISBN
- 9780140435610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 18.94
€ 21.99
€ 18.94
Paperback. Contains twelve of author's celebrated short stories, together with "The Grass Harp" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's". This title also includes various sketches of places from Tangiers to Brooklyn, and insights into the lives of his contemporaries, from Jane Bowles and Cecil Beaton to Marilyn Monroe and Tennessee Williams. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 32. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 736
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141185309
- ISBN
- 9780141185309
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812978919
- ISBN
- 9780812978919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.86
€ 19.99
€ 14.86
paperback. This twelfth century masterpiece comprises 184 prose passages and 5,263 lines of verse to be narrated and sung by a performing singer-storyteller. It is an elaboration of the T'ang dynasty love story, The Story of Ying-ying, by Yuan Chen (779-831). Translator(s): Ch'en Li-li. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780231101196
- ISBN
- 9780231101196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.81
€ 46.99
€ 33.81
Hardback. This collection Mark Twain's writing aims to capture the essence of the author's work - the dark humour, the wry observations, and the keen insight into social and political realities, both specifically American and broadly human. Editor(s): Collins, Brian. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; CB; DNF; DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231104982
- ISBN
- 9780231104982
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.31
€ 50.31
Hardcover. The writings of the ancient warrior Sun Tzu have provided tremendous wisdom to generations through the ages. Now these philosophies are available with anecdotal extracts by the author of Shogun and Noble House. Translator(s): Griffith, Samuel B. Series: Galaxy Books. Num Pages: 216 pages, frontispiece, maps. BIC Classification: DNF; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 136 x 13. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press London
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195014761
- ISBN
- 9780195014761
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.04
€ 15.99
€ 13.04
Hardback. Translator(s): Poole, Janet. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231149440
- ISBN
- 9780231149440
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.64€ 80.25
€ 104.64
€ 80.25