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Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: AC; DNF; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 249 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837635171
ISBN
9783837635171
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 104.35
€ 79.28

Hardback. Selections from Leopardi's prose masterwork, Zibaldone, one of the great intellectual diaries in European literature, expertly translated by Tim Parks Translator(s): Parks, Tim. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCD; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 199 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300186338
ISBN
9780300186338
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.75
€ 40.60

Paperback. Translator(s): Pinton, Giorgio A.; Shippee, Arthur W. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JD; 3JF; DNF; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801480874
ISBN
9780801480874
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.39

Paperback. This work is a concise collection of Lincoln's writings from his early years to his death, with emphasis on the presidential years. These selections convey Lincoln's basic ideas, the nature of his wartime leadership, and his personality and character. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 halftone frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 297.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195151015
ISBN
9780195151015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 77.31

Hardback. Num Pages: 381 pages, Illustrations, port. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 771.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
381
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231051040
ISBN
9780231051040
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.89
€ 99.33

Paperback. A collection of Gilbert White's letters to the explorer and naturalist Daines Barrington and the eminent zoologist Thomas Pennant - White's intellectual lifelines from his country-village home. This title presents an evocation of the lives of the flora and fauna of eighteenth-century England. Editor(s): Mabey, Richard. Num Pages: 320 pages, notes, maps, bibliography. BIC Classification: DNF; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1977
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140431124
ISBN
9780140431124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 8.96

Paperback. Num Pages: 101 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 7. Weight in Grams: 146.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Spinifex Press Australia
Number of pages
101
Condition
New
SKU
V9781875559053
ISBN
9781875559053
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben looks closely at the literature of the survivors of Auschwitz, probing the philosophical and ethical questions raised by their testimony. Translator(s): Heller-Roazen, Daniel. Num Pages: 176 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JJP; DNF; DSB; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Zone Books United States
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9781890951177
ISBN
9781890951177
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.16

Paperback. Translator(s): Causa-Steindler, Mariangela; Mauch, Thomas. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
2nd ed.
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226062761
ISBN
9780226062761
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 24.60

Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3226 x 4852 x 20. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Thieme Publishing Group Germany
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9783132411364
ISBN
9783132411364
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 43.75

Hardcover. Editor(s): Glancey, Jonathan. Num Pages: 48 pages, b/w line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DB; DNF; WGF; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 105 x 16. Weight in Grams: 204.
Publisher
Methuen Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
48
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780413776129
ISBN
9780413776129
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.35

Paperback. This collection of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century documents is designed for students of Chaucer and Middle English literature. It makes readily available accounts of key historical events and descriptions of pertinent cultural phenomena. Brings together in one volume fourteenth- and fifteenth-century historical and cultural texts. Editor(s): Goldie, Matthew Boyd. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631231486
ISBN
9780631231486
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.02

Paperback. A collection of essays taken from 40 years of the author's work. It is divided into three sections: State of the Art , which covers literature; State of the Union , which deals with politics and public life; and State of Being , which gives his personal responses to people and events. Num Pages: 1312 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DNF; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 65. Weight in Grams: 882.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349105246
ISBN
9780349105246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.43

Paperback. Contains nearly eighty essays, reviews and occasional pieces composed between novels, plays and travel books over four prolific decades. This title covers subjects ranging from Henry James and Somerset Maugham to Ho Chi Minh and Kim Philby. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099282679
ISBN
9780099282679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.20

Paperback. This is a translation of the first 20 distinctions of "The Decretum" or "Concordance of Discardant Canons", a compilation of extracts from Church councils, Church fathers and other ecclesiastical authorities, composed in the 12th century by Gratian, a Camaldolese monk. It offers a treatise on law. Translator(s): Thompson, Augustine; Gordley, James. Series: Studies in Mediaeval & Early Modern Canon Law. Num Pages: 157 pages, 1 col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; HBG; HBLC; HRCG; HRCX1; LAFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 178 x 5. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
The Catholic University of America Press United States
Number of pages
157
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813207865
ISBN
9780813207865
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.84

Hardcover. Greek mathematics from the sixth century BCE to the fourth century CE is represented by the work of, e.g., Pythagoras; Proclus; Thales; Democritus; Hippocrates of Chios; Theaetetus; Plato; Eudoxus of Cnidus; Aristotle; Euclid; Eratosthenes; Apollonius; Ptolemy; Heron of Alexandria; Diophantus; Pappus. Translator(s): Thomas, I. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 693 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 117 x 35. Weight in Grams: 472.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
693
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1941
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674993990
ISBN
9780674993990
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.13

Hardcover. Greek mathematics from the sixth century BCE to the fourth century CE is represented by the work of, e.g., Pythagoras; Proclus; Thales; Democritus; Hippocrates of Chios; Theaetetus; Plato; Eudoxus of Cnidus; Aristotle; Euclid; Eratosthenes; Apollonius; Ptolemy; Heron of Alexandria; Diophantus; Pappus. Translator(s): Thomas, I. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 521 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; PB; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 170 x 119 x 30. Weight in Grams: 402.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
521
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1939
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674993693
ISBN
9780674993693
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.57

Paperback. Written with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a life of addiction, from the epiphany of the first drag to the perennial last last cigarette. With comic insight and meticulous precision, Hens deconstructs every facet of the dependency and offers a brilliant disquisition on the psychopathology of addiction. Translator(s): Calleja, Jen. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DNF; VFL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 203 x 19. Weight in Grams: 224.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Condition
New
SKU
9781910695074
ISBN
9781910695074
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.73

Paperback. Argues that, since individuals are wholly formed by their environment, education is the crucial factor in transforming them. This work then adopts far more radical position, proposing nothing less than 'the emancipation of mankind' and the creation of a 'new moral world', and a full-scale reorganization of British society. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; JF; JPFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780140433487
ISBN
9780140433487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.12

Perfect Paperback. Num Pages: 107 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 141 x 8. Weight in Grams: 168.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Daimon Verlag Switzerland
Number of pages
107
Condition
New
SKU
V9783856306366
ISBN
9783856306366
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.05

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