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Hardcover. The "Anabasis of Alexander" by Arrian (ca. 95 175 BCE) is the best extant account of Alexander the Great s adult life. A description of India and of Nearchus voyage thence, was to be a supplement. Translator(s): Robson, E.I. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 634 pages, 1col map. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 133 x 174 x 34. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Loeb
Number of pages
634
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1976
Edition
Revised Text and Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674992603
ISBN
9780674992603
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.62

Hardcover. Editor(s): Duncan, Dennis. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJG; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 178 x 18. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Atlas Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
y First printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781900565677
ISBN
9781900565677
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.83

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Notting Hill Editions United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
First Thus
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907903182
ISBN
9781907903182
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.18

Paperback. Editor(s): Partenie, Catalin. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages, 3 line drawings. BIC Classification: DB; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199552559
ISBN
9780199552559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.83

Paperback. Portrays the Russian people. This title presents a series of interlinked stories including "The Shot", in which a duel is revisited after many years, and the grotesque "The Undertaker". It also features "Roslavlev" and the "Egyptian Nights". Translator(s): Wilks, Ronald. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DQ; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 168.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140446753
ISBN
9780140446753
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.27

Hardcover. The finest essays of Nobel Prize winner Herta Muller, selected from twenty years of her fearless, intelligent, unsettling truth-telling in a life lived in opposition, courage, secrecy and uncertainty Translator(s): Mulligan, Geoffrey. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JPHX; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 199 x 18. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846274756
ISBN
9781846274756
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.47

Paperback. Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character, Bimala, is torn between the duties owed to her husband, Nikhil, and the demands made on her by the radical leader, Sandip. Editor(s): Radice, William. Translator(s): Tagore, Surendranath. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2BMB; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140449860
ISBN
9780140449860
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.80

Hardcover. Translator(s): Bury, R.G. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 644 pages, 3ill. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 168 x 120 x 33. Weight in Grams: 450.
Publisher
Loeb
Number of pages
644
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1929
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674992573
ISBN
9780674992573
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.71

Paperback. Series: Irish Narratives S. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BG; DNF; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 128 x 0. Weight in Grams: 120.
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
REPRINT
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859181812
ISBN
9781859181812
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.64

Paperback. Critics have compared Michaux's work to such diverse artists as Kafka, Goya, Swift, Klee and Beckett. This anthology contains selections from almost all of Michaux's major works, allowing readers to explore the haunting verbal and pictorial landscape of a 20th-century visionary. Translator(s): Ball, David. Num Pages: 270 pages, 30 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 178 x 26. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
270
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520212299
ISBN
9780520212299
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 39.66

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 134 x 4. Weight in Grams: 62. Series: Dover Thrift S. 64 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DNF; FC; FYB. Dimension: 208 x 134 x 4. Weight: 62.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486287591
ISBN
9780486287591
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.13

Hardcover. Nearly all the works Aristotle (384 322 BCE) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as practical; logical; physical; metaphysical; on art; other; fragments. Translator(s): Guthrie, W. K. C. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 415 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 169 x 114 x 23. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Loeb
Number of pages
415
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1939
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674993723
ISBN
9780674993723
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.71

Paperback. Presents the author's journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. This title offers a portrait of the glory of the African landscape and of the beauty of a wilderness that was, even then, being threatened by the incursions of man. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFG; 1KBB; 2AB; BG; DNF; WSX; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 156.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099460954
ISBN
9780099460954
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

paperback. "War Against Cliche" is a collection of essays. Num Pages: 528 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 133 x 33. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099422228
ISBN
9780099422228
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

Paperback. With a foreword by Neil Gaiman, this collection offers an insight behind the scenes of Discworld into a much loved and much missed figure. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 269.
Publisher
Corgi
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552167727
ISBN
9780552167727
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.88

Hardback. Required by custom to be "entirely passive" during the presidential campaign, Jefferson, at Monticello during the summer of 1800, refrains from answering attacks on his character, responds privately to Benjamin Rush's queries about religion, and learns of rumors of his own death. Editor(s): Oberg, Barbara B. Series: Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Num Pages: 712 pages, 8 halftones. 4 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DNF; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1142.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
712
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691124896
ISBN
9780691124896
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 168.01
€ 126.61

Paperback. With topics ranging from food to sex education, and from the experiences of British mothers who have adopted Chinese daughters, to whether Chinese people do Christmas shopping or have swimming pools, this book offers a Chinese woman's perspective on the connections and differences between the lives of British and Chinese people. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DNF; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 122 x 14. Weight in Grams: 166.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
First Editiion First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099501527
ISBN
9780099501527
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.77

Paperback. Telling Times collects together all of Nadine Gordimer's non-fiction in one volume that bears witness to her moral and political engagement in many of the most crucial issues of the last half-century. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 47. Weight in Grams: 540. Writing and Living, 1950-2008. 752 pages. Telling Times collects together all of Nadine Gordimer's non-fiction in one volume that bears witness to her moral and political engagement in many of the most crucial issues of the last half-century. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DNF. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 47. Weight: 526.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
752
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408800966
ISBN
9781408800966
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.09

Hardback. Thoreau's literary classic, an elegantly written record of his experiment in simple living, has engaged readers and thinkers for a century and a half. This edition of Walden is the first to set forth an authoritative text with generous annotations. Cramer has meticulously corrected errors and omissions of previous editions. Editor(s): Cramer, Jeffrey S. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6ill. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 202 x 35. Weight in Grams: 920.
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Annotated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300104660
ISBN
9780300104660
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.09

Paperback. Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life shed no light on the creative work. This volume of posthumously collected personal writings is the closest we may ever come to the autobiography of this most private of writers. Translator(s): McLaughlin, Martin. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 164 x 17. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141189758
ISBN
9780141189758
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.81

Hardcover. 8 masterly essays by great French thinker: "Of Friendship," "Of Books," "Of Cruelty," "Of Repentance," four more. Classic Charles Cotton translation. Translator(s): Atkinson, James B.; Sices, David. Num Pages: 410 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 572.
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
410
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781603845960
ISBN
9781603845960
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.99
€ 38.78

Paperback. "Discourses on Livy" is the founding document of modern republicanism and this English translation remains faithful to the original text. With explanatory notes, a glossary of key words and an annotated index, this version reveals Machiavelli's radical vision of a new science of politics. Translator(s): Mansfield, Harvey C. (William R. Kenan Jr Professor of Government, Harvard University, USA); Tarcov, Nathan (Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago, USA). Num Pages: 424 pages, notes, glossary, index. BIC Classification: DNF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 596.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
424
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226500362
ISBN
9780226500362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.07

Paperback. A title, in which the author argues that sex is at the heart of his writing because it is at the heart of life - a vital force as essential as bread, money, work or play. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 111 x 14. Weight in Grams: 66.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141399157
ISBN
9780141399157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 7.87

Paperback. Can civilization save us from ourselves? In this book, that is the question the author asks in a series of six letters written during dark nights of the soul. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: BJ; BM; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 10. Weight in Grams: 161.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910702369
ISBN
9781910702369
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.80

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