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Hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DNF; KNTD; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 603.
Publisher
Harbour Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Signed copy
Condition
New
SKU
V9781550177787
ISBN
9781550177787
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 29.48

Paperback. Soren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher rediscovered in the twentieth century, is a major influence in contemporary philosophy, religion, and literature. He regarded Either/Or as the beginning of his authorship. These pseudonymous volumes of Either/Or are the writings of a young man and of Judge William. Editor(s): Hong, Howard V.; Hong, Edna H. Series: Kierkegaard's Writings. Num Pages: 728 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACSD; DNF; DSBF; HPCF3; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 44. Weight in Grams: 842.
Edition
n Later printing
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
728
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691020419
ISBN
9780691020419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.95

Hardcover. Offers information about the practice of medicine in antiquity and about Greek theories concerning the human body. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 416 pages, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DN; DSBB; HBLA1; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 119 x 168 x 24. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674996403
ISBN
9780674996403
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 32.96

Hardback. Series: History of Communication. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; DNJ; HBTB; JFD; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 262 x 20. Weight in Grams: 648.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252040269
ISBN
9780252040269
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.48

Paperback. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 499.
Publisher
Nightboat Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781937658380
ISBN
9781937658380
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.89

Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 284 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; 3JH; BGL; DNF; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691633572
ISBN
9780691633572
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.74

Paperback. Political science as a discipline is multifaceted and its role in society is complex. This collection of essays is based on an approach grounded in history and informed by a theory of participatory pluralism. The author reflects on the discipline's fragmentation and its retreat from public debate, Num Pages: 137 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 275 x 9. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Verlag Barbara Budrich
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9783847405061
ISBN
9783847405061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 25.84

Paperback. Editor(s): Congail, Nollaig Mac. Num Pages: 302 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGL; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 381.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Arlen House
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
9781851321490
ISBN
9781851321490
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 20.34

Paperback. A comprehensive volume of essays selected to enrich world history teaching and scholarship. It features forty-four articles that take stock of the history, evolving literature, and the trajectories of new world history. Editor(s): Dunn, Ross E.; Mitchell, Laura J.; Ward, Kerry. Series: California World History Library. Num Pages: 656 pages, 2 b/w images, 16 charts, 7 tables. BIC Classification: DNF; HBAH; HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 253 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1126.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
2nd ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520289895
ISBN
9780520289895
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 49.99
€ 36.45

Hardcover. Brings together Manetti's famous biographies of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, which helped establish the canon of Italian literature, as well as his parallel lives of Socrates and Seneca, which remained the standard biographical sources for those philosophers throughout the early modern period. Translator(s): Baldassarri, Stefano U.; Bagemihl, Rolf. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; BGH; DNF; DSBB; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
448
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674011342
ISBN
9780674011342
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.11

Hardcover. We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 43 BCE), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman. Besides much else, his work conveys the turmoil of his time, and the part he played in a period that saw the rise and fall of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. Translator(s): Greenwood, L.H.G. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 699 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 175 x 160 x 34. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
699
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1935
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674993235
ISBN
9780674993235
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.99

Flexibound. In the same format of the best-selling Leonardo's Notebooks, which has 320,000 copies in print worldwide,Michelangelo's Notebooks is an illustrated record of the artist's life and work. Num Pages: 368 pages, 200 drawings and illustrations in 2 and 4 colour. BIC Classification: ACND; AGB; DCF; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 211 x 30. Weight in Grams: 750.
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781579129798
ISBN
9781579129798
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.66

Paperback. Series: Interpretations. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DN; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 214.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Melbourne University Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780522844931
ISBN
9780522844931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.00

paperback. In "The Metamorphoses", Ovid draws on Greek mythology, Latin folklore, and tales from Babylon and the East to create a series of narrative poems, linked by the common theme of transformation. This is Arthur Golding's 16th-century translation of the verses. Editor(s): Forey, Madeleine. Translator(s): Golding, Arthur. Num Pages: 576 pages, chronology, bibliog , notes. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DNF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 43. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140422306
ISBN
9780140422306
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.94

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Natural Heritage Books Canada
Number of pages
84
Condition
New
SKU
V9781896219059
ISBN
9781896219059
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.99

Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DNJ; HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 146 x 36. Weight in Grams: 610.
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Universe Publishing United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780789331328
ISBN
9780789331328
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.67

This volume in the definitive edition of Thomas Traherne contains his best-known works, Centuries of Meditations and Select Meditations. Num Pages: 528 pages, 6, 6 black and white. BIC Classification: DCF; DN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 34. Weight in Grams: 928.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843843276
ISBN
9781843843276
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 140.24

Offers a historical guide through the metamorphoses and tumultuous debates that have defined literary study in recent decades, as viewed by one of critical theory's most astute thinkers. Editor(s): Gonzalez, Bill Johnson; Feuerstein, Melissa; Valens, Keja; Porten, Lili; Valens, Keja L. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 488 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 31. Weight in Grams: 785.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822354031
ISBN
9780822354031
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 129.31

Paperback. Just what was so great about Peter, Catherine, Frederick and Alexander? What did Cleopatra see to admire in the fat man with a beard, Mark Anthony? Why do people suffer from Montezuma's revenge? This title takes you on a journey through the annals of history with the heroes and villains of the past as your fellow travellers. Illustrator(s): Steig, William. Num Pages: 240 pages, 20 line drawings. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BGH; DNF; HBG; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 18. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750932042
ISBN
9780750932042
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.61

Paperback. Closer to Dylan Thomas than Matthew Arnold in his creative violence and insistence on the sound of poetry, the author was no staid, conventional Victorian. On entering the Jesuit order the age of twenty-four, he burnt all his poetry and 'resolved to write no more, as not belonging to my profession, unless by the wishes of my superiors'. Editor(s): Gardner, William Henry. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations, bibliog , index. BIC Classification: DCF; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 224.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1953
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140420159
ISBN
9780140420159
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

paperback. If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.' Henry Rollins has a unique hard- edged view of the world. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 133 x 38. Weight in Grams: 120.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Virgin Books
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
9780753510353
ISBN
9780753510353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.99

paperback. Set around the time of Iceland's conversion to Christianity, this saga follows a 50 year blood-feud. The narrative focuses on Njal Thorgeirsson who, along with his family, is burnt alive in his home. The saga exposes the cathatic power of vengance and inadequacy of the law. Editor(s): Cook, Robert. Translator(s): Cook, Robert. Num Pages: 432 pages, 4 maps, chronology, family trees, 5 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DNC; 2ACSC; 3F; DNF; FT; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
9780140447699
ISBN
9780140447699
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.29

hardcover. As Dr Sacks looked back over his long, adventurous life his final thoughts were of gratitude. In a series of remarkable, beautifully written and uplifting meditations, Dr Sacks reflects on and gives thanks for a life well lived, and expresses his thoughts on growing old, facing terminal cancer and reaching the end. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 182 x 11. Weight in Grams: 148.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Picador
Condition
New
SKU
9781509822805
ISBN
9781509822805
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.59

Paperback. Features fifty essays that focus on a period in which modernization and republicanism coexisted within classical Chinese culture. This work provides an introduction that supplies critical literary and historical background on the relationship between xiaopin wen and the May Fourth movement. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DNF; DSBH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The Chinese University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9789629964238
ISBN
9789629964238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.31

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