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Empires & historical states
Hardback. Series: Isthmia. Num Pages: 223 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HDDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 305 x 229. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- American School of Classical Studies at Athens United States
- Number of pages
- 223
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780876619346
- ISBN
- 9780876619346
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.73
€ 128.73
Hardcover. This dynamic collection of essays by international film scholars and classicists addresses the provocative representation of sexuality in the ancient world on screen. A critical reader on approaches used to examine sexuality in classical settings, contributors use case studies from films and television series spanning from the 1920s to the present. Editor(s): Cyrino, Monica S. Num Pages: 290 pages, 16 halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 3D; APFA; APFN; JFC; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 221 x 21. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2013 ed.
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137299598
- ISBN
- 9781137299598
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Paperback. Douglas Mack argues that non-elite, 'subaltern' Scottish writers actively challenged the elite's Imperial Grand Narrative and demonstrates that Scottish fiction was active and influential both in shaping and in subverting the assumptions that underpinned the Empire. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 1QDB; DSK; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748618149
- ISBN
- 9780748618149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.47
€ 38.99
€ 35.47
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBLA; JNB; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 303 x 13. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Pitchstone Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781634310901
- ISBN
- 9781634310901
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.66
€ 18.99
€ 17.66
Paperback. A unique edition of the sayings of Diogenes, whose biting wit and eccentricity inspired the anecdotes that express his Cynic philosophy. It includes the accounts of his immediate successors, such as Crates and Hipparchia, and the witty moral preacher Bion. The contrasting teachings of the Cyrenaics and the hedonistic Aristippos complete the volume. Translator(s): Hard, Robin. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HPCA; HPX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 15. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199589241
- ISBN
- 9780199589241
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. AD 72. Titus Flavius Vespasianus, known as Vespasian, is Emperor of Rome, but his grip on power grows increasingly fragile as economic disaster threatens. The enormous riches from his Judaean campaigns are all but spent, legions go unpaid, and the yields from Rome's vital Spanish goldfields have fallen dramatically since the civil war. Series: Gaius Valerius Verrens. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552172288
- ISBN
- 9780552172288
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. Uncovers deep connections between the strange nocturnal ritual, in which two virgin girls carried sacred offerings into a cave and later returned with something given to them there, and tribal puberty initiations by linking the festival with the myth of the daughters of Kekrops. Translator(s): Bing, Peter. Num Pages: 152 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HRKP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780226100432
- ISBN
- 9780226100432
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 27.05
€ 33.99
€ 27.05
Paperback. The Sasanians were the last of the ancient Persian dynasties, and the largest empire to espouse Zoroastrianism, before the encounter with the Arabs swept away the pre-Islamic institutions. In this clear and comprehensive book, Touraj Daryaee provides an unrivalled account of Sasanian Persia. Num Pages: 240 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAP; 3D; 3F; HBJF1; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780763781
- ISBN
- 9781780763781
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99
€ 36.99
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Imprint unknown
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780993537813
- ISBN
- 9780993537813
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.59
€ 6.59
Hardcover. The Histories of Sallust (86-35 BCE), while fragmentary, provide invaluable information about a crucial period of history from 78 to around 67 BCE. In this volume, John T. Ramsey has freshly edited the Histories and the two pseudo-Sallustian Letters to Caesar, completing the Loeb Classical Library edition of his works. Num Pages: 655 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 116 x 37. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674996861
- ISBN
- 9780674996861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.99
€ 33.99
€ 28.99
Paperback. Sir Ronald Syme became the first historian of the twentieth century to place Sallust - whom Tacitus called the most brilliant Roman historian - in his social, political, and literary context. This is a foreword of Syme that delivers biographical essays of Sir Ronald Syme in English. Series: Sather Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 433 pages, 1 b&w photograph. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 1QDH; 3D; HBAH; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 433
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520234796
- ISBN
- 9780520234796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 30.31
€ 41.99
€ 30.31
Hardback. Series: The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere. Num Pages: 463 pages, 24 color and 442 b 139 b&w illus., 3 b&w maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 1QDAK; 3D; HDD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 7112 x 5487 x 813. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 463
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781477308738
- ISBN
- 9781477308738
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.40
€ 82.40
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Anness Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Ill
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780193540
- ISBN
- 9781780193540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
Series: Journal of Jurisitic Papyrology Supplement. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 173 x 21. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Fundacja im. Rafala Taubenschlaga Poland
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788391825020
- ISBN
- 9788391825020
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.10
€ 69.10
Hardback. The first comprehensive attempt to reconstruct, on its own terms, the world of Athens outside the city walls during the classical fifth and fourth centuries B.C. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812237740
- ISBN
- 9780812237740
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.16
€ 82.16
Hardback. This book presents the results of the extensive excavation of a small, rural village from the period of emerging cities in upper Mesopotamia (modern northeast Syria) in the early to middle third millennium BC. Editor(s): Schwartz, Glenn M. Series: Monumenta Archaeologica. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAM; HDDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 43. Weight in Grams: 2336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781938770043
- ISBN
- 9781938770043
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.73
€ 110.73
Paperback. Explores the real every-day life of the Romans and the effort required to run a Roman household. This title features sections on how the Romans collected water and fuel, milled flour, produced thread, cleaned the house, illuminated it, did the washing up, cleaned their clothes, got rid of waste water and sewage, and threw out their rubbish. Num Pages: 160 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBLA1; HDDK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752465173
- ISBN
- 9780752465173
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.44
€ 30.99
€ 26.44
The British Empire used intelligence tests, laboratory studies, and psychoanalysis to measure and manage the minds of subjects in distant cultures. Challenging assumptions about the role of scientific knowledge in the exercise of power, Erik Linstrum shows that psychology did more to reveal the limits of imperial authority than to strengthen it. Num Pages: 286 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDB; HBTQ; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674088665
- ISBN
- 9780674088665
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 45.56
€ 53.99
€ 45.56
paperback. ' The Book that really held me, in fact, obsessed me, was Rubicon ..This is narrative history at its best. Bloody and labyrinthine political intrigue and struggle, brilliant oratory, amazing feats of conquest and cruelty.' Ian McEwan, Books of the Year, GUARDIAN Num Pages: 464 pages, Section: 24, b/w and col. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 32. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Edition
- New Ed
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349115634
- ISBN
- 9780349115634
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.51
€ 17.99
€ 13.51
Paperback. The aim of this book is to approach Ptolemaic and Imperial royal sculpture in Egypt dating between 300 BC and AD 220 from a contextual point of view. To collect together the statuary items that are identifiably royal and have a secure archaeological context, within Egypt. Series: Archaeopress Egyptology. Num Pages: 170 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black & white. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; HDDG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 212 x 298 x 19. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Publisher
- Archaeopress
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784911515
- ISBN
- 9781784911515
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 100.52
€ 100.52