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Empires & historical states

Paperback. An expert analysis of how many of our great Neolithic monuments influenced the landscape and communities that built up around them Num Pages: 192 pages, 70 illustrations, 40 in colour. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1QDA; HDDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Publisher
Fonthill Media
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781552995
ISBN
9781781552995
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.88

Paperback. Series: Who Was..? S. Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations, geneal. table, map. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; YNH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 199 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
Short Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904977117
ISBN
9781904977117
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.13

Paperback. In this rigorously researched biography Jurgen Malitz invites readers to reconsider the reputation of the Roman Emperor Nero. * Focuses on the growing tension between Nero's artistic tendencies and his role as emperor. * Steers readers through the diverse interpretations of Nero that have arisen through the ages. Series: Blackwell Ancient Lives. Num Pages: 192 pages, 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 215 x 12. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405121781
ISBN
9781405121781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.95

Paperback. Nero's personality and crimes have always intrigued historians and writers of fiction. This book offers a fascinating insight into the sensational life and troubled times of the Emperor Nero. Series: Roman Imperial Biographies. Num Pages: 332 pages, illustrations geneal. table, map. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; BGH; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415214643
ISBN
9780415214643
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 57.62

Hardcover. Johnson provides an historically rich examination of the intersection of early twentieth-century imperial culture, imperial politics, and imperial economics as reflected in the colonial built environment at New Delhi, a remarkably ambitious imperial capital built by the British between 1911 and 1931. Series: Britain and the World. Num Pages: 280 pages, 7 colour tables, 3 maps, 5 black & white halftones, 2 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1QDB; HBJD1; HBJF; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137469861
ISBN
9781137469861
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.12

Paperback. Giambattista Vico's "New Science" is gradually being re-established as one of the most significant "humanist" achievements since the Renaissance. This book represents his attempt to provide a comprehensive science of human society by decoding the history, mythology and law of the ancient world. Translator(s): Marsh, David. Num Pages: 560 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDA; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
3rd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140435696
ISBN
9780140435696
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Paperback. This book explores Persian architecture and mathematics, including domed structures and two-dimensional patterns, elaborate geometry and complex three-dimensional structures of historic monuments, from mathematical ideas to architectonic structures. Editor(s): Williams, Kim. Series: Nexus Network Journal. Num Pages: 213 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAP; AMC; PB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer Basel Switzerland
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
SKU
V9783034805063
ISBN
9783034805063
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Paperback. Series: Peabody Museum Collections Series. Num Pages: 128 pages, 70 illustrations, (46 colour ). BIC Classification: 1DVWYV; 1QDA; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 198 x 10. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780873654043
ISBN
9780873654043
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.85

Hardcover. Editor(s): Amden, Bettina; Flensted-Jensen, Pernille; Nielsen, Thomas Heine; Schwartz, Adam; Tortzen, Chr. Gorm. Num Pages: 328 pages, 6 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; 2ADL; 2AHA; 3D; DSB; HBJD; HBLA; HPCA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 174 x 27. Weight in Grams: 812.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9788772897783
ISBN
9788772897783
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 37.31

Paperback. Includes essays that intend to restore the social context of ancient Greek drama. This title considers how individual plays and groups of dramas pertained to the concerns of the body politic and how these issues were presented in the convention of the stage and as centerpieces of civic ceremonies. Editor(s): Winkler, John J.; Zeitlin, Froma I. Num Pages: 440 pages, 23 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; DSG; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 175 x 231 x 26. Weight in Grams: 616.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691015255
ISBN
9780691015255
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.29
€ 55.72

Paperback. Published in 1765, Giovanni Battista Piranesi's "Osservazioni" is an impassioned defence of the superiority of Roman architectural "invention" over the "beautiful and noble simplicity" of Ancient Greece. This is an English translation of Piranesi's three-part polemical work. Translator(s): Beamish, Caroline; Britt, David. Series: Texts & Documents. Num Pages: 168 pages, 43 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 3D; ACG; AM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 13. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780892366361
ISBN
9780892366361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.44

Paperback. .
Publisher
Orpington Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780993489037
ISBN
9780993489037
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.74

Hardcover. Revealing the narrative of Oedipus and the Sphinx to be the very paradigm of a key transition experienced by all of humankind, the author situates myth between the competing claims of science and art in an engagement that has important implications for the debates in literary studies, psychoanalytic theory, cultural history, and aesthetics. Translator(s): Smart, Duncan Alexander; Rice, David. Num Pages: 128 pages, 4 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HRKP3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226048086
ISBN
9780226048086
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 27.05

Paperback. A sensitive and original reading of Plato's Republic that foregrounds the power of myth in the shaping of history. Series: Studies in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 264 pages, 1 index. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HPCA; JFHF; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 14. Weight in Grams: 375.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253214850
ISBN
9780253214850
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. This volume gathers the textual, iconographic and palaeographic evidence and examines artefacts in order to revise the common view on the use of copper alloy tools and model tools in the Old Kingdom. Series: Archaeopress Egyptology. Num Pages: 310 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; HDDG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 207 x 290 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1106.
Publisher
Archaeopress
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784914424
ISBN
9781784914424
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 120.42

Hardback. This book aligns ancient and early modern European travel narratives and historical surveys of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and Russia with texts that contributed to English ideas about those regions: Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Love's Labour's Lost, Milton's Paradise Lost and Muscovia, and Dryden's Aureng-Zebe. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 2AB; 3J; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804743372
ISBN
9780804743372
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 77.06

Paperback. .
Publisher
Orpington Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780993537844
ISBN
9780993537844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 5.74

Paperback. A personal history and guide to the ritual site of Abydos, on the West bank of the Nile, which flourished from the Predynastic period until Christian times (c. 4000 BC to AD 641). The author moved to Egypt in 1933 and was involved in excavations with a number of Egyptian archaeologists. Series: SSEA Publication. Num Pages: 66 pages, Stapled booklet of 66p (Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Studies 3, Benben 19. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; HDDG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 276 x 216 x 4. Weight in Grams: 174.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
BenBen Enterprises Inc. Canada
Number of pages
66
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780920808092
ISBN
9780920808092
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.94

Hardback. In 1490/92 the Florentine Platonist Marsilio Ficino made new translations of two treatises he believed were the work of Dionysius the Areopagite, the disciple of St. Paul mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles. They are presented here in new critical editions accompanied by English translations, the first into any modern language. Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HRCC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 144 x 34. Weight in Grams: 636.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674743793
ISBN
9780674743793
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 34.17

Paperback. Translator(s): Newton, Benjamin Patrick. Series: Agora Editions. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; 3D; DSBB; HBLA1; HPCA; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 21. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501704529
ISBN
9781501704529
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.79

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