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Empires & historical states
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Empires & historical states
Hardcover. This book provides an overview of the water technologies developed by a number of ancient civilizations, from those of Mesopotamia and the Indus valley to later societies such as the Mycenaeans, Minoans, Persians, and the ancient Egyptians. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDA; HDP; RNFD; TQSW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 642.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 2010th Edition
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048186310
- ISBN
- 9789048186310
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 228.56
€ 228.56
Paperback. Translator(s): Ungar, A.M. Series: Synthese Historical Library. Num Pages: 358 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 1978
- Number of pages
- 358
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048183494
- ISBN
- 9789048183494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 283.36
€ 283.36
Paperback. Editor(s): Christianidis, Jean. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 486 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 741.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Edition
- 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2004
- Number of pages
- 486
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048158508
- ISBN
- 9789048158508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 251.32
€ 251.32
Hardback. This accessible book contains a thorough review of recent research discoveries of scientific and technological knowledge contained in the Iliad and the Odyssey. The book has been well received in the original Greek version and is now available in English. Series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; DSBB; HBLA1; TBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048125135
- ISBN
- 9789048125135
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.36
€ 128.36
Hardcover. Series: Studies in Social History. Num Pages: 228 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 1QDAP; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 244 x 164 x 20. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 1981st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789024725762
- ISBN
- 9789024725762
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.41
€ 132.41
Paperback. Series: Opuscula Graecolatina S. Num Pages: 319 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 319
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772890586
- ISBN
- 9788772890586
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.42
€ 30.99
€ 22.42
Hardback. Editor(s): Prastacos, Gregory P.; Wang, Fuming; Soderquist, Klas Eric. Num Pages: 569 pages, 32 black & white illustrations, 10 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1QDAG; HPCA; HPD; KJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1057.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 569
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783642324444
- ISBN
- 9783642324444
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.73
€ 131.73
The Forgotten Revolution. How Science Was Born in 300BC and Why it Had...
Russo, Lucio (University Of Rome, Italy)
Hardback. What were the landmarks in the meteoric rise of science 2300 years ago? Why are they so little known today, even among scientists, classicists and historians? How do they relate to the post-1500 science that we are familiar with from school? This book discusses these questions. Translator(s): Levy, Silvio. Num Pages: 487 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1010.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
- Number of pages
- 487
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783540200680
- ISBN
- 9783540200680
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 186.71
€ 186.71
Hardback. Series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Num Pages: 156 pages, 13 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAM; HDD; PBB; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 409.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 156
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319225234
- ISBN
- 9783319225234
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Hardcover. Migration in the Southern Balkans Editor(s): Vermeulen, Hans; Baldwin-Edwards, Martin; Boeschoten, Riki van. Series: IMISCOE Research Series. Num Pages: 211 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, 8 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDT; JFFN; JFFS; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 243 x 17. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319137186
- ISBN
- 9783319137186
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.70
€ 72.70
Paperback. Editor(s): Cucina, Andrea. Series: SpringerBriefs in Archaeology. Num Pages: 172 pages, 27 black & white illustrations, 16 colour illustrations, 10 black & white tables, biograp. BIC Classification: 1QDAK; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 172
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319108575
- ISBN
- 9783319108575
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.62
€ 65.62
Hardcover. Series: Space and Society. Num Pages: 181 pages, 59 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HRKP4; PGZ; WNX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 160 x 17. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319072654
- ISBN
- 9783319072654
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.90
€ 127.90
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
€ 66.95
Paperback. Julius Caesar was the most famous Roman who ever lived. His influence endures to the present day: in our 'Julian' calendar of 365.25 days, which he introduced; in the geographical entity we call France, whose boundaries he established; and, thanks to his 'invasion' of 55 BCE. This book seeks to explore the many facets of his complex character. Series: Bristol Phoenix Press Greece and Rome Live. Num Pages: 140 pages, 1 frontispiece, 8 figures, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; BGH; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904675020
- ISBN
- 9781904675020
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.76
€ 23.99
€ 22.76
Hardcover. The Bioarchaeology of Space and Place Editor(s): Wrobel, Gabriel D. Num Pages: 303 pages, 34 black & white illustrations, 28 colour illustrations, 15 black & white tables, biograp. BIC Classification: 1QDAK; HDD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781493904785
- ISBN
- 9781493904785
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.63
€ 128.63
Paperback. 'The only true history of a country', wrote Thomas Macaulay, 'is to be found in its newspapers'. Media and the British Empire explores how the media shaped and defined the economic, social, political and cultural dynamics of the British Empire by viewing it from the perspective of the colonized as well as the colonizers. Editor(s): Kaul, Chandrika. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDB; HBAH; HBTQ; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137358318
- ISBN
- 9781137358318
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.13
€ 127.13
Hardcover. This collection of essays draws on fresh readings of classic texts as well as rigorous research in the archives of Europe's greatest imperial power. Its contributors paint a powerful picture of the nature and implementation of political economy in the long eighteenth century, from the East to the West Indies. Editor(s): Reinert, Sophus A.; Roge, Pernille. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDB; HBLH; HBTQ; KCP; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230644
- ISBN
- 9780230230644
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.78
€ 66.78
hardcover. This anthology gathers the great 20th-century myth-inspired poems from around the world, by the likes of Valery, Yeats, Lawrence, Rilke, Akhmatova, and Auden writing in the first half of the century to contemporary poets such as Lucille Clifton, Derek Walcott, Rita Dove and Wislawa Szymborska. Editor(s): Kossman, Nina. Num Pages: 320 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AB; DCQ; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 613.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780195133417
- ISBN
- 9780195133417
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 44.55
€ 44.55
hardcover. Comprised of eight books, Apollonius's Conics was one of the greatest works of advanced mathematics in antiquity. This volume provides the first complete English translation of Edmond Halley's reconstruction of Book VIII with supplementary notes on the text. Series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Num Pages: 144 pages, 1 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; PBM; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Springer United States
- Edition
- 2012th Edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461401452
- ISBN
- 9781461401452
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.78
€ 138.78
Paperback. Exploring the decisive steps taken by Anaximander of Miletus, this book details the transition from the archaic cosmological world-picture of a flat earth with a celestial vault to the Western world-picture of a free floating earth in an infinite universe. Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library. Num Pages: 296 pages, 5 black & white tables, 1 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; PDX; PGK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781461428404
- ISBN
- 9781461428404
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76