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Hardcover. From at least 1700 BC, and for several centuries thereafter, a city of substantial houses flanked the palace of Knossos in north-central Crete. Those immediately adjacent to it, like the Royal Villa or the South House, excavated by Sir Arthur Evans, are well known, as are the Little Palace and Unexplored Mansion to the north-west. Num Pages: 133 pages, half-tone plates 33; figures 23; tables 11. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HDDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 304 x 209 x 13. Weight in Grams: 914.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- British School at Athens
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780904887693
- ISBN
- 9780904887693
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.08
€ 148.08
Hardcover. The relationship between the people and the sea in the prehistoric Aegean. This title explores how people understood the sea as an integral part of their way of life and examines the role the sea played in the prehistoric societies of the archipelago. Editor(s): Vavouranakis, Giorgos. Num Pages: 288 pages, b/w photos & illus. BIC Classification: HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 276 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1336.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Aarhus University Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788779345713
- ISBN
- 9788779345713
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.60
€ 35.60
Paperback. Between Thucydides and Polybius focuses on the contribution of fourth-century authors such as Ephorus, Theopompus, and Xenophon to the development of Greek historiography. Essays examine the interface between historiography and rhetoric, while undermining the claim that historians after Thucydides allowed rhetoric to prevail over research. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBAH; HBLA1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 166 x 19. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Center for Hellenic Studies
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674428348
- ISBN
- 9780674428348
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 24.82
€ 27.99
€ 24.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 782 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 263 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund Inc.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865978898
- ISBN
- 9780865978898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.86
€ 24.99
€ 18.86
Hardcover. Much more than a mere compilation of pagan myths, Boccaccio's Genealogy of the Pagan Gods incorporates hundreds of excerpts from and comments on ancient poetry. It is both the most ambitious work of literary scholarship of the early Renaissance and a demonstration to contemporaries of the moral and cultural value of studying ancient poetry. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: HBLH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 20 x 13. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674975590
- ISBN
- 9780674975590
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.23
€ 40.99
€ 34.23
Paperback. This collection of biographies in Western literature is devoted to women. It affords a glimpse of a moment in history when mediaeval attitudes toward women were beginning to give way to more modern views of their potential. Translator(s): Brown, Virginia. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; BG; HBJD; HBLC; HBLH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674011304
- ISBN
- 9780674011304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.75
€ 40.99
€ 33.75
Hardback. Given the rise of terrorism and the persistence of extremism in both established and new democracies today, continued research and dialogue on the defense of democracy are necessary for its preservation. Num Pages: 352 pages, 3, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JPHV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801880384
- ISBN
- 9780801880384
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.32
€ 69.32
Paperback. Features a treatise on polite behavior. As relevant today as it was in Renaissance Italy, this title deals with subjects as varied as dress codes, charming conversation and off-color jokes, eating habits and hairstyles, and literary language. Num Pages: 144 pages, 4 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226212197
- ISBN
- 9780226212197
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.62
€ 16.99
€ 14.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 400 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; 3D; BGH; HBJH; HBLA1; HDDG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 285 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1414.
- Publisher
- Skira
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Spanish Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788857230788
- ISBN
- 9788857230788
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.86
€ 29.99
€ 25.86
Hardback. Giovanni Pontano, the dominant literary figure of quattrocento Naples, wrote two brilliantly original poetical cycles. On Married Love is the first sustained exploration of married love in first-person poetry. Eridanus combines familiar motifs of courtly love with an allusive matrix of classical elegy and Pontano's distinctive vision. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: DSC; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674728660
- ISBN
- 9780674728660
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.15
€ 40.99
€ 34.15
Hardback. Giovanni Pontano (1426--1503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was the most important Latin poet of the fifteenth century as well as a leading statesman who served as prime minister to the Aragonese kings of Naples. His Dialogues are our best source for the humanist academy of Naples which Pontano led for several decades. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBJD; HBLH; HPCB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674054912
- ISBN
- 9780674054912
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.08
€ 40.99
€ 34.08
Paperback. A revolutionary pragmatist account of creativity and synthetic reasoning that relies upon gesture, an action that carries on meaning. Num Pages: 206 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 227 x 17. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen´s University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780773546134
- ISBN
- 9780773546134
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 37.30
€ 41.99
€ 37.30
Hardcover. Giovanni Marrasio was esteemed in the Renaissance as the first to revive the ancient Latin elegy, and his Angelinetum, or "Angelina's Garden," and other poems explores that genre in all its variety, from love poetry, to a description of a court masque, to political panegyric, to poetic exchanges with famous humanists of the day. Translator(s): Chatfield, Mary P. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 235 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; HBLH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 133. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674545021
- ISBN
- 9780674545021
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 34.15
€ 40.99
€ 34.15
Pico Della Mirandola: Of Being and Unity (Medieval Philosophical Texts...
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
Paperback. Translator(s): Hamm, Victor M. Series: Medieval Philosophical Texts in Translat. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1943
- Publisher
- Marquette Univ Pr
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874622034
- ISBN
- 9780874622034
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.44
€ 14.44
Hardback. The Renaissance and the age of discovery introduced Europeans to exotic cultures, mores, manners, and ideas. That kitchen revolution led to the development of new utensils and table manners. Rebora discusses the availability of resources, how people kept from starving in the winter, how they farmed, how tastes developed, what the lower classes ate, and what the aristocracy enjoyed. Translator(s): Sonnenfeld, Albert. Series: Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. Num Pages: 224 pages, 52 illus. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; HBTB; JFC; WB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231121507
- ISBN
- 9780231121507
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.73
€ 46.99
€ 33.73
Hardback. British excavations at the important archaeological site of Qasr Ibrim have yielded numerous written sources composed in Greek, Coptic, Old Nubian, and Arabic. However, only a small number of them have been published so far, among them some sixty Old Nubian texts, both literary and documents. They were edited between 1988 and 1991 by Gerald Michael Num Pages: 350 pages, 70 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 167 x 26. Weight in Grams: 998.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The Journal of Juristic Papyrology Poland
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788393842513
- ISBN
- 9788393842513
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.39
€ 119.39
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- American Society of Papyrologists United States
- Number of pages
- 624
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780979975820
- ISBN
- 9780979975820
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.72
€ 89.72
Paperback. The field of psychiatry has long struggled with developing models of practice; most underemphasize the interpersonal aspects of clinical practice. This essay is unique in putting intersubjectivity front and centre. It is an attempt to provide a clinical method to re-establish the fragile dialogue of the soul with oneself and with others Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPM; JMP; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 163 x 246 x 21. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 228
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198792062
- ISBN
- 9780198792062
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 98.65
€ 98.65
Paperback. Dimension: 230 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442626584
- ISBN
- 9781442626584
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.82
€ 35.99
€ 32.82
paperback. Series: Dover Books on Mathematics. Num Pages: 304 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBT; PBMW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 314. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0033264
- ISBN
- 9780486458731
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.91
€ 5.91