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    Natural History(1991) PLINY THE ELDER
    A work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a view of the world as it was understood in the first century AD, whether describing the danger of diving for sponges
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    18,05 €
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    Guide to Greece(1979) PAUSANIAS
    Offering a study of buildings, traditions and myth, this title describes the glory of Greece shortly before its ultimate decline in the third century.
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    20,83 €
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    War with Hannibal(2004) LIVY
    Hannibal, one of the most compelling personalities of the ancient world, inflicted a tremendous defeat on the Romans at Cannae in 216 BC. This text looks at the figure
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    20,83 €
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    Modest Proposal and Other Writings(2009) SWIFT, JONATHAN
    Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin. He is considered the foremost prose satirist in the English language, which stemmed from his criticism of Britain's repressive colonial policies in Ireland. This book discusses Swift's life and turbulent time
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    15,27 €
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    Essays(1985) BACON, FRANCIS
    Discusses truth, death, revenge, adversity, envy, marriage, love, goodness, superstition, friendship, ambition, aging, beauty, gardens and honour.
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    18,05 €
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    Unto This Last and Other Writings(1985) RUSKIN, JOHN
    Shows the range and depth of Ruskin's work, and reveals the consistency of Ruskin's philosophy and his adamant belief that questions of economics, art and science could not be separated from questions of morality. This volume also shows that his work "Unt
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    19,44 €
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    Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings(1990) BYATT, A. S.,ELIOT, GEORGE
    Offers a general introduction to George Eliot's work as an essayist, translator and poet. Divided into four sections, the book includes book reviews, major long essays written for a magazine, shorter pieces containing many of her ideas and some later essa
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    20,83 €
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    Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House(1995) VIOLA, BILL (BILL VIOLA STUDIO)
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    30,64 €
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    Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist(2017) KINGSNORTH, PAUL
    With lyrical evocations of nature and the wild, this book features essays that have charted the change in Kingsnorth's thinking. It articulates a vision that he calls 'dark ecology,' which stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save
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    20,83 €
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    Ex Libris(2000) FADIMAN, ANNE
    The author is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of "Fanny Hill", and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice. This ti
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    15,27 €
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    Man and Nature: or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action(2021) MARSH, GEORGE
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    10,41 €
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    Known and Strange Things(2017) COLE, TEJU
    A collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief. It comes with pieces on politics, photography, travel, history and literature. It covers subjects as diverse as Virginia Woolf, W G Sebald, Instagram, Barack
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    20,83 €
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    Portable Machiavelli(1979) MACHIAVELLI, NICCOLO
    Features personal and professional works of Machiavelli. This book strives to do away with many of the myths that have plagued the man's posthumous fame.
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    18,05 €
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    Essays From The Hermit's Lodge(2022) KINTEH, ALI
    Essays From The Hermit's Lodge is a collection of irreverent writing, scribbled from the forlorn hand of author Ali Kinteh.
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    17,90 €
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    Nine Chains to the Moon(2020) FULLER, BUCKMINSTER
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    17,35 €
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    Complete Essays of Montaigne(1958) MONTAIGNE, MICHEL EYQUEM
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    59,37 €
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    On Murder(2009) DE QUINCEY, THOMAS
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    11,11 €
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    Life, Death, and Other Inconvenient Truths(2022) EDELMAN, SHIMON
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    27,78 €
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    Writing Home(2014) BENNETT, ALAN
    Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. as part of the 1960s revue 'Beyond the Fringe' Bennett helped to kick-start the English satire revolution, and has since remained one of our leading dram
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    23,61 €
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    Quarry(2016) HOWE, SUSAN (STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, BUFFALO)
    The Quarry presents new and pivotal Susan Howe prose pieces.
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    20,89 €

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