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Imposteress Rabbit Breeder(2020) HARVEY, KAREN (PROFESSOR OF CULTURAL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM)In September 1726, Mary Toft was found to have given birth to seventeen rabbits in Godalming, Surrey. The case caused a sensation and was reported widely in newspapers, popular pamphlets, poems and caricatures.Vezava: Trda32,23 € -
Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon(2015) DALLEY, STEPHANIE (HONORARY SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, HONORARY SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, SOMERVILLE COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)Where was the Hanging Garden of Babylon and what did it look like? Why did the ancient Greeks and Romans consider it to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World? Renowned Babylonian expert Stephanie Dalley delves into the legends filled with myth and mystVezava: Mehka25,22 € -
Modern Italy(2016) BULL, ANNA CENTO (PROFESSOR OF ITALIAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF BATH)This Very Short Introduction considers the history of Italy from the Risorgimento (the movement leading to Italian Unification in 1861) to the present. It also discusses Italy's political system and style of government; economic modernisation; emigration,Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Third Reich's Elite Schools(2021) ROCHE, HELEN (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN MODERN EUROPEAN CULTURAL HISTORY, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN MODERN EUROPEAN CULTURAL HISTORY, DURHAM UNIVERSITY)The Third Reich's Elite Schools tells the story of the Napolas, Nazi Germany's most prominent training academies for the future elite. This deeply researched study gives an in-depth account of everyday life at the schools, while also shedding fresh lightVezava: Trda188,64 € -
Hippocrates, Volume I(2022) HIPPOCRATESVolume I of the Loeb Hippocrates presents an exemplary selection of works by or attributed to the “Father of Medicine” that illustrate his fundamental contributions to the theory, philosophy, and practice of medicine. Included are Ancient Medicine; Airs,Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
History of Rome, Volume VIII(2021) LIVYLivy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC–AD 12 or 17), the great Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome’s rise from the traditional foundation of the city in 753 or 751 BC to 9 BC and illustrates the collective and individual virtues necessary to mainVezava: Trda50,39 € -
Roman History, Volume VI(2020) APPIANAppian (ca. AD 95–161) is a principal source for the history of the Roman Republic. His theme is the process by which Rome achieved her contemporary prosperity, and his method is to trace in individual books the story of each nation’s wars with Rome up thVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Orations, Volume II(2021) ARISTIDES THEODORUS, PUBLIUS AELIUSAelius Aristides (117–after 180), among the most versatile authors of the Second Sophistic and an important figure in the transmission of Hellenism, produced speeches and lectures, declamations on historical themes, polemical works, prose hymns, and essayVezava: Trda50,39 € -
On Temperaments. On Non-Uniform Distemperment. The Soul’s Traits Depend on Bodily Temperament(2021) GALENIn On Temperaments, Galen of Pergamum sets out his concept of the combination of the four elemental qualities (hot, cold, wet, and dry), which is fundamental to his account of the structure and function of human, animal, and plant bodies. Two related workVezava: Trda44,47 € -
History of Rome, Volume VII(2020) LIVYLivy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC–AD 12 or 17), the great Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome’s rise from the traditional foundation of the city in 753 or 751 BC to 9 BC and illustrates the collective and individual virtues necessary to mainVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Roman History, Volume IV(2020) APPIANAppian (ca. AD 95–161) is a principal source for the history of the Roman Republic. His theme is the process by which Rome achieved her contemporary prosperity, and his method is to trace in individual books the story of each nation’s wars with Rome up thVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Roman History, Volume V(2020) APPIANAppian (ca. AD 95–161) is a principal source for the history of the Roman Republic. His theme is the process by which Rome achieved her contemporary prosperity, and his method is to trace in individual books the story of each nation’s wars with Rome up thVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Menander Rhetor. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ars Rhetorica(2019) RHETOR, MENANDER,DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUSThe instructional treatises of Menander Rhetor and the Ars Rhetorica, deriving from the schools of rhetoric that flourished in the Greek East from the 2nd through 4th centuries AD, provide a window into the literary culture, educational practices, and socVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Posthomerica(2018) QUINTUS SMYRNAEUSQuintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, composed between the late second and mid-fourth centuries AD, boldly adapts Homeric diction and style to fill in the story of the Trojan expedition between the end of the Iliad and the beginning of the Odyssey. This editioVezava: Trda44,47 € -
History of Rome, Volume VI(2020) LIVYLivy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC–AD 12 or 17), the great Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome’s rise from the traditional foundation of the city in 753 or 751 BC to 9 BC and illustrates the collective and individual virtues necessary to mainVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume VI(2016)Volume VI of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the later Ionian and Athenian thinkers Anaxagoras, Archelaus, and Diogenes of Apollonia, along with chapters on early Greek medicine and the Derveni Papyrus.Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Wood Age(2022) ENNOS, ROLANDWhen our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world. ‘A stunning book on the incalculable debt humanity owes wood…’ John Carey, The Sunday TimesVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Wood Age(2021) ENNOS, ROLANDWhen our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world. ‘A stunning book on the incalculable debt humanity owes wood…’ John Carey, The Sunday TimesVezava: Trda33,27 € -
Europe Between the Wars(2006) KITCHEN, MARTINMartin Kitchen’s compelling account of Europe between the wars sets the twenty-year crisis within the context of the profound sense of cultural malaise shared by many philosophers and artists, the economic crises that plagued a Europe ruined by war and thVezava: Mehka97,99 € -
Victorian Fashions and Costumes from Harper's Bazar, 1867-1898(2000) BLUM, STELLADay costumes, evening wear, sports clothes, shoes, hats, other accessories in over 1,000 detailed engravings. Very thorough identification of styles, materials, colors by editor. "An endlessly entertaining book." — Theatre Design and Technology.Vezava: Mehka41,34 €
