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Learned Banqueters, Volume I: Books 1–3.106e(2007) ATHENAEUSA series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work provides quotations from works now lost, and preserves information about wide range of information about Greek culture.Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Roman History, Volume I(2019) 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 € -
Histories, Volume II(2010) POLYBIUSIn his history, Polybius (ca. 200–118 BC) is centrally concerned with how and why Roman power spread. The main part of the work, a vital achievement despite the incomplete state in which all but the first five books of an original forty survive, describesVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Fragments(2008) ARISTOPHANESAristophanes has been admired since antiquity for his wit, fantasy, language, and satire. Over forty of his plays were read in antiquity, from which nearly a thousand fragments survive. These provide a fuller picture of the poet’s comic vitality and a weaVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Philippics 7–14(2010) CICEROWe know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman. Besides much else, his work conveys the turmoil of his time, and the part he played in a period that saw the rise and fall of Julius CaVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Learned Banqueters, Volume IV: Books 8–10.420e(2008) ATHENAEUSA series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature. The work provides quotations from works now lost, and preserves information about wide range of information about Greek culture.Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Histories, Volume I(2010) POLYBIUSIn his history, Polybius (ca. 200–118 BC) is centrally concerned with how and why Roman power spread. The main part of the work, a vital achievement despite the incomplete state in which all but the first five books of an original forty survive, describesVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Philippics 1–6(2010) CICEROWe know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman. Besides much else, his work conveys the turmoil of his time, and the part he played in a period that saw the rise and fall of Julius CaVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Fragments, Volume II(2009) EURIPIDESEuripides (ca. 485–406 BC) has been prized in every age for his emotional and intellectual drama. Eighteen of his ninety or so plays survive complete, including Medea, Hippolytus, and Bacchae, one of the great masterpieces of the tragic genre. Fragments oVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Letters to Friends, Volume I(2001) CICEROCicero’s letters to friends span the period from 62 BC, when his political career was at its peak, to 43 BC, when he was put to death by the victorious Triumvirs.Vezava: Trda44,47 € -
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury 1473-1541(2009) PIERCE, HAZELBorn in 1473, Margaret Pole was the daughter of George, and the only woman, apart from Anne Boleyn, to hold a peerage title in her own right during the sixteenth century. This work presents the life and culture of this propertied titled lady against the sVezava: Mehka41,57 € -
This Isn't Happening(2020) HYDEN, STEVENThe making and meaning of Radiohead's groundbreaking, controversial, epoch-defining album, Kid A.Vezava: Trda31,36 € -
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial(2022) COHEN, DEBORAH'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of SummerVezava: Trda41,58 € -
Art of Resistance(2021) ROSENBERG, JUSTUSA gripping memoir written by a 96-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor about his escape from Nazi-occupied Poland in the 1930's and his adventures with the French Resistance during World War IIVezava: Mehka14,02 € -
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial(2022) COHEN, DEBORAH'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer28,26 € -
Clementine Churchill(2003) SOAMES, MARYClementine, Lady Spencer-Churchill died in 1977, aged 92. In this updated biography, her daughter, Mary Soames, throws new light on her mother, her 57-year marriage to Winston, her strongly held political views and a life that spans many of the major evenVezava: Mehka36,45 € -
Notice to Quit(2015) CURTIS, L. PERRYThis richly illustrated pamphlet seeks to contextualize the mass evictions by focussing on the ideological and economic factors as well as the role of religious and racial prejudice in prompting owners to rid their estates of what was known as a "surplusVezava: Mehka15,37 € -
Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution(1988) LANDES, JOAN B.In this provocative interdisciplinary essay, Joan B. Landes examines the impact on women of the emergence of a new, bourgeois organization of public life in the eighteenth century. She focuses on France, contrasting the role and representation of...Vezava: Mehka48,10 €
