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Biography & True Stories, Classics and World Literature
Plutarch: Greek Lives (Oxford World's Classics)
Plutarch (translated by Robin Waterfield)Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander `I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time...
$15.99
Antiquarian & Collectibles, Biography & True Stories
The Last Zulu Warrior by David Clammer Limited Edition 957/1000 HC/DJ
David ClammerThis impressive volume was published to coincide with the centenary of the Zulu War in 1979. At the time it was not a commercial success and copies were being remaindered...
$350.00
Cultural Anthropology, History
The Sambia: Ritual and Gender in New Guinea By Gilbert Herdt
Gilbert HerdtThis cultural and psychological study of gender identity and sexual development in a New Guinea Highlands society includes initiation rites and socialisation studies, and contrasts the Sambia with other societies,...
$20.00
Fashion Design, History
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$14.50
The Collector's Guide to FANS by Susan Mayor HC/DJ
Susan MayorThe Author of this book has collected the best the best excuses of all time for every possible occasion. Humorous, wild , witty, deadpan, treacherous, and so- silly- as-to-be- believable....
Exploration, Travel, Adventure, History
With Scott to the Pole: The Terra Nova Expedition 1910-1913, Photographs Ponting HC/DJ
Elizabeth Cruwys, Hjp Arnold, Beau RiffenburghWith Scott to the Pole celebrates the achievements and heroism of Captain Scott and the members of the 1910-1913 expedition. It presents more than 400 duotone prints by the expedition's...
$25.00
History, House and Interior Design
Imagined Interiors: Domestic Interior since the Renaissance J.Aynsley & C Grant
Jeremy Aynsley & Charlotte GrantThis innovative book examines the changing ways in which the domestic interior has been represented in the West over the last five hundred years. Looking at a rich array of...
$49.95
Architecture, History
Gran Teatro La Fenice by Giandomenico Romanelli et al (Hardover/Dust Jacket)
Giandomenico Romanelli, Guiseppe Pugliese et alHow does one do justice to a building that is far more than its constituent materials, a building that is a vessel of myth, an embodiment of the dreams and...
$25.00
Automobiles and Transport, History
Days of Orkney Steam by Alastair and Anne Cormack HC/DJ *SCARCE*
Alastair and Anne Cormack Map of Orkney on end papers. With appendices, bibliography and index. An interesting and well-researched history of the steam-powered boats that had served the islands and communities of Orkney for...
$55.00
Cambridge, History
Libertas as a Political Idea at Rome during the Late Republic & Early Principate by CH. Wirszubski, Cambridge Classical Studies
CH. WirszubskiThis study describes the meaning of libertas as a political idea at Rome during the two hundred years or so between the Gracchi and Trajan, a period in which the...
$55.00
History, Indigenous Studies
Rednecks, Eggheads and Blackfellas by Gillian Cowlishaw (Paperback, 1999)
Gillian CowlishawA study of racial power and intimacy in Australia.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin, Australia
Year: 1999, First Edition, First Printing
Condition: Very good paperback with no annotations (please see photos)
$10.00
Fashion Design, History
Twentieth-Century Jewelry: Art Nouveau to Modern Design (Jewellery) Edited by Lodovica Rizzoli Eleuteri
Edited by Lodovica Rizzoli Eleuteri, Photographs by Annamaria MassinelliSpectacularly beautiful, this authoritative book presents jewelry designs of this century. With almost two hundred full-colour photographs specially commissioned for this book and archival pictures of pieces that have disappeared...
$29.95
History, Religion
Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence by Jonathan Sacks HC/DJ
Jonathan SacksDespite predictions of continuing secularisation, the twenty-first century has witnessed a surge of religious extremism and violence in the name of God. In this powerful and timely book, Jonathan Sacks...
$20.00
History, Shop
A History of Women in the West 1 From Ancient Goddesses to Christian saints by Georges Duby et al
Edited by Pauline Schmitt-Pantel, Georges Duby, Michelle PerrotIn the words of the general editors, A History of Women seeks to understand women's place in society, their condition, the roles they played and the powers they possessed, their...
$20.00
History, History > Ancient
The Celtic Empire: The First Millennium of Celtic History 1000 BC - 51 AD by Peter Berresford Ellis HC/DJ
Peter Berresford EllisWriting for the general reader, Peter Berresford Ellis provides a full survey of the rise of one of the greatest of Europe's ancient civilizations. He covers the first millennium of...
$25.00
Biography & True Stories, History
Zuni : Selected Writings of Frank Hamilton Cushing Edited & Introduction Jesse Green
Edited with an Introduction by Jesse Green"Frank Hamilton Cushing's stay at Zuñi pueblo from 1879 to 1884 made him the first professional anthropologist actually to live with his subjects. Learning the language and winning acceptance as...
$20.00
Art/Art HIstory, History
Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early Modern England by Juliet Fleming HC/DJ
Juliet FlemingTattoos and graffiti immediately bring to mind contemporary urban life and its inhabitants. But in fact, both practices date back much further than is generally thought--even by scholars. Drawing on...
$85.00
History, Shop
Books, Banks, Buttons : And Other Inventions from the Middle Ages by Chiara Frugoni HC/DJ
Chiara FrugoniOnce regarded by historians as a period of intellectual stagnation, the Middle Ages were actually a period of extraordinary technological innovation. This romp through the inventions of the period tells...
$15.00
Botany, History
Botanical Riches: Stories Of Botanical Exploration by Richard Aitken HC/DJ
Richard AitkenGardeners' Chronicle on botanical exploration, 1881- 'Of all the deadly occupations this is surely the most fatal.' Explorer Frank Kingdon Ward on his first sighting of the blue poppy in...
$35.00
Biology, History
Biology for Beginners by Wilson McCord Jr. (No. 77)
Wilson McCord Jr.Sex For Beginners is a beautifully illustrated, often humorous documentary comic book that examines human sexuality from the standpoints of history, social relations, and sexual politics.Diverse authorities such as Sade,...
$10.00
Biology, History
Sex for Beginners by Errol Selkirk, Illustrated by Naomi Rosenblatt (No. 34)
Errol Selkirk, Illustrated by Naomi RosenblattSex For Beginners is a beautifully illustrated, often humorous documentary comic book that examines human sexuality from the standpoints of history, social relations, and sexual politics.Diverse authorities such as Sade,...
$22.00
History, Humour
Existentialism for Beginners by David Cogswell, Illustrations Joe Lee
David Cogswell, Illustrations Joe Lee"Existentialism For Beginners" takes an affectionate, good-humoured look at a style of thinking that, while pervasive in influence, has often been seen as obscure, difficult, cryptic and dark. Publisher: Writers...
$20.00
History, Non-Fiction
The Black Holocaust for Beginners by S.E. Anderson, illustrated by The Cro-Maat Collective (ex-libris)
S.E. Anderson, illustrated by The Cro-Maat CollectiveThe Black Holocaust for Beginners answers a series of questions regarding all dimensions of the Black Holocaust - from its widespread and destructive effect on African cultures through to its...
$10.00
History, Non-Fiction
Black History for Beginners (No. 24), First edition by Denise Dennis, Illustrations Susan Willmarth
Denise Dennis, Illustrations Susan WillmarthCovering a rich but often ignored history, the author chronicles the black struggle from capture and enslavement in Africa right up to the Civil Rights movement and different kinds of...
$10.00
History, History > Medieval
The Birth of Europe 400-1500 by Jacques Le Goff
Jacques Le GoffIn this ground-breaking new study,Jacques Le Goff, arguably the leading medievalist of his generation, presents his view of the primacy of the Middle Ages in the development of European history....
$35.00
