wyszukanych pozycji: 11
The Hellenistic World
ISBN: 9780006861041 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With extensive use of quotations from original source material, this book examines the political events in the Hellenistic world from Alexander's death until his incorporation in the Roman Empire. It also describes the different social systems of the peoples under Greek rule, important developments in literature, science and technology and the founding of new religious movements. The author has assimilated all pertinent recent scholarship in the field, and fashioned an obsorbing account of a vast and complex society whose ideas and achievements for the bedrock of present-day Western...
With extensive use of quotations from original source material, this book examines the political events in the Hellenistic world from Alexander's deat...
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42,38 zł |
Active, Empowered and Independent?
ISBN: 9783639309454 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2010 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The population in the UK is ageing. As life expectancy continues to rise it is now estimated that pensioners will soon outnumber children. This book suggests that the Labour government have responded to this demographic change by reconceptualising ageing. This book explores the governments response to the ageing population. As older people are increasingly portrayed as active citizens with free choice and control this book examines the reasons behind this ideological shift. Using Critical Discourse Analysis the author closely examines the language used within Policy for older people. She asks...
The population in the UK is ageing. As life expectancy continues to rise it is now estimated that pensioners will soon outnumber children. This book s...
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225,87 zł |
Our Viands: Whence They Come and How They Are Cooked, with a Bundle of Old Recipes from Cookery Books of the Last Century
ISBN: 9781429012362 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Anne Buckland's 1893 work provides a cross-cultural history of food and cookery, as well as recipes from popular cookery books of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Anne Buckland's 1893 work provides a cross-cultural history of food and cookery, as well as recipes from popular cookery books of the 18th and 19th ce...
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88,86 zł |
Philip V of Macedon: The Hare Prize Essay 1939
ISBN: 9781107630604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Frank William Walbank (1909 2008) was a renowned ancient historian and classicist. In this book, which was formed from The Hare Prize Essay for 1939 and first published in 1940, Walbank presents a detailed discussion of the reign of Philip V of Macedon. The text was intended to break fresh ground 'with a study of Philip, not solely as a figure in the history of Roman imperialism, but, as far as is feasible, from the aspect of Macedon itself'. Illustrative figures, a comprehensive bibliography and appendices are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the...
Frank William Walbank (1909 2008) was a renowned ancient historian and classicist. In this book, which was formed from The Hare Prize Essay for 1939 a...
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297,78 zł |
The Hellenistic World: Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780674387263 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The vast empire that Alexander the Great left at his death in 323 BC has few parallels. For the next three hundred years the Greeks controlled a complex of monarchies and city-states that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to India. Walbank's lucid and authoritative history of that Hellenistic world examines political events, describes the different social systems and mores of the people under Greek rule, traces important developments in literature and science, and discusses the new religious movements.
The vast empire that Alexander the Great left at his death in 323 BC has few parallels. For the next three hundred years the Greeks controlled a compl...
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226,03 zł |
Polybius
ISBN: 9780520069817 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. As a young man, the historian Polybius was an active politician in the Achaean Confederacy of the second century B.C., and later, during his detention at Rome, became a close friend of some leading Roman families. His History is our most important source for the momentous half-century during which the Romans weathered the war with Hannibal and became masters of the Mediterranean world. F. W. Walbank describes the historical traditions within which Polybius wrote as well as his concept of history.
As a young man, the historian Polybius was an active politician in the Achaean Confederacy of the second century B.C., and later, during his detention...
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158,64 zł |
Polybius, Rome and the Hellenistic World: Essays and Reflections
ISBN: 9780521812085 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume contains nineteen important essays related to the Greek historian Polybius by Professor F.W. Walbank, the recognized authority on the subject. The essays deal with Polybius as a historian, with his views on Rome and with many historical topics for which he is the principal source. A substantial introduction provides a critical account of work done on Polybius during the last twenty-five years. The book will be of special importance to students of Republican Rome and the Hellenistic world and also to anyone interested in historiography.
This volume contains nineteen important essays related to the Greek historian Polybius by Professor F.W. Walbank, the recognized authority on the subj...
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523,27 zł |
Selected Papers: Studies in Greek and Roman History and Historiography
ISBN: 9780521136808 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume contains a selection of the more important and influential of Professor F. W. Walbank's occasional papers. Published over a period of fifty years, they cover a wide range of classical subjects. Three deal with the role of nationality in the Greco-Roman world and with the constitutional character of Greek federal states. Others are concerned with problems of third- and second-century Roman history. Eight papers treat the antecedents of so-called 'tragic history', speeches in ancient historians, and several aspects of Polybius' work. Finally, the selection includes Professor...
This volume contains a selection of the more important and influential of Professor F. W. Walbank's occasional papers. Published over a period of fift...
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282,64 zł |
Polybius, Rome and the Hellenistic World: Essays and Reflections
ISBN: 9780521034944 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume contains nineteen important essays related to the Greek historian Polybius by Professor F.W. Walbank, the recognized authority on the subject. The essays deal with Polybius as a historian, with his views on Rome and with many historical topics for which he is the principal source. A substantial introduction provides a critical account of work done on Polybius during the last twenty-five years. The book will be of special importance to students of Republican Rome and the Hellenistic world and also to anyone interested in historiography.
This volume contains nineteen important essays related to the Greek historian Polybius by Professor F.W. Walbank, the recognized authority on the subj...
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297,78 zł |
The Cambridge Ancient History
ISBN: 9780521234467 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 828 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume of the second edition of The Cambridge Ancient History traces the history of Rome from its origins to the eve of the Second Punic War. It begins with a survey of sources for early Roman history. An examination of the first discernible traces of the Bronze Age settlement is followed by an assessment of the regal period. The complex and often controversial history of the early republic is analyzed with reference to its internal development, the evolution of its relationships with the Latins, and its ruthless assaults upon various parts of Italy. Later sections discuss the...
This volume of the second edition of The Cambridge Ancient History traces the history of Rome from its origins to the eve of the Second Punic War. It ...
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1306,10 zł |
The Cambridge Ancient History
ISBN: 9780521234450 / Angielski / Twarda / 1984 / 655 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Published in 1928, Volume VII of the Cambridge Ancient History orginally covered both the history of the Hellenistic world from the battle of Ipsus in 301 BC down to the Peace of Naupactus and the battle of Raphia in 217 BC and the history of Rome from its foundation down to the same date. In the new edition the Greek and Roman sections have been assigned to two separate volumes. Of these, VII part I opens after the death of Alexander, in 323 BC, as being a more logical starting-point for Hellenistic history; but 217 has been retained as the terminal date since, as Polybius noted, it is from...
Published in 1928, Volume VII of the Cambridge Ancient History orginally covered both the history of the Hellenistic world from the battle of Ipsus in...
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1094,38 zł |