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Effect of Composted Municipal Waste on Infection of Citrus by Phytophthora Nicotianae and the Infection of Citrus Roots by Phytophthora Spp by Timothy Widmer 9780530002613
RRP: $168.00$148.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530002613Author Timothy WidmerFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Effect of Composted Municipal Waste on Infection of Citrus by Phytophthora Nicotianae and the Infection of Citrus Roots by Phytophthora Spp by Timothy Widmer 9780530002606
RRP: $111.30$97.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530002606Author Timothy WidmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay by John Wennersten 9780615182506
RRP: $31.50$28.27Eastern Branch Press is pleased to announce the new paperback edition of John R. Wennersten's The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay. In the decades following the Civil War, Chesapeake Bay became the scene of a life and death struggle to harvest the oyster,... -
Interpreting the Images of Greek Myths: An Introduction by Klaus Junker 9780521895828
RRP: $165.88$142.07From the age of Homer until late antiquity the culture of ancient Greece and Rome was permeated by images of Greek myths. Gods and heroes were represented as statues, on vase and wall paintings, on temples, on sarcophagi as well as in other media. This... -
The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman: Volume 3: 1915-1936 by F. R. D. Goodyear 9780521606950
RRP: $94.48$80.93A complete collection, in three volumes, of the classical articles and reviews of A. E. Housman. These papers were originally published between 1882 and 1936 in a variety of academic journals, many of which are now difficult to obtain. The editors have... -
The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman: Volume 1: 1882-1897 by F. R. D. Goodyear 9780521606943
RRP: $94.48$80.93A complete collection, in three volumes, of the classical articles and reviews of A. E. Housman. These papers were originally published between 1882 and 1936 in a variety of academic journals, many of which are now difficult to obtain. The editors have... -
The Reluctant Emperor: A Biography of John Cantacuzene, Byzantine Emperor and Monk, c.1295-1383 by Donald M. Nicol 9780521552561
RRP: $189.00$151.56John Cantacuzene reigned as Byzantine emperor in Constantinople from 1347 to 1354. A man of varied talents, as a scholar, soldier, statesman, theologian and monk, he was unique in being the only emperor to narrate the events of his own career. His... -
The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman: Volume 2: 1897-1914 by F. R. D. Goodyear 9780521606967
RRP: $107.08$91.18A complete collection, in three volumes, of the classical articles and reviews of A. E. Housman. These papers were originally published between 1882 and 1936 in a variety of academic journals, many of which are now difficult to obtain. The editors have... -
Ancient Greek Music: A New Technical History by Stefan Hagel 9780521517645
RRP: $252.00$204.04This book endeavours to pinpoint the relations between musical, and especially instrumental, practice and the evolving conceptions of pitch systems. It traces the development of ancient melodic notation from reconstructed origins, through various... -
The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180 by Paul Magdalino 9780521305716
RRP: $262.50$217.71The reign of Manuel I (1143-1180) marked the high point of the revival of the Byzantine empire under the Comnenian dynasty. It was, however, followed by a rapid decline, leading to the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204. This book, the... -
Pity and Power in Ancient Athens by Rachel Hall Sternberg 9780521285629
RRP: $90.28$76.00Ancient Athenians resemble modern Americans in their moral discomfort with empire. Athenians had power and used it ruthlessly, but the infliction of suffering did not mesh well with their civic self-image. Embracing the concepts of democracy and freedom,... -
Euclid in Greek: Volume 1 by Thomas L. Heath 9780521183475
RRP: $81.88$67.79Originally published in 1920, this volume contains book one of Euclid's Elements in Greek, together with an introduction and notes section written in English. It was created to provide young students with a contextual understanding of geometry and the... -
Lyric Metres of Greek Drama by A. M. Dale 9780521147569
RRP: $83.98$69.85Miss Dale writes for classical scholars and others interested in metric. An ear trained to stress-rhythm can apprehend rhythms based on quantity only with the greatest difficulty. Miss Dale's achievement lies first in instructing the reader's ear to... -
Individuals in Thucydides by H.D. Westlake 9780521147538
RRP: $83.98$69.85A study of the intellectual and moral qualities of twelve of the most important figures in Thucydides' History, six Athenian and six Spartan. Professor Westlake has a double purpose: he aims to extend our understanding of the motives and actions of the... -
The Medical Writings of Anonymus Londinensis by W. H. S. Jones 9780521170697
RRP: $83.98$69.85Originally published in 1947, this volume provides a dual-text English translation of the Anonymus Londinensis papyrus, an important document of Ancient Greek medical and philosophical ideas from the second century AD. The text also contains a generous... -
Select Documents of the Principates of the Flavian Emperors: Including the Year of Revolution A.D. 68-96 by M. McCrum 9780521168526
RRP: $79.78$65.75This volume was first published in 1966. Its authors, M. McCrum and A. G. Woodhead, were both fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Here, they have produced a thorough and far-reaching compilation of literature dating from the Flavian dynasty and... -
Statius and the Thebaid by David W. T. C. Vessey 9780521147514
RRP: $90.28$76.00A critical study of Statius' Thebaid, Dr Vessey combats the common notion that the Thebaid is simply an exercise in anachronism, an episodic narrative of the Theban saga. He shows that the poem can and indeed must be read as an elaborate and sustained... -
Confessio Amantis: Selections by J. Gower 9780521136747
RRP: $75.58$65.75In writing the Confessio Amantis, John Gower pioneered the use of English as a literary language. Commissioned by King Richard II, it is a compendium of stories held together by a frame narrative in which they serve as examples given to a lover by his... -
Backgrounds to Augustan Poetry: Gallus Elegy and Rome by David O. Ross 9780521136693
RRP: $79.78$65.75In the first century BC, Latin poetry underwent considerable changes - from the neoteric poetics of Catullus and his contemporaries, through the development of elegy, to the Roman themes that the Augustan poets finally adopted as their subject. Augustan... -
Statius' Thebaid and the Poetics of Civil War by Charles McNelis 9780521123617
RRP: $79.78$65.75This study focuses on ways in which Statius' epic Thebaid, a poem about the civil war between Oedipus' sons Eteocles and Polynices, reflects the theme of internal discord in its narrative strategies. At the same time that Statius reworks the Homeric and... -
Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions by Ra'anan S. Boustan 9780521121774
RRP: $90.28$76.00The idea of heaven held a special place in the late antique imagination, which was marked by a poignant sense of the relevance of otherworldly realities for earthly life. Such concerns can be found not only in Judaism and Christianity but also in the... -
Towards a Text of Cicero 'Ad Atticum' by D. R. Shackleton Bailey 9780521118774
RRP: $56.68$49.98Like Dr Shackleton Bailey's Propertiana, this book gives a series of difficult or corrupt passages with his discussion of the difficulty and suggestions for emendation. Dr Shackleton Bailey also prepared a text of Ad Atticum IX-XVI, which appeared in the... -
The Talking Greeks: Speech, Animals, and the Other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato by John Heath 9780521117784
RRP: $92.38$78.88When considering the question of what makes us human, the ancient Greeks provided numerous suggestions. This book argues that the defining criterion in the Hellenic world, however, was the most obvious one: speech. It explores how it was the capacity for... -
Theodore Spandounes: On the Origins of the Ottoman Emperors by Donald M. Nicol 9780521102629
RRP: $79.78$65.75Theodore Spandounes belonged to a Byzantine refugee family who had settled in Venice after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. He wrote an account of the origins of the Turkish rulers and of their phenomenal rise to power. It was partly a... -
Church and Society in Byzantium by Donald M. Nicol 9780521071673
RRP: $65.08$53.45The Byzantines lived in a theocratic society. They were less ready than their western contemporaries to draw the line between things spiritual and things temporal, between Church and state. This book explores some of the characteristics of that society... -
Greek and Roman Actors: Aspects of an Ancient Profession by Pat Easterling 9780521045506
RRP: $107.08$91.18This collection of twenty essays examines the art, profession and idea of the actor in Greek and Roman antiquity, and has been commissioned and arranged to cast as much interdisciplinary and transhistorical light as possible on these elusive but... -
Ovid Surveyed: An Abridgement for the General Reader of 'Ovid Recalled' by L. P. Wilkinson 9780521091763
RRP: $75.58$65.75Ovid was, despite his faults, what Macaulay called him, 'a good fellow'. But he was also a wit, the product of an age of refinement. More important, he was an artist with conscious mastery of a great range of literary artifice; his poetry has a studied... -
Plato's Progress by Gilbert Ryle 9780521099820
RRP: $83.98$69.85This is, as from the author of The Concept of Mind it could scarcely fail to be, a bold and rollicking book. It is also one of the most important works about Plato to have appeared since the first volume of Sir Karl Popper's The Open Society. Whereas The... -
Roman History from Coins: Some uses of the Imperial Coinage to the Historian by Michael Grant 9780521095495
RRP: $83.98$69.85In this 1968 study, Michael Grant examines the varied ways in which Rome used currency to inform direct or deceive public opinion and also considers results of this exploitation. Cunning historians can read in the coins matters of art politics, religion,... -
Thucydides and Internal War by Jonathan J. Price 9780521036634
RRP: $77.68$64.53In this 2001 book Jonathan Price attempts to demonstrate that Thucydides consciously viewed and presented the Peloponnesian War in terms of a condition of civil strife - stasis, in Greek. Thucydides defines stasis as a set of symptoms indicating an... -
Talkin' Union: Texas Women Workers by Richard Croxdale 9780359728220
RRP: $31.50$28.27Talkin' Union tells the groundbreaking history of Texas women pecan shellers and garment workers who organized for economic and social equality in the '30s. Researchers with People's History in Texas relied on first-hand oral histories and extensive... -
Coagulation of Calcium Oxalate Monohydrate Suspensions by James Adair 9780530007434
RRP: $168.00$148.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530007434Author James AdairFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 953g -
Coagulation of Calcium Oxalate Monohydrate Suspensions by James Adair 9780530007427
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JFK Benign Cover-up by Therlee Gipson 9780359111077
RRP: $33.96$30.30The ten-month investigation of the Warren Commission of 1963-1964 concluded that the President was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone and that Jack Ruby acted alone when he killed Oswald before he could stand Trial. 80 percent of Americans... -
PH Controlled Drug Release for Dental Applications by John Wironen 9780530002026
RRP: $111.30$97.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530002026Author John WironenFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 372g -
Biological Control Potential of Pasteuria Penetrans by Zhongxiao Chen 9780530002019
RRP: $168.00$148.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530002019Author Zhongxiao ChenFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Biological Control Potential of Pasteuria Penetrans by Zhongxiao Chen 9780530002002
RRP: $111.30$97.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530002002Author Zhongxiao ChenFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Castle: The Story of a Kentucky Prison by Bill Cunningham 9780998405131
RRP: $42.50$37.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998405131Author Bill CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Cunningham BooksPublisher Cunningham BooksWeight(grams) 349g -
The Tidings Brought to Mary by Paul Claudel 9780982356104
RRP: $25.10$18.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982356104Author Paul ClaudelFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Human Adventure BooksPublisher Human Adventure BooksWeight(grams) 251g -
The History of the Sacred Passion: new edition with enhanced text by Luis De La Palma 9780956452641
RRP: $31.50$23.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956452641Author Luis De La PalmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Graffiti MediaPublisher Graffiti MediaWeight(grams) 152g