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  • SISTER-QUEENS IN THE HIGH HELLENISTIC PERIOD
    LLOYD LLEWELLYN-JONES / ALEX MCAULEY
    Sister-Queens in the High Hellenistic Period is a cutting-edge exploration of ancient queenship and the significance of family politics in the dysfunctional dynasties of the late Hellenistic world. This volume, the first full-length study of Kleopatra III and Kleopatra Thea and their careers as queens of Egypt and Syria, thoroughly examines the roles and ideology of royal daugh...

    $1,099.00

  • SUSTAINABLE URBAN TOURISM IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
    LLEWELLYN LEONARD / REGIS MUSAVENGANE / PIUS SIAKWAH
    This book investigates urban tourism development in Sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting the challenges and risks involved, but also showcasing the potential benefits.   Whilst much is written on Africa’s rural environments, little has been written about the tourism potential of the vast natural, cultural and historical resources in the continent’s urban areas. Yet these opportunit...

    $1,099.00

  • CHINA'S COURTS AND CONCUBINES
    BERNARD LLEWELLYN
    This book, first published in 1956, contains the stuff of other people’s memories. Thus you will read of magicians and immortals; of dragons and pills of eternal life; of generals and eunuchs; of emperors and poets; of palaces and concubines. The author has made nothing up; if there are liars along the route, they were there before he came along. The study of stories and ballad...

    $899.00

  • MANUFACTURING THE MATHEMATICAL CHILD
    ANNA LLEWELLYN
    Mathematics is a subject held in high esteem around the world, yet the teaching and learning of mathematics is rarely viewed as good enough and many find the subject difficult to comprehend, or engage with. In Manufacturing the Mathematical Child, Anna Llewellyn asks some difficult questions in order to determine why this is the case and to question who it is that we allow to s...

    $1,099.00

  • THE CULTURE OF ANIMALS IN ANTIQUITY
    SIAN LEWIS / LLOYD LLEWELLYN-JONES
    The Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and clearly presented ancient sources in translation, some well-known, others undoubtedly unfamiliar, but all central to a key area of study in ancient history: the part played by animals in the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. It brings new ideas to bear on the wealth of evidence – lit...

    $1,179.00

  • JURISPRUDENCE
    KARL LLEWELLYN
    Jurisprudence: Realism in Theory and Practice compiles many of Llewellyn's most important writings. For his time, the thirties through the fifties, Llewellyn offered fresh approaches to the study of law and society. Although these writings might not seem innovative today, because they have become widely applied in the contemporary world, they remain a testament to his. The idea...

    $1,439.00

  • DEFINING HINDUISM
    J. E. LLEWELLYN
    'Defining Hinduism' focuses on what Hinduism is, what it has been, and what some have argued it should be. The oldest of the world religions, Hinduism presents a complex pantheon and system of beliefs. Far from being unchanging, Hinduism has, like any faith of duration, evolved in response to changing cultural, political and ideological demands. The book brings together some of...

    $999.00

  • COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES WITH ADULTS
    JAYNE COMINS / FELICITY LLEWELLYN / JUDY OFFILER
    With more than 100 graded communication activities for individuals and groups, this practical book is an excellent resource for health professionals and activity providers. An extensively revised and updated form of the extremely popular "Activities Ideas", which was originally published in 1983, this book was originally compiled for use with people with dysphasia. This book is...

    $859.00

  • JOHN MOSCHOS' SPIRITUAL MEADOW
    BRENDA LLEWELLYN IHSSEN
    John Moschos' Spiritual Meadow is one of the most important sources for late sixth-early seventh century Palestinian, Syrian and Egyptian monasticism. This undisputedly invaluable collection of beneficial tales provides contemporary society with a fuller picture of an imperfect social history of this period: it is a rich source for understanding not only the piety of the monk b...

    $1,099.00

  • PERFORMANCE COACHING FOR COMPLEX PROJECTS
    TONY LLEWELLYN
    Performance Coaching for Complex Projects recognises a world of complex undertakings for which the common transactional mindsets and methodologies will not produce the required results. The author advocates, instead, the novel concept that the project manager or team leader should coach the team as part of their role. Managing complexity requires greater use of influence and l...

    $899.00

  • TRUST AND CONFIDENCE IN GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC SERVICES
    SUE LLEWELLYN
    Trust and confidence are topical issues. Pundits claim that citizens trust governments and public services increasingly less - identifying a powerful new erosion of confidence that, in the US, goes back at least to Watergate in the 1970s. Recently, media exposure in the UK about MP expenses has been extensive, and a court case ruled in favor of publishing expense claims and aga...

    $799.00

  • STEELS
    D. T. LLEWELLYN
    Steels: Metallurgy and Applications deals with the metallurgy and applications of steel and covers the broad spectrum of the mainstream commercial grades as well as the service or manufacturing requirements that govern their use. Standard specifications and some of the design considerations that provide satisfactory service performance are considered. Brief reference is also ma...

    $970.00

  • THE ROYAL NAVY AND THE MEDITERRANEAN CONVOYS
    LLEWELLYN-JONES, MALCOLM
    This book contains the Naval Staff History originally issued by the Admiralty in 1957 as a confidential book for use within the Royal Navy. It has since been declassified and is published here for the first time, along with an extended preface. This volume describes the dangerous convoy operations in the Mediterranean which were necessary to relieve the garrison and people of M...

    $1,339.00

  • THE ROYAL NAVY AND THE ARCTIC CONVOYS
    LLEWELLYN-JONES, MALCOLM
    Published here for the first time, this volume presents a superb range of insights into this crucial effort of the Second World War. This Naval Staff History describes the vital role of the Arctic Convoys, 1941-1945 and was first issued by the Historical Section of the Admiralty as a confidential study for use within the Royal Navy in 1954. It grew out of the earlier Battle Sum...

    $1,299.00

  • FINANCIAL REGULATION
    CHARLES GOODHART / PHILIPP HARTMANN / DAVID T. LLEWELLYN / LILIANA ROJAS-SUAREZ / STEVEN WEISBROD
    Financial Regulation presents an important restatement of the purposes and objectives of financial regulation. The authors provide details and data on the scale, nature and costs of regulatory problems around the world, and look at what sort of countries and sectors require special attention and policies. Key topics covered include: * the need to recast the form of regulation *...

    $1,599.00

  • THE HYPOCRITICAL IMAGINATION
    JOHN LLEWELLYN
    For philosophers such as Kant, the imagination is the starting point for all thought. For others, such as Wittgenstein, what is important is only how the word 'imagination' is used. In spite of the attention the imagination has received from major philosophers, remarkably little has been written about the radically different interpretations they have made of it. The HypoCritica...

    $1,039.00

  • CALENDARIO DE LOS DRAGONES 2024
    LLEWELLYN
    Temibles, fenomenales y a veces incluso fantasiosos, los dragones han cautivado a la humanidad durante milenios. Con el Calendario de los dragones 2024 de Llewellyn, podrás disfrutar de estas impresionantes criaturas durante todo el año y conectar con su energía en tu vida cotidiana. ...
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    $348.00

  • GRADUATE RESEARCH: A GUIDE FOR STUDENTS IN THE SCIENCES
    SMITH, ROBERT V. / DENSMORE, LLEWELLYN D. / LENER, EDWARD F.
    Graduate Research is an all-in-one resource for prospective and matriculated graduate students in the sciences. The newly revised edition includes updates to every chapter. Graduate Research covers a range of topics including writing and preparation of research proposals, developing and refining teaching skills, and ethics and compliance areas such as research involving human s...

    $664.00

  • REPRESENTING JUDITH IN EARLY MODERN FRENCH LITERATURE
    KATHLEEN M. LLEWELLYN
    Although attention to the Book of Judith and its heroine has grown in recent years, this is the first full-length study to focus on adaptations of the Bible’s Old Testament Book of Judith across a range of literary genres written in French during the early modern era. Author Kathleen Llewellyn bases her analysis on references to Judith in a number of early modern sermons as wel...

    $1,059.00

  • READING SPIRITUALITIES
    DAWN LLEWELLYN
    The phenomenon of 'sacred text' has undergone radical deconstruction in recent times, reflecting how religion has broken out of its traditional definitions and practices, and how current literary theories have influenced texts inside the religious domain and beyond. Reading Spiritualities presents both commentary and vivid examples of this evolution, engaging with a variety of ...

    $1,379.00

  • RULE BRITANNIA: NATIONALISM, IDENTITY AND THE MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES
    MATTHEW P. LLEWELLYN
    On 6 July 2005, the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2012 summer Olympic Games to the city of London, opening a new chapter in Great Britain’s rich Olympic history. Despite the prospect of hosting the summer Games for the third time since Pierre de Coubertin’s 1894 revival of the Olympic movement, the historical roots of British Olympism have received limited scholar...

    $1,299.00

  • ADSORPTION BY POWDERS AND POROUS SOLIDS: PRINCIPLES, METHODOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS
    ROUQUEROL, JEAN / ROUQUEROL, FRANÇOISE / LLEWELLYN, PHILIP / MAURIN, GUILLAUME / SING, KENNETH S.W.
    The declared objective of this book is to provide an introductory review of the various theoretical and practical aspects of adsorption by powders and porous solids with particular reference to materials of technological importance. The primary aim is to meet the needs of students and non-specialists who are new to surface science or who wish to use the advanced techniques now ...

    $1,640.00

  • GREEK AND ROMAN DRESS FROM A TO Z
    LLOYD LLEWELLYN-JONES / GLENYS DAVIES / LLOYD LLEWELLYN-JONES
    Who dressed as a woman in an attempt to commit adultery with Julius Caesar's wife? How did the ancient Greeks make blusher from seaweed? Just how does one wear a toga?If, as many claim, the importance of clothes lies in their detail, then this a book that no sartorially savvy Classicist should be without. Greek and Roman Dress from A to Z is an alphabetized compendium of styles...

    $1,299.00

  • CTESIAS' 'HISTORY OF PERSIA'
    LLOYD LLEWELLYN-JONES / JAMES ROBSON
    Towards the end of the fifth century BC Ctesias of Cnidus wrote his 23 book History of Persia. Ctesias is a remarkable figure: he lived and worked in the Persian court and, as a doctor, tended to the world’s most powerful kings and queens. His position gave him special insight into the workings of Persian court life and access to the gossip and scandal surrounding Persian histo...

    $999.00

  • CHARACTERIZATION OF POROUS SOLIDS VII
    PHILIP LLEWELLYN
    The 7th International Symposium on the Characterization of Porous Solids (COPS-VII) was held in the Congress Centre in Aix-en-Provence between the 25th-28th May 2005. The symposium covered recent results of fundamental and applied research on the characterization of porous solids. Papers relating to characterization methods such as gas adsorption and liquid porosimetry, X-ray t...

    $5,981.00

  • THE ROLE OF EYE MOVEMENTS IN PERCEPTUAL PROCESSES
    CHEKALUK, E. / LLEWELLYN, K.R.
    It has become a truism that the frozen optical diagram representation of vision is the worst possible picture of the way in which we visually interact with the environment. Even apart from our reaction to moving targets by pursuit movements, our visual behaviour can be said to be characterised by eye movements. We sample from our environment in a series of relatively brief fixa...

    $928.00

  • THEY WHO GIVE FROM EVIL
    BRENDA LLEWELLYN IHSSEN
    They Who Give from Evil: The Response of the Eastern Church to Moneylending in the Early Christian Era considers St. Basil the Great and St. Gregory of Nyssa's fourth-century sermons against usury. Both brothers were concerned with the economic and theological implications of destructive and corrosive practices of lending at high rates of interest and implications for both on t...

    $461.00

  • THE CLOTHED BODY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
    LIZA CLELAND / MARY HARLOW / LLOYD LLEWELLYN-JONES
    The recent renaissance of interest in the history of dress and its cultural importance is celebrated in this collection of interdisciplinary essays. The sixteen contributors present ongoing research into the study of the clothed body in ancient Egypt and the Aegean, Classical Greece, Rome and Late Antiquity. Through literary and artistic evidence and film, they discuss how dres...

    $383.69

  • GRANDES DESCUBRIMIENTOS SM SABER
    LLEWELLYN
    Agotado

    $219.00

  • AGENDA DE LAS BRUJAS 2024
    LLEWELLYN
    Un año más te traemos la agenda preferida de las brujas y paganos! Vendida año tras año desde 1998, todos los años se han vendido más de 60 000 ejemplares. Perfecta para las brujas y magos muy ajetreados. Ilustrada por la galardonada Jennifer Hewitson, incluye recetas, rituales, meditaciones, información astrológica. Ofrece información sobre las fases lunares y las festividades...
    Agotado

    $371.20


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