Search Results: Authors starting with H from KALAMOS BOOKS

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966 Book. Very Good. Original Wraps. First Thus.. This is fasicule # 43 intended as parts of Volume I Chapter IX (c); Volume I, Chapter XXVI (b); Volume II, Chapter IV (c) Volume II Chapter XXII (b) of the Cambridge Ancient History series - Revised edition, Volumes I & II [78p. bibliographies] "In order to make .[the CAH] .available to readers as soon as possible it will be issued, in the first instance, as fasicles. With some exceptions [each] will contain one chapter, but the order of publication will not correspond to the sequence of the chapters . In the volumes of the complete editon the pages will be renumbered, and prefatory matter, maps, chronological tables and indexes will be included. The plates will be issued in a separate volume").

Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press, 2004 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Written and photographed by Michael Haag.Alexandria has had a checkered history since its foundation by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C. From its glorious days as the intellectual center of the Hellenistic and early Christian world, it declined into a near-forgotten backwater with a population of only a few thousand at the time of the French invasion of 1798. Renewed prosperity and commercial growth came in the nineteenth century under Muhammad'All. Today it is Egypt's second city and the favorite summer resort of millions of Egyptians. In this guide to one of the world's great cities, Michael Haag explores Alexandria's past and present in word and picture, from the ancient Pharos to the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina, from Anfushi to Montazah. He directs our curiosity not only toward the ancient monuments of the city and its fine Greco-Roman Museum and new National Museum, but also to the ambience of a… Read More

New York: Columbia University Press, 1959 Ex-Library. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st US Edition. A comprehensive discourse on literature in Greek from the early oral traditions through to the Roman period. 327p.bibiiography,index Library stamp on title page, rear end paper missing, mark on spine, else fine.

Bantam Books, 1982 Book. Fine. Soft cover. 5th or later Edition. Aeschylus,Aristophanes, Euripdes,Sophocles "In power, passion, and the brilliant display of moral conflict, the drama of ancient Greece remains unsurpassed. For this volume, Professor Hadas chose nine plays which display the diversity and grandeur of tragedy, and the critical and satiric genius of comedy, in outstanding translations of the past and present. His introduction explores the religious origins, modes of productions, structure, and conventions of the Greek theater, individual prefaces illuminate each play and clarify the author's place in the continuity of Greek drama" 387p. Crisp, clean, tight copy .

New York: Pocket Books., 1963 Book. Very Good. Pbk. Reprint. "A famous scholar in the humanities explains the need for and worth of a classical education in the modern world."137p (Vintage pbk).

ne: Columbia University Press, 1954 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st US Edition. " This modestly titled volume is divided into two parts. The first, and for general readers the most valuable, is concerned with the book trade" Part I covers the production, reception and distribution of books. Part II includes a collection of quotations, anecdotes and literary gossip about authors ranging from Homer to the Historians of the Roman Empire. XIV.397 p. bibliography. indexSlight shelf wear, else fine.

Indianapolis IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1953 Book. Illus. by Translated By Moses Hadas. Good>Very Good. Soft cover. Reprint. Three stories from Ancient Greek : Longus - Daphnis & Chloe ; Xenophon - An Ephesian Tale; Dio Chrysostom - The Hunters of Euboea, 143p. Tight copy, text complete but a student reading copy only with underlinings etc,.

Toronto: Worldwide Library, 1992 Book. Near Fine. Pbk. Computer hacker Becky Belski inadvertently stumbles into a computer network that links her to her past, offering evidence that her mother was actually innocent of the murder she had been convicted of twenty years earlier..

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000 Book. Very Good. Pbk. Reprint.. In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke, an illegal third child, has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm in this start to the Shadow Children series from Margaret Peterson Haddix. Luke has never been to school. He's never had a birthday party, or gone to a friend's house for an overnight. In fact, Luke has never had a friend. Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He's lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family's farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside. Then, one day Luke sees a girl's face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. Finally, he's met a shadow child like himself. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows -- does Luke dare to… Read More

London: Michael Joseph, 1983 Book. As New. Laminated Hardcover. 1st UK Edition. A small gift book celebrating old fashioned Christmases, containing traditonal Poems and Carols delightfully illustrated with reproductions of Victorian Christmas cards. 48p..

Oslo: J.W. Cappelens FORLAG, 1961 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Illustrations of Norwegian arts & crafts from Preshistoric through to Viking and Medieval times.89p.illus [B & W].

Ottawa: Somali Resource & Heritage Centre, 2007 Book. Good>Very Good. Trade Paperback. 1sr Canadian Edition. 'Muliyooy saa see: the history of our country: the history, culture & sports of Somalia 214p, illus. maps. pages : illustrations, maps ..

Athens: Society for the Study of Greek History, 2001 Book. New. Soft cover. First English Language Edition. Zachos Hadjifotiou was born in 1923 in Athens. At the age of 17, when the Germans invaded Greece, he fled to the Middle East and fought in Africa at Tobruk and El Alamein, and in Italy with the Rimini Brigade. This is his personal account of his personal and military adventures. English translation by Terry Crosfield. 166p. + 11 leaves of plates.[7 copies found in WorldCat].

Athens: Kouros Gallery /Foundation for Hellenic Culture / Idryma Hellenikou Politismou, 1998 Book. New. Stapled Wraps. First Edition.. Exhibitin held at the Kouros Gallery November 18-December 30 1998 Includes essay Dimitri Hadzi: forty years of his work, by Curator Margaret Sheffield, in English and Greek.Sponsored by the Hellenic Foundation for Culture & Speros Basil Vryonis Center for the Study of Hellenism. 24p. illus [ 9 copies found in WorldCat].

Stockholm: Bokforlaget Max Ström, 2008 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Swedish Edition. Coffee table book with glorious full page colour photographs by Tore Hagman and equally entertaining text by Kristian Edel describing not just the delightful places but the people associated with them. English translation by Katarina Trodden. 304p. plates, maps on end papers. NOTE: a VERY heavy [2.5 kg] large format [32x24x4cm] volume..

Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1907 Ex-Library. Very Good. Hardcover. 3rd Edition. Third UK edition , revised and in part re-written by A.W. Pickard-Cambridge. 396p. illus plates index. Original printing, NOT a facsimile copy, tight text block. Embossed library stamp on title page, Some slight wear to the head and foot of spine. .

New York: Nohra Haime Gallery Editions, 1994 Book. As New. Laminated HC. 1st US Ed... Small guide to the work of the modern Greek sculptor Sofia Vari. 06p. Illus (col) bibliography.Illustrated endpapers.

New York: Bramhall House / Clarkson Potter, 1974 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. Collection of "fifty years of occasional articles, newspaper cuttings, letters, memoirs, anecdotes, pictures, photographs, and drawings related to the great detective.'' 128p. illus. decorative end papers Neat tight copy.. Dj now in protective sleeve NOTE :This is a heavy [800gr.] large format volume [30x24x2cm]a .

Toronto: Armenian National Committee of Canada, 2011 Book. Fine. Soft cover. 2nd.ed... "Anyone who has followed the Armenian national struggle to earn international recognition of the Genocide of Armenians is familiar with the Ankara propaganda machines boilerplate denials. Ms. Hajinians book, in addition to documenting the Genocide, lists thirteen of the most notorious distortions deployed by the Turkish side and then proceeds to demolish them, exposing them as patent falsehoods. Thus the litany of Turkish propaganda spins such as 'historians dispute the veracity of the Genocide of Armenians" 'its up to historians to decide what happened' 'the UN didnt acknowledge the Armenian Genocide,"the Armenian Genocide was not state planned," "the Turkish archives are open; Armenian archives are not, "Armenian deaths were a result of communal violence" and "Armenians collaborated with Turkeys enemies" are dissected and tossed into the rubbish heap… Read More

Chicago: Moody Press, 1961 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint.. The author continued this beginner's guide to Biblical Greek with a companion volume "Let's Read Greek" (see in a separate listing) 189p. fold-out chart. Clean crisp text, slight damage to spine.