(Hardback)
By: Professor Ahuvia Kahane
ISBN: 9780715636770
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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Shows how classical ideas and material helped to shape the modern world. This book rethinks the characterization of two contrastive forms of ancient literary tradition - epic and novel - and re-frames their function as dynamic points of reference in the history of ideas and in our understanding of the interface between antiquity and the modern.
(Hardback)
By: Michael Dewar
ISBN: 9780715634899
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2013
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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Examines the varied ways in which cultured Roman aristocrats, of very different periods, used their country estates as retreats in which to compose literature and to escape from politics, while others adapted that same tradition of otium ('cultured leisure') to present radical and competing visions of society and literature alike.
(Hardback)
By: Yasmin Haskell
ISBN: 9780715637234
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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Explores the intellectual and identity politics of Latin language use in the Enlightenment 'Republic of Letters' via the figure of Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens (1728-1801), a Dutch physician and Latin poet, disenchanted disciple of Voltaire, and lifelong devotee of Ovid.
(Paperback, New Edition - New edition)
By: Ferdinand Desaussure
ISBN: 9780715616703
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1995
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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(Hardback)
By: Elizabeth Marlowe
ISBN: 9780715640647
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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This book argues that the lack of information about the findspots for many works of Roman art has grave consequences for our understanding of the past.
(Paperback)
By: Jonathan Levi
ISBN: 9780715651735
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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A dazzling and moving novel that evokes Garcia Marquez and David Mitchell
(Hardback)
By: Richard Billows
ISBN: 9780715652817
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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(Hardback)
By: Juan Cruz Ruiz
ISBN: 9780715652220
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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The beautifully written history of a culturally vibrant destination
(Paperback)
By: Caren Cooper
ISBN: 9780715652336
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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Discover how this global phenomenon allows ordinary people to effect scientific advancement and conservation
(Hardback)
By: Frank Paul
ISBN: 9780715652077
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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The most challenging and amusing quiz youre going to do this year or perhaps ever. Fun, fiendish and fully illustrated
(Paperback)
By: Brian Garfield
ISBN: 9780715653074
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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(Paperback)
By: Marek Glezerman
ISBN: 9780715652244
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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The pioneering book which uncovers dangerous misconceptions about women and medicine
(Paperback)
By: George A. Romero
ISBN: 9780715652558
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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The terrifying tribute to 50 years of zombie lore by the masters of horror
(Paperback)
By: David Neiwert
ISBN: 9780715652213
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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A powerful tribute to orca whales - a majestic species under threat
(Hardback)
By: Hans Corneel de Roos
ISBN: 9780715651278
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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The first ever translation into English of a newly discovered Icelandic adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic gothic novel, Dracula.
(Paperback)
By: Jonathan Levi
ISBN: 9780715651964
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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A strange and magical picaresque romance by master storyteller Jonathan Levi
(Hardback)
By: John Broich
ISBN: 9780715652312
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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The fascinating true story of how four Royal Navy officers campaigned to end the slave trade in East Africa
(Hardback)
By: David Bergen
ISBN: 9780715652411
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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The gripping novel that reveals just how far a mother will go to reclaim her child, by award winning author David Bergen
(Paperback)
By: Tarn Richardson
ISBN: 9780715651728
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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The paperback of the thrilling continuation to The Damned - a gripping work of dark fiction
(Paperback)
By: Will Brownell
ISBN: 9780715652183
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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The gripping biography of the First World War General who inspired Hitler's rise to power
(Hardback)
By: Justin Peters
ISBN: 9780715651483
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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A smart, lively history of the Internet free culture movement and its larger effects on society - and the life and shocking suicide of child prodigy, Aaron Swartz, hacktivist and founding developer of Reddit, Creative Commons and Watchdog.net
(Paperback)
By: Nick Foster
ISBN: 9780715652169
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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The true story of a series of audacious killings by 'Wild Bill' Holbert (currently in prison and awaiting trial) that shook the shadowy ex-pat community in Panama
(Paperback)
By: Peter Stothard
ISBN: 9780715652251
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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The acclaimed memoir of the Thatcher era, by the former editor of The Times
(Paperback)
By: Lee Markham
ISBN: 9780715651766
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Duckworth Overlook
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A startling, intense debut by a talented new author - Trainspotting meets Let the Right One In
