Crook J a Ed (3 results)

Condition: Poor. Volume 9. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen & pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1450grams, ISBN:0521256038.…

Large octavo (245 x 165 mm), publisher's illustrated hardcover, xii, 301 (+5) pp., a well preserved copy. [MnS - Mnemosyne Supplements; 231]. - ISBN: 9004124748. - Contents/Inhalt : Thinking about civil law -- Peculiar questions / David Johnston -- Diem diffindere : die Vertagung im Urteilstermin nach der lex Irnitana / Joseph Georg Wolf -- Consilium praesidis : advising governors / Paul Weaver -- Aspects of violent crime in the Roman Empire / Keith Hopwood -- Thinking like a Roman -- Mental maps : seeing like a Roman / C.R. Whittaker -- Aeneid 6.826-35 : Homer and Caesar's Gallic command / W.R. Barnes -- Dido's treasure at Tacitus Annals 16.1-3 / P. Murgatroyd -- Vicarious voices -- Direct democracy, ancient and modern / M.H. Hansen -- Advocacy, logography and Erôtêsis in Athenian lawcourts / S.C. Todd -- Herodotus and the Iranian tradition / J.S. Sheldon -- Philosophy, rhetoric and legal advocacy / R. Godfrey Tanner -- Law and life of Rome -- Pro and anti : the dignitas of the Senate in 88 BC / A.M. Stone -- Law is not mocked : straightening out a crooked will (Phaedrus 4.5) / John Henderson -- Pompeian tablets and some literary texts / Duncan Cloud -- New inscription from Carian Aphrodisias / Joyce Reynolds -- Roman law and the laws of the Medes and Persians : Decius' and Valerian's persecutions of Christianity / Paul McKechnie -- Express route to Hades / Beryl Rawson -- John Crook: bibliography / Paul McKechnie, Kathryn McKee and W.R. Barnes. 'Contributors' : p. [xi]-xii.; John Crook bibliography: (p. [289]-294).; Includes bibliographical references and index.; English, and one essay in German. ||| Crook, J. A. (John Anthony); Roman law; Rome History - Crook, J. A. (John Anthony); Römisches Recht; Rom Geschichte - [00B | SOD | oR ] 690 g.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. xii+831 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. light cover wear, small tear at top & bottom of spine. Contents: The necessity of scientific education in China to-day; The peoples of Kwangtung: Their origin, migrations, and present distribution; The manufacture of leather in Canton; On the palm and sole prints of Chinese; Manufactures weather; The study of botany in Fukien; A note on Gnetum scandens; The Magnoliaceae of Kwangtung, Macao, and Hong Kong; The botany of Kwangtung and its relation to agriculture; Differentiating fungi by precipitation with water-soluble specific substances; The number of vascular bundles in Ephedra sinica and E. equisetina; Grasses of Canton vicinity; A brief historical survey of the Lingnan University Herbarium; The local resident's opportunity for productive work in the biological sciences in China; Unrecorded plants from Kwangtung Province II; A review of the literature on the growth of Bamboo; Remarks on citrus and citrus relatives in China; The marine and freshwater algae of China; The collection of mosquitoes in south China; On two species of Sphaeridium from the oriental region (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae); Gall midges or gall gnats of the orient (Itonididae or Cecidomyiidae); The membracidae of China; A common moth and some of its enemies; The Brethnidae and Lycidae of China; Our present knowledge about the Pupipara of Tabanidae of China; A new species of stonefly from China (order Plecoptera, family Nemouridae); Biological notes on a Chrysomelid pest of bamboo; Termites, destroyers of wood and man's fight against them; Present status of our knowledge of the termites of China; Insect inhabitants of the fruiting sprays of the pagoda tree, Sophora japonica; Studies on the Chinese honey-bee; Some principles useful in solving economic biological problems; Study of Brachyplatus subaëneus Westw.; The nervous system of the white grub (the larva of Osmoderma socialis Horn) Part I. External characters of the nervous system; The nervous system of the white grub (the larva of Osmoderma socialis Horn) part II. Internal structure of the brain and ventral nerve cord; External morphology of the corn ear worm; The present status of knowledge bout Chinese Gryinidae; On the cricket locusts (Gryllacrids) of China; A list of the coprophagous Coleoptera of China; Notes on the life history of a wild silkworm; History of Rhynchocoris humeralis Thumb. (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae).…