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The Greek Gods and Their Worlds
Discover the Worlds of the Greek GodsFor centuries, the Greek gods have captivated the imagination of readers with their complex personalities and timeless myths. The Greek Gods and Their Worlds...
The Greek Gods and Their Worlds
Discover the Worlds of the Greek GodsFor centuries, the Greek gods have captivated the imagination of readers with their complex personalities and timeless myths. The Greek Gods and Their Worlds...
The Annals of Imperial Rome
Tacitus' Annals of Imperial Rome recount the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus up to the death of Nero in AD 68. With clarity...
Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
Based on the hit podcast with over 100 million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped...
A Dictionary of Ancient Egypt
From Aha, king of the 1st Dynasty at Memphis (2920 B.C.), to the vast complex of pleasure palaces at Zerukha this A-Z dictionary places more than 1,500 entries on the...
Spin to Survive: The Pharaoh's Curse: Decide Your Destiny with a
The year is 1160 BCE. Pharaoh Rameses is dead, his tomb and the treasures within safely hidden in the majestic Valley of the Kings. Or so you thought...The papyrus scroll...
Women in Ancient Greece (Paper)
To read the history of ancient Greece as it has been written for centuries is to enter a thoroughly male world. This book, a comprehensive history of women in the...
Discovery of Egypt
Using his extraordinary "Journeys in Upper and Lower Egypt", published in 1802, as the basis for a vivid and moving account of the discovery of ancient Egypt, the author tells...
Egypt and the Egyptians
The richness of more than 3000 years of Egyptian civilization comes alive in the pages of this book. From the geology of the land, the first cities, social structure, religion,...
The Mirror of Venus: Women in Roman Art
Though images of women were ubiquitous in the Roman world, these were seldom intended to be taken simply at face value. The importance of marriage, motherhood and political stability was...
Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids
Recreates the golden age of ancient Egypt. Here, for example, the pyramids and the sphinx are construction sites teeming with workers. Administrators bustle to fulfil their assignments from the Pharaoh's...
Cleopatra: From History to Legend
Fifty years before the birth of Christ, in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, there reigned a young queen renowned for her beauty, guile and charm: Cleopatra. Politically astute and talented,...
The Penguin Guide to Ancient Egypt
This work combines a guide with a cultural history. The first section, which provides a background to ancient Egypt, its institutions and its people, is fully cross-referenced to the sights...
Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh
Queen - or, as she would prefer to be remembered King - Hatchepsut was an astonishing woman. Brilliantly defying tradition she became the female embodiment of a male role, dressing...
Romans and Barbarians
The book titled Romans and Barbarians by the author Derek Williams. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Age of Alchemy: How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemistry
Conventional wisdom tells us that chemistry was 'invented' in the eighteenth century. In truth, it emerged gradually over the course of thousands of years, as scientific knowledge was discovered, collected,...
A Very Short History Of The World
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the first stirrings of life on a primordial Earth to the geopolitical complexities of the modern age,...
Selected Dialogues
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAt the foundation of Western philosophy lies a body of work so revolutionary that its echoes still reverberate...
Plutarch Selected Lives: From The Parallel Lives Of The Noble Grecians And Romans
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodOne of antiquity's most enduring and celebrated works, Plutarch Selected Lives presents a curated collection drawn from the...
Rhetoric And On Poetics
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Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodTwo of the most enduring and transformative works in the history of Western thought, Rhetoric and On Poetics presents...
The Aeneid Of Virgil
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodOne of the most towering achievements of Western literature, The Aeneid of Virgil chronicles the legendary journey of...
The End Of The Ancient World
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew questions in the sweep of Western civilization have provoked as much debate as the collapse of the Roman Empire, and Santo Mazzarino's The...
Unravelling Piltdown: The Science Fraud Of The Century And Its Solution
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn one of history's most audacious acts of scientific deception, a carefully constructed forgery fooled the world's leading...
The Rise And Fall Of The Dinosaurs: The Untold Story Of A Lost World
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageTwo hundred and fifty million years ago, the world as we know it was wiped clean — and...
Digging Up Jerusalem
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodBeneath the stones of one of the world's most contested cities lies a history stretching back millennia — and Dame Kathleen M. Kenyon, one...
Archaeology In The Holy Land
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew regions on Earth have yielded more secrets beneath their soil than the ancient landscapes of the Holy Land, and Dame Kathleen M. Kenyon...
The Soncino Chumash: The Five Books Of Moses With Haphtaroth
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the intersection of sacred scripture and scholarly commentary lies The Soncino Chumash, a monumental edition of the Five Books of Moses presented in...
The Civilization Of The Renaissance In Italy: An Essay
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFirst published in 1860, Jacob Burckhardt's The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy stands as one of the most monumental and enduring works of...
The Pre-History Of China: An Archaeological Exploration
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingLong before the dynasties of emperors and the chronicles of court historians, China's story was being written in...
The Age Of God-Kings: 3000-1500 Bc
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the dawn of recorded civilization, mighty rulers rose to claim divine authority over the ancient world — and The Age of God-Kings: 3000-1500 BC chronicles...
Barbarian Tides: 1500-600 Bc
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the turbulent centuries between 1500 and 600 BC, vast waves of nomadic warriors and displaced peoples crashed across Europe, the Near East, and the Mediterranean...
Out Of The Fiery Furnace: The Impact Of Metals On The History Of Mankind
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the first glowing ember of a prehistoric forge to the towering steel frameworks of the modern city, Out of the Fiery Furnace:...
Archosauria: A New Look At The Old Dinosaur
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerLong before mammals inherited the Earth, a dynasty of magnificent reptiles ruled every continent for over 160 million years —...
The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the
In AD 9, a Roman traitor led an army of barbarians who trapped and then slaughtered three entire Roman legions: 20,000 men, half the Roman army in Europe. If not...
Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization
Humanity's last major source of food from the wild, and how it enabled and shaped the growth of civilization In this history of fishing-not as sport but as sustenance-archaeologist and...
The Animals In The Bible: The Identity And Natural History Of All The Animals Mentioned In The Bible
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFor anyone who has ever wondered what creatures walked alongside the prophets or filled the skies above Jerusalem, The Animals...
The Diary Of Samuel Pepys: Volume Xi - Index
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markOne of the most intimate and revealing documents in the English language, The Diary of Samuel Pepys transports readers directly into the heart...
Primitive Art
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Edition: 3rd ed., revised and enlarged// Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionLong before the Western world developed the vocabulary to articulate it,...
The Sleepwalkers
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Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsWhat happens when the greatest scientific revolutions in human history are driven not by cold logic, but by mysticism, obsession,...
The Spanish Inquisition
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew institutions in Western history have cast as long and dark a shadow as the Spanish Inquisition —...
The Art And Architecture Of The Ancient Orient
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew civilisations have left behind a visual legacy as magnificent and enduring as those of the...
The Aeneid
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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the fall of Troy, one man is chosen by fate to carry the legacy of a dying civilization across storm-tossed seas and...
Patterns Of Change In Earth Evolution
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: name on fep, internally sound - clean and bright copy. In the spring of 1983,...
The Origins Of History
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the crossroads of faith, philosophy, and scholarship, The Origins of History presents Herbert Butterfield's sweeping meditation on how human beings first came to...
Empire
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew words in the political lexicon carry the weight, ambiguity, and grandeur of Empire — and...
The World The Romans Knew
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the height of its power, Rome stood at the centre of a vast, interconnected world stretching from the windswept shores of Britain to...
Faith, Reason And The Plague: A Tuscan Story Of The Seventeenth Century
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhen the plague swept through the Tuscan town of Monte Lupo in 1630, it ignited a fierce collision between the cold logic of public...
The Lure And Romance Of Alchemy
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodLong before the age of modern chemistry, a brotherhood of secretive scholars pursued the ultimate dream — to transmute base metals into gold and...