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Cataclysm 90 BC: The Forgotten War That Almost Destroyed Rome
Author: Matyszak, Philip Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 We are accustomed to think of the late Republic as a period in which Rome enjoyed almost uninterrupted military success against...
Hitler's Revenge Weapons: The Final Blitz of London
Author: Nigel Walpole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 216 From September 1940 until May 1941, Britain - especially Greater London - suffered heavily under a barrage of day and night-time...
Alcibiades: Athenian Playboy, General and Traitor
Author: P J Rhodes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Alcibiades is one of the most famous (or infamous) characters of Classical Greece. A young Athenian aristocrat, he came to...
The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt
Author: 'Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 478 Patronage, power, and competition in the Sultan's court The Sword of Ambition opens a new window onto interreligious rivalry...
The Orphan of Zhao and Other Yuan Plays: The Earliest Known Versions
Author: Stephen H. West Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 408 This is the first anthology of Yuan-dynasty zaju (miscellaneous comedies) to introduce the genre to English-speaking readers exclusively through translations...
The Nixon Tapes: 1973
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Author: Professor Douglas Brinkley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 848 The blueprint for Nixon's downfall, based on tapes released from 2010 to 2013, most of which have never been published...
The Komnene Dynasty: Byzantium's Struggle for Survival 1057-1185
Author: John Carr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The 128-year dynasty of the Komneni (1057 to 1185) was the last great epoch of Byzantium, when the empire had to...
James Monroe
Author: Tim Mcgrath Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 The extraordinary life of James Monroe- soldier, senator, diplomat, and the last Founding Father to hold the presidency, a man who...
Casanova's Guide to Medicine: 18th Century Medical Practice
Author: Lisetta Lovett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Giacomo Casanova's (1725-1798) reputation as libertine has sadly eclipsed his talents as scholar, linguist, prolific writer and manque doctor. Fortunately for...
Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary
Author: John Clubbe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Beethoven imbibed Enlightenment and revolutionary ideas in his hometown of Bonn, where they were fervently discussed in cafes and at the...
Strategist in Exile
Author: Rainer Nickel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Thucydides was the chronicler of the almost 30-year long Peloponnesian war, which came to a close with Sparta's victory over Athens...
Rome, Blood and Politics: Reform, Murder and Popular Politics in the Late Republic
Author: Gareth C. Sampson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 286 The last century of the Roman Republic saw the consensus of the ruling elite shattered by a series of high-profile...
Kings and Kingship in the Hellenistic World 350 - 30 BC
Author: Dr. John D. Grainger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 262 Between c.350 BC and 30 BC the Mediterranean world was one in which kings ruled. The exceptions were the...
A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx
Author: Sven-Eric Liedman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 768 The globalised world of the twenty-first century has many parallels with that of the period running up to the cataclysm of...
Rebellion Against Henry III: The Disinherited Montfortians, 1265-1274
Author: David Pilling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The 'Montfortian' civil wars in England lasted from 1259-67, though the death of Simon de Montfort and so many of his...
The Joshua Generation: Israeli Occupation and the Bible
Author: Rachel Havrelock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 How a controversial biblical tale of conquest and genocide became a founding story of modern Israel No biblical text has been...
In Search of Our Ancient Ancestors
Author: Anthony Adolph Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 What a fine long pedigree you have given the human race. Charles Darwin to Charles Lyell, 1863. How is the Royal...
Brutus: Caesar's Assassin
Author: Dr. Kirsty Corrigan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Although Marcus Junius Brutus is one of the most famous, or infamous, conspirators of Rome and the ancient world, if...
The Bridge to Airpower: Logistics Support for Royal Flying Corps Operations on the Western Front, 1914-18
Author: Peter Dye Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In the latest addition to the History of Military Aviation series, Peter Dye describes how the development of the air weapon...
Napoleon's Shield and Guardian
Author: Edward Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 424 This outstanding biography is a story of courage. It charts the career of a superbly brave cavalryman against the rise and...
E.O. Hoppe: The German Work: 1925-1938
Author: Phillip Prodger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Between 1925 and 1938, photographer E.O. Hoppe traveled the length and breadth of Germany, recording people and places at one of...
Caesar'S Greatest Victory: The Battle of Alesia, Gaul 52 Bc
Author: John Sadler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An exciting, readable new account of the Alesia campaign, incorporating the latest research, to illuminate the tactics of both Caesar and...
Julia Velva, A Roman Lady from York: Her Life and Times Revealed
Author: Patrick Ottaway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The tombstone of Julia Velva, one of the best-preserved examples from Roman Britain, was found close to a Roman road just...
Grand Canal, Great River: The Travel Diary of a Twelfth-century Chinese Poet
Author: Philip Watson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In July 1170, a Chinese poet, politician and historian made a journey from west to east China. Lu You (pronounced 'loo...
Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing
Author: Laura J. Snyder (St. John's University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 On a summer day in 1674, in the small Dutch city of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek-a cloth...
Hannibal's Road: The Second Punic War in Italy 213-203 BC
Author: Mike Roberts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 262 Many books have been written on the Second Punic War and Hannibal in particular but few give much space to his...
Clan Fabius, Defenders of Rome: A History of the Republic's Most Illustrious Family
Author: McCall, Jeremiah Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The history of the Fabii Maximii is in many ways that of the Roman Republic. In the legends and historical scraps...
Kahlil Gibran: Beyond Borders
Author: Kahlil G. Gibran Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 A comprehensive illustrated biography of Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist, poet and author of the best-selling inspirational fiction The Prophet. Kahlil...
Screen of Kings: Royal Art and Power in Ming China
Author: Craig Clunas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 Screen of Kings is the first book in any language to examine the cultural role of the regional aristocracy - relatives...
Manichaeism (Sandpiper Books)
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Author: Samuel N.C. Lieu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Manichaeism was founded in Mesopotamia in the 3rd century by a Syro- Persian named Mani. The highly evangelistic Gnostic religion...
Madame Cezanne
Author: Dita Amory Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A new account of Cezanne's complex relationship with his wife, who served as the subject of some of his most iconic...
Maximinus Thrax
Author: Paul N. Pearson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 Maximinus was a half-barbarian strongman 'of frightening appearance and colossal size' who could smash stones with his bare hands and...
Frege: A Philosophical Biography
Author: Dale Jacquette Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 680 Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy, whose contributions to logic, philosophical semantics, philosophy of language,...
Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt
Author: Aude Semet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 180 A fresh look at the British Museum's celebrated and extensive ancient Egyptian collection from across three thousand years Pharaoh: King of...
Bernissart Dinosaurs and Early Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems
Author: Pascal Godefroit Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 648 In 1878, the first complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered in a coal mine in Bernissart, Belgium. Iguanodon, first described by Gideon...
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson (American Museum of Natural History) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 An exploration of the age-old complicity between skywatchers and warfighters, from the best-selling author of...
Truth or Dare: From the World Book Day 2022 author Sophie McKenzie
Author: Sophie McKenzie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 When lies are everywhere, how far will you go for the truth? A tense eco-drama with an explosive twist from the...
Ginny's Big Adventure
Author: Matt Carr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Ginny isn't like other guinea pigs. She's scruffy, messy and just a little bit WILD! But the guinea pigs at Pat's...
Stay Close To Mama
Author: Mike Wohnoutka Format: Board book Number of Pages: 30 In the wide, shining world there is so much to see, and Twiga is curious. But Twiga's tall, tall Mama...
The Goodbye Coast: A Philip Marlowe Novel
Author: Joe Ide Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A Philip Marlowe who wears our twenty-first century like a well-cut suit' IAN RANKIN 'A total gobsmacking original' JAMES PATTERSON 'A...
The Lost: A gripping new crime thriller series from the Sunday Times bestselling author of twists and suspense
Author: Simon Beckett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A MISSING CHILD Ten years ago, the disappearance of firearms police officer Jonah Colley's young son almost destroyed him. A GRUESOME...
Within These Wicked Walls: the must-read Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
Author: Lauren Blackwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A REESE WITHERSPOON YA BOOK CLUB PICK! INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Lauren Blackwood's can't-miss debut is a magical, Ethiopian-inspired remix...
Local All-Star Anthology 2023/Cinderella's Scandalous Secret/Captivated by Her Runaway Doc/Twin Scandals/Falling for the Secret Princess
Author: Melanie Milburne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 672 Cinderella's Scandalous Secret - Melanie Milburne Isla McBain's affair with Rafe Angeleri was meant to be temporary, a chance to explore...
Try Again, Tractor!: Double-Layer Lift Flaps for Double the Fun!
Author: Jennifer Eckford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 10 An interactive story featuring double-layer lift flaps. Here on the farm, Tractor, Combine, Baler, Teleporter and Plough have lots of work...
You Can Do It, Digger!: Double-Layer Lift Flaps for Double the Fun!
Author: Jennifer Eckford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 10 An interactive story featuring double-layer lift flaps. Here on the construction site, Bulldozer, Digger, Dump Truck, Concrete Mixer and Crane have...
The Power of Being Odd (The Odds, #3)
Author: Matt Stanton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Two worlds collide in this conclusion to The Odds trilogy Kip, Dad and the Odds have been taken to Kip's Imaginatorium...
The Last Lifeboat
Author: Hazel Gaynor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Heart-wrenching . . . a story that needs to be remembered' FERN BRITTON 'Enthrallingly told . . . it's extraordinary how...
Lifesaving for Beginners
Author: Josie Lloyd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Heart-warming and life-affirming, full of humour and compassion' ADELE PARKS, PLATINUM 'A beautifully warm-hearted tale of friendship and hope' MY WEEKLY...