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Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Author: Margo Jefferson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female...
Military History of Late Rome 284 361
Author: Ilkka Syvanne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 This ambitious series gives the reader a comprehensive narrative of late Roman military history from 284-641. Each volume (5 are planned)...
A Naval History of the Peloponnesian War: Ships, Men and Money in the War at Sea, 431-404 BC
Author: Marc G. DeSantis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 261 Naval power played a vital role in the Peloponnesian War. The conflict pitted Athens against a powerful coalition including the...
The Victor's Crown: Greek and Roman Sport from Homer to Byzantium
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Portals, Pilgrimage, and Crusade in Western Tuscany
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The Sea Hunters: True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks
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Ghost Empire
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A Year in the Life of Ancient Egypt: The Real Lives of the People Who Lived There
Author: Dr Donald P. Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Spend a year in the company of the ancient Egyptians, during the twenty-sixth and final year of the reign...
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
Author: Tom Holland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed....
Lost City of the Incas
Author: Hiram Bingham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In 1911 Hiram Bingham, a pre-historian with a love of exotic destinations, set out to Peru in search of...
Himalaya: A Human History
Author: Ed Douglas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The first major history of the Himalaya - an epic story of peoples, cultures and the world's highest mountains...
A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice
Author: Jack Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In this compelling, powerful book, highly respected writer and commentator Jack Holland sets out to answer a daunting question:...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Author: Edward Gibbon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1232 Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent...
The Apocryphal Gospels
Author: Simon Gathercole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A new translation of the oldest non-canonical Christian gospels, including the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary and...
Egyptomania
Author: Emma Guiliani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 20 Find out all about Ancient Egypt in this beautifully illustrated and innovative Lift The Flap book. Learn what Ancient Egyptians wore,...
The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent
Author: Richard Wrangham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 It may not always seem so, but day-to-day interactions between individual humans are extraordinarily peaceful. That is not to say that...
The Pyramids of Giza: Facts, Legends and Mysteries
Author: Jean-Pierre Corteggiani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 The Pyramids of Giza are the only one of the Seven Wonders of the World that still stands today....
The Fourfold Remedy: Epicurus and the Art of Happiness
Author: John Sellars Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 Epicureanism offers the perfect cure for our anxious age. What can it teach us about the art of happiness? What do...
Meditations
Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 254 These spiritual reflections of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) show a leader trying to make sense of himself...
Meditations
Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Pocket Hardbacks - the new non-fiction series that combines the collectability of Clothbound Classics with the popular spirit of Great Ideas...
The Golden Ass
Author: Apuleius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 This bawdy novel from Ancient Rome is given new significance by renowned Australian philosopher Peter Singer. Peter Singer has breathed...
The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition
Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 Definitive, comprehensive and unparalleled - a fresh look for Graves's classic retelling of the Greek Myths Including many of...
Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Author: N. Sandars Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature...
The Story of Australia's People Vol. I: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia
Author: Geoffrey Blainey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Compelling, groundbreaking and brilliantly readable, The Story of Australia's People- The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia is the...
Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History
Author: Lewis Dartnell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the Earth's awesome impact on the shape of human civilisations Read the Sunday...
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 A joint biography that investigates how, during their lifetimes, Philip and Alexander of Macedon transformed a weak kingdom in northern Greece...
Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers
Author: Andrew Louth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant...
The Prose Edda
Author: Jesse Byock Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 First time in Penguin Classics for Scandinavia's best known work of literature and the principal source for knowledge about...
The Greeks are coming!
Author: Paul Mason Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 The terrible Ancient Greeks are coming! Invaders and Raiders: Greeks describes how the Ancient Greeks set up a mighty empire from...