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The Great Empires of the Ancient World
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Practical Handbook of Archaeology
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Trelawny's Cornwall: A Journey through Western Lands
'I can't think of a more enjoyable or more illuminating guide to Cornwall than Petroc Trelawny, who knows it intimately, loves it deeply, and shares it generously' - THE REVEREND...
The Hamlyn History of Archaeology
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Tragedy
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A Year in the Life of Ancient Greece: The Real Lives of the People Who Lived There
The year is 248 BC, the year of the 133rd Olympic Games. A diverse cast of characters is heading for Olympia to participate at the games, to watch the events,...
Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson
A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. Caesarism is alive and well. Yet in...
How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower
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The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History
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The Russian Soul: Selections from a Writer's Diary
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The Quest for Character: What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders
The author of How to Be a Stoic asks what might be philosophy's ultimate question: can we learn to be better people? Is good character something that can be taught?...
Death on the Tiber
Rome is in chaos. The empire of a mobster chief is falling apart following his death. Rivals, fearsome relatives and associates are taking up position to vie for the spoils....
King Tutankhamun: The Treasures of the Tomb
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The Naked Neanderthal
A Neanderthal hunter takes us on a riveting journey of discovery What if we have completely misunderstood who the Neanderthals truly were? For over a century we saw them as...
Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West
Why did Rome fall - and what can it teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist investigate Over the last three centuries,...
Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion
A major new reinterpretation of the religious superstate that defined both Europe and Christianity, by one of our foremost medieval historians In the fourth century AD, a new faith exploded...
Sound Tracks: Uncovering Our Musical Past
A History of the World in 100 Objects meets Sapiens- the first archaeological history of humanity's musical heritage, in fifty detective stories. Here is the history of humankind's relationship with...
The Aeneid
Virgil's masterpiece and one of the greatest works in all of literature, now in a beautiful clothbound edition Virgil's Aeneid, inspired by Homer and the inspiration for Dante and Milton,...
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium
Pocket Hardbacks - the new non-fiction series that combines the collectability of Clothbound Classics with the popular spirit of Great Ideas Seeing self-possession as the key to an existence lived...
The Odyssey
A stunning gift edition of the age-old tale of Odysseus and his journey. This epic poem by Homer, believed to have been written between the eighth and ninth centuries BC,...
The Children of Noah: Jewish Seafaring in Ancient Times
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Cities in Civilization
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Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and
'An absorbingly creepy travelogue through the corridors, tunnels and basements of our most famous cultural repository. With Noah Angell as our guide, the British Museum becomes a haunted prison filled...
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World: 'Monumental' - Daily
A SUNDAY TIMES AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR'Monumental and vividly imagined . . . a fitting tribute to a city that has survived, changed and grown for...
Brief Histories: Ancient Greece: Everything you wanted to know but
Journey back in time to explore one the most fascinating and influential periods of ancient history.In this concise and incredibly readable short history, Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts journeys from the...
A Letter to the Luminous Deep: the perfect cosy magical academia read!
'An underwater treasure-chest to be slowly unpacked, full of things I adore: nosy and loving families, epistolary romance, gorgeous worldbuilding, and anxious scholars doing their best to meet the world...
Atlas of the Greek World
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Author: Peter LeviBinding: HardbackPublished: Phaidon P., 1987Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsAtlas of the Greek World is a comprehensive guide that explores the rich history and...
Crossroads of Civilization: 3000 Years of Persian History
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Author: Clive IrvingBinding: HardbackPublished: BCA, London, 1979Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the rich and diverse history of Persia over three millennia, highlighting its influence...
The Etruscans
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Author: Werner KellerBinding: HardbackPublished: BCA, 1975Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book explores the rich history and culture of the Etruscans, an ancient civilization that thrived in...
Biblical Lands (The Making of the Past)
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Author: P R S MooreyBinding: HardbackPublished: Elsevier Phaidon, 1975Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book explores the archaeological and historical aspects of the lands mentioned in the...
Larousse Encyclopedia of Archeology
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Author: Gilbert Charles-PicardBinding: HardbackPublished: Crescent Books, 1987Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThe Larousse Encyclopedia of Archeology provides a comprehensive overview of archaeological discoveries and methodologies. Edited by...
Emperor of Rome: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller (SIGNED)
Cruel control freaks, diligent workaholics or extravagant teenagers? What were the emperors of Rome really like?In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now,...
Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars (SIGNED)
'Lets us see how power really worked, in public and private ... Stothard tells this story superbly'Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is...
Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome
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Augustus at War: The Struggle for the Pax Augusta
The words Pax Augusta - or Pax Romana - evoke a period of uninterrupted peace across the vast Roman Empire. Lindsay Powell exposes this as a fallacy. Almost every year...
Gladiators and Beasthunts
'Gladiators and Beasthunts' is a comprehensive survey of arena sports in ancient Rome, focusing upon gladiatorial combat and the beast-hunts (venationes). Whilst numerous books have already been written on arena...
Religion and Classical Warfare: Archaic and Classical Greece
Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Greeks were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice...
Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou: A Marriage of Unequals
He became king before his first birthday, inheriting a vast empire from his military hero father; she was the daughter of a king without power, who made an unexpected marriage...
The Lost Story of the Ocean Monarch
The ship was almost instantly in flames . . . Some jumped overboard immediately, and all was in indescribable confusion. The masts began to fall one after another, and it...
Past Crimes
Today, police forces all over the world use archaeological techniques to help them solve crimes and archaeologists are using the same methods to identify and investigate crimes in the past....
The Mysteries of Stonehenge: Myth and Ritual at the Sacred Centre
Stonehenge presents us with one of the greatest archaeological mysteries from prehistory. With each new breakthrough in field research and technological innovation, the full scale and significance of the ancient...
The Obelisk and the Englishman: The Pioneering Discoveries of
Scholarly, mischievous, and driven by curiosity about the unknown, William John Bankes (1786-1855) was a complex and talented member of England's landed gentry. A friend of Lord Byron, he achieved...
The Mysteries of Stonehenge: Myth and Ritual at the Sacred Centre
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Stonehenge presents us with one of the greatest archaeological mysteries from prehistory. With each new breakthrough in field research and technological innovation, the full scale and significance of the ancient...
Brutus of Troy
Just who did the British think they were? For much of the last 1,500 years, when the British looked back to their origins they saw the looming mythological figure of...
Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and Her
In 1919, in the wake of the upheaval of World War I, a remarkable group of English women came up with their own solution to the world's grief: a new...
The First Clash: The Miraculous Greek Victory at Marathon and Its
Marathon--one of history's most pivotal battles. Its very name evokes images of almost superhuman courage, endurance, and fighting spirit. But until now, the story of what happened at Marathon has...
Discovery: Unearthing New Treasures
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Maximinus Thrax
Maximinus was a half-barbarian strongman 'of frightening appearance and colossal size' who could smash stones with his bare hands and pull fully laden wagons unaided. Such feats impressed the emperor...