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Reasons Not to Worry: How to be Stoic in chaotic times
Author: Brigid DelaneyFormat: Hardback, 134mm x 200mm, 345g, 304 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2023Reasons Not to Worry is an accessible introduction to the Stoic principles of virtue,...
Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt
Author: Chris NauntonFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 880g, 304 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018Where are the tombs of Alexander the Great or Cleopatra? Both rulers were buried...
The Discovery of the Past: The Origins of Archaeology
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The International Economy since 1945
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The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How A Scientific Revolution Is Rewriting Their Story
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The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How A Scientific Revolution Is Rewriting Their Story
Author: Dimitra PapagianniFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 250g, 256 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022There is a little Neanderthal in all of us. Although they have been extinct...
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
Author: Barry Strauss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers "an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire...much of Ten Caesars reads like a script...
Buried: An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain
Author: Alice Roberts Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Tender, fascinating ... Lucid and illuminating' Robert Macfarlane Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality;...
Thailand
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Author: Pisit Charoenwongsa & Subhadradis Diskulbinding: HardbackPublished: Nagel, 1978Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book provides a comprehensive overview of Thailand, highlighting its culture, history,...
Elusive Treasure: The Story of Early Archaeologists in the Americas
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Author: Brian Faganbinding: HardbackPublished: Scribners, 1977Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Unblemished, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis book explores the contributions of early archaeologists in the Americas, detailing their discoveries and...
The Tudor Kings and Queens: The Dynasty that Forged a Nation
Author: Alex Woolf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Tudor Kings and Queens is the ideal, handy guide to what is a perennially popular era in British history. Beginning with...
The Bronze Age in Europe: Gods, Heroes and Treasures
Author: Jean-Pierre Mohen
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Number of Pages: 160
The heroes of the Iliad and Odyssey fought with shields and swords of bronze.
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy
Author: John Henry Phillips Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative...
A Brief History of the Celts
Author: Peter Ellis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 For centuries the Celts held sway in Europe. Even after their conquest by the Romans, their culture remained vigorous, ensuring that...
A Brief History of the Roman Empire
Author: Stephen P. Kershaw Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 In this lively and very readable history of the Roman Empire from its establishment in 27 BC to the barbarian...
Three Epic Battles that Saved Democracy: Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis
Author: Dr Stephen P. Kershaw Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Praise for the author's A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths: 'Eminently sane, highly informative' PAUL CARTLEDGE, BBC History...
Soldiers' Tales #2: A Collection of True Stories from Aussie Soldiers
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Hannibal
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Author: Ernle Bradford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 Hannibal had long known his fate should the Romans ever lay hands upon him. He had taken an army right through...
Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
Author: Amy Jeffs Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, January 2022 A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR...
The First Century: Emperors, Gods, and Everyman
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Pox Romana: The Plague That Shook the Roman World
Author: Colin ElliottFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 235mm, 328 pagesPublished: Princeton University Press, United States, 2024In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex....
Hitler's British Isles
Author: Duncan Barrett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII. 'Barrett has...
How to Have a Life: An Ancient Guide to Using Our Time Wisely
Author: Seneca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 A vibrant new translation of Seneca's 'On the Shortness of Life', a pointed reminder to make the most of our time. Who...
Meet the Ancestors
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Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer
Author: Christopher S. Celenza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian...
Raising the Dead: The Men Who Created Frankenstein
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Estella
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The Age of Cats: From the Savannah to Your Sofa
Author: Jonathan B. Losos Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The past, present and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great...
70 Wonders of the Ancient World and How They Were Built
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Born in 1939?: What Else Happened?
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Tragedy, the Greeks and Us
Author: Simon Critchley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 We might think we are through with the past, but the past isn't through with us. Tragedy permits us to come...
The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times
Author: Adrienne Mayor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures...
1177 B.C.: A Graphic History of the Year Civilization Collapsed
Author: Eric H. Cline Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Eric Cline's 1177 B.C. tells the story of one of history's greatest mysteries: what caused the ancient civilisations of the...
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
Author: Mary Beard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 392 What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to...
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and...
Juno's Aeneid: A Battle for Heroic Identity
Author: Joseph Farrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A major new interpretation of Vergil's epic poem as a struggle between two incompatible versions of the Homeric heroThis compelling book...
The Song of Achilles: The 10th Anniversary edition of the Women's Prize-winning bestseller
Author: Madeline Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 OVER 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD A 10th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION, FEATURING A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR WINNER OF THE ORANGE...
The Song of Achilles: The 10th Anniversary edition of the Women's Prize-winning bestseller
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The Gold of Tutankhamen
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The 19th Century Criminal Underworld
Author: Stephen Carver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 209 Take a walk on the dark side of the street in this unique exploration of the fears and desires at the...
Circe: The stunning new anniversary edition from the author of international bestseller The Song of Achilles
Author: Madeline Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A FIFTH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION, FEATURING A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR Woman. Witch. Myth. Mortal. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Survivor. CIRCE....
Bully Beef & Balderdash: Some Myths of the Aif Examined and Debunked
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Titans of War: The thrilling bestselling new Ancient-Egyptian epic from the Master of Adventure
Author: Wilbur Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 BOOK 2 IN A THRILLING NEW ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SERIES, FROM INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH 'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King 'A...
The First Emperor: China's Entombed Warriors
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Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: The 'Fascist' Style of Rule
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The Art of the Maya: From the Olmecs to the Toltec-Maya
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The Eagle's Conquest (Eagles of the Empire 2)
Author: Simon Scarrow Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 IF YOU DON'T KNOW SIMON SCARROW, YOU DON'T KNOW ROME! THE EAGLE'S CONQUEST is the thrilling second novel in Simon Scarrow's...
The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster
Author: Helen Carr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Gaunt was son of Edward III, brother to the Black Prince, father to Henry IV and the sire of all those...