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The Art of the Maya: From the Olmecs to the Toltec-Maya

The Art of the Maya: From the Olmecs to the Toltec-Maya

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The Tale of the Axe: How the Neolithic Revolution Transformed Britain

The Tale of the Axe: How the Neolithic Revolution Transformed Britain

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Author: David Miles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Focusing on the British Isles, the author explores a period of huge societal change - the Neolithic, or 'New Stone Age'...
Emperor of Rome: The Sunday Times Bestseller

Emperor of Rome: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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Author: Professor Mary Beard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Cruel control freaks, diligent workaholics or extravagant teenagers? What were the emperors of Rome really like? In her international best-seller...
Emperor of Rome: The Sunday Times Bestseller

Emperor of Rome: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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Author: Professor Mary Beard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Cruel control freaks, diligent workaholics or extravagant teenagers? What were the emperors of Rome really like? In her international best-seller...
Antigone: A New Adaptation of the Classic Greek Tragedy

Antigone: A New Adaptation of the Classic Greek Tragedy

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Author: Hollie McNish Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 A modern retelling of Sophocles' classic play, Antigone, by bestselling writer and poet Hollie McNish As the daughter of Oedipus, Antigone...
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

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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...
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War

The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War

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Author: Robert B. Strassler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 752 Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed...
Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life

Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life

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The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy

The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy

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The Emperor's Exile (Eagles of the Empire 19): The thrilling Sunday Times bestseller

The Emperor's Exile (Eagles of the Empire 19): The thrilling Sunday Times bestseller

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Author: Simon Scarrow Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The Sunday Times bestseller - a thrilling new adventure in Simon Scarrow's acclaimed Eagles of the Empire series. Perfect for readers...
Beneath the Burning Wave (The Mu Chronicles, Book 1)

Beneath the Burning Wave (The Mu Chronicles, Book 1)

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Author: Jennifer Hayashi Danns Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 "One of the most unique books you'll read this year" Buzzfeed "A strikingly different trilogy opener" Kirkus Reviews Twins destined...
Daily Life in the Time of Homer

Daily Life in the Time of Homer

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The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great

The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great

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Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...
Meditations

Meditations

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Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Few ancient works have been as influential as the MEDITATIONS of Marcus Aurelius. A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom,...
The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons

The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons

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Author: Cat Jarman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A diligent historian and a superb writer' THE TIMES From bioarchaeologist and bestselling author...
The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons

The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons

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Author: Cat Jarman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A diligent historian and a superb writer' THE TIMES From bioarchaeologist and bestselling author...
Arriani

Arriani

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The Nisibis War: The Defence of the Roman East, AD 337-363

The Nisibis War: The Defence of the Roman East, AD 337-363

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Author: John S Harrel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The war of 337-363 (which the author dubs the Nisibis War), was an exception to the traditional Roman reliance on...
Brutus of Troy: And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British

Brutus of Troy: And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British

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Author: Anthony Adolph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Just who did the British think they were? For much of the last 1,500 years, when the British looked back to...
Antiochus The Great

Antiochus The Great

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Author: Michael Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A teenage king in 223 BC, Antiochus III inherited an empire in shambles, ravaged by civil strife and eroded by territorial...
Septimius Severus in Scotland: The Northern Campaigns of the First Hammer of the Scots

Septimius Severus in Scotland: The Northern Campaigns of the First Hammer of the Scots

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Author: Simon Elliott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'The order was brutal, its message unequivocal - kill the men, women and children of what is now Scotland and don't...
Cataclysm 90 BC: The Forgotten War That Almost Destroyed Rome

Cataclysm 90 BC: The Forgotten War That Almost Destroyed Rome

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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...
Alcibiades: Athenian Playboy, General and Traitor

Alcibiades: Athenian Playboy, General and Traitor

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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...
Strategist in Exile

Strategist in Exile

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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

Rome, Blood and Politics: Reform, Murder and Popular Politics in the Late Republic

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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

Kings and Kingship in the Hellenistic World 350 - 30 BC

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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...
Lucius Verus and the Roman Defence of the East

Lucius Verus and the Roman Defence of the East

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Author: M. C. Bishop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 197 Lucius Verus is one of the least regarded Roman emperors, despite the fact that he was co-ruler with his adoptive...
Bar Kokhba: The Jew Who Defied Hadrian and Challenged the Might of Rome

Bar Kokhba: The Jew Who Defied Hadrian and Challenged the Might of Rome

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Author: Lindsay Powell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 BAR KOKHBA is the search for the truth of the epic struggle between two strong-willed leaders over who would rule a...
Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic

Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic

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Author: Claudia Baracchi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 Although Plato's Republic is perhaps the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy, Claudia Baracchi finds that the work...
Democracy's Beginning: The Athenian Story

Democracy's Beginning: The Athenian Story

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Author: Thomas N. Mitchell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A history of the world's first democracy from its beginnings in Athens circa fifth century B.C. to its downfall 200...
Attila the Hun: Arch-enemy of Rome

Attila the Hun: Arch-enemy of Rome

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Author: Hughes, Ian Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Attila the Hun is a household name. Rising to the Hunnic kingship around 434, he dominated European history for the next...
A Naval History of the Peloponnesian War: Ships, Men and Money in the War at Sea, 431-404 BC

A Naval History of the Peloponnesian War: Ships, Men and Money in the War at Sea, 431-404 BC

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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...
Hannibal's Road: The Second Punic War in Italy 213-203 BC

Hannibal's Road: The Second Punic War in Italy 213-203 BC

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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...
Great Generals of the Ancient World

Great Generals of the Ancient World

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Author: Professor Richard A. Gabriel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 Of the thousands of commanders who served in history's armies, why is it that only a few are remembered...
Emperor Alexander Severus: Rome's Age of Insurrection, Ad222-235

Emperor Alexander Severus: Rome's Age of Insurrection, Ad222-235

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Author: John S. McHugh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 335 Alexander Severus' is full of controversy and contradictions. He came to the throne through the brutal murder of his cousin,...
Romanesque Basic Art

Romanesque Basic Art

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Author: Norbert Wolf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Reaching its peak in the 11th and 12th centuries, the Romanesque movement was marked by a peculiar, vivid, and often monumental...
The Victor's Crown: Greek and Roman Sport from Homer to Byzantium

The Victor's Crown: Greek and Roman Sport from Homer to Byzantium

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Portals, Pilgrimage, and Crusade in Western Tuscany

Portals, Pilgrimage, and Crusade in Western Tuscany

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Between and the Beyond: Essays on the Prehistory and History of North Britain in Honour of George Jobey

Between and the Beyond: Essays on the Prehistory and History of North Britain in Honour of George Jobey

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The Rock Art of Easter Island: Symbols of Power, Prayers to the Gods

The Rock Art of Easter Island: Symbols of Power, Prayers to the Gods

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Journey to the Afterlife: Egyptian Antiquities from the Louvre

Journey to the Afterlife: Egyptian Antiquities from the Louvre

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Zooarchaeology

Zooarchaeology

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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

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Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Daunt Books Book of the year 2023. Winner of the...
Roman Roads in the South-East Midlands

Roman Roads in the South-East Midlands

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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

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Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the 'Old World' encountered the 'New', when...
A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx

A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx

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Author: Dr. Jerry Toner (Fellow Teacher and Director of Studies in Classics) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and...
Greek Pilgrimage: In Search of the Foundations of the West

Greek Pilgrimage: In Search of the Foundations of the West

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Out Of China's Earth: Archaeological Discoveries In The People's Republic Of China

Out Of China's Earth: Archaeological Discoveries In The People's Republic Of China

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