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The Age of Cats: How Cats Evolved from the Savannah to your Sofa
The past, present and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great cat lover. 'Engaging and wide-ranging ... The Age of Cats...
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
*A FINANCIAL TIMES , GUARDIAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE SUMMER* 'The fascinating story of ancient words ... new revelations await' The Guardian 'A magisterial feat' New Scientist ________________________________ One...
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction and the
A fascinating exploration of the world's worst mass extinction and how it shaped all subsequent life on our planet. Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. It's a sunny afternoon in...
Visions of Ancient Egypt
From antiquity, when the Great Pyramid was revered as a wonder of the ancient world, to the Cleopatra of Shakespeare's stage, and from the medieval Arab scholars who sought hieroglyphs'...
Egyptian Mythology: The Gods, Heroes, Monsters and Legends of Ancient
Immerse yourself in the dark and complex mythology of Ancient Egypt. Alongside the mummies and the great treasure-filled burial chambers of the Pyramids are the many gods, heroes, monsters and...
Visions of Ancient Egypt
From antiquity, when the Great Pyramid was revered as a wonder of the ancient world, to the Cleopatra of Shakespeare's stage, and from the medieval Arab scholars who sought hieroglyphs'...
AD69: Emperors, Armies and Anarchy
With the death of Nero by his own shaky hand, the ill-sorted, ill-starred Iulio-Claudian dynasty came to an ignominious end, and Rome was up for the taking. This was 9...
The Perdiccas Years, 323-320 BC
On 11 June 323 BC in Babylon, Alexander the Great breathed his last. He left one of the largest empires the world had seen, stretching from Greece to the Punjab....
Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome's
'Pacy, witty and authoritative' Jonathan Freedland 'In her hands, ancient history becomes a vivid avenue of approach to a burning modern-world concern... a powerful and important book' Daily Telegraph A...
Hieroglyph Detective: How to Decode the Sacred Language of the Ancient
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Egyptian hieroglyphs have long fascinated people the world over, though traditionally only specially trained scholars have been able to unlock their esoteric secrets. In Hieroglyph Detective , renowned Egyptologist Nigel...
The Classical World in Bite-sized Chunks
Explore the fascinating world of Greek and Roman history in this new entry in the bestselling Bite-Sized Chunks series. Perhaps more than any other period in history, the era of...
A Brief Guide to Classical Civilization
A general introduction to the classical world from its origins to the fall of the Roman Empire. The book focuses on questions of how we know about Classical civilization from...
The Classical World in Bite-sized Chunks
Explore the fascinating world of Greek and Roman history in this new entry in the bestselling Bite-Sized Chunks series. Perhaps more than any other period in history, the era of...
A Walk Through Ancient Rome: A Tour of the Historical Sites That
In this expert guide to the ancient city, Dr Philip Matyszak takes us on a tour of ancient Rome's most fascinating and important sites and locations, revealing the secrets of...
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...
Aesop's Fables: A New Translation
From a renowned scholar and translator, the definitive translation of Aesop's Fables Aesop's fables are among the most familiar and best-loved stories in the world. Tales like "The Tortoise and...
The Cambridge World History
From 1200 BCE to 900 CE, the world witnessed the rise of powerful new states and empires, as well as networks of cross-cultural exchange and conquest. Considering the formation and...
The Archimedes Palimpsest
The Archimedes Palimpsest is the name given to a Byzantine prayer book that was written over a number of earlier manuscripts, including one that contained two unique works by Archimedes,...
The Archimedes Palimpsest
The Archimedes Palimpsest is the name given to a Byzantine prayer book that was written over a number of earlier manuscripts, including one that contained two unique works by Archimedes,...
Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 1: Selected Texts in
Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the surviving works of the well-known authors Strabo, Pausanias, and Ptolemy, but also by many other texts dating from the Archaic...
Latin Military Papyri of Dura-Europos (P.Dura 55-145): A New Edition
This is a full new edition of the Latin papyri from Dura Europos, which provide a wealth of material for several branches of Classical scholarship. They are a priceless source...
The Cambridge World History
Volume 1 of the Cambridge World History is an introduction to both the discipline of world history and the earliest phases of world history up to 10,000 BCE. In Part...
Roman Britain's Missing Legion: What Really Happened to IX Hispana?
Legio IX Hispana had a long and active history, later founding York from where it guarded the northern frontiers in Britain. But the last evidence for its existence in Britain...
Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 2: Selected Texts in
Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the surviving works of the well-known authors Strabo, Pausanias, and Ptolemy, but also by many other texts dating from the Archaic...
The Forgotten Sense: The New Science of Smell
Human olfaction - the sense of smell - enables us to appreciate food and drink, it warns us of dangers and it makes our environments more enjoyable. However, olfaction is...
The Forgotten Sense: The New Science of Smell
Human olfaction - the sense of smell - enables us to appreciate food and drink, it warns us of dangers and it makes our environments more enjoyable. However, olfaction is...
Before Augustus: The Collapse of the Roman Republic
A compelling new account of the tempestuous last century of the Roman Republic. This new history of the last years of the Roman Republic sets the leading men, and women,...
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...
The Parthenon
The ruined silhouette of the Parthenon on its hill above Athens is one of the world's most famous images. Its 'looted' Elgin Marbles are a global cause celebre. But what...
The Age of Cats: How Cats Evolved from the Savannah to your Sofa
The past, present and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great cat lover. 'Engaging and wide-ranging ... The Age of Cats...
The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium
A "splendid" ( The Wall Street Journal ) account of one of history's most important and yet little-known wars, the campaign culminating in the Battle of Actium in 31 BC,...
Lion: 'Brings war in the ancient world to vivid, gritty and bloody
Discover the rise and fall of the world's greatest empire in the stunning first instalment of The Golden Age, an epic new series from the nation's finest historical novelist After...
Homer and His Iliad
A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicists Homer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the tales of Troy....
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,...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
This definitive three-volume Penguin Classics edition provides a complete and unmodernized text, presenting the History as it appeared to its early readers Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and...
Agricola and Germania
This is a lightly revised edition of Mattingly's original translation plus a new introduction, new notes, a chronology and further reading, by James Rives The Agricola is both a portrait...
The Twelve Caesars
A revised edition of Robert Graves' classic translation (9780140449211), with completely fresh editorial material As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives...
The Histories
One of the masterpieces of classical literature, the Histories describes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states united to repel the might of the Persian empire. But...
The Early History of Rome
Livy's brilliant history of the founding and early years of Rome Livy (c. 59 BC-AD 17) dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of history, the first...
Rome and Italy: The History of Rome from its Foundation
Books VI - X of Livy's monumental History of Rome Books VI-X of Livy's monumental work trace Rome's fortunes from its near collapse after defeat by the Gauls in 386...
The Rise of the Roman Empire
Penguin Classics relaunch The Greek statesman Polybius (c.200-118 BC) wrote his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire in order to help his fellow countrymen understand how their...
The Persian Expedition
Xenophon's account of the Greek war with Persia through the eyes of a young Athenian searching for his destiny abroad In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who...
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...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
This definitive three-volume Penguin Classics edition provides a complete and unmodernized text, presenting the History as it appeared to its early readers Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and...
Moneta: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins
The extraordinary story of Rome told through one of the world's once most ubiquitous objects- coins. The extraordinary story of ancient Rome, history's greatest superpower, as told through humankind's most...
The Rise And Fall of Athens
Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal work What makes a leader? How does...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The most celebrated historical work in the English language Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL is one...
The Art of More: how mathematics created civilisation
Bestselling science writer Michael Brooks takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of civilisation, as he explains why maths is fundamental to our understanding of the world. 1,...