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From Eden to Exile Unravelling Mysteries of the Bible

From Eden to Exile Unravelling Mysteries of the Bible

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Author: Eric H. Cline Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Eric H. Cline uses the tools of his trade to examine some of the most puzzling mysteries from the Hebrew...
British Museum: So You Think You've Got It Bad? A Kid's Life in Ancient Greece

British Museum: So You Think You've Got It Bad? A Kid's Life in Ancient Greece

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Author: Chae Strathie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 A kid's life in ancient Greece might sound like fun, what with all that brilliant sunny weather and watching the Olympic...
The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146BC

The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146BC

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Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of...
Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor

Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor

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Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Caesar Augustus schemed and fought his way to absolute power. He became Rome's first emperor and ruled for forty-four...
The Book of Wonders: The Many Lives of Euclid's Elements

The Book of Wonders: The Many Lives of Euclid's Elements

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Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how...
Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold

Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold

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Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The dazzling companion volume to the bestselling MYTHOS. There are heroes - and then there are Greek heroes Few...
How To Be a Stoic

How To Be a Stoic

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Author: Epictetus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen' How can...
The Ancient Olympic Games

The Ancient Olympic Games

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Author: Jhonny Nunez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 48 Travel back in time to Ancient Greece to discover the origins of the Olympic Games. Bright, bold and dynamic...
British Museum Press Out and Decorate Ancient Egypt

British Museum Press Out and Decorate Ancient Egypt

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Author: Kate McLelland Format: Board book Number of Pages: 24 From sarcophaguses to scarab beetles and canopic jars to crocodiles, this book features 20 unique, intricately foiled designs that can...
Meditations

Meditations

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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...
30-Second Ancient Rome

30-Second Ancient Rome

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Author: Matthew Nicholls Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 30-Second Ancient Rome presents a unique insight into one of the most brilliantly governed societies, where military might and expansive...
The Unnamable Present

The Unnamable Present

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Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A decisive key to help grasp some of the essential points of what is happening around us. The ninth part of...
The Valkyrie

The Valkyrie

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Author: Kate Heartfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 *The Embroidered Book shortlisted for the Aurora Award for Best Novel* From SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Kate Heartfield comes...
Vox Populi: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Classical World but Were Afraid to Ask

Vox Populi: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Classical World but Were Afraid to Ask

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Author: Peter Jones (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and...
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium

Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium

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Author: Seneca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Seeing self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', the Stoic philosophy called for the restraint of animal...
Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century

Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century

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Author: Christina Riggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 When it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world, turning the boy-king into...
Ways of Heaven: An Introduction to Chinese Thought

Ways of Heaven: An Introduction to Chinese Thought

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Author: Roel Sterckx Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A brilliant history of ancient China's masters of philosophy -- and how they help us understand China todayIn Ways of Heaven,...
Invoking the Scribes of Ancient Egypt: The Initiatory Path of Spiritual Journaling

Invoking the Scribes of Ancient Egypt: The Initiatory Path of Spiritual Journaling

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Author: Normandi Ellis (Normandi Ellis) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Tools to powerfully write about and manifest your life using the power found in the sacred sites...
A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice

A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice

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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:...
As the Romans Do: Authentic and reinvented recipes from the Eternal City

As the Romans Do: Authentic and reinvented recipes from the Eternal City

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Author: Eleonora Galasso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 204 Rome is steeped in history and tradition, and this is reflected in the sheer vibrancy and variety of its food. In...
Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China

Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China

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Author: John Man Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The untold story of the first nomadic empire and the making of China. 'Man does for the reader that...
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe

Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe

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Author: Judith Herrin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A glorious history of the jewel-like city on the Adriatic which was a melting-pot of Greek, Latin, Christian and...
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

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Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost, comes a deeply moving tale of a father and son's...
The Complete Fables

The Complete Fables

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Author: Aesop Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A slave who represented his masters in court and negotiations, Aesop relied on allegorical animal stories, collected here in The...
Cities of the Classical World: An Atlas and Gazetteer of 120 Centres of Ancient Civilization

Cities of the Classical World: An Atlas and Gazetteer of 120 Centres of Ancient Civilization

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Author: Colin McEvedy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A fascinating illustrated history of the most important cities of antiquity, from Alexandria to York From Alexandria to York,...
The Mahabharata

The Mahabharata

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Author: John D. Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 New selection and translation of the great epic story of ancient India, revealing a mythic world of bloody...
Himalaya: A Human History

Himalaya: A Human History

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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...
Parallel History: The Ancient World

Parallel History: The Ancient World

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Author: Alex Woolf Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 What developments in government and politics, food and farming, architecture, science, art and medicine were there in the ancient civilisations of...
The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent

The Goodness Paradox: How Evolution Made Us Both More and Less Violent

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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...
Attila The Hun

Attila The Hun

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Author: John Man Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The first popular biography of the great warlord, Attila the Hun. The name Attila the Hun has become a...
Jason And The Argonauts

Jason And The Argonauts

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Author: Robert Byrd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 A beautifully illustrated account of the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts with informative details from the award-winning author of...
The Age of Alexander

The Age of Alexander

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Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen...
The Last Assassin

The Last Assassin

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Author: Peter Stothard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'A political thriller, and a human story that astonishes' Hilary Mantel Many men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined...
Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World

Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World

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Author: Frank McLynn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The greatest story of military conquest in history from a 'master storyteller' (Guardian) Genghis Khan was by far the...
Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us about How to Live

Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us about How to Live

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Author: John Sellars Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A deeply comforting and enlightening book on how Stoicism can inspire us to lead more thoughtful lives What aspects...
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones

The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones

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Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly...
The History of Alexander

The History of Alexander

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Author: Quintus Curtius Rufus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India,...
The Art of the Body: Antiquity and Its Legacy

The Art of the Body: Antiquity and Its Legacy

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Author: Reader in Classical Art Michael Squire (King's College London UK) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The classical human body is perhaps the single most important and...
I, Claudius: Popular Penguins

I, Claudius: Popular Penguins

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Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 406 Regarded as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting...
The Histories

The Histories

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Author: Herodotus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 The work that established the study of history in the western world, Herodotus's The Histories is a dazzling contemporary account...
The Celestial Hunter

The Celestial Hunter

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Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An extraordinary tale of transformation from the renowned Italian writer, thinker and publisher 'When hunting began, it was not...
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...
Antiquity Matters

Antiquity Matters

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Author: Frederic Raphael Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering...
City of God

City of God

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Author: Saint Augustine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1184 One of the greatest theological works, and is one of the most influential Christian documents. St Augustine, bishop of...
Electra and Other Plays

Electra and Other Plays

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Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Of all the ancient Greek tragedians, Euripides was the most sensitive to the lives of women and other outcasts in...
The Fourfold Remedy: Epicurus and the Art of Happiness

The Fourfold Remedy: Epicurus and the Art of Happiness

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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...
The Book of Master Mo

The Book of Master Mo

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Author: Mo Zi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The Book of Master Mo represents a groundbreaking shift in Chinese philosophy. A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy...
The Cynic Philosophers: from Diogenes to Julian

The Cynic Philosophers: from Diogenes to Julian

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Author: Diogenes of Sinope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A unique new volume illuminating the philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman Cynics From their founding in...