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Gone to Texasby Randolph B. Campbell
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 29.95Tells the story of the Lone Star State from the arrival of humans in the Panhandle more than 10,000 years ago to the opening of the 21st Century. Focusing on the state's successive waves of immigrants, it offers an inclusive view of the array of Texans who, often in conflict with each other and the land, created a history and an idea of Texas. more...
The Fall of the Roman Empireby Peter Heather
Oxford University Press, USA 2005; US$ 17.95The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial mysteries of world history. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Peter Heather proposes a stunning new solution: Rome generated its own nemesis. Centuries of imperialism turned the neighbors it called barbarians into an enemy capable of dismantling the Empire that had dominated their lives for so long. Heather is a leading authority on the late Roman Empire and on the barbarians. In The Fall of the Roman Empire, he explores the extraordinary success story that was the Roman Empire and uses a new understanding of its continued strength and enduring limitations to show how Europe's barbarians, transformed by centuries of contact with Rome on every possible level, eventually pulled it apart.... more...
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empireby Simon Baker
Ebury Publishing 2010; US$ 12.38This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points that shaped Roman history. Welcome to Rome as you've never seen it before - awesome and splendid, gritty and squalid. From the conquest of the Mediterranean beginning in the third century BC to the destruction of the empire at the hands of barbarian invaders some seven centuries later, we discover the most critical episodes in Roman history: the spectacular collapse of the 'free' republic, the birth of the age of the 'Caesars', the violent suppression of the strongest rebellion against Roman power, and the bloody civil war that launched Christianity as a world... more...
Ancient Greek Lawsby Ilias Arnaoutoglou
Routledge 1998; US$ 37.95Ilias Arnaoutoglou explores the significance of legislation in ancient Greece, the differences and similarities between ancient Greek legislation and legislators and their modern counterparts. more...
Ancient Britainby James Dyer
Routledge 1990; US$ 45.95This book is for anyone starting out to understand the prehistoric life of Britain from the first human occupation 450,000 years ago, until the Roman conquest in AD 43. more...
Sacred Signsby Penelope Wilson
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 12.99Hieroglyphs were far more than a language. In this study, Penelope Wilson explores the cultural significance of the script with an emphasis on previously neglected areas such as cryptography, the continuing decipherment post-Champollion, and the powerful fascination hieroglyphs still hold for us today. more...
Money and the Early Greek Mindby Richard Seaford
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 34.00How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage, which produced the first ever thoroughly monetised society. more...
The Cambridge Companion to Early Greek Philosophyby A. A. Long
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 33.00The Western tradition of philosophy began in Greece with the Presocratics, a group whose influence has been incalculable. more...
Annalsby Tacitus; A. J. Woodman
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2004; US$ 14.95A.J. Woodman?s translation combines accuracy and Tacitean invention, masterfully conveying Tacitus? distinctive and powerful manner of expression, and reflecting the best of current scholarship. An introductory essay discusses Tacitus? career, the period about which he wrote, the nature of historical writing in the Roman world, and the principles of translation which have shaped this rendering. more...
Dialogues of Platoby MobileReference
MobileReference.com 2007; US$ 5.99Indulge Yourself with the Classical Greek Philosophical Dialogues on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any chapter from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Table of Contents. List of Plato''s Dialogues by Period. List of Dialogues in Alphabetical Order. Plato Biography. About and Navigation. List of Plato''s Dialogues by Period. Early dialogues:. Apology. Crito. Charmides. Laches, or; Courage. Lysis, or; Friendship. Euthyphro. Menexenus. Ion. The following are variously considered transitional or middle period dialogues:. Gorgias. Protagoras. Meno. Middle dialogues:. Euthydemus. Cratylus. Phaedo. Phaedrus. Symposium. The Republic. Theaetetus. Parmenides. Late dialogues:. Sophist. Statesman. Philebus. Timaeus. Critias.... more...









