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The New Machiavelli
Random House 2010; US$ 12.00The New Machiavelli is a gripping account of life inside 'the bunker' of Number 10. In his twenty-first century reworking of Niccolo Machiavelli's influential masterpiece, The Prince , Jonathan Powell - Tony Blair's Chief of Staff from 1994 - 2007 - recounts the inside story of that period, drawing on his own unpublished diaries. Taking the... more...
Great Hatred, Little Room
Random House 2010; US$ 13.34Making peace in Northern Ireland was the greatest success of the Blair government, and one of the greatest achievements in British politics since the Second World War. In Jonathan Powell's masterly account we learn just how close the talks leading to the Good Friday agreement came to collapse and how the parties finally reached a deal. Pithy,... more...
Author and Audience in Latin Literature
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 50.00Essays by distinguished scholars on the relationship between Latin authors and their audiences. more...
The Republic and The Laws
OUP Oxford 1998; US$ 8.99`However one defines Man, the same definition applies to us all. This is sufficient proof that there is no essential difference within mankind.' (Laws l.29-30) Cicero's The Republic is an impassioned plea for responsible governement written just before the civil war that ended the Roman Republic in a dialogue following Plato. Drawing on Greek... more...
Inclusive Practice in the Lifelong Learning Sector
SAGE Publications 2011; US$ 26.00An accessible and practical text providing essential coverage of inclusive practice for pre-service and in-service trainee teachers in the Lifelong Learning Sector. more...
Octavia
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 42.00The historical tragedy Octauia focuses on Nero's divorce from the princess Octavia and subsequent marriage to Poppaea Sabina. The book includes a full length introduction, a new edition of the text based on a fresh examination of the manuscripts, and a detailed commentary dealing with textual, linguistic, and literary points. more...
Plato: Clitophon
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 44.00This is the first critical edition of the Clitophon, a dialogue generally ascribed to Plato, to be published in nearly seventy years. Professor Slings here provides a new text accompanied by a translation. The book also contains a very extensive introduction and the first ever commentary in English. more...
Frontinus: De Aquaeductu Urbis Romae
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 46.00This is the most authoritative edition of this work by Julius Frontinus, which deals with his duties, responsibilities and accomplishments as water commissioner for the city of Rome in 97 CE. It provides a wealth of historical, technical and legal information about the city's aqueducts and water supply. more...
Communicator-in-Chief
Lexington Books 2010; US$ 30.99Communicator-in-Chief examines the role of new media technologies such as e-mail, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, blogs, video games, texting and the Internet in the historic 2008 presidential campaign. Politicians of the twenty-first century will use the Obama campaign's new media technology strategy to not only communicate with the electorate,... more...
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