A fresh translation of The New Science, with detailed footnotes that will help both the scholar and the new reader navigate Vico’s masterpieceThe New Science is the major work of Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico. First published in 1725 and... Zobraziť viac
A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world Zobraziť viac
'Epic history as it is meant to be written!' Simon Sebag Montefiore'A sweeping and panoramic account of the first great superpower rivalry – a definitive account.' Tom HollandThe Roman empire was like no other. Stretching from the north of Britain to... Zobraziť viac
The Reveal sees Icke dig deeper than ever before and the book can truly be described as 'the next stage of human awareness' across a great swathe of interlocking subjects from who controls the world to the nature of the 'afterlife' and everything in... Zobraziť viac
Kde je chyba? Hledání odpovědi na otázku absolutní chronologie santorinského vulkánu Jedním z nejprobádanějších a nejčastěji citovaných problémů egejské doby bronzové je otázka absolutní datace výbuchu santorinské sopky... Zobraziť viac
The Severans analyses the colourful decline of the Roman Empire during the reign of the Severans, the first non-Italian dynasty... Zobraziť viac
Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legends claimed they cut off their right breasts to improve their ... Zobraziť viac
Here is an informative and entertaining guide to everything that any tourist needs for a journey back in time to ancient... Zobraziť viac
In this magisterial work, Professor Paul Stephenson charts the centuries surrounding this epic shift of power. He traces the cultural, social and political forces that led to the empire being ruled from a city straddling Europe and Asia... Zobraziť viac
Travelling east, Falx explores the great cultural centre of Athens before trekking into rural Asia (or Turkey as we know it), past the already ancient Luxor monuments in Roman Egypt, and by the Great Library of Alexandria... Zobraziť viac
In Tom Holland’s vibrant translation, one of the great masterpieces of Western history springs to life. Herodotus of Halicarnassus hailed by Cicero as the “Father of History” composed his histories around 440 BC.... Zobraziť viac
Wordsworth Editions: Translated with Notes by George Rawlinson. This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction... Zobraziť viac
Mark C. Bartusis opens an extraordinary window on the Byzantine Empire during its last centuries by providing the first comprehensive treatment of the dying empire's military... Zobraziť viac
From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of the first two centuries of the Jesus movement,... Zobraziť viac
"In the tradition of the best immersive journalism." -A.J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living BiblicallyA bold examination of how Paleolithic wisdom could solve our 21st century problemsJessica Carew Kraft, an urban wife and mom of two, was firmly... Zobraziť viac
A vivid portrait of the ancient world that illuminates the stories of the women so often pushed to history's sidelines Zobraziť viac
The fast-paced and ';engrossing account' (The New York Times Book Review) of ';one of the greatest breakthroughs in archaeological history' (The Christian Science Monitor): two rival geniuses in a race to decode the writing on one of the world's most... Zobraziť viac
What was it really like to rule and be ruled in the Ancient Roman world? ... Zobraziť viac
The world is full of ruins. From the Colosseum of Rome to the crumbling suburbs of Detroit, the vine-wreathed temples of the Maya to the shell-pocked buildings of Bakhmut and Gaza. Each of these ruins have a different history, but they share a single... Zobraziť viac
This volume begins the historical coverage of The Cambridge History of China with the Ch'in and Han empires. Zobraziť viac
