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24 Hours in Ancient Rome: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There by Philip Matyszak
RRP: £8.99£6.22Walk a day in a Roman's sandals ... What was it like to live in one of the ancient world's most powerful and bustling cities - one that was eight times more densely populated than modern day New York? In this entertaining and enlightening guide,... -
Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt Ilona Regulski 9780714191287
RRP: £40.00£27.75Praise for the exhibition ***** The Telegraph ***** The Times ***** Daily Telegraph **** The Evening Standard "Plunge into the infinity pool of ancient Egyptian history with this dizzying array of artworks" - Waldemar Januszczack, Sunday Times Culture... -
Timeline of the Bible by Matt Baker 9781667200781
RRP: £25.99£18.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667200781Author Matt BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Thunder Bay PressPublisher Thunder Bay PressWeight(grams) 1034gDimensions(mm) 300mm * 244mm... -
Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Julia Annas 9780198805885
RRP: £8.99£6.45Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long, rich and varied one. Julia Annas gives a succinct account of ancient Greco-Roman philosophy, emphasizing its freshness and variety of themes, and its... -
The Egyptian Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends by Garry J. Shaw
RRP: £14.99£9.80This handy guide to Egyptian mythology explores how the ancient Nile-dwellers explained the world around them. It delves into the origins of life, the creation and evolution of the world, and the reigns of the gods on earth, before introducing us to the... -
OCR Ancient History AS and A Level Component 1: Greece by Charlie Cottam
RRP: £17.99£17.05This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for AS and A-Level Ancient History (first teaching September 2017). It covers the whole of Component 1, both the compulsory Period Study and the three optional Depth Studies: Period... -
The History of Sexuality: 2: The Use of Pleasure by Michel Foucault
RRP: £12.99£9.09'No brief survey can do justice to the richness, complexity and detail of Foucault's discussion' New York Review of BooksThe second volume of Michel Foucault's pioneering analysis of the changing nature of desire explores how sexuality was perceived in... -
Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece by Paul Cartledge
RRP: £12.99£8.78'An incisive, inspiring and vitally illuminating account of a city which changed the ancient world and which deserves to be remembered by the modern. A masterful book written by a master historian.' - Bettany Hughes, bestselling author of Istanbul and... -
Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt by Geraldine Pinch 9780195170245
RRP: £15.99£12.23Spanning Ancient Egyptian culture (ca. 3200 BC to AD 400), this 'Handbook of Egyptian Mythology' is a complete survey of Egyptian mythology.About the AuthorGeraldine Pinch is an Egyptologist at the Oriental Institute of Oxford University and a Member of... -
The Great Empires of the Ancient World by Thomas Harrison
RRP: £12.99£8.13A distinguished team of internationally renowned scholars surveys the great empires from 1600 BC to AD 500, from the ancient Mediterranean to China, in ten comprehensive chapters, taking in the empires of New Kingdom Egypt; the Hittites; Assyria and... -
A History of My Times by Xenophon
RRP: £12.99£9.09Xenophon's History recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 and 362 BC. Continuing the story of the Peloponnesian War at the point where Thucydides finished his magisterial history, this is a fascinating chronicle of the... -
On Sparta by Plutarch
RRP: £12.99£9.09Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of this remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third centuries BC. Through his Lives of Sparta's leaders and... -
Anaximander: And the Nature of Science by Carlo Rovelli 9780241635049
RRP: £16.99£12.28A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Anaximander is a delight and so is this book' -- James McConnachie, Sunday TimesNow widely available in English for the first time, this is Carlo Rovelli's first book: the thrilling story of a little-known man who created one of... -
Greek Myths: Gods and Goddesses by Jean Menzies
RRP: £10.99£7.40The stories of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece are sprawling, dramatic and wonderfully strange; their lives intertwine with mortals and their behaviours fluctuate wildly from benevolent to violent, from didactic to fickle, from loving to enraged... -
Theaetetus by Plato 9780199646166
RRP: £11.99£8.43'What exactly is knowledge?' The Theaetetus is a seminal text in the philosophy of knowledge, and is acknowledged as one of Plato's finest works. Cast as a conversation between Socrates and a clever but modest student, Theaetetus, it explores one of... -
Gladius: Living, Fighting and Dying in the Roman Army by Guy de la Bedoyere
RRP: £14.99£9.80The Roman army was the greatest fighting machine the ancient world produced. The Roman Empire depended on soldiers not just to win its wars, defend its frontiers and control the seas but also to act as the engine of the state. Roman legionaries and... -
How to Win an Argument: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780691164335
RRP: £14.99£12.15All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision. Instead of relying on untrained instinct--and often... -
Titans of War: The thrilling bestselling new Ancient-Egyptian epic from the Master of Adventure by Wilbur Smith 9781838776343
RRP: £9.99£7.14BOOK 2 IN A THRILLING NEW ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SERIES, FROM INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The... -
Complete Ancient Greek: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Ancient Greek, with Original Texts by Gavin Betts
RRP: £39.99£27.15Designed for complete beginners, and tested for years with real learners, Complete Ancient Greek offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, enabling you to learn the grammar, understand the vocabulary and even how to translate the writings of... -
A People`s History of India 3A - The Age of Iron and the Religious Revolution, C. 700 - C. 350 BC by Krishna Mohan Shrimali
RRP: £16.99£14.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381730Author Krishna Mohan ShrimaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 280gDimensions(mm) 243mm *... -
Elvis Costello And The Attractions: Every Album, Every Song by Georg Purvis 9781789521290
RRP: £14.99£10.95Whether you know him as Howard Coward, Napoleon Dynamite, or the Emotional Toothpaste, and are familiar with his work with the Attractions, the Confederates, or the Imposters, Elvis Costello's career has always been about reinvention and his vast... -
The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction by Amanda H. Podany
RRP: £8.99£6.61The ancient Near East is known as the "cradle of civilization" - and for good reason. Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia were home to an extraordinarily rich and successful culture. Indeed, it was a time and place of earth-shaking changes for humankind:... -
A Noble Ruin: Mark Antony, Civil War, and the Collapse of the Roman Republic by W. Jeffrey Tatum 9780197694909
RRP: £26.99£23.20A complex and captivating portrait of Mark Antony that offers a fresh perspective on the fall of the Roman Republic In his lifetime, Mark Antony was a famous man. Ally and avenger of Julius Caesar, rhetorical target of Cicero, lover of Cleopatra, and... -
Anabasis by Xenophon 9780674991019
RRP: £24.95£23.23Greek mercenaries on the march.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king... -
Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica by Arrian
RRP: £11.99£8.43'He was a man like no other man has ever been' So Arrian sums up the career of Alexander the Great of Macedon (356-323 BC), who in twelve years that changed the world led his army in conquest of a vast empire extending from the Danube to the rivers of... -
Ruthless Romans (newspaper edition) by Terry Deary 9780702322921
RRP: £6.99£4.64Discover all the foul facts about the Ruthless Romans with history's most horrible headlines. All the foul facts about the Ruthless Romans are ready to uncover, including: which emperor enjoyed... -
Leys: Secret Spirit Paths in Ancient Britain by D.P. Sullivan 9781904263388
RRP: £6.95£4.69Many ancient peoples built their sacred sites in dead straight lines. The magical paths involved astronomy and geomancy, and were used for spirit flight both by the living as they slept or travelled in shamanic trance, and by spirits of the dead, both... -
Horace: A Very Short Introduction by Llewelyn Morgan 9780192849649
RRP: £8.99£6.45Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus and is seen as a mark of cultural sophistication since this time. This Very Short Introduction examines how Horace's poetry has... -
The Civil Wars by Appian
RRP: £12.99£9.09Taken from Appian's Roman History, the five books collected here form the sole surviving continuous historical narrative of the era between 133-35 BC - a time of anarchy and instability for the Roman Empire. A masterly account of a turbulent epoch, they... -
Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical Walter Burkert (University of Zurich) 9780631156246
RRP: £30.95£27.85"Greek Religion . . . already has the standing of a classic, and the publication of an English version, which incorporates new material and is in effect a second edition, demands a toast . . . Anyone who pretends to survey Greek religion must be... -
Ancient Greek Housing by Lisa C. Nevett
RRP: £24.99£21.58The temples and theatres of the ancient Greek world are widely known, but there is less familiarity with the houses in which people lived. In this book, Lisa Nevett provides an accessible introduction to the varied forms of housing found across the Greek... -
Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens by David Stuttard 9780674660441
RRP: £24.95£20.29Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and a friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich, bewitchingly handsome and charismatic, a skilled general, and a ruthless politician. He was also a serial... -
In Search Of The Trojan War by Michael Wood
RRP: £14.99£10.95For thousands of years we have been enthralled by tales of Troy and its heroes. Achilles and Hector, Paris and the famed beauty Helen remain some of the most enduring figures in art and literature. But did these titanic characters really walk the earth?... -
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire Simon Baker 9781846072840
RRP: £14.99£10.95This 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 -... -
Ancient Egyptian Magic: A Hands-on Guide Christina Riggs 9780500052129
RRP: £14.99£9.26In the ancient world the magicians of Egypt were considered the best. But was magic harmless fun, heartfelt hope, or something darker? Whether you needed a love charm, a chat with your dead wife, or the ability to fly like a bird, an Egyptian magician... -
King Arthur's Wars by Jim Storr 9781912390526
RRP: £19.95£14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390526Author Jim StorrFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Jewish War by Josephus
RRP: £12.99£9.09Josephus' account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against Rome between AD 66 and 70. Originally a rebel leader, Josephus changed sides after he was captured to become a... -
The Ancient Celts, Second Edition by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: £26.49£19.61Fierce warriors and skilled craftsmen, the Celts were famous throughout the Ancient Mediterranean World. They were the archetypal barbarians from the north and were feared by both Greeks and Romans. For two and a half thousand years they have continued... -
Et tu, Brute?: The Best Latin Lines Ever by Harry Mount
RRP: £14.99£10.95Harry Mount and John Davie unlock the wisdom of the past in this light-hearted and fascinating book, revealing how ancient Latin can help us to live better in the present. There are so many Latin phrases in everyday use that often we use them without... -
Attila The Hun by John Man
RRP: £10.99£7.77The name Attila the Hun has become a byword for barbarism, savagery and violence. His is a truly household name, but what do we really know about the man himself, his position in history and the world in which he lived? This riveting biography reveals...