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This book is a companion volume to K. D. White's Agricultural Implements of the Roman World (Cambridge University Press, 1967). He deals here with equipment and instruments which were for the most part used in processing and storage as opposed to...

Originally published in 1953, this volume gathers together the poems of Nicander (2nd century BC), the renowned Ancient Greek poet, physician and grammarian. Consummately edited, the text contains the original Greek poetry with a parallel page...

Originally published in 1960, Dr Hodge's study deals with the construction of the wooden parts of the roofing of classical Greek temples of the era 600-400 BC in Greece, southern Italy and Sicily. There were no fragments remaining of these wooden members...

The Iohannis, an epic poem of the mid-sixth century, narrates the wars of a Roman general against Berber rebels in north Africa. The subject-matter is of considerable interest both for the history of the period and for what it reveals of the ethnography...

The bucolic Idylls of Theocritus are the first literature to invent a fully fictional world that is not an image of reality but an alternative to it. It is thereby distinguished from the other Idylls and from Hellenistic poetry as a whole. This book...

Yale Classical Studies volume XXVIII is devoted to papyrology, which celebrated its centenary as a branch of classical studies in the eighties. The volume embraces all the principal facets of papyrological study: editions and re-editions of texts and...

Pedagogy and Power is a volume of interdisciplinary essays which explores the political dimensions of Graeco-Roman education and of its subsequent models. Seeking to make the various structures and discourses of intellectual authority more apparent, the...

This book surveys the relations between Catholics outside and inside the Ottoman Empire from 1453 to 1923. After the fall of Constantinople the only large Latin Catholic group to be incorporated into the sultan's domain were the Genoese who lived in...

This translation with introduction and commentary of Plato's Philebus was originally issued under the title Plato's Examination of Pleasure and first reprinted as Plato's Philebus. This dialogue, generally agreed to be one of Plato's latest and most...

Traveler and writer Henry Bruce details the culture and qualities of the Malabar coast of India, as it was during the rule of the British Raj. Bruce begins by reflecting upon the beauty of Malabar's land, the serenity and unspoiled nature of the...

Historian and constitutional scholar Albert Taylor Bledsoe considers whether the secession of the Confederate states was legal under constitutional law. The author poses the question: did Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States of...

This volume was designed specifically to augment the book "The True Cost", a book detailing Confederate casualties during the Kentucky campaign of 1862. Making use of official state county road maps, the various routes of the Confederate forces...

REFLECTION ON A REVOLUTION THE EVOLUTION OF OUR MINDS seeks to bring the knowledge of a turbulent era in Louisville Kentucky and America in the late 1960s and 70s. Drawing from my own participation in that movement, hoping with this book will bring a...

Adalia Marquez was a police reporter living in Manila under the Japanese Occupation during World War 2 when her husband was arrested by the Japanese Military Police for aiding the resistance. Following his escape, suspicion falls upon Adalia and she is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359550449Author Otu Abam UbiFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 821g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359540150Author Dan DimancescuFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g

George Corley Wallace Jr. was born on (August 25, 1919 - September 13, 1998) was an American Politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama, a position he occupied for four Terms, during which he promoted "low-grade industrial development, low taxes,...

John F. Kennedy: JFK was assassinated because of his Civil Rights agenda to integrate public Schools which Supreme Court Ruled in 1954 that segregated Schools were unconstitutional. Whites at that time believe mixing the Race are Communism (to this day,...

Mary Church Terrell was an icon in the civil rights movement, advocating for equality and social justice for black women through a lifetime of campaigning and eloquent oration. Famed for being the first black woman to gain a college education in the...

The Laws of Providence, by Jesuit Professor of Theology Henri Ramiere, discusses the three tenets of God's providence from the perspective of the Society of Jesus. Offering insight into Jesuit spirituality and theology, Ramiere reveals how God directs...

The Laws of Providence, by Jesuit Professor of Theology Henri Ramiere, discusses the three tenets of God's providence from the perspective of the Society of Jesus. Offering insight into Jesuit spirituality and theology, Ramiere reveals how God directs...

The Hero of Ticonderoga is a fictionalized account of the life and adventures of Colonel Ethan Allen, one of the most distinguished officers of the American Revolutionary War. A man of great valor and ability, Ethan Allen's story is at once unique but...

Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, a Biblical scholar whose career spanned decades, offers a commentary and study of the Gospel of John brimming with insights. A theologian with immense scholarly knowledge of the Bible, Edgar Goodspeed offers here his...

Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, a Biblical scholar whose career spanned decades, offers a commentary and study of the Gospel of John brimming with insights. A theologian with immense scholarly knowledge of the Bible, Edgar Goodspeed offers here his...

Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl is a classic narrative poem by John Greenleaf Whittier, famed for capturing a period in American history already ebbing away. This edition includes twenty illustrations by famed artists of the era. The narrative consists of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359032020Author Paul Laurence DunbarFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g

The Gray Book, compiled by the Sons of Confederate Veterans in 1920, registers a number of objections with the South's portrayal during the American Civil War and afterwards, in the Reconstruction period. This book offers a frank and upfront alternate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359022335Author The Sons of Confederate VeteransFormat HardbackPage Count 50Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 245g

Irving Fisher's treatise on Eugenics - the process of improving human genetic qualities thought favorable through selective breeding - summarizes the practice and defends it from detractors. A strong advocate of eugenics since soon after its inception in...

Samuel James Andrews' fascinating analysis of the long conflict between good and evil and order and chaos in the Christian church is a poignant, riveting investigation of Christianity across the ages. The author's guiding belief is that behind the scenes...

Centuries of Meditations is a devotional manual from the English literary Thomas Traherne; undiscovered for over 200 years, this manuscript was first published in the early 20th century. During his lifetime Thomas Traherne was primarily famed for his...

Sun Tzu's blueprint for battlefield tactics remains the original and greatest of military strategy books. This new edition of The Art of War includes annotations by translator Lionel Giles.Book InformationISBN 9780359785292Author Sun TzuFormat...

Travel author Horace Kephart discusses the culture of Appalachia he observed while living in a mountain cabin for several months at the start of the 20th century. This edition contains all of his original photographs. An honest account of the old...

Henry Ferdinand Suksdorf presents a history of humankind framed in the context of various races to have emerged throughout history. The author believes each race of humankind undergoes a period of ascendance, followed by a peak wherein intellectual and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244930219Author Waheba SelassieFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 576g

This volume, the second in a series, contains Q's best known ghost story based on the wrecking of the HMS Primrose in 1807. It contains a short foreword setting the scene and an afterword describing the true events as well as annotations explaining...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244305420Author Paul W SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 240g

Descartes is commonly read as the paradigm defender of substance dualism, a theory caricatured by Ryle as the 'dogma of the ghost in the machine'. On this reading, mind and body are defined in such a way that they have no common properties that might...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999053713Author Don CusicFormat HardbackPage Count 122Imprint Brackish PublishingPublisher Brackish PublishingWeight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781006236679Author Sir Arthur Conan DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 104g