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Plato's Democratic Entanglements: Athenian Politics and the Practice of Philosophy by S. Sara Monoson
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73In this book, Sara Monoson challenges the longstanding and widely held view that Plato is a virulent opponent of all things democratic. She does not, however, offer in its place the equally mistaken... -
George Seferis: Collected Poems - Revised Edition by George Seferis 9780691014913
Booksplease Price: £35.01In this new edition of George Seferis's poems, the acclaimed translations by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard are revised and presented in a compact, English-only volume. The revision covers all the... -
Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World by Michael Scott 9780691169842
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75The oracle and sanctuary of the Greek god Apollo at Delphi were known as the "omphalos"--the "center" or "navel"--of the ancient world for more than 1000 years. Individuals, city leaders, and kings... -
The Origins of Citizenship in Ancient Athens by Philip Brook Manville 9780691600925
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63In this unusual synthesis of political and socio-economic history, Philip Manville demonstrates that citizenship for the Athenians was not merely a legal construct but rather a complex concept that... -
The Horsemen of Athens by Glenn Richard Bugh 9780691605746
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93Glenn Bugh provides a comprehensive discussion of a subject that has not been treated in full since the last century: the history of the Athenian cavalry. Integrated into a narrative history of the... -
The Literate Revolution in Greece and its Cultural Consequences by Eric Alfred Havelock 9780691655680
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £51.87This volume brings together studies by a distinguished classical scholar that address specific problems associated with the development of literacy in ancient Greece. The articles were written over a... -
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller 9781982172015
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £12.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982172015Author Chris MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint < -
Death to Tyrants!: Ancient Greek Democracy and the Struggle against Tyranny by David Arlo Teegarden 9780691156903
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £48.10Death to Tyrants! is the first comprehensive study of ancient Greek tyrant-killing legislation--laws that explicitly gave individuals incentives to "kill a tyrant." David Teegarden demonstrates that... -
The Athenian Revolution: Essays on Ancient Greek Democracy and Political Theory by Josiah Ober
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Where did "democracy" come from, and what was its original form and meaning? Here Josiah Ober shows that this "power of the people" crystallized in a revolutionary uprising by the ordinary citizens... -
The Form of Greek Romance by B. P. Reardon 9780691604640
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02In the early Roman Empire a new literary genre began to flourish, mainly in the Greek world: prose fiction, or romance. Broadly defined as a love story that offers adventure and a romantic vision of... -
China's Grand Strategy: A Roadmap to Global Power? by David B. H. Denoon
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Leading scholars examine China's global strategic plans, from Hong Kong to military power, to economic dominance Over the past few decades, China has increasingly challenged the global influence of... -
In Search of Florentine Civic Humanism, Volume 1: Essays on the Transition from Medieval to Modern Thought by Hans Baron 9780691611013
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93Hans Baron's Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance is widely considered one of the most important works in Italian Renaissance studies. Princeton University Press published this seminal book in... -
Livy: The Composition of His History by Torrey James Luce 9780691610474
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.54Professor Luce considers to what extent Livy may be said to have been in control of his historical material. What is the significance, the author asks, of the units by which Livy structured his... -
Political Dissent in Democratic Athens: Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule by Josiah Ober
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.37How and why did the Western tradition of political theorizing arise in Athens during the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C.? By interweaving intellectual history with political philosophy and... -
Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History by John David Lewis
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.51The goal of war is to defeat the enemy's will to fight. But how this can be accomplished is a thorny issue. Nothing Less than Victory provocatively shows that aggressive, strategic military offenses... -
Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 6: Novela/Nivola by Miguel de Unamuno 9780691609522
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.99The three remarkable pieces of fiction included in this volume are not so much novelets, novels, as nivolas, a form invented by Unamuno. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library... -
Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village by Daniel H. Deudney
Booksplease Price: £42.81Realism, the dominant theory of international relations, particularly regarding security, seems compelling in part because of its claim to embody so much of Western political thought from the ancient... -
William Billings of Boston: Eighteenth-Century Composer by David McKay 9780691655765
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.25The foremost American musician of the eighteenth century, William Billings wrote more than three hundred compositions and six musical collections at a time when Americans were singing almost nothing... -
Becoming a French Aristocrat: The Education of the Court Nobility, 1580-1715 by Mark Edward Motley 9780691602905
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Focusing on the highest-ranking segment of the nobility, Mark Motley examines why a social group whose very essence was based on hereditary status would need or seek instruction and training for its... -
Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People by Josiah Ober
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £46.35This book asks an important question often ignored by ancient historians and political scientists alike: Why did Athenian democracy work as well and for as long as it did? Josiah Ober seeks the... -
The Open Sea: The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome by J. G. Manning
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51A major new economic history of the ancient Mediterranean worldIn The Open Sea, J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world during the Iron Age, from... -
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Unconventional Warfare in the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor 9780691211084
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.46A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of warFlamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the... -
Massing the Tropes: The Metaphorical Construction of American Nuclear Strategy by Ron Hirschbein 9780275967222
Booksplease Price: £56.13At the dawn of the nuclear age, strategist Bernard Brodie recognized our predicament when he said, Nuclear weapons exist and they are incredibly destructive. Despite the end of the Cold War,... -
Athens at the Margins: Pottery and People in the Early Mediterranean World by Nathan T. Arrington
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £41.23How the interactions of non-elites influenced Athenian material culture and societyThe seventh century BC in ancient Greece is referred to as the Orientalizing period because of the strong presence... -
Public Goods, Private Goods by Raymond Geuss
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Much political thinking today, particularly that influenced by liberalism, assumes a clear distinction between the public and the private, and holds that the correct understanding of this should... -
China's Grand Strategy: A Roadmap to Global Power? by David B. H. Denoon 9781479804085
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £83.75Leading scholars examine China's global strategic plans, from Hong Kong to military power, to economic dominance Over the past few decades, China has increasingly challenged the global influence of... -
Diodorus Siculus and the First Century by Kenneth S. Sacks 9780691600345
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Living in Rome during the last years of the Republic, Diodorus of Sicily produced the most expansive history of the ancient world that has survived from antiquity--the Bibliotheke. Whereas Diodorus... -
A History of Greek Political Thought (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 34) by T. A. Sinclair
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £44.24This book gives a general survey of political thought from Homer to the beginning of the Christian era. To the evidence of the philosophers is added that of Herodotus, Euripides, Thucydides, Polybius... -
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Mark Fisher 9781912303496
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74Few works can claim to form the foundation stones of one entire academic discipline, let alone two, but Thucydides's celebrated History of the Peloponnesian War is not only one of the first great... -
Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for a Post-Cold War World by Bruce Russett
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93By illuminating the conflict-resolving mechanisms inherent in the relationships between democracies, Bruce Russett explains one of the most promising developments of the modern international system:... -
Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson 9780691610184
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £75.01Written to replace and extend Torr's Ancient Ships, this generously illustrated underwater Bible" traces the art and technology of Mediterranean ships and seamanship from their first crude stages... -
How to Stop a Conspiracy: An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic by Sallust 9780691212364
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23An energetic new translation of an ancient Roman masterpiece about a failed coup led by a corrupt and charismatic politicianIn 63 BC, frustrated by his failure to be elected leader of the Roman... -
The Unquiet Frontier: Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies, and the Crisis of American Power by Jakub J. Grygiel
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.40From the Baltic to the South China Sea, newly assertive authoritarian states sense an opportunity to resurrect old empires or build new ones at America's expense. Hoping that U.S. decline is real,... -
Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens by Josiah Ober
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73When does democracy work well, and why? Is democracy the best form of government? These questions are of supreme importance today as the United States seeks to promote its democratic values abroad... -
Josephus's The Jewish War: A Biography by Martin Goodman 9780691137391
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05An essential introduction to Josephus's momentous war narrativeThe Jewish War is Josephus's superbly evocative account of the Jewish revolt against Rome, which was crushed in 70 CE with the siege of... -
The Topography of Thebes from the Bronze Age to Modern Times by Sarantis Symeonoglou 9780691611433
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £51.87This book is a comprehensive treatment of the development of Thebes as documented by archaeological and historical evidence and the literary tradition. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton... -
Christians Reading Classics: An Introduction to Greco-Roman Classics from Homer to Boethius Nadya Williams 9780310171072
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75Can Christians today read the great classics of Greco-Roman pagan literature for spiritual formation and growth in the virtues?Classical scholar Nadya Williams responds with an unequivocal "Yes!"... -
The Stones of Athens by Richard Ernest Wycherley 9780691609706
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43Interpreting the monuments of Athens in light of literature, R. E. Wycherley brings before us the city the ancients knew. Philosophers, statesmen, travelers, dramatists, poets, private citizens--the... -
History: Politics or Culture? Reflections on Ranke and Burckhardt by Felix Gilbert 9780691601229
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886), generally recognized as the founder of the school of modern critical historical scholarship, and Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897), the great Swiss proponent of cultural... -
William Billings of Boston: Eighteenth-Century Composer by David McKay 9780691657189
RRP: £142.00Booksplease Price: £112.36The foremost American musician of the eighteenth century, William Billings wrote more than three hundred compositions and six musical collections at a time when Americans were singing almost nothing...