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Astronomy and Astrology in al-Andalus and the Maghrib Julio Samso 9781138375161
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.75This new volume of papers by Julio SamsA(3) deals with the development of astronomy and astrology in al-Andalus and the Maghrib between the 10th and the 19th centuries. Opening with a survey of the... -
Quirky Sides of Scientists: True Tales of Ingenuity and Error from Physics and Astronomy by David R. Topper 9780387710181
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $32.38These historical narratives of scientific behavior reveal the often irrational way scientists arrive at and assess their theories. There are stories of Einstein's stubbornness leading him to reject a... -
Why North is Up: Map Conventions and Where They Came From by Mick Ashworth
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.81Many people have a love of maps. But what lies behind the process of map-making? How have cartographers through the centuries developed their craft and established a language of maps which helps them... -
The Open Sea: The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome by J. G. Manning 9780691151748
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.64A 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 in the Iron Age, from Phoenician... -
Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt: Volume 2, Historical Studies by Willy Clarysse 9780521838399
RRP: $147.06Booksplease Price: $143.13The historical studies of this second volume provide an examination of the economic and social history of Ptolemaic Egypt. The salt-tax registers of P. Count not only throw light on key aspects of... -
Athens After Empire: A History from Alexander the Great to the Emperor Hadrian by Ian Worthington 9780190633981
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $48.99A major new history of Athens' remarkably long and influential life after the collapse of its empire To many the history of post-Classical Athens is one of decline. True, Athens hardly commanded... -
Athens After Empire: A History from Alexander the Great to the Emperor Hadrian by Ian Worthington 9780197684764
Booksplease Price: $31.77A major new history of Athens' remarkably long and influential life after the collapse of its empire. To many the history of post-Classical Athens is one of decline. True, Athens hardly commanded... -
Ancient Jewish Sciences and the History of Knowledge in Second Temple Literature by Jonathan Ben-Dov
RRP: $68.37Booksplease Price: $56.90Until very recently, the idea of ancient Jewish sciences would have been considered unacceptable. Since the 1990s, Early Modern and Medieval Science in Jewish sources has been actively studied, but... -
1434: The Year a Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance by Gavin Menzies
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68In his bestselling book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence... -
Copernicus: A Very Short Introduction by Owen Gingerich
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) is a pivotal figure in the birth of modern science, the astronomer who "stopped the sun and set the earth in motion." Born in Poland, educated at Cracow and then in... -
Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt by Willy Clarysse 9780521124836
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $53.25The historical studies of this second volume provide an examination of the economic and social history of Ptolemaic Egypt. The salt-tax registers of P. Count not only throw light on key aspects of... -
The Cleopatras Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 9781472295187
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.55'A thrilling biography, filled with the imperial ambitions and merciless intrigues' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORECleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen.A woman more myth than history,... -
Anaximander: And the Nature of Science by Carlo Rovelli 9780241635049
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98A 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... -
Ancient Greek and Roman Science: A Very Short Introduction by Liba Taub
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.51Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Ancient Greece is often considered to be the birthplace of science and medicine, and the explanation of natural phenomena without recourse to... -
100 Science Discoveries: That Changed the World by Colin Salter
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.40Arranged in chronological order from the early Greek mathematicians, Euclid and Archimedes through to present-day Nobel Prize winners, 100 Science Discoveries That Changed the World charts the great... -
Beyond Alexandria: Literature and Empire in the Seleucid World by Margrete Sija Visscher 9780190059088
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $116.49Beyond Alexandria aims to provide a better understanding of Seleucid literature, covering the period from Seleucus I to Antiochus III. Despite the historical importance of the Seleucid Empire during... -
The Astronomy Book by DK
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $22.67Learn about planets, stars and black holes in The Astronomy Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn... -
Counting the People in Hellenistic Egypt by Willy Clarysse 9780521124874
RRP: $63.21Booksplease Price: $61.89This volume publishes fifty-four Ptolemaic papyri from the Fayum and Middle Egypt, with English translations and extensive commentaries. The texts, dating from c. 250-150 BC and written in either... -
Anaximander: And the Nature of Science Carlo Rovelli 9781802063042
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26A 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... -
Tyrant: Destroyer of Cities by Christian Cameron
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95This novel in the scintillating Tyrant series brings the epic siege of Rhodes in 306 BC to spectacular life.The death of Alexander the Great was the signal to begin the greatest war in human history... -
Literary Territories: Cartographical Thinking in Late Antiquity by Dr. Scott Fitzgerald Johnson 9780190221232
Booksplease Price: $138.40Literary Territories introduces readers to a wide range of literature from 200-900 CE in which geography is a defining principle of literary art. From accounts of Holy Land pilgrimage, to Roman... -
Cleopatra: The captivating new retelling of the story of the legendary Egyptian queen. Meet the real woman behind the myth Natasha Solomons 9781786583543
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55'Wonderful. A fresh and lively take on a well-known tale' The Times'Richly drawn . . . There's pomp and splendour in Solomons' sensuous tale, which is lush with exquisite places, heady scents, gold... -
The Last Kings of Macedonia and the Triumph of Rome by Ian Worthington
RRP: $32.88Booksplease Price: $31.71In the history of ancient Macedonia, the last three Antigonid kings--Philip V (r. 221-179), his son Perseus (r. 179-168), and the pretender Andriscus or Philip VI (r. 149-148)--are commonly... -
Scribes of Space: Place in Middle English Literature and Late Medieval Science by Matthew Boyd Goldie 9781501734045
RRP: $65.79Booksplease Price: $54.88Scribes of Space posits that the conception of space-the everyday physical areas we perceive and through which we move-underwent critical transformations between the thirteenth and fifteenth... -
The Making of a King: Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks by Robin Waterfield 9780198853015
RRP: $35.46Booksplease Price: $33.88In the third century BCE, Macedon dominated mainland Greece, but was rapidly descending into chaos. One of the consequences was a massive invasion of Celts, who ravaged and plundered Macedon and... -
Agamben and the Signature of Astrology: Spheres of Potentiality by Paul Colilli 9781498505956
Booksplease Price: $124.29The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of the world's most important living philosophers, has been the object of much scrutiny. Yet, there is one dimension of his thought that remains unexamined by... -
The Legend of the Septuagint: From Classical Antiquity to Today by Abraham Wasserstein 9780521104616
RRP: $60.63Booksplease Price: $58.58The Septuagint is the most influential of the Greek versions of the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. The exact circumstances of its creation are uncertain, but different versions of a... -
Valentinus’ Legacy and Polyphony of Voices Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski 9781032019413
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $50.09This book challenges the popular use of 'Valentinian' to describe a Christian school of thought in the second century CE by analysing documents ascribed to 'Valentinians' by early Christian... -
Migration, Workers, and Fundamental Freedoms: Pandemic Vulnerabilities and States of Exception in India by Asha Hans 9780367641559
Booksplease Price: $77.50The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a mass exodus of India's migrant workers from the cities back to the villages. This book explores the social conditions and concerns around health, labour,... -
Zero Degrees: Geographies of the Prime Meridian by Charles W. J. Withers 9780674088818
RRP: $45.09Booksplease Price: $39.06Space and time on earth are regulated by the prime meridian, 0 Degrees, which is, by convention, based at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. But the meridian's location in southeast London is not a... -
Matter and Form: From Natural Science to Political Philosophy by Ann Ward 9780739135686
Booksplease Price: $144.65Matter and Form explores the relationship that has long existed between natural science and political philosophy. Plato's Socrates articulates the Ideas or Forms as an account of the ultimate source... -
Printing a Mediterranean World: Florence, Constantinople, and the Renaissance of Geography by Sean Roberts 9780674066489
RRP: $69.60Booksplease Price: $57.43In 1482, the Florentine humanist and statesman Francesco Berlinghieri produced the Geographia, a book of over one hundred folio leaves describing the world in Italian verse, inspired by the ancient... -
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On The Map: Why the world looks the way it does by Simon Garfield 9781846685101 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $3.10Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google... -
A Companion to the Hellenistic World Andrew Erskine (University of Edinburgh) 9781405132787
RRP: $51.54Booksplease Price: $48.23Covering the period from the death of Alexander the Great to the celebrated defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the hands of Augustus, this authoritative Companion explores the world that Alexander... -
Agamben and the Signature of Astrology: Spheres of Potentiality by Paul Colilli 9781498505970
Booksplease Price: $53.35The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of the world's most important living philosophers, has been the object of much scrutiny. Yet, there is one dimension of his thought that remains unexamined by... -
On The Map: Why the world looks the way it does by Simon Garfield
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.98Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google... -
Geminos's Introduction to the Phenomena: A Translation and Study of a Hellenistic Survey of Astronomy by James Evans 9780691123394
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $85.97This is the first complete English translation of Geminos's Introduction to the Phenomena--one of the most important and interesting astronomical works of its type to have survived from Greek... -
Ancient Geography: The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece and Rome by Duane W. Roller 9781784539078
Booksplease Price: $35.58Since then new texts have appeared (such as the Artemidoros palimpsest), and new editions of existing texts (by geographical authorities who include Agatharchides, Eratosthenes, Pseudo-Skylax and... -
Historical Dictionary of Ancient Nubia by Richard A. Lobban Jr. 9781538133385
Booksplease Price: $146.30This new book descends from a former combined reference book on Ancient and Medieval Nubia but now expands and focuses primarily on Prehistoric and Ancient times. It contextualizes the foundational... -
The Astronomy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK 9781465464187
RRP: $45.14Booksplease Price: $34.26Since the dawn of humankind, people have looked upward to the heavens and tried to understand them. This encyclopedia takes you on an expedition through time and space to discover our place in the...