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Twilight of the Titans: Great Power Decline and Retrenchment by Paul K. MacDonald 9781501717093
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $70.77In Twilight of the Titans, Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent examine great power transitions since 1870 to determine how declining powers choose to behave, identifying the strong incentives to... -
Advice to War Presidents: A Remedial Course in Statecraft by Angelo Codevilla 9780465004836
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $68.66War presidents" are hardly exceptional in modern American history. To a greater or lesser extent, every president since Wilson has been a War President. Each has committed our country to the pursuit... -
Herodotus: Histories Book V by Peter J. Rhodes 9781789620153
Booksplease Price: $65.87Herodotus is a colossus of ancient history, from whose major work the Histories, much of our knowledge of the Persian Wars and other events of the period derives. Writing in the third quarter of the... -
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom by Tom Holland
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $16.98Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the... -
Hannibal and Scipio: Parallel Lives Simon Hornblower 9781009453356
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $59.77The Second Punic War between Carthage and Rome began in 218 BCE and ended in 202 with the dramatic defeat at the Battle of Zama of Carthage's commander Hannibal by his adversary, the Roman Scipio... -
Twilight of the Titans: Great Power Decline and Retrenchment by Paul K. MacDonald
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $38.08In Twilight of the Titans, Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent examine great power transitions since 1870 to determine how declining powers choose to behave, identifying the strong incentives to... -
The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others by Paul Cartledge
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $29.70This book provides an original and challenging answer to the question: 'Who were the Classical Greeks?' Paul Cartledge - 'one of the most theoretically alert, widely read and prolific of contemporary... -
Roots of War: Wanting Power, Seeing Threat, Justifying Force by David G. Winter 9780199355587
Booksplease Price: $101.65Ever since Thucydides pondered reasons for the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, writers, philosophers, and social scientists have all tried to identify and catalog factors that promote conflict... -
Courage in the Democratic Polis: Ideology and Critique in Classical Athens by Ryan K. Balot 9780190879525
Booksplease Price: $99.31In this careful and compelling study, Ryan K. Balot brings together political theory, classical history, and ancient philosophy in order to reinterpret courage as a specifically democratic virtue... -
Rank Hypocrisies: The Insult of the REF by Derek Sayer 9781473906563
Booksplease Price: $167.43"In crystalline text steeped in cold rage, Sayer takes aim at the REF's central claim, that it is a legitimate process of expert peer review. He critiques university and national-level REF processes... -
Deliver Us From Evil by Tom Holland
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Wiltshire, during the dying days of Oliver Cromwell's Republic. Robert Vaughan is the son of a Parliamentarian officer who is investigating a series of grisly murders which suggest a link with... -
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age by Hal Brands
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $67.12The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key... -
War and Its Causes by Jeremy Black 9781538117910
Booksplease Price: $65.31This interdisciplinary book provides an invaluable perspective on the causes of war, drawing on a thoughtful consideration of what war actually is-the key foundation for an analysis of its causes... -
The Lives of the Caesars Suetonius 9780241186893
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $38.08A masterful new translation of Suetonius' renowned biography of the twelve Caesars, bringing to life a portrait of the first Roman emperors in stunning detailThe ancient Roman empire was the supreme... -
Rome: An Empire of Many Nations: New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity by Jonathan J. Price 9781009256223
Booksplease Price: $51.13The center of gravity in Roman studies has shifted far from the upper echelons of government and administration in Rome or the Emperor's court to the provinces and the individual. The... -
The Earliest Romans: A Character Sketch by Ramsay MacMullen 9780472035700
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $47.07"A vibrant account that puts flesh on the bare bones of early Roman history." ---Celia Schultz, University of Michigan The ancient Romans' story down to 264 B.C. can be made credible by stripping... -
Hobbes and the Law of Nature by Perez Zagorin 9780691139807
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $71.43This is the first major work in English to explore at length the meaning, context, aims, and vital importance of Thomas Hobbes's concepts of the law of nature and the right of nature. Hobbes remains... -
A Measure Short of War: A Brief History of Great Power Subversion Jill Kastner 9780197683163
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $32.64A fast-paced, gripping history of meddling, manipulation, and skulduggery among great power rivals In 2016, the United States was stunned by evidence of Russian meddling in the US presidential... -
Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature: The Hope for Planetary Salvation William Franke 9781032895857
Booksplease Price: $122.64This book rereads classical narratives of plague from the Bible (Exodus) and classical antiquity, both Greek (Homer, Thucydides, Sophocles) and Roman (Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid), through the Middle... -
The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death Joanna Stalnaker 9780300181340
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $44.23A moving, intimate portrait of the Enlightenment philosophers as they faced the end of their lives and their historical moment What would the Enlightenment look like if we viewed it through the... -
Tragedy, Philosophy, and Political Education in Plato's Laws by Ryan K. Balot 9780197647226
Booksplease Price: $166.00What are the prospects for ambitious political reform in communities of traditional, passionate, and even self-righteous citizens? Can thoughtful legislators create a healthy society for citizens... -
Design in the Wax, The: The Structure of the Divine Comedy and Its Meaning by Marc Cogan
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $60.61The Design in the Wax recovers the specifically medieval interpretation of the structure which underlies each part of the poem and the poem as a whole, and shows readers how to discover the single... -
From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods by Martha C. Howell
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.74From Reliable Sources is a lively introduction to historical methodology, an overview of the techniques historians must master in order to reconstruct the past. Its focus on the basics of source... -
The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek by Evert van Emde Boas 9780521127295
Booksplease Price: $69.17This is the first full-scale reference grammar of Classical Greek in English in a century. The first work of its kind to reflect significant advances in linguistics made in recent decades, it... -
Design in the Wax, The: The Structure of the Divine Comedy and Its Meaning by Marc Cogan 9780268055585
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $140.56The Design in the Wax recovers the specifically medieval interpretation of the structure which underlies each part of the poem and the poem as a whole, and shows readers how to discover the single... -
The Tomb of Agamemnon by Cathy Gere 9780674063884
RRP: $52.55Booksplease Price: $45.98Mycenae, the fabled city of Homer's King Agamemnon, still stands in a remote corner of mainland Greece. Revered in antiquity as the pagan world's most tangible connection to the heroes of the Trojan... -
When Worlds Elide: Classics, Politics, Culture by Karen Bassi 9780739122754
Booksplease Price: $120.74For better or worse, the ancient Greeks retain their cultural, political, and philosophical authority for contemporary educators and actors. Maureen Dowd has talked about the Hellenization of the... -
The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek by Evert van Emde Boas 9780521198608
RRP: $202.80Booksplease Price: $191.61This is the first full-scale reference grammar of Classical Greek in English in a century. The first work of its kind to reflect significant advances in linguistics made in recent decades, it... -
Estate Management and Symposium by Xenophon 9780198823513
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.63Xenophon was acknowledged in Antiquity as a philosopher, a historian (third in the triad of great Classical historians, alongside Herodotus and Thucydides), and a literary artist. His narrative was... -
Dr. Seuss and the Art of War: Secret Military Lessons by Montgomery McFate 9781538193624
Booksplease Price: $53.78If you take an interest in military and national security affairs, you have probably read the works of Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, and Thucydides. But what about the books of the underappreciated military... -
Rebooting Clausewitz: 'On War' in the Twenty-First Century by Christopher Coker
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $37.52Rebooting Clausewitz offers an entirely new take on the work of history's greatest theorist of war. Written for an undergraduate readership that often struggles with Clausewitz's master work On... -
The Greek World 479-323 BC by Simon Hornblower
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $91.24The Greek World 479-323 BC has been an indispensable guide to classical Greek history since its first publication nearly thirty years ago. Now Simon Hornblower has comprehensively revised and partly... -
The Iran-Iraq War: Antecedents and Conflict Escalation by Jerome Donovan 9781138788930
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $97.29In a tradition that dates back to the time of Thucydides, and the Peloponnesian War, the systematic examination of conflict and war has long been a preoccupation of political scientists seeking to... -
The Steps to War: An Empirical Study by Paul D. Senese 9780691138923
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16The question of what causes war has concerned statesmen since the time of Thucydides. The Steps to War utilizes new data on militarized interstate disputes from 1816 to 2001 to identify the factors... -
Imperialism Past and Present by Emanuele Saccarelli 9780199397891
Booksplease Price: $58.25After a long hiatus, when it was seemingly banished to the wilderness of esoteric academic debate, imperialism is back as one of the buzzwords of the day. In the past decade in particular, scholars,... -
Arrian the Historian: Writing the Greek Past in the Roman Empire by Daniel W Leon
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $65.62During the first centuries of the Roman Empire, Greek intellectuals wrote a great many texts modeled on the dialect and literature of Classical Athens, some 500 years prior. Among the most successful... -
Hellenomania Katherine Harloe 9780367593278
RRP: $101.38Booksplease Price: $95.63Hellenomania, the second volume in the MANIA series, presents a wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary exploration of the modern reception of ancient Greek material culture in cultural practices ranging... -
Ideological Possession and the Rise of the New Right: The Political Thought of Carl Jung Laurie M. Johnson 9781138082120
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40Political theorist Laurie M. Johnson deals with Jung's analysis of the effects of modern scientific rationalism on the development of communism, fascism and Nazism in the 20th century and applies... -
Strategy and Defence Planning: Meeting the Challenge of Uncertainty by Colin S. Gray
Booksplease Price: $98.73Strategy and Defence Planning: Meeting the Challenge of Uncertainty explores and examines why and how security communities prepare purposefully for their future defence. The author explains that... -
Beyond Power Transitions: The Lessons of East Asian History and the Future of U.S.-China Relations David Kang 9780231205375
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16Questions about the likelihood of conflict between the United States and China have dominated international policy discussion for years. But the leading theory of power transitions between a...