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A World without Why by Raymond Geuss 9780691155883
RRP: $60.30Booksplease Price: $49.08Wishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking. Many influential ethical views depend on the optimistic assumption that, despite... -
The Concept of Presocratic Philosophy: Its Origin, Development, and Significance by Andre Laks 9780691191485
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $24.88When we talk about Presocratic philosophy, we are speaking about the origins of Greek philosophy and Western rationality itself. But what exactly does it mean to talk about "Presocratic philosophy"... -
Reassessing the Peloponnesian War by Samuel Gartland 9781009461535
Booksplease Price: $38.28Modern accounts of the great war between the Athenians and the Spartans in the late fifth century BC have simply reanalysed the gripping analysis of military and political events given by Thucydides... -
The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths by William Hansen 9780691170152
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $39.29The first anthology ever to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories--from myths and fairy tales to jokes Captured centaurs and satyrs, talking animals, people who suddenly change... -
How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership by Plutarch 9780691192116
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.87Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any fieldThe ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership qualities of the eminent Greeks and Romans he profiled in... -
In Search of the Phoenicians by Josephine Quinn 9780691195964
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $24.88Who were the ancient Phoenicians-and did they actually exist?The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of... -
The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch by Raffaella Cribiore 9780691128245
Booksplease Price: $124.74This book is a study of the fourth-century sophist Libanius, a major intellectual figure who ran one of the most prestigious schools of rhetoric in the later Roman Empire. He was a tenacious adherent... -
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $29.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982172008Author Chris MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint -
In Search of the Phoenicians by Josephine Quinn 9780691175270
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $44.53Who were the ancient Phoenicians, and did they actually exist? The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art... -
City and Man by Leo Strauss 9780226777016
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $29.20The City and Man consists of provocative essays by the late Leo Strauss on Aristotle's Politics, Plato's Republic, and Thucydides' Peloponnesian Wars. Together, the essays constitute a brilliant... -
Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World by Michael Scott 9780691169842
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.77The 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 Rise and Fall of Classical Greece by Josiah Ober 9780691173146
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.78Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely... -
How to Choose a Leader: Machiavelli's Advice to Citizens by Maurizio Viroli 9780691170145
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.70One of the greatest political advisers of all time, Niccolo Machiavelli thought long and hard about how citizens could identify great leaders--ones capable of defending and enhancing the liberty,... -
Josephus's The Jewish War: A Biography by Martin Goodman 9780691137391
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $22.85An 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... -
Christians Reading Classics: An Introduction to Greco-Roman Classics from Homer to Boethius Nadya Williams 9780310171072
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.77Can 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!"... -
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Unconventional Warfare in the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor 9780691211084
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.80A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of warFlamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the... -
Centaurs and Amazons: Women and the Pre-History of the Great Chain of Being by Page DuBois 9780472081530
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $22.23In Centaurs and Amazons, Page duBois offers a prehistory of hierarchy. Using structural anthropology, symbolic analysis, and recent literary theory, she demonstrates a shift in Greek thought from the... -
How to Stop a Conspiracy: An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic by Sallust 9780691212364
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79An 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 9780691178264
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $28.68From 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,... -
China's Technological Leapfrogging and Economic Catch-up: A Schumpeterian Perspective by Keun Lee 9780192847560
RRP: $137.35Booksplease Price: $131.16Chapters 1 and 10 from this book are published open access and free to read or download from Oxford Academic. After the miraculous economic growth known as the Beijing Consensus, China is now... -
Classical Greek Prose: A Basic Vocabulary by Malcolm Campbell 9781853995590
Booksplease Price: $29.05This handbook contains a classified list, with English equivalents, of 1500 words in common use among classical Greek historians, orators and philosophers. One hundred of these are dealt with at... -
Greek and Roman Historians by Timothy Duff 9781853996016
Booksplease Price: $34.33What did 'history' mean to the Greeks and the Romans? This volume traces the development of conceptions of history and its practice from Homer to the writers of the Roman Empire. It serves as an... -
On Great Writing (On the Sublime) by Longinus 9780872200807
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10Celebrated for its own clarity and sublime style, this classic work of literary theory draws on the writings of Demosthenes, Plato, Sappho, Thucydides, Euripides, and Aeschylus, among others, to... -
The Authoritative Historian: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Historiography by K. Scarlett Kingsley 9781009159449
Booksplease Price: $42.64In this volume an international group of scholars revisits the themes of John Marincola's ground-breaking Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography. The nineteen chapters offer a series of... -
A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare William 9781587315329
Booksplease Price: $21.20"This edition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream takes the comedy seriously. Like my previous Hackett editions, it gives full weight to Shakespeare’s dramatic setting, which other editors (and scholars)... -
Warfare in Ancient Greece Tim Everson 9781837052233
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $14.20The ancient Greeks were a highly educated, literary and artistic people. They were also extremely warlike, living and fighting not only in Greece but in Cyprus, South Italy, Sicily and the vast areas... -
Athenaze, Book I: An Introduction to Ancient Greek by Maurice Balme
RRP: $101.83Booksplease Price: $99.15Since its publication in 1990, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek has helped tens of thousands of students learn classical Greek. Building on the bestselling tradition of previous editions,... -
Athenaze, Book II: An Introduction to Ancient Greek by Maurice Balme
RRP: $123.27Booksplease Price: $99.59Since its publication in 1990, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek has helped tens of thousands of students learn classical Greek. Building on the bestselling tradition of previous editions,... -
Words of Wisdom from Ancient Greece by Aeschylus, Aesop, Alexander the Great, Anaxagoras, Antisthenes, Aristotle, Aristophanes, Bias of Pri Citium 9786185048716
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89His poetry sings of the beauty of the natural world and offers a vision of the paradise that the world could be, but it is also imbued with a deep and painful awareness of the dark abyss that it... -
Political Theory on Death and Dying by Erin A. Dolgoy 9780367437381
RRP: $60.29Booksplease Price: $57.00Political Theory on Death and Dying provides a comprehensive, encyclopedic review that compiles and curates the latest scholarship, research, and debates on the political and social implications of... -
Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica by Arrian
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $10.24'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... -
Europe Anti-Power: Ressentiment and Exceptionalism in EU Debate by Michael Loriaux 9780367596491
RRP: $60.29Booksplease Price: $56.60The EU seeks to define a role for itself in power politics while remaining firm in its rejection of power politics. In order to make power compatible with the European project, EU debate has appended... -
Ancient Historians: A Student Handbook by Susan Sorek 9781441179913
Booksplease Price: $48.83This is an accessible and concise overview of Greek and Roman history writing. The ancient historians were not always objective or accurate, and their intentions for writing were very different from... -
A History of My Times by Xenophon
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Xenophon'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... -
How to Survive a Hostile World: Power, Politics, and the Case for Realism Patrick Porter 9781503644069
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.31The oldest ideas are the best. This book is a defense of an ancient way of thinking about international politics: realism. Patrick Porter, a scholar of international relations, defends the realist... -
Athens and Sparta by Stephen Todd 9781853993985
Booksplease Price: $30.36Athens and Sparta were the two leading powers in the Classical Greek world. They represented entirely different systems of social organization: oligarchic conservatism at Sparta versus radical... -
The Greek Search for Wisdom by Michael K. Kellogg 9781616145750
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $24.51The philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once said that all of Western philosophy was "but a series of footnotes to Plato." By the same token, one could argue that all of Western civilization is but an... -
Pericles and the Conquest of History: A Political Biography by Loren J. Samons 9781107526020
Booksplease Price: $38.30As the most famous and important political leader in Athenian history, Pericles has featured prominently in descriptions and analysis of Athenian democracy from antiquity to the present day. Although... -
Oedipus Tyrannus: A Norton Critical Edition Sophocles 9780393098747
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.65The text is accompanied by a wealth of carefully chosen background materials and essays. "Passages from Ancient Authors" includes selections from Homer's Odyssey, Thucydides' account of the plague,... -
Fall of the Roman Republic by Plutarch
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era, writing sharp and succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and...