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What did the Romans know?: An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking by Daryn Lehoux
Booksplease Price: $52.03What did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient science. Lehoux contends... -
Galileo on the World Systems: A New Abridged Translation and Guide by Galileo Galilei 9780520206465
RRP: $56.55Booksplease Price: $53.20Galileo's 1632 book, "Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican", comes alive for twentieth-century readers thanks to Maurice Finocchiaro's brilliant new translation and... -
Cleopatra: I Am Fire and Air by Harold Bloom 9781501164170
RRP: $31.20Booksplease Price: $19.89From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatra-one of the Bard's most riveting and memorable female... -
The Decrees of Memphis and Canopus: Vol. III: The Decree of Canopus by E. A. Wallis Budge 9781138789791
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $106.26This is the third of three volumes exploring some of the most remarkable insights into Ancient Egypt to have come to light in modern times. The first two volumes deal with the Rosetta Stone, an... -
Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World by Maria M. Portuondo
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $151.32The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who lived there, and what were their... -
Secret Science: Spanish Cosmography and the New World by Maria M. Portuondo 9780226055404
Booksplease Price: $59.92The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists, and imperial expansion necessitated changes in the way scientific knowledge was gathered. Spanish cosmographers in... -
Athens and Macedon: Attic Letter-Cutters of 300 to 229 B.C. by Stephen V. Tracy 9780520233331
RRP: $138.45Booksplease Price: $123.12Little of the historiography of third-century Athens survives, and much of what we know - or might know - about the period has come down to us in inscriptions carved by Attic stonemasons of the time... -
Notes For Travellers In Egypt by Budge 9781138977303
Booksplease Price: $62.38First published in 2008. This encyclopaedic work on ancient Egypt was specially commissioned by Thomas Cook for their Egyptian tours. Today, it is unrivalled as a reliable general source for those... -
The Jews of Egypt: From Rameses II to Emperor Hadrian by Joseph Meleze Modrzejewski 9780691015750
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $86.87Hellenistic Egypt was the setting for perhaps the first Jewish Golden Age, a time "golden" in Jewish memory as an era of vibrant cultural interaction between the Jews and their gentile hosts. This is... -
A Short, Illustrated History of... Scientific Discoveries by Clive Gifford
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.85If your kids are fed up with learning the names of kings and queens or dates of battles, then this is the history book for them. This book only contains some of the most brilliant discoveries in... -
Revival: Egyptian Antiquities in the Nile Valley (1932): A Descriptive Handbook by James Baikie
RRP: $204.75Booksplease Price: $187.38This book is confined to offering a description of objects of Egyptian architecture and art in the larger sense; though occasionally the importance of some exceptionally notable smaller specimen of... -
The Abbasid House of Wisdom: Between Myth and Reality by 9781032347455
Booksplease Price: $117.16This volume examines the library of the Abbasid caliphs, known as "The House of Wisdom" ("Bayt al-Hikma"), exploring how this important institution has been misconceived by scholars'.This book places... -
What Did the Romans Know?: An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking by Daryn Lehoux 9780226471143
Booksplease Price: $179.07What did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient science. Lehoux contends... -
Wine & Wine Offering In The Religion Of Ancient Egypt by Mu-chou Poo
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $107.21First published in 1995. Striking a niche among an intensely studied literary civilization, this title assesses the meaning of wine and wine offering in the context of Egyptian religion by presenting... -
Dionysos by Richard Seaford 9780415324885
RRP: $66.28Booksplease Price: $64.14Covering a wide range of issues which have been overlooked in the past, including mystery, cult and philosophy, Richard Seaford explores Dionysos - one of the most studied figures of the ancient... -
The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World by Elizabeth D. Carney 9780367560256
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $87.34This volume offers the first comprehensive look at the role of women in the monarchies of the ancient Mediterranean. It consistently addresses certain issues across all dynasties: title; role in... -
Never Had the Like Occurred: Egypt's View of its Past by John Tait 9781598742060
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.98"Never Had the Like Occurred" examines Ancient Egypt's own multifaceted encounters with its past. As Egyptian culture constantly changed and evolved, this book follows a chronological arrangement,... -
Caesarian Legionary Vs Pompeian Legionary: Rome's Civil War 49-45 BC William Horsted 9781472867049
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.32A fully illustrated study of the troops fighting for Caesar and Pompey in three major battles of the Roman Civil War.Triggered by the tensions surrounding Julius Caesar's return to Rome from Gaul,... -
Languages and Nations: The Dravidian Proof in Colonial Madras by Thomas R. Trautmann 9780520244559
RRP: $138.45Booksplease Price: $123.71British rule of India brought together two very different traditions of scholarship about language, whose conjuncture led to several intellectual breakthroughs of lasting value. Two of these were... -
The Abbasid House of Wisdom: Between Myth and Reality by Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu 9781032347486
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $44.01This volume examines the library of the Abbasid caliphs, known as "The House of Wisdom" ("Bayt al-Hikma"), exploring how this important institution has been misconceived by scholars'.This book places... -
Higher Education and the Growth of Knowledge: A Historical Outline of Aims and Tensions by Michael Segre
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $87.34This book sketches the history of higher education, in parallel with the development of science. Its goal is to draw attention to the historical tensions between the aims of higher education and... -
The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe Kenneth Borris (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) 9780415446921
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $90.66The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe investigates early modern scientific accounts of same-sex desires and the shapes they assumed in everyday life. It explores the significance of... -
Hellenistic Naval Warfare and Warships 336-30 BC: War at Sea from Alexander to Actium by Michael Paul Pitassi
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $44.54The Hellenistic period, from Alexander the Great to the Battle of Actium, was a time of great technological change and innovation in naval design. There was a naval arms race between the Successor... -
Sight and the Ancient Senses Michael Squire 9781844658664
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.98It is to Greek critical thinking about seeing that we owe our conceptual framework for theorizing the senses, and it is also to such thinking that we owe the lasting legacy of Greco-Roman imagery... -
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Peter A. Clayton
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $75.72Sets each of the seven wonders in their historical context, bringing together materials from ancient sources and the results of modern excavations to suggest why particular places and objects have... -
Strabo of Amasia: A Greek Man of Letters in Augustan Rome Daniela Dueck (Bar Ilan University, Israel) 9780415620178
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98Strabo of Amasia offers an intellectual biography of Strabo, a Greek man of letters, set against the political and cultural background of Augustan Rome. It offers the first full-scale interpretation... -
Rome and the Friendly King (Routledge Revivals): The Character of Client Kingship David Braund 9780415743020
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $107.21Rome and the Friendly King, first published in 1984, offers a functional definition of what is usually called client kingship - to show what a client king (or 'friendly king', to use the Roman term)... -
Ancient Celtic Placenames in Europe and Asia Minor, Number 39 Patrick Sims-Williams 9781405145701
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $43.15An original study revealing the history of place-names from Ireland to Anatolia, from Scotland to the Apennines, and from to Andalusia the Black Seas. Includes numerous original maps and uncovers new... -
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors by Adrian Goldsworthy
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.25'A thrilling read' Tom Holland 'History-writing at its best' Barry Strauss By the end of his short life, Alexander the Great had redrawn the map of the ancient world to create an empire that... -
Ancient Natural History: Histories of Nature Roger French 9780415115452
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $90.66Ancient Natural History surveys the ways in which people in the ancient world thought about nature. The writings of Aristotle, Theophrastus, Strabo, Pliny are examined, as well as the popular beliefs... -
Ancient Crete: From Early Times Until the Roman Occupation by 9781138010536
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98First published in 2006. A rapid advance of Cretan studies in recent years is a measure of their importance for our understanding of the early history of European civilization. It is now generally... -
Man, State and Deity: Essays in Ancient History by Victor Ehrenberg
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37First published in 1974, this book is a collection of nine essays written by Victor Ehrenberg between 1925 and 1967, five of which had not been published before. They deal with a number of aspects of... -
Antony and Cleopatra Adrian Goldsworthy 9780753828632
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.14The epic story of one of the most famous love affairs in history, by the bestselling author of Caesar.The love affair between Antony and Cleopatra is one of the most famous stories from the ancient... -
Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route by Steven E. Sidebotham 9780520244306
RRP: $138.45Booksplease Price: $111.62The legendary overland silk road was not the only way to reach Asia for ancient travelers from the Mediterranean. During the Roman Empire's heyday, equally important maritime routes reached from the... -
Hist West Educ:Ancient World V 1 by 9780415848190
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $97.87Volume One of three, this is a reprint of James Bowen's A History of Western Education originally published by Methuen in the 1970s. Volume One covers The Ancient World: Orient and Mediterranean... -
Syrisch-arabische Biographieen des Aristotles. Syrische Commentare zur Eisagoge des Porphyrios by Anton Baumstark 9781611434033
RRP: $261.30Booksplease Price: $232.67The surviving versions of the Syriac translation of Ptolemy's life of Aristotle (which contains Aristotle's will), and the Syriac commentaries on Porphyry's Isagoge; the only printed edition, with... -
Pi: A Biography of the World's Most Mysterious Number by Alfred S. Posamentier 9781633889088
Booksplease Price: $33.56We all learned that the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter is called pi and that the value of this algebraic symbol is roughly 3.14. What we weren't told, though, is that behind... -
Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity: The Figure of the Map in Contemporary Theory and Fiction by Peta Mitchell 9780415809122
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $90.66The last fifty years have witnessed the growing pervasiveness of the figure of the map in critical, theoretical, and fictional discourse. References to mapping and cartography are endemic in... -
Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World: New Perspectives by Zinon Papakonstantinou 9780415641166
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $107.21Sport has been practised in the Greco-Roman world at least since the second millennium BC. It was socially integrated and was practised in the context of ceremonial performances, physical education... -
Aristotle: New Light on His Life and On Some of His Lost Works, Volume 1: Some Novel Interpretations of the Man and His Life Anton-Hermann Chroust 9781138942370
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $94.54Originally published in 1973. The predominantly historical approach in this book heralds a belief that a better understanding of Aristotle the man, and the salient events of his life, leads to a...