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Cosmic Roots: The Conflict Between Science And Religion And How It Led To The Secular Age by Ira Mark Egdall
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.76Cosmic Roots traces the five-thousand-year conflict between science and religion - and how it has shaped our modern secular worldview.Told with rare clarity and striking insight, this fascinating and... -
Cosmic Roots: The Conflict Between Science And Religion And How It Led To The Secular Age by Ira Mark Egdall 9789811251382
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £88.11Cosmic Roots traces the five-thousand-year conflict between science and religion - and how it has shaped our modern secular worldview.Told with rare clarity and striking insight, this fascinating and... -
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Isabella L. Bird 9781108014731
Booksplease Price: £43.34This is an evocative account, first published in 1883, of the final expedition to the East by Isabella Bird (1831-1904), who was one of the most famous Victorian female explorers, and the first woman... -
Alexandria: City of Gifts and Sorrows by A. J. Polyzoides 9781909339965
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.22Ancient Alexandria was built by the Greek Macedonians. Ptolemy started the dynasty and in thirty years completed the first lighthouse, and the grand library and museum, which functioned as a... -
Trigonometry: Notes, Problems And Exercises Roger Delbourgo (Middlesex Univ, Uk) 9789813203112
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £21.82This book provides a thorough, intermediate-level yet concise course in Trigonometry for use in colleges. There are 37 short chapters, each treating one specific theme and containing worked examples... -
Complex Numbers and Geometry by Liang-shin Hahn 9781470451820
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £42.53The purpose of this book is to demonstrate that complex numbers and geometry can be blended together beautifully. This results in easy proofs and natural generalizations of many theorems in plane... -
Geography, Urbanisation and Settlement Patterns in the Roman Near East by Henry Innes MacAdam
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19This title was first published in 2002: This volume focuses on the Roman provinces of Syria and Arabia, above all the lands now within Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. The first articles look at questions... -
Trigonometry: Notes, Problems And Exercises by Roger Delbourgo 9789813207103
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £43.34This book provides a thorough, intermediate-level yet concise course in Trigonometry for use in colleges. There are 37 short chapters, each treating one specific theme and containing worked examples... -
Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality by Karen Ni Mheallaigh 9781107079335
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99This book offers a captivating new interpretation of Lucian as a fictional theorist and writer to stand alongside the novelists of the day, bringing to bear on his works a whole new set of reading... -
Melothesia in Babylonia: Medicine, Magic, and Astrology in the Ancient Near East by Markham Judah Geller 9781614517757
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £62.30This monograph begins with a puzzle: a Babylonian text from late 5th century BCE Uruk associating various diseases with bodily organs, which has evaded interpretation. The correct answer may reside... -
Commentarius in Claudii Ptolemaei Harmonica by Porphyrius 9783110425161
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £47.92Porphyry's Commentary on Ptolemy's "Harmonics" is a unique document of Neoplatonic thought on music. Not only does it contain a thorough discussion of the perception and appreciation of pitched... -
The Judgement of Caesar Steven Saylor 9781841199221
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.02It is 48 BC.For years now the rival Roman generals Caesar and Pompey have engaged in a contest for world domination. Both now turn to Egypt, Pompey planning a last stand on the banks of the Nile,... -
Bearing the Heavens: Tycho Brahe and the Astronomical Community of the Late Sixteenth Century by Adam Mosley 9781107403659
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £45.41This book is a study of the astronomical culture of sixteenth-century Europe. It examines, in particular, the ways in which members of the nascent international astronomical community shared... -
A Short History of Greek Mathematics by James Gow 9781108009034
Booksplease Price: £34.48James Gow's A Short History of Greek Mathematics (1884) provided the first full account of the subject available in English, and it today remains a clear and thorough guide to early arithmetic and... -
Methods and Problems in Greek Science: Selected Papers by G. E. R. Lloyd 9780521397629
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £43.05This book was first published in 1991. The study of ancient science and its relations with Greek philosophy has made a significant and growing contribution to our understanding of ancient thought and... -
Greek Musical Writings: Volume 2, Harmonic and Acoustic Theory by Andrew Barker 9780521616973
Booksplease Price: £35.08This second volume of Greek Musical Writings contains important texts on harmonic and acoustic theory, illustrating the progress of these sciences from their beginnings in the sixth century BC over... -
Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 2: Selected Texts in Translation by D. Graham J. Shipley 9781009184229
Booksplease Price: £118.88Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the surviving works of the well-known authors Strabo, Pausanias, and Ptolemy, but also by many other texts dating from the Archaic to the... -
The Historical Geography of Asia Minor by W. M. Ramsay 9781108014533
Booksplease Price: £49.54The archaeologist and New Testament scholar William Mitchell Ramsay (1851-1939) first published The Historical Geography of Asia Minor in 1890, pioneering the study of classical topography. The book,... -
Callimachus in Context: From Plato to the Augustan Poets by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes 9781107470644
Booksplease Price: £32.12Scholarly reception has bequeathed two Callimachuses: the Roman version is a poet of elegant non-heroic poetry (usually erotic elegy), represented by a handful of intertexts with a recurring set of... -
Appreciating Geometry Through Extraordinary Relationships by Alfred S Posamentier 9789819815142
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.89This book presents 125 unusual geometric relationships, offering clear proofs that will captivate readers of all backgrounds. Geometry is one of the most visually compelling and surprising branches... -
The History of Ceylon, from the Earliest Period to the Year MDCCCXV: To Which is Subjoined, Robert Knox's Historical Relation of the Island by A. M. Philalethes 9781108046558
Booksplease Price: £78.40This 1817 book by 'A. M. Philalethes' traces the history of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from the classical period to 1815, providing details of the religion, laws and manners of the people. An appendix... -
Apollonii Pergaei quae Graece exstant cum commentariis antiquis: Volume 1 by Apollonius of Perga 9781108061841
Booksplease Price: £43.64The Greek astronomer and geometrician Apollonius of Perga (c.262-c.190 BCE) produced pioneering written work on conic sections in which he demonstrated mathematically the generation of curves and... -
Greek Astronomy by Thomas L. Heath 9781108062800
Booksplease Price: £30.55From its beginnings in Babylonian and Egyptian theories, through its flowering into revolutionary ideas such as heliocentricity, astronomy proved a source of constant fascination for the philosophers... -
Appreciating Geometry Through Extraordinary Relationships by Alfred S Posamentier 9789819815784
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.76This book presents 125 unusual geometric relationships, offering clear proofs that will captivate readers of all backgrounds. Geometry is one of the most visually compelling and surprising branches... -
Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity by Liba Taub
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.76We access Greek and Roman scientific ideas mainly through those texts which happen to survive. By concentrating only on the ideas conveyed, we may limit our understanding of the meaning of those... -
Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity by Liba Taub 9780521113700
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £68.43We access Greek and Roman scientific ideas mainly through those texts which happen to survive. By concentrating only on the ideas conveyed, we may limit our understanding of the meaning of those... -
Power Lines: Maps That Shaped the Way We See the World by Peter Keating 9781579658779
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.05A collection of the greatest political maps in history and how these images have an unmatched power to influence our thinking-and our world. In a world where Google Maps has largely taken over... -
Alexander: God of War by Christian Cameron
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.12The ultimate historical adventure novel: the life of Alexander the Great in a single, epic volume. To many he was a god. To others he was a monster. The truth is even more extraordinary. As a boy,... -
Hellenistic Science at Court by Marquis Berrey 9783110658880
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.44The development of science in the modern world is often held to depend on such institutions as universities, peer-reviewed journals, and democracy. How, then, did new science emerge in the pre-modern... -
Pyramids and Progress: Sketches from Egypt by John Ward 9781108081986
Booksplease Price: £30.55This highly illustrated 1900 work on Egypt old and new by John Ward (1832-1912) seeks to guide the visitor to the ancient sites while also remarking on the radical changes to the economy and the... -
Hellenistic Science at Court by Marquis Berrey 9783110539776
RRP: £120.50Booksplease Price: £81.98The development of science in the modern world is often held to depend on such institutions as universities, peer-reviewed journals, and democracy. How, then, did new science emerge in the pre-modern... -
The Galatians: Celtic Invaders of Greece and Asia Minor by John D Grainger 9781526770684
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23The eastern Celtic tribes, known to the Greeks as Galatians, exploited the waning of Macedonian power after Alexander the Great's death to launch increasingly ambitious raids and expeditions into the... -
Apollonii Pergaei quae Graece exstant cum commentariis antiquis: Volume 2 by Apollonius of Perga 9781108061858
Booksplease Price: £43.64The Greek astronomer and geometrician Apollonius of Perga (c.262-c.190 BCE) produced pioneering written work on conic sections in which he demonstrated mathematically the generation of curves and... -
Land and Taxes in Ptolemaic Egypt: An Edition, Translation and Commentary for the Edfu Land Survey (P. Haun. IV 70) by Thorolf Christensen 9781107159105
Booksplease Price: £105.49This book provides the first edition with an extensive introduction and full commentary of a unique land survey written on papyrus in Greek which derives from that area of southern (Upper) Egypt... -
Cleopatra: Know her. Love her. Fear her. Meet the real woman behind the myth by Natasha Solomons 9781786584816
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.11From the international bestselling author comes an unmissable new untelling of the life of one of the most captivating and misrepresented female figures in history.Cleopatra, Egyptian Princess, grows... -
The Music of the Heavens: Kepler's Harmonic Astronomy by Bruce Stephenson 9780691605968
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £50.43Valued today for its development of the third law of planetary motion, Harmonice mundi (1619) was intended by Kepler to expand on ancient efforts to discern a Creator's plan for the planetary... -
Tragic Failures: Alexandrian Responses to Tragedy and the Tragic by Evina Sistakou 9783110479126
RRP: £132.00Booksplease Price: £89.18This is the first study considering the reception of Greek tragedy and the transformation of the tragic idea in Hellenistic poetry. The focus is on third-century Alexandria, where the Ptolemies... -
A History of Ancient Geography by Henry Fanshawe Tozer 9781108078757
Booksplease Price: £40.39A pioneer in establishing the study of geography in British universities, Henry Fanshawe Tozer (1829-1916) sought to share his deep appreciation of the subject's ancient authorities, particularly... -
Renaissance Thought: A Reader by Robert Black
Booksplease Price: £16.49Renaissance Thought is a fascinating collection of essays on the Renaissance, focusing on humanism and thought. The concept of the Renaissance has always been challenging to define and this book... -
: by Karl Lehmann 9789607067111
Booksplease Price: £10.37Text in Greek This official guide to the site of Samothrace and the Sanctuary of the Great Gods appears now as revised by longtime director of excavations James R. McCredie. Two initial chapters...