ARCHAEOLOGY OF BRITAIN by Ian B. Ralston (Editor); John Hunter (Editor)
$57.00 AUD
Category: History
The Archaeology of Britain is a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to all the archaeological periods covering Britain from early prehistory to the industrial revolution. It provides a one-stop textbook for the entire archaeology of Britain and reflects the most recent developments in archaeology ...Show more
ANCIENT CITIES by Charles Gates
$56.99 AUD
Category: History
Well illustrated with nearly 300 line drawings, maps and photographs, Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds from an archaeological perspective, and in their cultural and historical contexts. Covering a huge area geographically and chronological ...Show more
ROMAN EASTERN FRONTIER AND THE PERSIAN WARS by Michael H. Dodgeon (Editor); Samuel N. C. Lieu (Editor)
$68.99 AUD
Category: History
Collects and translates such diverse sources as Zosimus, John Malalas, Al-Tabari and Moses of Chorene, to give us a picture of this complex, fraught period of Roman history.
The Mummies of Urumchi by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
$38.95 AUD
Category: History
In the museums of Ürümchi, the windswept regional capital of the Uyghur Autonomous Region (also known as Chinese Turkestan), a collection of ancient mummies lies at the center of an enormous mystery. Some of Ürümchi's mummies date back as far as 4,000 years--contemporary with the famous Egyptian mummies ...Show more
ROMAN WAY by Edith Hamilton
$20.95 AUD
Category: History
In this informal history of Roman civilization, Edith Hamilton vividly depicts the Roman life and spirit as they are revealed in the greatest writers of the time. Among these literary guides are Cicero, who left an incomparable collection of letters; Catullus, the quintessential poet of love; Horace, th ...Show more
Alexander the Great by Ulrich Wilcken
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Category: History | Series: The\Norton Library
"ALEXANDER THE GREAT opened a new era in the history of the world, and by his life's work determined its development for many centuries. He is conspicuous among the great men of history, because this work was accomplished in so short a span; when he died, he had not yet reached his thirty-third year. It ...Show more
MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGY AUSTRALIAN APPROACHES by Mark Staniforth (Editor); Michael Nash (Editor)
$129.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Springer Series in Underwater Archaeology Ser.
Subject areas discussed in this book include shipwrecks and abandoned vessels, underwater site formation processes, maritime infrastructure and industries such as whaling, submerged aircraft and Australian Indigenous sites underwater. The application of National and State legislation and management regi ...Show more
CLEOPATRA THE GREAT by Joann Fletcher
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Cleopatra is a truly iconic figure: the last Egyptian Pharaoh and arguably the greatest. But she is also a mythical figure, mainly known through Shakespearean tragedy and Roman propaganda. There has been little attempt to tell her true story - until now . . . In this, the first biography for over thirty ...Show more
GHOST ON THE THRONE by James Romm
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Category: History
Alexander the Great, perhaps the most commanding leader in history, united his empire and his army by the titanic force of his will. His death at the age of thirty-two spelled the end of that unity. The story of Alexander’s conquest of the Persian empire is known to many readers, but the dramatic and c ...Show more
HANDBOOK OF ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN COINS by Zander H. Klawans; Kenneth E. Bressett (Editor)
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Category: History
Easy-to-use book explaining how to identify dates, inscriptions, cities, & emperors.
The Battle of Marathon by Peter Krentz
$36.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Yale Library of Military History Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A gripping account of the pivotal battle that changed Greek military history 2,500 years ago How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Clever scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produce ...Show more
Ancient Greek Athletics by Stephen G. Miller
$61.99 AUD
Category: History
A comprehensive survey of sports in ancient Greece, available just in time for the Summer Olympics in AthensThe earliest Olympic games began more than twenty-five-hundred years ago. What were they like, how were they organized, who participated? Were ancient sports a means of preparing youth for warfare ...Show more