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Reducere. Greek and Roman Artillery 399 BC-AD 363 is the 89th book in the Osprey New Vanguard Series. The catapult (katapeltikon) was invented under the patr...

Reducere. When young d'Artagnan travels to Paris to join the ranks of the Musketeers, he soon finds himself challenged to three duals with Athos, Porthos and...

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DescriptionIslamic scriptural sources offer potentially radical notions of equality. Yet medieval Islamic philosophers chose to establish a hierarc...

The catapult (katapeltikon) was developed around 400 BC by engineers and craftsmen assembled by Dionysius I of Syracuse. This work describes the de...

Reducere. The Nihon Shoki, translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second oldest book of classical Japanese history. The book is also called the Nihong...

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Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, composed between the late second and mid-fourth centuries AD, boldly adapts Homeric diction and style to fill in t...

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Reducere. The Dolphin Editions offer a series of monolingual editions of ancient authors with commentary, paraphrase, and illustrations. Each book in the Dol...

Reducere. In the first millennium AD, the Classic Maya created courtly societies in and around the Yucatan Peninsula that have left some of the most striking...

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Saint Anicius Manlius Severinus Bo thius, commonly called Boethius (477-524 AD), was a Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher ...

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Reducere. "The Asclepius" is one of two philosophical books ascribed to the legendary sage of Ancient Egypt, Hermes Trismegistus, who was believed in classic...

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Li Po (AD 701-62) and Tu Fu (AD 712-70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be among China's greatest poets. Li Po, a legendar...

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Reducere. The Testament of Solomon could be the oldest of all classical grimoires. The work is one of the so called Pseudepigrapha and should therefore be da...

Reducere. Confessions by St. Augustine is the most well-known and influential Christian autobiography in existence. Augustine (354-430 A.D.), who was the Bis...

Dating from about the third century A.D., the Yoga Sutra distills the essence of the physical and spiritual discipline of yoga into fewer than two ...

Reducere. Originally written in Latin, ?Steps to Parnassus? was translated into the principal European languages, but the only English version was a free par...

All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodi...

In un'isolata fattoria della Calabria il giovane Luca si trova ad affrontare il duro lavoro della vigna tra i segreti di una famiglia difficile e c...

Sheds new light on the relationship between the emperor and his senators in the later Roman Empire, focusing on Constantius II, son of Constantine ...

The first volume to show the different ways in which surviving linguistic evidence can be used to track movements of people in the ancient world. D...

Reducere. The classic struggle between Greece and Troy brought to life by a panoramic chorus of voices both humble and high, human and divine. The siege of T...

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DescriptionThe first volume of the time-honored travel book about Greece, written 2, 000 years ago Written in the second century AD by a Greek trav...

Maya kings who failed to ensure the prosperity of their kingdoms were subject to various forms of termination, including the ritual defacing and de...

The earliest turkish verses, dating from the sixth century A.D., were love lyrics. Since then, love has dominated the Turks' poetic modes and moods...

In recent decades, advances in deciphering Maya hieroglyphic writing have given scholars new tools for understanding key aspects of ancient Maya so...

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Reducere. This classic of military history tells the exciting story of the fall of St. L , the first major objective of the invading American armies in Norma...

DescriptionWhen the Maya kings of Tikal dedicated their first carved monuments in the third century A.D., inaugurating the Classic period of Maya h...

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Reducere. A new, comprehensive guide to solving acrostic word puzzles, with fifty classic acrostic puzzlesAbout the AuthorSAUL ISLER is the author of three n...

Reducere. Volume nine of Judge Dredd's complete cases, continuing the ever popular series. JUDGE, JURY AND EXECUTIONER... HE IS THE LAW For over three decade...

Reducere. This classic work of scholarship scrutinizes all aspects of Roman military forces throughout the Roman Empire, in Europe, North Africa, and the Nea...

Reducere. This superbly illustrated volume traces the evolution of the art of warfare in the Greek and Roman worlds between 1600 B.C. and A.D. 800, from the ...

Reducere. Cartridges: A Pictorial Digest of Small Arms Ammunition, first published in 1959, is a compendium of firearms ammunition beginning with the earlies...

Reducere. Cartoonist Matt Furie's deadpan comics showcase slacker roommates Andy, Brett, Landwolf, and Pepe in a series of comical vignettes combining laconi...

Graeco-Roman religion in its classic form was polytheistic; on the other hand, monotheistic ideas enjoyed wide currency in ancient philosophy. This...

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Reducere. 1. Antigona: Ombra cara, amorosa 2. Antigona: Io resto sempre a piangere 3. Antigona: Finito e il mio tormento 4. Il burbero di buon cuore: Chi sa,...

Reducere. Introduction by James H. Charlesworth This new edition of David Flusser's classic study of the historical Jesus, revised and updated by his student...

Reducere. Bestselling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world -- from the birth of Sumerian civilization aroun...

Reducere. DescriptionThis important Hermetic dialogue, the 'Virgin of the World' was very nearly lost to the mankind. It appears in only one book, a 5th cent...

Reducere. A writer's guide to Ancient Rome serves as a guide and inspiration to the Roman population, economy, laws, leisure and religion for that author, st...

Featuring interviews with the creators of 39 popular video games--including Halo 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Medal of Honor and Metroid Prime-...

Reducere. The Quartodecimans were early Christians who maintained the tradition derived from Judaism, and observed Pascha at the same time that the Jews obse...

Modeled after the successful Night Before Christmas Gift Set that sold out within weeks of its first printing comes the Night Before Christmas Keep...

Reducere. The ancient Greek hymnic tradition translated beautifully and accessibly. The hymn--as poetry, as craft, as a tool for worship and philosophy--was ...

Reducere. Originally published in England in 1938 and expanded in 1969, this work remains the classic account of global Black resistance. This concise, acces...

Reducere. A magnificent new translation of the enduring epic about the sundering of the Roman Republic.Lucan lived from 39-65 AD at a time of great turbulenc...

Reducere. The classic-period Khmer kings ruled over their part-Hindu and part-Buddhist empire from AD 802 for more than five centuries. This period saw the c...

The Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola--the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law--...

The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia Yevgeny Zamyatin's We is a...

A new edition of thetimeless business classic featured on Mad Men as fresh and relevant now as the day it was written"We admire people who work har...

Contributor(s): Author: Rudolf SimekAuthor: Angela HallFor two and a half thousand years, from 1500 BC to AD 1000, a culture as significant as the ...

A fascinating collection of medieval Arabic travel writing in an important new translationBetween the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab explorer...

Reducere. A cheeky, progressive adult alphabet book that celebrates and illuminates LGBTQ terminology.What would happen if someone picked up a classic ABC bo...