Greece. Modern Architectures in History, Paperback - Alcestis P. Rodi

The picture that usually comes to mind when we think of Greek architecture is one of classical temples and ancient sites. This book takes a look at...

Easter Week 1916. The time of the great rebellion. They call it the Easter Rising. 2, 500 Irish Volunteers take on the mighty British Empire, fight...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Greece, then keep reading...Three captivating manuscripts in one book: History of Greece: A Capt...

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Reducere. DescriptionIn the years before his death at age sixty-eight in 1998, Hughes translated several classical works with great energy and ingenuity. His...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. What do you know about Greek history?The ancient Greeks loom large in legend and lore. In ancient myth, names such as Hercules, Achilles, and Prome...

Three-time winner of the Runciman Award Roderick Beaton looks at the centuries of events that have shaped the intricacies of Greece's unique positi...

Contributor(s): Author: Devin E. NaarTouted as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans, " the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once hom...

This book relates three years (1921-1924) in the life of Gilbert Bagnani, a young Italian archaeologist in Greece, based on his letters to his moth...

DescriptionProvides an up-to-date analysis of big data and multi-agent systems The term Big Data refers to the cases, where data sets are too large...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bruce ClarkIn the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire following World War I, nearly two million citizens in Turkey and Greece...

Reducere. An enthralling world history of food from prehistoric times to the present. A favorite of gastronomes and history buffs alike, Food in History is p...

Reducere. We know ancient Greece, the civilization that shares the same name and gave us much that defines Western culture today. Yet, as financial crises ha...

The role of massacre in history has been given little focused attention either by historians or academics in related fields. This is surprising as ...

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Reducere. Solid, cautious Roger Sansarc and flamboyant, mercurial Alistair Dodge are second cousins who become lifelong friends when they first meet as nine-...

What do the Greek myths mean to us today?Publisher: Oneworld PublicationsAuthor(s): Peter FiennesIllustration(s): black and white illustrationsNumb...

Explore the History and Mythology of the Ancient Greeks There are few things as fascinating and exciting as the world of Ancient Greece, and in the...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore the History and Mythology of the Ancient Greeks There are few things as fascinating and exciting as the world of Ancient Greece,...

The adventurous stories of the greatest explorers in history.Illustrations: With 47 illustrations and 67 mapsEditor(s): Robin Hanbury-Tenison

The only complete and up-to-date overview of Mediterranean history from 1000 to the end of the 20th century.Illustrations: including 1 mapEditor(s)...

Reducere. A magisterial history of the origins, reality, and legend of the knightBorn out of the chaos of the early Middle Ages, the armored and highly mobil...

Reducere. Did you know that the classical Greek philosophers were the earliest people to believe that the earth was a sphere? Among them was Aristotle, the p...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Angelos VarvarousisNumber of pages: 224Collection: In CommonPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 138 x ...

Bringing together contributors from dance, theatre, visual studies and art history, Perform, Repeat, Record addresses the conundrum of how live art...

Publisher: Ariadne PressAuthor(s): Stefan ZweigNumber of pages: 254Publication date: 1999Dimensions: 156 x 210 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Drawing on examples ranging from ancient Greece to Tony Blair's Britain, this title addresses 20 of questions that have asked over the centuries ab...

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): Richard HoughNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedesc...

DescriptionParting company with the trend in recent scholarship to treat the subject in abstract, highly theoretical terms, Magic in Ancient Greece...

Reducere. Revised and updated throughout, the fourth edition of Ancient Greece presents the political, social, cultural, and economic history and civilizatio...

DescriptionWhere does Neo-Confucianism--a movement that from the twelfth to the seventeenth centuries profoundly influenced the way people understo...

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Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): E YtrebergNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 25Cover type: Paperback / softbackRed...

This highly original introduction to ancient Greece uses the history of eleven major Greek cities to illuminate the most important and informative ...

This volume gathers documentation, unpublished material and the principal results of studies, prospections, excavations and surveys carried out on ...

First major synthesis by leading regional specialists of recent excavation results and new approaches to the study of megalithic monuments and thei...

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Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Stefanos (Associate Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies and Assistant Instructional Profes...

What do the Greek myths mean to us today?Publisher: Oneworld PublicationsAuthor(s): Peter FiennesIllustration(s): black and white illustrationsNumb...

A social history of Greek civilization, its culture, arts and beliefs, with 180 magnificent images.Publisher: Anness PublishingAuthor(s): Rodgers N...

3000 years of the most important stories from the past in 365 days -- from the Ides of March to D-Day, from Britain's favourite historian

Reducere. The largest financial fraud in history wasn't Enron's colossal accounting crimes, Bernie Madoff's record-setting Ponzi scheme or the Libor scandal,...

Reducere. These great men deserve your admiration for the wonderful things they did to mold the present. You may have read about them in history books, but t...

Reducere. This book provides a fascinating summary of African history over 5000 years, from the Stone Age to the classical Greek and Roman era, through the '...

Reducere. Among the factors which determine the birth and development of the basic elements of a civilization, one of the most important - perhaps the most i...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Karl LowithNumber of pages: 266Publication date: 1957Dimensions: 205 x 133 x 16Cover type: Pap...

Reducere. Wolfram - also known as Tungsten - is about more than electric light bulbs. Its more deadly claim-to-fame rests in its armour-piercing qualities. D...

Wherever the idea of a world appears, there is an expression of cosmography. Cosmography, here, is defined as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art of...