Return of the Barbarians: Confronting Non-State Actors from Ancient Rome to the Present, Paperback

Barbarians are back. These small, highly mobile, and stateless groups are no longer confined to the pages of history; they are a contemporary reali...

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The changing face of the liberal creed from the ancient world to todayThe Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a ...

A comprehensive introduction to thousands of years of Asian political and diplomatic history, offering crucial historical underpinning to the conte...

Invisible Armies presents an entirely original narrative of warfare, which demonstrates that, far from the exception, loosely organized partisan or...

This edited volume examines asymmetric conflict dynamics through the politics of recognition vis-a-vis armed non-state actors. It explores a divers...

An examination of the part played by violent non-state actors in Middle Eastern and North African current affairs. Individual chapters on the Islam...

Are copies of Greek and Roman masterpieces as important as the originals they imitate?

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A true story of a 'seeker' who resolves his karma by transforming demons.Illustrations: Black and white illustrations

In this second edition, Ancient Rome presents an extensive range of material, from the early Republic to the death of Augustus, with two new chapte...

Reducere. PROSEIn this prequel to the now-classic Makers of Modern Strategy, Victor Davis Hanson, a leading scholar of ancient military history, gathers prom...

The Barbarians of Ancient Europe: Realities and Interactions - Larissa Bonfante

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This collection of essays provides the most comprehensive study of the theory and practice on the contribution of international organisations and n...

Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-...

Reducere. This spoof travel guide covers all aspects of Ancient Roman life, from how Romans farmed and what they ate to Roman gods and how they were worshipp...

Sets out in a new and authoritative way the history of the essay; explains how the essay has come to mean what it does, surveys the widely various ...

Publisher: Temple Lodge PublishingAuthor(s): Henk van OortIllustration(s): 54 full-colour imagesNumber of pages: 103Publication date: 2014Dimension...

DescriptionViolent non-state actors have become almost endemic to political movements in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. This book examines...

DescriptionInspired by the extraordinary engravings of the ruins of Ancient Rome by Giambattista Piranesi, Langenbach uses modern-day digital photo...

Reducere. An abridged classroom edition of Howard Zinn's bestselling history of the United States, with teaching materials to accompany each chapter. Like Vo...

Explores Jewish women's lives in what is now Eastern and Western Europe, Britain, Israel, Turkey, North Africa, and North America. The volume focus...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marek Adam WozniakA military history of ancient Persia from its founding to the the end of the Sasanid Empire translated fr...

Few island nations have stirred the soul like Cuba.Illustrations: 4 Maps

DescriptionNew edition of a classic work on the history of propaganda. Topical new chapters on the 1991 Gulf War, September 11 and terrorism. An id...

Reducere. Treats the Pantheon from the unique perspective of its construction history, survival, and reception through history.

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Matthew (Professor in the Department of Government, Professor in the Department of Government, Geo...

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Examines public exhibitions of human anatomy from their first appearance in the early 1700s to the present day, and how these exhibitions taught th...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Dennis TylerIllustration(s): 5 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 336Collection: CripPublication date...

Dozens of maps provide a clear geography of great events, while timelines give the reader an ongoing sense of the passage of years and cultural int...

Publisher: Hodder EducationAuthor(s): Joanne De PenningtonIllustration(s): black and white illustrations and photosNumber of pages: 304Collection: ...

Reducere. More Native Americans lived in what is now the southern United States than in any other section of the country. The World of Southern Indians is a ...

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The United States of America has been the most powerful country in the world for over seventy years, but recently the U.S. National Security Strate...

World's Worst Military Disasters examines some of the worst battle defeats in military history from ancient times through to the present day, inclu...

DescriptionJourney through 30, 000 years of human history and explore the ideas, discoveries and technology that shaped the human race at the begin...

Examines how ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese constructed a civilized sense of Self and a 'barbarian' Other, and how these notions held up in cr...

DescriptionBeginning with Aristotle and the Greeks and ending with semiotics and post-structuralism, Theories of the Theatre is the first comprehen...

Reducere. The most comprehensive survey of Polish history available in English, God's Playground demonstrates Poland's importance in European history from me...

Before becoming the masters of the Mediterranean world, the Romans had first to conquer the Italian peninsula in a series of harsh conflicts agains...

Reducere. Are you intrigued by ancient Rome's myths, culture, and unimaginable rise to power? If so, this powerful history of ancient Rome will draw you in a...

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