The Early History of Rome

Reducere. Reconstructing the activity of the "Tribunal of the Faith" in Italy during the period 1400-1600, this compelling book analyzes the ideology of its ...

Reducere. A groundbreaking history of how the Christian "West" emerged from the ancient Mediterranean world In this acclaimed history of Early Christendom, J...

Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. After the devastating attack,...

The original edition of Pompeii: A Sourcebook was a crucial resource for students of the site. Now updated to include material from Herculaneum, th...

Reducere. The Romans developed sophisticated methods for managing hygiene, including aqueducts for moving water from one place to another, sewers for removin...

Reducere. Agrippina the Younger attained a level of power in first-century Rome unprecedented for a woman. According to ancient sources, she achieved her suc...

In Rome in A.D. 165, two men named Carpus and Papylus stood before the proconsul of Pergamum, charged with the crime of being Christians. Not even ...

Reducere. The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins wi...

This illustrated study charts the development and combat history of the Dornier Do 217 Units, the Luftwaffe's workhorse bomber during World War II....

From the first centuries of Christianity, believers turned to the perfection modeled by saints for inspiration, and a tradition of recounting saint...

Reducere. Here, for the first time in one volume, are two rare autobiographical works by Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), founder of Fascism and Italian dictato...

Reducere. Interior life of one of the greatest mystics in the history of Christianity. This book, the Middle Years Part-A, presents an overview of volumes 13...

Reducere. The 14th Gemina Martia Victrix Legion was the most celebrated unit of the early Roman Empire-a force that had been wiped out under Julius Caesar, r...

Reducere. DescriptionThe 14th Gemina Martia Victrix Legion was the most celebrated unit of the early Roman Empire-a force that had been wiped out under Juliu...

Reducere. Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of his daughter Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel ha...

Reducere. DescriptionNow more than ever, the world is recognizing how strong women and girls are. How strong? In the early 1920s, Inuit expeditioner Ada Blac...

Reducere. In Legal Transplants, one of the world's foremost authorities on legal history and comparative law puts forth a clear and concise statement of his ...

Reducere. A student-friendly introduction to Latin Learning Latin can prove daunting even to the brightest students. But this innovative text draws students ...

DescriptionWritten in 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth, the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain) purported to chronicle the Brit...

Reducere. A Texas oilman. A brilliant female archaeologist. An unknown world underneath the Vatican.In 1939, a team of workers beneath the Vatican unearthed ...

DescriptionMaria Lai (Ulassai, September 27, 1919 - Cardedu, April 16, 2013) is without doubt one of the leading figures in the history of contempo...

Henry James is one of the giants of American literary history. From the novella ``Daisy Miller`` and classic short stories such as ``The Turn of th...

Reducere. Book of the YearHow did the preaching of a peasant carpenter from Galilee spark a movement that would grow to include over two billion followers? W...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen a government became a mighty nation in ancient times (i.e. Babylon, Greece or Rome); they are literally or symbolically mentioned i...