The Middle Maccabees: Archaeology, History, and the Rise of the Hasmonean Kingdom, Hardcover - Andrea M. Berlin

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Manetho's obscure reference to a race of invaders has been a constant source of debate and controversy. This book assesses the rise to power of the...

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New B-format paperback - The extraordinary history of Mercia and its rulers from the seventh century to 1066. Once the supreme Anglo-Saxon kingdom,...

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Covers a fascinating, but neglected conflict. The Jewish Maccabean revolt and the brief Jewish independence under the Hasmonean dynasty.

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DescriptionA leading foreign policy thinker uses Chinese political theory to explain why some powers rise as others decline and what this means for...

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A pair of silver Regency candlesticks. Pieces of well-worn family jewelry. More than a thousand documents, letters, and photographs Lotte Meyerhoff...

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

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

The Despensers were a baronial English family who rose to great prominence in the reign of Edward II (1307-27) when Hugh Despenser the Younger beca...

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Since the end of the draft, the U.S. Army has prided itself on its patriotic volunteers who heed the call to "Be All That You Can Be." But beneath ...

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A compelling critique of modern political and social idealogies and of those who would make gods instead of servants of human reason, science, and ...

In the reign of Edward I, when asked Quo Warranto - by what warrant he held his lands - John de Warenne, the 6th earl of Surrey, is said to have dr...

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Reducere. From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its politics and ways of life for centuries. Water ...