Water in the Roman World. Engineering, Trade, Religion and Daily Life, Paperback - ***

Offering a wide and expansive new treatment of the role water played in the lives of people across the Roman world, papers consider ports and their...

Bathing in the Roman World - Fikret Yegul

Reducere. Do you meditate? Do you have a body? Embodied Meditation can help you bring the two together beautifully.The way mindfulness is usually taught refl...

Reducere. What did Roman children do first when they arrived at school in the morning? What excuse for missing school could be counted on to stave off a whip...

DescriptionIn Bathing in the Roman World, Fikret Yegul examines the social and cultural aspects of one of the key Roman institutions. Guiding the r...

Examines the often graphic depictions of violence which are characteristic of many genres of Latin literature, from Plautine comedy to the Christia...

Trade, Commerce, and the State in the Roman World - Andrew Wilson, Alan Bowman

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Examines the Roman games focusing on the practicalities of entertainment and architectural venues. This book offers an introduction to the main for...

Presents a survey of the perception and reality of the use of cosmetics and perfumes under the Roman Empire. This work, a companion to "Roman Cloth...

By their social and material context as markers of graves, dedications and public signs of honour, inscriptions offer a distinct perspective on the...

This beautifully designed, full-color textbook introduces the Roman background of the New Testament by immersing students in the life and culture o...

The first book to present an analysis of images of working people in Roman society and to interpret the meaning and significance of these images. W...

The study of Roman society and social relations blossomed in the 1970s. By now, we possess a very large literature on the individuals and groups th...

Despite the fact that the majority of the inhabitants of the Roman Empire lived an agricultural existence and thus resided outside of urban centers...

Reducere. A fully illustrated, comprehensive guide to the Roman World - its history, government, army, religion and everyday life. The comprehensive factfind...

Peoples of the Roman World - Mary T. Boatwright

Charon’s Obol – between Religious Fervour and Daily Life Pragmatism - Ágnes Alföldy-Gazdac

Almost fifteen per cent of the world's population today experiences some form of mental or physical disability and society tries to accommodate the...

DescriptionPeople are increasingly aware of the role that water has in shaping society and how it impacts quality of life. This is the first book t...

Reducere. Although most Romans lived outside urban centers, the core of Roman civilization lay in its cities. Throughout the empire these cities--modeled as ...

Describing various aspects of life in complex historical eras - cultural, social, religious, and political, this work details such day-to-day activ...

The history of emotions is a new approach to social history, and this book is the first in English to systematically examine emotions in Colonial M...

A Powerful Approach to Bringing God's Grace to Kids Did you know that the way we deal (or don't deal) with our kids' misbehavior shapes their belie...

In less than fifty-three years, Rome subjected most of the known world to its rule. This authoritative and compelling work tells the story of the r...

Sister of Caligula. Wife of Claudius. Mother of Nero. The story of Agrippina, at the center of imperial power for three generations, is the story o...

Reducere. Third Place, Prayers & Spirituality categoryACP Excellence in Publishing Awards, 2012There is no better guide than St. Ignatius Loyola if one desir...

Reducere. CREATE THE DAY BEFORE YOU EVEN BEGIN Brely Evans presents The ABCs of I AMs so that you can declare from your mouth positive affirmations that will...

Reducere. My Daily Life is the follow-up title, and natural complement to Father Paone's indispensible My Daily Bread. While the latter focused on the interi...

DescriptionIn the growth of towns and the revival of commerce, historians have seen the development of a bourgeois and capitalist Europe, but Pierr...

Reducere. DescriptionRoman Catholicism may have been around for over 1, 600 years now, but it is one of the most deceptive ongoing religious cults on the pla...

Reducere. The Roman Empire lasted for more than a millennia. From a small city it grew to encompass almost 1.7 million miles. It's innovations in warfare, po...

Reducere. This book gives you the opportunity to surrender to God's presence and enjoy just being with Him. Find contentment, peace, and encouragement from p...

Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism encourages the belief that, through its faith and practices, spiritual and material blessings and benefits can be avail...

For twenty-five hundred years Buddhism has taught that everyone is Buddha--already enlightened, lacking nothing. But still there is the question of...

Reducere. How did ancient Israelites live? What did they eat, and what affected their health? How did the family function? To answer these and similar questi...

A new history of Roman art and archaeology, from its very beginnings in Etruscan art to the adoption of Christianity.