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In a tempestuous narrative that sweeps across five continents and seven centuries, this book explains how a succession of catastrophes—from the devast

The fourth edition of this popular text has been significantly rewritten to make it more accessible to students and easier for instructors to use. It

Alfred Birney verdiepte zich een leven lang in koloniale en postkoloniale romans, geschiedenisboeken en nieuwsbronnen in schrift, beeld en geluid. Zwe

The fullest biography of Mark Antony in English, A Noble Ruin provides a fresh account of Antony's personal life and especially his public career, inc

The sixth book of the Iliad includes the exchanges between Diomedes and Glaucus, and Hector and Hecuba, Paris, Helen and Andromache. The Commentary, w

Since the end of the Cold War, conflict prevention and resolution, peacekeeping and peacebuilding have risen to the top of the international agenda.

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* Both a history of theories of myth and a practical 'how--to' guide to interpreting myth. * Introduces the major theories of myth from the nineteent

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A Byron biography like no other – published to mark the bicentennial of his death – it tells the remarkable life story of the celebrated Romantic poet

A Companion to Latin Literature gives an authoritative account of Latin literature from its beginnings in the third century BC through to the end of t

An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history.

Often understood as a high-minded, orderly event, the American Revolution grows in this masterful history like a ground fire overspreading Britain’s m

Provides a varied selection from the attractive corpus of Greek lyric, including well-known as well as some lesser studied poems. The original Greek t

Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind.

In his New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock their creativity by "stealing" from the community of

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This first book-length study of Nikephoros Bryennios' history of the Byzantine Empire examines his use of classical Roman constructions of masculinity