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The Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Men

“A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review

The History of Early English provides an accessible and student-friendly introduction to the history of the English language from its beginnings until

The Colosseum was Imperial Rome's monument to warfare. The author tells the story of Rome's greatest arena: how it was built; the gladiatorial and oth

An insightful look at the development of drug discourses in the nineteenth century and drug policy in the twentieth century, Social Poison will appeal

An examination of metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination-a way to understand the mechanisms of creativity.

De stormachtige ontwikkeling van de sport tot een breed maatschappelijk verschijnsel roept veel vragen en problemen op. Is sport een afspiegeling van

Narrative is an important element in our daily life and the novel is arguably the most popular genre of our times. The theory of narrative or narratol

In his Bellum Catilinae, C. Sallustius Crispus or Sallust (86-35/34 B.C.E.) recounts the dramatic events of the year 63 B.C.E. when a disgruntled and

This book offers a new methodological framework for the CLIL classroom, focusing on how to guide input and support output.

Contains chapters that include Street Life, Earning a Living: Baker, Banker and Garum Maker (who ran the city), and The Pleasure of the Body: Food, Wi

How the human history of conflict has transformed the world we live in - for good and evil.

Mary Beard on Ancient Rome: Britain's favourite classicist lifts the lid on the Roman Empire.

A year on from the allegations against Harvey Weinstein and the beginnings of #metoo movement Mary Beard revisits the gender agenda with new material

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