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  • Greek and Roman Education

    A Sourcebook

    by Mark Joyal, J.C Yardley, Iain McDougall ...
    Series series Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
    Modern western education finds its origins in the practices, systems and schools of the ancient Greeks and Romans. It is in the field of education, in fact, that classical antiquity has exerted one of its clearest influences on the modern world. Yet the story of Greek and Roman education, extending from the eighth century B.C. into the Middle Ages, is familiar in its details only to relatively few ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Roth Family, Anthropology, and Colonial Administration

    Edited by Russell McDougall, Iain Davidson ...
    Series series UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
    No family better represents the overlapping roles of administrator and scientist in the British empire than the Roths. Descended from a Hungarian emigrant to Australia, two generations of Roths served the empire on four continents and, at the same time, produced ethnographic, archaeological, and linguistic studies that form the basis for much modern research. This volume assesses the often ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

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    by Bertrand Russell ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy. Providing a sophisticated overview of the ideas that have perplexed people from time immemorial, it is 'long on wit, intelligence and curmudgeonly ... Read more

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  • The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World

    Edited by John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, Oswyn Murray ...
    A comprehensive view of the ancient Greek world, its history and its achievements. The legacy of the Hellenistic world is vast--it ranges from architecture to philosophy, literature, and the visual arts to military strategy and science. This authoritative study covers the period from the eighth century BC, which witnessed the emergence of the Greek city-states, to the conquests of Alexander the ... Read more

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  • Dark Emu

    Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture

    by Bruce Pascoe ...
    History has portrayed Australia’s First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong.In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men, Aboriginal people across the continent were building dams and wells; planting, irrigating, and harvesting seeds, and then preserving the surplus and storing it ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Alcibiades

    by P. J. Rhodes ...
    The renowned classicist presents an authoritative biography of one of the most infamous and colorful characters of Ancient Greece.A charismatic Athenian and close associate of Socrates, Alcibiades came to prominence during the Peloponnesian War when he helped form an alliance against Sparta. Although his gambit led to defeat, his prestige remained high, and he was elected to lead the Sicilian ... Read more

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  • Ancient Greek Civilization

    by David Sansone ...
    A concise narrative of Greek history and an analysis of the literature, art, and thought of the ancient Greeks.Tells the story of Greek civilization from the from the Minoan Period to the time of the Byzantine EmpireSurveys the remarkable culture and history the ancient GreeksExplores the ways in which Greek civilization has been continually reinvented from antiquity to the present dayUpdated ... Read more

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  • This Horrid Practice

    by Paul Moon ...
    'Though stronger evidence of this horrid practice prevailing among the inhabitants of this coast will scarcely be required, we have still stronger to give.' - Captain James Cook This Horrid Practice uncovers an unexplored taboo of New Zealand history - the widespread practice of cannibalism in pre-European Maori society. Until now, many historians have tried to avoid it and many Maori have ... Read more

    $12.09 CAD

  • The Classical Greeks

    by Michael Grant ...
    The story of the Athenian Golden Age by one of the world's pre-eminent classical historians.The Golden Age of ancient Greek city-state civilization lasted from 490 to 336 BC, the period between the first wars against Persia and Carthage and the accession of Alexander the Great. Never has there been such a multiplication of talents and genius within so limited a period and Michael Grant captures ... Read more

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  • Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

    by Diogenes Laertius

    by Diogenes Laertius, Pamela Mensch ...
    Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored the riddle of what makes a life worth living, producing a wide variety of ideas and examples to follow. This rich tradition was recast by Diogenes Laertius into an anthology, a miscellany of maxims and ... Read more

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  • The British Empire: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ashley Jackson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the world. The territories forming this empire ranged from tiny islands to vast segments of the world's major continental land masses. The British Empire left its mark on the world in a multitude of ways, many of them permanent. In this Very Short Introduction, Ashley Jackson introduces and defines ... Read more

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  • Battling the Gods

    Atheism in the Ancient World

    by Tim Whitmarsh ...
    How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those of faith, disbelief in the gods, in fact, originated in a far more remote past. In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean, a world almost unimaginably different from our own, ... Read more

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