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  • Alexander’s Successors and the Creation of Hellenistic Kingship

    by John Holton ...
    What happened to Alexander the Great's empire when he died, and to the generals and companions that had conquered that empire with him? How did they begin to develop their own power and positions after his death?Alexander's Successors and the Creation of Hellenistic Kingship reconstructs how the development of royal ideologies led to five powerful new kingships after Alexander's death. It reveals ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Royal Traditions and the Consolidation of Power by Alexander’s Successors

    by John Holton ...
    Examining the period of political consolidation after Alexander the Great's death, John Holton reconstructs how the successors used new frameworks of royal ideology to create long-term kingships. There is a particular focus on the deeper manoeuvres within the inter-generational impact raging from the influence of religion and family relations, to succession-planning and royal funerals.In this ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Tracing Your Ancestors Using DNA

    A Guide for Family Historians

    by Graham S. Holton, John Cleary, Michelle Leonard, Iain McDonald, Alasdair F. Macdonald ...
    An easy-to-use, straightforward guide for British family historians looking to trace their ancestry using DNA testing.DNA research is one of the most rapidly advancing areas in modern science, and the practical use of DNA testing in genealogy is one of its most exciting applications. Yet there is no recent British publication in this field. That is why this accessible, wide-ranging introduction is ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Relay Race to Infinity

    Developments in Mathematics from Euclid to Fermat

    by Derek Holton, John Stillwell ...
    Why were most historically important mathematicians wealthy? Why were they often lawyers and many had pastors for fathers? Why were original results sometimes discovered by two mathematicians independently within a short time of each other? Why did the Italian Fibonacci, speak Arabic?It all began a couple of years ago, when one of the authors started to write short biographies of important ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Case Studies in Infectious Disease

    by Peter Lydyard, Michael Cole, John Holton, Will Irving, Nino Porakishvili, Pradhib Venkatesan, Kate Ward ...
    Case Studies in Infectious Disease presents 40 case studies featuring the most important human infectious diseases worldwide. Fully revised and updated in this second edition, the book describes the natural history of infection from point of entry of the pathogen through to clinical management of the resulting disease or condition. A further 8 case studies have been provided online as ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Case Studies in Infection Control

    by Meera Chand, John Holton ...
    Case Studies in Infection Control has 25 cases, each focusing on an infectious disease, which illustrate the critical aspects of infection control and prevention. Scenarios in the cases are real events from both community and hospital situations, and written by experts. Although brief comments are included in relation to the organism, diagnosis, and treatment the main emphasis is on the case, its ... Read more

    $120.92 CAD

  • Pierre Bourdieu

    Fieldwork in Culture

    by Jon Beasley-Murray, Carolyn Betensky, Pierre Bourdieu, Bo G. Ekelund, John Guillory, Robert Holton, Marty Hipsky, Marie-Pierre Le Hir, Paul D. Lopes, Caterina Pizanias, Daniel Simeoni, Carol A. Stabile ...
    Series series Culture and Education Series
    The work of Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential French intellectuals of the twentieth century, has had an enormous impact on research in fields as diverse as aesthetics, education, anthropology, and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Art, Literature, and Culture is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on the contribution of Bourdieu's thought to the study of cultural ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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    Toppleton's Client (Unabridged)

    by John Kendrick BANGS ...
    Narrated by Danny Holton ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 3 min

    A pre-eminent legal firm gets far more than it bargained for when it hires the son of its late senior partner, Hopkins Toppleton, Sr., simply to retain the illustrious family name on the company masthead. Knowing Jr. is a loose cannon, their strategy is to pack him off to the UK to head up a European branch of the firm - a branch they have no intention of sending work. The unwitting Hopkins ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • Tracing Your Ancestors Using the Census

    A Guide for Family Historians

    by Emma Jolly ...
    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    The Pen & Sword guide to the census is detailed, accessible and authoritative, and it is one of the most comprehensive on the market. It has been written with the family historian in mind, and it is packed with advice on how to explore and get the most from the census records. As well as describing the modern censuses, it provides information on the less-known censuses dating from before 1841, and ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ancient Warfare

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Harry Sidebottom ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Greek and Roman warfare differed from other cultures and was unlike any other forms of warfare before and after. The key difference is often held to be that the Greeks and Romans practised a 'Western Way of War', where the aim is an open, decisive battle, won by courage instilled in part by discipline. Harry Sidebottom looks at how and why this 'Western Way of War' was constructed and maintained ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars

    The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars

    by Paul Cartledge ...
    Series series Emblems of Antiquity
    The Battle of Plataea in 479 BCE is one of world history's unjustly neglected events. It decisively ended the threat of a Persian conquest of Greece. It involved tens of thousands of combatants, including the largest number of Greeks ever brought together in a common cause. For the Spartans, the driving force behind the Greek victory, the battle was sweet vengeance for their defeat at Thermopylae ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Early Greece

    by Oswyn Murray ...
    Now available in ebook format.Within the space of three centuries, up to the great Persian invasion of 480BC, Greece was transformed from a simple peasant society into a sophisticated civilisation which dominated the shores of the Mediterranean from Spain to Syria and from the Crimea to Egypt – a culture whose achievements in the fields of art, science, philosophy and politics were to establish ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD