Confronting the Classics - Traditions, Adventures and Innovations (Beard Professor Mary)(Paperback / softback)

Confronting the Classics - Traditions, Adventures and Innovations (Beard Professor Mary)(Paperback / softback)

Explores our rich classical heritage - from Greek drama to Roman jokes, introducing some larger-than-life characters of history, such as Alexander the Great, and Nero. The author invites you into the places where Greeks and Romans lived and died, from the palace at Knossos to Cleopatra's Alexandria

Women & Power - A Manifesto (Beard Professor Mary)(Paperback / softback)

A year on from the allegations against Harvey Weinstein and the beginnings of #metoo movement Mary Beard revisits the gender agenda with new material on rape, consent and how the discussion has moved

All in a Don's Day (Beard Professor Mary)(Paperback / softback)

Lets you share the author's 'terror of humiliation' as she enters 'hairdresser country' and follow her dilemma as she wanders through the quandary of illegible handwriting on examination papers and 'longing for the next dyslexic' - on whose paper the answers are typed, not

Pompeii - The Life of a Roman Town (Beard Professor Mary)(Paperback / softback)

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, Wine, Sex and Baths. This book offers an insight into the workings of a Roman

Parthenon (Beard Professor Mary)(Paperback / softback)

The ruined silhouette of the Parthenon on its hill above Athens is one of the world's most famous images. Its 'looted' Elgin Marbles are a global cause celebre. But what actually are they? This work tells the history and explains the significance of the Parthenon, the temple of the virgin goddess

Pompeii - The Life of a Roman Town (Beard Professor Mary)(Paperback / softback)

'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy - scrutinising and animated in equal measure' Laura Silverman, Daily

Mary Poppins (Travers P. L.)(Paperback / softback)

Discover the joy and wonder of Mary Poppins in the classic adventures! The original and classic story available now in all-new luxurious livery in time for the release of the 2018

Classics: A Very Short Introduction (Beard Mary)(Paperback)

We are all classicists--we come into touch with the classics on a daily basis: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true roots of these influences, however, and how do our interpretations of these aspects of the classics differ from their original

Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm (Hunter Norman)(Paperback / softback)

The ingenious Professor Branestawm is always inventing weird and wonderful things, such as a burglar-catching machine, or a pancake-slipping device, and a spring-cleaning machine. But housekeeper Mrs Flittersnoop is exasperated as the Professor's inventions alway seem to make life far more

Mary Poppins Comes Back (Travers P. L.)(Paperback / softback)

Discover the joy and wonder of Mary Poppins in the classic adventures! The original and classic stories available now in all-new luxurious livery in time for the release of the 2018

S.P.Q.R: A History of Ancient Rome (Beard Mary)(Paperback)

In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome 'with passion and without technical jargon' and demonstrates how 'a slightly shabby Iron Age village' rose to become the 'undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean' (Wall Street Journal). Hailed by critics as animating 'the grand

Thunder on the Right (Stewart Mary)(Paperback / softback)

The classic novel of dramatic and dangerous adventure - and romance - set in the Pyrenees, by the beloved author Mary

Frankenstein: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Shelley Mary)(Paperback)

A deluxe edition of Mary Shelley's haunting adventure about ambition and modernity run amok. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Now a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova and cover art by Ghost World creator Daniel

Learning from the Germans - Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil (Neiman Susan)(Paperback / softback)

My Brother Michael (Stewart Mary)(Paperback / softback)

A classic and genre-defining tale of adventure, intrigue and murder, set against the stunning backdrop of mid-century Greece, by one of Britain's most beloved authors, Mary

Mary Tudor - England's First Queen (Whitelock Professor Anna)(Paperback / softback)

Philosophy in the Middle Ages - The Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Traditions(Paperback / softback)

Housekeeper and the Professor - Vintage Classics Japanese Series (Ogawa Yoko)(Paperback / softback)

VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions.Each morning, the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to one another. The Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant mathematical equations

History's People - Personalities and the Past (MacMillan Professor Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

Professor P and the Jurassic Island (Davidson Peter James)(Paperback / softback)

Professor P and the Jurassic Coast (Davidson Peter James)(Paperback / softback)

Migration and the Making of Ireland (Fanning Professor Bryan)(Paperback / softback)

Fighting Fantasy: Island of the Lizard King (Livingstone Ian)(Paperback / softback)

PART STORY, PART GAME - PURE ADVENTURE! You, the hero, are tasked with confronting the terrifying Lizard King and freeing the human slaves captured by his bloodthirsty army. You must discover the chink in his armour if you have any hope of defeating

The Parthenon (Beard Mary)(Paperback)

Praise for the previous edition: Wry and imaginative, this gem of a book deconstructs the most famous building in Western history.-Benjamin Schwarz, The Atlantic In her brief but compendious volume Beard] says that the more we find out about this mysterious structure, the less we know. Her book is