Libraries in the Ancient World (Casson Lionel)(Paperback)

Libraries in the Ancient World (Casson Lionel)(Paperback)

This delightful book tells the story of ancient libraries from their very beginnings, when 'books' were clay tablets and writing was a new phenomenon. Renowned classicist Lionel Casson takes us on a lively tour, from the royal libraries of the most ancient Near East, through the private and public

Forever Rose (McKay Hilary)(Paperback / softback)

Return to the world of Saffy's Angel with the fifth book in the laugh-out-loud Casson Family

Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words (Mynott Jeremy)(Paperback)

Birds pervaded the ancient world. They impressed their physical presence on the daily experience and imaginations of ordinary people in town and country alike, and figured prominently in literature and art. They also provided a fertile source of symbols and stories in their myths and folklore, and

Wisdom in the Ancient World (Curnow Trevor)(Paperback)

'But where shall wisdom be found?' asked Job, and from across the ancient world came many different replies. Some conceived of wisdom in supernatural personified form and answered the question in appropriate terms. For others, wisdom was something far more human, manifested in a number of different

The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World (Gazzaley Adam)(Paperback)

An Introduction to the Ancient World (de Blois Lukas)(Paperback)

An Introduction to the Ancient World offers a thorough survey of the history of the ancient Near East, Greece and Rome. Covering the social, political, economic and cultural processes that have influenced later western and Near Eastern civilisations, this volume considers subjects such as the

Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age (Mizruchi Susan L.)(Paperback)

The role of archives and libraries in our digital age is one of the most pressing concerns of humanists, scholars, and citizens worldwide. This collection brings together specialists from academia, public libraries, governmental agencies, and non-profit archives to pursue common questions about

Saffy's Angel (McKay Hilary)(Paperback / softback)

The first novel in Hilary McKay's award-winning Casson Family

Massimo Listri. the World's Most Beautiful Libraries (Ruppelt Georg)(Pevná vazba)

From the mighty halls of ancient Alexandria to the coffered ceilings of the Morgan Library in New York, human beings have had a long, enraptured relationship with libraries. Like no other concept and like no other space, the collection of knowledge, learning, and imagination offers a sense of

Ancient Maya (the Ancient World) (Somervill Barbara A.)(Paperback)

Thousands of years ago, in what is now Guatemala, Belize, and southern Mexico, the Mayan people began to build one of history's greatest civilizations.This book details the history of the Mayan people, from the settlement of their earliest villages and farms to their demise at the hands of the

The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia (Bottro Jean)(Paperback)

In this intriguing blend of the commonplace and the ancient, Jean Bottero presents the first extensive look at the delectable secrets of Mesopotamia. Bottero's broad perspective takes us inside the religious rites, everyday rituals, attitudes and taboos, and even the detailed preparation techniques

Ancient City of Liangzhu - Unlocking its Secrets (Bin Liu)(Paperback / softback)

Discover a whole new world. The mysterious, ancient civilisation in the city of Liangzhu was largely unheard of, until recently. Learn all about the Liangzhu people, including their society, infrastructure, trades, economy, politics, agriculture, art and mythology in this detailed and beautiful

Libraries Architecture - David Andreu Bach

In the past decade, the increasing requirements of the multimedia world have substantially increased the demands placed on libraries. They went through a transformation from introverted collections of knowledge to globally networked information administrators and communication brokers. Today,

Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World (Hamid Shadi)(Paperback)

Shortlisted for the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize In Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a novel and provocative argument on how Islam is, in fact, exceptional in how it relates to politics, with profound implications for how we understand the

Post-Birthday World (Shriver Lionel)(Paperback / softback)

From the Orange Prize winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin, this is the novel Lionel Shriver wrote directly afterwards. The Post-Birthday World is an unflinching account of the choices that unfold before us and what our decisions really

Eighth Wonder of the World - Exbury Gardens and the Rothschilds (de Rothschild Lionel)(Paperback / softback)

Sun Tzu's The Art of War (Sun Tzu)(Paperback)

A new edition of the trusted Lionel Giles translation of the Ancient Chinese treatise on warfare. It has defined the tactics and strategies on the battlefield and more recently the business world, for the last 2500

Fragments (Heraclitus)(Paperback)

Fragments of wisdom from the ancient world In the sixth century b.c.-twenty-five hundred years before Einstein--Heraclitus of Ephesus declared that energy is the essence of matter, that everything becomes energy in flux, in relativity. His great book, On Nature, the world's first coherent

Sir Henry Neville Was Shakespeare: The Evidence (Casson John)(Paperback)

Who wrote the works of Shakespeare? Revealing newly discovered evidence, John Casson and William D. Rubinstein definitively answer this question, presenting the case that the man from Stratford simply did not have the education, cultural background and breadth of life experience necessary for him

The Decipherment of Linear B (Chadwick John)(Paperback)

The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most intriguing problems of classical archaeology in modern times. This celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris was

Uncharted: The Fourth Labyrinth (Golden Christopher)(Paperback)

The official novel of Naughty Dog's award-winning videogame franchise In the ancient world there was a myth about a king, a treasure, and a hellish labyrinth. Now the doors to that hell are open once again. Nathan Drake, treasure hunter and risk taker, has been called to New York City by the man

Great Empires of the Ancient World(Paperback / softback)

In this highly appealing collection, a distinguished team of internationally renowned scholars survey the great empires from 1600 BCE to 500 CE. In ten comprehensive chapters, from the ancient Mediterranean to China, these experts guide readers through the empires of New Kingdom Egypt, the

The Middle of the Journey (Trilling Lionel)(Paperback)

Published in 1947, as the cold war was heating up, Lionel Trilling's only novel was a prophetic reckoning with the bitter ideological disputes that were to come to a head in the McCarthy era. The Middle of the Journey revolves around a political turncoat and the anger his action awakens among a

The Echo of Greece (Hamilton Edith)(Paperback)

The kind of events that took place in the great free government of the ancient world may, by reason of unchanging human nature, be repeated in the modern world. The course that Athens followed can be to us not only a record of distant and forgotten events, but a blueprint of what may happen