Thucydides Reader - Annotated Passages from Books I-VIII of the Histories (Thucydides)(Paperback / softback)

Thucydides Reader - Annotated Passages from Books I-VIII of the Histories (Thucydides)(Paperback / softback)

The Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)(Paperback)

The greatest historian that ever lived. Such was Macaulay's assessment of Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) and his history of the Peloponnesian War, the momentous struggle between Athens and Sparta that lasted for twenty-seven years from 431 to 404 BC, involved virtually the whole of the Greek world, and

The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War (Strassler Robert B.)(Paperback)

Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta 'a possssion for all time,' and indeed it is the first and still most famous work in the Western historical tradition. Considered essential reading for generals, statesmen, and liberally educated citizens for more than

Selections from Virgil's Aeneid Books 1-6: A Student Reader (Carter Ashley)(Paperback)

This reader of Virgil's text features passages from the first half of the Aeneid and is designed to help students understand and appreciate Virgil's poem, as well as improve their Latin reading skills. Each Latin passage is accompanied by running vocabulary, on-page commentary notes and targeted

The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Thucydides)(Paperback)

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling the author's ambitious claim that the work 'was done to last forever.' The conflicts between the two empires over shipping,

History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)(Paperback)

The entire Greek world plunged into three decades of bloodshed in 431 B.C., when the ongoing friction between Athens and Sparta exploded into war. Ten years into the struggle, the Athenian general Thucydides was dismissed for a military failure that led to a triumph for posterity: the former

The Afterlife of Herodotus and Thucydides (North John)(Paperback)

This is one of the volumes in the series of 'Afterlives' of the Classics, which is being produced jointly by the Institute of Classical Studies and the Warburg

Secret Diary of Henry VIII (Deary Terry)(Paperback / softback)

Brand new from the bestselling team behind Horrible Histories! It's time to delve into the totally true (sort of) and incredibly intriguing pages of Henry VIII's Secret Diary. Horrible Histories' Secret Diaries of the most extraordinary (and Horrible) characters of all time will blow your

The Annotated Emma (Austen Jane)(Paperback)

From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen's Emma that makes her beloved tale of an endearingly inept matchmaker an even more satisfying read. Here is the complete text of the novel with more than 2,200 annotations on facing pages,

The Annotated Northanger Abbey (Austen Jane)(Paperback)

From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey that makes her lighthearted satire of the gothic novel an even more satisfying read. Here is the complete text of the novel with more than 1,200 annotations on facing pages,

The Annotated Mansfield Park (Austen Jane)(Paperback)

From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park that makes her story of an impoverished girl living with her wealthy relatives an even more satisfying read. Here is the complete text of Austen's own favorite novel with more

King Henry VIII: The Oxford Shakespeare (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

This is the first fully annotated modern-spelling edition of King Henry VIII to appear for over a decade and includes up-to-date scholarship on all aspects of the play, including dating authorship, printing, sources and stage history. The editor accepts the view that the play is a collaboration

Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth (Mason Daniel)(Paperback / softback)

A stunning collection of short stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Winter Soldier and The Piano

Middle Passage - Impressions of Five Colonial Societies (Naipaul V. S.)(Paperback / softback)

A personal and emotional travel book from the winner of the Nobel Prize in

Defectors (Kanon Joseph)(Paperback / softback)

From the bestselling author of Leaving Berlin and Istanbul Passage comes a thrilling and richly imagined novel about the life of an American spy who defected to Moscow when his cover was blown in the early days of the Cold

Road to Little Dribbling - More Notes from a Small Island (Bryson Bill)(Paperback / softback)

WINNER: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER READER AWARD FOR BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016WINNER: BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER AWARD FOR BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY OR BIOGRAPHY 2016Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted

Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals - volume 57(Paperback / softback)

The fifty-seventh volume of the Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals contains the most important decisions taken by the ICC in the years 2011-2012. It provides the reader with the full text of the decisions identical to the original version and including concurring, separate

Orosius: Seven Books of History Against the Pagans (Fear A. T.)(Paperback)

This book is a new annotated translation of Orosius's Seven Books of History against the Pagans. Orosius's History, which begins with the creation and continues to his own day, was an immensely popular and standard work of reference on antiquity throughout the Middle Ages and beyond. Its importance

Annotated Lolita (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

An annotated edition of 'Lolita'. It attempts to elaborate on the verbal textures and show how they contribute to the novel's overall meaning. It also provides observations on the novel's artifice, games and verbal

Drawn from the Archive - Hidden Histories of Illustration (Seven Stories Press Inc.)(Paperback / softback)

King Henry VIII: Third Series (Shakespeare William)(Paperback)

King Henry VIII has one of the fullest theatrical histories of any play in the Shakespeare canon, yet has been consistently misrepresented, both in performance and in criticism. This edition offers a new perspective on this ironic, multi-layered, collaborative play, revealing it as a complex

Scottish Country House (Knox James)(Paperback / softback)

Guides the reader on an intimate tour of the houses, this book recounts their histories and profiles the colourful lairds, clan chiefs and nobles who have called them

Six Wives of Henry VIII (Weir Alison)(Paperback / softback)

Drawing upon the rich fund of documentary material from the Tudor period, The Six Wives of Henry VIII shows us a court where personal needs frequently influenced public events and where a life of gorgeously ritualised pleasure was shot through with ambition, treason and

Passage of Power - The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 4) (Caro Robert A)(Paperback / softback)

Provides a perspective on Kennedy's assassination from Johnson's viewpoint, and penetrates deep into what it was like for him to assume a position of such power at a time of national