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Harper Perennial, September 2004. Trade Paperback. "With his characteristic eloquence and lucid insights. . . Cantor offers a splendid and accessible portrait of the cultures of the ancient world."--Publishers Weekly Bestselling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world--from the birth of Sumerian civilization around.....
Electa. Paperback.
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Paulist Press, November 2002. Paperback. Secrets the Travel Guides Won't Tell You A veteran of dozens of trips to Rome, the author delivers a fascinating insider's look at the "Mother City of us all." Korn reveals how tourists, while rushing through the "must see" sights listed in conventional guides, are.....
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Liveright, September 2016. Trade 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.....
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Modern Library, August 2003. Paperback. Edited, abridged, and with a critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich Mueller Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin Illustrations by Giovanni Battista Piranesi Edward Gibbon's masterpiece, which narrates the history of the Roman Empire from the second century A.D. to its collapse in the west in the fifth.....
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Liveright, October 2023. Hardcover. In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean. Now, drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and writing about Roman history, Beard.....
Pelican. Mass Market Paperback. Underlining. Underlining.
Electa Napoli, January 2003. Paperback.
