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Roman Law in Context

This book explains how Roman law worked for those who lived by it, by viewing it in the light of the...

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Evil Roman Emperors: The Shocking History of Ancient Rome's Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. As catchy as that aphorism is, it’s sadly untrue, even if it has a n...

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The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language

'Quite simply, and quite ridiculously, one of the funniest and most illuminating books I have ever r...

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The Dawn of Language: The Story of How We Came to Talk

“A model of popular-science writing” STEVEN POOLEWho was “the first speaker” and what was their firs...

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The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History

The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scatt...

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The Wisdom of the Enlightenment

Enlightenment―Aufklärung in German, Lumières in French―is more an idea than a period. But it is an i...

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Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs Who Tried to Civilise the Nazis

How the British might have handled Hitler differently remains one of history’s greatest ‘what ifs’....

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The Cambridge Companion to the Ancient Greek Economy

This is the most comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy available in English. A tea...

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The Cambridge Companion to Plato

The first edition of the Cambridge Companion to Plato (1992), edited by Richard Kraut, shaped schola...

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Russia: Myths and Realities

A short and pithy introduction to the history of Russia as we know it today 'Wise and thorough' T...

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The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind

A major new history of the Cold War: exploring the conflict through the minds of the people who live...

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Rule of Laws: A 4000-Year Quest to Order the World

From ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilization...

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How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism

The Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers who stood athwart the flood of society’s material excess,...

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How to Grieve: An Ancient Guide to the Lost Art of Consolation

In 45 BCE, the Roman statesman Cicero fell to pieces when his beloved daughter, Tullia, died from co...

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How to Have a Life: An Ancient Guide to Using Our Time Wisely

Who doesn’t worry sometimes that smart phones, the Internet, and TV are robbing us of time and preve...