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The Romans For Dummies

For Dummies, 2007

When I was about 12 years old, my father came home from work with a Roman coin he’d bought for me. It was very worn, with a barely visible profile of a Roman emperor’s head on one side. But I was totally fascinated by the sudden realisation that this coin had existed for a length of time I was struggling to imagine. It belonged to a...

Oh. My. Gods.

Dutton Juvenile, 2008

The story is part "Harry Potter," part Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief and part shojo, and it will keep teens, particularly girls, reading. -- School Library Journal

The mythological concept elevates the usual high-school dramas...to new heights. Funny and light, this tale is a romance of Olympian proportions. --...

Frommer's England 2011: with Wales (Frommer's Complete)

Frommers, 2010

Completely updated every year (unlike most of the competition), Frommer's England 2011 features gorgeous color maps, a detachable foldout map of London, and details on all of the country's top cities, villages, gardens, countryside destinations, and more.

Frommer's England 2011 details the best...

Keywords in Subversive Film / Media Aesthetics

John Wiley & Sons, 2015

Keywords offers a conversational journey through the overlying terrains of politically engaged art and artistically engaged politics, combining a major statement on subversive aesthetics, a survey of radical film strategies, and a lexicon of over a thousand terms and concepts.

No other book combines an ambitious...

Empire: A New History of the World

Pegasus Books, 2020

A dazzling new history of the world told through the ten major empires of human civilization.

Eminent historian Paul Strathern opens the story of Empire with the Akkadian civilization, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire,...

Information and the History of Philosophy (Rewriting the History of Philosophy)

Routledge, 2021

In recent years the philosophy of information has emerged as an important area of research in philosophy. However, until now information’s philosophical history has been largely overlooked.

Information and the History of Philosophy is the first comprehensive investigation of the history of philosophical...

Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists: The Greek Tradition and its Many Heirs

Routledge, 2009

The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists is the first comprehensive English language work to provide a survey of all ancient natural science, from its beginnings through the end of Late Antiquity. A team of over 100 of the world’s experts in the field have compiled this Encyclopedia, including entries which are...

The Facts on File Algebra Handbook (Science Handbook)

Facts on File, 2003

The mathematics that we teach and learn today includes concepts and ideas that once were pondered only by the most brilliant men and women of ancient, and not so ancient, times. Numbers such as 1,000, for example, or two, or zero, were at one time considered very abstract ideas. There was a time when a quantity more than two or three was simply...

Frommer's England 2010 (Frommer's Complete)

Frommers, 2009

Completely updated every year (unlike most of the competition), Frommer's England 2010 features gorgeous color photos and maps, a detachable foldout map of London, and details on all of the country's top cities, villages, gardens, countryside destinations, and more.

Frommer's England 2009 details the best overall travel...

The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019

In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where ancient customs collide with the contemporary politics of revivalism and revenge

When Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, the spiritual capital of Hinduism, he...

The Handy Astronomy Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series)

Visible Ink Press, 2008

Why do the stars shine? What happens when you fall into a black hole? What’s the Moon made of? Is Pluto a planet or not? Does extraterrestrial life exist? How old is Earth? Can humans live in outer space? What is a quasar? How did the universe begin? How will it end? When it comes to the cosmos, it seems like everyone has a thousand...

Beer: Tap Into the Art and Science of Brewing

Oxford University Press, 2003

"Brilliant! There has been an unfilled market for this type of book. . . . Happily, this book . . .is by a wide margin the best reference now available . . . The book is very well written. It has a light, almost breezy style that is mixed with a subtle yet attractively understated British wit. It is above all a great read that is hard to...

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