The Historia Augusta is a biographical collection written by a single author under six pseudonyms that covers the lives of…

\nLaw and policy treat corruption as something far less than it truly is. Using India\'s long history as a case study,…

• Rok vydání 1972

A leading public intellectual gives his authoritative and personal account of the tragic postcolonial fate of Uganda, his…

\nWhy is Israel\'s relatively small and low-budget military also the world\'s most innovative, technologically and…

• Počet stran 400

The Peloponnesian War was really three conflicts (431-421, 415-413, and 413-404 BC) that Thucydides was still unifying into…

The main part of Polybius' history covers the years 264--146 BCE, describing the rise of Rome, her destruction of Carthage,…

Diodorus Library of History, written in the first century BCE, is the most extensively preserved history by an ancient Greek…

Civil War provides a vigorous, direct, clear, third-personal, impassioned account of Caesar's campaigns during the civil war…

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Appian (ca. AD 95-161) is a principal source for the history of the Roman Republic. His theme is the process by which Rome…

History of the Wars by the Byzantine historian Procopius (late fifth century to after 558 CE) consists largely of sixth…

In Secret History the Byzantine historian Procopius (late fifth century to after 558 CE) attacks the sixth century CE…

• Rok vydání 2010

The historian Polybius (ca 200-118 BCE) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served…

Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), c. 150 235 CE, was born in Bithynia. Little of his Roman History survives, but missing portions…

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Appian (ca. AD 95-161) is a principal source for the history of the Roman Republic. His theme is the process by which Rome…

Livy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC-AD 12 or 17), the great Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome\'s rise from the…

Appian (ca. AD 95-161) is a principal source for the history of the Roman Republic. His theme is the process by which Rome…

Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), c. 150 235 CE, was born in Bithynia. Little of his Roman History survives, but missing portions…

Old English Shorter Poems offers tantalizing insights into the Anglo-Saxon mental landscape. These poems and charms find…

Maura Dykstra shows how information overload resulting from the administrative revolution of China's eighteenth-century Qing…

\nLivy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC-AD 12 or 17), the great Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome\'s rise from…

\nThe History of Akbar by Abu\'l-Fazl is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history. The eighth and final…

A collection of the lectures on moral philosophy given by John Rawls over three decades of teaching at Harvard. This book…

Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric, portrays an array of…

Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric, portrays an array of…

\nPoems from the Guru Granth Sahib offers spiritual lyrics from the Sikhs\' sacred book of ethics, philosophy, and theology.…

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• Rok vydání 2016

The Old English History of the World, produced around the year 900, is an anonymous translation and adaptation of Paulus…

Giovanni Pontano (1426--1503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was the most important Latin poet of the fifteenth century…

Dialogues, Volume 2 by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano contains both a perceptive treatment of poetic rhythm, the first full…

• Rok vydání 2018

Before the Communists came to power, China lay broken. Today it is a global force, but its leaders are haunted by the past.…

In the Miscellanies, the great Italian Renaissance scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano penned two sets of mini-essays focused on…

The History of Akbar, Volume 6 by Abu\'l-Fazl details the twenty-third to twenty-eighth years of Akbar\'s reign, including…

Headlines from France suggest that the country's Jews and Muslims are inevitably at odds. But the past tells a different…

\nEstablished to calm intracolonial tensions, the Mason-Dixon Line first marked a region of breakneck development and Native…

This is a history of China for the 900-year time span of the late imperial period. F.W. Mote highlights the personal…

Wolfram Siemann tells a new story of Clemens von Metternich, the Austrian at the center of nineteenth-century European…

John Mack explores the relationship between Lawrence's inner life and his historically significant actions. Interviews,…

\nThe History of Akbar by Abu\'l-Fazl is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history. Volume 7 includes accounts…

\nHomilies collects seven sermons delivered by Sophronios during his short tenure as patriarch of Jerusalem, which coincided…

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\nTravis Zadeh revives the work of the thirteenth-century Persian scholar Qazwini, whose Wonders and Rarities was for…

\nIn Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE-800 CE, Robert Ford Campany examines how dreaming was addressed in…

\nThe Mongol Empire in Global History and Art History includes essays on topics from historical chronicles to contemporary…

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Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas R mer seeks to answer these enigmatic questions about the deity of the great…

\nIn the 1960s biologists and social scientists engaged in a public debate about human nature. The question-whether humans…