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Lamb: A Global History
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Lamb: A Global History is an introduction to one of the world's most popular foods. With a good look...
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Henri Matisse: A Second Life
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Henri Matisse by Alastair Sooke - an essential guide to one of the 20th century's greatest artists...
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Mass and Elite in the Greek and Roman Worlds: From Sparta to Late Antiquity
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This volume has its origin in the 14th University of South Africa Classics Colloquium in which the...
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A Reading of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura
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Lucretius' philosophical epic De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) is a lengthy didactic and...
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Great Scottish Heroes: Fifty Scots Who Shaped the World
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Which Scottish anti-slavery campaigner lost a son in a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the...
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The Vatican Heresy: Bernini and the Building of the Hermetic Temple of the Sun
Robert Bauval, Chiara Hohenzollern and Sandro Zicari
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In 16th century Italy, in the midst of the Renaissance, two powerful movements took hold. The first,...
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London's Secrets: Bizarre & Curious
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London is a city with an abundance of bizarre and curious places and stories, being ancient, vast...
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The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets
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One morning while reading Barron's, Kara Newman took note of a casual bit of advice offered by famed...
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The Philosophical Life: Biography and the Crafting of Intellectual Identity in Late Antiquity
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Ancient biographies were more than accounts of the deeds of past heroes and guides for moral living....
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Galley Slave: The Autobiography of a Protestant Condemned to the French Galleys: v. 1: Seafarers' Voices
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This remarkable memoir tells of the miseries of Jean Marteilhe of Bergerac, 'a Protestant condemned...