Perfect Roasts
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This title features best-ever recipes for roasting beef, pork, lamb and poultry. It is a tempting...
Water Lilies: And Bory Latour-Marliac, the Genius Behind Monet's Water Lilies
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Water lilies are inextricably linked to the ancient cultures of Greece and Rome, Egypt and the Far...
The Practical Art of Divine Magic: Contemporary and Ancient Techniques of Theurgy
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The ancient world of Egypt, Greece, and Rome was home to a set of magical and spiritual...
Medusa: In the Mirror of Time
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Medusa, literally, petrifies: her face turned the ancients to stone. For Perseus and his patriarchal...
The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth and Esther Eidinow
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What did the ancient Greeks eat and drink? What role did migration play? Why was emperor Nero...
Winifred Nicholson: Liberation of Colour
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This new publication explores the whole career of Winifred Nicholson with a special emphasis on her...
The Fall of the House of Speyer: The Story of a Banking Dynasty
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The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German...
Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense
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Edward Lear's poems follow and break the rules. They abide by the logic of syntax, the linking of...
Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance
Michael Wright and Stephen Grady
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An extraordinary wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age...
Athens, Rome, and England: America's Constitutional Heritage
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Uncovering the Roots of the U.S. ConstitutionAmerica s Constitution did not spring up suddenly in...