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At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody ...
A fascinating historical account of Greece at a point of crisis
Xenophon's History recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 ...
Caesar's own account of his struggle with Pompey over leadership of Republican Rome
A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great ...
Xenophon's account of the Greek war with Persia through the eyes of a young Athenian searching for his destiny abroad
In The Persian Expedition ...
Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon ...
Tacitus' Annals of Imperial Rome recount the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus up to the death of Nero ...
Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant ...
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY JORDAN B. PETERSON A vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators ...
'When people ask me... "What is your favourite travel book?" I nearly always name this book. It is about courage, misery, starvation, heroism, exploration, discovery ...
In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two great empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on, and one ...
Christianity, one of the world's great religions, has had an incalculable impact on human history. This book describes not only the main ideas and ...
2 Volume Set - AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL CULTURE SERIES N0. 9The Arunta represents Spencer and Gillen's consummate account of an Aboriginal group untouched by modern civilisation ...
The shared history of the European continent, from classical antiquity to today
Whether as a battleground or a cradle of civilizations, Europe has left an ...
Dadina Georgina Brown was born in the desert, outside the bounds of her society. Like her famous kinsman, Warri, and his wife Yatungka, she is ...
The Ngaanyatjarra Lands, deep in Western Australia, are home to the country's most remote Aboriginal communities. Beset by social problems, the communities and their ...
