In this pioneering study of the water infrastructure of Renaissance Rome, urban historian Katherine Rinne offers a new understanding of how technological and scientific developments in aqueduct and...

This book is an attempt to coax Roman history closer to the bone, to the breath and matter of the living being. Drawing from a remarkable array of ancient and modern sources, Carlin Barton offers the...

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, 1st Edition, Chatto 1977. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate,small discreet inscription, no further marks of...

The development of the quantum theory is one of the greatest scientific achievements of the twentieth century. It has led to enormous technological innovations, from computer chips to lasers, and...

This rare and vintage book is a perfect addition to any bibliophile's collection

"Substantial, detailed and rigorous . . . readers for whom the book is intended are admirably served." — MathSciNet (Mathematical Reviews on the Web), American Mathematical Society. Practical text...

One of the most eventful eras of Jewish history was that of the Second Commonwealth, the period between the return of Jews from Babylonian exile during the last third of the sixth century B.C.E. to...

Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history—including the idea that Western history is the foundation of everyone else's. Here,...

Revealed for the first time: how the SS rounded up the Nazis' most prominent prisoners to serve as human shields for Hitler in the last days of World War IIIn April 1945, as Germany faced defeat,...

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