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Livy's great history of Rome contains, in Books 21 to 30, the definitive ancient account of Hannibal's invasion of Italy in 218 BC, and the war he fought with the Romans over the following sixteen...

Die stirnseitig aufgenommene Schwarzweißfotografie einer Turmförderanlage. Auf der nächsten Abbildung sieht man dasselbe Objekt in einer Übereckansicht, 45 Grad gegen den Uhrzeigersinn gedreht. Das...

In The War with Hannibal, Livy chronicles the events of the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, until the Battle of Zama in 202 BC. He vividly recreates the immense armies of Hannibal,...

An evocative journey through a millennium of North Africa's culturally rich and diverse past, this catalog presents the history of North Africa from the Punic settlements of the seventh century B.C...

“Ben Macintyre’s rollicking, spellbinding Agent Zigzag blends the spy-versus-spy machinations of John le Carré with the high farce of Evelyn Waugh.”—William Grimes, The New York Times (Editors’...

An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As...

A groundbreaking account of how the welfare state began with early nineteenth-century child labor laws, and how middle-class and elite reformers made it happenThe beginnings of the modern welfare...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “master storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle) behind the New York Times bestseller The Spy and the Traitor uncovers the true story behind one of the Cold War’s most...

From the bestselling author of The Things We Cannot Say and The Warsaw Orphan, Kelly Rimmer--for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz! A "MOST ANTICIPATED TITLE" by ...

In the Anthropocene, the fact that human activity is deeply enmeshed with the existence and actions of all kinds of other beings is inescapable. As a result, the planetary ecological crisis has...

Joseph Conrad's dark satire on English societyIn the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on...

An evolutionary case for the existence of free willScientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As...

In the late sixteenth century, a prominent Albanian named Antonio Bruni composed a revealing document about his home country. Historian Sir Noel Malcolm takes this document as a point of departure to...

As waves of epidemic disease swept the Philippines in the late nineteenth century, physicians in the islands began to fear that the indigenous population would be wiped out. Many Filipinos...

A groundbreaking account of how the welfare state began with early nineteenth-century child labor laws, and how middle-class and elite reformers made it happenThe beginnings of the modern welfare...

Agent-based modeling is a new technique for understanding how the dynamics of biological, social, and other complex systems arise from the characteristics and behaviors of the agents making up these...

Must good deeds be rewarded and wrongdoers punished? Would God be unjust if He failed to punish and reward? And what is it about good or evil actions and moral identity that might generate such...

Double Agent is a watershed in the recent revival of interest in the role of the public critic and intellectual who writes about culture, politics, and the arts for an intelligent general audience...

First edition. Historical survey of the literary agent. Also includes a bibliography of 500 titles on the subject. viii , 135 pages. boards, dust jacket.. 8vo..