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Persians: The Age of the Great Kings
A "brilliant feat of resurrection" (Tom Holland, author of Dominion), offering a stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor and enduring legacy of ancient Persia The Achaemenid …
Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther
A Spectator 2023 Book of the Year Esther is the most visual book of the Hebrew Bible and was largely crafted in the Fourth Century BCE by an author who was clearly au fait with the …
Women's Dress in the Ancient Greek World
The clothing and ornament of Greek women signalled much about the status and the morality assigned to them. Yet this revealing aspect of women's history has been little studied. In …
Project X CODE Yellow-Lime Book Bands Oxford Levels 3-11 Super Easy Buy Pack
Project X CODE is specially developed to accelerate the progress of your struggling readers. This pack contains 3 copies each of all 96 CODE and CODE Extra books at Oxford Levels …
King and Court in Ancient Persia 559 to 331 BCE
This book explores Achaemenid kingship and argues for the centrality of the royal court in elite Persian society. The first Persian Empire (559-331 BC) was the biggest land empire …
Contemporary Irish Drama and Cultural Identity
Within the last ten years there has been a renaissance in Irish drama from both sides of the border, including award-winning work which has transfered to London and New York, and …
The Physics of Electrical Contacts
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the …
Zombies: Shambling Through the Ages
It’s a wonder humanity ever survived into the twenty-first century. Even Neanderthals knew to bury the dead beneath stones to prevent corpses from rising. Ancient civilizations …
The Royal Navy and the Arctic Convoys
Published here for the first time, this volume presents a superb range of insights into this crucial effort of the Second World War.This Naval Staff History describes the vital …
Greek and Roman Dress from A to Z
Who dressed as a woman in an attempt to commit adultery with Julius Caesar‘s wife? How did the ancient Greeks make blusher from seaweed? Just how does one wear a toga? If, as many …
Frames and Fictions on Television
TV drama both reflects and contributes to the production of cultural identity. This volume addresses the question of how this identity has been represented within the programmes we …
The Clothed Body in the Ancient World
The recent renaissance of interest in the history of dress and its cultural importance is celebrated in this collection of interdisciplinary essays. The sixteen contributors …