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  • Sons of the Crystal Mind

    Series Book 1 - Diamond Roads
    In a far-future city, a young woman struggles to find out who she really is. But is it an evil conspiracy, or the secret that’s kept her alive?In the wealthiest part of subterranean techno-paradise Diamond City, Charity Freestone yearns to discover her true identity and escape the shadow of her beloved older sister, celebrity ‘People’s Princess’ Ursula.Despite being courted by the powerful elite, ... Read more

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  • The Outer Spheres

    Series Book 2 - Diamond Roads
    How can such a bright future be so full of darkness?Beautiful young Charity Freestone has it all: the love of a good man, the revelation of her remarkable identity, and her family reunited after their spectacular battle with the Sons of the Crystal Mind. However, at her moment of triumph Charity is tricked into joining the mysterious New Form Enterprise, whose harsh regime seems designed to break ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dread and The Broken Witch

    Series Book 3 - Luna Novella
    In the magical desert of an ancient, altered land called Zabardu, a nameless dread falls across the village, trapping a little girl. The villagers turn to their healer, Bambomiyi, the Broken Witch - a raucous transgender woman who lives in a strange wreck in the desert. She is a veteran of the endless war against invaders from the north, a battle which caused her to lose her powers.What skills she ... Read more

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  • Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum

    Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy Romans lavished resources on shaping their surroundings to impress their crowds of visitors. The fashions they set were taken up and imitated by ordinary citizens. In this illustrated book, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill explores the rich potential of the houses of Pompeii and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Later Roman Empire

    (a.D. 354-378)

    Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. The Later Roman Empire chronicles a period of twenty-five years during Marcellinus' own lifetime, covering the reigns of Constantius, Julian, Jovian, Valentinian I, and Valens, and providing eyewitness accounts of significant military events including the Battle of Strasbourg and the ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • Augustan Rome

    Series series Classical World
    Written by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, one of the world's foremost scholars on Roman social and cultural history, this well-established introduction to Rome in the Age of Augustus provides a fascinating insight into the social and physical contexts of Augustan politics and poetry, exploring in detail the impact of the new regime of government on society.Taking an interpretative approach, the ideas and ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Rome and the Colonial City

    Rethinking the Grid

    Series Book 3 - Impact of the Ancient City
    According to one narrative, that received almost canonical status a century ago with Francis Haverfield, the orthogonal grid was the most important development of ancient town planning, embodying values of civilization in contrast to barbarism, diffused in particular by hundreds of Roman colonial foundations, and its main legacy to subsequent urban development was the model of the grid city, ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Patronage in Ancient Society

    Edited by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Ancient World
    Patronage in Ancient Society (1989) examines a subject central to the society of the ancient Mediterranean, bringing together the interests of ancient historians and sociologists, using ancient societies, and particularly Roman society, as the focus for their studies. In its comparative approach and its historical range this volume constitutes an important contribution to the study of patronage. ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Idea of the City in Late Antiquity

    A Study in Resilience

    The city was one of the central and defining features of the world of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean. Challenging the idea that the ancient city 'declined and fell', Andrew Wallace-Hadrill argues that memories of the past enabled cities to adapt and remain relevant in the changing post-Roman world. In the new kingdoms in Italy, France and Spain cities remained a key part of the structure of ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Taking Exception to the Law

    Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature

    Taking Exception to the Law explores how a range of early modern English writings responded to injustices perpetrated by legal procedures, discourses, and institutions. From canonical poems and plays to crime pamphlets and educational treatises, the essays engage with the relevance and wide appeal of legal questions in order to understand how literature operated in the early modern period.Justice ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Remaking Community?

    New Labour and the Governance of Poor Neighbourhoods

    New Labour deployed community as a conceptual framework to rearticulate the state / citizen relationship to be enacted at and through new spaces of governance. An important example of this was how successive New Labour governments sought to renovate the social, political and economic cultures of poor neighbourhoods and generate trajectories of strong, empowered and ordered civic space. This was ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain

    Texts, Artefacts and Beliefs

    This book explores the cultural and intellectual stakes of medieval and renaissance Britain's sense of itself as living in the shadow of Rome: a city whose name could designate the ancient, fallen, quintessentially human power that had conquered and colonized Britain, and also the alternately sanctified and demonized Roman Church. Wallace takes medieval texts in a range of languages (including ... Read more

    $40.99 USD