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  • Alexander’s Successors and the Creation of Hellenistic Kingship

    by John Holton ...
    What happened to Alexander the Great's empire when he died, and to the generals and companions that had conquered that empire with him? How did they begin to develop their own power and positions after his death?Alexander's Successors and the Creation of Hellenistic Kingship reconstructs how the development of royal ideologies led to five powerful new kingships after Alexander's death. It reveals ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Royal Traditions and the Consolidation of Power by Alexander’s Successors

    by John Holton ...
    Examining the period of political consolidation after Alexander the Great's death, John Holton reconstructs how the successors used new frameworks of royal ideology to create long-term kingships. There is a particular focus on the deeper manoeuvres within the inter-generational impact raging from the influence of religion and family relations, to succession-planning and royal funerals.In this ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Case Studies in Infectious Disease

    by Peter Lydyard, Michael Cole, John Holton, Will Irving, Nino Porakishvili, Pradhib Venkatesan, Kate Ward ...
    Case Studies in Infectious Disease presents 40 case studies featuring the most important human infectious diseases worldwide. Fully revised and updated in this second edition, the book describes the natural history of infection from point of entry of the pathogen through to clinical management of the resulting disease or condition. A further 8 case studies have been provided online as ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Case Studies in Infection Control

    by Meera Chand, John Holton ...
    Case Studies in Infection Control has 25 cases, each focusing on an infectious disease, which illustrate the critical aspects of infection control and prevention. Scenarios in the cases are real events from both community and hospital situations, and written by experts. Although brief comments are included in relation to the organism, diagnosis, and treatment the main emphasis is on the case, its ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

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    Greek and Roman warfare differed from other cultures and was unlike any other forms of warfare before and after. The key difference is often held to be that the Greeks and Romans practised a 'Western Way of War', where the aim is an open, decisive battle, won by courage instilled in part by discipline. Harry Sidebottom looks at how and why this 'Western Way of War' was constructed and maintained ... Read more

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  • After Thermopylae

    The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars

    by Paul Cartledge ...
    Series series Emblems of Antiquity
    The Battle of Plataea in 479 BCE is one of world history's unjustly neglected events. It decisively ended the threat of a Persian conquest of Greece. It involved tens of thousands of combatants, including the largest number of Greeks ever brought together in a common cause. For the Spartans, the driving force behind the Greek victory, the battle was sweet vengeance for their defeat at Thermopylae ... Read more

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  • Thermopylae

    The Battle That Changed the World

    by Paul Cartledge ...
    The true story of a clash of ancient cultures: "Beautifully written and stirring . . . An outstanding retelling of one of the seminal events in world history." — BooklistIn 480 BC, a huge Persian army, led by the inimitable King Xerxes, entered the mountain pass of Thermopylae as it marched on Greece, intending to conquer the land with little difficulty. But the Greeks, led by King Leonidas and a ... Read more

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  • Early Greece

    by Oswyn Murray ...
    Now available in ebook format.Within the space of three centuries, up to the great Persian invasion of 480BC, Greece was transformed from a simple peasant society into a sophisticated civilisation which dominated the shores of the Mediterranean from Spain to Syria and from the Crimea to Egypt – a culture whose achievements in the fields of art, science, philosophy and politics were to establish ... Read more

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  • Medical Microbiology E-Book

    A Guide to Microbial Infections

    Edited by Will L Irving, Andrew Swann, Nelun Perera, Michael R. Barer ...
    Medical microbiology concerns the nature, distribution and activities of microbes and their impact on health and wellbeing. In spite of the introduction of many antimicrobial agents and immunisations, we continue to face major challenges in combatting infection, not least the gathering crisis in antimicrobial resistance. Now in a fully revised and updated 19th edition, Medical Microbiology ... Read more

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  • Alexander the Great

    A Reader

    Edited by Ian Worthington ...
    This exciting new edition is an indispensable guide for undergraduates to the study of Alexander the Great, showing the problems of the ancient source material, and making it clear that there is no single approach to be taken.The twelve thematic chapters contain a broad selection of the most significant published articles about Alexander, examining the main areas of debate and discussion:The ... Read more

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  • Greece in the Making 1200-479 BC

    by Robin Osborne ...
    Series series The Routledge History of the Ancient World
    Greece in the Making 1200–479 BC is an accessible and comprehensive account of Greek history from the end of the Bronze Age to the Classical Period. The first edition of this book broke new ground by acknowledging that, barring a small number of archaic poems and inscriptions, the majority of our literary evidence for archaic Greece reported only what later writers wanted to tell, and so was ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Ancient Macedonia

    Edited by Joseph Roisman, Ian Worthington ...
    Series Book 84 - Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
    The most comprehensive and up-to-date work available on ancient Macedonian history and material culture, A Companion to Ancient Macedonia is an invaluable reference for students and scholars alike.Features new, specially commissioned essays by leading and up-and-coming scholars in the fieldExamines the political, military, social, economic, and cultural history of ancient Macedonia from the ... Read more

    $188.00 USD