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  • The Aeneid

    by Virgil ...
    Translated by Scott McGill, Susannah Wright ...
    Rome’s epic origin story, brilliantly rendered in a vivid, rhythmic idiom.Crafted during the reign of Augustus Caesar at the outset of the Roman Empire, Virgil’s Aeneid is a tale of thrilling adventure, extreme adversity, doomed romance, fateful battles, and profound loss. Through its stirring account of human struggle, meddling gods, and conflicting destinies, the poem brings to life the triumphs ... Read more

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  • Youth and Peace in England, 1919-1969

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers an historical analysis of an area of young people's activity which remains significant in the present. It shows that many thousands of young people in England were involved in peace movement activity from 1919 to 1969, in connection with the League of Nations Union before the Second World War, pacifist bodies like the Peace Pledge Union in the 1930s and 1940s, the Council for ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Morality and Citizenship in English Schools

    Secular Approaches, 1897–1944

    Series series History (R0)
    This book sheds new light on early twentieth-century secularism by examining campaigns to challenge dominant Christian approaches to the teaching of morality and citizenship in English schools, and to offer superior alternatives. It brings together, for the first time, the activities of different educators and pressure groups, operating locally, nationally and internationally, over a period of 47 ... Read more

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    The Greek Myths Reimagined

    by Stephen Fry ...
    Series Book 3 - Stephen Fry's Greek Myths
    In the brilliant third installment of his bestselling Mythos series, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry retells the tale of the Trojan War with his trademark wit and vibrance.Full of tragic heroes, intoxicating love stories, and the unstoppable force of fate, there is no conflict more iconic than the Trojan War. Troy is the story of the epic battle retold by Fry with drama, humor, and vivid ... Read more

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  • The Death of Consensus

    100 Years of British Political Nightmares

    by Phil Tinline ...
    Over Britain's first century of mass democracy, politics lurched from crisis to crisis. How does this history of broken consensus and political agony illuminate our current age of upheaval? Historians usually focus on the dawn of a new consensus--postwar Keynesianism, or Thatcherite neoliberalism. Yet journalist Phil Tinline argues that we should be more interested in the periods of turmoil and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

    by E. M. Berens ...
    Discover the captivating worlds of Ancient Greece and Rome in this detailed introduction to the age-old deities, festivals, and legendary tales that have shaped Western mythology and culture.This classic work provides detailed descriptions of the gods, goddesses, and mythological figures of Ancient Greece and Rome. Offering an accessible yet thorough exploration of the myths explaining the origins ... Read more

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  • The Revelation of Ireland

    1995-2020

    THE NUMBER 1 IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024An Irish Times Book of the Year 2024Ireland is a strikingly different country now to the one it was in the mid-1990s. Dramatic economic, social and cultural changes, including the Celtic Tiger boom and increasingly secular debate about abortion, the status of women and same-sex marriage underlined ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Aeneid

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    Translated by Robert Fagles ...
    by Virgil ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epicFleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles’ mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an incredible journey to fulfill his destiny as the founder of Rome. His voyage will take him through stormy seas, entangle him in a tragic love affair, and lure him into the world of the dead itself--all ... Read more

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  • The Iliad of Homer

    Translated by Richmond Lattimore ...
    "Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilleus / and its devastation." For sixty years, that's how Homer has begun the Iliad in English, in Richmond Lattimore's faithful translation—the gold standard for generations of students and general readers.This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the poem as firmly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Erased

    A History of International Thought Without Men

    How a field built on the intellectual labor and expertise of women erased themThe academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role in the creation of this new cross-disciplinary field. In Erased, Patricia Owens shows that, since its beginnings in the early twentieth century, international relations ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Classical Mythology A to Z

    An Encyclopedia of Gods & Goddesses, Heroes & Heroines, Nymphs, Spirits, Monsters, and Places

    A beautifully illustrated, wonderfully engaging A-to-Z guide to more than 700 major and minor gods and goddesses, characters, creatures, and places of classical Greek and Roman mythology.Classical Mythology A-to-Z is a comprehensive and engrossing guide to Greek and Roman mythology. Written by Annette Giesecke, PhD, Professor of Classics and Chair of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies at the ... Read more

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  • Metamorphoses

    by Ovid ...
    Translated by David Raeburn ...
    'Still remarkably vivid. It is easier to read this for pure pleasure than just about any other ancient text' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianOvid's sensuous and witty poem begins with the creation of the world and brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation - often as a result of love or lust - where men and women find themselves magically ... Read more

    $10.79 USD