Historian Christos Dionysopoulos goes head-to-head with 669 authors and 913 articles and books, emerging triumphant with a detailed study which casts light on the events, discovers unseen aspects and proposes interesting and original solutions to the questions surrounding this historic battle fought in 490BC. 112 colour illustrations. Greek language text.

Paperback    £39.00
9789606878572 | Published: 2013

In 1857 Everard Digby published the first scientific treatise on swimming – and one of the first on any modern sport. Nicholas Orme rehabilitates Digby as a pioneer of the history of sport. The book opens with a history of swimming in Britain from the Romans to the sixteenth century, which is followed by an account of Digby’s life and work.

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9780859891349 | Published: 1983

Echoes of Egypt is a catalogue accompanying an exhibit at Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History. Documenting two thousand years of the reception of ancient Egypt throughout the world, Echoes of Egypt transcends the typical account on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century 'Egyptomania'.

Paperback    £16.00
9781933789002 | Published: 2013

Aron Zysow's 1984 PhD dissertation, 'The Economy of Certainty,' remains the most important treatment of Islamic legal theory in Western scholarship. It continues to be widely read and cited, and is published here in full with updated references, further reflections by the author, and with the addition of a nine-page Foreword by Robert Gleave.

Paperback    £30.00
9781937040093 | Published: 2013

An examination of the economic history of Rome in the Republican and Imperial periods. It considers evidence from archaeological and literary sources and offers an updated economic analysis.

Hardback    £41.00
9780979971358 | Published: 2016

In this famous study, the author argues that the familiar correlation between educational training and job performance is a myth and that the upgrading of the supply of labor is meaningless unless we reconsider the nature of the demand. A lengthy new introduction by the author extends his critique into the 1990s.

Paperback    £29.00
9780971242753 | Published: 2003

This book is a study of all the known schools in the six counties of the West of England, from the Conquest to the Reformation. The account of each school covers (as far as possible) its origins, constitution, endowment and history up to the middle of the sixteenth century.

Paperback    £29.95
9780859897075 | Published: 2020

'A superb book notable for its effective synthesis of quantitative, qualitative, historical, and theoretical approaches. Livingstone explores an issue of vital importance: the growing disjunction between education and paid work in advanced industrial economies.' (Beverley H. Burris, University of New Mexico)

Paperback    £35.00
9781551930176 | Published: 2003

This volume contains the original hieratic text, complete transcription into hieroglyphs, transliteration, English translation, philological apparatus and copiously illustrated medical commentaries for the 48 clinical cases of the Edwin Smith Papyrus.

Hardback    £205.00
9781937040017 | Published: 2012

The relationships between ancient Egypt and other cultures transcend time, so in this volume of the Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, Volume 8 (2016) the reader will find a sampling of the diverse ways in which these have manifested.

 

Paperback    £41.00
9781530685493 | Published: 2016