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“simon malmberg”

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  • The Moving City

    Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome

    Edited by Ida Ostenberg, Simon Malmberg, Jonas Bjørnebye ...
    The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome focusses on movements in the ancient city of Rome, exploring the interaction between people and monuments. Representing a novel approach to the Roman cityscape and culture, and reflecting the shift away from the traditional study of single monuments into broader analyses of context and space, the volume reveals both how movement ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

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  • Hannibal

    by Ernle Bradford ...
    The life of the great military commander of ancient Carthage from the bestselling author of Thermopylae and Gibraltar.Born in Carthage in 247 BC, Hannibal Barca is considered one of the greatest military commanders of all time. Following the example set by his father, Hamilcar, he dedicated his life to the defeat of Rome. At the outbreak of the Second Punic War, Hannibal famously led an army ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Ward

    The Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood

    Edited by John Lorinc, Michael McClelland, Ellen Scheinberg ...
    The story of the growth and destruction of Toronto's first 'priority neighbourhood.'From the 1840s until the Second World War, waves of newcomers who migrated to Toronto – Irish, Jewish, Italian, African American and Chinese, among others – landed in 'The Ward.' Crammed with rundown housing and immigrant-owned businesses, this area, bordered by College and Queen, University and Yonge streets, was ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Makeshift Metropolis

    Ideas About Cities

    by Witold Rybczynski ...
    In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers Home and A Clearing in the Distance. In Makeshift Metropolis, Rybczynski has drawn upon a lifetime of observing cities to craft a concise and insightful book that is at once an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Reach of Rome

    A Journey Through the Lands of the Ancient Empire, Following a Coin

    by Alberto Angela ...
    Translated by Gregory Conti ...
    In this unconventional and accessible history, Italian best-seller Alberto Angela literally follows the money to map the reach and power of the Roman Empire. To see a map of the Roman Empire at the height of its territorial expansion is to be struck by its size, stretching from Scotland to Kuwait, from the Sahara to the North Sea. What was life like in the Empire, and how were such diverse peoples ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Spartacus

    by Aldo Schiavone ...
    Translated by Jeremy Carden ...
    Series Book 19 - Revealing Antiquity
    "Separate[s] the man from the myth. . . . Both the newcomer and the experienced Roman historian will find a wealth of entertainment and information." ( Publishers Weekly)Spartacus (109?–71 bce) has been a source of endless fascination, the subject of myth-making in his own time, and of movie-making in ours. In this riveting, compact account, Aldo Schiavone rescues Spartacus from the murky regions ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Roman Legionary AD 284-337

    The age of Diocletian and Constantine the Great

    by Ross Cowan ...
    Series Book 175 - Warrior
    Diocletian and Constantine were the greatest of the Late Roman emperors, and their era marks the climax of the legionary system.Under Constantine's successors the legions were reduced in size and increasingly sidelined in favour of new units of elite auxilia, but between AD 284 and 337 the legions reigned supreme. The legionaries defeated all-comers and spearheaded a stunning Roman revival that ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Making Textiles in pre-Roman and Roman Times

    People, Places, Identities

    Edited by Margarita Gleba, Judit Pásztókai-Szeőke ...
    Series Book 13 - Ancient Textiles
    Textile production is an economic necessity that has confronted all societies in the past. While most textiles were manufactured at a household level, valued textiles were traded over long distances and these trade networks were influenced by raw material supply, labour skills, costs, as well as by regional traditions. This was true in the Mediterranean regions andMaking Textiles in pre-Roman and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Against Security

    How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger - Updated Edition

    by Harvey Molotch, Harvey Molotch ...
    How security procedures could be positive, safe, and effectiveThe inspections we put up with at airport gates and the endless warnings we get at train stations, on buses, and all the rest are the way we encounter the vast apparatus of U.S. security. Like the wars fought in its name, these measures are supposed to make us safer in a post-9/11 world. But do they? Against Security explains how these ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • St. Marks Is Dead

    The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street

    by Ada Calhoun ...
    **A New York Times Editors' ChoiceA vibrant narrative history of three hallowed Manhattan blocks—the epicenter of American cool.**St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O’Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Medusa's Gaze

    The Extraordinary Journey of the Tazza Farnese

    by Marina Belozerskaya ...
    Series series Emblems of Antiquity
    The Tazza Farnese is one of the most admired objects from classical antiquity. A libation bowl carved from banded agate, it features Medusa's head on its outside and, inside, an assembly of Egyptian gods. For more than two millennia, these radiant figures have mesmerized emperors and artists, popes and thieves, merchants and museum goers. In this, the first book-length account of this renowned ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Agricola

    by Tacitus Publius Cornelius ...
    The book Agricola by Tacitus, with Latin-English facing-page translation. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD