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Ancient Nubia

African Kingdoms on the Nile
Marjorie Fisher, Peter Lacovara, Sue D'Auria, Salima Ikram, Chester Higgins Jr
$49.95
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Hardback,  Jan 2012 ISBN13: 9789774164781ISBN10: 9774164784 A lushly illustrated gazetteer of the archaeological sites of southern Egypt and northern Sudan
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The Age of Titans

The Rise and Fall of the Great Hellenistic Navies
William Murray
$45.00
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Hardback,  Dec 2011 ISBN13: 9780195388640ISBN10: 019538864X The first-ever account of naval warfare during the Hellenistic Age

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The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction

David Carrasco
$11.95
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Paperback,  Nov 2011 ISBN13: 9780195379389ISBN10: 0195379381 A very short introduction to the Aztecs using interpretive tools from religious studies and anthropology to uncover the complexities of Aztec life

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Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction

Paul Cartledge
$11.95
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Paperback,  Nov 2011 ISBN13: 9780199601349ISBN10: 0199601348 This highly original introduction to ancient Greece uses the history of eleven major Greek cities to illuminate the most important and informative aspects of Greek culture

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The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology

Roger S. Bagnall
$50.00
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Paperback,  Oct 2011 ISBN13: 9780199843695ISBN10: 0199843694 The first major reference work on papyrology written in English

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Cleopatra

A Biography
Duane W. Roller
$16.95
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Paperback,  Oct 2011 ISBN13: 9780199829965ISBN10: 0199829969 An authoritative biography of the most powerful woman of the ancient Mediterranean world

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Ancient Mediterranean Sacrifice

Jennifer Wright Knust, Zsuzsanna Varhelyi
$74.00
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Hardback,  Sep 2011 ISBN13: 9780199738960ISBN10: 0199738963
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Ancient Slavery and Abolition

From Hobbes to Hollywood
Edith Hall, Richard Alston, Justine McConnell
$150.00
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Hardback,  Sep 2011 ISBN13: 9780199574674ISBN10: 0199574677 The first ever in-depth examination of the role of the Greek and Roman classics in the abolition of slavery

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Witnesses to a World Crisis

Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century
James Howard-Johnston
$75.00
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Paperback,  Sep 2011 ISBN13: 9780199694990ISBN10: 0199694990 A groundbreaking study of the period when the final struggles between the empires of Rome and Persia, and then the expansion of Islamic warriors, transformed the political and religious world.
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Making Time for the Past

Local History and the Polis
Katherine Clarke
$55.00
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Paperback,  Aug 2011 ISBN13: 9780199694983ISBN10: 0199694982 The first study of the ancient world which explicitly treats the key methodological question of the use of formal time systems in the writing of history.
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