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Eureka!: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks but Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
"The ancient Greeks continue to fascinate us - they gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; established artistic and architectural canons visible to this day on all our high streets; laid ...Show more
Howls from the Dark Ages - An Anthology of Medieval Horror by Christopher Buehlman (Foreword by); Ethan Yoder; M. E. Bronstein; Michelle Tang; Cody Goodfellow; Christopher O'Halloran; Bridget D. Brave; Patrick Barb; C. B. Jones; Brian Evenson; Stevie Edwards; P. L. McMillan (Illustrator, Editor); David Worn; Jessica Peter (Illustrator); Joe Radkins (Illustrator); Molly Halstead (Designed by, Illustrator, Cover Design by); Leah Gharbaharan (Illustrator); Hanne Byrd (Illustrator); Maia Weir (Illustrator, Artist); Iona Vorster (Illustrator); Solomon Forse (Editor, Illustrator); Caleb Stephens; Philippa Evans; J. L. Kiefer (Illustrator); Peter Ong Cook; Hailey Piper; Lindsey Ragsdale
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Uncover the secret annals of untold history in these eighteen medieval manuscripts. Each tortured scribe will bring you face to face with ancient horrors lurking in cursed castles, wild woodlands, haunted hamlets, and mysterious monasteries. Including a lineup of authors both established and emerging, H ...Show more
Memento Mori: What the Romans Can Tell Us about Old Age and Death by Peter Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were already dealt with by our ancient ancestors two thousand years ago. Romans inhabited a world where man, k ...Show more
Memento Mori - What the Romans Can Tell Us about Old Age and Death by Peter Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Classic Civilisations
In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were already dealt with by our ancient ancestors 2,000 years ago. Romans inhabited a world where people, knowi ...Show more
Nightfly - The Life of Steely Dan's Donald Fagen by Peter Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Music
Donald Fagen will forever be associated with Steely Dan, the band he formed with Walter Becker and four other musicians in 1972. The smooth, radio-friendly veneer of the duo's songs made Steely Dan internationally popular and famous in the 1970s, but the polish glossed over the underlying layers of ange ...Show more
Ove Arup Masterbuilder Of The Twentieth Century by Peter Jones
$79.95 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism
A biography of Ove Arup, a leading engineer of the twentieth century, complete with some 80 historic photographs. It tells the story of Ove Arup's extraordinary life, his social, aesthetic, and environmental concerns, and his practical contributions during a period of political and technological upheava ...Show more
Pathlands Tranquil Walks Through Britain by Jones, Peter Owen
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Quid Pro Quo: What the Romans Really Gave the English Language by Peter Jones
$22.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Peter Jones takes the reader on a fascinating journey along the highways and byways of Roman life and culture, telling the amazing stories behind the original Latin meanings and uses of hundreds of our everyday words. Taking in every aspect of the ancient world, including science, religion, military mat ...Show more
Quid Pro Quo: What the Romans Really Gave the English Language by Peter Jones
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In this original and highly accessible book, Peter Jones takes the reader on a fascinating journey along the highways and byways of Roman life and culture, telling the amazing stories behind the original Latin meanings and uses of hundreds of our everyday words. Taking in every aspect of the ancient wor ...Show more
Vote for Caesar by Peter Jones
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
The expansion of the congestion charge zone, prices going up on the Underground, bendy buses - all ideas brought about to try to make the traffic situation in our capital city run more smoothly. Surely there must be a better way? In fact there is. In Roman times, when the streets were even more crowded, ...Show more
Vote for Caesar: How the Ancient Greeks and Romans Solved the Problems of Today by Peter Jones
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The expansion of the congestion charge zone, prices going up on the Underground, bendy buses - all ideas brought about to try to make the traffic situation in our capital city run more smoothly. Surely there must be a better way? In fact there is. In Roman times, when the streets were even more crowd ...Show more
Vox Populi: Everything You Wanted to Know about the Classical World but Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Jones
$27.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
A witty and engaging beginner's guide to the Classics, by the author of Veni, Vidi, Vici and Eureka! In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and fascination of their ideas that makes the Ancient Greeks and Romans so important and influential today. ...Show more
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