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  • Confronting the Classics

    Traditions, Adventures and Innovations

    by Professor Mary Beard ...
    Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though her TV presenting and her books. In a series of sparkling essays, she explores our rich classical heritage - from Greek drama to Roman jokes, introducing some larger-than-life characters of classical history, such as Alexander the Great, Nero and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • It's a Don's Life

    by Professor Mary Beard ...
    Mary Beard's by now famous blog A Don's Life has been running on the TLS website for nearly three years. In it she has made her name as a wickedly subversive commentator on the world in which we live. Her central themes are the classics, universities and teaching - and much else besides. What are academics for? Who was the first African Roman emperor? Looting, ancient and modern. Are modern exams ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • All in a Don's Day

    by Professor Mary Beard ...
    Her central themes are the classics, universities and teaching - and much else besides. In this second collection following on from the success of It's a Don's Life, Beard ponders whether Gaddafi's home is Roman or not, we share her 'terror of humiliation' as she enters 'hairdresser country' and follow her dilemma as she wanders through the quandary of illegible handwriting on examination papers ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Democracy

    Eleven writers and leaders on what it is – and why it matters

    by Professor Mary Beard, Erica Benner, Kaja Kallas, Aditi Mittal, Vjosa Osmani, Adela Raz, Elif Shafak, Lola Shoneyin, Yuan Yang, Lea Ypi, Margaret Atwood ...
    A WATERSTONES BEST POLITICS BOOK OF 2024This is an exceptional moment for democracy.In the year of elections, read Margaret Atwood, Mary Beard, Lea Ypi, Elif Shafak and more on what democracy means - and why it matters.In 2024, nearly half the world will take part in a national election, with billions heading to the polls. It's a thrilling, unprecedented opportunity for change - yet democracy is ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Talking Classics

    The Shock of the Old

    by Mary Beard ...
    The incomparable Mary Beard is back, and she’s talking all things classics.Why the ongoing fascination with the ancient world? This witty, approachable book asks why—for better or (sometimes) worse—antiquity continues to exert such a powerful hold on the contemporary imagination. Recalling a formative childhood encounter with a four-thousand-year-old piece of bread in a museum, Beard introduces ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Eureka!

    Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks But Were Afraid to Ask

    by Peter Jones ...
    The ancient Greeks 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; laid the foundations of philosophy, history, tragedy, and comedy; and debated everything from the good life and the role of women, to making sense of foreigners and the best form of government, all in the most sophisticated ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea

    Journeys Through Ancient Literature

    by Emily Wilson ...
    **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"An enthralling and profoundly relevant book." —Salman Rushdie"I adored reading these joyful, illuminating, and engrossing journeys through ancient literature." —Madeline MillerMost Anticipated Books of Fall: Goodreads, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus ReviewsFrom the most celebrated translator of our time comes a visionary exploration of how translation reshapes and ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Colosseum

    by Professor Keith Hopkins ...
    The Colosseum was Imperial Rome's monument to warfare. Like a cathedral of death it towered over the city and invited its citizens, 50,000 at a time, to watch murderous gladiatorial games. It is now visited by two million visitors a year (Hitler was among them). Award winning classicist, Mary Beard with Keith Hopkins, tell the story of Rome's greatest arena: how it was built; the gladiatorial and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Religions of Rome: Volume 2, A Sourcebook

    by Mary Beard, John North, Simon Price ...
    Volume two reveals the extraordinary diversity of ancient Roman religion. A comprehensive sourcebook, it presents a wide range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world - from the foundations of the city in the eighth century BC to the Christian capital more than a thousand years later. Each document is given a full introduction, explanatory notes and bibliography, and acts as a ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations

    Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations

    by Mary Beard ...
    One of the world’s leading historians provides a revolutionary tour of the Ancient World, dusting off the classics for the twenty-first century.Mary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writing about Greek and Roman history, provides a panoramic portrait of the classical world, a book in which we encounter not only Cleopatra and Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Hannibal, but also ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Quid Pro Quo

    What the Romans Really Gave the English Language

    by Peter Jones ...
    Uncover the fascinating roots of the English language with this captivating exploration of Latin and Roman culture. Peter Jones illuminates the surprising connections between ancient Rome and our modern vocabulary, revealing the stories behind hundreds of everyday words.From politics to medicine, architecture to warfare, explore how Latin has shaped the English language and provided a window into ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Memento Mori

    What the Romans Can Tell Us About Old Age and Death

    by Peter Jones ...
    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, knowing nothing about hygiene let alone disease, had no defences against nature. Death was ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus