Examines various aspects of ancient warfare from philosophy to the technical skills needed to fight. This work looks at war in a wider context & explores the ways in which ancient society thought about conflict: can a war be just? Why was siege warfare ...

Step into two million years of human history & explore the wonders of the ancient world. Discover how out Stone Age ancestors lived & how hunters became farmers & began to settle down. Explore the culture & beliefs of the Egyptian people & enter into an amazing world of gold-topped pyramids & mummified pharaohs. Take a trip to see a tragic play in Ancient Greece, marvel at the Roman feats of engineering, & find out how one small city became the heart of a huge & powerful empire. Ancient World is a panoramic survey of the way people lived in the Stone Age, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece & the Roman Empire. More than 800 photographs, cross-sections, pictorial timelines & historical maps illustrate every aspect of the ancient world, while 40 fact boxes provide extra insights & highlight links with the present day. Throughout the book, 60 step-by-step practical projects bring ancient history to life. The size of this book is 22cm in height & 17cm wide with 256 pages ...

The path of human progress is one of enlightenment & cruelty, achievement & bloodshed, creation & destruction. This title tells the epic story of civilization, & the cities that made us who we are. It reaches back into our distant past to bring alive its glorious & terrible people & places. ...

In & Another Thing... the outspoken & outrageous presenter Jeremy Clarkson, shares his opinions on just about everything.



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Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a heart condition that required immediate

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In this book, Judy Dench writes in depth on the highs & lows of her career. There are far fewer of the latter than the former, but her truthfulness in acting also extends to her writing, so she has not omitted them either. It also reveals her personality in its many facets, & above all her affection for those who have influenced her the most. A number of them have now made their final exits, but Judi Dench brings them all back to life on the page. ...

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A sweeping saga spanning 1898 to 1984 stretching from the mining fields of South Wales to the film sets of

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In & God Created Cricket, award-winning writer & broadcaster Simon Hughes casts his expert eye over this most English of sports, evaluating how the game took shape in eighteenth & nineteenth century England & assessing how the rest of the world soon started beating them at it. With his unique blend of sharp humour, biting analysis & deep affection for cricket, Hughes revisits its history & delves into the characters who have given the game its unique fascination. & through it all runs the seam of the Ashes, ending, rather conveniently, as England beat the Aussies again in 2009. ...

Messrs Barker & Corbett kept a nation laughing for two decades, & despite the work that went into writing, rehearsing & broadcasting almost a hundred episodes to millions of viewers each week, the pair never shared a cross word. This work tells the story of their rise from theatre, through The Frost Report & into their own legendary show. ...

Idealistic young lawyer Arthur Kirkland (Al Pacino) is determined to bypass the topsy-turvy madness of the US legal system & do his best for his clients. However, Arthur's idealism takes a battering when he is pressured to defend a judge (John Forsythe) he knows to be guilty of raping a young girl. Arthur now has to make the most important choice of his life
- the choice between his career & his conscience. Directed by Norman Jewison, with a screenplay by husb&-&-wife writing team Barry Levinson & Valerie Curtin.
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