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The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
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Like the Landmark Thucydides, the Landmark Herodotus is an excellent edition, with a good introduction, copious notes, 127 maps, 21 appendices, a glossary, bibliography, dated timeline, and index. Being a huge fan of the Thucydides edition, I was hoping for a Landmark Herodotus, and am overall very impressed with the book. The only criticism I have is ... »
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The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist
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The Archimedes Codex is a three-in-one book: First, it tells the fascinating story of how a famous but apparently lost text of Archimedes was found in the late 20th century and is being gradually recovered in a readable form. Second, it reveals some of the functioning of one the most brilliant mathematical and engineering brains in history. And finally... »
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Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
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Good overview of this complex empire. I have only two negative comments
Eastern Orthodox and the Catholic Church are not reunited as some might think if all they did was read this text. The Turks are not as hospitable to the remaing Orthodox Christians as the author might lead you to believe. Evidence: the refusal to allow the Orthodox church t... »
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Meditations (Penguin Classics)
One measure, perhaps, of a book's worth, is its intergenerational pliancy: do new readers acquire it and interpret it afresh down through the ages? The ... »
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The Complete World of Greek Mythology
Good book for young children interested in this subject since pictures abound and captions tell a clear story. the text is more for late teens and above ... »
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Travels with Herodotus
The last book by this great journalist. It makes perfect sense that he traveled with Herodotus, and that this ancient Greek writer, the first historian, o... »
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My Family and Other Animals
Ever wonder what kind of person takes such an interest in every form of flora or fauna there is? One who is hyperobservant, apparently. And when Gerald Du... »
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