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The first volume contains the journals and papers from the period 1835-1839 and demonstrates the wide range of Kierkegaard's interests.

The gladiatorial games of the Roman world comprised battle for entertainment and slaughter for profit. Although notorious for the use of prisoners of war, conquered slaves and condemned criminals as d...

Discover the world of the ancient fortress of Masada in this beautifully illustrated book on the history of early Judean forts. Using specially commissioned artwork to re-create the fortress and moder...

Tom Turner, a well-known teacher and writer in landscape architecture and garden design and history, presents and explains the historic styles of gardens. He considers the why, the what, the how and t...

This detailed encyclopedia is the first to explore the many peoples of early European civilization. Viewed as 'barbarian' through the lens of ancient Greece and Rome, these civilizations were responsi...

Classical Latin appears to be without regional dialects, yet Latin evolved in little more than a millennium into a variety of different languages (the Romance languages: Italian, French, Spanish, Port...

The most extensive and famous example of fortification in the world, the Great Wall of China stretches for more than 4,000 miles across inhospitable terrain. Charting its development from construction...

For more than 2,000 years hordes of mounted nomadic archers from the vastness of the steppe and from Central Asia spewed out into China, the Middle East, and Europe. Feared and reviled, they were a fo...

This book aims to fill in the literary history of the greatest period of Latin poetry, about 60 BC to AD 20. Catullus (by a slender thread) has survived, but later contemporaries valued his friend Cal...