Richard Miles

A history of the city whose defeat was one of the ancient world's defining moments draws on new archaeological research to trace its rise to become the Mediterranean's greatest sea power and discuss the contributions of military leader Hannibal.

The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization

Carthage Must be Destroyed

Angel Loves Nobody

Ancient Worlds

David Frum

Jeremy Black

Norman Stone

Barry Strauss

Richard Overy

Roger Crowley

Peter Heather

Jonathan Fenby

Sean McMeekin

Noah Feldman

Gregory Feifer

Andrew Preston

Morris Rossabi

Walter Russell Mead

Josef Joffe

Gabriel Gorodetsky

Michael Broers

Lincoln Paine

Mikael Wigell

Anna-Lena Laurén

Phillip Bobbitt

John H. Maurer

Fraser Nelson

Charly Salonius-Pasternak

Ett tjugotal experter utforskar i denna antologi hur vi hamnade där vi är idag men också vart vi kan tänkas vara på väg. Huvudredaktörer är Kurt Almqvist och Alexander Linklater.

Striden om framtidens historia

Geopolitikens återkomst

Windy Ariestanty

Ve Handojo

Matatita

Alanda Kariza

Rahne Putri

Fajar Nugros

Farid Gaban

JFlow

Riyanni Djangkaru

Travel Junkie Indonesia

Trinzi Mulamawitri

Accounts of the Indonesians on their travel to various places.

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The Journeys 2

That Cold Day in the Park

Across the Middle East, the Mediterranean and the Nile Delta, awe-inspiring, monstrous ruins are scattered across the landscape - vast palaces, temples, fortresses, shattered statues of ancient gods, carvings praising the eternal power of long-forgotten dynasties. These ruins - the remainder of thousands of years of human civilization - are both inspirational in their grandeur, and terrible in that their once teeming centres of population were all ultimately destroyed and abandoned. In this major book, Richard Miles recreates these extraordinary cities, ranging from the Euphrates to the Roman Empire, to understand the roots of human civilization. His challenge is to make us understand that the cities which define culture, religion and economic success and which are humanity's greatest invention, have always had a cruel edge to them, building systems that have provided both amazing opportunities and back-breaking hardship. This exhilarating book is both a pleasure to read and a challenge to us all to think about our past - and about the present.

The Search for the Origins of Western Civilization

The devastating struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and Romans was one of the defining dramas of the Ancient World. In an epic series of land and sea battles both sides came close to victory before the Carthaginians finally buckled and their capital city, history and culture were almost utterly erased. The last great threat to Roman supremacy across the entire Mediterranean had gone, fulfilling Cato the Elder's insistent demand 'Carthage must be destroyed'. 'Carthage Must Be Destroyed' brilliantly brings to life this lost empire - from its origins among the Phoenician settlements of Lebanon to its apotheosis as the greatest sea-power in the Mediterranean, with interests stretching from the Middle East to southern Spain. Roman ferocity tried to remove Carthage from history, but it is possible nonetheless to create an extraordinary narrative of a civilization which left an indelible, if often hidden legacy for those that followed. At the heart of all attempts to understand Carthage must lie the extraordinary figure of Hannibal - the scourge of Rome and one of the greatest, most charismatic and innovative of all military leaders, but a man also who ultimately led his people to catastrophe. Drawing on a wealth of new archaeological research, Richard Miles makes Carthage vivid as it has never been before.

The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Mediterranean Civilization

Convergent Coincidences -- Book II -- (1964). An older high school boy, almost a loner, cannot deal with the military death of his father whom he worshiped, especially when his father's reputation is called into question, yet continues to emulate him while a related blackmail and murder occur; he awaits baseball season while pursuing dating haphazardly with his attempts failing to fulfill his dreams until he sees 'her', whose true essence is more complex, even mystical than her delightful, warm persona exudes.

CONVERGENT COINCIDENCES

Simon Greenslade

Excavations chart the radical transformation of an inner city neighbourhood in late antique Carthage, with the development of a significant basilica that was transformed into a major pilgrimage centre. This overturned established tradition that located such complexes outside the city walls and provides important insights into the significance of th

Pilgrimage and the Transformation of an Urban Landscape in Sixth Century Ad Carthage

The Bir Messaouda Basilica

Andrew Merrills

The Vandals is the first book available in the EnglishLanguage dedicated to exploring the sudden rise and dramatic fallof this complex North African Kingdom. This complete historyprovides a full account of the Vandals and re-evaluates key aspectsof the society including: Political and economic structures such as the complexforeign policy which combined diplomatic alliances and marriageswith brutal raiding The extraordinary cultural development of secular learning,and the religious struggles that threatened to tear the stateapart The nature of Vandal identity from a social and genderperspective.

The Vandals

Roger D. Traub

The questions of how a large population of neurons in the brain functions, how synchronized firing of neurons is achieved, and what factors regulate how many and which neurons fire under different conditions form the central theme of this book. Important neurological techniques for the physiological reconstruction of a large biological neural network are presented.

Neuronal Networks of the Hippocampus

This volume charts the radical transformation of an inner city neighbourhood in late antique Carthage which was excavated over a five-year period by a team from the University of Cambridge. Bordering the main thoroughfare leading from the Brysa Hill to the ports, the neighbourhood remained primarily a residential one from the second century until 530s AD when a substantial basilica was constructed over the eastern half of the insula. Further extensive modifications were made to the basilica half-a-century later when the structures on the western half of the insula were demolished and the basilica greatly enlarged with the addition of a new east-west aisles, a large monumental baptistery and a crypt. By carefully reconstructing the complex architectural plan of this innovative building, this study shows how the re-modelled Bir Messaouda basilica was transformed into a major pilgrimage centre overturning established tradition that located such complexes outside the city walls. The Bir Messaouda basilica provides important insights into the transition between Vandal and Byzantine control of the city, the development of a new Christian inter-mural urban landscape in the sixth century AD, and the significance of the pilgrimage in reinforcing ecclesiastical authority in post-Justinianic North Africa.

Pilgrimage and the Transformation of an Urban Landscape in Sixth Century AD Carthage

Jill Rose

A posthumous roman à clef set at the dawn of the Cold War, inspired by author Richard Miles' contemporaneous experiences and his personal acquaintance with notorious Soviet spy Donald Maclean.

A Novel of Nuclear Espionage

Requiem for a Spy

This practical text draws together the various strands of legislation relating to the sale and supply of goods, together with a background to the law of contract. The text also includes all relevant statutes and SIs, creating a comprehensive one-volume guide to the law. There is a greatinteraction between the sale and supply of goods and services and consumer credit. Important recent cases, such as Dimond v Lovell, have led to a dramatic increase in litigation in this area. Blackstone's Sale and Supply of Goods and Services provides a practical and comprehensive guide to theConsumer Credit Act 1974, and includes up-to-date coverage of credit hire agreements. While the text provides in-depth analysis, the focus is strictly on the practitioner. The law is explained unambiguously and presented so as to give clear answers to the problems that present themselves inday-to-day practice. Model pleadings and contracts are also provided to guide the practitioner. In the modern day there is a huge interaction between the Blackstone's Sale and Supply of Goods and Services will be indispensable for practitioners specialising in the fields of commercial and consumerlaw. It will also be of considerable interest to students on the LPC and BVC courses.

Blackstone's Sale and Supply of Goods and Services

The essays in Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity concern themselves with the theme of identity, an increasingly popular topic in Classical studies. Through detailed discussions of particular Roman texts and images, the contributors show not only how these texts were used to create and organise particular visions of late antique society and culture, but also how constructions of identity and culture contributed to the fashioning of 'late antiquity' into a distinct historical period.

Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity

Richard Miles

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