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It All Adds Up: The Story of People and Mathematics

By Launay, Mickael, Wilson, Stephen S.

Scipio Africanus: A Greater Than Napoleon

By B. H. Liddell Hart

English Food: A Social History of England Told Through the Food on Its Tables

By Purkiss, Diane

A Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Memoir of China's Past Through its Proverbs

By Adeline Yen Mah

In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny

By Daisy Dunn

Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past

By Paul Cartledge

Cleopatra

By Hughes Hallett

Cleopatra

By Stacy Schiff

Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost Emperor

By Allen, Charles

Maximinus Thrax: From Common Soldier to Emperor of Rome

By Paul N. Pearson

The Book of the Pharaohs

By Pascal Vernus, Jean Yoyotte

Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge (Harvard University Press Reference Library)

By J. Brunschwig, Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd

The Great Commanders of the Ancient World 1479BC - 453AD (Art of War)

By Andrew Roberts

Augustan Rome, 44 BC to AD 14: the Restoration of the Republic and the Establishment of the Empire (Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome)

By John Richardson

Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost Emperor

By Allen, Charles

Font of Life: Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism

By Wills, Garry

The Lives of the Monks of Paulestine: The Lives of the Monks of Palestine: 114 (Cistercian Studies Series, 114)

By Cyril Of Scythopolis, Binns, John, Price, R. M.

The Find of a Lifetime: Sir Arthur Evans and the Discovery of Knossos

By Horwitz, Sylvia L.

Lives of the Caesars (Oxford World's Classics)

By Suetonius, Edwards, Catharine

The Life and Times of Julius Caesar

By A Noble

Pericles and the Conquest of History: A Political Biography

By samons II, Loren J.

Lives, Volume I: Theseus and Romulus. Lycurgus and Numa. Solon and Publicola (Loeb Classical Library 46)

By Plutarch, Bernadotte Perrin

Who are the Celtic Saints?

By Jones, Kathleen

Attila

By Man, John

Tutankhamen: The Life and Death of the Boy-king

By El Mahdy, Christine

Antony and Cleopatra

By Goldsworthy, Adrian, Dr Adrian Goldsworthy Ltd

EMPIRES OF THE PLAIN: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon

By Adkins, Lesley

Julius Caesar: a Beginner's Guide

By Kamm, Antony

The Confessions

By Augustine, Robin Lane Fox, Philip Burton

Rome: The Autobiography (Brief Histories)

By Jon E. Lewis