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Reseña del editor: El libro de Sandra Kalniete constituye un elocuente y conmovedor testimonio de la vida de su familia y de toda la nación letona: de...

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Have you always wanted to learn how to speak Bulgarian but simply didn’t have the time? Well if so, then, look no further. You can hold in your hands one of...

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Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor is a history of Constantinople and other famous cities in Asia Minor such as Ephesus and...

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"Where ocean bathes earth's footstool these sea-bowers Bedeck its solid wavelets: wise was he Who blended shore with deep, with seaweed flowers, And Naiads'...

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Mijatovich's Constantine the Last Emperor of the Greeks, or the Conquest of Constantinople by the Turks, is a fascinating history of the fall of Constantinople.

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A literal translation. According to Wikipedia: "Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust (86 BC – c. 35 BC) was a Roman historian,...

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What is one to make of this very complex man? Reactionary feudal chieftain, rebel against Habsburg modernity? Freedom-fighter seeking the independence of...

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The Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder’s encyclopaedic ‘Natural History’, composed in 37 books, remains an unrivalled compendium of Roman...

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Pausanias’ ‘Description of Greece’ serves as a topographical guidebook, providing a tour of Attica, the Peloponnese and central Greece, spiced with...

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The Roman Republic poet Lucretius’ epic poem ‘De Rerum Natura’ expounds the scientific theories of Epicurus, with the aim of dispelling fear of the gods and...

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Recognised as one of the most influential works of world literature, ‘Daphnis and Chloe’, written by the second century novelist Longus, is one of the...

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Born in Jerusalem, Josephus was a man of high descent, who became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature. After defecting to Rome, he was granted...

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The Athenian statesman Demosthenes is now recognised as the greatest of the Greek orators, who roused Athens to oppose Philip and the might of Macedonia....

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The Late Republic poet Gaius Valerius Catullus had a lasting influence on the Augustan poets Ovid, Horace and Virgil. Today, Catullus’ love poetry retains...

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Apuleius’ ‘Metamorphoses’, commonly known as ‘The Golden Ass’ since the Middle Ages, is the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety. Delphi’s Ancient...

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The epic poem ‘Argonautica’ by Apollonius of Rhodes is the only epic poem to survive from the Hellenistic period, telling of the fabled adventures of Jason...

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This file includes both Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776) and Edmund Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America (1775). According to Wikipedia: "Common...

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Napisana po angielsku monografia dotyczy stosunków słowiańsko-arabskich w najwcześniejszym okresie (IX-XI w.). Autor wykorzystuje mało zbadane źródła...

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The ability to advance rapidly over sometimes difficult terrain was a key part of the Warsaw Pact's strategy. The Eastern European nations which formed this...