The Trojan War (Storpocket)
avBarry S. Strauss
ISBN: 9780099474333 - UTGIVEN: 200801Did the Trojan War really happen? Spectacular new archaeological evidence suggests that it did. Recent excavations and newly translated Hittite texts reveal that Troy was a large, wealthy city allied with the Hittite Empire. Located at the strategic entrance to the Dardanelles, the link between the [...]
Western Civilization (Pocket)
avWilliam Cohen, Thomas F.X. Noble, Barry S. Strauss, Duane J. Osheim, Kristen Neuschel, David Roberts
ISBN: 9780395885482 - UTGIVEN: 1999-01-06The Brief Edition of Western Civilization presents a strong chronological and political framework and seamlessly integrates the social and cultural forces that have shaped the western past. Two related themes are pursued throughout: 1) Europe in relation to the rest of the world and non-Western infl[...]
Rowing Against the Current (Pocket)
avBarry S. Strauss
ISBN: 9780684863306 - UTGIVEN: 2001-04In the midst of the standard, dreary midlife crisis complete with wine-tasting courses, yoga classes, and a failed attempt at a first novel forty-year-old Barry Strauss falls unexpectedly and passionately in love with rowing, a sport in which a twenty-seven-year-old is a has-been. Strauss, a [...]
The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination (Övrigt)
avBarry Strauss, Robertson Dean
ISBN: 9781494559441 - UTGIVEN: 2015-03William Shakespeare's gripping play showed Caesar's assassination to be an amateur and idealistic affair. The real killing, however, was a carefully planned paramilitary operation, a generals' plot put together by Caesar's disaffected officers and designed with precision. Brutus and Cassius were ind[...]
