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Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Istanbul explores a city which stands as a gateway between the east and west, one of the indisputably greatest cities in the world. Previously known by the names Byzantium and Constantinople, this is the most celebrated metropolis in the world to sit on two continents, straddling the dividing line of th ...Show more
The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life by Bettany Hughes
$32.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics
We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did. His aphorism 'The unexamined life is not worth living' may have originated twenty-five centuries ago, but it is a founding principle of modern life. Socrates lived and contributed to a city that nurtured key ingredients of contemporary civi ...Show more
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
Their names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Temple of Artemis. The statue of Zeus at Olympia. The mausoleum of Halikarnassos. The Colossus at Rhodes. The Lighthouse of Alexandria. The Seven Wonders of the World were staggeringly audacious impositi ...Show more
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