Scipio Africanus: Rome's Greatest General
8 best books like Scipio Africanus: Rome's Greatest General (Richard A. Gabriel): Chaos: Making a New Science, Principles of Human Knowledge & Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous, Scipio Africanus: Greater than Napoleon, Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison, Women in the Classical World: Image and Text, The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right, The Walking Dead, Vol. 32: Rest In Peace, Havana Storm
Chaos: Making a New Science
| Author | James Gleick |
| ISBN | 0140092501 |
Few writers distinguish themselves by their ability to write about complicated, even obscure topics clearly and engagingly. In Chaos, James Gleick, a former science writer for the New York Times, shows that he resides in this exclusive category. Here he takes on the job of depicting the first years...
| Author | George Berkeley |
| ISBN | 0140432930 |
One of the greatest British philosophers, Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753) was the founder of the influential doctrine of Immaterialism - the belief that there is no reality outside the mind, and that the existence of material objects depends upon their being perceived. The Principles of Human Knowledge...
| Author | B.H. Liddell Hart |
| ISBN | 0306805839 |
Scipio Africanus (236–183 B.C.) was one of the most exciting and dynamic leaders in history. As commander he never lost a battle. Yet it is his adversary, Hannibal, who has lived on in the public memory, due mostly to his daring march through the Alps with his elephants. At the Battle of the Ticinus,...
| Author | James Madison |
| ISBN | 0393304051 |
This handsome, affordable paperback edition contains James Madison's entire narrative of the stirring historic debates that led to the creation of one of the free world's most respected documents: the Constitution of the United States. Madison's clear and precise account of the historic summer...
| Author | Elaine Fantham |
| ISBN | 0195098625 |
Information about women is scattered throughout the fragmented mosaic of ancient history. The vivid poetry of Sappho survived antiquity on remnants of damaged papyrus, riddled with gaps. The inscription on a beautiful fourth century B.C.E. grave praises the virtues of Mnesarete, an Athenian woman...
The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right
| Author | Michael Lerner |
| ISBN | 0060842474 |
I was really, really inspired by this book. It was a deeply affirming read. I basically share Rabbi Lerner's vision of a politics of meaning based on love and hope. In the second half of the book Lerner details various policy proposals for a spiritual progressive movement.
This is the sort of...
The Walking Dead, Vol. 32: Rest In Peace
| Author | Robert Kirkman |
| ISBN | 1534312412 |
It’s… over?
Wha… no foolin’!? Sweet zombie jesus!
Yup, the series that became like the rotting, shambling corpses featured in its pages has finally come to a long overdue end. I kinda feel like Kent Brockman – why now, why not five years ago??
So after years of saying...
| Author | Clive Cussler |
| ISBN | 0399172920 |
Dirk Pitt returns, in the thrilling new novel from the grand master of adventure and #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in something even...
