Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins
8 best books like Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins (J.E. Lendon): The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality, Beyond Good and Evil, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Excession, Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580, The Peloponnesian War, Inversions, Defenders of the Faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
| Author | Brian Greene |
| ISBN | 0965900584 |
From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists and author the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way.
Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the...
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics.
Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects...
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
| Author | Christopher Hitchens |
| ISBN | 0446579807 |
In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris's recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case
against religion.
With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is...
| Author | Iain M. Banks |
| ISBN | 0553575376 |
The international sensation Iain M. Banks offers readers a deeply imaginative, wittily satirical tale, proving once again that he is "a talent to be reckoned with" ("Locus"). In Excession, the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section orders Diplomat Byr Gen-Hofoen to steal the soul of a long-dead...
Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580
| Author | Roger Crowley |
| ISBN | 0571232302 |
Cervantes, of the "Don Quixote" fame, was in one of these battles. He was a 24-year-old volunteer.
Now I know that hundreds of years ago the Mediterranean Sea and its surrounding land areas were considered the center of the world and were a battleground for two great conflicting forces: the...
| Author | Donald Kagan |
| ISBN | 0142004375 |
For three decades in the fifth century B.C. the ancient world was torn apart by a conflict that was as dramatic, divisive, and destructive as the world wars of the twentieth century: the Peloponnesian War. Donald Kagan, one of the world’s most respected classical, political, and military historians,...
On a backward world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr. Vosill, who has mysteriously become the personal physician to the king, despite being a foreigner and, even more unthinkably, a woman. Vosill has more enemies than she first realizes. But then she also has more remedies to...
| Author | James Reston Jr. |
| ISBN | 1594202257 |
In his Warriors of God and Dogs of God, James Reston, limned two epochal conflicts between Islam and Christendom. Here he examines the ultimate battle in that centuries-long war, which found Europe at its most vulnerable and Islam on the attack. This drama was propelled by two astonishing young sovereigns:...
