The Egyptian Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends
10 best books like The Egyptian Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends (Garry J. Shaw): The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt, How to Date Men When You Hate Men, History of the Peloponnesian War, The Twelve Caesars, The Annals of Imperial Rome, A History of My Times, When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt, Awards for Good Boys: Tales of Dating, Double Standards, and Doom, The Celtic Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends, The Norse Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Heroes
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
| Author | Kara Cooney |
| ISBN | 0307956768 |
An engrossing biography of the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt and the story of her audacious rise to power in a man’s world.
Hatshepsut, the daughter of a general who took Egypt's throne without status as a king’s son and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty, was...
How to Date Men When You Hate Men
| Author | Blythe Roberson |
| ISBN | 1250319161 |
From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a comedy-philosophy audiobook aimed at interrogating what it means to date men within the trappings of modern society...
Early Praise for How to Date Men When You Hate Men:
"How To Date...
History of the Peloponnesian War
| Author | Thucydides |
| ISBN | 0140440399 |
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460-400 BC) was an Athenian and achieved the rank...
| Author | Suetonius |
| ISBN | 0140449213 |
As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eye-witness accounts) to produce one of the most colorful biographical works in history. The Twelve Caesars chronicles the public careers and private lives of the men who wielded...
The Annals of Imperial Rome
In "The Annals of Imperial Rome", his last and greatest work, Tacitus (AD c.55-c.117) covers the period from AD 14, just before the death of Augustus, to the death of Nero in AD 68. Not all the passages have survived, but in those that have the depth and diversity of genius are manifest. From a vicious, vituperative...
| Author | Xenophon |
| ISBN | 0140441751 |
Thucydides' magisterial history told of the unhappy conflict of Greeks against the Greeks in the Peloponnesian War, but his narrative broke off in 411 B.C., seven years before the end, and Greeks were to continue fighting one another for many more years. Xenophon continues the account to 362 B.C. These...
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
| Author | Kara Cooney |
| ISBN | 1426219776 |
This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and shines a piercing light on our own perceptions of women in power today.
Female rulers are a rare phenomenon--but thousands of years ago in...
Awards for Good Boys: Tales of Dating, Double Standards, and Doom
| Author | Shelby Lorman |
| ISBN | 0143134310 |
A wickedly funny illustrated look at living and dating in a patriarchal culture that celebrates men for displaying the bare minimum of human decency.
Surely you're familiar with "good boys." They're the ones who put "feminist" in their Tinder bio but talk over you the entire date. They ghost...
The Celtic Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends
| Author | Miranda Aldhouse-Green |
| ISBN | 0500252092 |
From gods, heroes, and monsters to Druids, sorcerers, and talking animals, The Celtic Myths explores every aspect of Irish and Welsh myths in this appealing and authoritative guide. Besides vividly retelling the tales, Miranda Aldhouse-Green brings her expertise in the archaeology of the Iron...
The Norse Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Heroes
| Author | Carolyne Larrington |
| ISBN | 0500251967 |
The Norse Myths presents the Viking gods, from the mighty Asyr, led by Ó?inn, and the mysterious Vanir, to Thor and the mythological cosmos they inhabit. Passages translated from Old Norse bring this legendary world to life, from the myths of creation to ragnarök, the prophesied end of the world at...
The Greek and Roman Myths: A Guide to the Classical Stories
| Author | Philip Matyszak |
| ISBN | 0500251738 |
Who was Pandora and what was in her famous box? How did Achilles get his Achilles heel? What exactly is a Titan? And why is one computer virus known as a Trojan horse?
The myths of ancient Greece and Rome can seem bewilderingly complex, yet they are so much a part of modern life and discourse...
Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs
| Author | Henry Carroll |
| ISBN | 1780673353 |
Photography is now more popular than ever thanks to the rapid development of digital cameras. Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs is for this new wave of DSLR dabblers and users of compact system, and bridge cameras. It contains no graphs, no techie diagrams and no camera club jargon. Instead,...
A Short History of England
| Author | Simon Jenkins |
| ISBN | 1846684633 |
England's history is the most exciting of any nation on Earth. Its triumphs and disasters are instantly familiar, from the Norman Conquest to the two world wars, but to fully understand their significance we need to know the whole story.
A Short History of England sheds light on all the key individuals...
| Author | Colin Brake |
| ISBN | 1405903805 |
Colin Brake is an English television writer and script editor best known for his work for the BBC on programs such as Bugs and EastEnders. He has also written spin-offs from the BBC series Doctor Who. He currently lives and works in Leicester.
Brake began working on EastEnders in 1985 as a writer...
| Author | Phil Ford |
| ISBN | 1846075750 |
The eighth novel in the bestselling Torchwood range from BBC Books. SkyPoint is the latest high-rise addition to the ever-developing Cardiff skyline. It's the most high-tech, avant-garde apartment block in the city. And it's where Rhys Williams is hoping to find a new home for himself and Gwen. When...
| Author | Martin Day |
| ISBN | 1846072263 |
In the end, I just missed Martha too much! I had to finish it. If only this had been a proper Martha book - I was convinced through many sections that it was originally writte as Rose. I know it was approved as Rose/Ten, so, yeah, probably got written at the start that way, too. Even when she wasn't very Rose-like,...
A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Part One
| Author | Diana Gabaldon |
| ISBN | 1419348884 |
Eagerly anticipated by her legions of fans, this sixth novel in Diana Gabaldon s bestselling Outlander saga is a masterpiece of historical fiction from one of the most popular authors of our time.
Since the initial publication of Outlander fifteen years ago, Diana Gabaldon s New...
"Una novela de amores, celos y venganzas, que envuelve al lector con la fuerza de las grandes sagas familiares de la literatura."
Un secreto oculto en lo más profundo del bosque.
Una mansión azotada por las olas.
Dos hermanas enfrentadas.
Un linaje de mujeres con un don extraordinario.
A...
