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Alchemy of Fire
$11.73
Constantinople, 672 ad. Ex-concubine Anna is attempting to raise her daughter well, but as an Arab invasion threatens and Kallinikos an alchemist working on a secret weapon to use in the seige comes into their lives, a secret about her daughter is forced into the open. Anna must accept huge upheaval..
Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Divis...
$146.05
Winner of the Journal of the History of Ideas's Morris D. Forkosch prize This book traces the development thought about God and the relationship between God's being and activity from Aristotle, through the pagan Neoplatonists, to thinkers such as Augustine, Boethius, and Aquinas (in the West) and Di..
Bradshaw on the Family: A Revolutionary Way of Sel...
$7.51
Analyzes the structure of families, examines the unexpressed rules used to raise children, and discusses family violence, child abuse, and dysfunctional families Author: Bradshaw, John Publisher: Hci Binding: paperback Language: english ISBN-10: 0932194540 ISBN-13: 9780932194541..
Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You...
$8.83
Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to rise. Today there are three cats for every dog on the planet, and yet cats remain more mysterious, even to their most adoring owners. Unlike dogs, cats evolved as solitary hunters, and, while many have l..
Cleopatra's Heir
$9.32
Product DescriptionThe might and power of Julius Caesar, the man who conquered the known world.The beauty of Cleopatra, the woman who conquered the conqueror.Together they could have forged an empire whose power had never been seen before. Tragically, it was not meant to be.But what of the son who w..
Contemporary World Regional Geography: Global Conn...
$13.54
"Contemporary World Regional Geography" provides a geographical study of world issues through analysis of nine world regions and the countries in each. It integrates the themes of "global connections" and "local voices" and is structured so that within each chapter the global and local tensions are ..
Dark North
$13.23
Roman Britain, 208 AD - Emperor Septimius Severus has arrived in Britain to conquer the barbarians in the north of the island. Memnon, an African scout, comes to Britain with his cavalry unit. When he saves the life of a beautiful young attendant of the Empress, he becomes aware of tensions within t..
Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can...
$9.90
Dogs have been “mans best friend for tens of thousands of years. A century ago most dogs worked for their living, and were bred to be healthy and hard-working, as well as companionable. But in the course of a few decades, many of those carefully selected attributes became obsolete, and nowadays we b..
Early Christian Worship: A Basic Introduction to I...
$10.99
Very little in this world stays fresh and life-giving for 1,500 years. But when that happens we should ask ourselves why and what that had to do with us.In this book, The Radical Christian Life: A Year with Saint Benedict, Joan Chittister encourages us to look at that question. In an introductory es..
Early Christian Worship: A Basic Introduction to I...
$18.62
Early Christian Worship is a straightforward, readable introduction to worship in the first four centuries of the church's existence. How did early Christians see and understand their own worship How did this interact with early Christian beliefs The book has been brought up-to-date and revised, w..
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Essentials of World Regional Geography, 2nd Editio...
$9.96
This shorter version of the highly successful Contemporary World Regional Geography, 3e gives readers a fresh new approach that combines fundamental geographical elements, internal regional diversity, and contemporary issues. This approach allows serious discussion of cultural and environmental issu..
FAST COMPANY-V618 (Vintage Departures)
$9.31
Describes the personalities, activities, and techniques of six consistently winning gambler-players in tennis, golf, pool, backgammon, bowling, bridge, and poker, examining their relationships to their games and the qualities of their expertise Author: Bradshaw, Jon Publisher: Vintage Binding: Paper..
Imperial Purple
$8.93
Set in early Christian times, the tale of the weaver Demetrias portrays her entrapment in a treasonous plot against the Byzantine emperor and her fight to protect her family and self as the battle for Constantinople rages Author: Bradshaw, Gillian Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Binding: Hardco..
Island of Ghosts
$27.99
When Ariantes, a Sarmatian warrior-prince, and thousands of his horsemen are forced under Roman rule by decree of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, he complies to new laws while remaining true to his own traditions in an attempt to keep his culture and customs alive. 25,000 first printing. Author: Brad..
Render Unto Caesar
$10.36
About the AuthorGillian Bradshaw's father, an American Associated Press newsman, met her mother, a confidential secretary for the British embassy, in Rio de Janeiro. She was born in Washington DC in 1956, the second of four children. They didn't move around quite as much as one might expect after su..
Sun's Bride
$27.60
Spring, 266 BC. When Isokrates, helmsman of the Rhodian warship Atalanta, encounters a pirate vessel off the Lycian coast, he finds himself caught up in affairs of state more deadly than the naval battles hes accustomed to. Among the pirates victims is a beautiful woman, the mistress of a king, who ..
The Beacon at Alexandria
$9.54
In the first century Roman Empire, Charis, a young woman determined to become a doctor, flees from an arranged marriage, and, disguised as a eunuch, journeys to Alexandria to continue her studies Author: Bradshaw, Gillian Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0395..
The Building Environment: Active And Passive Contr...
$28.46
The Building Environment: Active and Passive Control Systems, 3rd Edition Author: Bradshaw, Vaughn Publisher: Wiley Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0471689653 ISBN-13: 9780471689652..
The Character of Leadership: Political Realism and...
$8.72
Behold, I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore, beas shrewd as snakes, and as innocent as doves. --Matthew10:16. . . remarkable example of practical humanities scholarship. . ..Those who lead all sorts of nonprofit organizations can benefitfrom this bracing encounter with political re..
The New Westminster Dictionary of Liturgy and Wors...
$12.32
This distinguished and comprehensive dictionary should stand as the definitive reference work on all aspects of liturgical practice and belief for many years to come. While maintaining the best traditions of Westminster's dictionaries, it also supersedes and replaces its predecessor edited by J. G. ..
The Sand-Reckoner
$17.39
The young scholar Archimedes has just had the best three years of his life at Ptolemy's Museum at Alexandria. To be able to talk and think all day, every day, sharing ideas and information with the world's greatest minds, is heaven to Archimedes. But heaven must be forsaken when he learns that his f..
The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship: S...
$34.03
This is a substantially expanded and completely revised verision of Bradshaw's classic account, first published in 1993. Traditional liturgical scholarship has generally been marked by an attempt to fit together the various pieces of evidence for the practice of early Christian worship in such a way..