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  • THE ROMAN EMPIRE
    MATTHEW DILLON / CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW
    Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Romans were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice to propitiate the appropriate gods (such as Mars, god of War) or consulting oracles and omens to divine their plans. Yet the link between war and religion is an area that has been regularly over...

    $383.69

  • NEXT GENERATION NETROOTS
    MATTHEW KERBEL / CHRISTOPHER J. BOWERS
    From the early demise of Trent Lott at the hands of bloggers to the agonized scream of Howard Dean; from Daily Kos and the blogosphere to the rise of Twitter and Facebook, politics and new media have co-existed and evolved in rapid succession. Here, an academic and practitioner team up to consider how new and old media technologies mix with combustible politics to determine, in...

    $1,380.00

  • AN INVINCIBLE BEAST
    CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW
    An innovative study of the Macedonian war machine's sarissa-wielding infantry under such leaders as Philip II and Alexander the Great. The Hellenistic pike-phalanx was a true military innovation, transforming the face of warfare in the ancient world. For nearly 200 years, from the rise of the Macedonians as a military power in the mid-fourth century BC, to their defeat at the h...

    $279.00

  • REFRAMING COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION
    MIGUEL A. GUAJARDO / FRANCISCO GUAJARDO / CHRISTOPHER JANSON / MATTHEW MILITELLO
    Reframing Community Partnerships in Education provides both the theoretical framework as well as a practical guide to engage educators in interdisciplinary, inter-organizational, multicultural, and multi-generational work to improve the social fabric of communities. Using case examples of best practice, this book explores transformational practices for community development, co...

    $1,060.00

  • ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL GREECE
    MATTHEW DILLON / CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW / MICHAEL SCHMITZ
    Essays examining the influence of gods, oracles, and omens in the wars of the Archaic and Classical Greek world. Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Greeks were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice to propitiate the appropriate gods (such as Ares, god of War) or consulting oracl...

    $229.00

  • A STORM OF SPEARS
    CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW
    A “practical and thought provoking” study of the ancient military tactic known as the phalanx—the classic battle formation used in historic Greek warfare (The Historian).   In ancient Greece, warfare was a fact of life, with every city brandishing its own fighting force. And the backbone of these classical Greek armies was the phalanx of heavily armored spearmen, or hoplites. T...

    $229.00

  • THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
    MATTHEW DILLON / CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW
    Essays exploring the role religion played in ancient Roman warfare, including destroying enemies’ gods, wartime ceremonies, and live burials. Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Romans were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice to propitiate the appropriate gods (such as Mars, go...

    $229.00

  • RELIGION & CLASSICAL WARFARE: THE ROMAN EMPIRE
    MATTHEW DILLON / CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW
    Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Romans were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice to propitiate the appropriate gods (such as Mars, god of War) or consulting oracles and omens to divine their plans. Yet the link between war and religion is an area that has been regularly over...

    $383.69

  • FAKE-CHECKING
    ANDREA HICKERSON / CHRISTOPHER SCHWARTZ / MATTHEW WRIGHT
    Designed to help journalists keep pace with the rapid evolution of deepfakes as well as integrate ‘fake-checking’ methods into their routine reporting practices, this book offers a concise and accessible guide for reporters navigating this evolving challenge. This guide aims to assist journalists in understanding the complexities of deepfakes from a number of angles including p...

    $1,160.00

  • THE TACTICS OF AELIAN
    CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW
    Aelian's work on tactics is a hugely significant piece of ancient military literature, yet the last new edition in English was published in 1814. Although writing (in his native Greek) in the second century AD, Aelian drew heavily on earlier works, such as Asclepiodotus, to put together a comprehensive manual of warfare in the Hellenistic period (late 3rd to early 1st centuries...

    $119.00