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  • THIRTEEN ROMAN DEFEATS
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    THIRTEEN ROMAN DEFEATS
    IAN HUGHES
    There is no doubt that Rome developed one of the most efficient and successful military systems of the ancient world. The famous legions conquered from the Atlantic to the Euphrates, from the Scottish Highlands to the sands of the Sahara, defeating all manner of enemies. Although their victories were many, they were never invincible and did suffer significant defeats. Ian Hughe...

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  • A MILITARY LIFE OF CONSTANTINE THE GREAT
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    A MILITARY LIFE OF CONSTANTINE THE GREAT
    IAN HUGHES
    A new analysis of the strengths, organization, weapons, and tactics of the Roman army Constantine inherited and his military reforms. Much of Constantine I's claim to lasting fame rests upon his sponsorship of Christianity, and many works have been published assessing whether his apparent conversion was a real religious experience or a cynical political maneuver. However, his p...

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  • SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL CARE PRACTICE
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    SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL CARE PRACTICE
    IAN O′CONNOR / MARK HUGHES / DANIELLE TURNEY / JILL WILSON / DEBORAH SETTERLUND
    ′For many readers, especially trainers and educationalists, the thoroughness of this book is likely to be attractive. The added advantage of O′Connor et al′s book is that it covers social work for both adults and children. [This book] is likely to appear on many social work reading lists. [It has] the potential to provide good learning opportunities for post-qualifying as well ...

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  • NOTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF SPORT
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    NOTATIONAL ANALYSIS OF SPORT
    FRANKS, IAN / HUGHES, MIKE
    First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. ...

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  • SCIENCE AND RACKET SPORTS II
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    SCIENCE AND RACKET SPORTS II
    HUGHES, MIKE / MAYNARD, IAN / LEES, ADRIAN / REILLY, THOMAS
    The proceedings of the Second World Congress of Science and Racket Sports and Fifth International Table Tennis Federation Sports Science Congress contain six keynote lectures which provide the latest research on a range of sport science topics as applied to tennis, table tennis, squash and badminton. The book is divided into six parts which deal respectively with Physiology, Nu...

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  • PATRICIANS AND EMPERORS
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    PATRICIANS AND EMPERORS
    IAN HUGHES
    This engaging historical narrative of the fall of the Western Roman Empire focuses on the individuals in power during its final forty years.   The fall of the Western Roman Empire was a chaotic but crucial period of European history. To bring order to our understanding of this time, Patricians and Emperors offers a concise chronology with comparative biographies of the individu...

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  • STILICHO
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    STILICHO
    IAN HUGHES
    A military history of the campaigns of Stilicho, the army general who became one of the most powerful men in the Western Roman Empire. Flavius Stilicho lived in one of the most turbulent periods in European history. The Western Empire was finally giving way under pressure from external threats, especially from Germanic tribes crossing the Rhine and Danube, as well as from seemi...

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  • BELISARIUS
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    BELISARIUS
    IAN HUGHES
    A military history of the campaigns of Flavius Belisarius, the greatest general of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor Justinian. Back in the 6th century, Belisarius twice defeated the Persians and reconquered North Africa from the Vandals in a single year at the age of 29, before going on to regain Spain and Italy, including Rome (briefly), from the barbarians. This book dis...

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  • ATTILA THE HUN
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    ATTILA THE HUN
    IAN HUGHES
    A biography of the notorious tribal leader whose empire challenged the Romans.   Most know the name Attila the Hun—but few are familiar with the full history behind this historical figure. Rising to the Hunnic kingship around 434, he dominated European history for the next two decades. Attila bullied and manipulated both halves of the Roman Empire, forcing successive emperors t...

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  • CONSTANTIUS III
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    CONSTANTIUS III
    IAN HUGHES
    The acclaimed historian “rescues from an undeserved obscurity one of Rome’s emperors . . . A simply fascinating and extraordinary historical study” (Midwest Book Review).   Constantius is an important, but almost forgotten, figure. He came to the fore in or around 410 when he was appointed Magister Militum (Master of Troops) to Honorius, the young Emperor of the Western Roman E...

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  • GAISERIC
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    GAISERIC
    IAN HUGHES
    While Gaiseric has not become a household name like other 'barbarian' leaders such as Attila or Genghis Khan, his sack of Rome in AD455 has made his tribe, the Vandals, synonymous with mindless destruction. Gaiseric, however, was no moronic thug, proving himself a highly skilful political and military leader and was one of the dominant forces in Western Mediterranean region for...

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  • GAISERIC
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    GAISERIC
    IAN HUGHES
    While Gaiseric has not become a household name like other 'barbarian' leaders such as Attila or Genghis Khan, his sack of Rome in AD455 has made his tribe, the Vandals, synonymous with mindless destruction. Gaiseric, however, was no moronic thug, proving himself a highly skilful political and military leader and was one of the dominant forces in Western Mediterranean region for...

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  • A MILITARY LIFE OF CONSTANTINE THE GREAT
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    A MILITARY LIFE OF CONSTANTINE THE GREAT
    IAN HUGHES
    A new analysis of the strengths, organization, weapons, and tactics of the Roman army Constantine inherited and his military reforms. Much of Constantine I’s claim to lasting fame rests upon his sponsorship of Christianity, and many works have been published assessing whether his apparent conversion was a real religious experience or a cynical political maneuver. However, his p...

    $229.00

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  • THIRTEEN ROMAN DEFEATS
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    THIRTEEN ROMAN DEFEATS
    IAN HUGHES
    There is no doubt that Rome developed one of the most efficient and successful military systems of the ancient world. The famous legions conquered from the Atlantic to the Euphrates, from the Scottish Highlands to the sands of the Sahara, defeating all manner of enemies. Although their victories were many, they were never invincible and did suffer significant defeats. Ian Hughe...

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  • IMPERIAL BROTHERS
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    IMPERIAL BROTHERS
    IAN HUGHES
    The latest of Ian Hughes' Late Roman biographies here tackles the careers of the brother emperors, Valentinian and Valens. Valentian was selected and proclaimed as emperor in AD 364, when the Empire was still reeling from the disastrous defeat and death in battle of Julian the Apostate (363) and the short reign of his murdered successor, Jovian (364). With the Empire weakened a...

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  • STUDYING FOR SOCIAL WORK
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    STUDYING FOR SOCIAL WORK
    EILEEN BALDRY / MARK HUGHES / LINDA BURNETT / IAN COLLINSON
    This essential guide to study skills takes social work students through every step of their degree journey, providing them with the academic tools they will need to thrive along the way. Inventively informed by the insights and reflections of qualifying students, the book offers effective guidance that is grounded in real experience of the social work degree. It is particularly...

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  • AETIUS
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    AETIUS
    IAN HUGHES
    “The history of Aetius’ life and his dealings with Attila . . . [and] of the (western) Roman Empire throughout the pivotal fifth century.” —Ancient Warfare Magazine   In AD 453, Attila—with a huge force composed of Huns, allies, and vassals drawn from his already-vast empire—was rampaging westward across Gaul (essentially modern France), then still nominally part of the Western...

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