“ward perkins john bryan”

Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as scholars argue today, was there no crisis at all, but simply a peaceful blending of barbarians into Roman culture, an essentially positive transformation? In The Fall of Rome, eminent historian Br... More

With Volume 14 The Cambridge Ancient History concludes its story. This latest volume embraces the wide range of approaches and scholarship which have in recent decades transformed our view of Late Antiquity. In particular, traditional political and social history has been enormously enhanced by inte... More

Trap Making, Step by Step has been written for anyone who wants to begin making their own traps; from the rural householder to the gamekeeper or farmer. Based on well proven traditional designs, this book gives simple step by step instructions which enable anyone with basic carpentry skills to make ... More

Why are most of us so woefully uninformed about our kitchen knives? We are intimidated by our knives when they are sharp, annoyed by them when they are dull, and quietly ashamed that we don't know how to use them with any competence. For a species that has been using knives for nearly as long as we ... More

In an effort to prevent a boy's suicide, Jonathan Mullen is a teenager asked to answer life's ultimate questions. The boy is in desperate need of answers, and Jonathan's response is the lessons about life he just learned for himself. They are the things about life he wants to remember, but first, he... More

PREFACE. I T was originally intended that this should be a general work on Roman Britain, but it was soon evident that it was impossible to compress so large a subject into a volume of this size, and at the same time do reasonable justice to that phase of it-the towns, forts, houses, and other struc... More

Lieutenant-Colonel John Ward CB CMG (1866-1934) was an English politician, trade union leader and soldier. In 1885, he enlisted in the British Army and served in the Sudan campaign, where he worked on the uncompleted military railway from Suakin to Berber. He became increasingly interested in politi... More