The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes... Read more >>
From acclaimed classical historian, author of Ghost on the Throne (“Gripping . . . the narrative verve of a born writer and the erudition of a scholar” —Daniel Mendelsohn) and editor... Read more >>
The Greeks of the classical age invented not only the central idea of Western politics--that the power of state should be guided by a majority of its citizens--but also the central act of... Read more >>
The first full-length biography of the half-barbarian emperor. Maximinus was a Thracian tribesman of frightening appearance and colossal size” who could smash stones with his bare hands... Read more >>