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An Elusive World Wonder TracedWhere was the Hanging Garden of Babylon and what did it look? Why did the ancient Greeks and Romans consider it to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World? Renowned Babylonian expert Stephanie Dalley delves into the legends filled with myth and mystery to piece together the enigmatic history of this elusive world...

Iconography, Stylistics, PoliticsExamining over twenty key works of the period, Vital Crises in Italian Cinema identifies and explores the major thematic crises at the heart of seminal films produced by the likes of Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Michael Antonioni, and Federico Fellini....

Daniel Deronda, the last of Eliot's novels, is the final and comprehensive expression of her idealism. It is presented for the World's Classics series in Graham Handley's superb Clarendon edition, with a new introduction and notes....

An authoritative and vibrant new account of the extraordinary life of Constantine...

An Elusive World Wonder TracedWhere was the Hanging Garden of Babylon and what did it look? Why did the ancient Greeks and Romans consider it to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World? Renowned Babylonian expert Stephanie Dalley delves into the legends filled with myth and mystery to piece together the enigmatic history of this elusive world...

Mao Zedong was a giant of 20th century history. In this Very Short Introduction, Delia Davin provides an account of Mao the man. From his childhood as a peasant to ruler of the most populous nation on Earth, she considers the major events in his life, his revolutionary writing, and his utopian dreams that culminated in the Cultural Revolution....