Book Description
Although Sparta's early history is not clear, by the end of the 8th century most of the other cities of Lakedaimon had been reduced to subject status. The Lakedaimonians were the only full time army in ancient Greece and were thus truly an elite force. The institutions of the state and the system of education were organised with a view to creating superbly trained soldiers. Nick Sekunda examines this unique military machine in this book describing the organisational systems of the Spartan army through the Hellenistic period, how they were trained, the battles they fought, and the society that produced them.
Customer Reviews:
Good Pamphlet .......2007-09-29
This book has good information, but is small. I would actual only consider it a pamphlet. Was expecting a little more but overall it is a good basic review of the Spartans with a few good illustrations.
Beyond Thermopylae.......2007-08-24
This title takes the reader past the infamous Battle of Thermopylae and examines the whole Spartan military system from its gradual birth in the 8th Century BC until its decline in the 4th. It captures numerous interesting details-like the poems of Tyrtaios and the brutal treatment of the helots. The 12 color plates are good, but would have looked better if by Angus McBride or Christa Hook. Overall it is a good source on this brutal warrior society and the state they fought to maintain for centuries.
????.......2006-11-17
"At some point during the 5th Century...the Lakedaimonian army decided to discard their cuirasses.... In due course other Greek armies followed the Lakedaimonian lead and abandoned their heavy body armour. This situation continued into the 360s...." (p. 28)
Well, that's news. If anyone out there can confirm by appropriate citations (there are none in this pamphlet)that Greek hoplites did not wear armor in, say, the 2nd Peloponnesian War, or at Cunaxa, please let me know, will you? Until I get some confirmation for this amazing statement, I will regard it as one of the biggest bits of nonsense I have ever read.
I find equally astonishing the view that the Spartans, unlike all the other Greeks, continued to wear the muscle cuirass, not segmented armor. "It must be admitted we are dealing with a rather small sample of evidence" says the book. Maybe common sense could occasionally play a part as well, dear author??
This book now has an honored place in my local landfill.
great reference material.......2005-12-01
I use these books when making historically based drawings. As reference material they are generally excellent. The illustrations are by no means top notch but the gritty little details of everyday life make them great for both Artists and Reinactors but the skimpy text makes them too light for historians. The greek hopolite book is the better of the two editions.
Short and Fragmented Source of Information.......2005-07-21
The Spartan Army was my first read in the Osprey series. From the posted reviews I expected something more thorough and written with a style typically found in historical references. What I discovered was a picture book with a very small amount of supporting text. Outside of a brief description of the territory, the military organization and fashion (yes that's right I said fashion) of the period I found little useful information in this book. An example of the paucity of information would be how the book detailed the organization of the military into divisions, but failed to mention even the most famous of the Spartan division leaders or Generals. The book spoke of the weapons used to fight, but did not describe any battles. I also think the organization of the book is somewhat confusing leading to disconnected passages and topics as opposed to drawing a history from beginning to end. The illustrations and photos, while nice, are captioned in a way to make it confusing at times whether the items are Spartan authentic or just general for the period. As opposed to my original expectation for a thorough treatment of Spartan history, I think the book is best used as a supporting set of pictures and illustrations for a more comprehensive treatment of the Spartan army.
Customer Reviews:
The definitive study of the 13th Texas Cavalry Regiment.......2005-04-11
Spartan Band: Burnett's 13th Texas Cavalry In The Civil War by Thomas Reid (History Instructor at Lamar University) is the definitive study of the 13th Texas Cavalry Regiment as it operated during the American Civil War. The result of Reid's meticulous research (letters, diaries, oral histories gleaned from more than one hundred descendants of the soldiers) and positive flair for reader-engaging writing, showcases a Confederate unit drawn from eleven counties in East Texas when it was organized in the spring of 1862 by two Texas Senators -- John H. Burnett and Anderson F. Crawford. Although a calvary unit, the 13th was ordered to dismount after crossing the Red River into Arkansas and fought as infantry until the end of the war, seeing action at Lake Providence, Fort De Russy, Manfield, Pleasant Hill, and Jenkins' Ferry. Disbanded in Hempstead, Texas, in May 1865, the unit was held in high regard and service it in paved the way for several of its troops to secure favor in business and political office. No dedicated Civil War Studies collection can be considered complete without the inclusion of Thomas Reid's Spartan Band!
Book Description
This digital document is an article from Infantry Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2007. The length of the article is 3162 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: A cycle or victory: manning system contributes to 'Spartan' success in Afghanistan.(PROFESSIONAL FORUM)
Author: James Redmore
Publication:
Infantry Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 96
Issue: 2
Page: 8(4)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
Average customer rating:
|
The Spartan army
J. F Lazenby
Manufacturer: Aris & Phillips
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
 General
| Europe
| History
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Military
| History
| Subjects
| Books
Military Science
| History
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0856681423 |
Average customer rating:
|
Politics and the Political Imagination in Later Stuart Britain: Essays presented to Lois Green Schwoerer
Manufacturer: University of Rochester Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
General
| World
| History
| Subjects
| Books
General
| England
| Europe
| History
| Subjects
| Books
Tudor & Stuart
| England
| Europe
| History
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Ireland
| Europe
| History
| Subjects
| Books
History of Ideas
| Historical Study
| History
| Subjects
| Books
History & Theory
| Politics
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Political Science
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Political History
| Political Science
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
All Titles
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
ASIN: 1878822950 |
Book Description
This collection of essays, presented as a tribute to the career of Lois Green Schowerer, the highly-esteemed scholar of early modern British history, explores the several topics which have been central to her interests: politics, political thought, and the role of women in later Stuart Britain. Through two related sections, on the politics of violence and revolutions, and on the play of political imagination, American and British scholars address Professor Schowerer's pioneering brief for the role of radicalism in the three decades spanning the Restoriation and the Revolution: Professor Schwoerer offers her own view and summary of that `wicked and turbulent' era in response. Throughout, the articles are ultimately concerned with the underlying issue of sovereignty, coming to terms with the contradictions and continuing tensions between a desire for monarchichal stability and the fear of an emerging absolutism an issue not unique to the Restoration era. Whether looking back to the early career of Thomas Hobbes, the antecedents of patriarchalism and ancient constitutionalism, or the trial and execution of Charles I, they see the Restoration and Revolution in the broader context of the whole seventeenth century.Professor HOWARD NENNER teaches in the Department of History, Smith College.Contributors: MARK GOLDIE, JANELLE GREENBERG, TIM HARRIS, HOWARD NENNER, LINDA LEVY PECK, J.G.A. POCOCK, GORDON SCHOCHET, HILDA L, SMITH, STEVEN ZWICKER, MELINDA ZOOK, LOISGREEN SCHWOERER.
Average customer rating:
- Irrelevant Information
- Interesting...
- this is a re-issue
- it was very informative
|
Nostradamus: The Man Who Saw Through Time
Lee Mccann
Manufacturer: Gramercy
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
General
| Biographies & Memoirs
| Subjects
| Books
United States
| World Literature
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
| 18th Century
| 19th Century
| 20th Century
| African American
| Asian American
| Classics
| Collections & Readers
| Drama
| General
| Hispanic
| History & Criticism
| Humor
| Jewish American
| Letters & Correspondence
| Native American
| Poetry
| Short Stories
| Women Writers
Prophecy
| Divination
| New Age
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
ESP
| Occult
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Occult
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
General
| History
| Bargain Books
| Stores
| Books
General
| Literature & Fiction
| Bargain Books
| Stores
| Books
General
| Science Fiction & Fantasy
| Bargain Books
| Stores
| Books
Science Fiction
| Science Fiction & Fantasy
| Bargain Books
| Stores
| Books
General
| Biography
| Bargain Books
| Stores
| Books
General
| Biographies & Memoirs
| 4-for-3 Books Store
| Stores
| Books
Prophecy
| Divination
| New Age
| Religion & Spirituality
| 4-for-3 Books Store
| Stores
| Books
ESP
| Occult
| Religion & Spirituality
| 4-for-3 Books Store
| Stores
| Books
General
| Occult
| Religion & Spirituality
| 4-for-3 Books Store
| Stores
| Books
All 4-for-3 Deals
| 4-for-3 Books Store
| Stores
| Books
ASIN: 0517436930
Release Date: 1994-11-16 |
Book Description
Fascinating glimpse into the life and career of the enigmatic physician whose books of prophecy have intrigued readers since their publication in the 16th century. Presents modern interpretations of his most astonishing prophecies-many imminent in the next ten years! This has been a huge bestseller. 448 pages.
Customer Reviews:
Irrelevant Information.......2003-08-28
If you're interested in the history of France, you may like this book. However, it tells far more about the history and politics of France than it does Nostradamus himself. Names are thrown in everywhere, and it's hard to distinguish whom certain information pertains to. It tells a good bit of information about his education, and it has a multitude of quatrains and their interpretations in Part Two of the book. If you're looking to read on Notradamus, there has to be a better one out there.
Interesting..........2001-02-27
It was my first time to go deeply into some of the prophecies and prophets. This book really got me throughout end of the book. It contains his birth to his death... It also contains ALL of his prophecy in order, relating with his life events. You will suprised by how much this book tells about his life.
this is a re-issue.......1999-06-18
I have read this book about 10 years ago. So please forgive me. This Title was originally published by the creative press in July of 1941. so if you are into seeing the changes in the interpretations of the Quatrains over the last 58 years, this is a book for you. If you are into reading the quatrains themselves, than this is also the book for you. I enjoyed reading it, and occasionally pull it out after seeing a documentary about the predictions.
it was very informative.......1999-02-26
i was just browsing at first but this stuff is fantasti
Product Description
421 pages
Book Description
Lee McCann's riveting book gives us a fascinating glimpse into the life of Michel Nostradamus. Part historical novel part academic examination of the accuracy of Nostradamus' prophecies. Both readable and enjoyable, just what the layman has been looking for! Since governments, sects and countries will undergo such sweeping changes, diametrically opposed to what now obtains, that were I to relate events to come, those in power now - monarchs, leaders of sects and religions - would find these so different from their own imaginings that they would be led to condemn what later centuries will learn how to see and understand. - Nostradamus
Average customer rating:
|
Nostradamus: The Man Who Saw Through Time
Lee McCann
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
Prophecy
| Divination
| New Age
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
General
| New Age
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0548081638 |
Average customer rating:
- I'M PLEASED TO RECOMMEND HIGHEST AND BEST
- As insightful as it is ground-breaking
- WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK.
- We chose this for our Body & Soul Holistic Health Guide 2001
- An inspiring read!
|
The Highest and The Best: A Gifted Healer's Vision of Third-Millennium Medicine and Humanity's Intuitive Evolution
Sallie Christensen , and
Gina Mazza Hillier
Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
General
| Self-Help
| Health, Mind & Body
| Subjects
| Books
General
| New Age
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
Mental & Spiritual Healing
| New Age
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
Self-Help
| New Age
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Occult
| Religion & Spirituality
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0738841897 |
Book Description
The Highest and The Best is an important read for anyone wishing to live more deeply, honestly and healthily. Speaking from the heart, intuitive healer Sallie Christensen invites us to explore the use of intuition as medicine that can be used -- either by gifted healers or anyone interested in self-healing -- to bring optimal wellness to the body, mind and spirit.
By weaving together her personal awakening and the real-life intuitive experiences of her clients, Christensen not only illustrates why the use of intuition will necessarily become more commonplace in the third millennium, but also gets readers started on the path to unlocking their own intuitive potential.
Part One presents the current time period's critical role as an evolutionary portal through which we can more effortlessly adopt a sixth-sense reality, and what our existence will be like if we do. Christensen portends how the healing/medical field will look in the future, and defines the terminology involved in our shift to "three-dimensional" awareness.
Part Two demystifies the realm of "energy medicine" by describing a typical session as Christensen conducts it. She explains why someone would seek intuitive healing/guidance, what to expect during a session and how to find a qualified "intuitive." Poignant, true stories from individuals who've sought intuitive healing/counseling help to explain the short- and long-term positive outcomes of the work.
Christensen then identifies tips and techniques that can be used to tap the universal energy field and use it to your healing advantage.
Part Three is Christensen's compelling life story: her odyssey into healing and how she coped with personal crises, near death, and constantly living in dichotomous worlds--the earthly and spiritual.
This book's message is pure and pertinent to our times: that we are more than we think we are. Having faith in our inner wisdom will prove that if we allow it to speak to us. The rewards for doing so are personal fulfillment, health and aliveness, as well as an unprecedented spiritual transformation of the world around us.
Customer Reviews:
I'M PLEASED TO RECOMMEND HIGHEST AND BEST.......2001-07-16
Your book has just traveled with me through Havana, the beaches of southern Cuba, a hostel in Trinadad, and thru Quito, Ecuador. What a wondrous journey into better knowing your unique self and clues into the near future. Your thought-provoking and well researched book sends the reader on a path of hope, powered by faith, and built on love.
As an alternative practitioner (I'm an ethnopharmacist, a clinical and natural pharmacist, president/founder of the Student Rainforest Fund and pharmacy specialist for World Health Mission), always trying to be more intuitive, you gave me useful tools and plenty of food for thought. I particularly like your sentence at the end of page 66, "in short our greatest cures will come from honesty, compassion and love." Great words. I find them working wonders in my practice and in my life as I've tried to adopt them more. The great sage RUMI says on page 70, "so necessitious one, increase your need." How profound! but someday if mankind can tryly follow the 'path' to enlightenment then the "need" of doing anything will vanish, there will be no 'doing,' and all that remains will be the 'being.' Thanks for the lesson.
As insightful as it is ground-breaking.......2001-04-28
In The Highest And The Best: A Gifted healer's Vision Of Third-Millennium Medicine And Humanity's Intuitive Evolution, private-practice, intuitive healer and counselor Sallie Christensen (with the assistance of professional writer and editor Gina Hillier) draws upon her more than 20 years of experience and expertise to reveal a new way of living in the 21st century as she explores why the use of intuition will become commonplace in the third millennium. She explains that men and women will evolve into "three-dimensional" beings with a balance of body, mind, and spirit. The Highest And The Best is thoughtful, through-provoking, as insightful as it is ground-breaking, and highly recommended reading for all students of alternative medicine and metaphysical philosophies.
WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK........2001-04-22
"The Highest And The Best" is thorough, thought-provoking, as insightful as it is ground-breaking, and highly recommended reading for all students of alternative medicine and metaphysical philosophies.
We chose this for our Body & Soul Holistic Health Guide 2001.......2001-03-31
The Highest and The Best consists primarily of intuitive healer Christensen's personal story and vision for a future in which all human beings are balanced in mind, body and spirit. But it also lists valuable resources including "one-minute 'intuition-sharpening' tools" and a section titled "The New Language of Health," which defines and explains many complementary therapies.
An inspiring read!.......2001-01-26
The Highest and the Best is a fascinating book that takes you into the life of an extraordinary woman. The authors give factual information, but the best parts are stories of the actual people she has helped and the story of her life. Sallie offers insights into the world of medicine and spirituality. If you know a lot or just a little about intuitive healing, you will like this book.
Book Description
The second volume of the History of Humanity covers the first two and a half thousand years of recorded history, from the start of the Bronze Age some five thousand years ago to the beginnings of the Iron Age,
It is divided into two main sections. The first is thematic, covering the trends and developments that characterize the period covered. The second is geographical, studying the progress of peoples around the world; this section is split into two parts, one covering those regions for which written sources are available, the other covering those for which only archaeological and anthropological sources are available.
Written by a team of over sixty experts from around the world, this volume has a comprehensive bibliography, a detailed index for ease of reference, and is illustrated with black and white plates, figures and maps.
Average customer rating:
|
Humanism Toward the Third Millennium (Forum 2000 Symposium)
Manufacturer: Vub Brussels University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Consciousness & Thought
| Philosophy
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Philosophy
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Humanism
| Movements
| Philosophy
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Politics
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 9054870370 |
Book Description
Libraries, archives, and museums hold a wide variety of moving images, all of which require the same level of attention to issues of organization and access as their print counterparts. Consequently, the people who create collection level records and metadata for these resources need to be equally conversant in the principles of cataloging. Martha Yee covers both descriptive (AACR2R, AMIM, and FIAF rules) and subject cataloging (with a focus on LCSH). In the process, the reader is encouraged to think critically and to be prepared to make decisions in ambiguous situations where solutions to problems are not always obvious or clearly dictated by specific rules.
Average customer rating:
|
A Third Millennium For Humanity?: The Search For Paths Of Sustainable Development
Brazil Conference Forum Belem 1996 Belem , and
Brazi Conference Forum Belem 1996 Belem
Manufacturer: Peter Lang Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
General
| Popular Economics
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Real Estate
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Environmental Science
| Earth Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Natural Resources
| Nature & Ecology
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Conservation
| Environment
| Outdoors & Nature
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Conservation
| Outdoors & Nature
| Subjects
| Books
Reference
| Outdoors & Nature
| Subjects
| Books
Environmental Science
| Earth Sciences
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 3631340761 |
Book Description
An increasing world population with an ever greater need and greed strains the world's finite resources to exhaustion: Atmosphere, water, soil and genetic resources are being used and destroyed at an alarming pace. The Forum Belem I conference succeeded in bringing together a group of international administrators, businessmen, policy makers and scientists to identify emerging concepts that combine resource use with conservations and replace wasteful and destructive consumption with the use of renewable materials and non-destructive technologies. Intelligent changes in technological processes together with a transformation of political, social and institutional thinking are proposed, indicating paths toward sustainable development. A vision is given of incipient approaches toward world sustainability allowing mankind to live and prosper throughout a third millennium.
Average customer rating:
|
Taking the pulse: Human sciences research for the third millennium
Manufacturer: The Institute
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
Social Services & Welfare
| Poverty
| Current Events
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
History
| Sociology
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0886450888 |
Books:
- The Wolves at the Door: The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy
- The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East
- Two Survived
- Ultimate Sniper 2006 : An Advanced Training Manual for Military and Police Snipers (Ultimate Sniper, 2006 New and Updated!)
- Utah Beach: The Amphibious Landing And Airborne Operations On D-Day, June 6, 1944
- Victory at Yorktown: The Campaign That Won the Revolution
- Victory in Tripoli: How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation
- Vietnam Wars 1945-1990
- War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941 (Total War (Unnumbered).)
- Warfare in the Classical World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Warriors and Warfare in the Ancient Civilisations of Greece and Rome
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
- Mechanics of Flight
- Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays
- Power Parenting for Children with ADD/ADHD: A Practical Parent's Guide for Managing Difficult Behavi
- Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit
- Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win
- Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technology, 5E
- Common Sense Book of Puppy and Dog Care: The Complete Guide To Choosing And Raising A Happy, Healthy
- Liz: An Intimate Biography of Elizabeth Taylor
- Wild Harvest: An Outdoorsman's Guide to Edible Wild Plants in North America
Greek Hoplite 480-323 BC (Warrior)
The Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece
The Ancient Greeks (Elite)
The Greek and Persian Wars 500-323 BC (Men-at-Arms)
Thermopylae: The Battle for the West
