Cities of Vesuvius: Pompeii and Herculaneum has been written especially for the core topic of the new NSW HSC Ancient History syllabus.

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Product Description: For senior secondary students studying Ancient History. Particularly suitable for the new NSW HSC Ancient History syllabus, with extensive coverage of the personalities listed for the new Core Study. Text divided into four parts which cover the political, social, economic and religious developments and changes that occurred from the early Dynastic Period to the death of Ramessess II...read more

Product Description: This book presents, in an innovative and effective way, a detailed coverage of Greek history from the period of colonisation through to the death of Alexander the Great. A prologue introduces the reader to the various types of source material used by historians, and wherever possible the most relevant examples of this - both written and archaeological - have been provided or referred to, giving the benefit of firsthand contact with the sources...read more

Product Description: This text presents a detailed coverage of three crucial centuries in the history of the Roman people: the second and first centuries BC and the first century AD. It examines major issues including the development of the Roman republican form of government, Rome's expansion in the Mediterranean, the decline of the republic, the founding of the principate and the Julio-Claudian period...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ancient Greece covers the period from the Mycenaean Age which began in 1600 B.C. to 404 B.C. when Athens was occupied by Sparta. It examines the origins and structure of Spartan and Athenian society, significant people in Ancient Greece including Pericles and Socrates, the development of Spartan and Athenian governments and the Greek city states, the nature of citizenship, catastrophes that shaped events in the 5th century including warfare, plague and an earthquake, religious beliefs and values, daily life, and the contribution of the ancient Greeks to the modern world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Traces the life and work of the physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking