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In ancient Egypt, women enjoyed a legal, social, and sexual independence unrivaled by their Greek or Roman counterparts—or, in fact, by most women until the late nineteenth century.

Early in the first century B.C., a Greek philosopher named Posidonius began an ambitious and dangerous journey into the little-known lands of the Celts.

From the acclaimed biographer, screenwriter, and novelist Frederic Raphael, here is an audacious history of Josephus (37-c.100), the Jewish general turned Roman historian, whose emblematic betrayal

"An exceptionally good book . . . worthy to stand on the nature shelf of anyone interested in mountainous America." - The New York Times.

Chinatown, U.S.A.: a state of mind, a world within a world, a neighborhood that exists in more cities than you might imagine.

On the morning of September 2, 1798, just after first light, the back door to Carpenters' Hall is discovered ajar.

Who qualifies as the worst of Roman emperors and why? Join L. J. Trafford for a tour of the very worst leadership in ancient Rome featuring Caligula, Commodus, and many more.

An "obsessive, mystical, terrifying" exploration of the shadowy world of the anesthetized mind—and what it can teach us about the nature of memory and consciousness (*New Yorker*).

From 1910 to 1940, over half a million people sailed through the Golden Gate, hoping to start a new life in America.

"An invaluable complement to an immortal testimony." - Kirkus Reviews. The first biography of the girl whose fate has touched the lives of millions.

A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering Prizes.

One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life the vibrant—and violent—society of fifteenth-century Florence.

In a remote corner of the Arctic in 1941, a meteor shower flashed across the sky for an unusually long time. Taking this to be a sign, one of the local Inuit proclaimed himself Jesus Christ.

One of medicine's most remarkable therapeutic triumphs was the discovery of insulin in 1921.

"Ideas tumble out of Porter like wonders from some scholarly horn of plenty." -Sherwin B. Nuland, The New Republic.