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The text provides a study of the longest continuous war in ancient history and the greatest naval conflict ever fought. It is intended for Roman history courses, academic and research libraries, and military history buffs.

The text provides a study of the longest continuous war in ancient history and the greatest naval conflict ever fought. It is intended for Roman history courses, academic and research libraries, and military history buffs.

The Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Warfare provides a comprehensive guide to the battles and wars, commanders, tactics, formations, fortifications, and weapons of war in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, India, China, and Japan from the beginning of recorded history to the 16th century. More than 3,000 entries, written by expert military historians, cover all aspects of warfare from the emergence of the earliest walled cities in the Ancient Near East up to and including the period of European discovery of the New World. The Dictionary is unique, the only work to cover 3,500 years of military history. Expert authors writing in their specialty have created the most comprehensive and accessible reference work ever produced on this subject.

The Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Warfare provides a comprehensive guide to the battles and wars, commanders, tactics, formations, fortifications, and weapons of war in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, India, China, and Japan from the beginning of recorded history to the 16th century. More than 3,000 entries, written by expert military historians, cover all aspects of warfare from the emergence of the earliest walled cities in the Ancient Near East up to and including the period of European discovery of the New World. The Dictionary is unique, the only work to cover 3,500 years of military history. Expert authors writing in their specialty have created the most comprehensive and accessible reference work ever produced on this subject.

A compelling and beautifully drawn social history of the first Australian cricket tour of England''An excellent, bustling account of the first Australian cricket XI to tour England'' Independent''A fascinating story, well told'' ChoiceThe Ashes cricket series, played out between England and Australia, is the oldest - and undoubtedly the most keenly-contested - rivalry in international sport. And yet the majority of the first representative Australian cricket team to tour England in 1878 in fact regarded themselves as Englishmen.In May of that year the SS City of Berlin docked at Liverpool, and the Australians stepped onto English ground to begin the inaugural first-class cricket tour of England by a representative overseas team. As they made their way south towards Lord''s to play MCC in the second match of the tour, the intrepid tourists - or ''the strangers'' as they were referred to in the press - encountered arrogance and ignorance, cheating umpires and miserable weather. But by defeating a powerful MCC side which included W.G. Grace himself in a single afternoon''s play, they turned English cricket on its head. The Lord''s crowd, having begun by openly laughing at the tourists, were soon wildly celebrating a victory that has been described as ''arguably the most momentous six hours in cricket history'' and claiming the Australians as their own.The Strangers Who Came Home is a compelling social history which brings that momentous summer to life, telling the story of these extraordinary men who travelled thousands of miles, risking life and limb, playing 43 matches in England (as well as several in Philadelphia, America, on their return journey) during a demanding but ultimately triumphant homecoming. It reveals how their glorious achievements on the field of play threw open the doors to international sports touring, and how these men from the colonies provided the stimulus for Australian nationhood through their sporting success and brought unprecedented vitality to international cricket.

Cricket matches didn''t always top out at five days, regardless of a result or not – they used to be ''timeless'', with play continuing until one team won, no matter how many days that took. The last of these – which took place in Durban in 1939, in a series pitched against the backdrop of impending war – is now universally acknowledged as ''the timeless Test''. Weighing in at a prodigious ten days – the match stretched from 3–14 March 1939, and allowed for two rest days, while one day''s play (the eighth) was lost entirely to rain – it is quite simply the longest Test ever played. A litany of records also perished in its wake and ''whole pages of Wisden were ruthlessly made obsolete''. If that was not enough, one player, the fastidious South African batsman Ken Viljoen, felt the need to have his hair cut twice during the game. Only the matches between Australia and England at Melbourne in 1929, which lasted eight playing days, and West Indies and England at Sabina Park, Jamaica, a year later (seven days), come remotely close in terms of their duration. In Edging Towards Darkness, John Lazenby tells the story of that Test for the first time. Set firmly in its historical and social setting, the story balances this game against the threat of encroaching world war in Europe – unfolding at terrifying speed – before bringing these two disparate strands together in an evocative and vibrant denouement.

As ajournalist and author, John Lazenby has spent more than forty years chroniclingthe tales of others. But for much of his life he closely guarded his owncompelling story - a long and challenging struggle with childhood dyslexia,unable to read or write at a time when neurodiversity was rarely considered orrecognised. Sent away to boarding school at the age of seven, John's future pivotedon the life-changing intervention of a teacher who finally understood the boywhom no one else could teach.In this warmand poignant memoir, John traces his misadventures through the unforgiving educationsystem of the 1960s, when illiteracy was viewed as a character defect thatcould be rectified by stern discipline and regular beatings, and takes us on anevocative visit to the not-so-distant past, introducing the kind and eccentricfamily who never gave up on him - and the array of teachers who did.We follow theintrepid progress of a boy who could write only one word - his name, spelledbackwards - to a man who finally found his true calling after a series ofsetbacks and false starts, only to make the late discovery that he hadtravelled through life unaware of a second neurodiversity, hiding in plain sight.Heart-warming, hilarious, raw and shocking, NHOJ is a tribute toovercoming challenges, ignoring barriers and holding on to hope in a world thatinitially seems to have no place for you.

It's the start of a new semester at Tifton College of Agriculture and Dr. Thomas Drynge, Professor of Psychology, is looking forward to a new set of students for his 1101, Introduction to Psychology, classes. Now typically, first day lectures usually talk able the kind of assignments and class rules that the students are expected to follow; but first days are different in Dr. Drynge's 1101 classes. Because unlike the other, human, professors at the TCA, Dr. Drynge has to spend his first day of class explaining what it's like to be a vampire. Join Dr. Drynge as he explains to his class of freshmen why and how he can walk around in the sun, the many myths and misconceptions humans have surrounding vampires, and the dark secrets that all vampires carry. Make sure you take notes, since you never know when you'll be tested.