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1.		Decoding the Heavens: Solving the Mystery of the World's First Computer from William Heinemann Ltd Price: £9.09 Customer Review: when I recieved this book I was disappointed by the lack of detailed photographs or illustrations of the Antikythera device. This is not so much a book about the device, but the story of its discovery and recognition. The story is told as a series of biographies of the people who have helped to... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome from Penguin Price: £6.89 Customer Review: I first came across Robin Lane Fox's work when I read his brilliant biography of Alexander the Great. In this book, Lane Fox takes a broader brush to paint a picture of the Classical worlds of Greece and Rome, from the age of Homer to the reign of the Emperor Hadrian. The early sections on the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		The End of Days: Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return (The Earth Chronicles): Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return (Earth Chronicles) from Harper Customer Review: This is a masterpiece and is the best and most authoratative book on the end of days I have encountered to date. It's all here with historical evidence to back it all up ~ What will happen in the future, we will only have to wait and see, but this book gives a good indication ~ See for yourself!	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans from HarperPerennial Price: £6.99 Customer Review: Well researched and very readable account of the archaeology of pre-Roman Britain. I found the early chapters especially interesting, e.g. the Boxgrove site showing the earliest evidence of human habitation in Britain 500,000 years ago, and the remarkable inventiveness of early hunter-gatherers. It... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		The Histories (Oxford World's Classics) from Oxford Paperbacks Price: £6.99	Click here for more information

6.		The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History from Pan Books Price: £6.99 Customer Review: I've been interested in this period of the history for a while but never found a book good enough to explain all the events. This book is thoroughly researched, scholarly yet written in a style and language easy to follow. A couple of reviewers have put foward the point that this book is more about... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations from Penguin Price: £6.44 Customer Review: It was my pleasure to be supervised by Prof Martin Goodman whilst I was conducting research into aspects of First Century Palestine at St Cross College, Oxford. This chunky tome (even in paperback) spreads some 650 pages and is dense with valuable information and historical observations; it is... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (Oxford Companions) from OUP Oxford Price: £13.99 Customer Review: Admittedly there's no beating the OCD but this is a brilliant alternative. The entries come from the OCD itself but it excludes the bibliographies per subject - which frankly are out of date anyway. As the other reviewer here has mentioned, the entries are wide ranging and eclectic, but always... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah from Atlantic Books Price: £6.99 Customer Review: Very well-written, and it flows past as you read it very nicely. The four stars come mainly from that, and from the courage even to tackle so vast a subject. However its interest comes more from seeing what Karen Armstrong's view is, rather than on the content of what she says as such. She covers a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		Caesar: The Life of a Colossus from Phoenix Price: £6.99 Customer Review: Praise for the other works of this author induced me to buy this book. Caesar here does not come across as a colossus, but as a busy man moving from A to B, sometimes willy-nilly. Generally sympathetic to his hero, Goldsworthy demonstates knowledge of the basic primary sources without showing major... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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