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The Crucible of Islam	Bowersock, G. W.	PAPERBACK	05/20/2019	$17.00
Byzantium, A World Civilization	Laiou, Angeliki E. Maguire, Henry	PAPERBACK	01/01/1992	$17.95
Consent and Coercion to Sex and Marriage in Ancient and Medieval Societies	Laiou, Angeliki E.	PAPERBACK	01/30/1998	$17.95	Temporarily unavailable
The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity	Brown, Peter	PAPERBACK	06/11/2018	$18.00
War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica	Raaflaub, Kurt Rosenstein, Nathan	PAPERBACK	10/30/2001	$19.50
Byzantine Magic	Maguire, Henry	PAPERBACK	03/31/2009	$19.95	Currently unavailable
Christianity and Hellenism in the Fifth-Century Greek East: Theodoret’s Apologetics against the Greeks in Context	Papadogiannakis, Yannis	PAPERBACK	02/04/2013	$19.95
Dialoguing in Late Antiquity	Cameron, Averil	PAPERBACK	05/05/2014	$19.95
Et Tu, Brute?: A Short History of Political Murder	Woolf, Greg	HARDCOVER	10/15/2007	$19.95
The Last of the Rephaim: Conquest and Cataclysm in the Heroic Ages of Ancient Israel	Doak, Brian R.	PAPERBACK	01/07/2013	$19.95	Temporarily unavailable
The Web of Athenaeus	Jacob, Christian Papaconstantinou, Arietta Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald	PAPERBACK	05/27/2013	$19.95
The Second Umayyad Caliphate: The Articulation of Caliphal Legitimacy in al-Andalus	Safran, Janina M.	PAPERBACK	02/15/2001	$20.95	Currently unavailable
Byzantine Court Culture from 829 to 1204	Maguire, Henry	PAPERBACK	01/01/1995	$24.00	Temporarily unavailable
China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties	Lewis, Mark Edward	PAPERBACK	04/30/2011	$24.00
Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran: From Gaumāta to Wahnām	Shayegan, M. Rahim	PAPERBACK	11/19/2012	$24.95
Cyrus the Great: Life and Lore	Shayegan, M. Rahim	PAPERBACK	04/02/2019	$24.95	Temporarily unavailable
Eusebius of Caesarea: Tradition and Innovations	Johnson, Aaron Schott, Jeremy	PAPERBACK	07/15/2013	$24.95
Lighting in Early Byzantium	Bouras, Laskarina Parani, Maria G.	PAPERBACK	03/15/2009	$24.95
Tragedy, Authority, and Trickery: The Poetics of Embedded Letters in Josephus	Olson, Ryan S.	PAPERBACK	09/30/2010	$24.95
The Breakout: The Origins of Civilization	Lamberg-Karlovsky, Martha	PAPERBACK	05/25/2000	$25.00
The Crucible of Islam	Bowersock, G. W.	HARDCOVER	04/10/2017	$25.00
The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han	Lewis, Mark Edward	PAPERBACK	10/30/2010	$25.00
Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Perspectives on an Epigram Collection Attributed to Posidippus (P. Mil. Vogl. VIII 309)	Acosta-Hughes, Benjamin Kosmetatou, Elizabeth Baumbach, Manuel	PAPERBACK	04/15/2004	$25.00
The Lost Capital of Byzantium: The History of Mistra and the Peloponnese	Runciman, Steven	PAPERBACK	06/30/2009	$25.00
The Moche of Ancient Peru: Media and Messages	Quilter, Jeffrey	PAPERBACK	02/28/2011	$25.00
The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity	Brown, Peter	HARDCOVER	04/14/2015	$25.50
Thirst: Water and Power in the Ancient World	Mithen, Steven	HARDCOVER	11/26/2012	$25.95
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours	Nagy, Gregory	PAPERBACK	01/07/2020	$27.00
Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age	Bellah, Robert N.	PAPERBACK	05/08/2017	$27.00
The Civil War (Pharsalia)	Lucan Duff, J. D.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1928	$28.00
Dionysiaca, Volume II: Books 16-35	Nonnos Rouse, W. H. D.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1940	$28.00
Dionysiaca, Volume III: Books 36-48	Nonnos Rouse, W. H. D.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1940	$28.00
Every Good Man is Free. On the Contemplative Life. On the Eternity of the World. Against Flaccus. Apology for the Jews. On Providence	Philo Colson, F. H.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1941	$28.00
History of Egypt and Other Works	Manetho Waddell, W. G.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1940	$28.00
Library of History, Volume I: Books 1-2.34	Diodorus Siculus Oldfather, C. H.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1933	$28.00
Library of History, Volume II: Books 2.35-4.58	Diodorus Siculus Oldfather, C. H.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1935	$28.00
Library of History, Volume III: Books 4.59-8	Diodorus Siculus Oldfather, C. H.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1939	$28.00
Library of History, Volume IV: Books 9-12.40	Diodorus Siculus Oldfather, C. H.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1946	$28.00
Library of History, Volume IX: Books 18-19.65	Diodorus Siculus Geer, Russel M.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1947	$28.00
Library of History, Volume V: Books 12.41-13	Diodorus Siculus Oldfather, C. H.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1950	$28.00
Library of History, Volume VI: Books 14-15.19	Diodorus Siculus Oldfather, C. H.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1954	$28.00
Library of History, Volume VII: Books 15.20-16.65	Diodorus Siculus Sherman, Charles L.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1952	$28.00
Library of History, Volume VIII: Books 16.66-17	Diodorus Siculus Welles, C. Bradford	HARDCOVER	01/01/1963	$28.00
Library of History, Volume X: Books 19.66-20	Diodorus Siculus Geer, Russel M.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1954	$28.00
Library of History, Volume XI: Fragments of Books 21-32	Diodorus Siculus Walton, Francis R.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1957	$28.00
Library of History, Volume XII: Fragments of Books 33-40	Diodorus Siculus Walton, Francis R.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1967	$28.00
On Abraham. On Joseph. On Moses	Philo Colson, F. H.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1935	$28.00
On Flight and Finding. On the Change of Names. On Dreams	Philo Colson, F. H. Whitaker, G. H.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1934	$28.00
On the Cherubim. The Sacrifices of Abel and Cain. The Worse Attacks the Better. On the Posterity and Exile of Cain. On the Giants	Philo Colson, F. H. Whitaker, G. H.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1929	$28.00
On the Confusion of Tongues. On the Migration of Abraham. Who Is the Heir of Divine Things? On Mating with the Preliminary Studies	Philo Colson, F. H. Whitaker, G. H.	HARDCOVER	01/01/1932	$28.00

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The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States, by Brian Hochman, from Harvard University Press

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