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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora

Ancient Greek and Roman Humour

By R. Drew Griffith and Robert B. Marks

244 pages

ISBN: 978-0-9784652-0-9

$29.95 Canada

$32.95 U.S.A.

£15.95 U.K.

€22.95 Europe

Ancient Greece and Rome aren’t usually remembered for their sense of humour.  However, in reality the ancient Greeks and Romans often refused to take themselves seriously.  Strange and outlandish activities abounded – including somebody accidentally exposing himself while dancing sideways at his wedding (those wearing bed sheets didn’t wear underwear) and a group of drunk young men thinking their house is sinking at sea, and tossing all their furniture out the windows.

R. Drew Griffith and Robert B. Marks take you on a lively and funny journey through the more bizarre activities of the ancient world, ranging everywhere from moochers to quacks to shrews to willing suckers, and even revealing the most terrible thing you can do to anybody involving a radish.

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The Secret History of Star Wars

The Art of Storytelling and the Making of a Modern Epic

By Michael Kaminski

628 pages

ISBN: 978-0-9784652-3-0

$44.95 Canada

$39.95 U.S.A.

£29.95 U.K.

€31.95 Europe

$47.95 Australia

Star Wars is one of the most important cultural phenomena of the Western world.  The tale of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and the fall and redemption of Anakin Skywalker has become modern myth, an epic tragedy of the corruption of a young man in love into darkness, the rise of evil, and the power of good triumphing in the end.

But it didn’t start out that way.

In this thorough account of one of cinema’s most lasting works, Michael Kaminski presents the true history of how Star Wars was written, from its beginnings as a science fiction fairy tale to its development over three decades into the epic we now know, chronicling the methods, techniques, thought processes, and struggles of its creator.  For this unauthorized account, he has pored through over four hundred sources, from interviews to original scripts, to track how the most powerful modern epic in the world was created, expanded, and finalized into the tale an entire generation has grown up with.

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The War that Changed the World

The Forgotten War that Set the Stage for the Global Conflicts of the 20th Century and Beyond

By John-Allen Price

442 pages

ISBN: 978-0-9784652-1-6

$29.95 Canada

$24.95 U.S.A.

£17.95 U.K

€18.95 Europe

$31.95 Australia

Between 1870 and 1871, the world changed forever.

The Franco-Prussian War is often a forgotten war, its significance lost amidst larger conflicts such as the Napoleonic Wars and World War I. But, while it lasted less than a year, its aftermath would shape the course of history for decades to come.

In this comprehensive and epic account, John-Allen Price explores how this short but far-reaching war came to be, bringing the men who shaped history to life. Price examines the Franco-Prussian War and its world, from the seeds of the war in the Age of Napoleon to the Paris Commune, and the aftershocks that led to a century of slaughter, a war to end all wars, and an even greater war after that.

“John-Allen Price's The War that Changed the World is a brilliantly written and exhaustively researched masterwork. With all the attention to detail one would expect of Keegan or Ambrose, Price has created a stunningly entertaining and thorough examination of an historical era which shaped the conflicts of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Price's examination of the Franco-Prussian war is engrossing, entertaining and delightfully readable—presented with a historian's eye for detail and a novelist's ear for story. Students of military history pass this book by at their peril.”

- New York Times Bestselling Author Michael A. Stackpole


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