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Agrippina: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire
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Professor Anthony A Barrett
Agrippina the Younger attained a level of power in first-century Rome unprecedented for a woman. According to ancient sources, she achieved her success by plotting against her brother, the emperor Caligula, murdering her husband, the emperor Claudius, and controlling her son, the emperor Nero, by sleeping with him. Modern scholars tend to accept ...
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Caligula: The Corruption of Power
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Professor Anthony A Barrett
A biography of the Roman Emperor who reigned as a wilful autocrat and planned the invasion of Britain and whose reign saw the beginning of anti-semitism in Rome. While Caligula's unpredictable behaviour clearly caused distress among the nobility, public reaction to his assassination was anger, not relief: his self-indulgence had been generally ...
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Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome
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Professor Anthony A Barrett
Livia (58 BC-29 AD), the wife of the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, and mother of the second, Tiberius, wielded power at the centre of Roman politics for most of her long life. Livia has been portrayed as a cunning and sinister schemer, but in this biography (the first in English devoted to her) Livia emerges as a much more complex ...
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The Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero
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Cornelius Tacitus, J C Yardley (Translator), Professor Anthony A Barrett (Notes by)
'He was atrocious in his brutality, but his lechery was kept hidden...In the end, he erupted into an orgy of crime and ignominy alike' Such is Tacitus' obituary of Tiberius, and he is no less caustic in his opinion of the weak and cuckolded Claudius and the 'artist' Nero. The Annals is a gripping account of the Roman emperors who followed ...
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Francis Rattenbury and British Columbia : architecture and challenge in the Imperial Age
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Anthony Barrett, R. W. Liscombe
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Woodworking for the Home: Storage Projects: For All Around the House
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Paul Anthony, Niall Barrett, Jeff Miller
This is a collection of Taunton's favourite woodworking projects, which presents 22 easy-to-build items of furniture in a variety of styles. These are not just "bedroom cupboard" type projects, but well-designed pieces of fine woodworking that can be made in a weekend: adjustable shelves; serving tray; spice and tea rack; spice drawer; pantry door ...
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Caligula
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Professor Anthony A Barrett, Barrett Anthony
The first full-scale biography for over 50 years of the Roman Emperor who reigned as a wilful autocrat and planned the invasion of Britain and whose reign saw the beginning of anti-semitism in Rome. Of all Roman emperors none, with the possible exception of Nero, surpasses Caligula's reputation for infamy. But was Caligula really the mad despot ...
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Knowledge-Based Image Processing Systems
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Graham D, Deryn Graham, Anthony N Barrett
Knowledge-based (or expert systems) and image processing have been applied to many domains but, although both fields frequently address common application areas, they are rarely applied together. Often a combined knowledge-based system and image processing approach can be highly appropriate and this book provides an insight into both areas and ...
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Lives of the Caesars
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Professor Anthony A Barrett (Editor)
"Lives of the Caesars" tells the stories of 12 of Rome's most fascinating and influential rulers, uncovering the unique features of their reigns which allowed them to earn their places in history. This work offers a comprehensive and engaging account of the lives of the Caesars, who helped shaped one of the most significant periods in history. ...
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How to Cheat at Administering Office Communicator Server 2007
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Anthony Piltzecker (Editor), Rand Morimoto (Editor), Ron Barrett (Editor)
Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 is Microsoft's latest version of Live Communications Server 2005. The product provides management for all synchronous communications that takes place in real time. This includes instant messaging (IM), Voice over IP (VoIP), and audio conferencing and videoconferencing. It will work with your ...
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Tragedy in three voices : the Rattenbury murder
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Sir Michael Havers, Peter Shankland, Anthony Barrett
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The Rattenbury case
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Michael Havers Havers, Baron, Peter Shankland, Anthony A. Barrett
A reconstruction of a controversial murder case which happened in 1935 revealing a plausible motive for the crime. It gives an account of the events that led up to the murder of Francis Rattenbury and the subsequent trial of his wife and the family's odd-job man. Lord Havers co-authored "The Poisoned Life of Mrs Maverick" while Peter Shankland ...
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Agrippina: Mother of Nero
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Barrett Anthony
Agrippina the Younger attained a level of power in first-century Rome unprecedented for a woman. According to ancient sources, she achieved her success by plotting against her brother, the emperor Caligula, murdering her husband, the emperor Claudius, and controlling her son, the emperor Nero, by sleeping with him. Drawing on the latest ...
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Sacrifice and Prophecy in Turkana Cosmology
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Anthony Barrett
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A Paediatric Vade-Mecum
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Timothy G Barrett (Editor), Anthony D Lander (Editor), Vin Diwadar
A complete revision of this successful pocketbook, the fourteenth edition of "A Paediatric Vade-Mecum" provides the junior doctor and trainee grade paediatrician with invaluable information on the diagnosis and management of illness in children, and with practical evidence-based advice for the safe and effective management of the sick child. ...
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Organizational Learning and Communities of Practice in a High-Tech Manufacturering Firm
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Anthony M Barrett
This work uses an ethnographic study as the backdrop to address theoretical and philosophical concepts related to organizational learning and social learning theory. To frame the rationale for this research, the ramifications of modern, interpretive, and postmodern traditions of organizational studies are considered. The social character of ...
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Computer Vision and Image Processing
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Anthony N Barrett
This volume consists of the presentations of disinguished researchers from both industrial and academic institutions, at a two day conference on computer vision and image processing held in London at the end of November last year. The recent advances made by major industrial and academic research organizations combined with the initiatives of the ...
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Ngiturkana ka ngitieng kec = Turkana and their wildlife
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Anthony Barrett
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Dying and death among the Turkana
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Anthony Barrett
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Turkana and Their Trees: Their Medical and Ecological Value
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Anthony Barrett
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