Viggen Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Below are the newest releases for October.. Civilization: The West and the Rest The Complete Roman Legions Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of Caesar Medusa's Gaze: The Extraordinary Journey of the Tazza Farnese The Roman Republic: A Very Short Introduction The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity (Oxford Handbooks) Lost World of the Golden King: In Search of Ancient Afghanistan (Hellenistic Culture and Society) The Last Pharaohs: Egypt Under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC Greek Warfare: From the Battle of Marathon to the Conquests of Alexander the Great Roman Conquests: Egypt and Judaea A Companion to Persius and Juvenal (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World) Roman Slavery and Roman Material Culture The Cult of Pythagoras: Math and Myths Greek and Roman Festivals: Content, Meaning, and Practice A History of the Roman World: 753 to 146 BC (Routledge Classics) Oxford Readings in Propertius (Oxford Readings in Classical Studies) Diana (Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World) Romans and Romantics (Classical Presences) Galen and the World of Knowledge (Greek Culture in the Roman World) Roman Military Service: Ideologies of Discipline in the Late Republic and Early Principate The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection The Role of the Bishop in Late Antiquity: Conflict and Compromise Western Perspectives on the Mediterranean: Cultural Transfer in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 400-800 AD Monumentality in Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture: Ideology and Innovation Etruscans in Berlin Chariots and Other Wheeled Vehicles in Italy Before the Roman Empire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonic Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity looks interesting ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DecimusCaesar Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity looks interesting ... I agree, what a shame that it costs a bomb! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonic Posted October 10, 2012 Report Share Posted October 10, 2012 The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity looks interesting ... I agree, what a shame that it costs a bomb! "The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity" $163.32 (Down from $175) "Western Perspectives on the Mediterranean" $110 "The Role of the Bishop in Late Antiquity" $130 To say this is annoying is an understatement. Especially when there's: "A History of the Roman World: 753 to 146 BC" $27.45 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klingan Posted October 10, 2012 Report Share Posted October 10, 2012 The Oxford handbooks are always ridiculously expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melvadius Posted October 10, 2012 Report Share Posted October 10, 2012 The problem is that anything which tends towards a specialist and/or academic market is always liable to be seen as an expensive production item to publishers when you factor in all the various production costs. I quite liked the look of Chariots and Other Wheeled Vehicles in Italy Before the Roman Empire until I saw the $80 price tag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DecimusCaesar Posted October 28, 2012 Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 It seems that Late Antiquity books tend to be far more expensive than their Republican/Principate counterparts. Could it be that the obscurity of the era leads to less sales than other Roman history books, and that they therefore need to increase the price to justify the research costs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artimi Posted October 28, 2012 Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 (edited) I have missed this feature Viggen, thank you for being able to do this again. Even though, most of the books at too expensive for me, but it does give me ideas. I have added a couple of books to my wish list. Edited October 28, 2012 by Artimi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caesar novus Posted October 29, 2012 Report Share Posted October 29, 2012 (edited) Once the price is out of range for the mainstream market, publishers may as well multiply prices times five or ten to harvest the money from libraries that buy regardless of cost, do they not? So that is an invitation to access pricey books at a lib. Even when you dont have a withdrawal card for the library that may carry it, i find visiting in person isnt as revolting as it used to be. Local university lib used to be a gathering of vagrants in a cloud of bedbugs, inflicting cybercrime via the free pcs. I'm not just stereotyping, but have helped their victims before. Anyway, now they put the free pcs on high tables with no chairs, and only the predators are too lazy to stand, leaving a nice environment for a better class of freeloaders like me to flip some pages nearby... Edited October 29, 2012 by caesar novus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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