'One of the most compelling medieval history books I have ever read' IAN MORTIMER'An enthralling book' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'Exhilarating ... funny, informative, even optimistic' FINANCIAL TIMES'Jones is a thoughtful, well-travelled scholar with an eye for a killer image' SUNDAY TIMES'Accessibly erudite and infectiously entertaining' *TEL

Donald Fagen will forever be associated with Steely Dan, the band he formed with Walter Becker and four other musicians in 1972.The smooth, radio-friendly veneer of the duo's songs made Steely Dan internationally popular and famous in the 1970s, but the polish glossed over the underlying layers of anger, disappointment, sleaze, and often downright weirdness lurking just beneath the surface. The elliptical lyrics were—and continue to be—an endless source of fascinati...

'A deftly written, colourful little tour of plebeian Rome ' Dan Jones, Sunday TimesThe untold story of the real people who built an empireThe plebs were the backbone of Roman civilization. They were the farmers who fed the city, the soldiers who conquered the Mediterranean, and the craftsmen who built the monuments we still admire today.In Plebs Romana, renowned classicist and bestselling ...

The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language### they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; laid the foundations of philosophy, history, tragedy and comedy; and debated everything from the good life and the role of women, to making sense of foreigners and the best form of government, all in the most sophisticated terms.But who were they? In Eureka!, Peter Jones tells their epic story, whi...

The Romans left a long-lasting legacy and their influence can still be seen all around us - from our calendar and coins, to our language and laws - but how much do we really know about them? Help is at hand in the form of Veni, Vidi, Vici, which tells the remarkable, and often surprising, story of the Romans and the most enduring empire in history.Fusing a lively and entertaining narrative with rigorous research, Veni, Vidi, Vici breaks down each major period into...

Roma antica è qualcosa di più che un elenco da mandare a memoria di consoli, guerre, poeti e imperatori, e non è neppure soltanto una serie di versioni dal latino con cui combattere al liceo, confidando nell’aiuto di un pesante dizionario. La Roma classica è stata tantissime altre cose, nei suoi oltre 1200 anni di storia, a partire dalla vita comune del contadino fino alla dieta quotidiana del mercante, dal salario del soldato allo scatenato tifo popolare per i gladiatori, dai lupanari all...

Did you know that the word 'prestige' derives from the Latin word for 'illusion'? Or that 'infantry' stems from a Latin word meaning one who could not speak?In this original and highly entertaining book, Peter Jones reveals the roots of Latin words that are now common in the English language and shows how Romans actually used them in the ancient world.Covering every aspect of Roman life - from politics, philosophy, religion and the arts, to technology, warfare, medicine and...

O legado que os Romanos deixaram, assim como a sua influencia, podem ainda ser sentidos a nossa volta - do nosso calendario as moedas, da nossa lingua as leis - mas o que sabemos ao certo sobre eles? Este livro conta a fantastica, e muitas vezes surpreendente, historia dos Romanos e do Imperio de maior durac?o da Historia. Sunday Times

In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and fascination of their ideas that makes the Ancient Greeks and Romans so important and influential today. For over 2,000 years these ideas have gripped Western imagination and been instrumental in the way we think about the world. Covering everything from philosophy, history and architecture to language and grammar, Jones uncovers their astonishing intellectual, political and literary achieveme...

This is the book that budding entrepreneurs everywhere have been waiting for.Dragon's Den star Peter Jones will demonstrate how anyone can become successful - you just need guts, determination and ideas.In Tycoon, Peter offers his personal insight into the qualities and skills he believes every successful entrepreneur possesses. His Ten Golden Rules provide key building blocks for turning your ideas into successful businesses.He shows how to road t...

Liddell at One Hundred celebrates the life of Liverpool and Scotland legend Billy Liddell. Born in Fife in 1922, Billy made the move from Scotland to Liverpool at 16, but the Second World War delayed his debut. After serving in the RAF as a navigator, he returned to football and won the league with Liverpool in his first full season with the club after the war. A diehard Red, Billy spent his whole career with the club, scoring 228 times in 534 appearances between 1938 and 1961. He...

Brought to you by Penguin.What can a twelfth-century monk teach us about burnout, envy, or despair? Far more than we might imagine. In Self-Help from the Middle Ages, historian Peter Jones travels through Europe’s archives and libraries to uncover a lost psychology: a world where confession was therapy, sin was diagnosis, and the Seven Deadly Sins served as a map of the human mind.From the deserts of Egypt to the Vatican Library, from Dante’s Florence to Ca...