lost kingdoms do they add up to anything but dreams

cities of the classical world a gazetteer of 120 centres of ancient civilizations by colin mcevedy from alexandria to xanthos illustrated with line maps good artiles on each ciites including assyrian and mesopotamian cites such as babylon their topolography, population and reasons for abandonmment from the tigris to the rhine from leptis to ptolemais

vanished kindgoms the history of half forgotten europe a history of europes vanished states from arelat -burgundy and tolosa to napoleonic eturia, poland lithuania piedmont sardina and austrian galicia some like piedmont sardinia told before and in places the book resembled little than a king list and was more detailed in post 18th century history of the states with emphasis on their current national tragedy

lewis carrol in numberland by robin wilson story of CL dodgson the author of An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, With Their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraic Equations and other works this tells about dodgson from student days to university don days and revels dodgsons work on logic puzzles , whimisical number methods and syllogisms that were funny to anyone living in the nineteenth century it also told of the mathematical and logicla background to alice and the hunting of the snark

einsteins heroes by robyn araianhod a first book by the author and it shows despite the tilte this mainly concerns itself with james clerk maxwell and his life and work including his pretty dire poetry which i can say is not as good as his science the book suddenly changes tack and halts to carry on from pages 130-197 to cover the world history of mathematics then back to maxwell some line diagrams but very text book and old fashioned