Robin Lane Fox, Basic, $28.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-4650-2196-3
In this collection of 80 essays, the Financial Times gardening columnist and Oxford historian presents a convincing case that gardening is about far more than horticultural skill. For Fox, flower gardens are human creations informed by art, history,
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Robin Lane Fox. Basic, $32.50 (464p) ISBN 978-1-541-60044-7
Oxford historian Lane Fox (Augustine) examines in this enlightening account the origins and the lasting impact of Homer’s Iliad. Drawing on historical and archaeological evidence, he pinpoints the method and location of the poem’s creation,...
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Robin Lane Fox, Author, Robin Lane Fox, Author Vintage Books USA $18 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-74406-1
Fox reads biblical texts closely, helping neophytes to probe the historical veracity of the Bible. But his arguments are also curiously diffuse, and the bulk of them will be known to Bible students. BOMC alternate in cloth. (June)
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Robin Lane Fox, Author, Robin Lane Fox, Author . Basic $35 (656p) ISBN 978-0-465-02496-4
Framing this history of the classical world as he imagines the second-century Emperor Hadrian (who traveled the classical world and had a "classicizing mind") would have done, this scintillating survey seeks to understand Greek and Roman...
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Robin Lane Fox, Author, Robin Lane Fox, Author Knopf Publishing Group $27.5 (478p) ISBN 978-0-394-57398-4
According to Oxford historian Fox ( Pagans and Christians ), ``Scripture is not God's word in any strong sense, nor is it unerring, with the possible exception of a few trivial facts.'' He asserts that Genesis offers two Creation stories that don't...
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