Books like The Roman villa by Percival, John

Detective Nic Costa and pathologist Teresa Lupo race to uncover a teenage girl's disappearance in Rome, linking her case to a chilling, ancient cult ritual and a series of murders hidden beneath the city’s streets.

In Houses, Villas, and Palaces in the Roman World, Alexander G. McKay examines simple houses, mansions, estates, and palatial buildings, and he pays particular attention to accounts of ancient writers that deal with such topics as house design, interiors, furnishings, and gardens. With more than 150 illustrations of plans, sites, and reconstructions, the book describes high-rise apartments, compact civic squares, large public buildings, temples, shopping centers, and commercial areas, as well as the conditions of life in the Roman provinces.

"This book introduces students to new ways of thinking about culture and development. The book integrates the recent scholarship in the area of cultural studies within the existing frameworks of development studies, which have primarily focused on issues of political economy and structural transformation. Rather than viewing culture as simply an attribute of the societies undergoing development, this text critically examines how "development" itself operates as a cultural process. The authors draw on theories of modernity, poststructuralism and post-colonial studies to show how development institutions, processes and practices are inevitably caught up in a web of cultural presuppositions, values and meanings.". "The authors use the themes of gender, tradition and identity, human rights and new communication technologies to explore the challenges that processes of cultural change pose to conventional understandings of development. The book concludes by considering the move beyond "development" to a "post-development" paradigm.". "The book is made up of thematic chapters which include outlines and overviews of the specific topics, as well as case studies to illustrate the issues. The authors have designed the book specifically for students and teachers and the material included has been class-tested during their own teaching."--BOOK JACKET.

Illustrations and text describe life in the villa of a wealthy family situated in the countryside outside Rome during the first century A.D.