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The Life and Death of Ancient CitiesCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780199664733 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oxford University Press UK Pages: 512 Description: The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this century almost all of us will live in cities. But that journey has not been a smooth one and urban civilizations have risen and fallen many times in history. The ruins of many of them still enchant
Condition: BRAND NEWISBN: 9780199664733
Year: 2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press UK
Pages: 512
Description:
The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this century almost all of us will live in cities. But that journey has not been a smooth one and urban civilizations have risen and fallen many times in history. The ruins of many of them still enchant us. This book tells the story of the rise and fall of ancient cities from the end of the Bronze Age to the
beginning of the Middle Ages. It is a tale of war and politics, pestilence and famine, triumph and tragedy, by turns both fabulous and squalid. Its focus is on the ancient Mediterranean: Greeks and
Romans at the centre, but Phoenicians and Etruscans, Persians, Gauls, and Egyptians all play a part. The story begins with the Greek discovery of much more ancient urban civilizations in Egypt and the Near East, and charts the gradual spread of urbanism to the Atlantic and then the North Sea in the centuries that followed. The ancient Mediterranean, where our story begins, was a harsh environment for urbanism. So how were cities first created, and then sustained for so
long, in these apparently unpromising surroundings? How did they feed themselves, where did they find water and building materials, and what did they do with their waste and their dead? Why, in the end,
did their rulers give up on them? And what it was like to inhabit urban worlds so unlike our own - cities plunged into darkness every night, cities dominated by the temples of the gods, cities of farmers, cities of slaves, cities of soldiers. Ultimately, the chief characters in the story are the cities themselves. Athens and Sparta, Persep
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Product does not function as befits a brand name like Sony
Review updated after TWO returns to the repair center and MANY calls to both Support and the CS Escalation department:
I'M STILL NOT PLEASED WITH THIS PRODUCT. During startup, this receiver bounces back and forth from input source to input source as if I triggered a roulette wheel. Where will it finally stop?
In my case, I most often use Video input. Sometimes during startup, it will momentarily display the Video input as expected, but will then start jumping/fishing around to other inputs types, including those I've never used. Eventually, it may return to the Video input, but it will not display the actual video or audio content. Instead, it just displays a black banner that reads VIDEO. I then have to turn the receiver off and on again hoping that maybe it will work this time.
Neither Sony's escalation Team, nor the repair facility will answer the simple question, "What SHOULD it do when I first turn it on?"
In addition, on at least two occasions, during startup, I saw PLEASEWAIT written across the display for 75 seconds before the device actually started up OR rebooted. (Note: THIS issue appears to be resolved by the repair center replacing a circuit board.)
Another related annoyance is that when video content changes (e.g., from a show to a commercial, back to a commercial on YouTube), each break in the chain displays 5+ seconds of black screen even though you can hear the audio. This doesn't sound like much, but when it does this every time, it gets annoying AND is infinitely longer than my previous 10 y/o receiver.)
About 2-3 times an hour, while viewing consistent content from the same input, the screen will suddenly go black, then the audio drops out, and then it will flash a HDCP 2.3 warning blue screen. Unacceptable!
In short, and IMHO, the audio quality is very good, but basic functionality is SEVERELY clunky. Again, IMHO, this product should have NEVER gone to market.
The combination of poor functionality AND a dismal customer experience forever diminishes Sony's former world-class brand status.
P.S.: Sony's Escalation department told me that they simply DO NOT provide refunds if you've had the product more than 30 days. So make sure that you test ALL functionality as soon as it arrives.
Caveat emptor.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2025
★★★★★ 5
GEARit 14/2 Speaker Wire
Color: 14 AWG, Size: 20 Feet
Priced well and a quality product with quick shipping.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Quality
Color: 14 AWG, Size: 500 Feet
Good quality
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Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Great price
Color: 14 AWG, Size: 20 Feet
I almost gave it 4 stars cuz I'm not 100% on the gauge being accurate. I have some 16 gauge kicker wire from a long time ago left and it's barely thicker. Granted I don't have a measuring tool so the kicker wire could be over sized but no matter what this wire is close enough to right if not exactly right. But even if it was slightly under for I think $13 it's still a very very good price so if I could verify it was 14 gauge exactly I would give 6 stars
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Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2024
★★★★★ 5
Easy to use and great value
Color: 14 AWG, Size: 500 Feet
Im currently installing over 50 speaker pairs in 4 zones in this remodel. This is a great value for money. The wire pulls easy outside of the box. It is very flexible. and so far we have not seen any internal breaks in the cable. Great value
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Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2024