This is a companion to "The Penguin Encyclopedia of Ancient Civilizations", covering the later civilizations of the classical Greece and the Hellenistic world, Persia, China, Imperial India and their Roman heirs.
Arthur Cotterell, former Principal of Kingston College in London, has spent many years combining senior educational management with historical research. He is the respected author of more than thirty books, and is now writing on the Chinese empire, from the history of which he considers one can learn as much about leadership as from Ashridge or Harvard.