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As modern empires rise and fall, ancient Rome becomes ever more significant. We yearn for Rome's power but fear Rome's ruin—will we turn out like the Romans, we wonder, or can we escape their fate? That question has obsessed centuries of historians and leaders, who have explored diverse political, religious, and economic forces to explain Roman decline. In New Rome, Paul Stephenson looks beyond traditional texts and well-known artifacts to offer a novel, scientifically minded interpretation of antiquity's end.

Benito Mussolini: The Life and Legacy of Italy’s Fascist Prime Minister profiles one of the 20th century’s most notorious leaders. You will learn about Mussolini like never before.

The ancient Greeks were explorers in many ways. They traveled to new places, creating colonies in strange lands far from their original homes. They were survivors. They were honorable thieves. They used their cunning to explore the frontiers of philosophy and they wrested from the chaos of the surrounding wilderness the building blocks of civilization.

In the face of ruthless totalitarian rule, it is only the rare few who stand up at risk of their own life to do what is right. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of those exceptional individuals. Even on pain of death, he would not bend, he would not budge - this German pastor fought the Nazi regime with every fiber of his being.

At the beginning of the 16th century, a religious revolution shattered the outward appearance of conformity among Europe's Roman Catholics...a conformity that had been the basis of Western European unity for over a thousand years. Why did it happen? In this brilliant history, Professor Mosse exposes the crisis of the Papacy in preceeding centuries and shows how the need for reform was continually being delayed until it was simply too late.

A versão em áudio desta descrição da Guerra de Tróia é rica em elementos sonoros ligados às batalhas, à natureza, às manifestações dos deuses e à musicalidade grega. Com a participação de 16 profissionais de voz, entre atores, narradores e dubladores, que interpretam 34 personagens.

Sie alle prägten die deutsche Geschichte: Kaiser wie Otto I. , Karl der Große oder Wilhelm II., Wissenschaftler wie Albert Einstein...

Have you ever felt drawn to the allure of Celtic mythology but found it difficult to navigate through the vast and often fragmented collection of stories and legends? The complex web of Celtic myths, with their intricate genealogies and regional variations, can be a daunting challenge to unravel. Fear not! This comprehensive book understands your desire for clarity and provides the perfect solution.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the war At the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor...

Despite certain distinctions and differences, the lands of Scandinavia, or Norden—Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark, and the Faroe Islands—are united by bonds of culture, language, and geography, and by a shared history that comes richly to life in this landmark work. Now in an expanded, updated edition, this definitive chronicle of five centuries of Scandinavian history incorporates the geopolitical developments and momentous events that have marked the Nordic world in recent decades.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it...

È stata la stagione dei giovani: in tutto il mondo i figli del baby boom postbellico, affluiti in massa all'università, rivendicano diritti, affermano istanze di libertà nella sfera personale come in quella sociale, inaugurano nuovi costumi e consumi.

Il volume è centrato sulle trattative che portarono alla firma dell'armistizio tra l'Italia e gli angloamericani nel settembre 1943, alla fuga del re, del governo e delle alte gerarchie militari da Roma, all'evaporazione dello stato e al drammatico sbando cui il paese andò incontro.

Che cosa ha reso possibile nel Cinquecento la supremazia mondiale dell'Europa? Fu grazie a nuovi tipi di veliero che i paesi europei poterono varcare i mari e scoprire nuove terre; e fu con i cannoni che si assicurarono un incontrastato e secolare dominio sugli oceani, e poi sulla terra. L'Europa riuscì così ad aprirsi la strada delle lontane isole delle spezie, a ottenere il controllo delle più importanti rotte, a fondare imperi coloniali, trasformandosi in una civiltà audace e aggressiva.

The life of Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers. But the elusive nature of the man (despite an abundance of documentation), his relentless travel and the control of his own image, together with the complexity of governing the world's first transatlantic empire, complicate the task.

SINOPSISSantiago Valiente, una historia real es el testimonio en primera persona de un hombre que vivió la historia de España entre 1910 y 1950. Escrita íntegramente en verso, con un estilo castizo, fresco y muy ingenioso. Esta obra ofrece una mirada lúcida y profundamente humana a una época convulsa. Desde la dictadura de Primo de Rivera, la Segunda República, la quema de iglesias, la tragedia de Casas Viejas, hasta la Guerra Civil vivida en ambos bandos y la posguerra, Santiago Valiente narra con humor, emoción y crudeza lo que supuso vivir ese tiempo como ciudadano anónimo.

Unplagued explores the profound transformation of human civilization in an era largely free from the devastating plagues that once shaped history. This comprehensive volume examines how science, technology, medicine, politics, economics, society, culture, and the environment have evolved in the absence of widespread infectious disease.

More than forty million Americans claim Irish ancestry. This lively illustrated book, divided into parts exploring myths, legends, and folktales, explains for the U.S. audience the importance of storytelling in Irish culture in particular. In ancient Ireland, a good storyteller was so valued that he would be a member of the aos dána, the bards, and would be welcomed into every village because he came bearing tales.

In 1949, the year of the Berlin airlift and the founding of the two post-war German states, Elisabeth Kusian (nurse, black marketeer, morphine and methamphetamine addict, and pathological liar) garroted and dismembered two people in a mini crime spree. Her actions both fascinated and terrified the public—how could this woman, a nurse, commit such a violent act?

""Delightfully original, brilliantly conceived, witty and poignant"" —Brenda Wineapple, award-winning author of Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy and the Trial that Riveted a Nation Berlin is more than a city; it’s a survivor, an enigma, and a mirror to the world. In 1929, Berlin stood at a...