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The Story of Civilization, by husband and wife Will and Ariel Durant, is an 11-volume set of books covering Western history for the general reader.
The series was...
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It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. It shaped all of Europe and controlled politics, scientists, artists, and even popes, for three hundred years. It was the house...
The Rise of...
Автор: Everitt Anthony
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
Статус: Закончена, но выложен фрагмент
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From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Augustus, and Hadrian, comes a riveting, magisterial account of Rome and its remarkable ascent from an obscure agrarian backwater to the greatest empire the world has...
‘Everitt takes [eners] on a remarkable journey into the creation of the great civilization's political institutions, cultural traditions, and social hierarchy…. [E]ngaging work that will captivate and inform from beginning to end.”
—...
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe,...
Relates the story of the German development of missile technology, a new kind of warfare that was extremely valuable to Allied powers during the Cold War but of little value to the Germans during World War...
Richard Pipes’s
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
“Masterful and timely … [Pipes’s] history blends uncannily with today’s … headlines.… A brilliantly focused portrait.”
—Newsweek
“Pipes’s compellingly written account … is … a...
IT'S A HARD DAY'S WORK, HUSTLING FOR AN HONEST DRACHMA Menedemos and Sostratos, those dauntless traders of the third century B.C., have set sail again--this time to Phoenicia. There Menedemos will spend the summer wheeling and dealing, while...
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The Scarlet Fig: Or, Slowly Through a Land of Stone, Book Three of the Vergil Magus Series
The Last Manuscript of a Master
It began with an accident, as if Fate had a plan for Vergil Magus…
After his trials in the Very Rich City of Averno but before his crowning achievement of a certain magic mirror, the great...