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Describes the life and accomplishments of the military ruler who conquered ancient Persia and Egypt and united many cultures with one ruler, one language, and one currency.
Author : Vicky Alvear Shecter
Publisher : Darby Creek
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,13 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Generals
ISBN : 9781581960457
Describes the life and accomplishments of the military ruler who conquered ancient Persia and Egypt and united many cultures with one ruler, one language, and one currency.
Author : Vicky Alvear Shecter
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0545389372
Selene has grown up in a palace on the Nile with her parents, Cleopatra & Mark Antony--the most brilliant, powerful rulers on earth. But the jealous Roman Emperor Octavianus wants Egypt for himself, & when war finally comes, Selene faces the loss of all she's ever loved. Forced to build a new life in Octavianus's household in Rome, she finds herself torn between two young men and two possible destinies--until she reaches out to claim her own.This stunning novel brings to life the personalities & passions of one of the greatest dramas in history, & offers a wonderful new heroine in Selene.
Author : Robin Lane Fox
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 1978
Category :
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Author : E. H. Gombrich
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 13,64 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300213972
E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book is available worldwide in almost thirty languages. Gombrich was of course the best-known art historian of his time, and his text suggests illustrations on every page. This illustrated edition of the Little History brings together the pellucid humanity of his narrative with the images that may well have been in his mind's eye as he wrote the book. The two hundred illustrations—most of them in full color—are not simple embellishments, though they are beautiful. They emerge from the text, enrich the author's intention, and deepen the pleasure of reading this remarkable work. For this edition the text is reset in a spacious format, flowing around illustrations that range from paintings to line drawings, emblems, motifs, and symbols. The book incorporates freshly drawn maps, a revised preface, and a new index. Blending high-grade design, fine paper, and classic binding, this is both a sumptuous gift book and an enhanced edition of a timeless account of human history.
Author : Elizabeth Carney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1134318197
Presenting a critical assessment of a fascinating and wholly misunderstood figure, this is the definitive guide to the life of the first woman to play a major role in Greek political history, and the first modern biography of Olympias.
Author : Mike Venezia
Publisher : Children's Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 2009-03
Category : Deaf
ISBN : 9780531222072
An introduction to the life and career of the inventor of the telephone, who was also accomplished in many other ways.
Author : Arrian
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 1812
Category : India
ISBN :
Author : Hugh Raffles
Publisher : Verse Chorus Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 2022-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1891241745
From the author of lnsectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, grief, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present. Unconformities are gaps in the geological record, physical evidence of breaks in time. For Hugh Raffles, these holes in history are also fissures in feeling, knowledge, memory, and understanding. In this endlessly inventive, riveting book, Raffles enters these gaps, drawing together threads of geology, history, literature, philosophy, and ethnography to trace the intimate connections between personal loss and world historical events, and to reveal the force of absence at the core of contemporary life. Through deeply researched explorations of Neolithic stone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard, the marble prized by Manhattan's Lenape, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived in New York City along with six Inuit adventurers in 1897, Raffles shows how unconformities unceasingly incite human imagination and investigation yet refuse to conform, heal, or disappear. A journey across eons and continents, The Book of Unconformities is also a journey through stone: this most solid, ancient, and enigmatic of materials, it turns out, is as lively, capricious, willful, and indifferent as time itself.
Author : Ase Berit
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1050 pages
File Size : 20,95 MB
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1317466039
This lavishly illustrated full-color set is organized by the time frames that mirror the National Standards for world history for grades 6-12. An ideal supplement to all the major textbooks, it offers appealing and comprehensive biographies of history's most influential figures - both famous and infamous."Lifelines in World History" features biographies of figures from Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, and Southwest Asia, and covers the most significant events and trends in world history. Each volume includes 15-20 biographies, and in addition to biographical information, each entry includes engaging sidebars that feature key dates, more people to know, words from their time, and cultural connections. The set also includes numerous full-color maps.
Author : Vicky Alvear Shecter
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 24,53 MB
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0545509947
When your world blows apart, what will you hold onto? TAG is a medical slave, doomed to spend his life healing his master's injured gladiators. But his warrior's heart yearns to fight in the gladiator ring himself and earn enough money to win his freedom.LUCIA is the daughter of Tag's owner, doomed by her father's greed to marry a much older Roman man. But she loves studying the natural world around her home in Pompeii, and lately she's been noticing some odd occurrences in the landscape: small lakes disappearing; a sulfurous smell in the air. . . . When the two childhood friends reconnect, each with their own longings, they fall passionately in love. But as they plot their escape from the city, a patrician fighter reveals his own plans for them -- to Lucia's father, who imprisons Tag as punishment. Then an earthquake shakes Pompeii, in the first sign of the chaos to come. Will they be able to find each other again before the volcano destroys their whole world?