Emperor

A fascinating narrative excursion into a bizarre episode in 19th century Ethiopian and British imperial history. It describes the Magdala campaign,...

Contributor(s): Author: David PotterThe Emperors of Rome charts the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through profiles of the greatest and most not...

Publisher: Capstone Global Library LtdAuthor(s): John SazaklisNumber of pages: 32Collection: My Life CyclePublication date: 2022Dimensions: 261 x 2...

Travelling through China's most distant and unknown regions David Eimer offers a revelatory and groundbreaking insight into the divisions within mo...

Reducere. In 1908 at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi ...

Reducere. Born a princess of Schleswig-Holstein in 1858, Empress Augusta Victoria, known in the family as 'Dona', was marked out from early childhood as a po...

A set of mass battle rules for wargaming in the Napoleonic Wars, allowing players to refight the battles that shaped Europe. From the late Revoluti...

The mania for bicycle racing in Flanders, with the small and sparsely-populated region producing eight Tour de France winners, is the phenomenon ad...

Reducere. The book is based on a therapy used by more than 170 Soviet and Russian medical doctors. According to their clinical observations and hundreds of W...

Reducere. The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote down his thoughts between 170 and 180. He was a late Stoic Philosopher and this one of the few examples of ...

Reducere. In the opening pages of the action-packed Book One of Lian Hearn's epic Tale of Shikanoko series--all of which will be published in 2016--a future ...

Reducere. Who was Mansa Musa? And why was he important?In the grand scheme of things, very little is known of Mansa Musa's life. We know that he was one of t...

Reducere. On the Altiplano, the high plain, between Chile and Bolivia, Fallon's family witnesses their mother magically disappear. The inexplicable nature of...

Reducere. EMPEROR OF THE AIR explores tricky family relationships and tender moments of self-discovery with a voice of compassion rarely found in contemporar...

Reducere. The very first issue of Captain Future Magazine, originally published in 1940, now available in a facsimile edition. Read about the Man of Tomorrow...

Reducere. This fourth book in Dando-Collins's definitive history of Rome's legions tells the story of Rome's 3rd Gallica Legion, which put Vespasian on the t...

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Anuradha's lucid and lively retelling of the Baburnama will introduce this classic of world literature to a new generation of young readers.Publish...

Reducere. "This is a wonderful and important book that anyone interested in Stoicism or in being a better leader should read." --Ryan Holiday Roman emperor M...

Heavenly Khan: A Biography of Emperor Tang Taizong, Paperback

Narrates the dramatic events of Aurelians life and reign. Aurelian saved the Roman Empire from foreign invasion and collapse, earning him the title...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of China, then keep reading...The history of China is complex-perhaps more complex than that of oth...

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Reducere. What would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to leadIf recent history has taught us anything, it's that sometim...

Marcus Aurelius is the one great figure of antiquity who still speaks to us today, nearly 2, 000 years after his death.

Publisher: Little, BrownAuthor(s): Andrea StewartPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 233 x 46Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii...

Publisher: Shambhala Publications IncAuthor(s): Sonali ZohraNumber of pages: 40Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 214 x 289 x 17Cover type: Hardback...

Reducere. An authoritative biography of the greatest ruler of the medieval period. The Emperor Charlemagne is an ideal book for readers of Tom Holland, Dan J...

Reducere. A 2011 Newbery Honor Book Come feel the cool and shadowed breeze, come smell your way among the trees, come touch rough bark and leathered leaves: ...

Reducere. DescriptionNominated for the Nebula and Hugo awards, and a World Fantasy Award Finalist, Katherine Addison's The Goblin Emperor is a vividly imagin...

Reducere. Two Epic Storytellers and a Clash of Ancient Civilizations A novel of the first Chinese emperor, the Great Wall of China, spiritual warfare, dragon...

Reducere. From Kwame Mbalia and Prince Joel David Makonnen comes an Afrofuturist adventure about a mythical Ethiopian empire. Sci-fi and fantasy combine in t...

Reducere. Book Four in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles--the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-...

Reducere. This is the story of how an American lawyer raised on Coca-Cola caused a revolution in the way wines around the globe are made, sold, and talked ab...

Publisher: Little, Brown & CompanyAuthor(s): YUNSULNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 147 x 210 x 14Cover type: Paperback / soft...

If you want to discover the captivating life of Constantine the Great, then keep reading...Constantine the Great is a complex figure surrounded by ...

Only full length biography of Maximinus Thrax in English.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Paul N PearsonIllustration(s): approx 30 b&w im...

Reducere. A 2011 Newbery Honor BookCome feel the cool and shadowed breeze, come smell your way among the trees, come touch rough bark and leathered leaves: W...

Reducere. If you want to rekindle your joy in life, find your meaning of success or learn to overcome fears and anxiety, keep reading because this book is fo...

DescriptionFor poverty-stricken farm labourer Jan, the birth of his daughter Klara gives life a new meaning; his devotion to her develops into an o...

Reducere. Green Mountain Book AwardEmperor Mollusk. Intergalactic Menace. Destroyer of Worlds. Conqueror of Other Worlds. Mad Genius. Ex-Warlord of Earth. No...

When Robert Aldrich directed his unforgettable film, Emperor of the North (1973), featuring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Keith Carradine, chang...

Declares the end of the nation state as a political proposition predicting the dissolution of the state as an organizing framer of politics.

This novel depicts an expatriate American in southern China and his burgeoning relationship with a seamstress intent on inspiring political change....

In the late 16th century the greatest philosophers, alchemists, astronomers, painters, and mathematicians of the day flocked to Prague to work unde...

A DAILY TELEGRAPH AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'A remarkable book: the dramatic story of a truly extraordinary man ... brilliant' ...

Reducere. The renowned novelist De Wohl, with his usual crisp language and descriptive narrative, as well as irony and humor, presents the colorful and tumul...

The international bestselling series with over 5 million copies sold in the U.S. alone! Months have passed since Horace departed for the eastern na...

No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity, but tha...

Reducere. Following the release of their first three international bestsellers Petrus Romanus, Exo-Vaticana, and On the Path of the Immortals Thomas Horn and...

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Reducere. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and now a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biograp...

Reducere. The bestseller from James Raffan, Emperor of the North tells the story of Sir George Simpson, whose extraordinary life coincided with the success o...

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Such was Napoleon's dilemma in December 1797 when the renowned beauty Juliette Recamier entered his life.

The answer is a tale of operatic proportions, sweeping across continents from the 1848 European revolutions to the civil wars in Mexico and the USA...

DescriptionAphra Behn's spectacular farce, Emperor of the Moon (1687), so engaged audiences that it was restaged well into the eighteenth century. ...

Reducere. DescriptionWith Inos married to the wrong man and Rap dying in a dungeon, obviously the cause is hopeless. Only Aunt Kade refuses to admit defeat ....

Reducere. Welcome to the intriguing world of an adventurous American Intelligence Agent, Colonel Sidney Mashbir (1891-1973), who spent the 1920s and 1930s se...

Reducere. Jay Sarno built two path-breaking Las Vegas casinos, Caesars Palace (1966) and Circus Circus (1968), and planned but did not build a third, the Gra...

If you want to discover the captivating history of China, then keep reading...The history of China is complex-perhaps more complex than that of oth...

Reducere. Constantine XI Palaiologos was the last Christian Emperor of Constantinople and Byzantium. In 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks, ...

Reducere. Who was Mansa Musa? And why was he important?In the grand scheme of things, very little is known of Mansa Musa's life. We know that he was one of t...

Reducere. This seventh instalment in the memoirs of the Georgian rogue Thomas Flashman reveals that, despite his suffering through the Napoleonic Wars, he di...

Reducere. Konzert Fur Klavier Und Orchester Nr. 5 Es-dur Op. 73 Side A 1. Adagio Un Poco Mosso - Attacca: (8: 38)

Reducere. Emperor Haile Selassie was an iconic figure of the twentieth century, a progressive monarch who ruled Ethiopia from 1916 to 1974. This book, writte...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating life of Nicholas II, then keep reading...Tsar Nicholas II is a complicated and controversial figure in Russ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this vivid and brilliant biography, David Stewart describes Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring and perhaps deluded fig...

Reducere. The long awaited seventh book in Elizabeth Haydon's critically-acclaimed epic fantasy series, the Symphony of Ages.The war that they had feared is ...

If you want to discover the captivating life of Nero, then keep reading...Nero's extravagance has become nothing short of legendary. In its day, it...