The Cartoon History of the Universe II: Volumes 8-13: From the Springtime of China to the Fall of Rome, Paperback - Larry Gonick

Here's a new installment of the phenomenal bestseller that Publishers Weekly selected as one of the twelve graphic books of all time. Spanning ages...

Larry Gonick's celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious s...

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Reducere. PROSEIn this prequel to the now-classic Makers of Modern Strategy, Victor Davis Hanson, a leading scholar of ancient military history, gathers prom...

In this latest edition of the successful Cartoon Guide series, master cartoonist and former Harvard instructor Larry Gonick offers a complete and u...

If you think a negative charge is something that shows up on your credit card bill -- if you imagine that Ohm's Law dictates how long to meditate -...

Dozens of maps provide a clear geography of great events, while timelines give the reader an ongoing sense of the passage of years and cultural int...

Structured around four interlocking themes-mobility, state development, commerce, and frontiers-this beautifully illustrated book brings new dimens...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Martha SouthgateLatin instructor Jerome Washington is a man out of place. The lone African-American teacher at the Chelsea ...

Volume five of this monumental series commences with coverage of the final fierce air-sea battles over the Aegean which preceded the advance northw...

Reducere. This comprehensive activity book and curriculum guide about the Middle Ages contains comprehension questions and answers, maps and geography activi...

Reducere. Are you intrigued by ancient Rome's myths, culture, and unimaginable rise to power? If so, this powerful history of ancient Rome will draw you in a...

Reducere. "During the past three centuries the spread of the English-speaking peoples over the world's waste spaces has been not only the most striking featu...

Have you ever asked yourself: Are spliced genes the same as mended Levis?Watson and Crick? Aren't they a team of British detectives?Plant sex? Can ...

From the first eye contact to the therapist's couch, from the throes of ecstasy to the nitty-gritty of safer sex, from the world's sexiest animal t...

Published in two volumes in 1845 and 1850, Fasti Romani, Henry Fynes Clinton's chronological history of the Roman Empire, made an important contrib...

Reducere. If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of ancient Rome then keep reading...The Roman civilization is probably the single ...

Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent "barbarians" who destroyed "civilization, " at least in the conve...

Winning Mommsen a Nobel Prize, this classic work covers centuries of the history of ancient Rome.

DescriptionThe Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. ...

Publisher: Alpha EditionAuthor(s): Ernesto P MolmentiNumber of pages: 310Publication date: 2019Dimensions: 139 x 216 x 16Cover type: Paperback / so...

Reducere. John Bagnell Bury saw the Byzantine Empire as a continuation of the Roman Empire and he explicitly called Byzantine History, Roman History. In this...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore the History and Mythology of the Roman Empire Few societies and historical periods capture our fascination as much as ancient Ro...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to discover the captivating history of ancient China, then keep reading... To understand present-day China, its politics, so...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marek Adam WozniakA military history of ancient Persia from its founding to the the end of the Sasanid Empire translated fr...

This history of Europe begins with the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the gradual unifying of Europe's Medieval-era powers, and concludes with...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Rome, then keep reading...Rome started as a kingdom, thrived as a republic, conquered vast terri...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Rome, then keep reading...Rome started as a kingdom, thrived as a republic, conquered vast terri...

This scholarly tome is written by one of the leading Classicists of the 19th Century. Theodor Mommsen, a Nobel Prize winner in literature, not only...

In this magisterial and groundbreaking work, Csaba Bekes shares decades of his research to provide a sweeping examination of Hungary's internationa...

DescriptionThe fourth volume in this momentous series commences with the attacks on the Italian island fortress of Pantellaria which led to its sur...

This book offers a fresh assessment of the Western Roman Empire's ostensible decline. Neil Christie presents a compelling argument that the Roman E...

This book is part of an initiative in cooperation with renowned Chinese publishers to make fundamental, formative, and influential Chinese thinkers...

Reducere. Empires and Barbarians presents a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analy...

Reducere. From The Battle of Corunna to the end of The Talavera CampaignThe fate of the Iberian Peninsula was very much in the balance during the period Janu...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Middle Ages, then keep reading...One of the least understood periods of European ...

Reducere. If you want to discover captivating stories of people and events of ancient Rome then keep reading... For over 2000 years, Rome has influenced our ...

The first thirteen centuries in France saw a new religion, a new language, new learning institutions and the beginnings of a great nation. The regi...

Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of ...

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Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient China, then keep reading...To understand present-day China, its politics, society, and c...

Reducere. New York Times Bestseller: A "virtually faultless" account of the last weeks of WWII in the Pacific from both Japanese and American perspectives (T...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Don HollwayIllustration(s): 8-page colour plate sectionNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dim...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Konstantin PaustovskyNumber of pages: 816Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 281 x 241 x 52Cover type: Hardba...

During the half-millennium from the eleventh through the sixth centuries BC, the power and the glory of the imperial pharaohs of the New Kingdom cr...

For a brief period in the mid-twentieth century, China had the makings of a professional, apolitical military force. The Rise and Fall of an Office...

Reducere. As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long...

DescriptionBooks XXXI to XLV cover the years from 201 b.c. to 167 b.c., when Rome emerged as ruler of the Mediterranean. For more than seventy year...