Packed with cleverly designed graphics, charts and diagrams, Ancient Rome: Infographics uses data visualization to tell the epic tale of the city of Rome and its empire. Every aspect of the Roman world is explored, from the birth of the Republic to the imperial dynasties, from the political and legal system to Rome\'s military might. Drawing on international sources, this complex history is made clear

IT BEGINS IN FIRE AND DEATH In 1902 a volcanic eruption devastates the island of Martinique. Many die - including a scientist on the verge of an astonishing breakthrough. A DARK LEGACY IS REDISCOVERED One hundred years later one of the smartest men on the planet completes the scientist\'s work. Now in possession of a device that means no secret is safe, he sets out to bring the world to its knees.

Her name is Orfamay Quest and she\'s come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or least ways that\'s what she tells PI Philip Marlowe, offering him a measly twenty bucks for the privilege. But Marlowe\'s feeling charitable – though it\'s not long before he wishes he wasn\'t so sweet. You see, Orrin\'s trail leads Marlowe to luscious movie starlets, uppity gangsters,

Alice Munro\'s territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. In these dazzling stories she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence, the joys and pains of love and the despair and guilt of those caught in a narrow existence. And in sensitively exploring the lives of ordinary men and women, she makes us aware of the universal nature of their fears, sorrows and aspiration

This is the only guidebook to comprehensively cover both Botswana and Namibia. The expert author has lived with Bushman and given a Harvard University dissertation on these tribal communities. It contains special sections to get to know the people of Botswana and Namibia, and explore the striking national parks and reserves. It also features a 16-page colour wildlife section; and an extensive safari

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The Man Without Fear\'s life is about to change forever. Bullseye is coming. The countdown begins when Daredevil, Black Widow and Nick Fury unite to battle a renewed Hydra. In the aftermath, Black Widow leaves and a new love interest, Heather Glenn, enters, but Matt Murdock\'s growing obsession with his life as Daredevil puts their budding relationship at risk. The drama continues with Death-Stalker,

This sticker workbook contains a variety of activities, including questions to answer, pictures to draw and colour, puzzles to solve, and games that can be played again and again.

One day, Haruhi, a scholarship student at exclusive Ouran High School, breaks an $80,000 vase that belongs to the \'Host Club\', a mysterious campus group consisting of six super-rich (and gorgeous) guys. To pay back the damages, she is forced to work for the club, and it\'s there that she discovers just how wealthy the boys are and how different they are from everybody else.

In haunting ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures Suite Francaise and some of the themes of Nemirovsky\'s great unfinished sequence of novels. \"All Our Worldly Goods\", though, is complete, and exquisitely so - a perfect novel in its own right. First published in France in 1947, after the author\'s death, it is a gripping story of family life and starcrossed lovers, of money and greed,

Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, Burmese Days describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when \'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally only a \"subject\" people, an inferior people with black faces\'. Against the prevailing orthodoxy, Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Dr Veraswami, a black enthusiast for Empire. The

Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists in parallel to our own, each owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light...Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku

From quiet, elegiac, contemporary tales to far-future, deep-space sagas, the stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Karen Joy Fowler for The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 demonstrate the vast spectrum of what science fiction and fantasy aims to illuminate, displaying the full gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and our fears--of not just

Three of Charles Dickens\' Christmas stories: \'A Christmas Carol\', \'The Holly Tree\' and \'The Haunted House\'.

Voil un coin de campagne o l\'on a de drôles de façons... La foire aux vieux, par exemple. Curieuse institution ! On sait bien aussi que tous les enfants peuvent voler comme des oiseaux ds qu\'ils étendent leurs bras - mais est-ce une raison suffisante pour les enfermer derrire des murs de plus en plus hauts, de plus en plus clos ? Le psychiatre Jacquemort se le demande puis ne se le demande plus,

Well-behaved women don\'t make history: difficult women do. Helen Lewis argues that feminism\'s success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights. Too many of these pioneers have been whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search for feel-good, inspirational heroines. It\'s time to reclaim the history of feminism as a history

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Joseph Roths »Hiob« erschien 1930, wenige Jahre, bevor die Zerstörung der darin dargestellten Welt begann. Der Roman erzählt von den Heimsuchungen Mendel Singers, der in Ostgalizien ein bescheidenes Dasein als Dorfschullehrer fristet, bis ihn Schicksalsschlag auf Schicksalsschlag trifft. Die ergreifende Geschichte eines einfachen Juden und seiner Familie, und zugleich die Geschichte eines Volkes und

At these luxury accommodations, no detail is left to chance. Decor, furnishings and artworks are of the finest caliber. Covering options worldwide, this guide profiles unique hotels that spoil guests with a wide range of top-notch amenities. Wherever you may choose to lay your pampered head, this guide details the ultimate lodgings with impeccable standards. This second volume is updated to reflect

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