Attempting to recover the fifth component of a renegade robot, Hunter and his team travel through time to ancient China, where they are thwarted by Dr. Wayne Nystrom, creator of the robot, who is determined to retrieve it himself. Original.
Dramatic and mesmerising, The Emperor is one of the great works of reportage and a haunting epitaph on the last moments of a dying regime. this is Kapuscinski's rendition of Selassie's servants and closest associates accounts- humorous, ...
Drawing on vital new evidence, a top historian dramatically reinterprets the life and reign of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, ruler of the world's first transatlantic empire "Masterly.
Examines the reign and recent fall of Ethiopia's Haile Selassie through eyewitness accounts of former members of the Emperor's circle this is Kapuscinski's rendition of Selassie's servants and closest associates accounts- humorous, ...
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 about.
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and The Swimmers, this commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese American incarceration camps that is both a haunting evocation of a family in wartime and ...
Hadrian: The Restless Emperor provides a thorough and fascinating account of a man who, though hated when he died, left an indelible mark on the Roman Empire.
An alternative to her khlamus there is the empress' mandion, called the 'peacock' (taôn),305 or the 'little peacock' (taônion).306 Mandion is but one version of possibly the most mutable garment name in Byzantine literature.
The book also sheds new light on the aims of Frederick in Italy and the Near East, and concentrates as well on the last fifteen years of the Emperor's life, a period until now little understood.
This book presents the first study of emperor worship among the Romans themselves, both in Rome and in its heartland Italy.
"October 3, 2004, saw what appeared to many to be a very strange thing: Emperor-King Charles of Austria-Hungary, last Habsburg to rule in Central Europe and wartime foe of the United States, was raised to the altars of the Church as a ...