A sweeping history of the Age of Reason, which shows how, although it was a time of progress in many areas, it was also an era of brutality and intolerance, by the author of The Borgias and The Florentines.

A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by 'the world's most famous classicist' (Guardian)

Vor über 66 Millionen Jahren von der Erde verschwunden, üben Dinosaurier seit ihrer Wiederentdeckung im 19. Jahrhundert eine ungeheure Faszination auf den Menschen aus. Kein Wunder, dass man früh den Wunsch verspürte, nicht nur Fossilien und Skelette betrachten zu können. Im Jahr 1830 malte ein englischer Wissenschaftler namens Henry De la Beche das erste Stück Paläokunst: eine überwältigende, herrlich makabre Darstellung prähistorischer Reptilien, die sich unter Wasser bekämpfen. ...

Japan: A Guide to Traditions, Customs and Etiquette is the first book to explain in detail why the Japanese think and behave as they do and it has now been completely revised and expanded.

Contantinople, the capital, has a population (probably) of a million and a quarter of in-habitants, or about that of Philadelphia. Among the other important towns in European Turkey are Saloniki, an important shipping centre, with 105,000 inhabitants; Adrianople, which has had a large domestic traffic since the completion of the railway to Northern Europe.

IT is important for purposes of reference, if not directly interesting, to relate so much of Ottoman history as may be necessary for the ...

In this second illustrated and including "added map" book (Volume-II)

contains belove ancient cities;

I. MESSENE

II. MYCENÆ

III. MILETUS

IV. NAUPLIA

V. NEMEA

VI. NINEVEH

VII. NUMANTIA

VIII. OLYMPIA

IX. PUTEOLI

X. PALMYRA (TADMOR)

XI. PATRÆ

XII. PELLA

XIII. PERGAMUS

XIV. PERSEPOLIS

XV. PETRA (WADY MOUSA)

XVI. PHIGALIA

XVII. PLATÆA

XVIII. PÆSTUM

XIX. POMPEII

XX. RAMA

XXI. ROME

XXII. SAGUNTUM

XXIII. SAIS

XXIV. SAMARIA

XXV. SAPPHURA

XXVI. SARDIS

XXVII. SELEUCIA

XXVIII. SELINUS, OR SELINUNTUM

...

Sacred sites and places of power, energy lines or ley lines; these subjects are no longer unknown to many people. They are present as acupuncture points in the landscape and our ancestors used those thousands of years for their rituals, initiations and celebrations.In the past they were marked by ancient sacred stones, trees and springs, later especially by churches and chapels. Accurately placed as an expression of popular devotion, as beacons of hope and fear.Mysterious and unknown Belgium ...

Andris Kursietis has been a researcher of military history for over forty years, concentrating on Germany and her Axis allies, using resources that span the globe. This book, "The Royal Hungarian Armed Forces 1919-1945" presents the order of battle of the Hungarian forces, and the military careers of over 600 Hungarian generals. He has also authored/edited two other books on the subject of the Hungarian army: "The Hungarian Army and its Military Leadership in World War II" (published in 1996...