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History of the Decline and Fall - Edward Gibbon
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, all six volumes, with active table of contents, improved 2/1/2011 -
Girl Next Door - Alyssa Brugman
Product DescriptionSee, what happened was, our lives were going really well. My mum got a promotion, I enrolled in an A-list school, and then my Dad had this great idea to start an... -
Ghost on the Throne - James S. Romm
Alexander the Great, perhaps the most commanding leader in history, united his empire and his army by the titanic force of his will. His death at the age of thirty-two spelled the ... -
Genghis_ Empire of Silver - Conn Iggulden
EDITORIAL REVIEW: *The Great Khan is dead. His vast empire hangs in the balance, an empire he forged with raw courage, guile, tactical brilliance, unswerving dedication to his peop... -
Genghis_ Birth of an Empire - Conn Iggulden
SUMMARY: He was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. Temujin’s young life was shaped by a series of brutal acts: the bet... -
Foreign Foes - Dave Galanter; Greg Brodeur
SUMMARY:The Hidran race and the Klingon Empire have been at each other's throats for seventy years, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard has been asked to do the near-impossible: tak... -
Fires of Prophecy_ Book Two of - Brian Pratt
Trapped within the City of Light when it fell to the Empire, James young friend and companion Miko had been captured by the Empires forces and is now being taken as a slave into th... -
Empires of the Word - Nicholas Ostler
From Publishers WeeklyOstler's ambitious and accessible book is not a technical linguistic study—i.e., it's not concerned with language structure—but about the "growth, development... -
Empire_ What Ruling the World D - Jeremy Paxman
ReviewHe writes with wit and penetration, and every page of Empire can be read with relaxed pleasure -- Spectator Paxman is witty, incisive, acerbic and opinionated ... In short, h... -
Empire_ The Novel of Imperial R - Steven Saylor
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **May Steven Saylor’s Roman empire never fall. A modern master of historical fiction, Saylor convincingly transports us into the ancient world...enthralling!” *...