Empire uses the gigantic wedge-shaped Star destroyers as large carrier vessels for space battles Replica of the command bridge & engines Finely engraved surface Replica of the command bridge & engines Display Stand As featured in Star Wars Rogue One Create your own part of the Star Wars Universe Not suitable for children under the age of 3 years Potential choking hazard ...

The British & Russian royal families had just three full meetings before the Romanovs' tragic end in 1918 In The Imperial Tea Party Frances Welch draws back the curtain on those fraught encounters which had far-reaching consequences for 20th-century Europe & beyond 224 pages Welch Frances ...

Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands is the first work to approach the history of Kyiv from an interdisciplinary perspective & showcases Kyiv's rightful place as a city worthy of attention from historians urbanists & literary scholars 612 pages Bilenky Serhiy ...

THE ROMAN EMPIRE HAS NO MERCY IN ITS QUEST FOR POWER Aurelius Castus is one of the leading military commanders of an empire riven by civil war As the emperor Constantine grows ever more ruthless in his pursuit of power Castus fears that the world he knows is slipping away On the eve of the war's final campaign Castus discovers that the emperor's son Crispus aims to depose his father & restore the old ways of Rome Castus must choose between honour & survival & face a final confrontation with the most powerful man in the Roman world the ruler he has sworn loyally to serve the emperor Constantine himself ...

Maximize the impact of your TIE bombers & TIE defenders with the Imperial Veterans Expansion Pack for X-Wing™! Two new TIE miniatures come with alternate paint schemes – one gray TIE bomber with the Gamma Squadron&s signature white stripe & one TIE defender with the bold red paint scheme shared by Countess Ryad & the Glaive Squadron in addition eight veteran pilots & thirteen upgrades dramatically expand your ships’ capabilities & versatility while a new mission Disable the Relays highlights many of their new tricks & tactics! Please Note This is not a complete game experience A copy of the X-Wing Miniatures Game Core Set or The Force Awakens Core Set is required to play ...

Science fiction giant Keith Laumer delivers a fast-paced wry adventure of time travel & twisted realities in three classic interwoven tales! American Brion Bayard is abducted on the streets of Stockholm & thrust into what he believes is a truck He relieved to find his captors very apologetic & very British
- that is until they begin speaking about nations of which Bayard has never heard His captors were from Earth yes But not his Earth Turns out that there are countess parallel Earths each different where history has taken every possible turn
- & there are even more uninhabitable worlds destroyed by the misuse of cross-time travel Bayard discovers that the Earth he has now been thrust into the Earth of the Imperium is at war with a dangerously aggressive parallel Earth that has taken a wrong turn somewhere in time & whose ruler is a parallel version of Bayard himself! Now Bayard mission is clear to prevent his alternate self from destroying the new plane of reality that he now calls home the Imperium

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When Tiro the confidential secretary of a Roman senator opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history The stranger is a Sicilian a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor Verres The senator is Cicero a brilliant young lawyer & spellbinding orator determined to attain imperium
- supreme power in the state This is the starting-point of Robert Harris's most accomplished novel to date Compellingly written in Tiro's voice it takes us inside the violent treacherous world of Roman politics to describe how one man
- clever compassionate devious vulnerable
- fought to reach the top ' Sometimes it is foolish to articulate an ambition too early
- exposing it prematurely to the laughter & scepticism of the world can destroy it before it is even properly born But sometimes the opposite occurs & the very act of mentioning a thing makes it suddenly seem possible even plausible That was how it was that night When Cicero pronounced the word "consul" he planted it in the ground like a standard for us all to admire & for a moment we glimpsed the brilliant starry future through his eyes & saw that he was right that if he took down Verres he had a chance; that he might
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- with luck
- go all the way to the summit'






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Following his stunning RSC adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies Mike Poulton turns his pen to the ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Inspired by real events & the experiences of ex-FBI agent Michael German IMPERIUM follows Nate Foster an idealistic young FBI agent who is selected to go undercover amongst a group of white supremacists suspected of initiating a terrorist plot Immersed in a deeply unsettling hate-filled world Nate must fight to maintain control of his own beliefs & principles whilst working to identify the threat & keeping his true identity & motives a secret Starring Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter Now You See Me 2) as Foster in what is being hailed as his more powerful transformative role to date & featuring an outstanding supporting performance from Toni Collette (Miss You Already Krampus) as his wisecracking fellow FBI agent IMPERIUM also features a stellar supporting cast including Burn Gorman (TV s Torchwood The Dark Knight Rises) Tracy Letts (The Big Short TV s Homeland) Nestor Carbonell (The Dark Knight Rises TV s Bates Motel) & Sam Trammell (TV s True Blood The Fault In Our Stars) ...

Imperium Romanum is the long awaited sequel to the million-seller strategy game Glory of the Roman Empire Imperium Romanum is set in the time-honoured Roman Empire & players will marvel in the incredible attention to detail when working on a strategy to build a well organised prosperous & commanding settlement As governor of a Roman province the fortune very much lies in the players own hands Imperium Romanum is packed with a variety of new features to enhance the gameplay such as a complete overhaul of the graphic engine a mass of authentic historical buildings such as the world famous Circus Maximus or Gladiator schools History mode which presents a timeline where missions are based on real events & locations Interactive mission mode
- the player activates the goals when he wants Improved battle system where the player commands his armies New trade mechanics Introduction of currency in the game (denarii) New resource "settlers" which allows different ways of city growth Player construct able bridges fortifications wooden & stone walls towers & gates Siege machines Second barbarian type & redoing of the models & animations of the previous barbarians New units (ie Equites
- Roman horsemen) Crime as a factor in your city&s development New historically accurate buildings
- Circus Maximus Insula Theatre School Gladiator Schools Stables Columns Docks (sea trade) Natural disasters
- floods earthquakes volcanoes droughts New interface design Improved economy & overview dialogues Minimum Requirements Windows XP Vista with Direct X 916 G Hz Processor 512MB RAM2GB HDD Space 128MB Graphics Card DVD-ROM Drive



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