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 ...

At the height of the Galactic Civil War the Imperial-class Star Destroyer was the commanding cornerstone of the Imperial Navy Measuring 1600 meters in length a single Imperial-class Star Destroyer would boast a crew of more than 37000 & carried a standard complement of four Tie Fighter squadrons one Tie interceptor squadron & one squadron of Tie Bombers It could also carry an entire legion of stormtroopers along with AT-ATs AT-STs & other landing crafts Most importantly each Imperial-class Star Destroyer sported armament powerful enough to bring wayward systems to heel under Imperial control The Imperial-class Star Destroyer Expansion pack brings this behemoth battleship to your games of Armada with one pre-painted miniature two ship cards three command dials eighteen upgrades & all requisite tokens Moreover even as it affords you the opportunities to snare your foes with a tractor beam & fly your fleet to battle under the command of Darth Vader the Imperial-Class Star Destroyer Expansion Pack introduces a new type of defense token to your Imperial fleet the Contain Defense token Featured on both the Imperial I-Class & Imperial II-Class Star Destroyers the Contain token can cancel the standard critical effect of a shot that passes through your shields to your hull ...

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
- just
- 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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A psychic dictator an inhuman robot a mad scientist a murderous alien & a superpowered terrorist are about to try & take over the world & you&re going to be rooting for them every step of the way! Toyo Harada is the most dangerous human being on the planet Imbued with incredible powers of the mind he has spent his life guiding humanity from the shadows But today he is a wanted man His powers are public knowledge his allies have turned to enemies & he is hunted by every government on the planet Instead of surrendering Harada has one last unthinkable gambit to play to achieve more faster & with less he will build a coalition of the powerful the unscrupulous & the insane No longer content to demand a better future he will recruit a violent legion from the darkest corners of the Earth to fight for it The battle for utopia begins now! Start reading here as New York Times best-selling creator Joshua Dysart
- writer of the Harvey Award-nominated series Harbinger
- & superstar artist Doug Braithwaite (UNITY Justice) begin the daring new superhero saga of the year Collecting Imperium 1-4

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