The ancient world that Alexander the Great transformed in his lifetime was transformed once more by his death.

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THE AGE OF EXTREMES is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawms personal vision of the twentieth century. Remarkable in its scope, & breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, this immensely rewarding book reviews the uniquely destructive & creative nature of the troubled twentieth century & makes challenging predicitions for the future. ...

Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy of New York society in the 1870s. The charming Newland Archer is content to live within its constraints until he meets Ellen Olenska, whose arrival threatens his impending marriage as well as his comfortable future. ...

Midlife is not a crisis; it is a time of rebirth. It is not a time to accept your death. It is time to accept your life & to finally, truly live it, as only you & you alone know deep in your heart it was meant to be lived. This book is a passionate call to embrace the power & inspiration that opens up to us in the middle of our lives. ...

Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, has so far managed to contain sex & personal freedom in separate compartments. But now he is in trouble, trying to raise 4, 000 francs to procure a safe abortion for his mistress, Marcelle. Beyond all this, filtering an uneasy light on his predicament, rises the threat of the coming of the Second World War. ...

Analyses the impact of television on daily life, focusing on both the concepts & theories of the medium. This book also analyzes the way in which televised entertainment has radically altered human perceptions of place & time, multiplied opportunities for indirect social experience, & fueled the collective imagination. ...

Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Book Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge & Shelley, explores the scientific ferment that swept across Britain at the end of the 18th century in his ground-breaking new biography ' The Age of Wonder'. ...

Offers 101 practical ideas & projects for stress-free, low-maintenance senior gardening, shown step by step in more than 500 photographs. This title considers the practical decisions that are required in any garden, strategies to cater for individual disabilities, & sensory features to stimulate sight, sound, smell, touch & taste. ...

Moscow, 1965. Former Secret Service agent Leo Demidov is forbidden to travel with his wife & daughters to New York as part of a ' Peace Tour', meant to foster better relations between the two Cold War enemies. Leo's natural paranoia reaches its peak: Why have his family been selected? What is being planned? When Leo's worst fears are realised & a tragic murder destroys everything he loves, he demands only one thing: that he is allowed to investigate & find the killer who has struck at the heart of his family. Crippled by grief, his request denied, Leo sees no other option than to take matters into his own hands, thousands of miles from the crime scene. In a surprising, thrilling story that spans decades & continents
- from the backstreets of 1960s New York to the mountains of Afghanistan in the 1980s
- Leo will stop at nothing as he hunts the one person who knows the truth: Agent 6.

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Read by Gareth Armstrong. Leo Demidov's last case forces him to question what we live for when we've lost the people we love... Moscow, 1950. Former Secret Service Agent Leo Demidov is forbidden to travel with his wife & daughters to New York as part of a ' Peace Tour', meant to foster better relations between the two Cold War enemies. Leo's natural paranoia reaches its peak: Why has his family been selected? What is being planned? When Leo's worst fears are realised & a tragic murder destroys everything he loves, he demands only one thing: that he is allowed to investigate & find the killer who has struck at the heart of his family. Crippled by grief, his request denied, Leo sees no other option that to take matters into his own hands, thousands of miles from the crime scene. In a surprising, thriller story that spans decades & continents
- from the backstreets of 1960s New York to the mountains of Afghanistan in the 1980s
- Leo will stop at nothing as he hunts the one person who knows the truth: Agent 6.

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