Hadrian reigned for twenty-one years in the Roman Empire's Golden Age & is perhaps best known today for his great wall in the north of Engl&. This book presents a portrait of Hadrian, his family, his deeds, his loves, his dark side & his legacy. ...

Who says supervillians can't retire? EMPEROR MOLLUSK has done it all. Sometimes twice. He's destroyed Saturn (well fine, not all of it---but 2/3rds!), created giant monsters, & until recently he was the Emperor of Earth. Yes, he still has the titles & the people are always looking to him for salvation when the aliens attack, but really, he keeps telling everyone he's retired. He's got better things to do... Like feed his pet ultrapede, Woola. Or buy groceries. But now, he's been marked by a legendary death cult for reasons unknown. &, honestly, feeding an ultrapede wasn't really utilizing his enormous intellect to its fullest potential. Emperor Mollusk is a supervillain, but when danger threatens, he will have to use all of his wiles, his feared intellect & superior technology to save Earth from the invasion of...THE SINISTER BRAIN! ...

Luca Turin was born with a powerful nose, able to distinguish the components of any scent, from the most refined perfumes to the air on the subways. When he began to write reviews of fragrances, everything changed. The secret world of scent creation opened up, & Turin discovered something astonishing: No one understands how our noses work. ...

After murdering his brother, & taking the position of Emperor for himself, Caracalla orders a brutal purge of the supporters

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Emperor Severus is on his deathbed. His sons Geta & Caracalla, feuding in Britannia, are readying for a devastating power struggle.

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In 27 BC Octavian was proclaimed emperor by the Roman Senate & given the title ' Augustus'. He ruled over an Empire that embraced the territories of 25 some modern countries & had more than 50 million subjects. Its provinces stretched from Hadrian's Wall in the North to Egypt in the South, & from Portugal in the West to Syria in the East. Emperors of Rome charts the 500 years that followed the triumph of Augustus, during which Rome reached heights of economic prosperity & cultural achievement, but also plumbed depths of anarchy, cruelty & chaos. It profiles the greatest & most notorious of the emperors
- the autocratic Augustus, the feeble Claudius, the vicious Nero, the beneficent Marcus Aurelius, the maniac Commodus. But these colourful accounts of the Emperors are just part of a wider narrative charting the vicissitudes & ultimate decline of the Roman polity. All of the key events of Roman imperial history are described here, from the Golden Age of Augustus to the destruction of Pompeii, from the reorganization of the Empire under Diocletian in 284 to the division of the Empire into Eastern & Western halves in 395, & from Constantine's Edict of Milan of 313 to the sack of Rome by the Visigoths in 410.
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Recreates the excitement, brutality & adventure of the British Empire. This book is a major reinterpretation of the British Empire as one of the world's modernising forces. It shows how the British Empire in the 19th Century spearheaded real globalisation with steampower, telegraphs, guns, engineers, missionaries & millions of settlers. ...

Empire' marks the return of Kasabian, the indie-electronica fusionists who became the heroes of 2004 with their self-titled debut album. Empire is their second album & sees them combining their vocal style & swagger with some stomping glam-rock sounds. This book features all the songs on the album arranged for voice with guitar tabulature. ...

Victor Rosa has made a fortune dealing in a heroin cocktail he concocted & nicknamed ' Empire'. When he meets an investment banker, who encourages Victor to do real business, he finds that going straight isn't as easy as he thought. After investing in on ...

Although the great historic imperial systems have collapsed during the past, their legacies shape almost every aspect of life on a global scale. What has replaced the old territorial empires in world politics? Do the United States & its allies
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