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Rick Steves' Rome
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Rick Steves
Home to magnificent art, popes and emperors, astounding architecture, and plentiful fountains, Rome truly is the Eternal City, and travellers in the know are eternally grateful for all the useful information packed into Rick Steves' Rome 2005. Join Rick Steves, authority on travel to Europe, as he tells travellers what the real deal is, so there's ...
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Beach Music
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Pat Conroy
By the author of "Prince of Tides". This book tells of a family haunted by dark memories that reach back into the terrors of the Holocaust. Jack McCall is taken on a journey that encompasses the past and present in both Europe and the American South.
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How Rome Fell: Death of a Superpower
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Adrian Goldsworthy
By the end of the fifth century, Roman rule had vanished in western Europe and much of northern Africa. Applying the scholarship, perspective, and narrative skill that defined his monumental "Caesar," Goldworthy explores how Rome fell.
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
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Tom Holland
A masterful popular history of perhaps the greatest civilization ever and theevents and people that caused its downfall--highly readable, suspense-filled, and well-researched.
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Lavinia
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Ursula K Le Guin
In "The Aeneid," Vergil's hero fights to claim the king's daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a this novel set in the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills.
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Rome
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DK Publishing (Creator)
Highly pictorial, these Eyewitness Travel Guides are now offered in a tenth anniversary edition, with all the information savvy travelers need to know.
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Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
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Anthony Doerr
From the award-winning author of "The Shell Collector" and "About Grace" comes an evocative memoir of the timeless beauty of Rome, and the day-to-day wonderment of living, writing, and raising twin boys in a foreign city.
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Asterix and the Class ACT
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Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo
For the millions of Asterix fans old and young alike the wait is over. ASTERIX AND THE CLASS ACT sees our favourite hero on fine form in this superb collection of short stories. ASTERIX AND THE CLASS ACT includes 4 short stories by Goscinny and Uderzo (unpublished before in the UK); two of which are brand-new short stories created by Albert Uderzo ...
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The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization
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Bryan Ward-Perkins
Why did Rome fall? Vicious barbarian invasions during the fifth century resulted in the cataclysmic end of the world's most powerful civilization, and a 'dark age' for its conquered peoples. Or did it? The dominant view of this period today is that the 'fall of Rome' was a largely peaceful transition to Germanic rule, and the start of a positive ...
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The war with Hannibal. Books xxi-xxx of 'The history of Rome from its foundation
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Livy
In The War with Hannibal, Livy (59 BC AD 17) chronicles the events of the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, until the Battle of Zama in 202 BC. He vividly recreates the immense armies of Hannibal, complete with elephants, crossing the Alps; the panic as they approached the gates of Rome; and the decimation of the Roman army at the Battle ...
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Two for the Lions
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Lindsey Davis
Series hero Marcus Didius Falco has recently been appointed as tax auditor for the Census. His first case involves the murders of a show lion and a gladiator. But in the meantime, a search for his treasure-seeking brother-in-law Justinus and a valuable herb takes him away from the murder scene in Rome and to the hills along the African coast. ...
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Last ACT in Palmyra
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Lindsey Davis
Marcus Didius Falco, part-time private eye has been retained to check out an eastern province, Nabatea, that the Emperor is considering annexing. While traversing the terrain, Falco and his lover Helena stumble upon an acting troupe whose playwright, Chremes, whose dead body was discovered stuffed in a cistern by a murderer. The troupe is headed ...
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Daily Life in Ancient Rome - The People and the City at the Height of the Empire
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Jerome Carcopino
Provides insight into Roman life of the second century A.D.
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The Pope's Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice Della Rovere
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Ms. Caroline P Murphy
The illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, Felice della Rovere became one of the most powerful and accomplished women of the Italian Renaissance. Now, Caroline Murphy vividly captures the untold story of a rare woman who moved with confidence through a world of popes and princes. Using a wide variety of sources, including Felice's personal ...
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Evening Star
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Catherine Coulter
Formerly titled "Sweet Surrender", this is the first book in what has become Coulter's "Star Quartet". In hopes of saving Giana Van Cleve from a bad marriage, her mother sends her to Rome, where she first meets Alex Saxton. Alex wins a bid for her at the Roman Flower Auction, but they don't meet again until four years later, when Alex decides he ...
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The Sacred Cut
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David Hewson
For the first time in decades The Eternal City is paralysed by a blizzard. And a gruesome discovery is made in the Pantheon - one of Rome's most ancient and revered architectural treasures. Covered by softly falling snow is the body of a young woman - her back horribly mutilated...But before Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni of the Questura can begin a ...
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Top 10 Rome
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Reid Bramblett, Jeffrey Kennedy
FULL SCREEN/ENG SUB/SPAN SUB/ENG DOLBY SURR/FRE DOLBY
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Rome, the Biography of a City
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Christopher Hibbert
This beautifully written, informative study is a portrait, a history and a superb guide book, capturing fully the seductive beauty and the many layered past of the Eternal City. It covers 3,000 years of history from the city's quasi-mythical origins, through the Etruscan kings, the opulent glory of classical Rome, the decadence and decay of the ...
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The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery, and Meaning in an Ordinary Church
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Margaret Visser
This work is an examination of the way in which a building can embody and create meaning. Visser begins her study with the eighth century Church of St Agnes in Rome, built over the grave of a 13 year-old girl who was murdered. From this starting point, Visser takes us into the realms of history, mythology, culture, tradition, ritual and belief, ...
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The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
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Professor Simon Hornblower
How did the ancient Greeks and Romans differ in their attitude towards alcoholism? What role did dance play in religious rituals? What did the ancient Greeks eat? Why was emperor Nero popular with the ordinary people but less so with the upper classes? How did ancient authors reason why Oedipus ('with swollen foot') was so called? For over 2,000 ...
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The Innocent
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Magdalen Nabb
The unputdownable new Marshal Guarnaccia novel, from the acclaimed author of Some Bitter Taste and Property of Blood. It is spring in Florence and everyone around Marshal Guarnaccia seems to be in love, even his own son. The case he is working on, the murder of a young woman, seems to present no particular problems. No distressed parents, no ...
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Holy Terror
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Richard Marcinko, James DeFelice
In the latest installment of his bestselling series, Marcinko mixes his wit and wisdom with nonstop action in a romp across Europe and Asia when he finds himself tracking terrorists who want to turn the world's largest Catholic church into the world's biggest Roman candle.
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One of Those Malibu Nights
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Elizabeth Adler
The "New York Times"-bestselling author of beach reading romantic suspense delivers a novel of murder, mystery, and movie stars.
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Barcelona & Catalonia
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Roger Williams (Contributions by)
Now celebrating their tenth anniversary, these Eyewitness Travel Guides provide information on all the sights, from festivals to monasteries, beaches to cafe walks, castles to wineries. Maps.
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Pompeii: The Day a City Died
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Robert Etienne
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