To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a 'classical Europe', using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures.As this consistently fresh and surprising new book makes clear, however, this was no less true for the inhabitants of those classical civilizations themselves, whose myths, history, and buildings were an elaborate engage...

This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life at Rome. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eighth century BC and the cosmopolitan, multicultural society of the first centuries of the Christian era. The narrative account is structured around a series of broad themes: how to interpret the Romans' own theories of their religious system and its origins; the relationship of religion and the changing politics ...

Volume two reveals the extraordinary diversity of ancient Roman religion. A comprehensive sourcebook, it presents a wide range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world - from the foundations of the city in the eighth century BC to the Christian capital more than a thousand years later. Each document is given a full introduction, explanatory notes and bibliography, and acts as a starting point for further discussion. Through paintings, sculptures, coins and inscriptions, ...

A complete and truly unique music biography of Robert Smith and company, The Cure, chronicling their 40+ year history with hundreds of entries in an A-to-Z encyclopedia fashion.Definitive and deeply researched by acclaimed music journalist Simon Price, Curepedia will surprise and inform fans of 80s music everywhere as they await The Cure's highly anticipated next album release.The Cure remain, 40 plus years into their career, one of the biggest rock bands in the wo...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In an age where technology permeates every aspect of our lives, understanding its profound impact on our minds and finances is crucial. Big Tech Exposed: How Algorithms Control Your Mind & Money unravels the intricate web of digital manipulation techniques that big tech companies employ to capture our attention, influence our behaviors, and commodify our personal data. From the grips of social media addiction to the insidious presence o...

A complete and truly unique biography of Robert Smith and company, The Cure, chronicling their 40+ year history with hundreds of entries in A to Z fashion.Definitive and deeply researched, Curepedia will surprise and inform fans everywhere as they await The Cure's highly anticipated next album release.The Cure remain, 40 plus years into their career, one of...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In an age where technology permeates every aspect of our lives, understanding its profound impact on our minds and finances is crucial. Big Tech Exposed: How Algorithms Control Your Mind & Money unravels the intricate web of digital manipulation techniques that big tech companies employ to capture our attention, influence our behaviors, and commodify our personal data. From the grips of social media addiction to the insidious presence o...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In an age where technology permeates every aspect of our lives, understanding its profound impact on our minds and finances is crucial. Big Tech Exposed: How Algorithms Control Your Mind & Money unravels the intricate web of digital manipulation techniques that big tech companies employ to capture our attention, influence our behaviors, and commodify our personal data. From the grips of social media addiction to the insidious presence o...

**New York Times BestsellerA New York Times Notable BookNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Foreign Affairs, and Kirkus ReviewsFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction)Shortlisted for the Cundill Prize in Historical LiteratureFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History)A San Francisco Chronicle Hol...

'A masterly account of this first wicked century of the Roman Empire' Sunday Times'Holland does not just tell the story of the reign of the Julio-Claudian family. He knits the history of ancient Rome into his narrative - its founding myths, the fall of the republic, the religious superstitions - with a skill so dextrous you don't notice the stitching. Dynasty is both a formidable effort to compile what we can know about the ancient world and a sensational story' ...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the national bestselling author of Stalin: An "epic history on the grandest scale” (Financial Times) about the most successful dynasty of modern times, a family who created the world’s greatest empire—and then lost it all."An essential addition to the library of anyone interested in Russian history.” —The New York Times Book Review**The Romanovs ruled a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries. H...

‘As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings’s achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject’ Sunday Times‘Authoritative, exciting and notably well written’ Daily Telegraph‘A serious work of rigourous and comprehensive history … royally entertaining and readable’ Mail on SundayIn ‘The Secret War’, Max Hastings examines the espionage and intelligence machines of all sides in World War II, and the impact of s...