An innovative and intriguing look at the foundations of Western civilization from two leading historians; the first volume in the Penguin History of EuropeThe influence of ancient Greece and Rome can be seen in every aspect of our lives. From calendars to democracy to the very languages we speak, Western civilization owes a debt to these classical societies. Yet the Greeks and Romans did not emerge fully formed; their culture grew from an active engagement with a d...

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...

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 audio 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...

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...

It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company's flagship, was loaded with a king's ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java. The Batavia was the pride of the Company's fleet, a tangible symbol of the world's richest and most powerful commercial monopoly. She set sail with great fanfare, but the Batavia and her gold would never reach Java, for the Company had also sent along a new employee, Jeronimus Corneliszoon, a...

The European catastrophe, the long continuous period from 1914 to 1949, was unprecedented in human history—an extraordinarily dramatic, often traumatic, and endlessly fascinating period of upheaval and transformation. This new volume in the Penguin History of Europe series offers comprehensive coverage of this tumultuous era. Beginning with the outbreak of World War I through the rise of Hitler and the aftermath of the Second World War, award-winning British historian Ian Kershaw combines ...

The New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea charts Venice’s astounding five-hundred-year voyage to the pinnacle of power in an epic story that stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. City of Fortune traces the full arc of the Venetian imperial saga, from the ill-fated Fourth Crusade, which culminates in the sacking of Constantinople in 1204, to the Ottoman-Venetian War of 1499–1503, which sees the Ottoman Turks supplant the Venetians as the preemine...