Bloomsbury Assyria. The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire Frahm Eckart

Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, Decline & fall is one of the greatest narratives in European Literature. David Womersley's masterly selection and bridging commentary enables the readerto acquire a general sense of the progress and argument of the whole work and displays the full variety of Gibbon's achievement

The definitive history of the Bavarian Order of the Illuminati and their founder, Adam Weishaupt • The Bavarian Order of the Illuminati is the most celebrated secret society in the world. Though officially lasting only 11 years, the powerful spell and shadow cast by the Illuminati still looms in the present day, where its influence can be seen in current conspiracy beliefs and actions by powerful individuals working in the shadows. The original Order of the Illuminati was founded by Bavarian professor Adam Weishaupt in 1776. Although the order was banned and brought down by the Bavarian Elector in 1787--when he became aware of the extent to which it had infiltrated the courts, schools, and his own administration--its legend and deep influence lives on to this day

From the bestselling co-author of Soccernomics comes the story of how FC Barcelona became the most successful football club in the world - and how that envied position now hangs in the balance • Bar a is not just the world's most popular sports club, it is simply one of the most influential organisations on the planet. With almost 250 million followers on social media and 4 million visitors to its Camp Nou stadium each year, there's little wonder its motto is 'More than a club'. But it was not always so. In the past three decades, Barcelona has transformed from regional team to global powerhouse, becoming a model of sporting excellence and a consistent winner of silverware • Simon Kuper unravels exactly how these transformations took place. He outlines the organisational structure behind the club's business decisions, and details the work of its coaches, medics, data analysts and nutritionists who have revolutionised the sporting world

Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people finally came to welcome the rule of an autocrat who could give them peace. 'Augustus,' their new master called himself: 'The Divinely Favoured One' • The lurid glamour of the dynasty founded by Augustus has never faded. No other family can compare for sheer unsettling fascination with its gallery of leading characters. Tiberius, the great general who ended up a bitter recluse, notorious for his perversions; Caligula, the master of cruelty and humiliation who rode his chariot across the sea; Agrippina, the mother of Nero, manoeuvring to bring to power the son who would end up having her murdered; Nero himself, racing in the Olympics, marrying a eunuch, and building a pleasure palace over the fire-gutted centre of his capital

66 миллионов лет назад динозавры были стерты с лица земли. Сегодня доктор Стив Брусатте, один из ведущих ученых нового поколения охотников на динозавров, вооруженный передовыми технологиями, собирает воедино полную историю о том, как динозавры правили землей в течение 150 миллионов лет • Мир динозавров завораживал в книгах и на экране на протяжении десятилетий - от ранних классиков научной фантастики, таких как "Затерянный мир", до Годзиллы, терроризирующего улицы Токио, и монстров из Парка Юрского периода. Но что, если мы все поняли неправильно? В книге "Взлет и падение динозавров" ведущий эксперт по динозаврам Брусатте рассказывает реальную историю о том, как динозавры стали доминировать на планете. Используя ископаемые останки, собранные с использованием самых современных технологий, Брусатте проследит за этими великолепными существами от их зарождения в раннем триасовом периоде, через юрский период до их последних дней в меловом периоде и за наследием

Думаете, вы все знаете о динозаврах? • Подумайте еще раз! • Откройте для себя умопомрачительную правду, стоящую за реальной доисторической историей, рассказанной вам лучшим в мире профессором динозавров. Книга "Эпоха динозавров. Расцвет и падение самых замечательных животных в мире" - обязательное приобретение для любого юного любителя динозавров! • Вы, вероятно, видели "Парк Юрского периода", слышали о Годзилле и знаете о Рексе из "Истории игрушек". Динозавры есть везде: по телевизору, в книгах, вы можете поискать их в Интернете и увидеть их кости в музеях. И вы можете думать, что знаете все, что только можно знать о динозаврах; но что, если вы ошибаетесь? • Присоединяйтесь к современному охотнику на динозавров доктору Стиву Брусатте, который отправит вас в блестящее доисторическое путешествие - вооруженный передовыми технологиями, он собирает воедино полную историю о том, как динозавры правили землей в течение 150 миллионов лет

Эпоха рок-звезд, как и эпоха ковбоев, давно прошла. Однако их образы до сих пор живы в нашем воображении • Чем они нас цепляли? Своей развязностью. Бесшабашностью. Сексуальным обаянием. Непоколебимой верой в себя. Особым поведением. Красивыми прическами. Интересными ботинками. Талантом, которому мы завидовали • Что мы от них ожидали? Что они будут выдающимися и в то же время совсем такими же, как и мы сами. Что они будут жить так, как поют в своих песнях. Что навсегда останутся молодыми. Неудивительно, что многие из них сбились с пути • В своей книге Uncommon People Дэвид Хэпуорт анализирует поворотные моменты в жизни 40 рок-звезд, популярных в период с 1955 по 1995, развенчивая мифы и создавая новые • Все эти люди начинали свой путь абсолютно ни с чем и буквально создали себя, но также изменили и наши жизни и фантазии

This is a story studded with extraordinary achievements and historic moments, from the building of the pyramids and the conquest of Nubia, through Akhenaten's religious revolution, the power and beauty of Nefertiti, the glory of Tutankhamun's burial chamber, and the ruthlessness of Ramesses, to Alexander the Great's invasion, and Cleopatra's fatal entanglement with Rome • As the world's first nation-state, the history of Ancient Egypt is above all the story of the attempt to unite a disparate realm and defend it against hostile forces from within and without. Combining grand narrative sweep with detailed knowledge of hieroglyphs and the iconography of power, Toby Wilkinson reveals Ancient Egypt in all its complexity

This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points that shaped Roman history. Welcome to Rome as you've never seen it before - awesome and splendid, gritty and squalid • From the conquest of the Mediterranean beginning in the third century BC to the destruction of the Roman Empire at the hands of barbarian invaders some seven centuries later, we discover the most critical episodes in Roman history: the spectacular collapse of the 'free' republic, the birth of the age of the 'Caesars', the violent suppression of the strongest rebellion against Roman power, and the bloody civil war that launched Christianity as a world religion

Andrew Gimson, whose previous book Boris is the essential read on Johnson's earlier career, returns with a penetrating and entertaining new account of Boris Johnson's turbulent time as prime minister, from the highs of a landslide election victory to the lows of his car-crash resignation • In Boris Johnson: The Rise and Fall of a Troublemaker at Number 10, Gimson sets out to discover how a man dismissed as a liar, charlatan and tasteless joke was able, despite being written off more frequently than any other British politician of the twenty-first century, to become prime minister. During his ascent, Johnson benefited from being regarded as a clown, for this meant his opponents failed to take him seriously, while his supporters delighted in his ability to shock and enrage the Establishment

The great epic of the Ancient World comes to life • The story of Carthage is one of the great epics of the Ancient World. And yet, thanks to the ruthlessness and brutality of the Roman destruction of the city under Scipio in 146 BC, we know relatively little about the city: its foundation, its expansion, its way of life, its literature and gods. Carthage has to all intents and purposes been driven to the margins of history. A tale of battles and empire-building, of bitter rivalry and destruction - and a great civilisation whose role in shaping European culture and history has, until now, been largely ignored