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L'Antiquité, l'Orient, la Grèce et Rome (Deux Temps, Trois Mouvements Ser.)
By G Dez, Jean Mathiex, A Weiler. 1970
L'empire romain ((Que sais-je? ; 1536). #Vol. 5)
By Jean Marie Engel. 1973
Ramsès II ((Essais pour notre temps ; 8))
By Philipp Vandenberg, Jeanne-Marie Gaillard-Paquet. 1979
The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire: Volume 4
By Edward Gibbon. 2008
A major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes. Volume I was published in 1776; Volumes II…
and III were published in 1781; volumes IV, V, VI in 1788-89. The books cover the period of the Roman Empire after Marcus Aurelius, from just before 180 to 1453 and beyond, concluding in 1590. They take as their material the behaviour and decisions that led to the decay and eventual fall of the Roman Empire in the East and West, offering an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell. Volume 4 contains chapters 39 to 48. 2008.The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire: Volume 5
By Edward Gibbon. 2008
A major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes. Volume I was published in 1776; Volumes II…
and III were published in 1781; volumes IV, V, VI in 1788-89. The books cover the period of the Roman Empire after Marcus Aurelius, from just before 180 to 1453 and beyond, concluding in 1590. They take as their material the behaviour and decisions that led to the decay and eventual fall of the Roman Empire in the East and West, offering an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell. Volume 5 contains chapters 49 to 58. 2008.Witches and witch-hunts: a history of persecution
By Milton Meltzer. 1999
Examines witch-hunts around the world from medieval Europe to the present day. Reveals how innocent people become accused of imaginary…
crimes due to fear, ignorance, and mass hysteria. Includes the Salem witch trials, Shakespeare's witches, and twentieth-century examples of persecution. For junior high and older readers. c1999.The lost tomb
By Kent R Weeks. 1998
The personal account of an American Egyptologist's discovery and excavation of the largest tomb in the Valley of the Kings.…
Weeks describes his 1995 entry into a multi- chambered burial site that some consider the most important archaeological find of the twentieth century. He discusses the new revelations about the sons of Ramesses II, stressing that there is more to be explored. c1998.The history of early Rome
By Aubrey De Selincourt, Livy. 1960
The Romans and their world
By Peter D Arnott. 1970
The dawn of medicine
By Robert Silverberg. 1967
Secrets of Minos: Sir Arthur Evan's discoveries in Crete
By Alan Honour. 1961
Reclaiming the Dead Sea scrolls: the history of Judaism, the background of Christianity, the lost library of Qumran
By Lawrence H Schiffman. 1994
The author, a Judaic scholar and a member of the editorial team publishing the scrolls, views them as a history…
of Judaism during the Second Temple period, which ended in 70 C.E. He states that, rather than being documents of an early Christian sect, they are the writings of a Sadducee priest who left Jerusalem after the Maccabean revolt. 1994.Les villes romaines ((Que sais-je? ; 657))
By Pierre Grimal. 1954
La vie dans la Grèce classique ((Que sais-je? ; 231))
By Charles Picard. 1973
Le mystère du jeune pharaon
By Yves Bouchereau, G. Robert McConnell. 1976
La sorcellerie
By Christine Brouillet. 1991
The ancient story chronicles, step-by-step, how a nation of farmers only recently emerged from the Stone Age could construct one…
of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. To execute something as complex and massive as the Great Pyramid, Egypt needed architects, mathematicians, boat builders, stone masons, and metallurgists. It took twenty years to build the Great Pyramid. By the time its capstone was laid in 2560 B.C., the innovations born of the building quest had transformed agrarian Egypt into the world's most modern, most powerful nation.Toil & Trouble: A Memoir
By Augusten Burroughs. 2019
From the number one New York Times bestselling author comes another stunning memoir that is tender, touching...and just a little…
spooky. "Here's a partial list of things I don't believe in: God. The Devil. Heaven. Hell. Bigfoot. Ancient Aliens. Past lives. Vampires. Zombies. Homeopathy. Bigfoot. Canola oil, because there's no such thing as a canola. Note that "witches" and "witchcraft" are absent from this list. When really they should be right there at the top. The thing is, I wouldn't believe in them, and I would privately ridicule any idiot who did, except for one thing: I am a witch."-From Toil & Trouble For as long as Augusten Burroughs could remember, he knew things he shouldn't have known. He manifested things that shouldn't have come to pass. And he told exactly no one about this, save one person: his mother. His mother reassured him that it was all perfectly normal, that he was descended from a long line of witches, going back to the days of the early American colonies. And that this family tree was filled with witches. It was a bond that he and his mother shared - until the day she left him in the care of her psychiatrist to be raised in his family (but that's a whole other story). After that, Augusten was on his own. On his own to navigate the world of this tricky power; on his own to either use or misuse this gift. From the hilarious to the terrifying, Toil & Trouble is a chronicle of one man's journey to understand himself, to reconcile the powers he can wield with things with which he is helpless. There are very few things that are coincidences, as you will learn in Toil & Trouble. Ghosts are real, trees can want to kill you, beavers are the spawn of satan, houses are alive, and in the end, love is the most powerful magic of all.Les trois jours de Pompéi
By Alberto Angela. 2017
Auriez-vous survécu à l'éruption du Vésuve si vous aviez habité Pompéi en 79 après J.-C., et quelle existence auriez-vous menée…
jusqu'alors ? L'auteur mêle les lecteurs à une multitude de personnages pour reconstituer l'une des plus grandes tragédies des temps anciens, loin des idées reçues. Elle n'aurait pas eu lieu le 24 août mais le 24 octobre, et ce qu'on appelait Vesuvius n'était qu'un modeste relief dont on ignorait la vraie nature, mais qui libéra soudain une énergie équivalant à celle de 50 000 bombes d'Hiroshima. Malgré l'ampleur du cataclysme, l'auteur a retrouvé sept survivants. C'est notamment à leurs côtés que nous participons à un passionnant reportage sur la vie quotidienne au pied du volcan - tragique compte à rebours puis à un film catastrophe avec bien des rebondissements. Cette tension dramatique sur trois jours, il fallait un scientifique doublé d'un journaliste pour nous la restituer comme s'il nous embarquait sur un Titanic de l'AntiquitéThe Story of Greece and Rome
By Tony Spawforth. 2018
The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However, narratives…
about the "civilized" Greek and Roman empires resisting the barbarians at the gate are far from accurate. Tony Spawforth, an esteemed scholar, author, and media contributor, follows the thread of civilization through more than six millennia of history. His story reveals that Greek and Roman civilization, to varying degrees, was supremely and surprisingly receptive to external influences, particularly from the East. From the rise of the Mycenaean world of the sixteenth century B.C., Spawforth traces a path through the ancient Aegean to the zenith of the Hellenic state and the rise of the Roman empire, the coming of Christianity and the consequences of the first caliphate. Deeply informed, provocative, and entirely fresh, this is the first and only accessible work that tells the extraordinary story of the classical world in its entirety.