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A masterful history of Rome's first imperial dynasty by the award-winning author of Rubicon, Persian Fire and In the Shadow of the Sword.

Summer 1940, and Lisbon is one of the only neutral ports left in Europe. Awaiting safe passage to New York on the S.S. Manhattan, two couples meet: Pete and Julia Winters, expatriate Americans fleeing their sedate life in Paris; and Edward and Iris Freleng, elegant, independently wealthy, bohemian, and beset by the social and sexual anxieties of their class. Swept up in the tumult, the hidden currents of the lives of these four characters - Julia's status as a Jew, Pete and Edward's affair, Iris's increasingly desperate efforts to save her tenuous marriage - begin to come loose. This journey will change the four of them irrevocably, as Europe sinks into war.

To brutalna, dosłowna i krwiście opowiedziana historia, która pochłania czytelnika bez reszty. Mroczna, błyskotliwa i wysoce uzależniająca lektura zwiastuje pojawienie się nowej gwiazdy thrillera. Gdy napad na kasyno w Atlantic City kończy się niepowodzeniem, jego organizator wzywa na pomoc tajemniczego Jacka, który żyje poza społeczeństwem i ukrywa się przed innymi przestępcami. Jego specjalność to znikanie, co czyni go idealnym do delikatnej misji zatarcia śladów prowadzących do zleceniodawcy skoku. Ślady te są niebezpieczne: zastrzelony bandyta, ranny towarzysz z milionem dolarów, tajemniczy snajper. Jack musi wykorzystać cały swój talent i doświadczenie, gdyż zaginionych pieniędzy poszukują także funkcjonariusze różnych służb, w tym FBI, oraz lokalny gang. Powieść wciąga w wyrafinowany świat Jacka, a intensywność doznań rośnie z każdą chwilą. Dzięki świetnie zawiązanej akcji, chwytliwej fabule i mistrzowskiej intrydze autor wkracza do grona najbardziej cenionych twórców thrillerów. Jego debiutancka powieść ukazuje się jednocześnie w osiemnastu krajach, a prawa do ekranizacji zostały zakupione przez Warner Bros. niemal rok przed publikacją.

A guy walks into a bar . . . From here the story could take many turns. A guy walks into a bar and meets the love of his life. A guy walks into a bar and finds no one else is there. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless. In Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, Sedaris delights with twists of humour and intelligence, remembering his father's dinnertime attire (shirtsleeves and underpants) his first colonoscopy (remarkably pleasant) and the time he considered buying the skeleton of a murdered pygmy. By turns hilarious and moving, David Sedaris masterfully looks at life's absurdities as he takes us on adventures that are not to be forgotten.

No less than the collapse of the Roman Republic or the Persian invasion of Greece, the evolution of an Arab empire is one of the supreme narratives of ancient history; a story dazzlingly rich in drama, character and achievement. Just like the Romans, the Arabs came from nowhere to carve out a stupefyingly vast dominion - except that they achieved their conquests, not over the course of centuries, as the Romans did, but in a matter of decades. Just like the Greeks during the Persian wars, they overcame seemingly insuperable odds to emerge triumphant against the greatest empire of the day - not by standing on the defensive, however, but by hurling themselves against all who lay in their path. IN THE SHADOW OF THE SWORD effectively completes Tom Holland's trilogy describing the Ancient World. It represents an extraordinary achievement by the most exciting and readable young British historian working today

Keuze uit de verhalen van de Amerikaanse schrijver (1962- ).

Ruiny Pompej�w, pogrzebanych przez wybuch Wezuwiusza w 79 roku, są najlepszym świadectwem codziennego życia w cesarstwie rzymskim - od spraw najbardziej intymnych po publiczne, od kuchni po religię i poziom wykształcenia. Budząc miasto na nowo do życia, autorka burzy wiele mit�w. Na całość obrazu światło rzucają wymowne szczeg�ły - porzucone przez malarzy naczynia z farbami, figurka hinduskiej Lakszmi, wojskowe tabliczki z zapisami transakcji miejscowego bankiera... Poznajemy barwną galerię mieszkańc�w, między innymi Eumachię, zamożną kapłankę, Numeriusza Ampliatusa, słynnego trenera gladiator�w, i gwiazdę areny, pożeracza serc niewieścich Celadusa. To zaledwie kilka z wątk�w, kt�re składają się na niezwykły, pasjonujący portret antycznego miasta, jego życia i jego trwającego wciąż odkrywania.

Drawings and writings by Archimedes, previously thought to have been destroyed, have been uncovered beneath the pages of a 13th-century monk's prayer book. These hidden texts, slowly being retrieved and deciphered by scientists, show that Archimedes' thinking (2,200 years ago) was even ahead of Isaac Newton in the 17th century. Archimedes discovered the value of Pi, he developed the theory of specific gravity and made steps towards the development of calculus. Everything we know about him comes from three manuscripts, two of which have disappeared. The third, currently in the Walters Art Museum, is a palimpsest - the text has been scraped off, the book taken apart and its parchment re-used, in this case as a prayer book. William Noel, the project director, and Reviel Netz, a historian of ancient mathematics, tell the enthralling story of the survival of that prayer book from 1229 to the present, and examine the process of recovering the invaluable text underneath as well as investigating into why that text is so important

B&R Samizdat Express edition, including Instructtions from Writing History as well as The True History, with links from the table of contents. According to Wikipedia: "True History or True Story is a travel tale by the Greek-speaking Syrian author Lucian of Samosata, the earliest known fiction about travelling to outer space, alien life-forms and interplanetary warfare. Written in the 2nd century, the novel has been referred to as "the first known text that could be called science fiction". The work was intended by Lucian as a satire against contemporary and ancient sources, which quote fantastic and mythical events as truth... Lucian of Samosata (Greek: Λουκιανός ὁ Σαμοσατεύς, Latin: Lucianus Samosatensis; c. A.D. 125 – after A.D. 180) was a rhetorician, and satirist who wrote in the Greek language. He is noted for his witty and scoffing nature. "