Falling for Rome

Falling for Rome
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Publisher : Gillian Archer
Total Pages : 161
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ISBN-10 : 9798201893620
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Falling for Rome by : Gillian Archer

Hollywood's hottest actor is off the market! Who's the mystery woman that caught his eye…and his heart? Rome: My brother's whole world imploded this week, and the media coverage is relentless. My assistant has come up with the perfect plan to take the attention off him and put it on me. Who doesn't love a love story? Now let's see if what's-her-name wants to make some money and industry connections. It's a win-win. Sophia: The whole world knows who the Grier brothers are. The sexy Hollywood actors are on every woman's wish list—and if I'm honest, mine too. But then I met Roman Grier and totally embarrassed myself. At least I'll never see him again. Only now he's pursuing me. Well, kinda. He is promising me the world. Literally. I've always wanted to be a screenwriter, and he's got the connections to get me through the door—if I pretend to date him and lie to everyone. It's only a few months, and it's not like I'm going to fall for Roman Grier for real…

How Rome Fell

How Rome Fell
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 558
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ISBN-10 : 9780300155600
ISBN-13 : 0300155603
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis How Rome Fell by : Adrian Goldsworthy

The author discusses how the Roman Empire--an empire without a serious rival--rotted from within, its rulers and institutions putting short-term ambition and personal survival over the wider good of the state.

The Fall of Rome

The Fall of Rome
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Publisher : OUP Oxford
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9780191622366
ISBN-13 : 0191622362
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fall of Rome by : Bryan Ward-Perkins

Why did Rome fall? Vicious barbarian invasions during the fifth century resulted in the cataclysmic end of the world's most powerful civilization, and a 'dark age' for its conquered peoples. Or did it? The dominant view of this period today is that the 'fall of Rome' was a largely peaceful transition to Germanic rule, and the start of a positive cultural transformation. Bryan Ward-Perkins encourages every reader to think again by reclaiming the drama and violence of the last days of the Roman world, and reminding us of the very real horrors of barbarian occupation. Attacking new sources with relish and making use of a range of contemporary archaeological evidence, he looks at both the wider explanations for the disintegration of the Roman world and also the consequences for the lives of everyday Romans, in a world of economic collapse, marauding barbarians, and the rise of a new religious orthodoxy. He also looks at how and why successive generations have understood this period differently, and why the story is still so significant today.

The Fall of Rome

The Fall of Rome
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9781439125496
ISBN-13 : 143912549X
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fall of Rome by : Martha Southgate

Latin instructor Jerome Washington is a man out of place. The lone African-American teacher at the Chelsea School, an elite all-boys boarding school in Connecticut, he has spent nearly two decades trying not to appear too "racial." So he is unnerved when Rashid Bryson, a promising black inner-city student who is new to the school, seeks Washington as a potential ally against Chelsea's citadel of white privilege. Preferring not to align himself with Bryson, Washington rejects the boy's friendship. Surprised and dismayed by Washington's response, Bryson turns instead to Jana Hansen, a middle-aged white divorcée who is also new to the school -- and who has her own reasons for becoming involved in the lives of both Bryson and Washington. Southgate makes her debut as a writer to watch in this compelling, provocative tale of how race and class ensnare Hansen, Washington, and Bryson as they journey toward an inevitable and ultimately tragic confrontation.

Galileo in Rome

Galileo in Rome
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9780195165982
ISBN-13 : 0195165985
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Galileo in Rome by : William R. Shea

Two leading authorities on Galileo offer a brilliant revisionist look at the career of the great Italian scientist.

Empires and Barbarians

Empires and Barbarians
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 754
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ISBN-10 : 9780199752720
ISBN-13 : 0199752729
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Empires and Barbarians by : Peter Heather

Empires and Barbarians presents a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of migration and social and economic interaction that changed two vastly different worlds--the undeveloped barbarian world and the sophisticated Roman Empire--into remarkably similar societies and states. The book's vivid narrative begins at the time of Christ, when the Mediterranean circle, newly united under the Romans, hosted a politically sophisticated, economically advanced, and culturally developed civilization--one with philosophy, banking, professional armies, literature, stunning architecture, even garbage collection. The rest of Europe, meanwhile, was home to subsistence farmers living in small groups, dominated largely by Germanic speakers. Although having some iron tools and weapons, these mostly illiterate peoples worked mainly in wood and never built in stone. The farther east one went, the simpler it became: fewer iron tools and ever less productive economies. And yet ten centuries later, from the Atlantic to the Urals, the European world had turned. Slavic speakers had largely superseded Germanic speakers in central and Eastern Europe, literacy was growing, Christianity had spread, and most fundamentally, Mediterranean supremacy was broken. Bringing the whole of first millennium European history together, and challenging current arguments that migration played but a tiny role in this unfolding narrative, Empires and Barbarians views the destruction of the ancient world order in light of modern migration and globalization patterns.

Rome Never Fell

Rome Never Fell
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Publisher : Hugo House Publishers, Ltd.
Total Pages : 295
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ISBN-10 : 9781948261364
ISBN-13 : 1948261367
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis Rome Never Fell by : C.R. Fabis

Time travel is seductive. What would happen if … but will the answer open a Pandora’s box? “Sherrie said, ‘Let me get this straight. We are going to let a girl from Ancient Rome that just saw a car for the first time today, drive us?’ ” —Excerpt from Rome Never Fell In his raucous new novel, C. R. Fabis weaves a fantastic tale of real history interwoven with some wild what ifs. Astrophysicists major and full-time nerd Henry Gafield is busily studying the earth’s electromagnetic field in an attempt to save money on his electric bill. One of his experiments goes south, but he soon discovers that he actually shot himself two minutes back in time. - A science experiment gone wrong. -A gorgeous, fledging historian needs some help. -Will the nerdy scientist finally get his wish? While he is perfecting his discovery, he meets classical studies major and inspiring historian, Sherrie Melbourne. Henry lets the gorgeous Sherrie in on his secret. She quickly figures out that Henry can help her with a major problem. She convinces Henry to go back in time to one of the most amazing periods in human history—the birth of the Roman Empire. Henry has reservations, but he has his own designs on history. Rome Never Fell takes the reader on a fantastical journey through ancient Rome, meeting some of the most infamous characters in all of history. While it seems as though Henry and his beautiful companions have single-handedly averted cataclysmic catastrophes, the reader may be surprised at what the present actually holds.

Are We Rome?

Are We Rome?
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Publisher : HMH
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9780547527079
ISBN-13 : 0547527071
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Are We Rome? by : Cullen Murphy

What went wrong in imperial Rome, and how we can avoid it: “If you want to understand where America stands in the world today, read this.” —Thomas E. Ricks The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds since the beginning of our republic. Depending on who’s doing the talking, the history of Rome serves as either a triumphal call to action—or a dire warning of imminent collapse. In this “provocative and lively” book, Cullen Murphy points out that today we focus less on the Roman Republic than on the empire that took its place, and reveals a wide array of similarities between the two societies (The New York Times). Looking at the blinkered, insular culture of our capitals; the debilitating effect of bribery in public life; the paradoxical issue of borders; and the weakening of the body politic through various forms of privatization, Murphy persuasively argues that we most resemble Rome in the burgeoning corruption of our government and in our arrogant ignorance of the world outside—two things that must be changed if we are to avoid Rome’s fate. “Are We Rome? is just about a perfect book. . . . I wish every politician would spend an evening with this book.” —James Fallows

Mortal Republic

Mortal Republic
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Total Pages : 351
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ISBN-10 : 9780465093823
ISBN-13 : 0465093825
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Mortal Republic by : Edward J. Watts

Learn why the Roman Republic collapsed -- and how it could have continued to thrive -- with this insightful history from an award-winning author. In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military and political power, its governing institutions, parliamentary rules, and political customs successfully fostered negotiation and compromise. By the 130s BC, however, Rome's leaders increasingly used these same tools to cynically pursue individual gain and obstruct their opponents. As the center decayed and dysfunction grew, arguments between politicians gave way to political violence in the streets. The stage was set for destructive civil wars -- and ultimately the imperial reign of Augustus. The death of Rome's Republic was not inevitable. In Mortal Republic, Watts shows it died because it was allowed to, from thousands of small wounds inflicted by Romans who assumed that it would last forever.

The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome

The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9780197691953
ISBN-13 : 0197691951
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome by : Edward J. Watts

The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome tells the story of 2200 years of the use and misuse of the idea of Roman decline by ambitious politicians, authors, and autocrats as well as the people scapegoated and victimized in the name of Roman renewal. It focuses on the long history of a way of describing change that might seem innocuous, but which has cost countless people their lives, liberty, or property across two millennia.