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If your only experience of Roman history has been dry lectures and even drier textbooks, it’s time to take a hose to it. This isn't your typical Roman history book. Our tour guide isn't a tweed-wearing scholar with chalk-dusted fingers regurgitating the timeline of Ancient Rome, but a witty historian with a knack for turning complex topics into an entertaining romp through the past. The Fall of the Roman Empire takes you on a joyride through the grandeur and demise of one of history's most formidable empires. From gloriously gutsy Roman gladiators in the colosseum to the extraordinarily ...

En este libro descubrirá cómo era realmente la vida de los vikingos durante su época dorada. Aprenderá sobre los vikingos y las incursiones más importantes, y conocerá más sobre su vida cotidiana y las cuestiones que eran más importantes para ellos. También explorará su folclore y oirá hablar de monstruos, dioses, diosas y de las épicas aventuras que vivieron. La historia cobra vida en este libro con fotos atractivas, datos curiosos y actividades creativas. ¿A qué espera? ¡Viajemos en el tiempo para convertirnos en vikingos!

Although her name and story might be familiar, much of what we know about Cleopatra is shrouded in mystery. Her life was one of politics, murder, war, marriage and passion – but it was also one of pride, bravery, love and strength. Cleopatra may have lived as a goddess, but, beneath her magnificent exterior, she was just a woman who fought tirelessly for what she felt was rightfully hers. With a gripping, expertly researched and fact-checked text, this is the story of the woman behind the stories.

In a corner of time, long before our own days began, there exists a land of myths and marvels, of heroes and philosophers, a peculiar place known as Ancient Greece. If you're picturing solemn philosophers debating the meaning of life, warriors with abs that could grate cheese and mythical gods with too much time on their hands, you're not entirely wrong. But A.C. Dunne's "Ancient Greece: Those Old Greek Guys Knew a Thing or Two" isn't about to serve you the same reheated tales from your school days. Instead, imagine a world where events often take peculiar turns and facts occasionally wear ...