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The Fall of the Roman Empire: Film and History

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

For over a century, epic cinema has significantly shaped popular interest in Roman history and culture. The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), the last of the silver-screen epics about ancient Rome before Gladiator, stands out as the only epic that attempted, and largely succeeded, to show the greatness of Roman civilization rather...

The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Time, Book 12)

Tor Books, 2009

Tarmon Gai’don, the Last Battle, looms. And mankind is not ready.

The final volume of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light, was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn books, was...

Seasonal Patterns of Stress, Immune Function, and Disease

Cambridge University Press, 2002

Most animals exhibit seasonal variation in their reproduction and survival simply because most of them live in environments in which food availability varies seasonally. This is true in the tropics as well as at the higher latitudes, but at the higher latitudes the combined challenge of food shortage and low temperature makes...

The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso (Early Modern Exchange)

University of Delaware Press, 2019

In The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic, Andrea Moudarres examines influential works from the literary canon of the Italian Renaissance, arguing that hostility consistently arises from within political or religious entities. In Dante’s Divina Commedia, Luigi Pulci’s Morgante, Ludovico Ariosto’s...

Inspired by Art: Fighting Goliath (The David Chronicles)

Independent Publishers Group, 2021

How did the masters of art imagine the epic battle of David and Goliath?

This collection depicts every move leading up to the moment of victory.

These amazing sculptures, paintings, etchings, and manuscripts inspired the author to write The David Chronicles, an epic historical fiction trilogy with a...

Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze

Hachette, 2021

An intimate true account of Americans at war, Days of Steel Rain is an epic drama about an unlikely group of men forced to work together in the face of an increasingly desperate enemy during the final year of World War II.

Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of...

The Great Telecom Meltdown

Artech House Publishers, 2005

The economic boom of the late 1990s included huge investments in the telecommunications
industry and related sectors. It was followed by a downturn of
unusual severity, which reduced total paper wealth by trillions of dollars, cost
many thousands of jobs, and saw some of the biggest bankruptcies in history.
While there certainly...

Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Unleashed

Sams Publishing, 2005

The web developer's complete reference for developing dynamic, data-driven Web sites and applications with Dreamweaver.

Master the in-depth knowledge of Dreamweaver to get the most out of this versatile design and development program

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E-learning's Greatest Hits

Above and Beyond, 2003

The term “e-learning” is relatively new, coined as it was in the late 1990s, at the height of the dotcom frenzy. You might believe that it’s far too early in e-learning’s history to be talking of greatest hits (you may even doubt it’s had any hits at all) but, if celebrities can publish their biographies when they...

iMovie 3 Fast & Easy

Course Technology PTR, 2003

So, you wanna be in pictures? Home-movie Hitchcock wannabes have a simple and exciting desktop video-editing tool: Apple’s iMovie 3. iMovie 3 is the perfect tool for turning those long, boring home videos into interesting, polished productions that your family and friends will enjoy. Let’s face it, without video-editing software to...

Literary Texts and the Greek Historian

Routledge, 2000

This original survey explores the ways in which non-historical texts as well as historical ones can be used to construct Greek historical accounts.

Funding bodies used to be more relaxed, and when I became a graduate student I was admitted to research on ‘Greek literature and/or Roman history’. That capacious definition more...

Object-Oriented Software Construction (2nd Edition)

Prentice Hall, 2000

The definitive reference on the most important new technology in software!

“While the original version of OOSC is a classic, OOSC 2/E is destined to overshadow it and all other general introductions . . . literally an epic work.” —James C. McKim, Jr., Hartford Graduate Center

“Compelling. Extremely...

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