Télécharger le livre :  A l'ombre de l'épé naissance de l'islam et grandeur de l'empire arabe
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"Dans À l’ombre de l’épée", Tom Holland, spécialiste de l’Antiquité grecque, perse et romaine, raconte comment l’islam s’est imposé au VIIe siècle comme une nouvelle puissance. Cette vaste fresque dépeint l’émergence de la civilisation arabe, laquelle porta un coup...

Editeur : Saint-Simon
Parution : 2025-05-26

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Télécharger le livre :  The Lives of the Caesars
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A masterful new translation of Suetonius' renowned biography of the twelve Caesars, bringing to life a portrait of the first Roman emperors in stunning detailThe ancient Roman empire was the supreme arena, where emperors had no choice but to fight, to thrill, to dazzle....

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2025-02-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Pax
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Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2023-07-06
Collection : Dilly's Story
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Télécharger le livre :  The Micro-Workout Plan
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Ditch the gym! It’s not about how long you exercise—or where—but about the type of moves you do. Bowflex Fitness Advisor Tom Holland introduces micro-workouts for optimal health that will help you achieve the body you want.   Does the...

Editeur : Union Square & Co.
Parution : 2021-08-03

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Télécharger le livre :  Dominion
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'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland's book is not just supremely provocative, but often very funny' Sunday Times...

Editeur : Little, Brown Book Group
Parution : 2019-09-05
Collection : Dilly's Story
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Télécharger le livre :  Æthelflæd: A Ladybird Expert Book
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Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.- Who was Æthelflæd?- What role did she play in the founding of England?- How has her legacy lasted to this day?DISCOVER the epic history of England's forgotten queen. Planting cities, sponsoring learning and defeating her...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2019-02-07
Collection : The Ladybird Expert Series
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Télécharger le livre :  Athelstan (Penguin Monarchs)
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The formation of England occurred against the odds: an island divided into rival kingdoms, under savage assault from Viking hordes. But, after King Alfred ensured the survival of Wessex and his son Edward expanded it, his grandson Athelstan inherited the rule of both...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2016-06-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Dynasty
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'This is a wonderful, surging narrative - a brilliant and meticulous synthesis of the ancient sources . . . This is a story that should be read by anyone interested in history, politics or human nature - and it has never been better told' - Boris Johnson, Mail on...

Editeur : Little, Brown Book Group
Parution : 2015-09-03

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Télécharger le livre :  The Madness of Cambyses
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'Do you see your son, standing over there, in the antechamber? Well, I am going to shoot him.'The story of the great and mad Cambyses, King of Persia, told by part-historian, part-mythmaker Herodotus of Halicarnassus.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2015-02-26

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Télécharger le livre :  The Histories
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Tom Holland's 'stirring new translation' (Telegraph) of Herodotus' Histories, one of the great books in Western history - now in paperbackThe Histories of Herodotus, completed in the second half of the 5th century BC, is generally regarded as the first work of history...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-09-26

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Télécharger le livre :  In The Shadow Of The Sword
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In this 'thrilling. . .profoundly important book' (Christopher Hart, Sunday Times) and Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, the acclaimed author of Rubicon gives a panoramic-and timely-account of the rise of IslamIn the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2012-04-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Supping With Panthers
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In 1888 Dr John Eliot returns to London haunted by the memory of a terrible expedition to a remote Himalayan kingdom, where he had uncovered horrors far beyond the frontiers of science. Yet Eliot's faith in reason is to be tested even further when the body of a friend,...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2011-09-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Deliver Us From Evil
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Wiltshire, during the dying days of Oliver Cromwell's Republic. Robert Vaughan is the son of a Parliamentarian officer who is investigating a series of grisly murders which suggest a link with Satanic rituals at Stonehenge. The return of a notoriously wicked Cavalier,...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2011-05-19

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Télécharger le livre :  The Sleeper In The Sands
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Egypt, 1922: the Valley of the Kings. After years of fruitless labour, the archaeologist Howard Carter discovers a mysterious tomb, sealed and marked with a terrible curse. But what is the nature of the tomb's deadly secret? And what is the web of strange connections...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2011-05-19

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Télécharger le livre :  The Bone Hunter
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An heir of John Buchan and Rider Haggard, Holland is a storyteller, dealing in mysteries and marvels ... he holds the reader's attention in an iron grip' DAILY TELEGRAPH1878. The golden days of dinosaur discoveries. In the still-Wild West, fossils of a monstrous size...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2011-05-19

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Télécharger le livre :  Persian Fire
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In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire.In the space of a single generation, they had...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2011-04-21

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Télécharger le livre :  Rubicon
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'The Book that really held me, in fact, obsessed me, was Rubicon . . . This is narrative history at its best. Bloody and labyrinthine political intrigue and struggle, brilliant oratory, amazing feats of conquest and cruelty' Ian McEwan, Books of the Year,...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2011-04-21

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Télécharger le livre :  Millennium
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Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared impoverished, fearful...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2011-04-21

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Télécharger le livre :  The Vampyre
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'Ingenious and entertaining' Sunday Times' Byron himself would have been pleased by such an eerie, erudite addition to his myth' Time OutInfamous poet Lord Byron comes to life with incendiary brilliance in this spellbinding blend of gothic imagination and documented...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2011-04-01

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