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Free Download Emperor John II Komnenos: Rebuilding New Rome 1118-1143 (Oxford Studies in Byzantium) by Maximilian C. G. Lau
English | October 3, 2023 | ISBN: 0198888678 | True EPUB/PDF | 400 pages | 17.5/437 MB
John II Komnenos was born into an empire on the brink of destruction, with his father Alexios barely preserving the empire in the face of civil wars and invasions. A hostage to crusaders as a child, married to a Hungarian princess as a teenager to win his father an alliance, and leading his own campaigns when his father died, it was left to John to try and rebuild the empire all but lost in the eleventh century.

Free Download Death and the Emperor: Roman Imperial Funerary Monuments from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius by Penelope J. E. Davies
English | August 28, 2000 | ISBN: 0521632366, 0292702752 | True PDF | 288 pages | 163 MB
This book offers the first comprehensive study of the funerary monuments made for the Roman emperors. These monuments, which include the Mausoleum of Augustus, Trajan’s Column, and the Column of Marcus Aurelius, are among the best known and most extensively excavated and documented structures of Roman antiquity. Because of their diversity of forms and decorative programs, however, they have been examined in isolation from one another and from a limited number of perspectives.

Free Download Death and the Emperor: Roman Imperial Funerary Monuments from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius by Penelope J. E. Davies
English | August 28, 2000 | ISBN: 0521632366, 0292702752 | True PDF | 288 pages | 163 MB
This book offers the first comprehensive study of the funerary monuments made for the Roman emperors. These monuments, which include the Mausoleum of Augustus, Trajan’s Column, and the Column of Marcus Aurelius, are among the best known and most extensively excavated and documented structures of Roman antiquity. Because of their diversity of forms and decorative programs, however, they have been examined in isolation from one another and from a limited number of perspectives.

Free Download The Reign of Emperor Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161 by John S McHugh
English | October 7, 2022 | ISBN: 1526773988 | 256 pages | MOBI | 19 Mb
The reign of Antoninus Pius is widely seen as the apogee of the Roman Empire yet, due to gaps in the historical sources, his reign has been overlooked by modern historians. He is considered one of the five good emperors of the Antonine dynasty under whom the pax Romana enabled the empire to prosper, trade to flourish and culture to thrive. His reign is considered a Golden Age but this was partly an image created by imperial propaganda. There were serious conflicts in North Africa and Dacia, as well as a major revolt in Britain. On his death the empire stood on the cusp of the catastrophic invasions and rebellions that marked the reign of his successor Marcus Aurelius.

Free Download The Emperor’s Feast: ‘A tasty portrait of a nation’ -Sunday Telegraph by Jonathan Clements
English | February 11, 2021 | ISBN: 1529332427 | 0 pages | PDF | 14 Mb
‘A galloping journey through thousands of years of Chinese culinary history . . . a timely reminder that the country’s modern cuisine is the delicious fruit of a rich, ancient and perhaps surprisingly multicultural tradition’ FUCHSIA DUNLOP, SPECTATOR

Free Download Peter Sarris, "Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint"
English | ISBN: 1541601335 | 2023 | 544 pages | PDF | 9 MB

Free Download The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome by Harry Sidebottom, Saul Reichlin, Tantor Audio
English | 2023 | ISBN: B0C9F59ZD7 | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 64 Kbps / 12 hours and 18 minutes | 670 Mb
A Financial Times, BBC History, and Spectator Book of the Year
On 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-year-old Syrian boy, egged on by his grandmother, led an army to battle in a Roman civil war. Against all expectations, he was victorious.
Varius Avitus Bassianus, known to the modern world as Heliogabalus, was proclaimed emperor. The next four years were to be the strangest in the history of the empire.

Free Download The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession by Chandler Burr, Jamie Renell, Tantor Audio
English | 2022 | ISBN: B09WZ96PY5 | 12 hours and 8 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 333 Mb
"A brilliant, feisty scientist at the center of a nasty, back-stabbing, utterly absorbing, cliff-hanging scramble for the Nobel Prize. The Emperor of Scent is a quirky, wonderful book." -John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge work in biology, chemistry, and physics, Turin used his obsession with perfume and his eerie gift for smell to turn the cloistered worlds of the smell business and science upside down, leading to a solution to the last great mystery of the senses: how the nose works.

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Free Download Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World, US Edition by Mary Beard
English | October 24th, 2023 | ISBN: 0871404222 | 512 pages | True EPUB | 75.06 MB
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by "the world’s most famous classicist" (Guardian).

Free Download Klara Sima Andrau, "Bowing to the Emperor: We Were Captives in WWII"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0996411909 | EPUB | pages: 360 | 6.2 mb