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In the first novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader whose drive and ambition created a legend • Alexander's beauty, strength and defiance were apparent from birth, but his boyhood honed those gifts into the makings of a king. His mother, Olympias, and his father, King Philip of Macedon, fought each other for their son's loyalty, teaching Alexander politics and vengeance from the cradle. His love for the youth Hephaistion taught him trust, while Aristotle's tutoring provoked his mind and Homer's Iliad fuelled his aspirations. Killing his first man in battle at the age of twelve, he became regent at sixteen and commander of Macedon's cavalry at eighteen, so that by the time his father was murdered, Alexander's skills had grown to match his fiery ambition

This is an astonishing new account of Alexander the Great – one of the most important figures of the ancient world, whose earlier years have until now been a mystery • Alexander the Great’s story often reads like fiction: son to a snake-loving mother and a battle-scarred father; tutored by Aristotle; a youth from the periphery of the Greek world who took part in his first campaign aged sixteen, becoming king of Macedon at twenty and king of Asia by twenty-five; leading his armies into battle like a Homeric figure • Each generation has peered through the frosted glass of history and come to their own conclusion about Alexander, be it enlightened ruler, military genius, megalomaniac, drunkard or despot. Yet the first two decades of his life have until now been a mystery – a matter of legend and myth

Книга отмеченного наградами историка Робина Лейна Фокса "Александр Македонский" исследует массу противоречивых свидетельств и легенд, чтобы сосредоточиться на Александре как человеке своего времени • Жесткий, решительный, бесстрашный, Александр был прирожденным воином и правителем со страстными амбициями, который понимал важность завоеваний и неизведанного. Когда он умер в 323 году до н.э. в возрасте тридцати двух лет, его обширная империя занимала более двух миллионов квадратных миль, простираясь от Греции до Индии • Его достижения не имели себе равных - он проявил себя как лидер своих людей, основал восемнадцать новых городов и запечатлел лицо греческой культуры на Древнем Востоке • Книга на английском языке • From award-winning historian Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time

Migrants have stood at the heart of modern Europe's experience, whether trying to escape danger, to find a better life or as a result of deliberate policy, whether moving from the countryside to the city, or between countries, or from outside the continent altogether • Peter Gatrell's powerful new book is the first to bring these stories together into one place. He creates a compelling narrative bracketed by two nightmarish periods: the great convulsions following the fall of the Third Reich and the mass attempts in the 2010s by migrants to cross the Mediterranean into Europe • "The Unsettling of Europe" is a new history of the continent, charting the ever-changing arguments about the desirability or otherwise of migrants and their central role in Europe's post-1945 prosperity

Take a journey to a vanished world with the ADVENTURES IN TIME series - stories so exciting you won't believe they're all true • 'His mind was clear. It was time to go east. Time to march into Asia, to confront the Persians and to meet his destiny...' • Alexander has one, wild dream: to rule the world. And with his childhood friends and his beloved horse Bucephalas, he sets out from his home in Ancient Greece to do just that. With historian Dominic Sandbrook as our guide, join Alexander on his incredible journey through the deserts of Egypt and over the snow-capped mountains of Persia all the way to India, defeating all who stand in his way. For anything is possible with the help of the gods • The Adventures in Time series brings the past alive for twenty-first century children

On the Shoulders of Giants tells a compelling story, using original papers from Einstein, Copernicus, Galilei, Kepler and Newton. Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking explains how these works changed the course of science, ushering astronomy and physics out of the Middle Ages and into the modern world

Среди памятникам искусства, оставленных бурной русской историей конца XVII - первой четверти XVIII века, видное место принадлежит монетам и медалям • Материал альбома связан непосредственно с выдающейся личностью Петра I, проявлявшего неизменный интерес к медалям как памятникам истории. Многие медали, представленные в альбоме, восходят к личной коллекции Петра, положившей основу нумизматической коллекции Кунсткамеры Академии наук

Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books. Careless people tells the true story behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, exploring in newly rich detail its relation to the extravagant, scandalous, and chaotic world in which the author lived • With wit and insight, Sarah Churchwell traces the genesis of a masterpiece, mapping where fiction comes from, and how it takes shape in the mind of a genius. Careless people tells the extraordinary tale of how F. Scott Fitzgerald created a classic and in the process discovered modern America

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