Ancient Rome
9 best books like Ancient Rome (Simon James): The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science—and Reality, Tiger Trap: America's Secret Spy War with China, Cleopatra, History of Britain & Ireland, World History Atlas, One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported, Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever, Fing, Awful Auntie
The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science—and Reality
| Author | Chris C. Mooney |
| ISBN | 1118094514 |
Bestselling author Chris Mooney uses cutting-edge research to explain the psychology behind why today's Republicans reject reality—it's just part of who they are. From climate change to evolution, the rejection of mainstream science among Republicans is growing, as is the denial of expert consensus...
| Author | David Wise |
| ISBN | 0547553102 |
For decades, while America obsessed over Soviet spies, China quietly penetrated the highest levels of government. Now, for the first time, based on numerous interviews with key insiders at the FBI and CIA as well as with Chinese agents and people close to them, David Wise tells the full story of China’s...
| Author | Diane Stanley |
| ISBN | 0688154808 |
Cleopatra is a partial biography picture book written and illustrated by Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema. The book begins with Cleopatra at age 18, when she was crowned Queen of Egypt in 51 BC. The book covers her struggle for power against the advisors of her young brother, the King. Cleopatra allied...
| Author | R.G. Grant |
| ISBN | 0756675553 |
From the Roman conquest of 43 CE to the Norman conquest of 1066 and from the Elizabethan age of Shakespeare to the Iraq and Afghan wars of the 21st century, DK's History of Britain and Ireland traces the key events that shaped the societies living in the British Isles from the earliest times to the present...
| Author | Jeremy Black |
| ISBN | 0756609674 |
Wow! This is quite a read, I must say! 287 pages of world history presented through maps, pictures and grids. DK has attempted the impossible and almost succeeded brilliantly, if it were not for Professor Jeremy Black's worldview, which colors the book.
Let me begin by saying that the book is...
One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported
| Author | E.J. Dionne Jr. |
| ISBN | 1427292698 |
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -- read by the authors.
A call to action from three of Washington's premier political scholar-journalists, One Nation After Trump offers the definitive work on the threat posed by the Trump presidency and how to counter it.
American democracy...
Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever
| Author | Rick Wilson |
| ISBN | 1982103124 |
A respected, long-time Republican strategist, ad-maker, and contributor for The Daily Beast, skewers the disease that is destroying the conservative movement and burning down the GOP: Trumpism.
In Everything Trump Touches Dies, political campaign strategist and commentator Rick Wilson...
| Author | David Walliams |
| ISBN | 0008342571 |
The new children’s book from No. 1 bestselling author David Walliams – a deliciously daft Tall Story of a child who had everything, but still wanted more. Illustrated by artistic genius, Tony Ross.
Meet the Meeks!
Myrtle Meek has everything she could possibly want....
It's not difficult to discern why Walliams is being compared to Roald Dahl. Awful Auntie is a humorous combination of flights of fancy and macabre backstory, exaggerated villains, and an ill-treated child protagonist. On top of which, Tony Ross' illustrations are so like Quentin Blake's, it's uncanny.
This...
