Robert Payne

At first little more than the power of the sword carried Rome forward; as it grew, it acquired the power of religious and poetic vision. These are the spiritual powers which it bequeathed to its heirs, the modern nations of the western world.

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Artist and scientist, draughtsman and inventor, these were the varied occupations of Leonardo. Carlo Pedretti concentrates on the paintings and drawings and tackles the problem of their complexity by tracing chronologically a number of the themes that run through Leonardo's work.--[book jacket].

"Peter Singer has succeeded in identifying the central vision that unifies Marx's thought. He thus makes it possible, in remarkably few pages, for us to grasp Marx's views as a whole, rather than as an economist or a social scientist. He explains alienation, historical materialism, the economic theory of Capital, and Marx's ideas of communism, in plain English, and concludes with an assessment of Marx's legacy."--Jacket.

Explores the life of the dangerous and destructive dictator Adolf Hitler whose aggressive foreign policies set off World War II and caused the deaths of over 6 million Jews. He committed heinous crimes against humanity worldwide.

Concentrates on the years 1927 and 1948 of Chiang's career because it was during this period that he was the virtual dictator of mainland China before the communists took over and Chiang was driven to Formosa.

Combining tremendous research, swift narrative pace and vivid language, the author reveals every aspect of the Muslim march through history -- cultural, military, political, religious, and scientific -- with stirring portraits of the figures who created the tide of Arab conquest.