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  • The Destruction of Rome Lessons for America

    Have you ever heard the famous saying "history always repeats itself"?1,000 years ago the seemingly invincible Roman Empire ruled the world, before ultimately losing all its power.Is that the fate destined for modern-day America?History books are often some of the best resources for looking into what is likely to happen in the future, and this scenario is no different.If you are interested in ... Read more

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  • Intelligent Computer Mathematics

    9th International Conference, CICM 2016, Bialystok, Poland, July 25-29, 2016, Proceedings

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics, CICM 2016, held in Bialystok, Poland, in July 2016.The 10 full papers and 2 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selectedfrom a total of 41 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections according to the five tracks of the conference: Calculemus; Digital ... Read more

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  • The Ruin of the Roman Empire

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    A History of Byzantium

    A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453. In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of ... Read more

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  • Terry Jones' Barbarians

    Terry Jones' Barbarians takes a completely fresh approach to Roman history. Not only does it offer us the chance to see the Romans from a non-Roman perspective, it also reveals that most of those written off by the Romans as uncivilized, savage and barbaric were in fact organized, motivated and intelligent groups of people, with no intentions of overthrowing Rome and plundering its Empire.This ... Read more

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    The epic story of the inevitable fall of Rome's gloryIn The Fall of the Roman Empire, Peter Heather skillfully weaves a captivating tale of an ancient and long-lasting superpower that crumbled within the short space of a century. Its downfall was not instigated by massive rebellions or towering foes but by a small group of German-speaking asylum-seekers who audaciously defeated a vast Roman army ... Read more

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    How the Survival of Rome Might Have Changed World History

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