Renaissance World

La reine s'agitait, paraissait vouloir venir se jeter au milieu du débat, apporter à son favori le secours de son autorité de régente. Léonora, plus livide sous les fards que Concini lui-même, poignardait de son regard de feu le petit roi et Pardaillan, cause première de cet esclandre inouï. Et elle excitait sa maîtresse en lui glissant à l'oreille, en italien, de cette voix ardente, et sur ce ton d'autorité auquel Marie de Médicis, jusqu'à ce jour, n'avait jamais su résister.

Paris, 1614. Louis XIII n'est qu'un jeune garçon de quatorze ans. La reine mère Marie de Médicis est régente et les Concini abusent de sa faiblesse pour usurper le pouvoir et piller le trésor royal. Paris gronde. C'est dans ce contexte que le chevalier de Pardaillan est venu aider son fils pour retrouver sa petite-fille, née il y a cinq ans et enlevée quelques mois après à ses parents, Jehan de Pardaillan et Bertille de Saugis, probablement sur l'ordre de Faust.

Ka the time-travelling cat has disappeared again, and Topher knows that she is in terrible danger. For Ka has gone to Tudor England, a time when cats were tortured. Topher must try to find her, and in doing so, meets up with Doctor Dee - magician and astronomer to Queen Elizabeth I. But Doctor Dee is searching for something far more important than a cat. He must satisfy the Queen by finding the elusive Philosopher’s Stone...Another amazing adventure with Ka and Topher from Julia Jarman.

El Inca, una de las novelas más celebradas y traducidas de Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa, nos presenta una trama heredera de las más frenéticas novelas de aventuras, esta vez desarrollada en un marco histórico latinoamericano. El emperador Inca necesita perpetuarse en el poder, y para ello tiene que engendrar un hijo y una hija que habrán de contraer matrimonio. Los únicos que pueden oponerse a sus deseos son nuestros intrépidos protagonsitas: Rusti Cayambé, comandante de un ejército de diez mil hombres, y la princesa Sangay Chimé.

In this audiobook, John Pruskin takes us from the fall of the Roman Empire to the cusp of the Italian Renaissance. You have a ringside seat as the remnants of the Roman Empire emerge from the tangled chaos of the barbarian conquests.

1505: Pregnant and reunited with the love of her life, artist Mira survives a harrowing journey to the city of her dreams. But Bayonne is nothing like she imagined. Navigating a dangerous world ruled by merchants and bishops, she struggles to reignite her painting career. 2016: Scholar Zari seizes the chance to return to Europe as a consultant for an art dealer. Overwhelmed by her job, she has little time to hunt for clues about Mira. But when art experts embrace a theory that Mira’s paintings are the work of a famous man, Zari must act.

Spanning 2,000 years, The Everlasting follows four characters whose struggles resonate across the centuries: an early Christian child martyr; a medieval monk on crypt duty in a church; a Medici princess of Moorish descent; and a contemporary field biologist conducting an illicit affair. Outsiders to a city layered and dense with history, this quartet separated by time grapple with the physicality of bodies, the necessity for sacrifice, and the power of love to sustain and challenge faith.

On a sweltering summer night in 1925, beauties in beaded dresses mingle with hepcats in dapper suits on the streets of Harlem. The air is thick with reefer smoke, and jazz pours out of speakeasy doorways. Ben Charles and his devoted wife, Angeline, are among the locals crammed into a basement club to hear jazz and drink bootleg liquor. For aspiring poet Ben, the swirling, heady rhythms are a revelation. So is Baby Back Johnston, an ambitious trumpet player who flashes a devilish grin and blasts jazz dynamite from his horn.

This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great - the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of an icon in a lively, conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfiction listeners and that always includes the hero's childhood influences. This book features Leonardo da Vinci, the Renaissance artist and inventor.

One of the first true novels in the English language, Robinson Crusoe is the famous adventure of a castaway and his desert-island companion, Friday.

When soldiers attack the inhabitants of a Jewish ghetto in sixteenth-century Lithuania, Abigail manages to escape both the attack and her abusive husband, Reuven. She travels over land and sea to Venice, where she settles in another ghetto. Believing Reuven is dead, Abigail falls in love with her widowed neighbor, Daniel. But before Abigail and Daniel announce their betrothal, her violent husband reappears.

Jest rok 1597. W chrześcijańskiej Wenecji Żydzi żyją za murami getta, a za przywilej praktykowania swojej wiary odwdzięczają się wiernością wobec Republiki i poszanowaniem jej praw. Na galeonie handlowym kupiec Menachem Campos wypływa do Stambułu, Hila, jego córka, szykuje się do zaślubin, a młoda synowa spodziewa się narodzin upragnionego syna. Los zdaje się im sprzyjać, lecz do czasu, bo gdy z morza nadchodzą tragiczne wieści, żydowską Wenecją wstrząsają pogłoski o tajemniczych znakach - zwiastunach prześladowań i klęsk.

In 1503, Pope Julius II had succeeded the notorious Alexander VI, and Julius II brought an appreciation for the arts to the papacy. After Michelangelo finished the flurry of works that he had worked on during the previous four years, he was commissioned by Pope Julius II to complete a tomb in the Pope's honor. The project was to be massive in scope, and the tomb was to be placed inside of St. Peter's Basilica, the construction of which was intended to take place while Michelangelo designed the tomb.

Toby Lester, author of the award-winning The Fourth Part of the World, masterfully crafts yet another century-spanning saga of people and ideas in this epic story of Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic drawing of a man inscribed in a circle and a square. Over time, the nearly 550-year-old ink-on-paper sketch has transformed into a collective symbol of the nature of genius, the beauty of the human form, and the universality of the human spirit.

This audiobook includes both of Henry David Thoreau's most popular and enduring works, the book Walden and the essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience."

"Know thyself" - this fundamental imperative appeared for the first time in ancient Greece. For the Greeks, self-knowledge and identity were the basics of their civilization and their sources were to be found in where one was born and into which social group. These determined who you were and what your duties were. In this book the independent scholar Ingrid Rossellini surveys the major ideas that, from Greek and Roman antiquity through the Christian medieval era up to the dawn of modernity in the Renaissance, have guided the Western project of self-knowledge.

Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped—and have been shaped by—the cultures in which they arose. In this edition, Misa brings his acclaimed text up to date by drawing on current scholarship while retaining sharply drawn portraits of individual people, artifacts, and systems. A masterful analysis of technology and culture, Leonardo to the Internet frames a history that illuminates modern-day problems and prospects of a technology-dependent world.

In the middle of the XVI century, when he abandoned his town, the Exiled knew that the only thing he could aspire to was survival. He would not begin at zero but under zero. He was going to a strange country, up north, in search of a place where thinking or feeling was not punishable by death. In this journey towards life and freedom, the Exiled has to distinguish between two paths: one that leads to survival and the one that leads to death. It’s a vital choice, the same one that individuals, cultures, and nations must also make if they wish to advance and not become extinct.

This is a new edition of Mark Twain's masterpiece, Huckleberry Finn, published by American Renaissance Books. The audiobook is narrated by Theo Holland, who brings to life the humor and drama of this timeless tale.