Focusing on six momentous turning points that helped to shape Roman history, this work charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower - a political machine unmatched in its brutality, its genius, its lust for power. It also covers powerful men such as Pompey the Great, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Nero and Constantine.

Dads can be great mothers, too, if they have to be. The difficulty for Dads is that there's little understanding of fatherhood until after it happens. To men it seems that women are pre-programmed to deal with the love for a baby; that the baby should impact the father so greatly comes as an amazing surprise. Then to lose the baby is a trauma beyond expression, and Dads need the serious help that

Covers the important areas of microbiology in a format that is useful for learning and rapid revision.

Accompanies a Hayward exhibition that draws its inspiration and much of its material from the magazine Documents . This book aims to re-invest some masterpieces with the vitality of the cultural and intellectual climate in Paris in the late 1920s. It reflects the confrontations between art, archaeology, ethnography, film and popular culture.

This is a collection of short stories by the late Ron Berry.