Splendor

Robert Graves begins anew the tumultuous life of the Roman who became emporer in spite of himself. Captures the vitality, splendor, and decadence of the Roman world at the point of its decline.

Though this great tragedy of unsurpassed intensity and emotion is played out against Renaissance splendor, its story of the doomed marriage of a Venetian senator’s daughter, Desdemona, to a Moorish ge

Sparkling, graceful and tinged with an ineffable melancholy, Chopin's waltzes succeed in conveying an air of mystery while retaining their ballroom splendor. His scherzos are truly novel metamorphose

經典的璀璨寶石擴充登場！在城市擴充中，工匠們將璀璨寶石打造成了一件件華麗的首飾，讓來自東方的光輝，閃耀與這個世界之中。充滿挑戰的四個擴充：繁華之城、貿易之路、東方之門、榮譽之戰。四個擴充規則必須單獨使用，並與主遊戲搭配遊玩。遊戲適合10歲以上，2-4人遊玩，遊戲時間30分鐘。 Gokids推薦原因:經典璀璨寶石的擴充震撼登場！四個擴充：繁華之城、貿易之路、東方之門、榮譽之戰讓遊戲更精采豐富，體驗詭譎的策略謀劃。四個擴充規則須單獨使用，並與主遊戲搭配遊玩。

The splendor of Gothic art can be seen in the magnificent cathedrals of Notre Dame, Chartres, Rouen, Salisbury and Lincoln and in their sculpture. But also between 1140 and 1400 a vast quantity of ver

回到文藝復興時代，作為首屈一指珠寶公會首領，為了鞏固你的名聲與財富，你需要善用你的技巧與獨到的眼光，為各個王侯貴族打造最莊嚴華美的手飾。璀璨寶石推出全新雙人版了！由設計師Marc André、出版社SPACE Cowboys原班人馬，並特別與《七大奇蹟：對決》設計師Bruno Cathala合作，在原版璀璨寶石中加入新機制，讓雙人版中更添競爭與互動的趣味。不論是《璀璨寶石》或是《璀璨寶石 雙人版》，玩家都扮演一方勢力，善用手中資源收購珠寶來源或產地，充實自己的實力取得更有效率的生產方式後，博取王侯貴族的賞賜與名聲。

Once the Queendom of Sol was a glowing monument to humankind's loftiest dreams. Ageless and immortal, its citizens lived in peaceful splendor. But as Sol buckled under the swell of an "immorbid" population, space itself literally ran out. . . .

Cairo is a city of splendor and spectacle, long celebrated as much for its warmth and bustling street life as for the legacy of its tumultuous past. Yet for the countless visitors who fall under its s

The War of the Realms is coming, and it promises to be a comic book masterpiece! Now, celebrate the artistic splendor of the forthcoming event - and the truly epic Thor run that has brought the Ten Re

Samara is one of the Knowing, and the Knowing do not forget. Hidden deep in the comfort and splendor of her underground city, a refuge from the menace of a coming Earth, Samara learns what she should

A fascinating look at the splendor of the French court at Versailles through the eyes of its numerous visitors What was it like to visit one of the most magnificent courts of Europe? Based on a wealth

Samara is one of the Knowing, and the Knowing do not forget. Hidden deep in the comfort and splendor of her underground city, a refuge from the menace of a coming Earth, Samara learns what she should

Cairo is a city of splendor and spectacle, long celebrated as much for its warmth and bustling street life as for the legacy of its tumultuous past. Yet for the countless visitors who fall under its s

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Timeless and vast... The raw beauty of Ms. Groff's prose is one of the best things about Arcadia. But it is by no means this book's only kind of splendor."---Janet Maslin, Th

Bones of Home and Other Plays weaves the splendor and decay of New Orleans with its past and present and then spirals out from its New Orleans center like delicate threads of a web. This collection of

As her New York Times bestselling novels always remind us, Anne Perry is a matchless guide to both the splendor and the shame of the British Empire at the height of its influence. In her twentieth Wil

Christ knew that the splendor of heaven is too great for us to bear just now, and so he used parables as clues to the mystery of paradise. In them are hints of heaven, and they offer profound spiritua

The diversity of trees is part of their universal appeal and splendor. A tree may be home to a local god; it may be a provider of flowers for a wedding or a material for making rope, a source of a mir

As Anne Perry’s New York Times bestselling novels always remind us, she is a matchless guide to both the splendor and the shame of the British Empire at the height of its influence. In her twentieth W

Geoffrey Wall gives us Flaubert in all his contradictory splendor: as a man who lived quietly at home in the sphere of his widowed mother, writing novels at a rate of five words an hour; as an irregul

Set amid the splendor of London drawing rooms and gilded Venetian palazzos, The Wings of the Dove is the story of Milly Theale, a naïve, doomed American heiress, and a pair of lovers, Kate Croy and Me

"Trakl's poetry is amazing. His reader is gifted with visions of a darker world, an autumnal place of surreal beauty and a dying splendor. It is not a world friendly to people?it is full of death, des

Step from the splendor of the courts of Louis XIV and Charles II to the mud and blood of Sedgemoor, the Boyne, and the battlefields of the War of the League of Augsburg with Duty and Glory, the latest

"The Lord Jesus Christ is far beyond what most of us could ever dream or imagine. His greatness, His beauty, and His splendor are unknown to many Christians today. This is why a fresh look at Him---a

Arguably the most important pop culture import from the East to the West, manga is a phenomenon that can no longer be ignored. Yet just as much as it is a source of visual splendor and riveting story

Set amid the splendor of London drawing rooms and gilded Venetian palazzos, The Wings of the Dove is the story of Milly Theale, a naive, doomed American heiress, and a pair of lovers, Kate Croy and M

In a land of exotic splendor, a young Englishwoman finds herself guardian of an orphan child believed by a dying maharajah to be endowed with magical gifts. It is a role that will take her on a perilo

Who were the poets of Mexico in the days of Aztec splendor? What were the poems of a culture so different from our own?In this first English-language translation of a significant corpus of Nahuatl poe

In Heaven Is Not My Home, author and scholar Paul Marshall asserts that God is not seeking to destroy the earth, but to restore it to its original splendor. In this thought-provoking book, he sho

This stunning photography book from the award-winning team at Photo Cascadia celebrates Washington's beautifully diverse and iconic landscapes.From the majestic Olympic Peninsula and Puget Sound, where water meets and defines continent and city, to soaring volcanic peaks, to the dry and high desert plateaus in the east, Washington’s landscapes are as diverse as they are beautiful. Here, the award-winning team of photographers at Photo Cascadia celebrates Washington in all its splendor. Washington,Evergreen is a journey across the broad vistas and small, hidden marvels of one state’s indelible glory.

三木風探案集輯錄二篇小說：《夢裡榮華》寫的是一個貧困地區的青年十餘年間完成了從副科級、正處級農場場長、縣委書記、市委書記、省市級官階的躍升，正當如日中天，卻突然落入審訊室失去自由。夫妻攻守同盟頑抗不降，但終究扺不住犯罪事實的攻擊。揭露開來，原來他們如此這般抱團貪腐……《遺產懸案》則是企業家模範夫妻無嗣，身後一宗巨額遺產卻招引來三個私生女爭峰，各有其招，演繹了一曲人生悲喜劇。正是：無心插柳柳成蔭，邪

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)By virtue of its casual, off-handedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreau’s account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts is one of the signposts by which the modern mind has located itself in an increasingly bewildering world. Deeply sane, invigorating in its awareness of humanity’s place in the moral and natural order, Walden represents the progressive spirit of nineteenth-century America at its eloquent best.

作者窮畢生精力研究全球各地教會復興的歷史，他指出復興的影響，諸如：社會改革、社會道德的提升、教會的增長及聖詩的創作等。末了作者根據史實，道出復興工具、現象及方法，使讀者有所啟發和遵循。這本（下）記錄海內外的教會增長；靈命、道德和眾教會的衝擊；社會改革；復興神學與聖樂；復興的方法。

作者窮畢生精力研究全球各地教會復興的歷史，他指出復興的影響，諸如：社會改革、社會道德的提升、教會的增長及聖詩的創作等。末了作者根據史實，道出復興工具、現象及方法，使讀者有所啟發和遵循。

作者窮畢生精力研究全球各地教會復興的歷史，他指出復興的影響，諸如：社會改革、社會道德的提升、教會的增長及聖詩的創作等。末了作者根據史實，道出復興工具、現象及方法，使讀者有所啟發和遵循。

The gods have much to tell us about performance. When human actors portray deities onstage, such divine epiphanies reveal not only the complexities of mortals playing gods but also the nature of theatrical spectacle itself. The very impossibility of rendering the gods in all their divine splendor in a truly convincing way lies at the intersection of divine power and the power of the theater. This book pursues these dynamics on the stages of ancient Athens and Rome as well on those of Renaissance England to shed new light on theatrical performance. The authors reveal how gods appear onstage both to astound and to dramatize the very machinations by which theatrical performance operates. Offering an array of case studies featuring both canonical and lesser-studied texts, this volume discusses work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Plautus as well as Beaumont, Heywood, Jonson, Marlowe, and Shakespeare.This book uniquely brings together the joint perspectives of two expe

An epic fantasy ode to martial arts and magic, about what happens when a prophesied hero is not the chosen one after all―but has to work with a band of unlikely allies to save the kingdom anyway, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lives of TaoSo many stories begin the same way: With a prophecy. A chosen one. And the inevitable quest to slay a villain, save the kingdom, and fulfill a grand destiny. But this is not that kind of story. It does begin with a prophecy: A child will rise to defeat the Eternal Khan, a cruel immortal god-king, and save the kingdom. And that prophecy did anoint a hero, Jian, raised since birth in luxury and splendor, and celebrated before he has won a single battle. But that’s when the story hits its first twist: The prophecy is wrong. What follows is a story more wondrous than any prophecy could foresee, and with many unexpected heroes: Taishi, an older woman who is the greatest grandmaster of magical martial arts in the kingdom but who th

A brand new novella collection in the internationally bestselling Dune series!The world of Dune has shaped an entire generation of science fiction. From the sand-blasted world of Arrakis, to the splendor of the imprial homeworld of Kaitain, readers have lived in a universe of trechery and wonder.Now, collected for the first time, are three previoulsy unpublished Dune stories that shine a light upon the darker corners of the Dune universe. Spanning space and time, this collection is essential reading for any Dune fan.The stories: the lost years of Gurney Halleck as he works with smugglers on Arrakis in a deadly gambit for revenge; inside the ranks of the Sardaukar as the child of a betrayed nobleman becomes one of the Emperor’s most ruthless fighters; a young firebrand Fremen woman, a guerrilla fighter against the ruthless Harkonnens, who will one day become Shadout Mapes.

Go beyond the ordinary with this remarkable travelogue and guidebook filled with spectacular color photography that showcases Venice’s magical beauty and hidden gems, from the Piazzo San Marco to the island of Giudecca, the banks of the Grand Canal to the Arsenal district―the second entry in the Hedonist’s Guide travel series.Combining essential insider details, cultural information, must-see attractions, and detailed maps with glorious custom photography, Magical Venice is the ultimate handbook for modern nomads, including both savvy travelers and novice tourists. Designed for twenty-first century globetrotters, Magical Venice features stylish graphics and an elegant visual design, as well as a breakdown of must-visit places, thematic double-page photographic spreads to help you discover and understand the city, and walking routes to explore each district away from the crowds. Every fascinating detail of Venice is revealed, from the splendor of its palaces, the beauty of its piazzetta

Immerse yourself in the beauty and power of nature with a different tree for every day of the year.Spend every day of the year with one of the world's most fascinating trees. In A Tree a Day seasoned nature writer and journalist Amy-Jane Beer shares 365 majestic and memorable trees from around the world. From the strength of Alder trees to the biology behind the autumn colors of New England; from folkloric medicines in tree sap to Shakespeare's Birnam Wood; from the giant sequoias of California to Klimt's Birch trees―A Tree a Day explores the botany, poetry, folklore, rich history, and natural beauty of trees. Dip in and out or spend each day exploring a new natural wonder. With award-winning photography, works of art, and detailed illustrations on every page, A Tree a Day illuminates the timeless splendor and power of the world's trees.GORGEOUS ILLUSTRATIONS: Each tree is illustrated with a unique work of art―from classical painting to breathtaking photographs.MEDITATIVE START TO EACH