Oliver Bowden Libros

Estamos en la edad de oro de la piratería y el Nuevo Mundo está en plena efervescencia. Edward Kenway —el intrépido hijo menor de un comerciante de lana que sueña con hacerse rico— se siente profundamente atraído por la gloria de la vida en altamar. Cuando la finca de su familia sufre un terrible ataque, llega para él el momento de escapar y, muy pronto, Kenway se convierte en uno de los corsarios más temibles de su tiempo. Pero la avaricia, la ambición y la traición le siguen muy de cerca y cuando la evidencia de una gigantesca conspiración sale a la luz, amenazando con destruir aquello que más ama, Kenway no puede vencer sus ansias de venganza. Así es como Edward se sumerge en la eterna batalla entre Asesinos y Templarios. Basado en el juego superventas de Ubisoft, Assassin’s Creed.

Traicionado por las familias que gobiernan Florencia, Venecia y Roma en la Italia del Renacimiento, el joven Ezio Auditore se embarca en una épica lucha por erradicar la corrupción y restaurar el honor de su familia. Para ello deberá aprender el arte de la muerte. En su camino de venganza y lucha se encontrará con las grandiosas mentes de Leonardo da Vinci y Maquiavelo; deberá decidir entre el amor y su destino y descubrirá que este último es mucho más complejo y elevado de lo que nunca imaginó. Para sus aliados, Ezio se convertirá en la fuerza que les guiará en pos de la libertad y la justicia. Para sus enemigos, en una amenaza consagrada a la destrucción de los tiranos que abusan del pueblo italiano. Una historia épica de poder y venganza en la que la verdad se escribirá con sangre.

Ancient Mesopotamia has long been known as the cradle of human civilization. It was here that the first city-states came into being, and with them many of the social, legal, and economic structures that we recognize today. Beginning with a survey of the early Mesopotamian dynasties, Anton Gill then chronicles the city's rise under the Amorite king Hammurabi who unified Mesopotamia under the hegemony of Babylon, its troubled fortunes in the centuries that followed, its golden age under a dynasty of Chaldean kings in the seventh and sixth centuries BC, and the life of its last great king Nebuchadrezzar II. Gill not only describes the political and military triumphs of Nebuchadrezzar's reign but also explores its many achievements in the cultural sphere—from art to mathematics, from economics to legal matters, and from astronomy to writing—as well as features of everyday life, from sex and shopping to food and drink customs.  

An informative look at the fascinating history of Berlin between the two World Wars explores the brilliant artistic ferment of the 1920s as it existed along with poverty and hardship and follows the rise of Nazism and its horrors in the 1930s.

When Titanic set sail in 1912, she was the largest, most luxurious and most technologically advanced man-made moving object in the world. This book tells the untold stories of the men and women who made the ship of dreams a reality.

Constantinople 1204: the holy city is razed to the ground by Crusaders - the streets awash with blood. Modern day Istanbul: an elite group of archaeologists uncover the grave of Enrico Dandolo, once Doge of Venice, and leader of the bloodthirsty Fourth Crusade. They seek a legendary set of documents that reveal the truth behind Dandolo's rumoured secret links to the Templar knights.Days later the team vanishes without a trace. All that remains in the ransacked grave is a strange key inscribed with an ancient code.Special Interpol Operatives Jack and Laura are called in. They soon find themselves battling against an ancient enemy in a life or death race against time. The dark secret of the Templar knights is about to be revealed.

This book is a record of oral history as the author recorded the personal testimony of over 100 survivors of the Nazi concentration camps in the course of his enquiry into how they have come to terms with their ordeals since World War II.