To date, Rome’s intervention to the West from the mid-2nd century BC has not really been looked at with any sense of overview. Instead, there has been an unconnected series of micro-regional studies looking at particular areas, from the River Ebro in Spain round to Italy on the land front, and from the Balearic Islands to Corsica, Sardinia and even Sicily as regards the seaborne aspect. In contrast, this volume pushes the historical and archaeological debates about Rome size=2>’s expansion beyond these traditional geographical boundaries and the discipline-based previous research. The entire north-western Mediterranean is treated as a micro-region and is addressed using various interdisciplinary approaches. The result is to provide an innovative and comprehensive overview of the north-western Mediterranean in a period of historical crossroads, aided particularly by focusing on the connectivity and integration within this region as two interrelated issues. While Republican Rome enforced itself as an expansive power towards the West, all sorts of polities, military operations and individuals also played a significant role in creating interconnectivity and integration of the north-western Mediterranean into a new hybrid reality. In order to uncover such processes of hybridisation, contributors to this volume were encouraged to focus on the historical, archaeological and numismatic material from several areas within the region, and to incorporate aspects of interdisciplinary methodologies in order to address the region’s military, political, social and economic interconnections with Italy, Rome and each other within the overall period.

A collection celebrating the Centennial of seminal modernist Macedonian poet Aco šopov. This substantive collection represents Šopov's creative career, starting with his first book of poetry in 1944, when he was fighting in the Yugoslav resistance to the German occupation. In the early 1950s, he published two collections that signaled a new direction for Macedonian poetry as a whole, announcing the arrival of new form “intimate lyricism�. Over the next 25 years, Šopov's work deepened further, acquiring a philosophical cosmic dimension and at times venturing into surrealism. The Long Coming of the Fire shares the work of a consummate craftsman little-known in the Anglophone world, achieving a “penetrating, resonant, and melodic� poetic language with “a lively and pregnant imagery that binds together the experience of the author and reader� (Graham W. Reid).

When a theft at the God Garden unleashes a wave of dangerous biotech weapons on the world, Midnighter intends to put that genie back in the bottle. But something else is stolen as well the secret history of Lucas Trent, the man Midnighter once was. And how does this lead to Midnighter being put right in the sights of the Suicide Squad? And no Midnighter collection would be complete without Apollo! Together again after too long apart, Midnighter and Apollo take on subway pirates and demons but their reunion takes a shocking turn that sends them on an epic journey! Collects DC Sneak Peek: Midnighter #1, Midnighter #1-12, Midnighter and Apollo #1-6.

Chasing a faint memory from childhood, Asuka Tsukasa travels to London...and falls headlong into fantasy, intrigue, and the piercing gaze of a beautiful beast girl!

"It's not pleasant making Molotov cocktails inside a car - even just a couple of handfuls of them. The petrol spills when you're filling the bottles. The motor oil, which you add to make the contents slightly more sticky - a bit more like napalm - gets everywhere. The fumes fill the car no matter how many windows you open. And when you're working with a chain-smoker tempers tend to flare."

In 1980, after years of civil war, white minority rule in Zimbabwe came to an end. Within months, preparations were being made for a genocidal assault on the minority Matabele tribe.

A decade or more later, Daniel Hove, a mild-mannered surgeon living discontentedly in self-imposed exile in England, gets the dreaded phone call. His sister is dead, his mother distraught.

He returns home for the funeral. But her death certificate is a fraud, the doctor who signed it is an arrogant liar, and the policeman who brought in her body is the thuggish tool of someone high in the party elite. Daniel's questions result in him being beaten senseless. Left for dead.

Or was he?

Daniel can't even play a decent game of hospital politics. How does he expect to survive in the frontier badlands, where it pays to look away and keep your mouth shut.

From Matabeleland to the tip of the continent and back again, through the paranoid undertows of southern Africa...

"I can't wait for his next novel. In the meantime, I'm reading The Rain That Clears The Chaff again. It's that good. It's the best book I read in 2012; one of the best books you're going to read this year. It's a gem waiting to be discovered. You won't regret it." (Joseph Nthini, The South African)

The Rain That Clears The Chaff - The New Thriller From AC O'NEILL

Thirteen papers from a conference held in Barcelona in 2005 on the subject of 'War and territory in the Roman world: historical and archaeological approaches'. The contributors consider the relationship between the army and society, between the emperor and his army, between warfare and the environment, as well as more specific subjects: the representation of military power; the relationship between local and central power, especially at the frontiers of the empire; imperial administration; changes in imagery on coinage; war and the management of human and material resources. Seven of the papers focus on the Iberian peninsula whilst the rest look towards the empire as a whole. Text in English, Spanish, French and Italian.