Design of Resonant Piezoelectric Devices

Engineering & Transportation

Holland, Richard

EerNisse, E. P.

Engineering

Mit Pr

Stories of Nero's tyrannical reign began before his body was cold and have continued to circulate; the monster who dallied while Rome burned, the tyrant who murdered his wife and his mother and who threw Christians to the lions. But is this the true story? The author seeks to overturn this popular conception of Nero and rescue the man from the myth by revealing Nero as a liberator, who tried to democratize the state. His story is told from his birth into the Imperial family through his mother's remarriage to the new Emperor Claudius--whom she would eventually murder; his education by Seneca; his marriage; his enthronement as Emperor at age 16; his role as patron; his love affair with Poppea and the murders of his wife and mother; the increasing enmity towards him; the Great Fire of Rome and building of the Golden Palace; the killing of the Christians; the death of Poppea and Nero's growing instability; treason trials and suicide writs; rebellion in Gaul and Spain; and Nero's suicide.

Nero: The Man Behind the Myth

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Sutton Pub Ltd

This book rescues the man from the myth, to show that he was a man and not a monster.

Professionals & Academics

Following his successful biography of Nero, Richard Holland now turns his attention to Rome's first emperor, Augustus, about whom so little is known despite a reign of 44 years. The focus throughout this well-written study is on the figure of Augustus himself rather than on the cultural and social achievements of the Augustan Age that tend to overshadow his character. Much of the book focuses on the death of the Republic and the extraordinary circumstances that saw this `young pretender', an insignificant-looking teenager, seize control from men such as Mark Antony in the aftermath of Caesar's murder. Augustus' manipulation of the ordinary as well as powerful people of Rome, his control of the army and his determined pursuit of Brutus and Mark Antony are vividly discussed here. Wherever possible, Holland searches these events, as well as Octavian's relations with such figures as Cicero, Mark Antony, Cleopatra and Virgil, for clues to the nature of the man Augustus. Many of the charges laid at Augustus' door, and later distorted by Shakespeare, are found to be tittle-tattle but he is till shown as a figure of conflict, combining generosity, prudence and a deep love for his wife of fifty years with `ruthless bloodletting' and the severe punishment of his only child. Above all, however, this book demonstrates the sheer power of Augustus' personality and legacy as emperor, as head of a great dynasty and as a `founding father of western civilisation'. This is a very enjoyable read with notes confined to the back.

Augustus: Godfather of Europe

Sutton Publishing+ltd

The dramatic story of the provincial outsider who came to found Europe.

The History Press

Paducah: Portrait of a river town

Collector+books

Whitehaven: Rebirth of a Southern Mansion

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking Education & Reference

McClanahan Pub. House

De Polyphemo Et Galatea ... (Latin Edition)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Nabu Press

The Buke of the Howlat (Latin Edition)

This book addresses the problem of treating interior responses of complex electronic enclosures or systems, and presents a probabilistic approach. Relationships for determining the statistics of the driving fields to apply to a circuit analysis code representing part of an enclosed system's writing are worked out. Also addressed are limited spatial and frequency coherence essential to a statistically based field drive model. This text gives examples, different modeling, and describes how to make, interchange, and optimize models.

Statistical Electromagnetics (Electromagnetics Library)

Children's Books

Science, Nature & How It Works

CRC-Press

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