What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist, both experts in their field, investigate\nOver the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in rapid decline.\nThis is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall. The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from dizzying power to disintegration - a fact that is more than a strange historical coincidence. In Why Empires Fall , historian Peter Heather and political economist John Rapley use this Roman past to think anew about the contemporary West, its state of crisis, and what paths we could take out of it.\nIn this exceptional, transformative intervention, Heather and Rapley explore the uncanny parallels - and productive differences - between the two cases, moving beyond the familiar tropes of invading barbarians and civilizational decay to learn new lessons from ancient history. From 399 to 1999, the life cycles of empires, they argue, sow the seeds of their inevitable destruction. The era of western global domination has reached its end - so what comes next?

Why Empires Fall

Peter Heather and John Rapley

Apollo

The Leather Albatross

Odell, William

Wisdom of a Life Well-Lived

Ethel Pearson Levine

Onion John

Onion John is a novel set in 1950s New Jersey, and tells the story of 12-year-old Andy Rusch and his friendship with an eccentric hermit who lives on the outskirts of the small town of Serenity. Onion John is an unusual man: a European immigrant who lives in a hut made of stone and furnished with bathtubs. He befriends young Andy Rusch, the only person in Serenity who can understand his speech. As Andy comes to know Onion John (so named because he grows the best onions in town, and eats them like apples), he finds that the man believes some odd things. In Onion John's world, friendly spirits live in the clouds, and evil spirits can be banished by smoking them out. His needs are few, since the townspeople are happy to give him castoff clothing after someone dies, and he earns a little money by doing odd jobs around Serenity. Andy and his friends are always happy to go along with whatever Onion John says. Life turns upside-down for Onion John when Andy's father decides to get the Rotary Club to build Onion John a new modern home, complete with electricity, running water, stove, and only one bathtub. The whole town signs on, committees are created, and the house goes up on the site of John's old stone hut. Almost immediately after moving in, John, unused to modern appliances, leaves newspaper on the stove. The ensuing fire destroys the house. Mr. Rusch is determined to rebuild the house, never noticing that Onion John was uncomfortable and unhappy in his new surroundings. He wants to fumigate the whole town. Andy suggests to Onion John that for the people of Serenity to leave him alone, he should run away from town. However, Andy wants to run away with him. Onion John eventually leaves the town of Serenity.

Joseph Krumgold

Poughkeepsie, New York: Apollo Book, 1980. Revised and Enlarged Edition, Hardbound, 8vo (9.25 inches tall), unpaginated (about 2'' thick).

Women artists in America: 18th century to the present (1790-1980)

History

Jim Collins

Glenn B Opitz

Americas

John Coltrane (Jazz masters series)

Arts & Photography

PRIESTLEY, Brian

Music

Laurel and Hardy. The Magic Behind The Movies

Biographies & Memoirs

Randy Skretvedt

Arts & Literature

Hailed by the press as a publishing phenomenon, The Country Flowers of a Victorian Lady is a classic work that will "change the way we look at flowers forever" (Mail on Sunday, London).Over the past 150 years Fanny Robinson's "Book of Memory," as she called it, has been enjoyed as a treasured heirloom by her family. Now, for the first time, her beautiful work - arguably the most exquisite collection of Victorian flower paintings in existence -

The Country Flowers Of A Victorian Lady

Robinson, Fanny

History & Criticism

The Trial of Christoper Okigbo

Mazrui, Ali

Religion & Spirituality

Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali

Niane, D.T.

Literature & Fiction

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