Rome Buildings

Any travel guide to Rome will urge visitors to go the Colosseum, but none answers a simple question: Why is it called the Colosseum? The History of Rome in 12 Buildings: A Travel Companion to the Hidden Secrets of the Eternal City is compelling, concise, and fun, and takes you behind the iconic buildings to reveal the hidden stories of the people that forged the Roman Empire.

Building Rome: Dreams by H.L is a book to inspire people to let their imaginations run without limitations. It is a guide for people regardless of age, race, gender to dream without boundaries and to remind themselves that they are in control of their destiny. It is good to have dreams, but the fulfilled feeling emerges when that dream becomes a reality. We must remind ourselves that the key to our dreams becoming reality is in us all. Dig deep and realize all you need to make that dream a reality is in the dream itself.

In Empires of Trust, Professor Thomas F. Madden explores surprising parallels between the Roman and American republics. By making friends of enemies and demonstrating a commitment to fairness, the two republics - both "reluctant" yet unquestioned super-powers - built empires based on trust. Madden also includes vital lessons from the Roman Republic's 100-year struggle with "terrorism."

It was the splendor and the scandal of the age. In 1506, the ferociously ambitious Renaissance Pope Julius II tore down the most sacred shrine in Europe, the millennium-old St. Peter's Basilica built by the Emperor Constantine over the apostle's grave, to build a better basilica.