Take a trip through the defining moments of our global story and see the thinkers, leaders, ideas, and inventions that have shaped the world. Presented in a beautiful slipcase, World History is an essential guide for anyone who loves history or wants to broaden their knowledge. This accessible book covers over 350 of the world's most important turning points, from our earliest human ancestors of prehistory to political events of the modern world. Follow detailed maps showing the continuous movement of humans across the Earth, and examine fascinating paintings illustrating the events and individuals that took them there. Beautiful photography throughout the book will carry you back in time to see the people and places of the stories - along with stunning artifacts from every historical period. From magnificent buildings like the Colosseum to magnificent words like "I have a dream!", this guide brings history's most significant events to life for every reader to discover and enjoy.

Ken Follett's extraordinary historical epic, the Century Trilogy, reaches its sweeping, passionate conclusion. In Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, Ken Follett followed the fortunes of five international families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—as they made their way through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements, and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution—and rock and roll. East German teacher Rebecca Hoffmann discovers she’s been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. . . . George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department and finds himself in the middle of not only the seminal events of the civil rights battle but a much more personal battle of his own. . . . Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some official and unofficial espionage for a cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is a much more dangerous place than he'd imagined. . . . Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Nikita Khrushchev, becomes an agent both for good and for ill as the United States and the Soviet Union race to the brink of nuclear war, while his twin sister, Tanya, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw—and into history.

The author contends that all generaly accepted historical chronology prior to the 16th century is inaccurate, often off by many hundreds or even thousands of years. Volume 1 of a proposed seven volumes.

When an orphan, Niccolo da Pavia saves the life of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, he is catapulted from the monastery that has sheltered him for ninteen years into the opulance and decadence of court life. The attempt on the Duke's life is attributed to a mysterious assassin. Leonardo da Vinci is artist-in-residence in the the court of the Duke and he and Niccolo soon form a strong bond. The year is 1498 and the court is preparing for an invasion by the French. As the court attempts to distract from the impending war with lavish celebrations, a series of unexplained deaths in the castle send shock waves through the court. Twenty-seven bodies are found, each murdered in a different way. Leonardo records his observations in a book that exposes corruption, cover-ups and abuse of power that pose a threat to the Duke far greater than the invading armies if it is discovered. As the invading army approaches Leonardo and Niccolo must flee with the book before the Duke's guards arrive. This is book one in a series of eight adventures which follows Leonardo's life and involves the two friends in challenging situations that require their sleuthing skills. Review from National Advertising "Here's a marvelous treat, the wittiest historical mystery novel that deftly intertwines fact and fiction in a deliciously clever tale".