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  • Audiobook

    Master of Rome

    A Life of Julius Caesar

    by David Potter ...
    Narrated by Graham Winton ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 51 min

    By any measure, Julius Caesar is one of the most significant and famous figures in Roman history. Self-identified as a "popular" politician, he advocated for effective government to better the lives of average Romans, but believed such a government could not be based upon the existing democracy. Only through his personal authority and the massive organization he built to overthrow the government ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Emperors of Rome

    by David Potter ...
    The Emperors of Rome charts the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through profiles of the greatest and most notorious of the emperors, from the autocratic Augustus to the feeble Claudius, the vicious Nero to the beneficent Marcus Aurelius, through to the maniac Commodus and beyond. Interwoven with these are vivid descriptions of sports and art, political intrigues and historic events.In this ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Origin of Empire

    Rome from the Republic to Hadrian

    by David Potter ...
    Series Book 4 - History of the Ancient World
    Beginning with the Roman army’s first foray beyond its borders and concluding with the death of Hadrian in 138 CE, this panoramic history of the early Roman Empire recounts the wars, leaders, and social transformations that lay the foundations of imperial success.Between 264 BCE, when the Roman army crossed into Sicily, and the death of Hadrian nearly three hundred years later, Rome became one of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Constantine the Emperor

    by David Potter ...
    This year Christians worldwide will celebrate the 1700th anniversary of Constantine's conversion and victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity but that he did so in a way that brought his subjects along after him. Indeed, this major new biography argues that ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Constantine the Emperor

    by David Potter ...
    No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity, but that he did so in a way that brought his subjects along after him. Indeed, this major new biography argues that Constantine's conversion is but one feature of a unique administrative style that enabled him to take control of an empire beset by internal ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Impending Crisis

    America Before the Civil War: 1848-1861

    Narrated by Eric Jason Martin ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 41 min

    David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize–winning The Impending Crisis is the definitive history of antebellum America. Potter's sweeping epic masterfully charts the chaotic forces that climaxed with the outbreak of the Civil War: westward expansion, the divisive issue of slavery, the Dred Scott decision, John Brown's uprising, the ascension of Abraham Lincoln, and the drama of Southern secession. The ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • People of Plenty

    Economic Abundance and the American Character

    America has long been famous as a land of plenty, but we seldom realize how much the American people are a people of plenty—a people whose distinctive character has been shaped by economic abundance. In this important book, David M. Potter breaks new ground both in the study of this phenomenon and in his approach to the question of national character. He brings a fresh historical perspective to ... Read more

    $24.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Master of Rome

    A Life of Julius Caesar

    by David Potter ...
    By any measure, Julius Caesar is one of the most significant and famous figures in Roman history. Self-identified as a "popular" politician, he advocated for effective government to better the lives of average Romans,Âbut believed such a government could not be based upon the existing democracy. Only through his personal authority and the massive organization he built to overthrow the government ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Building a Culture of Conscious Leadership

    A significant driver of disengagement amongst employees is a lack of psychological safety generated from weak and underdeveloped intra- and interpersonal skills on the part of managers. Addressing the issue head on, this book enables leaders to lead with conscious awareness to build and sustain psychologically safe cultures through which team members may positively engage with work in a far more ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Religion, Film, and Ecological Catastrophe

    Series series Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
    How can film and popular culture help us think through ecological crises in religious and theological terms?In this book, Brett David Potter contends that film can help viewers come to grips with the spiritual implications of living in this new epoch defined by climate crisis. Across eight chapters, Potter pairs ecological insights gathered from ancient religious stories and rituals with examples ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

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  • Disruption

    Why Things Change

    by David Potter ...
    How do things change? The question is critical to the historical study of any era but it is also a profoundly important issue today as western democracies find the fundamental tenets of their implicit social contract facing extreme challenges from forces espousing ideas that once flourished only on the outskirts of society. This books argues that radical change always begins with ideas that took ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Jock Stein

    The Celtic Years

    'I am proud to say that I knew Jock Stein as a football manager, as a colleague and as a friend . . . he was the greatest manager in British football . . . men like Jock will live forever in the memory' - Sir Alex FergusonDuring his long reign at Celtic, Jock Stein was a legendary figure in the world of football. He led a youthful Celtic side to a memorable European Cup triumph in Lisbon in 1967 ... Read more

    $17.69 USD