Cleopatra and Nefertiti: Beyond Their Beauty and Seduction Cleopatra and Nefertiti are both known for their beauty. They are also known for traits having to do with their womanhood: the men with whom they were romantically involved, their ability to seduce. This book gets beneath this surface to give a more complete picture. Cleopatra was ambitious and smart, while Nefertiti was much more active in her husband's reign than was usual for her time. Cleopatra's alliances were much more than romances, but played major roles in the global politics of the time. She was poised, with Antony, to...

Abraham Lincoln: The Man and The Hero Is the story of Abraham Lincoln as amazing and astonishing as we are led to believe? Was there more to him as President than just being assassinated? As we explore the story of Abraham Lincoln we will see how this was an individual that went against the grain and managed to rise to the top of the country from the most humble of beginnings. This was an individual who managed to succeed against adversity from his early failures in the political world and yet was still able to achieve greatness while always sticking to his principles. Abraham Lincoln is not...