The Imperial City of Cologne: From Roman Colony to Medieval Metropolis (19 B.C.-1125 A.D.) is an urban history of Cologne from its imperial Roman origins as a northeastern frontier military outpost to a medieval metropolis on the German Empire's northwestern border. This first history of Cologne, available in English, challenges received notions of late Roman ethnic identities, a Dark Age collapse of urban life, devastating Viking and Magyar incursions, and the origins of medieval...

Roger Hill and his friends start the largest group of super, and not-so-super, heroes. In spite of, or because of, facing danger on an almost daily basis they become one large family, not only facing danger together, but facing life together.

Howard Hill and his family have been banned from their home planet of Concentratia. When they arrive on Earth, Howard finds that four other would-be heroes are searching for him to get him to help them with their problems. Ice Age is looking for Howard to warn him about President Fluff and his Earth II manipulations. Achilles Sr., with help from two Sixth Dimension equines, is trying to protect Earth from his son who usurped his throne and is sending Sixth Dimension beasts through dimensio...

Samuel Gunovi, the former quarterback of the school's football team comes around the corner and bumps into Roger. "Watch where you're going, Nerd!""I'm sorry," Roger apologizes. "Most people pay attention when they round a corner."Samuel grabs Roger's shirt in his fist. "Are you calling me dumb?""This will probably be the last time we see each other," Roger uses both of his hands to remove Samuel's hand from his shirt. "So I am going to tell you exactly what I think of...

A retrograde sun brings an ominous warning, opening a series of prophesies Howard Hill is at the center of. The red spiraling sun brings warning of an alien invasion that could enslave the entire world of Concentratia. It is up to Howard Hill to prepare the Concentratian Outcasts to defeat the Fifty-Year Alliance and save Concentratia. However, releasing the Outcasts into mainstream society, even to save the home he loves, could mean banishment for Howard Hill.

Book Four of the Vexars Universe series brings to a close the background for the Vexars Universe. Howard Hill and the rest of Team 1800; Ice Age, Achilles Sr., Dr. Pro, and Voice, work together to end the alien invasions of the Fifty-Year Alliance and the Sedonans. After which, Achilles Sr. returns home to the Sixth Dimension to reclaim his throne, Ice Age and Dr. Pro do what they can to prevent the rampage of Larkspur, and Howard Hill returns to his lab to find a cure for Larkspur, leavin...

When President Fluff, ruler of Earth II, decides to get greedy, no place in the Vexars Universe is safe. He blames Earth for his disastrous escapade and ultimately builds himself an army, through manipulation, to retaliate against a planet with no defense.Earth II sets the background for the Vexars Universe series.

Blackmail, an old rival of Roger Hill's sends her Mob to attack the Vexar's newly built Power Hall headquarters.

Late nineteenth- and twentieth-century political and intellectual boundaries have heavily influenced our views of medieval Germany. Historians have looked back to the Middle Ages for the origins of modern European political crises. They concluded that while England and France built nation-states during the medieval era, Germany--lacking a unified nation-state--remained uniquely backward and undeveloped.Employing a comparative social history, Huffman reassesses traditional national ...

Roger Hill and his friends are given their first mission as the newly created United Planetary Council's Vexars. Their mission is to stop the terrible rash of bank robberies being committed by a group of money hungry super villains.