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In Search of George Washington
The Story of the 28Th Amendment
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
In Search of George Washington (The Story of the 28th Amendment) chronicles the amazing flashback that was the "Prairie Fire" that swept the country over 18 months in 2012 and 2013. See how America cried out for Her heroes and Her history and Her heritage and how a strange re-visitation...
by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2013
A book aimed at teenagers and young adults of English history from ancient Roman times to 1688, written by the great Victorian author, Charles Dickens.
De nieuwe zijderoutes
Het heden en de toekomst van de wereld
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 15, 2018
In De nieuwe zijderoutes beschrijft Peter Frankopan het heden en de toekomst van een wereld die drastisch aan het veranderen is.
We volgen de opkomende zijderoutes naar het oosten, van Europa naar China via Rusland en het Midden-Oosten. In de westerse wereld overheersen in dit Brexit- en Trump-tijdperk...
The Great Work
Our Way into the Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Thomas Berry is one of the most eminent cultural historians of our time. Here he presents the culmination of his ideas and urges us to move from being a disrupting force on the Earth to a benign presence. This transition is the Great Work -- the most necessary and most ennobling work we will ever...
by John A. Hobson
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
John Atkinson Hobson (6 July 1858 1 April 1940), commonly known as John A. Hobson or J. A. Hobson, was an English economist and critic of imperialism, widely popular as a lecturer and writer. During his coverage of the Second Boer War, Hobson began to form the idea that imperialism was the direct result...
by Mark David Ledbetter
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Language and Globalization is a combination of my two interests, linguistics and history. Linguistics contains some intriguing hints about the entirety of the human journey, hints which have been confirmed in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century by genetics. How do history, linguistics,...
by Joosr
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2015
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by John Preece
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
this book presents an entirely new approach to the analysis of human behaviour. there are many reasons why such a reappraisal is timely and important. although man's technological progress has been impressive, all his unresolved problems, other than disease and natural disaster, are fundamentally...
by Alfred R. Wallace, John W. Lindt
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
This book presents the History of New Guinea and its ihabitants. “Immediately north of Australia, and separated from it at Torres Straits by less than a hundred miles of sea, is the largest island on the globe — New Guinea, a country of surpassing interest, whether as regards its natural productions...
Byzance
Grandeur et Décadence - L'évolution de l'histoire byzantine, Les causes de la grandeur de Byzance, Les causes de sa décadence, La civilisation byzantine et son influence, L'héritage de Byzance
Language: French
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Extrait : "Le jour où Constantin fonda Constantinople et en fit la seconde capitale de l'empire romain, — ce jour-là, le 11 mai 330, — l'empire byzantin commença. Par sa situation géographique, au point où l'Europe se rencontre avec l'Asie, Constantinople était le centre naturel autour duquel...
O Grande Livro das Coisas Horríveis
A crônica definitiva da história das 100 piores atrocidades
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Existem várias formas de contar a história da humanidade. Matthew White, um autoproclamado especialista em atrocidades, escolheu contar a história pelo seu viés mais sombrio: as mortes. Como William Shakespeare destacou na peça Julius Caesar, "O mal que os homens fazem sobrevive a eles....
Il y a 200 ans, les savants en Égypte (Paris - 1998)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: October 5, 2016
On sait la fascination que l'Égypte exerce sur les Français et combien le mythe napoléonien est resté vivace. On pouvait donc prédire le succès – au demeurant mérité – de l'exposition Il y a 200 ans, les savants en Égypte, que la Grande Galerie du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle...
by R.W. Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Adapa And The Food Of Life by R.W. Rogers
Adapa, or perhaps Adamu, son of Ea, had recieved from his father, the god Ea, wisdom, but not eternal life. He was a semi-divine being and was the wise man and priest of the temple of Ea at Eridu, which he provided with the ritual bread and water....
by Marco Crespiatico
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Which were the famous "Seven Wonders of the World"? Who built them, how, and what happened to them? This slender volume, illustrated with reproductions and photographs, will answer these questions in a simple but detailed way.