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Jaren van verandering

Nederland tussen 1945 en 2014

by Han Lörzing
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 14, 2014

Jaren van verandering is een tijdreis door het Nederland van de laatste zeventig jaar. Het is onze geschiedenis door de ogen van een geïnteresseerde en verbaasde medebewoner: was dit ons land, en nog maar zo kort geleden? Het lijkt geschreven met de blik van een antropoloog die verslag uitbrengt...
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by Plato
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016

Euthyphro by Plato Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time after Socrates' execution...
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The Eye of the Law

Two Essays on Legal History

by Michael Stolleis
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008

Written by the eminent German legal historian, Michael Stolleis, these two ‘Essays on Legal History’ offer an original and compelling history of the symbolism through which law is characterised as being 'above' us. In ‘The Eye of the Law’, the history of this metaphor is followed from antiquity...
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Byzance

Les Grands Articles d'Universalis

by Encyclopaedia Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: March 20, 2017

Partez à la découverte de Byzance avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! La séparation de l'Empire romain de Théodose Ier, en 395, entre ses deux fils, marque le début de l'Empire byzantin. La pars occidentalis subira les poussées barbares, jusqu'à son effondrement en 476, tandis que,...
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Revue des Deux Mondes septembre 2016

Islam et terrorisme, le casse-tête syrien

by Thomas Gomart, Richard Millet, Annick Steta
Language: French
Release Date: August 18, 2016

Dossier : L’Occident face à la Syrie → Henry Laurens : « Les jeux d’ingérence et d’interaction existent en Syrie depuis deux cents ans » Henry Laurens retrace l’histoire des accords Sykes-Picot qui, selon lui, ne sont pas responsables de l’instabilité chronique en Syrie...
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by danton
Language: French
Release Date: January 22, 2014

histoire de la revolution pour lecture numerique
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by Philippe Tamizey de Larroque
Language: French
Release Date: November 23, 2014

Un de nos meilleurs érudits, M. Ludovic Lalanne, a publié dans le numéro de l’Art du 14 mai 1882, un article fort intéressant sur la statue antique découverte à Bordeaux, le 21 juillet 1594, et qui représentait l’ impératrice Messaline. Par...
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by Alexis de Tocqueville
Language: French
Release Date: April 12, 2015

Ce recueil inclut les oeuvres suivantes: (1) PREMIÈRE LETTRE SUR L’ALGÉRIE (23 JUIN 1837) (2) DEUXIÈME LETTRE SUR L’ALGÉRIE (3) TRAVAIL SUR L’ALGÉRIE (1841) (4) RAPPORT DES TRAVAUX PARLEMENTAIRE DE TOCQUEVILLE SUR L’ALGÉRIE (1847).
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by Thorstein Veblen
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013

“The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts” is an 1899 treatise by Thorstein Veblen. Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857 – 1929) was an Norwegian-American sociologist and economist most famous for his idea of 'conspicuous consumption. He theorised that humans do not rationally...
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The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger

A Native of Bavaria, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1396-1427

by Johannes (Johann) Schiltberger, Karl Friedrich Neumann, J. Buchan Telfer
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013

Replica of 1879 edition by the Hakluyt Society, London. This edition comes with a map available as a free download.  Johann (Hans) Schiltberger (1380 – c. 1440) was a German traveller and writer. The book not only is a very interesting sketch of various chapters of contemporary Eastern...
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by Martin Kimeldorf
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017

During the 1100s, Omar Khayyám contributed to the fields of astronomy, math, poetry, and philosophy. This Renaissance man questioned the orthodoxy and academics of his time. His poetry celebrates enjoying simple pleasures. Then 700+ years later in 1859 the bohemian English poet Edward FitzGerald...
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Un village au XIIe siècle et au XIXe siècle

Récit comparatif des moeurs du moyen âge et des moeurs modernes

by Léon Barracand, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: January 12, 2016

Extrait : "Nulle terre sans seigneur. En vertu de cet axiome du droit féodal, tout ce qui compose aujourd'hui le territoire de la commune de Blatigny appartenait, à peu de chose près, vers le douzième siècle, aux comtes de ce nom. Les seigneurs de Blatigny tenaient ces droits de propriété de leurs...
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by Jean Zonaras
Language: French
Release Date: November 25, 2014

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique.   Histoire des Romains est un livre écrit par l'historien byzantin Jean Zonaras (XIe siècle–XIIe siècle). Traduction de Louis Cousin...
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by K. L. Bruenn
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017

Where did Christianity come from? What single factor drove the development of Christianity? Why did Pontius Pilate wash his hands? What did the first Christians believe, and how did it change? Who wrote the Bible? What lies ahead for this religion? Big answers in a small book (less than 10,000 words, but it contains a recommended reading list).
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