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The First Family — An Imagination is about migrating to newly immerged-out land from sea-bed of south ocean as the new-found land, the arrival of inhabitants and assimilation of civilisations and the formation of the trilogy of gods in Jambudesh.The book depicts the combination of two for reproduction...

« Les Aztèques [...] dominaient avec éclat la plus grande partie du Mexique quand les conquérants espagnols y pénétrèrent en 1519. Leur langue, leur religion s’étaient imposées, de l’Atlantique au Pacifique et des steppes du nord au Guatemala, sur d’immenses étendues. Le nom de leur...

Ukraine is Europe's second state and this lavishly illustrated volume provides a concise and easy to read historical survey of the country from earliest times to the present. Each of the book's forty-six chapters is framed by a historical map, which graphically depicts the key elements of the chronological...

The beginning of slavery can be marked when humans began to settle down. As cities and towns began to take shape and people began to conquer lands so that they could grow food for their people is when the concept of slavery began.

What Greek philosopher thought writing would harm a student’s memory? Was the poet Byron’s daughter the first computer programmer? Who plays more video games, women over 18 or teenage boys? In Alphabet to Internet: Media in Our Lives, Irving Fang looks at each medium of communication through...

What does it mean to be a hero? In The Heroic Heart, Tod Lindberg traces the quality of heroic greatness from its most distant origin in human prehistory to the present day. The designation of “hero” once conjured mainly the prowess of conquerors and kings slaying their enemies on the battlefield....

The Zuni Indians are Native Americans; a Pueblo tribe residing at Zuni on the bank of the Rio Zuni near the boundary of New Mexico, and in the adjoining villages of Nutria, Ojo Caliente, and Pescado. They were discovered by Fray Marcos de Niza, a Franciscan missionary in 1539. Fray Marcos accompanied...

Un racconto fatto di tanti racconti che ci parlano della mobilità degli uomini e delle cose, nello spazio e nel tempo. Conquiste, emigrazioni e immigrazioni, affari, criminalità, viaggi, miserie e ricchezze, invenzioni, vicende di individui, di gruppi e di masse, imperi, stati e città, successi...

Extract: The future development of Sharia is still unknowable, but you can reasonably infer from its historical and evolutionary model that where the power of the vanguard parties is stronger, the local order resources will be consumed more violently. In the short term, these places will dramatically...

Cette première partie du récit de Jules Verne retrace admirablement bien les épopées fantastiques des premiers explorateurs et navigateurs courageux et intrépides qui foulèrent des terres inconnues. Cet ouvrage illustré nous transporte et nous imprègne profondément dans une ambiance...

A Short History of England, Chesterton gives us a cutting, humorous and brilliant tour of English History; though to be honest it's more of a collection of essays and a commentary on popular histories of the day. It follows the great arc of English history from the Roman era to WWI, always with wit,...

The origin of the seven-day week is one of the great mysteries in the human history. Many of us don’t know which process had determined this seven-day week that rules our life and activities. The English names of the seven days derived from the Saxon. The ancient Saxons had borrowed the week...

Huit millions d’hommes frappent, en supplians, au seuil de nos sociétés occidentales. Que veulent-ils  ? Ils demandent qu’on les aide à renaître  ; ils revendiquent notre alliance. À peu près inconnus, égarés au bout de l’Europe,...

Dix années de séjour en Europe m’ont permis de juger que, de tous les pays de la terre, la Chine est le plus imparfaitement connu.     Ce n’est cependant pas la curiosité qui fait défaut  !     Tout ce qui vient de la Chine a un attrait...