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 Catch The Jew! 
 Author: Tuvia Tenenbom Catch The Jew! Gefen Publishing House 2015 Format: pdf, epub Size: 14.3 Mb, 16.5 Mb Language: English Catch the Jew! recounts the adventures of gonzo journalist Tuvia Tenenbom, who wanders around Israel and the Palestinian Authority for seven months in search of the untold truths in today's Holy Land. With holy chutzpah, Tenenbom boldly goes where no Jew has gone before, at times risking his life as he assumes the identities of Tobi the German and even Abu Ali in order to probe into the many stories in this strange land and poke holes in all of them. From the self-hating leftists in Tel Aviv to the self-promoting PLO execs in Ramallah, from the black-clad Haredim of Bet Shemesh to the glowing foreign human rights activists in Beit Hanina, from Jewish settlers and the Christians who come from abroad to toil with them to ardent Jerusalem monks and Bedouins in surprisingly glorious shacks, Tenenbom takes on the people of the land, getting to know them and disarming them as he breaks bread and mingles with anyone and everyone. Does Palestinian wife number one hate the Jews more than she hates wife number two? Who finances cash-rich NGOs pursuing a Judenrein Israel? Who sets Palestinian olive groves on fire and why? What is the emotional gravity that pulls idealistic human rights activists from other countries to Israel and only to Israel? Who are the flaming feminists who sacrifice their lives for the rights of polygamists? Whose land is this, anyway? By turns poignant, enraging, and laugh-out-loud funny, this unique travelogue lays bare the intensity of this turbulent land in an unprecedented, eye-opening education, person by person, city by city, and meal by meal. You will never look at Israel the same way again.
The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples
 Author: David Gilmour The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions, and Their Peoples Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012 Format: epub Size: 32 Mb Language: English A provocative, entertaining account of Italy’s diverse riches, its hopes and dreams, its past and present Did Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped its disparate parts achieve unity? Was the goal of political unification a mistake? The question is asked and answered in a number of ways in this engaging, original consideration of the many histories that contribute to the brilliance—and weakness—of Italy today. David Gilmour’s wonderfully readable exploration of Italian life over the centuries is filled with provocative anecdotes as well as personal observations, and is peopled by the great figures of the Italian past—from Cicero and Virgil to the controversial politicians of the twentieth century. His wise account of the Risorgimento debunks the nationalistic myths that surround it, though he paints a sympathetic portrait of Giuseppe Verdi, a beloved hero of the era. Gilmour shows that the glory of Italy has always lain in its regions, with their distinctive art, civic cultures, identities, and cuisines. Italy’s inhabitants identified themselves not as Italians but as Tuscans and Venetians, Sicilians and Lombards, Neapolitans and Genoese. Italy’s strength and culture still come from its regions rather than from its misconceived, mishandled notion of a unified nation.
TSR2: The Story of Britain's Most Controversial Warplane
 TSR2: The Story of Britain's Most Controversial Warplane Author: Tim McLelland Kelsey Publishing Aeroplane Icons ISBN: 978 1909786134 2014 Language: English Pages: 120 Format: PDF Size: 66,9 MB TSR2 is an infamous acronym that has earned an important place in Britain's aviation history. It describes a project that was first established in the late 1950s, to create a new aircraft to replace the legendary Canberra jet bomber. The RAF was aware of how Soviet military capability was rapidly improving, and a new bomber was needed to fly tactical strike missions, should a war with the Soviet Union become likely. At the time it was believed that there was a very real risk of East-West conflict (this was just a few years before the Cuban Missile Crisis) and Britain had already developed a tactical atomic bomb for possible use in any European war. Although only a tactical weapon, the bomb was in fact much more powerful than the two weapons dropped on Japan more than a decade earlier. Initially, this bomb was to be carried by the Canberra, but the RAF wanted to marry the weapon to a new aircraft that could fl y at low level, hiding from Soviet radar defences, acting as both a nuclear bomber and also as a reconnaissance platform for cameras and other sensors. The RAF also wanted to have a tremendously fast aircraft that would be invulnerable to attack by Soviet aircraft and missiles, so that it would be sure of reaching its target. This was the basis for TSR2. Almost from the point of inception, TSR2 quickly became embroiled in a long saga of bad management, political indecision and confused strategic thinking. The Government backed the programme, but its projected cost was expected to be astronomical. Designing and manufacturing an aircraft that could fl y at tree top height at twice the speed of sound would be a challenge even today, but in 1960 it was a challenge that would call upon the latest advances in technological prowess. The Government's handling of the project was inept.
The Secret Rooms: A True Story of a Haunted Castle, a Plotting Duchess, and a Family Secret
 Author: Catherine Bailey The Secret Rooms: A True Story of a Haunted Castle, a Plotting Duchess, and a Family Secret Penguin Books 2013 Format: pdf/epub Size: 14 Mb Language: English After the Ninth Duke of Rutland, one of the wealthiest men in Britain, died alone in a cramped room in the servants’ quarters of Belvoir Castle on April 21, 1940, his son and heir ordered the room, which contained the Rutland family archives, sealed. Sixty years later, Catherine Bailey became the first historian given access. What she discovered was a mystery: The Duke had painstakingly erased three periods of his life from all family records—but why? As Bailey uncovers the answers, she also provides an intimate portrait of the very top of British society in the turbulent days leading up to World War I.
Daily Life in the Mongol Empire
 Daily Life in the Mongol Empire Author: George Lane Greenwood 2006 Pages: 340 Language: English Format: pdf Size: 33.8 Mb The Mongol Empire comes to life in this vivid account of the lives of ordinary people who lived under the rule of Ghengis Khan. The book allows the reader to enjoy traditional Mongol folktales and experience life in a yurt, the tent in which the nomadic Mongols lived. It explains why the Mongols had a reputation for being savage barbarians by describing their fur-lined clothes and their heavy, meat- and alcohol-based diet. It supplies first-hand accounts of fighting in Ghengis Khan's decimalized army, and explores the various tasks that were left up to the women, such as loading and unloading the wagons when traveling. Highschool students and undergraduates can compare and contrast religious beliefs and various laws of the Mongols with those of other cultures they are studying. From traditional medicinal treatments to the Great Yasa law system, readers young and old can enjoy this comprehensive, in-depth study of everyday living during the Mongol Empire.
Ship Modeling from Stem to Stern
 Author: Milton Roth Ship Modeling from Stem to Stern TAB Books ISBN: 0830628444 1988 Format: PDF Pages: 294 Size: 58 Mb Language: English New Full Scan Written in an engaging, conversational style, this comprehensive guide leads the reader through every aspect of ship modeling, from how to scale-down plans and what glues and paints to use, to how to build a ship model in a bottle and where to turn for more help.
Time Frame - The Natural World
 Author: Collective Time Frame - The Natural World Time-Life Books 1991 Format: PDF Pages: 184 Language: English Size: 23.3 MB Content: 1 Out of the Wilderness Essay: Sanctuaries of the Spirit 2 The Mediterranean World 3 The Chinese Way Essay: Mining the Earth's Riches 4 The Plow and the Cross 5 Expansion and Exchange Essay: The Odysseys of Plants 6 The Global Challenge
Empire of the Islamic World
 Author: Robin S. Doak Empire of the Islamic World Facts on File 2004 Format: pdf Size: 7.44 mb Great Empires of the Past Language:English This well-written reference resource explores the Islamic Empire's society, culture, and daily life, including architecture and art; astronomy and mathematics; customs, holidays, sports, and foods; government systems; industry and trade; language and literature; military structure and strategy; and mythology and religious beliefs. While Islam, the world's second-largest religion, is the most obvious legacy of the Islamic Empire, the political and scientific contributions are equally formidable. Islamic Empire addresses these and other important connections to our modern world.
Historical Atlas
 Author: W.R. Shepherd Historical Atlas Henry Holt & Co. 1911 Format: PDF Quality: Pages: 257 Language: English Size: 78,1 МБ
Tangible Things: Making History through Objects
 Author: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Ivan Gaskell, Sara Schechner, Sarah Anne Carter Tangible Things: Making History through Objects Oxford University Press 2015 Format: PDF Size: 65 Mb Language: English In a world obsessed with the virtual, tangible things are once again making history. Tangible Things invites readers to look closely at the things around them, ordinary things like the food on their plate and extraordinary things like the transit of planets across the sky. It argues that almost any material thing, when examined closely, can be a link beween present and past. The authors of this book pulled an astonishing array of materials out of storage--from a pencil manufactured by Henry David Thoreau to a bracelet made from iridescent beetles--in a wide range of Harvard University collections to mount an innovative exhibition alongside a new general education course. The exhibition challenged the rigid distinctions between history, anthropology, science, and the arts. It showed that object-centered inquiry inevitably leads to a questioning of categories within and beyond history. Tangible Things is both an introduction to the range and scope of Harvard's remarkable collections and an invitation to reassess collections of all sorts, including those that reside in the bottom drawers or attics of people's houses. It interrogates the nineteenth-century categories that still divide art museums from science museums and historical collections from anthropological displays and that assume history is made only from written documents. Although it builds on a larger discussion among specialists, it makes its arguments through case studies, hoping to simultaneously entertain and inspire. The twenty case studies take us from the Galapagos Islands to India and from a third-century Egyptian papyrus fragment to a board game based on the twentieth-century comic strip "Dagwood and Blondie." A companion website catalogs the more than two hundred objects in the original exhibition and suggests ways in which the principles outlined in the book might change the way people understand the tangible things that surround them.
Nautical Illustrations 681 Royalty-Free Illustrations from Nineteenth-Century Sources
 Author: Jim Harter Nautical Illustrations 681 Royalty-Free Illustrations from Nineteenth-Century Sources Dover Publications 2003 Format: EPUB Size: 39,9 МБ Language: English Pages: 128 Detailed images — taken from rare sources — depict primitive canoes, a Roman galley, ship figureheads, naval battles, dock scenes, lighthouses, pirate ships, steam-powered battleships, and a wealth of other subjects. Brief captions identify pictures, which are arranged chronologically. Irresistible to boating enthusiasts and armchair sailors. Over 600 black-and-white illustrations.
Encyclopedia Of European Peoples
 Encyclopedia Of European Peoples Author: Carl Waldman, Catherine Mason Facts on File 2006 Pages: 984 Language: English Format: pdf Size: 24.1 Mb "Encyclopedia of European Peoples" is an A-to-Z reference to the people of Europe, from ancient to modern times, summarizing their origin, language, history, culture, and relationship to other people. This encyclopedia includes entries on all people that for a time maintained a cultural identity. Thus, the reader will be able to find entries on the Gauls and Normans, but also an entry on the "French: nationality," that describes who they are today with cross-references to the various ancestral people. Main entries begin with a fact sheet and a timeline and conclude with a further reading section. Sidebars are placed throughout, outlining the biographiesof individuals critical to the shaping of European history, and approximately 200 black-and-white photographs, illustrations, and maps add to the engaging text. Contents include a master alphabetical list of entries, with alternate names and language families or other classifications; entries organized by language family, ethnicity, nationalities, or regions; a table listing the languages of Europe, past and present; a summary of the geography of Europe; a summary of the prehistoric hominids once inhabiting that continent; a list of individuals mentioned in the text, organized alphabetically according to European people; and an alphabetical list of those individuals featured in biographical sidebars, citing the entries where the sidebars are located.
Illustrated Guide to Combat Weapons
 Author:Jan Suermondt Illustrated Guide to Combat Weapons Grange Books 2004 Format: PDF Size: 24Mb Language: English
A Magnificent Fight": The Battle for Wake Island
 Author: Robert J. Cressman A Magnificent Fight": The Battle for Wake Island Naval Institute Press Annapolis 2013 ISBN: 1591141753 Format: EPUB Size: 6,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 324 Soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese land-based bombers pounded Wake Island, the American advanced base that was key to the U.S. Navy's strategy in the Pacific. Throughout the next two weeks, the Wake Island garrison survived nearly daily bombings and repulsed the first Japanese attempt to take the atoll. The determined defenders provided a badly needed lift to American morale. Cressman was the first to make extensive use of Japanese materials to identify the enemy order of battle and the roles each unit played in the drama to provide a moving account of the heroism of the defenders in the face if tremendous odds.
Rifleman: Elite Soldiers of the Napoleonic Wars
 Rifleman: Elite Soldiers of the Napoleonic Wars (Classic Soldiers Series) Author: Philipp Elliot-Wright Combined Books ISBN: 1903040027 2000 Pages: 140 Format: PDF Size: 25.71МБ Language: English This series was created by Military Illustrated magazine, the leading monthly military history publication in the English language. It has built an unrivaled reputation for authoritative articles, primary research, rare photographs, and specially commissioned artwork. Here is the story of one of the most effective soldiers of the past -- the Rifleman. The invention of the rifle gave a new twist to warfare. Hunters became soldiers who fought in green and hid behind cover, as did some of the earliest Riflemen in the forests of North America. Men such as these, in both Europe and America, revolutionized the art of war. Using black-and-white and color illustrations, including a spectacular recreation of the Battle of Waterloo, this book explains how the Rifleman was trained to act independently and rely on his own skills, thus becoming the forefather of today's combat soldier.
Strange But True, America: Weird Tales from All 50 States
 Author: John Hafnor Strange But True, America: Weird Tales from All 50 States Lone Pine Productions 2009 Format: PDF/ePub Size: 13 Mb Language: English Strange But True, America is a 50-state tour de force of every oddball fact missing from standard travel and history books. Richly illustrated by veteran artist Dale Crawford, the book's 101 weird tales and matching drawings are crafted to surprise. Author John Hafnor employed a deeply curious research style to unearth the little-known tales, each building to a twist ending that assures reader interest. The book pulls few punches in redefining much of America s previously unquestioned folklore.
The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England
 Author: Marc Morris The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England Pegasus 2013 Format: PDF/ePub/MOBI Size: 11 Mb Language: English An upstart French duke who sets out to conquer the most powerful and unified kingdom in Christendom.An invasion force on a scale not seen since the days of the Romans. One of the bloodiest and most decisive battles ever fought. This new history explains why the Norman Conquest was the most significant cultural and military episode in English history.Assessing the original evidence at every turn, Marc Morris goes beyond the familiar outline to explain why England was at once so powerful and yet so vulnerable to William the Conqueror’s attack; why the Normans, in some respects less sophisticated, possessed the military cutting edge; how William’s hopes of a united Anglo-Norman realm unraveled, dashed by English rebellions, Viking invasions, and the insatiable demands of his fellow conquerors.This is a tale of powerful drama, repression, and seismic social change: the Battle of Hastings itself; the sudden introduction of castles and the massive rebuilding of every major church; the total destruction of an ancient ruling class. Language, law, architecture, and even attitudes toward life itself were altered forever by the coming of the Normans.
The Synchronisation of Civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium B.C. III
 Author:CZERNY Ernst (Eds.) The Synchronisation of Civilisations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium B.C. III. Proceedings of the SCIEM 2000 - 2nd EuroConference, Vienna 28th of May - 1st of June 2003 Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 2007 Language: English Format: pdf Size: 25.79 MB This substantial volume publishes the proceedings of the second general conference of the SCIEM 2000 Special Research Programme, held in 2003 at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. M. Wiener's key-lecture entitled Times change: The current state of the Debate in Old World Chronology" provides the volume’s introduction, followed by the section "Science and Chronology", which includes, among others, several controversial studies on the results of carbon-14 dating. An important point for the ongoing discussion on Aegean chronology is made by Pearce et al., who demonstrate that certain traces in Greenland ice-core layers, previously taken to be stemming from the Minoan eruption of Thera, in fact originate from eruptions of the Aniakchak volcano in Alaska. The volume next includes articles that deal with historical chronology and archaeological evidence, arranged in the sections "Egypt", "The Levant and Syria" and "The Aegean, Cyprus and adjacent regions". In addition to reports and analyses dealing with many aspects of the chronology and archaeology of these regions, this part also contains M. Bietak’s study on all wall-paintings from Egypt, Israel, Syria and the Levant considered to be Minoan. The last section of the volume contains the proceedings of the special workshop "Myceneans and Philistines in the Levant, held within the framework of the SCIEM conference. The present volume sheds new light on the many themes covered by SCIEM 2000, themes of great spatial as well as temporal diversity. Both recent research results and the desiderata and direction of future investigation are presented.
Defending Gallipoli: The Turkish Story
 Author: Harvey Broadbent Defending Gallipoli The Turkish Story Melbourne University Press ISBN: 0522864562 2015 Format: EPUB Size: 7,0 МБ Language: English Pages: 277 Based on exclusive access to Turkish archives, Defending Gallipoli reveals how the Turks reacted and defended Gallipoli. Author and Turkish language expert Harvey Broadbent spent five years translating everything from official records to soldiers' personal diaries and letters to unearth the Turkish story. It is chilling and revealing to see this famous battle in Australian history through the 'enemy' lens. The book commences with a jihad, which sees the soldiers fighting for country and God together. But it also humanises the Turkish soldiers, naming them, revealing their emotions, and ultimately shows how the Allies totally misunderstood and underestimated them Defending Gallipoli fills a huge gap in the history of the Gallipoli campaign.
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