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 The Times Illustrated History of Europe 
 The Times Illustrated History of Europe Author: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto "Times Books", London 1996 Pages: 36 ISBN: 0-7230-0724-1 Format: PDF Quality: Good Language: Russian Size: 32 mb Illustrations and full-color maps, this latest work from Oxford historian Fernandez-Armesto, editor of The Times Guide to the Peoples of Europe, is a fascinating companion volume to The Times Atlas of European History. The author traces the cultural, social, and political evolution of Europe from its origins (c.10,000 B.C.) to the present day.
The 9/11 Encyclopedia (2 volumes)
 Author: Atkins S.E. The 9/11 Encyclopedia (2 volumes) Praeger 2009 Pages: 979 Language: english Format: pdf Size: 10.62 mb Horror. Sadness. Protests. Military action. Conspiracy theories. From personal loss to economic upheaval to a paradigm shift in U.S. foreign relations, few events in the past 100 years have impacted American life so greatly as the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This comprehensive two-volume set details every event leading up to 9/11, going back up to a decade prior to the attacks, and including all participants from any place in the world. Also covered are events since the attack that have influenced our understanding of the ordeal. With A-Z entries, descriptive sidebars, and over 40 primary documents, The 9/11 Encyclopedia is an essential source for understanding one of the blackest marks on the pages of American history.
A History of the Ideas of Theoretical Physics: Essays on the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Physics
 Author: D'Agostino S. A History of the Ideas of Theoretical Physics: Essays on the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Physics Springer 2000 Format: PDF Size: 26 mb Language: English Pages: 381
Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History
 Author: William J. Bernstein Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History Atlantic Books 2014 Format: epub/pdf Size: 15 Mb Language: English In his new book, William J. Bernstein, the celebrated author of A Splendid Exchange, chronicles the history of media, starting with the origin of writing thousands of years ago in Mesopotamia. The revolutionary tool gave rise to the world’s ancient empires. And when Phoenician traders took their alphabet to Greece, literacy’s first boom led to the birth of drama and democracy. But it’s not just new communication technologies that have changed the world—it’s access to them. Vernacular bibles gave rise to religious dissent, but it was only when the combination of cheaper paper and Gutenberg’s printing press drove down the cost of books by 97 percent that the fuse of Reformation was lit. The Industrial Revolution allowed information to move faster and farther than ever before, though it concentrated power in the hands of those who ran radio and TV stations, large newspapers, and then, totalitarian governments. With the twenty-first century boom of the mobile Internet, control of media has again spread, and the world is both more connected and freer than ever before. An utterly captivating, enlightening book, Masters of the Word will change the way you look at technology, human history, and power.
The History of Mongolia
 Author: University of Cambridge, and Christopher Kaplonski, University of Cambridge Edited by David Sneath The History of Mongolia BRILL/Global Oriental 2010 Format: PDF Size: 16.4 Mb Language: English A significant aspect of this work is the emphasis on source materials, including some translated from Mongolian and other languages for the first time. The source materials and other articles are all fully contextualized and situated by introductory material by the volume's editors. This is the first work in English to bring together significant articles in Mongolian studies in one place, which will be widely welcomed by scholars and researchers in this field. This essential reference in two volumes includes works by noted scholars including Charles Bawden, Igor de Rachewiltz, David Morgan, Owen Lattimore and Caroline Humphrey. It also includes excerpts from translations of source documents, such as the works of Rashid al-Din, "The Secret History of the Mongols" and the "Yuan Shih". In addition, more recent historical periods are covered, with material such as Batmonh's speech that heralded Mongolia's versions of glasnost and perestroika, as well as Baabar's Buu Mart, a key work associated with the Democratic Revolution of 1990.
Victory at Sea: Flattops
 Author: Cristopher Douglas Victory at Sea: Flattops Rutledge Books 1961 Format: PDF Pages: 68 Language: English Size: 21 MB Victory at Sea Flattops - How brave men in a new kind of ship wrote a new page in naval warfare. The story of the aircraft carrier in world war II told in words and pictures to remember, and based on the TV award-winning program.
An Illustrated History of the USA
 Author: Bryn O'Callaghan An Illustrated History of the USA Longman 2004 г. Format: PDF Size: 49,7 mb
Ireland and the British Empire
 Ireland and the British Empire (Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series) Author: Kevin Kenny Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199251843 2006-03-02 Pages: 318 Language:English Format:PDF Size: 3.2 MB This is the first comprehensive history of Ireland and the British Empire. It examines the different phases of Ireland's colonial status from the seventeenth century until the present, along with the impact of Irish people, politics, and nationalism on the Empire at large. The result is a new interpretation of Irish history and its place in the rise, expansion, and decline of the British Empire.
City of Oranges
 Author: Adam LeBor City of Oranges. Arabs and Jews in Jaffa Bloomsbury Paperbacks 2012 Format: epub/pdf Size: 10.3 Mb Language: English Jaffa - famed for its orange groves - was for centuries a city of traders, merchants, teachers and administrators, home to Muslims, Christians and Jews alike. That is, until the founding of the state of Israel, which was simultaneously a moment of jubilation for the Jews and a disaster - the Naqba - for the 100,000 Arabs who fled Jaffa in 1948. Through the stories of six families - three Arab and three Jewish - Adam LeBor delicately illuminates the complexity of modern Israel, going beyond the media stereotypes and political rhetoric to tell a moving human story. From the Christian Arab car-dealer, the Jewish coffee-and-spice merchant and the Arab baker who makes bread for the whole community, to the Jewish schoolgirl who befriends an Arab drug dealer, these people strive to make a life in a country born of conflict.
Zaginione Królestwa
 Author:Davies Norman Zaginione Królestwa ZNAK 2010 Format: pdf Size: 106.52 MB Language: Polish Norman Davies zabiera nas w oszałamiającą podróż przez wieki dziejów. Pokazuje egzotyczne stolice i mówiące niemal wymarłymi językami narody. Przedstawia nam nieznaną historię Europy, ale i opowiada o nas samych: o Galicji, Prusach, Wielkim Księstwie Litewskim. Czy jakiś inny historyk miałby na tyle wyobraźni, żeby połączyć ze sobą upadek ZSRR, historię Gdańska i państwo barbarzyńskich Wizygotów? Po lekturze Zaginionych Królestw nikt już nie będzie mógł traktować uporządkowanego świata historii ze szkolnych podręczników jak prawdy objawionej. Burgundia nie będzie kojarzyć się wyłącznie z winem, a Aragonia z Aragornem z Tolkienowskiego Władcy Pierścieni.
Belfast Executions
 Author: Joe Baker Belfast Executions, 2nd edition Glenravel Local History Project 2011 Format: PDF Size: 13.4 Mb Language: English A history of executions in Belfast
The Who, the What, and the When: 65 Artists Illustrate the Secret Sidekicks of History
 Author: Jenny Volvovski, Julia Rothman, Matt Lamothe The Who, the What, and the When: 65 Artists Illustrate the Secret Sidekicks of History Chronicle Books 2014 Format: PDF (e-book) Size: 33.6 Mb Language: English In the bestselling tradition of The Where, the Why, and the How, this offbeat illustrated history reveals 65 people you've probably never heard of, but who helped shape the word as we know it. Muses and neighbors, friends and relatives, accomplices and benefactors—such as Michael and Joy Brown, who gifted Harper Lee a year's worth of wages to help her write To Kill a Mockingbird. Or John Ordway, the colleague who walked with Lewis and Clark every step of the way. Each eye-opening story of these unsung heroes is written by a notable historian and illustrated by a top indie artist, making The Who, the What, and the When a treasure trove of word and image for history buffs, art lovers, and anyone who rejoices in unexpected discovery.
Historical dictionary of Georgia
 Author: Alexander Mikaberidze Historical dictionary of Georgia The Scarecrow Press, Inc. Historical dictionaries of Europe № 50 2007 ISBN: 978-0-8108-5580-9, 0-8108-5580-1 Pages: 774 Format: pdf Size: 22,7 mb Language: English Quality: excellent
Cambridge History of China.
 Author: The Cambridge Hystory of China. Alien Regimes and Border States 907-1368 Cambridge University Press; First Edition, Third Impression edition 1994 Format: PDF Language: English Pages: 805 Size: 44,98 mb This volume deals with four non-Chinese regimes: the Khitan dynasty of Liao; the Tangut state of Hsi Hsia; the Jurchen empire of Chin; the Mongolian Yüan dynasty that eventually engulfed China.
The Secret History of the World
 Author: Jonathan Black The Secret History of the World Quercus ISBN: 0857380974 2010 Format: EPUB Size: 17,6 МБ Language: English Pages: 592 Jonathan Black examines the end of the world and the coming of the Antichrist - or is he already here? How will he make himself known and what will become of the world when he does? - and the end of Time. Having studied theology and learnt from initiates of all the great secret societies of the world, Jonathan Black has learned that it is possible to reach an altered state of consciousness in which we can see things about the way the world works that hidden from our everyday commonsensical consciousness. This history shows that by using secret techniques, people such as Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton and George Washington have worked themselves into this altered state - and been able to access supernatural levels of intelligence.
London passed and passing, a pictorial record of destroyed & threatened buildings
 London passed and passing, a pictorial record of destroyed & threatened buildings Author: Hanslip Fletcher London I. Pitman Pages: 262 Format: PDF Size: 21 mb Quality: Good Language: English 1909
Philip's Atlas of World History.
 Author: ред. Patrick K.O'Brien Philip's Atlas of World History. Institute of Historical Research,London 2007 г. Format: PDF Size: 53 mb
Artillery
 Author: John Nicholas Artillery (The Army Library) Rourke Enterprises, Inc. 1989 Format: PDF Pages: 56 Language: English Size: 23.2 MB Describes the various types of artillery used by the United States Army during different times in history, including self-propelled howitzers, light artillery, towed heavyweights, and other kinds of guns.
Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History
 Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History Author: Serhii Plokhy University of Toronto Press 2005 Pages: 621 Format: PDF Size: 35 Mb Language: English From the eighteenth century until its collapse in 1917, Imperial Russia – as distinct from Muscovite Russia before it and Soviet Russia after it – officially held that the Russian nation consisted of three branches: Great Russian, Little Russian (Ukrainian), and White Russian (Belarusian). After the 1917 revolution, this view was discredited by many leading scholars, politicians, and cultural figures, but none were more intimately involved in the dismantling of the old imperial identity and its historical narrative than the eminent Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866–1934).
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