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 The Swiss, the Gold and the Dead 
 Author:Jean Ziegler The Swiss, the Gold and the Dead Penguin Putnam Inc. 1999 Format:PDF Size:10.13 MB ISBN: 0151003343 Language: English A Swiss sociologist examines the relationship between Swiss bankers and Nazi Germany during the Holocaust, detailing how Switzerland's leading financial institutions provided Hitler with loans, favorable foreign exchanges, and the means to launder gold looted from concentration camp victims.
Historia Polski XX wieku
 Author: Antoni Czubiński Historia Polski XX wieku Wydawnictwo Poznańskie 2005 Format: djvu Size: 13.41 MB Language: Polish Historia Polski od początku XX wieku do roku 2000. Zawiera wiel zdjęć, tabel, a także indeks osobowy. Książka ta prezentuje wizję ewolucji na ziemiach polskich w całym XX wieku na tle zmian, jakie zachodziły w państwach sąsiednich i w Europie jako całości.
Western Civilization
 Western Civilization (7th Edition) Author: Wadsworth 2008 Pages: 1067 Format: PDF Size: 253 mb ISBN: 0495502855 Language: English Join over one million students who have used Spielvogel's texts to be successful in their Western Civilization course! There's a reason Western Civilization is the best seller: it makes the "story of history" come alive. Spielvogel's text is also loaded with extras, like "Film and History" features that show you a new approach to studying history. Colorful maps and visuals, plus dramatic first-hand historical accounts, combine to bring to life the stories of the people and events that have shaped Western civilization.
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ships, Boats, Vessels, and Other Water-Borne Craft
 Author: Graham Blackburn The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Ships, Boats, Vessels, and Other Water-Borne Craft Overlook Press 1978 Format: PDF Pages: 456 Language: English Size: 41.8 MB This reference book is the most comprehensive volume on all varieties of seafaring vessels, from rafts to racing yachts and from sloops to skiffs. With over 750 alphabetically arranged entries, over 600 beautifully meticulous line-drawings, a 41-page nautical glossary, a bibliography and an index, this is the most impressive and the most complete guide to everything that floats. Written in Graham Blackburn's wonderfully idiosyncratic style and full of fascinating cross-references, this is the perfect gift for the nautical enthusiast and will also delight any reader with an interest in ships, boats and the sea.
Zondervan Essential Atlas of the Bible
 Zondervan Essential Atlas of the Bible Author: Carl G. Rasmussen Zondervan 2013 ISBN-13: 978-0310318576 Pages: 160 Language: English Format: EPUB Size: 36 MB Discover everything you need to know about the lands where Jesus walked, Moses traveled, and Paul preached. Packed with multidimensional maps, photos, and charts, the Zondervan Essential Atlas of the Bible is designed to help you better understand the history and places of the Bible and its world. This full-color atlas is concise but thorough, perfect for Bible students, travelers to the Holy Land, or any reader of the Bible curious to find out more about commonly mentioned places in the Old and New Testaments. The Zondervan Essential Atlas of the Bible features: Nearly 200 stunning multidimensional and three-dimensional maps and full-color images Accurate and up-to-date mapping technologies Innovative chronological charts and maps covering historical backgrounds, regions, weather, and roads With this easy-to-understand atlas, you’ll find Bible study more engaging and comprehensible, and you’ll learn the essential facts about the fascinating lands of the Bible.
La Historia del Helicoptero en el Ejercito del Aire
 Author: J. Sanchez Mendez La Historia del Helicoptero en el Ejercito del Aire Eurocopter Espana 2013 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 206 Size: 12 Mb Language: Spanish
The Greenwood Dictionary of World History
 Author: John J. Butt The Greenwood Dictionary of World History Greenwood 2005 Format: PDF (rar+3%) Size: 29,09 mb Language: English Pages: 528 The Greenwood Dictionary of World History is an indispensable, handy, and easy to use A-to-Z first-stop ready-reference resource providing essential information on over 2,000 of the most studied and important people, events, places, and ideas in world history from prehistoric to modern times, from all regions and epochs.
Great Lives from History: Inventors and Inventions
 Author: Benson A.K. (Ed.) Great Lives from History: Inventors and Inventions Salem Pr Inc 2009 Format: PDF Size: 84 mb Language: English Pages: 1376 This addition to the Great Lives series offers 409 essays covering significant inventors (27 of them female) worldwide and throughout history. The essays are arranged alphabetically from ‘Abbas ibn Firnas to Zworykin, Vladimir. The inventions that are covered occurred in a wide variety of disciplines—physics, mathematics, agriculture, astronomy, and more. The essays are generally three to four pages in length, and each one begins with basic biographical information, such as the individual’s name, nationality, and birth and death dates, as well as primary fields and primary inventions. The body of the essay is arranged into three sections: Early Life, Life’s Work, and Impact. A sidebar in each essay spotlights one of the individual’s key contributions. The essays conclude with a brief list of suggestions for further reading in addition to cross-references to essays on related topics. The writing is clear and easy to follow. Black-and-white illustrations are scattered throughout the text. Each of the four volumes offers a comprehensive table of contents. Also included in the first volume are a pronunciation key and a listing of the inventions that are covered in the set. The fourth volume offers a short article on the history of U.S. patent law as well as a chronological listing of entries. The final volume contains a time line covering significant inventions in history from ancient times (2,500,000 BCE) to the present (2009) and a Biographical Directory of Inventors offering brief entries on the 413 inventors profiled in the set as well as 598 others. Readers looking for more information will appreciate the annotated listings of electronic resources and the extensive, annotated bibliography. Lastly, the final volume includes a category index, an index listing essays by their subject, and a geographical index. This set includes many useful tools for researchers and would be suitable for the student as well as for the layperson. It’s worth noting that, although some of the titles in the Great Lives series are revisions and expansions of previous publications, all the entries here are new.
Au temps des grandes decouvertes
 Au temps des grandes decouvertes (La Vie privee des Hommes) Author: Pierre Miquel , Claude & Denise Millet Hachette Jeunesse Graduation Year: 1981 ISBN: 2010016777 La Vie privee des hommes Pages: 67 Format: pdf Size : 23,41 mb Language: French
Hadrian's Wall - A Souvenir Guide to the Roman Wall
 Author: David J. Breeze Hadrian's Wall - A Souvenir Guide to the Roman Wall English Heritage 1994 Format: PDF Pages: 52 Language: English Size: 32.7 MB Stretching for 73 miles across northern England, Hadrian's Wall is the most important monument of Roman Britain, and the best-known frontier of the entire Roman empire. It was built on the orders of the emperor Hadrian after he visited Britain in AD 122 and took ten years to complete. This new guidebook provides maps, plans and tours of the important sites, as well as a history of the Wall and its associated forts. It is illustrated throughout with colour reconstructions and photographs.
Scotland's Wars and Warriors: Winning Against the Odds By Historic Scotland
 Scotland's Wars and Warriors: Winning Against the Odds By Historic Scotland Author: David H. Caldwell The Stationary Office 1998 ISBN-13: 978-0114957865 Pages: 104 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 24 MB
The Amateur Archaeologist
 Author:Stephen Wass The Amateur Archaeologist 1997 Routledge Format:pdf Size:7,20 МБ Pages:144 Language: English This informed and practical guide shows how anyone with an interest can take part in archaeology at many different levels, whether through fieldwork undertaken individually or by joining an excavation. Stephen Wass, himself an enthusiast with long experience, provides all that a beginner needs to know: what is archaeology all about? the range of skills that can be learnt examples of ideas for projects advice on what to expect on a dig clear explanations of archaeological techniques. There are some 177 local archaeological societies in Britain with 40,000 members, as well as numerous school, extramural and university courses in archaeology. It is one professional area in which the amateur, however inexperienced, can still not only participate but also make a real contribution and this book positively encourages people to join in.
The United States Navy: A 200-year History
 Author: Edward L. Beach The United States Navy: A 200-year History Houghton Mifflin Company 1986 Format: PDF Pages: 596 Language: English Size: 90 MB Beginning with the pre-revolutionary era, Beach charts the development of the colorful and often stormy branch of the services, bringing both its heroes and its villains fully to life.
Il Soldato Italiano Dal 1909 Al 1945
 Il Soldato Italiano Dal 1909 Al 1945 Author: P. G. Franzosi Rivista Militare 1988 Pages: 48 Format: PDF Size: 12.32МБ Language: Italian Numerosi Illustrazioni a colori di uniformi militari nel testo, con descrizione di ognuna.
From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia
 Author: Pankaj Mishra From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012 Format: pdf/epub Size: 15.2 Mb Language: English A surprising, gripping narrative depicting the thinkers whose ideas shaped contemporary China, India, and the Muslim world A little more than a century ago, as the Japanese navy annihilated the giant Russian one at the Battle of Tsushima, original thinkers across Asia, working independently, sought to frame a distinctly Asian intellectual tradition that would inform and inspire the continent’s anticipated rise to dominance. Asian dominance did not come to pass, and those thinkers—Tagore, Gandhi, and later Nehru in India; Liang Qichao and Sun Yatsen in China; Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Abdurreshi al Ibrahim in the ruins of the Ottoman Empire—are seen as outriders from the main anticolonial tradition. But Pankaj Mishra shows that it was otherwise in this stereotype-shattering book. His enthralling group portrait of like minds scattered across a vast continent makes clear that modern Asia’s revolt against the West is not the one led by faith-fired terrorists and thwarted peasants but one with deep roots in the work of thinkers who devised a view of life that was neither modern nor antimodern, neither colonialist nor anticolonialist. In broad, deep, dramatic chapters, Mishra tells the stories of these figures, unpacks their philosophies, and reveals their shared goal of a greater Asia. Right now, when the emergence of a greater Asia seems possible as at no previous time in history, From the Ruins of Empire is as necessary as it is timely—a book essential to our understanding of the world and our place in it.
Chinas buried Kingdoms
 Author: Time-Life Books Chinas buried Kingdoms Lost Civilizations Time Life 1993 Format: pdf Pages: 180 Size: 22 Mb Language: English, English China's rich past is brought to life in this stunning presentation of the archaeological record of the Shang, Zhou, Qin, and Han dynasties. As with other books in this series, and with all Time-Life Books, the present volume is impressively illustrated with color photographs, maps, drawings, and charts. Readers will be especially interested in the well-known terra cotta army of Qin Shihuangdi, China's first emperor, and the lesser-known tomb of Lady Xin of the Han Dynasty, remarkably well preserved more than two millenniums after her death. The text is informative, presenting much detail in a manner accessible to general readers (though the use of pinyin romanization should have been accompanied by the more traditional and, for many people, more recognizable, Wade-Giles system). Recommended for general collections serving young adult as well as older readers.
The Dying Sahara: US Imperialism and Terror in Africa
 Author: Jeremy Keenan The Dying Sahara: US Imperialism and Terror in Africa Pluto Press 2013 Format: PDF Size: 11 Mb Language: English In The Dark Sahara (Pluto, 2009), Jeremy Keenan exposed the collusion between the US and Algeria in fabricating terrorism to justify a new ‘Saharan front’ in Washington’s War on Terror. Now, in The Dying Sahara, he reveals how the designation of the region as a ‘Terror Zone’ has destroyed the lives and livelihoods of thousands of innocent people. Beginning in 2004, with what local people called the US ‘invasion’ of the Sahel, The Dying Sahara shows how repressive, authoritarian regimes - cashing in on US terrorism ‘rents’ - provoked Tuareg rebellions in both Niger and Mali. Further, he argues that US activity has unleashed a new, narco-trafficking branch of Al-Qaeda. Keenan's chillingly detailed research shows that the US and its new combatant African command (AFRICOM) have created instability in a region the size of western Europe.
Cairo: Histories of a City
 Author: AlSayyad Nezar Cairo: Histories of a City Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2011 Format: PDF Size: 11 mb Language: English Pages: 352 From its earliest days as a royal settlement fronting the pyramids of Giza to its current manifestation as the largest metropolis in Africa, Cairo has forever captured the urban pulse of the Middle East. In Cairo: Histories of a City, Nezar AlSayyad narrates the many Cairos that have existed throughout time, offering a panoramic view of the city’s history unmatched in temporal and geographic scope, through an in-depth examination of its architecture and urban form. In twelve vignettes, accompanied by drawings, photographs, and maps, AlSayyad details the shifts in Cairo’s built environment through stories of important figures who marked the cityscape with their personal ambitions and their political ideologies. The city is visually reconstructed and brought to life not only as a physical fabric but also as a social and political order—a city built within, upon, and over, resulting in a present-day richly layered urban environment. Each chapter attempts to capture a defining moment in the life trajectory of a city loved for all of its evocations and contradictions. Throughout, AlSayyad illuminates not only the spaces that make up Cairo but also the figures that shaped them, including its chroniclers, from Herodotus to Mahfouz, who recorded the deeds of great and ordinary Cairenes alike. He pays particular attention to how the imperatives of Egypt's various rulers and regimes—from the pharaohs to Sadat and beyond—have inscribed themselves in the city that residents navigate today.
Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World
 Author: Londa Schiebinger Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World Harvard University Press 2007 Format: PDF (rar+3%) Size: 1,25 mb Language: English Pages: 320 Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eighteenth century, epic scientific voyages were sponsored by European imperial powers to explore the natural riches of the New World, and uncover the botanical secrets of its people.
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