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The History of Submarines
Author: Jeff Tall The History of Submarines Barron's Books 1998 Format: PDF Pages: 36 Language: English Size: 15.6 MB The earliest experiments with submarines date from the 16th century, but the first practical subs were built from the designs of Irish-American engineer J.P. Holland at the beginning of this century. Here are diagrammatic illustrations, battle illustrations, and photos that show submarine development, with emphasis on the vessels of World Wars I and II, and modern nuclear subs.
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A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind
Author: Axworthy M. A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind New York: Basic Books 2008 Pages: 352 Language: english Format: PDF Size: 4.39 mb Although frequently vilified, Iran is a nation of great intellectual variety and depth, and one of the oldest continuing civilizations in the world. Its political impact has been tremendous, not only on its neighbors in the Middle East but also throughout the world. From the time of the prophet Zoroaster, to the powerful ancient Persian Empires, to the revolution of 1979, the hostage crisis, and the current standoff over Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Michael Axworthy vividly narrates the nation’s rich history. He explains clearly and carefully both the complex succession of dynasties that ruled ancient Iran and the surprising ethnic diversity of the modern country, held together by a common culture. With Iran again the focus of the world’s attention, A History of Iran is an essential guide to understanding this volatile nation.
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Robin Hood
Author: Neil Smith Robin Hood Osprey Publishing OOsprey Myths and Legends 7 ISBN: 1472801253 2014 Format: PDF (e-book) Pages: 82 Size: 7 Mb Language: English He robbed from the rich to give to the poor, or so the legend goes. But who was the outlaw known as Robin Hood? How did his legend develop, and how has it changed over the passing centuries? This new title in the Osprey Myths and Legends series takes a detailed look at the famous outlaw, beginning with a retelling of the early ballads that established his stories. From there, the book explores how the legend grew and how famous names such as Little John, Friar Tuck, Maid Marian, and Alan-a-Dale became associated with Robin Hood.
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100 of the Worst Ideas in History: Humanity's Thundering Brainstorms Turned Blundering Brain Farts
Author: Michael Smith, Eric Kasum 100 of the Worst Ideas in History: Humanity's Thundering Brainstorms Turned Blundering Brain Farts Sourcebooks 2014 Format: PDF Size: 25.7 Mb Language: English What were they thinking? Ever since Adam snacked on the forbidden fruit and was chased naked out of the Garden of Eden, mankind has bitten off a bevy of bad ideas. From skinny-dipping Presidents to toxic tooth fillings to singing pop stars who can't carry a tune, 100 of the Worst Ideas in History is a celebration of humanity's historical—and often hysterical—missteps that have started wars, sunk countries, wrecked companies, scuttled careers, lost millions, and even endangered the Earth. Discover: - How a confused chauffeur helped start World War I - How a Chicago White Sox game helped hasten the demise of disco - The toad that nearly ate Australia - The most dangerous children's game ever invented - And so much more (of so much less!) Spanning politics, pop culture, fashion, sports, technology, and more, this irreverent and witty book is packed with fun photos and sidebars, tracing how these thundering brainstorms turned into blundering brain farts-and the astonishing impacts our faux pas and foibles still have on us today.
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Description de l'Egypte, ou, Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Egypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française. Planches : Antiquités
Description de l'Egypte, ou, Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Egypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française. Planches : Antiquités Author: Imprimerie impériale 18xx, 1809, 1812, 1817, 1822, 18xx Language:French Format:pdf Size:6, 181, 122, 107, 124, 97, 21 mb Pages:92, 133, 134, 93, 109, 132
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Your Country Needs You: The Secret History of the Propaganda Poster
Author: James Taylor Your Country Needs You: The Secret History of the Propaganda Poster Saraband ISBN: 1887354972 2013 Format: EPUB Size: 20,2 МБ Language: English Pages: 156 The iconic image by Alfred Leete of Lord Kitchener with outstretched hand and finger, exhorting you to 'do your bit', is a design classic and has been repeatedly imitated worldwide. In the run-up to the World War anniversary, Your Country Needs YOU celebrates the magnificent artwork of Leete and his fellow designers, and explores their legacy. Featuring colour reproductions of propaganda posters and drawing on fresh analysis of the archives, this book challenges received historical wisdom about these hugely popular and enduring images, and reveals a surprising new history that is no less than groundbreaking.
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Tall Ships: A Guide to Sailing Ships Around the World (Ships Illustrated)
Tall Ships: A Guide to Sailing Ships Around the World Author: Max Mudie Ships Monthly Ships Illustrated ISBN: 978 1909786769 2015 Language: English Pages: 100 Format: PDF Size: 45,3 MB Each issue focuses on a theme or significant historic ship, their stories complemented with archive photography and artwork. A real collectors item and great read for anyone with an interest in the development of naval, passenger and transportation shipping.
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Russia in World History
Author: Barbara Alpern Engel, Janet Martin Russia in World History (New Oxford World History) Oxford University Press 2015 Format: PDF Size: 8.7 Mb Language: English This volume offers a lively introduction to Russia's dramatic history and the striking changes that characterize its story. Distinguished authors Barbara Alpern Engel and Janet Martin show how Russia's peoples met the constant challenges posed by geography, climate, availability of natural resources, and devastating foreign invasions, and rose to become the world's second largest land empire. The book describes the circumstances that led to the world's first communist society in 1917, and traces the global consequences of Russia's long confrontation with the United States, which took place virtually everywhere and for decades provided a model for societies seeking development independent of capitalism. This book also brings the story of Russia's arduous and costly climb to great power to a personal level through the stories of individual women and men-leading figures who played pivotal roles as well as less prominent individuals from a range of social backgrounds whose voices illuminate the human consequences of sweeping historical change. As was and is true of Russia itself, this story encompasses a wide variety of ethnicities, peoples who became part of the Russian empire and suffered or benefited from its leaders' efforts to meld a multiethnic polity into a coherent political entity. The book examines how Russia served as a conduit for people, ideas, and commodities flowing between east and west, north and south, and absorbed and adapted influences from both Europe and Asia and how it came to play an increasingly important role on a regional and, ultimately, global scale.
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The Goths in the Crimea
Author: Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev The Goths in the Crimea The Mediaeval academy of America in Cambridge, Mass . 1936 Format: PDF Size: 16 Mb Language: English Table of Contents I. THE EARLY PERIOD OF CHRISTIANITY AND THE EPOCH OF THE MIGRATIONS … II. THE PERIOD OF BYZANTINE, KHAZAR AND RUSSIAN INFLUENCE (FROM THE SIXTH CENTURY TO THE BEGINNING OF THE ELEVENTH) III. THE PERIOD OF POLOVTZIAN (CUMAN) DEPENDENCE AND SECESSION FROM BYZANTIUM (FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE ELEVENTH CENTURY TO THE YEAR 1204) IV. THE EPOCH OP THE LATIN EMPIRE (1204-1261) AND THE DEPENDENCE OF GOTHIA UPON THE EMPIRE OP TREBIZOND ◦V. THE PRINCIPALITY OF GOTHIA IN THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES AND ITS FALL IN 1475 VI. GOTHIA UNDER THE TURKISH SWAY (FROM 1475 TO THE END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY)
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The Blond Knight of Germany: A Biography of Erich Hartmann
Author: Raymond F. Toliver, Trevor J. Constable The Blond Knight of Germany: A Biography of Erich Hartmann Tab Books 1985 Format: PDF Pages: 384 Language: English Size: 50 MB Eric Hartmann, great man, great story, adds to the scarce amount of information about air combat on the Eastern front, what an incredible pilot & survivor. This story deserves to be made into a drama similar to Band of Brothers, it's that inspiring. Highly recommended to anyone with an interest in air combat, it makes for a much welcome change from the squadrons of books that are available about the Western theater.
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Between France and New France: Life Aboard tne Tall Sailng Ships
Between France and New France: Life Aboard tne Tall Sailng Ships Author: Gilles Proulx Dundurn Press Ltd. 1984 ISBN: 0-919670-81-4 Pages: 172 Language: English Format: PDF Size: 14 MB History of the development of French sailing ships
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I rioni di Roma: Storia, segreti, monumenti, tradizioni, leggende, curiosita. Volume 2
Le chiese di Roma Newton Compton Author: Mario Sanfilippo Biblioteca de IL Messaggero 2000 (2005) Pages: 465 Format: pdf Language: Italiano Size: 39.4 MB Quality: good I rioni di Roma: Storia, segreti, monumenti, tradizioni, leggende, curiosita. Volume 2 Una passeggiata alla scoperta o alla rivisitazione della storia, dei monumenti, dei palazzi, delle chiese di Roma. Seguendo una serie di itinerari proposti dagli autori, che toccano le vie, le piazze, i luoghi più significativi di ogni rione, sarà possibile addentrarsi profondamente nel tessuto cittadino, godere delle sue meraviglie artistiche, venire a conoscenza di curiosità e notizie insolite relative a tradizioni ormai dimenticate o a personaggi famosi. Le ricostruzioni sono arricchite da aneddoti illuminanti, che danno vita all'antico rudere, o da resoconti di fatti di cronaca ambientati in un moderno palazzo. Le descrizioni ampie e puntuali ci permettono di appassionarci al "racconto" urbanistico, anche con il sussidio iconografico di immagini antiche e moderne, che ci fanno scorgere le profonde trasformazioni intervenute nel corso dei secoli. Camminare per le strade del rione, vagabondare tra i vicoli e le piazze lasciandosi coinvolgere dall'atmosfera "locale" ci porterà dunque a vivere la città nel quotidiano, a scoprire i suoi tesori d'arte e le innumerevoli curiosità e leggende del passato.
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The Story of Civilization in 11 volumes
Author: Will Durant, Ariel Durant The Story of Civilization in 11 volumes Simon & Schuster 2011 Format: epub Size: 181 Mb Language: English This book collection by Will Durant represents the most comprehensive attempt in our times to embrace the vast panorama of man's history and culture. Durant is an excellent historian, and although much of what the books contained is now defunct, the majority is written very comprehensively, steering clear of controversy and unknowns in a manner of detached and objective scholarship (at least for the time period).
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Description de l'Egypte, ou, Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Egypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française. État moderne.
Description de l'Egypte, ou, Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Egypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française. État moderne. Author: Imprimerie impériale 1809, 1822 Language:French Format:pdf
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Bateria cyplowa im.Heliodora Laskowskiego (Zeszyt helski 6)
Bateria cyplowa im.Heliodora Laskowskiego (Zeszyt helski 6) Wydawnictwo "MS" и Stowarzyszenie "Przyjaciele Helu" 2005 Format: Pdf Size: 11 Mb Language: Polish
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Formation of Turkey, The: The Seljukid Sultanate of Rum, Eleventh to Fourteenth Century
Formation of Turkey, The: The Seljukid Sultanate of Rum, Eleventh to Fourteenth Century Author: Claude Cahen Longman ISBN: 0582414911 2001-05-10 Pages: 320 Language:English Format:PDF Size: 26,7 MB From Byzantium to the Mongols to the Sultans of Rum, this acclaimed book offers an important insight into the evocative history of Turkey before the coming of Ottoman power and illuminates a culture and a people who came to play a major role in the shaping of Europe and Asia.. Turkey forms a historical bridge between Europe and Asia and as such has played a pivotal role throughout history. The rise of Constantinople and the later Ottoman Empire are well known: less well understood are developments in the three centuries in-between. What led to the decline of the Byzantine Empire and what happened in the intervening years before the rise of the Ottomans? Translated from the original French, this classic work examines the history of the Turkey that eventually gave rise to an imperial power whose influence spanned East and West Those interested in Eastern European or Turkish history
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The Book: A Global History
Author: Michael F. Suarez S.J. (Author), H. R. Woudhuysen The Book: A Global History Oxford University Press 2014 Format: PDF/ePub Size: 33.3 Mb Language: English A concise edition of the highly acclaimed Oxford Companion to the Book, this book features the 51 articles from the Companion plus 3 brand new chapters in an affordable format! The 54 chapters introduce readers to the fascinating world of book history. Including 21 thematic studies on topics such as writing systems, the ancient and the medieval book, and the economics of print, as well as 33 regional and national histories, offering a truly global survey of the book around the world, The Book: A Global History is the most comprehensive work of its kind. The three new articles, specially commissioned for this edition, cover censorship, copyright and intellectual property, and book history in the Caribbean and Bermuda. All essays are illustrated throughout with reproductions, diagrams, and examples of various typographical features. Beautifully produced and highly informative, this is a must-have for anyone with an interest in book history and the written word.
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Hunters in Transition: An Outline of Early Sami History
Author: Lars Ivar Hansen Hunters in Transition: An Outline of Early Sami History (The Northern World) Brill Academic Pub 2013 Format: PDF Size: 11.6 Mb Language: English Hunters in Transition provides a new outline of the early history of the Sami and discusses issues such as the formation of Sami ethnicity, interaction with chieftain and state societies, and the transition from hunting to reindeer herding.
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The Paris Gun
Author: Miller, Henry M. The Paris Gun Naval and Military Press 2009 Format: PDF Pages: 299 Language: English Size: 21 MB An account of a series of bombardments of Paris by a specially built 21cm gun from a distance of some 75 miles. They began on March 23rd and ended on 9th August 1918. Over 300 shells were fired. Although published by Naval and Military Press in 2005, this book was actually written and first published in 1930 by an officer in the US Ordnance Corps. It has gracefully withstood the test of time and is as fascinating a read now as I am sure it was then. To my knowledge, it is the only volume devoted exclusively to the Paris Gun and is by far the most comprehensive treatment of the subject. The Paris Gun was essentially a railway gun on steroids, designed by the Germans to bombard Paris from the extent of the German lines...a distance of nearly 75 miles. It was hoped that the effect of the bombardment would terrorize Parisians and cause them to flee and-or demand that the French government sue for peace, thus aiding the great 1918 German offensive. Needless to say, it didn't achieve either objective. Using pencils and slide rules, the Germans designed and built three guns, all of which succeeded (more or less) in hitting Paris from a range that was considered impossible to achieve by Allied experts at the time and would be very impressive even today. Specially built shells which had to be fired in sequential order due to wear on the nearly 100 foot long barrel actually reached the stratosphere before falling to earth...simply amazing!
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