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I rioni di Roma: Storia, segreti, monumenti, tradizioni, leggende, curiosita. Volume 3
Le chiese di Roma Newton Compton Author: Mario Sanfilippo Biblioteca de IL Messaggero 2000 (2005) Pages: 429 Format: pdf Language: Italiano Size: 36.36 MB Quality: good I rioni di Roma: Storia, segreti, monumenti, tradizioni, leggende, curiosita. Volume 3 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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Chanat Krymski i jego stosunki z Polska w XV–XVIII w.
Author : Podhorodecki L. : Chanat Krymski i jego stosunki z Polska w XV–XVIII w. Warszawa: «Książka i Wiedza» : 1987 ISBN: 83-05-11618-2 Pages: 358 Format : PDF Size : 100,3 MB Language : Polish
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The Rise of Islam
Author: Toney Allman The Rise of Islam (Understanding World History Reference Point) Referencepoint Press 2014 Format: PDF Size: 11.7 Mb Language: English Islam, as a faith and as a political power, rose to world dominance in an astoundingly brief timespanlittle more than one hundred years. From the fascinating events of Muhammads life to the founding of a vast empire, the rise of Islam is the story of a people, a vibrant culture, and the growth of a civilization. Without Islams contributions, it is doubtful that Western civilization could have developed as it did.
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Army Ammunition Data Sheets for Land Mines - TECHNICAL MANUAL
Army Ammunition Data Sheets for Land Mines - TECHNICAL MANUAL Author: HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY Army Publishing Directorate TM: 43-0001-36 1994 Format: pdf Pages: 135 Size: 2 Mb Language: English, English This manual is a reference handbook published as an aid in training, familiarization, and identification of land mines and mine fuzes. -- ANTITANK MINES -- ANTIPERSONNEL MINES -- CHEMICAL AGENT MINES -- ACTIVATORS AND FUZES For each item of materiel, there are illustrations and descriptions together with characteristics and related data. Included in the related data are weights, dimensions, performance data, packing, shipping and storage data, type classification, and logistics control codes (LCC).
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Film History: An Introduction
Author: David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson Film History: An Introduction McGraw-Hill Quality: Pages: 788 Language: English 2003 Format: PDF Size: 167 МБ Written by two of the leading scholars in film studies, Film History: An Introduction is a comprehensive, global survey of the medium that covers the development of every genre in film, from drama and comedy to documentary and experimental. As with the authors' bestselling Film Art: An Introduction (now in its eighth edition), concepts and events are illustrated with frame enlargements taken from the original sources, giving students more realistic points of reference than competing books that rely on publicity stills. The third edition of Film History is thoroughly updated and includes the first comprehensive overviews of the impact of globalization and digital technology on the cinema. Any serious film scholar--professor, undergraduate, or graduate student--will want to read and keep Film History.
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Royal Dates with Destiny
Author: Robert Easton Royal Dates with Destiny Amberley 2010 Format: PDF Size: 44 Mb Language: English 'Royal Dates with Destiny' is a collection of short vignettes describing the deaths of the world's aristocracy. It is presented in "calendar form, with at least one entry for each day of the year. Based on a number of scholarly sources per entry, these 400 or so "summaries of mortality" give an idiosyncratic and delightfully bizarre historical overview of the surprising ways in which the world's most powerful have died. Each month contains at least a couple of famous royal deaths, yet more often than not the royal will be less well known, yet no less fascinating.
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The History of Fighter Planes
Author: Bill Gunston The History of Fighter Planes Scolastic Inc. 1999 Format: PDF Pages: 36 Language: English Size: 18.9 MB Attractively laid out on illustration-filled pages with texts that speak clearly to their subjects, these books review the technological achievements that have helped to shape history. Each book has between 70 and 110 photos, modern illustrations of historical events, and reproductions of famous illustrations from the past. Here is the history of war planes and their pilots, from the dogfights over the Western Front in World War I to sophisticated jet warplanes of the present day. Among the major incidents recounted is the Japanese air attack on Pearl harbor in 1941, which brought America into World War II and established aircraft carriers and air power as the mainstay of modern navies. This book brings fighter plane history into the jet age.
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A History of Scotland: Look Behind the Mist and Myth of Scottish History
A History of Scotland: Look Behind the Mist and Myth of Scottish History Phoenix Author: Neil Oliver 2011 Pages: 460 Format: MOBI Size: 3 mb Language: English Archaeologist Oliver has become a BBC star hosting such history programs as Two Men in a Trench. This volume accompanies his latest series, about his homeland. Scotland is wedded, for better or worse, to England, and it's often been the latter for Scotland. Periods when Highlanders and Lowlanders stood independent of the English live on, however, in historical memory. It is to such popularly recollected names as William Wallace and Robert the Bruce that Oliver accordingly pegs his narrative, which unrolls from Celtic times to Roman times to Stuart times, which expired with Bonnie Prince Charlie's defeat in 1745. Like characters in a dramatic play, the historical figures are pithily characterized (Mary Queen of Scots: "dynastic dynamite") and then sent into action. While populist in style, Oliver's presentation never caricatures its actors. He imparts impressions of them as real people with passions, convictions, and choices. Including such great Scottish cultural icons as poet Robert Burns, Oliver's warmhearted yet illusion-free survey of Scottish history piques interest in the auld country.
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Fire & Steel - Israel's 7th Armored Brigade
Author: Samuel M. Katz Fire & Steel - Israel's 7th Armored Brigade Pocket Books 1996 Format: PDF Pages: 316 Language: English Size: 72.4 MB Israel's 7th Armored Brigade has rewritten the manuals of armored warfare, surpassed the limits of courage under fire, and impressed military experts everywhere as the finest tank unit in the world. The men: They're the elite of a nation's youth, marked by gun grease, suffused with the stench of cordite, and devoted to guarding some of modern history's hardest-won ground. The armor: To begin with it was bought and stolen World War II surplus tanks; now the Brigade uses the Merkava—the world's most awesome tank.
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Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression
Author:Robert L. O'Connell Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression Oxford University Press 1990 Format: pdf Size: 28Mb Language: English As Robert L. O'Connell reveals in this vividly written history of weapons in Western culture, that first attempt at an arms control measure characterizes the complex and often paradoxical relationship between men and arms throughout the centuries. In a sweeping narrative that ranges from prehistoric times to the nuclear age, O'Connell demonstrates how social and economic conditions determine the types of weapons and the tactics used in warfare and how, in turn, innovations in weapons technology often undercut social values. He describes, for instance, how the invention of the gun required a redefinition of courage from aggressive ferocity to calmness under fire; and how the machine gun in World War I so overthrew traditional notions of combat that Lord Kitchener exclaimed, "This isn't war!" The technology unleashed during the Great War radically altered our perceptions of ourselves, as these new weapons made human qualities almost irrelevant in combat. With the invention of the atomic bomb, humanity itself became subservient to the weapons it had produced. Of Arms and Men brilliantly integrates the evolution of politics, weapons, strategy, and tactics into a coherent narrative, one spiced with striking portraits of men in combat and penetrating insights into why men go to war.
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Albert Speer - The End of a Myth
Author: Matthias Schmidt Albert Speer - The End of a Myth St. Martin's Press 1984 Format: PDF Pages: 296 Language: English Size: 38 MB Did the master builder of the Third Reich, Albert Speer, really not know about the Nazi extermination camps? What did he conceal from Allied interrogators, and from the millions who bought his memoirs, INSIDE THE THIRD REICH? Here is the chilling, documented tale about the "hero" of the Nuremberg Trials. In this book, which was an immediate best-seller in Europe, historian Matthias Schmidt interweaves documentary evidence with his own interviews with Speer's former colleagues. He unravels the most carefully crafted falsification in modern history--Albert Speer's memoirs dangerously polluted history. Schmidt's book purifies the record.
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Witchcraft and the Black Art
Author: John William Wickwar Witchcraft and the Black Art, Rev. edition Fonthill Media 2012 Format: PDF Size: 49 Mb Language: English Wickwar brings commonsense and rational thought to a subject which is often unnecessarily sensationalized. He ventures to a degree into the psychoanalytical sphere, but only in as much as to provide explanations for why people acted as they did. This is combined with excellent historical records and a simple, clean and readable journey through the subject from ancient through the ages.
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Ajedrez y Comunismo
Author: Ludek Pachman Ajedrez y Comunismo Ediciones Martínez Roca ISBN: 8427002599 1974 Format: PDF Size: 29,0 МБ Language: Spanish Pages: 403 A finales de noviembre de 1972 emigraba de Checoslovaquia el gran maestro de ajedrez Ludek Pachman. Con él marchaba el testimonio de un hombre totalmente dedicado, no sólo al ajedrez, sino al periodismo y a la política de su país. El pensamiento, puramente marxista, de Pachman, había sufrido un giro radical a raíz de la invasión de Praga por los tanques soviéticos en 1968.
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The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia
The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia Author: David Commins I.B. Tauris 2006 Pages: 287 Language: English Format: pdf Size: 4.2 Mb This is a definitive and authoritative account of the conservative interpretation of Islam that is the official creed of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Wahhabism. Muslim critics have dismissed it as a heretical innovation that manipulated a backward people to gain political control. David Commins dismisses the clichés, examines the nature of Wahhabism, and offers original findings as to how Wahhabism rose to dominance in Arabia and projected its influence in the Muslim world. He also assesses the challenges that it faces from radical militants within the Kingdom.
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Meteor from the Cockpit: Britain's First Jet Fighter
Author: Peter Caygill Meteor from the Cockpit: Britain's First Jet Fighter Pen and Sword Aviation ISBN: 1848842198 2010 Format: EPUB Pages: 160 Size: 2 Mb Language: English The Meteor is remembered as the first British jet fighter to enter squadron service and the only jet powered Allied fighter to see action in WW II. Subsequent development was limited as a result of its relatively conventional airframe although it did hold the world air speed record for a while. The Meteor was immensely strong and many pilots owe their lives to its rugged construction. For a whole generation of pilots the aircraft (the Meatbox as it was affectionately known) provided the ideal introduction to jet-powered flight. It did suffer a high accident rate but many of the losses were due to lack of knowledge of the stresses of high speed flight at low level and a misguided training program.
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The Seafarers - The Venetians
Author: Colin Thubron The Seafarers - The Venetians Time-Life Books 1981 Format: PDF Pages: 184 Language: English Size: 61.8 MB Another one of those old Time-Life books, heavily illustrated, with a chatty text broken down into bits easy to comprehend. Generally good jobs, and this one is as good as any. Very good introduction to the Venetians. It wasn't just gondolas being pushed along by fellows with big mustaches. These were the shock troops of the West, at one time. How did you think the Parthenon got blown up? It didn't last forever. The Med was the world's oyster as Europe came stumbling out of the Dark Ages, led by the Italian city-states, Venice in the commercial and military lead. But there were further shores, trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific and trans-India Ocean. And the Venetians were no better with these than the Greeks had been. The Portuguese, the Spaniards, the English, the French, everybody wound up surpassing them. They were eaten by the French. There's a special value to this particular Time-Life installment, though. This one was written by Colin Thubron, one of the best living travel writers in the English language.
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Zeppelins Over England
Author: Kenneth Poolman Zeppelins Over England White Lion 1975 Format: PDF Pages: 224 Language: English Size: 86.5 MB The 'blitz' on London and other great cities is now a familiar and tragic episode of aerial warfare.
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World Penguin Author: Niall Ferguson 2009 Pages: 448 Format: PDF Size: 8 mb Language: English Niall Ferguson makes a strong, compelling case for the development of money and banking as a catalyst for the advancement of civilization. Yet while some critics praised his clear, comprehensible writing, punctuated with anecdotes and historical details, others were nonplussed by his explanations and narrative detours. Several critics also bemoaned the book's choppy and uneven structure—an echo of the episodic, six-part television series it was meant to accompany. So it seems the UK critics liked the book less because they had seen the show. Though perhaps best suited to readers with a fundamental understanding of financial terms and theories, Ferguson's latest work provides valuable insight into the inner workings of the global economy, past and present. For interested readers, it demonstrates how our current fiscal meltdown fits into the bigger historical picture and laments humanity's perennial inability to learn from this history.
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