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 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.
Historical Atlas
 Author: W.R. Shepherd Historical Atlas Henry Holt & Co. 1911 Format: PDF Quality: Pages: 257 Language: English Size: 78,1 МБ
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.
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.
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
Kookaburra Technical manual. Series 1, no.9: P-47 Thunderbolt Described Part 2
 Author: Geoff Duva Kookaburra Technical manual. Series 1, no.9: P-47 Thunderbolt Described Part 2 Kookaburra Technical Publications 1969 Format: PDF Size: 13,7 МБ Language: English Pages: 28 Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, technical drawings, profiles.
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.
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
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.
From Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible
 Author: Eric H. Cline From Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible National Geographic 2007 Format: epub/pdf Size: 15 Mb Language: English Eric H. Cline uses the tools of his trade to examine some of the most puzzling mysteries from the Hebrew Bible and, in the process, to narrate the history of ancient Israel. Combining the academic rigor that has won the respect of his peers with an accessible style that has made him a favorite with readers and students alike, he lays out each mystery, evaluates all available evidence—from established fact to arguable assumption to far-fetched leap of faith—and proposes an explanation that reconciles Scripture, science, and history. Numerous amateur archaeologists have sought some trace of NoahÕs Ark to meet only with failure. But, though no serious scholar would undertake such a literal search, many agree that the Flood was no myth but the cultural memory of a real, catastrophic inundation, retold and reshaped over countless generations. Likewise, some experts suggest that JoshuaÕs storied victory at Jericho is the distant echo of an earthquake instead of IsraelÕs sacred trumpets—a fascinating, geologically plausible theory that remains unproven despite the best efforts of scientific research. Cline places these and other Biblical stories in solid archaeological and historical context, debunks more than a few lunatic-fringe fantasies, and reserves judgment on ideas that cannot yet be confirmed or denied. Along the way, our most informed understanding of ancient Israel comes alive with dramatic but accurate detail in this groundbreaking, engrossing, entertaining book by one of the rising stars in the field.
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.
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 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.
A Brief History of the 12th Marines
 Author: Charles R. Smith A Brief History of the 12th Marines U.S. Marine Corps ISBN: 1500166626 1972 Format: PDF Size: 17,3 МБ Language: English Pages: 90 This historical publication is the eighth in a series of regimental histories. This series covers in similar fashion each of the infantry and artillery regiments in the Fleet Marine Force, active and reserve. The present narrative not only highlights the significant actions of the 12th Marines, but also furnishes a general history of the developments in Marine Corps artillery. “A Brief History of the 12th Marines” is a concise narrative of the regiment from its initial activation close to half a century ago through its participation in the Vietnam conflict.
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
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.
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.
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.
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