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  • Classicising Crisis: The Modern Age of Revolutions and the Greco-Roman Repertoire by Goff, Barbara
    Barbara Goff

    Classicising Crisis: The Modern Age of Revolutions and the Greco-Roman Repertoire

    Geopolitical shifts and economic shocks, from the Early Modern period to the 21st century, are frequently represented in terms of classical antecedents. In this book, an international team of contributors - working across the disciplines of Classics, History, Politics, and English - addresses a...
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  • Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe by Porter, David
    David Porter

    Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe

    From the first successful Jesuit mission in 1583 until the disastrous failure of the British trade embassy in 1816, China's cultural practices transfixed the attention of Western philosophers, theologians, architects, artists, entrepreneurs, and social critics. The direct influences on European culture were many and...
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  • Augustus by Edmondson, Jonathan
    Jonathan Edmondson

    Augustus

    Augustus (63 BC - AD 14), the first Roman emperor, brought peace and stability to Rome after decades of strife and uncertainty. He put in place a new institutional framework for the Roman Empire and inspired the ideology that sustained it for the next...
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  • Melusine The Serpent Goddess in A. S. Byatt's Possession and in Mythology by Alban, Gillian
    Gillian Alban

    Melusine The Serpent Goddess in A. S. Byatt's Possession and in Mythology

    Melusine the Serpent Goddess in Myth and Literature examines how women were once worshipped as the life force, but later suppressed with the introduction of monotheism and a changing attitude regarding the sexes. It connects the literary conception of the Melusine story to myths...
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  • The Poor in England 1700-1850: An Economy of Makeshifts by Tomkins, Alannah
    Alannah Tomkins

    The Poor in England 1700-1850: An Economy of Makeshifts

    This fascinating study investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and the ways in which the poor made ends meet. The phrase 'economy of makeshifts' has often been used to summarise the patchy, desperate and sometimes failing strategies of the poor...
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  • And Still the Waters Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes by Debo, Angie
    Angie Debo

    And Still the Waters Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes

    The classic book that exposed the scandal of the dispossession of native land by American settlers And Still the Waters Run tells the tragic story of the liquidation of the independent Indian republics of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Creeks, and Seminoles, known as the...
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  • The Nose: A Profile of Sex, Beauty, and Survival by Glaser, Gabrielle
    Gabrielle Glaser

    The Nose: A Profile of Sex, Beauty, and Survival

    Each year Americans spend billions of dollars on their noses. From over-the-counter sinus remedies to cosmetic surgery, aromatherapy to Chanel no. 5, we are a nation immersed in all things nasal. But how did this one vital organ become an object of beauty, a...
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  • The Discovery of First Principles: Volume 1 by Dodson, Edward J.
    Edward J. Dodson

    The Discovery of First Principles: Volume 1

    Author: Edward J. DodsonISBN-10: 0595214320ISBN-13: 9780595214327Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2002Pages: 668Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.31lbsSize: 9.08h x 6.08w x 1.64d
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  • Third Palestine: A Regional Study in Byzantine Urbanization by Gutwein, Kenneth C.
    Kenneth C. Gutwein

    Third Palestine: A Regional Study in Byzantine Urbanization

    Author: Kenneth C. GutweinISBN-10: 0595091571ISBN-13: 9780595091577Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2000Pages: 432Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 8.57h x 5.57w x 1.10d
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  • Stone Age Religion at Goebekli Tepe by Luckert, Karl W.
    Karl W. Luckert

    Stone Age Religion at Goebekli Tepe

    The excavation of G bekli Tepe has revealed the hitherto unknown religion of the "Neolithic Revolution." This book offers an archaeological starter basis for interpreting that ancient religion. Other fresh perspectives affect our understanding of civilization, human sacrifice, cannibalism, warfare, and imperialism. Fresh contextual...
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  • The Cultural Heritage Of Chinese & Western Wines: Tradition Of Chinese & Mediterranean Wine: Wine In China by Minks, Francisco
    Francisco Minks

    The Cultural Heritage Of Chinese & Western Wines: Tradition Of Chinese & Mediterranean Wine: Wine In China

    Wine has been produced for thousands of years, with evidence of ancient wine production in Georgia (c. 6000 BC) China (c. 7000 BC), Armenia (c. 4100 BC), Iran from 5000 BC, and Sicily from 4000 BC.A dialogue on Chinese and Mediterranean wine tradition; new...
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  • The 20th Century To The End Of Time: Book 8 History of Mankind by Preston, Steve
    Steve Preston

    The 20th Century To The End Of Time: Book 8 History of Mankind

    This is the last of 8 books dealing with the history of mankind. Starting in the 20th century this book goes until the end of time. A lot happened in between. Global warming stupidity, aliens, war, politics, misinterpreted laws of God, spontaneous human combustion,...
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  • Anarchism Volume One: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Volume One - From Anarchy to Anarchism Volume 1 by Graham, Robert
    Robert Graham

    Anarchism Volume One: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Volume One - From Anarchy to Anarchism

    Click here for orders in the UK & Europe. Volume One of Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas is a comprehensive and far-ranging collection of anarchist writings from the classical era to 1939. Edited and introduced by noted anarchist scholar Robert Graham, this...
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  • The Imminent Collapse of America and of the Whole Western Civilization: A Different Perspective of Contemporary History with the Eyes of G.B. Vico. Bi by Bertolo, Angelo
    Angelo Bertolo

    The Imminent Collapse of America and of the Whole Western Civilization: A Different Perspective of Contemporary History with the Eyes of G.B. Vico. Bi

    In the 5000 years of the history that we know, great empires grew and fell according to certain patterns that repeat themselves like laws of nature. The USA rose and grew to prominence in the world, reached its zenith in 1945 with the military...
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  • Absolute Chronology of the Ancient Worlds, from 2838 BCE to 394 BCE, Compared to Carbon-14 Dating by Gertoux, Gérard
    G駻ard Gertoux

    Absolute Chronology of the Ancient Worlds, from 2838 BCE to 394 BCE, Compared to Carbon-14 Dating

    The first scientific chronology of the Egyptian civilisation, calculated by Olaf A. Toffteen in his monograph: Ancient Chronology (1907), fixed the beginning of the First Dynasty in 3285 BCE. In their academic study: Ancient Egyptian Chronology (2006), Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss and David A....
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  • Great King Thoth: Giant Scientist who Exposed Secrets of the World by Preston, Steve
    Steve Preston

    Great King Thoth: Giant Scientist who Exposed Secrets of the World

    What King Thoth did to re-civilize the world after the Pleistocene Extinction was amazing. As things got bad again, no one else would even try to halt the calamity. What he accomplished after that was nothing less than miraculous. His subjects tried to deify...
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  • Ancient Non-Greek Rhetorics by Lipson, Carol S.
    Carol S. Lipson

    Ancient Non-Greek Rhetorics

    ANCIENT NON-GREEK RHETORICS contributes to the recovery and understanding of ancient rhetorics in non-Western cultures and other cultures that developed independently of classical Greco-Roman models. Contributors analyze facets of the rhetorics as embedded within the particular cultures of ancient China, Egypt, Mesopotamia, the ancient...
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  • The Masculine Cross and Ancient Sex Worship by Rocco, Sha
    Sha Rocco

    The Masculine Cross and Ancient Sex Worship

    This short book on ancient 'Phallic worship', as the Victorians called it, contains much which is covered in the other entries in this literature. Jennings has a compelling thesis about the role of sexuality in ancient religions and their modern successors which bears careful...
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  • The World's Debt to the Irish by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph) 1865-
    James J. (James Joseph) 1865- Walsh

    The World's Debt to the Irish

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Strange Objects Which Should Not Exist by Ettington, Martin K.
    Martin K. Ettington

    Strange Objects Which Should Not Exist

    Many objects have been found from the deep past which should not exist. We are talking about millions to hundreds of millions years ago.The objects described in this book provide lots of evidence that they really originated in the deep past. These things include...
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  • End of Modern Civilization And Alternative Future by Dasa, Sahadeva
    Sahadeva Dasa

    End of Modern Civilization And Alternative Future

    This book is an authoritative work in civilizational studies as it relates to our future. Dr. Dasa has analyzed human civilizations in the last 5000 years and the reasons these civilizations went into oblivion. Each of these civilizations collapsed due to one or two...
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  • The World's Greatest Civilizations: The History and Culture of the Zulu by Charles River Editors
    Charles River

    The World's Greatest Civilizations: The History and Culture of the Zulu

    *Explains the origins, history, religion, and social structure of the Zulu *Includes European descriptions of the Zulu *Includes a Bibliography for further reading "He is Shaka the unshakeable, Thunderer-while-sitting, son of Menzi He is the bird that preys on other birds, The battle-axe that...
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  • The Lessons of History - Observed: Change Your Context - Change Your Life by Giombetti, Jim
    Jim Giombetti

    The Lessons of History - Observed: Change Your Context - Change Your Life

    Do you ever stop to think about how we may be living the same life over and over? What can current political leaders learn from a time travel into lessons of history?How can we find truths in history that apply to both past and...
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  • The Lessons of History - Observed: Change Your Context - Change Your Life by Giombetti, Jim
    Jim Giombetti

    The Lessons of History - Observed: Change Your Context - Change Your Life

    Do you ever stop to think about how we may be living the same life over and over? What can current political leaders learn from a time travel into lessons of history?How can we find truths in history that apply to both past and...
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  • A Chronicle of Damascus 1389-1397: The Unique Bodleian Library Manuscript of Al-Durra Al-Mudi'a Fi L-Dawla Al-Zahiriya (Laud Or. MS 112), Volume II, t by Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Sasra
    Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Sasra

    A Chronicle of Damascus 1389-1397: The Unique Bodleian Library Manuscript of Al-Durra Al-Mudi'a Fi L-Dawla Al-Zahiriya (Laud Or. MS 112), Volume II, t

    This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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  • Ancient Egypt: A Captivating Guide to the Age of the Pyramids (The History and Legacy of the Ancient Egyptian God of the Afterlife) by Garrett, Maude
    Maude Garrett

    Ancient Egypt: A Captivating Guide to the Age of the Pyramids (The History and Legacy of the Ancient Egyptian God of the Afterlife)

    The middle kingdom is a short period in egypt's history, but it is important because it was a period of political unity and prosperity. Because of that, it is sometimes referred to as the golden age of egypt. Pharaoh mentuhotep ii united the previously...
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  • The Good News of Messiah by Gregg, Daniel
    Daniel Gregg

    The Good News of Messiah

    The Good News of Messiah is a fresh translation of the New Testament from the original Greek, with careful attention to Hebrew influences on the Greek text. For example, instead of the traditional English "John," the GNM renders the text "Yohanan," and likewise most...
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  • A Chronicle of Damascus 1389-1397: The Unique Bodleian Library Manuscript of Al-Durra Al-Mudi'a Fi L-Dawla Al-Zahiriya (Laud Or. MS 112), Volume II, t by Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Sasra
    Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Sasra

    A Chronicle of Damascus 1389-1397: The Unique Bodleian Library Manuscript of Al-Durra Al-Mudi'a Fi L-Dawla Al-Zahiriya (Laud Or. MS 112), Volume II, t

    This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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  • Future of Our Past by Blackham, H. J.
    H. J. Blackham

    The Future of Our Past

    A thematic essay following the course of Western history in terms of cultural inheritance and legacy from Periclean Athens through the Dark Ages and Renaissance, into the beginning of what is now the third millennium.Author: H. J. BlackhamISBN-10: 1573920428ISBN-13: 9781573920421Publisher: Prometheus BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/1996Pages:...
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  • From Homer to Solon: Continuity and Change in Archaic Greece by C. Bernhardt, Johannes
    Johannes C. Bernhardt

    From Homer to Solon: Continuity and Change in Archaic Greece

    The study of Archaic Greece has undergone a fundamental transformation in recent decades. Whereas studies up to the 1980s had favoured narratives that converged on the more tangible reality of the Classical period and emphasized radical change, the increase in archaeological data and the...
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  • National Character in Action; Intelligence Factors in Foreign Relations by Platt, Washington
    Washington Platt

    National Character in Action; Intelligence Factors in Foreign Relations

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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  • Global Coffee and Cultural Change in Modern Japan by Grinshpun, Helena
    Helena Grinshpun

    Global Coffee and Cultural Change in Modern Japan

    This book explores the impact in Japan of the rise of global coffee chains and the associated coffee culture. Based on extensive original research, the book discusses the cultural context of Japan, where tea-drinking has been culturally important, reports on the emergence of the...
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  • The Exorcist of Sombor: The Mentality of an Eighteenth-Century Franciscan Friar by Bárth, Dániel
    D疣iel B疵th

    The Exorcist of Sombor: The Mentality of an Eighteenth-Century Franciscan Friar

    The Exorcist of Sombor examines the life course, practice and mentality of an eighteenth-century Franciscan friar, based on his own letters and documentation, creating a frame around the tightly packed history of events that took place between 1766-1769, and analysing the series of exorcism...
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  • War, Survival Units, and Citizenship: A Neo-Eliasian Processual-Relational Perspective by Kaspersen, Lars
    Lars Bo Kaspersen

    War, Survival Units, and Citizenship: A Neo-Eliasian Processual-Relational Perspective

    In this ground-breaking book, the author proposes a new theory of state formation based upon a rethinking of the nexus war, state, and citizenship. He seeks to move beyond explanations provided by traditional approaches by discussing and presenting alternative state-society and state theories, arguing...
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  • Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States by Murphy, Joanne M. a.
    Joanne M. a. Murphy

    Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States

    Rituals, Collapse, and Radical Transformation in Archaic States explores the role of ritual in a variety of archaic states and generates discussion on how the decline in a state's ability to continue in its current form affected the practices of ritual and how ritual...
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  • A Concordance to Conrad's Romance by Bender, Todd K.
    Todd K. Bender

    A Concordance to Conrad's Romance

    Originally published in 1985, this volume follows others in the series. An alphabetical frequency table lists all the words indexed with the frequency of their appearance in the field of reference. There is also a table arranged by descending frequency. The verbal index lists...
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  • The Peoples of Anatolia by Labuff, Jeremy
    Jeremy Labuff

    The Peoples of Anatolia

    Studies of the peoples of Anatolia take for granted the existence and importance of regional ethnic communities on the peninsula when investigating issues of identity, ethnic origins, and cultural assimilation (especially Hellenization). In reviewing the scholarship, Jeremy LaBuff argues that such assumptions lead to...
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  • Western Civilization Year Four - Sourcebook by Shearer, Robert G. W.
    Robert G. W. Shearer

    Western Civilization Year Four - Sourcebook

    A series of nine readings covering the period from 1865-1920 collected for high school seniors studying Western History Year Four 1865-1990. The readings cover Reconstruction, The Franco-Prussian War, The New Imperialism, Anarchism, The Spanish-American War, The Boxer Rebellion, Teddy Roosevelt, The Russo-Japanese War, and...
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  • Domitian: The Final Messiah by Villegas, Robert
    Robert Villegas

    Domitian: The Final Messiah

    Domitian's contribution to religion is virtually unknown. Yet, as this book illustrates, he is the father of some of Christianity's most profound concepts. The goal of this book is to define the specific themes and concepts that make up Domitian's religious precepts - in...
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  • Historical Archaeology and Heritage in the Middle East by Young, Ruth
    Ruth Young

    Historical Archaeology and Heritage in the Middle East

    Landlord villages dominated Iranian land tenure for hundreds of years, whereby one powerful landlord owned the village structures, surrounding farmland, and to all intents and purposes, the village occupants themselves, a system that in some cases remained in place up to the 1979 Islamic...
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  • The Trial of Joan of Arc by Scott, W. S.
    W. S. Scott

    The Trial of Joan of Arc

    In her journey from peasant to military commander to martyr, Joan of Arc cuts an extraordinary figure, even for a saint. Inspired by religious visions to lead a victorious campaign against invading English forces, the iconic figure is credited with changing the direction of...
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  • Walking from Dandi: In Search of Vikas by Siganporia, Harmony
    Harmony Siganporia

    Walking from Dandi: In Search of Vikas

    In February 2019, Harmony Siganporia walked from Dandi to Ahmedabad, retracing the route of Gandhi's Salt March in reverse. She walked this route of just under 400 kilometres over 25 days, much as Gandhi and the original band of Marchers did in 1930. The...
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  • The Parasitic Role of Elites: The Rise and Fall of Nations, a Mystery Solved! by Greene, Bill
    Bill Greene

    The Parasitic Role of Elites: The Rise and Fall of Nations, a Mystery Solved!

    "The Parasitic Role of Elites" is an easy-to-read yet enlightening historical examination of civilization. Author Bill Greene begins by examining the mystery of why some nations have prospered more than others. Then, after finding the simple answer to that riddle, the author examines possible...
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  • The Gardener Through History by Johnson, Robin
    Robin Johnson

    The Gardener Through History

    Gardening is often expressed as art, harmoniously in their environment, as well as being a science, encompassing all the principles and techniques of plant cultivation. Through the eyes of a gardener, here is a journey of growing food from the stone age to modern...
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  • Courage by Darling-Smith, Barbara
    Barbara Darling-Smith

    Courage

    This timely book brings together ten scholars in the varied fields of philosophy, theology, history, anthropology, and literature to reflect on the theme of courage. Contributors to this volume agree that courage is not just for the few or the dramatically heroic. While some...
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  • Sources of Japanese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600 by Bary, Wm Theodore de
    Wm Theodore de Bary

    Sources of Japanese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600

    Sources of Japanese Tradition is a best-selling classic, unrivaled for its wide selection of source readings on history, society, politics, education, philosophy, and religion in the Land of the Rising Sun. In this long-awaited second edition, the editors have revised or retranslated most of...
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  • Political Organization in Nigeria Since the Late Stone Age: A History of the Igbo People by Oriji, J.
    J. Oriji

    Political Organization in Nigeria Since the Late Stone Age: A History of the Igbo People

    Although the Igbo constitute one of the largest ethnic nationalities of Nigeria and the West African sub-region, little is known about their political history before the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. This book is a pioneer study of the broad changes Igbo political systems have undergone...
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  • The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World by Keohane, Joe
    Joe Keohane

    The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World

    A "meticulously researched and buoyantly written" (Esquire) look at what happens when we talk to strangers, and why it affects everything from our own health and well-being to the rise and fall of nations in the tradition of Susan Cain's Quiet and Yuval Noah...
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  • The Air Crash Of The Tupolev Tu-154 In 2010: What Is The Story Behind The Crash? by Otting, Aurelio
    Aurelio Otting

    The Air Crash Of The Tupolev Tu-154 In 2010: What Is The Story Behind The Crash?

    The Smolensk air disaster occurred on 10 April 2010, when a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft of the Polish Air Force crashed near the Russian city of Smolensk, killing all 96 people on board. Among the victims were the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and his...
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  • A Usable Past: Essays in European Cultural History by Bouwsma, William J.
    William J. Bouwsma

    A Usable Past: Essays in European Cultural History

    The essays assembled here represent forty years of reflection about the European cultural past by an eminent historian. The volume concentrates on the Renaissance and Reformation, while providing a lens through which to view problems of perennial interest. A Usable Past is a book...
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