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Oliver D. Hoover - Handbook of Syrian Coins. Royal and....rar

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Albert A. Nofi - The Waterloo Campaign; June 1815 (2008).epub

Milton W. Meyer - Asia; A Concise History (1997).epub

Czesko-polski słownik tematyczny 2011.pdf

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Kenneth O. Morgan - Twentieth-Century Britain, A V ery Short Introduction (2000).jpg

The last century has been a tumultuous one for the culture and politics of Britain. Kenneth Morgan's Twentieth-Century Britain is a crisp analysis of the forces of consensus and conflict that have existed in Britain since the First World War. Using a wide variety of sources, including the records of political parties and recently released documents from Britain's Public Records Office, Kenneth Morgan covers the full scope of Britain's modern history while drawing thought-provoking comparisons with the post-war history of other nations. This penetrating analysis by a leading twentieth-century historian makes for fantastic reading for anyone interested in the development of modern Britain.

About the Author
Kenneth Morgan is Research Professor, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Lecturer in Modern History, University of Oxford. He was Principal, then Vice-Chancellor, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Professor in the University of Wales, 1989-95. Also, Vice-Chancellor, then Senior Vice-Chancellor, University of Wales, 1993-95.

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Lucien X. Polastron - Books on Fire, The Destructi on of Libraries throughout History (2007).jpg

In his acclaimed Double Fold (2001), Nicholson Baker expressed outrage over newspapers and books turned into landfill by librarians who chose microfilm over paper. French historian Polastron picks up where Baker left off, writing with equal passion yet punctuating his pages with wit. A specialist in Chinese and Arab studies, Polastron surveys the annihilation of libraries from ancient Mesopotamia and China to potential problems looming with the cyber contents of today's virtual books.Although Polastron learned of lost libraries while writing a history of paper, it was the 1992 destruction of the National Library in Sarajevo that triggered his desire to explore all nooks and crannies of history in the attic of every civilization.Over the millennia, libraries crumbled to rubble during wars and bombings; theft and storage problems account for more losses. As countless books went up in smoke, others sank to a watery grave during shipwrecks and floods. Lamenting the loss of the ancient Alexandria library, the author covers books that perished during the Inquisition, the French Revolution and in Nazi Germany. Polastron's exhaustive research and vast scope make this detailed, authoritative study a revelatory read.

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Lucien X. Polastron - Books on Fire, The Destructi on of Libraries throughout History (2007).djvu

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Rossiter Johnson - The Clash of Nations, Its Cause s and Consequences (1914).jpg

An authentic narrative of the immediate and remote causes of the war, with a descriptive account of the countries involved, including statistics of armies, navies, aeroplanes, dirigibles, etc, etc. Profusely illustrated from latest photographs, engravings, diagrams and maps.

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Rossiter Johnson - The Clash of Nations, Its Cause s and Consequences (1914).pdf

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Elizabeth Coatsworth - The Art of the Anglo-Saxon Goldsmith, Fine Metalwork in Anglo-Saxon England ( 2002).jpg

All History - Elizabeth Coatsworth - The Art of the Anglo-Saxon Gol...Goldsmith, Fine Metalwork in Anglo-Saxon England 2002.jpg

Throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, goldsmiths produced work of a high standard in both design and craftsmanship, both for personal adornment, and to embellish bookbindings, reliquaries, vessels and weapons. Some works are well known, particularly the magnificent gold and garnet regalia from Sutton Hoo, but this represents only a fraction even of the surviving work, and much more has been lost. This book is the first to look at the goldsmiths' products through the eyes of both a specialist in the period and a practical craftsman, combining close examination of the surface and structure of the objects with analysis of inscriptions and evidence for design, and with literary and visual sources of evidence for smiths and their work. Archaeological and documentary evidence for workshops, tools and working processes is also assessed, and up-to-date technical information on materials and techniques is juxtaposed with new practical research to throw light on manufacturing and decorative processes, and, more widely, to give a fresh idea of the position of the goldsmith in his society.

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Elizabeth Coatsworth - The Art of the Anglo-Saxon Goldsmith, Fine Metalwork in Anglo-Saxon England ( 2002).pdf

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Frank McLynn - Napoleon, A Biography (2002).jpg

After visiting Corsica, Rousseau declared, "I have a presentiment that one day this small island will astonish Europe." Corsica did. Born there in 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte would convulse the Continent, precipitating thousands of books about him since. This latest, by British historian and Strathclyde University (U.K.) literature professor McLynn (Villa and Zapata; The Jacobites), is a crowded and persuasive one-volume life. McLynn's study but for his addictions to clich‚ and to repetition, and his labored leaning on both Freud and Jung is one the best of the new breed (since the 1978 discovery of Bonaparte's arsenic poisoning made earlier volumes obsolete). No hagiographer, McLynn is hard on Napoleon both as general and as statesman, and faults his failures to rein in his openly "venal" marshals, treacherous administrative elite and astonishingly rapacious siblings. Indifferent to people except as he needed their loyalty, this Napoleon's embodies ambitions not tempered by any idealism, and McLynn dismisses "credulous" previous biographers for seeing anything in him beyond a familiar French grasping for "grandeur" and "glory," apparent on a lesser level from Louis XIV to de Gaulle. To McLynn the difference is that Napoleon's dreams were truly Alexandrine that "His genius was of a kind that needed constant warfare to fuel it and... that all the hopes vested in him were illusory." While deftly exposing the material realities underlying the Napoleonic wars, McLynn also graphically describes the battles, suggesting that few (Austerlitz is an exception) demonstrate any authentic military brilliance. He is even more explicit about the general's tumultuous domestic and sexual life, in which Napoleon allegedly found little but masochistic satisfaction. "The true representative of the nation," Napoleon declared desperately in 1814, as his empire was collapsing around him, "is myself. France has more need of me than I have need of France." Such is still the case, McLynn claims, as France continues to cultivate his myth. Although McLynn's is a well-researched, convincing portrait, aficionados will find it not quite up to the standard of Alan Schom's 1997 Napoleon Bonaparte, which is both better written and more psychologically astute. 16 pages of b&w illustrations.

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Georges Roux - Ancient Iraq (1992).jpg

Newly revised and now in its third edition, Ancient Iraq covers the political, cultural and socio-economic history of Mesopotamia from the days of prehistory to the Christian era and somewhat beyond. Dr. Roux describes for the general public and students the empires that have successively arisen and collapsed in Mesopotamia as well as the institutions, religions, sciences and daily life of its inhabitats. That so vast a subject makes such absorbing reading is due not only to the inevitable fascination of the past but also to the light, yet exact, touch of a talented historian.

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Lucienne Russelle - The French Army of Ancient Reg ime (2010).jpg

The basis of this e-book series of drawings of the famous French battle-Lucien Russell. He created a series of plates on the history of the French army uniforms. His suite is a collection of uniforms infantry and cavalry, Napoleon, the Bourbons (Restoration). This set of figures presents a picture of the French uniforms from 1700 to 1793. The so-called era of white uniforms, when the French infantry were dressed in uniforms exclusively white. With the progress of the revolution, these uniforms were replaced by traditional blue with white trim and red accents.

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Lucienne Russelle - The French Army of Ancient Reg ime (2010).pdf

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Johann P. Arnason, S. N. Eisenstadt, Bjorn Wittroc k - Axial Civilizations And World History (2004).jpg

The Axial Age—a period of several centuries around the middle of the last millennium BCE—and its cultural innovations are the subject of this collection of essays by international contributors from the fields of sociology, philosophy, Chinese, Sanskrit and Indic studies, comparative religion, and others. Essays explore cultural transformations in Ancient Greece, Ancient Israel, Iran, India, and China as well as background developments in the core civilizations of the Ancient Near East. An introductory essay deals with the history of the debate on the Axial Age, the theoretical questions that have emerged from it, and the current state of the discussion. Of interest to comparative historians of cultures and religions and for historical sociologists interested in the comparative analysis of civilizations.

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Johann P. Arnason, S. N. Eisenstadt, Bjorn Wittroc k - Axial Civilizations And World History (2004).pdf

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Jordi Agusti, Mauricio Anton - Mammoths, Sabertoot hs, and Hominids (2002).jpg

An exceptionally valuable, scholarly, yet widely accessible broad outline of the dazzling evolutionary history of the mammalian faunas and selected lineages during the Age of Mammals, the Cenozoic....an important contribution for those paleontologists and zoologists who are not mammal specialists, yet have wide-ranging interests in macroevolution. Very highly recommended

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Eric M. Meyers - The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archa eology in the Near East (Five Volume Set) (1996).jpg

This comprehensive five-volume work analyzes the archaeological and linguistic data that pertain to the broad cultural milieu of the ancient Near East, the crossroads of three of the world's most influential religions--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Ranging from prehistoric times up to the early centuries of the rise of Islam, the work covers the civilizations of Syria-Palestine, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Iran, Arabia, Cyprus, Egypt, and the coastal regions of North and East Africa. It includes 1,125 alphabetically arranged entries on sites, languages, material culture, archaeological methods, organizations and institutions, and major excavators and scholars of the field. This one-of-a-kind, accessibly written reference brings new breadth to the study of archaeology in the biblical world, making it a valuable resource not only to scholars and students of archaeology, but also to those with an interest in ancient art and architecture, languages, history, and religion.

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Japanese Army and Navy Uniforms (1975).jpg

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Japanese Army and Navy Uniforms (1975).pdf

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John Garner - The Company Town, Architecture and S ociety in the Early Industrial Age (1992).jpg

Built by industrialists whose early businesses contributed to the escalation of the Industrial Revolution, company towns flourished in countries that embraced capitalism and open-market trading. In many instances, the company town came to symbolize the wrecking of the environment, especially in places associated with extractive industries such as mining and lumber milling. Some resident industrialists, however, took a genuine interest in the welfare of their work forces, and in a number of instances hired architects to provide a model environment. Overtaken by time, these towns were either abandoned or caught up in suburban growth. The most thorough-going and only international assessment of the company town, this collection of essays by specialists and authorities of each region offers a balanced account of architectural and social history and provides a better understanding of the architectural and urban experiences of the early industrial age.

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John Garner - The Company Town, Architecture and S ociety in the Early Industrial Age (1992).pdf

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Ross W. Jamieson - Domestic Architecture and Power , The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Ecuador ( 1999).jpg

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This volume is a study of the power relationships inherent in domestic architecture and household material culture that were essential to the maintenance of the Spanish colonial empire. Using the household spatial patterning, furnishings, and personal belongings of residents of the highland city of Cuenca, Ecuador, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the book examines gender, ethnic, and status relations in the colonial Andean world.

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Ross W. Jamieson - Domestic Architecture and Power , The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Ecuador ( 1999).pdf

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Robert Darnton - The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History (2000).jpg

In this dazzling series of essays, Robert Darnton exhumes the strange and wonderful world views of the ordinary and extraordinary people inhabiting the cities, towns, and countryside of France in what we like to call “The Age of Enlightenment.

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H. E. Winter - History of the Celts (2004).jpg

Named by the Greeks as Celts, the nomads who after the Ice Age set out from the steppes of Russia, and perhaps from as far a field as Persia, towards what is now Europe, could not possibly have known the impact they and their descendents would have on the world. This lavishly illustrated volume explains all, in fascinating detail. Starting as hunter-gatherers, they quickly established agricultural settlements wherever they went and by 3,000 BC had spread across the continent.
Spurning a written language in favor of the bardic tradition, there is no written account of early Celtic history and the author of this authoritative volume explains how in relatively modern times their culture and influence has been monitored by investigation of their burial habits.
By the time the Celts reached Britain they had been in touch with Mediterranean cultures and were sophisticated, as their bronze, silver and gold ware tells. They also fought with chariots, as Roman invaders learned to their cost. When converted to Christianity there was no end to their fervor and… read on to see what extent these migrants have influenced mainland Europe, the British Isles and, through Irish emigration in particular, America.

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H. E. Winter - History of the Celts (2004).pdf

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Edward J. Reed - Our Iron-Clad Ships, Their Qualit ies, Performances and Cost (1869).jpg

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Edward J. Reed - Our Iron-Clad Ships, Their Qualit ies, Performances and Cost (1869).pdf

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Nigiel Pennick - The Celtic Cross, An Illustrated History and Celebration (1998).jpg

A fully illustrated account of the cross as a symbol and artefact in Celtic history, culture, art and religion.

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Nigiel Pennick - The Celtic Cross, An Illustrated History and Celebration (1998).pdf

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DK - John Malam - Dinosaur Atlas, An Amazing Journ ey Through a Lost World (2006).jpg

Follow the most remarkable episode in prehistory in this all-in-one compendium of everything dinosaur. This volume marries the very latest in paleontology with an easily accessible atlas format to illuminate the mysteries of dinosaur origins, clues to what they looked like and where they lived, and, most intriguingly, what happened to them. In vivid recreations of the prehistoric world and fascinating see-through overlays featuring 3-D computer graphics of skeletal structures, DK's Dinosaur Atlas brings dinosaurs to life! AUTHOR BIO: Dougal Dixon has written many children's books and encyclopedias. He has participated in a number of worldwide dinosaur excavations, and in 1993 was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Journalism by the Educational Press Association of America.

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Jay Taylor - The Generalissimo, Chiang Kai-shek an d the Struggle for Modern China (2009).jpg

Starred Review. American historians tend to portray Chiang Kai-Shek (1887–-1975) as an inept dictator who mismanaged China until Mao Zedong expelled him in 1945 and he finished his life ruling Taiwan under the protection of the U.S. military. But this thick, heavily researched but lucid biography by Taylor, a research associate at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, describes an impressive figure who left China a greater legacy than he has been given credit for. An ambitious officer, Chiang took power when Sun Yat-sen died in 1925. Attempting to unify a chaotic nation, he fought warlords and rival Communists and then spent nine even bloodier years fighting the Japanese. Those expecting the traditional account of how Chiang hoarded American military aid in preparation for a postwar showdown with the Communists will read instead of the massive losses his troops suffered fighting the Japanese while Mao husbanded his forces. Taylor does not conceal Chiang's brutality and diplomatic failures, but he is an admirer who makes a good case that Chiang governed an almost ungovernable country with reasonable skill and understood his enemies better than American advisers did. 41 b&w illus., 4 maps.

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