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Markus Bockmuehl and Guy G. Stroumsa - Paradise in Antiquity; Jewish and Christian Views (2010).jpg
The social and intellectual vitality of Judaism and Christianity in antiquity was in large part a function of their ability to articulate a viably transcendent hope for the human condition. Narratives of Paradise - based on the concrete symbol of the Garden of Delights - ...
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Warfare in the Middle Ages is often characterized as being dominated by lone, heroic knights or enormous mobs of plodding infantry. In this colorful and informative book, authors Hooper and Bennett debunk many of the myths surrounding medieval warfare to present a picture ...
Jeremy Black - The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare; Renaissance to Revolution 1492-1792 (1996).jpg
The three centuries following the discovery of the New World was a period of unprecedented global expansion, spearheaded by the lusty armies of the imperial European powers. This volume of The Cambridge Illustrated Atlases of Warfare is a lively and elaborately ...
Osprey PL - WBH 37 - Philip J. Haythornthwaite - Bitwa o Gallipoli 1915; Frontalny atak na Turcję (2010).jpg
U podstaw decyzji wyslania sil ekspedycyjnych na Dardanele legla chęc przzelmania impasu, w jakim znalazt się front zachodni podczaś I wojny Światowej, gdzie już w kilka tygodni po rozpwaęciu działań wojennych u wala wojna pozycyjna, Jednakże pierwocnych ...
Leslie Bethell - The Cambridge History of Latin America (Volume 9) (2008).jpg
The Cambridge History of Latin America, the first large-scale authoritative survey of Latin American history from ca. 1500 to the present day, is a work of international collaborative scholarship. It aims to provide a high-level synthesis of existing knowledge in ...
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This collection of essays examines select historical questions about the interrelationship between the sciences and Harvard University as an organizational, intellectual, and social context for science in the United States. The essays span the period from the ...
Antony Preston - Submarine Warfare; An Illustrated History (1998).jpg
The submarine revolutionized naval warfare. Witness the birth and evolution of the submarine from the days of the Civil War to its baptism by fire in WWI to the nuclear subs of today which carry intercontinental missiles and can cruise submerged for months. Includes 100 ...
Weapons and Warfare - Jeff Kinard - Artillery; An Illustrated History of their Impact (2007).jpg
Artillery: An Illustrated History of Its Impact charts the development of large, crew-operated battlefield weapons from the dart firers and catapults of the ancient world to the invention of gunpowder in China and its applications in medieval Europe, and from the ...
DK Eyewitness - Philip Wilkinson - Building; Discover the History of Buildings Why They Were Built and the Techniques Used in Their Construction (2001).jpg
A handsome ``Eyewitness'' book with spreads covering the obvious historical periods and places (ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome to ``The Early 20th Century'' and ``Modern Buildings'') plus ``Islamic Buildings,'' ``South and East Asia,'' and such additional topics as ...
Jill Salen - Corsets; Historical Patterns and Techniques (2008).jpg
Progressing through almost two centuries of corset-making, this fascinating collection showcases an astonishing range of period pieces, from the 1750 whale-boned corsets, through the invention of the sewing machine and mass-produced corsets of the 1850s to the ...
Steve Thorne - The Language of War (2006).jpg
The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (second edition, 2001) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range of ...
Don Nardo - The Black Death (2011).jpg
...one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history. Just two years before... a horrifying disease epidemic struck Florence, Italy. At the same time, the disease was beginning to ravage Greece, Spain, France, and other parts of southern Europe. People also started ...
Ilona Bell - Elizabeth I; The Voice of a Monarch (2010).jpg
This book focuses on the ways in which Elizabeth represented herself in her own words, especially in speeches, reported conversations, and private poems from the first half of her reign when she was simultaneously establishing her political authority and negotiating ...
Suroopa Mukherjee - Surviving Bhopal; Dancing Bodies.jpg
On December 2-3, 1984, India witnessed arguably the world’s worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, which continues to this day as an economic, medical, environmental, and political disaster. Surviving Bhopal draws on oral testimonials of the affected ...
Elaine Bauer - The Creolisation of London Kinship; Mixed African-Caribbean and White British Extended Families.jpg
In the last 50 years, the United Kingdom has witnessed a growing proportion of mixed African-Caribbean and white British families. With rich new primary evidence of 'mixed-race' in the capital city, The Creolisation of London Kinship thoughtfully explores this ...
K. Poewe - New Religions and the Nazis (2005).jpg
Karla Poewe illuminates an important but neglected part of Nazi history: the contribution of new religions to the emergence of Nazi ideology in 1930s Germany. Looking at traditional German occultism as well as the established Church, this book takes new religions founded ...
Michael Hickey - The First World War.jpg
The final volume in a four part set covering the First World War, this book includes the Allied attempts to capture Constantinople, the bloody campaigning in Northern Italy, the defence of the Suez Canal and the defeat of the Turkish army in Palestine. The war in North Africa ...
Jean Franco - Dreams and Realities; Selected Fiction of Juana Manuela Gorriti (2003).jpg
The latest installment of Oxford's Library of Latin America series presents the writings of Gorriti, who had a distinguished reputation as a writer during the nineteenth century. Her own dramatic life informed her stories--she was raised in a wealthy family in Argentina ...
Jane Smiley - The Man Who Invented the Computer; The Biography of John Atanasoff.jpg
Novelist Smiley explores the story of the now mostly forgotten Atanasoff, a brilliant and engaged physicist and engineer who first dreamed of and built a computational machine that was the prototype for the computer. With her dazzling storytelling, Smiley narrates the ...
Tiffany Stern - Documents of Performance in Early Modern England (2009).jpg
As well as 'play-makers' and 'poets', playwrights of the early modern period were known as 'play-patchers' because their texts were made from separate documents. This book is the first to consider all the papers created by authors and theatres by the time of the opening ...