M.B - History 13

There lived formerly, in a certain country, a king, called Súryakánta. And his armies, guided by Valour and Policy, had penetrated in all directions to the shore of the ocean, and his intellect had ……続きを見る

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the colonial administrations in British East-Central African colonies considered inter-racial sexual liaisons to be a serious and recurrent "p……続きを見る

her state of being. There are facts in the mental phenomena which give a high degree of probability to the conjecture, that the whole transactions of life, with the motives and moral history of each……続きを見る

First published in 1910, this study in social evolution from the 13th to the 16th century functioned as a successor to Jacob Burckhardt’s The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860). The aut……続きを見る

Seppiana è stato un comune di 166 abitanti della Valle Antrona, nella provincia del Verbano-Cusio-Ossola. Attraverso cronache locali rivediamo la piccola storia di luoghi che sono diventati memoria.……続きを見る

These essays provide original reflections and new evidence for the lives and work of an outstanding medieval couple, Peter Abelard and Heloise. The main themes of the author's studies are the career……続きを見る

Lost Railway Journeys from Around the World revisits our forgotten railway heritage in a beautiful visual and textual exploration of historic lines that can no longer be travelled. From the great ca……続きを見る

ABOUT THE ART OF WAR By Sun Tzu The Art of War (Sunzi bingfa) is a 5th-century BCE military treatise written by the Chinese strategist Sun-Tzu (aka Sunzi or Sun Wu). Covering all aspects of warfare,……続きを見る

It was not until we were about two stations from Teheran, that the idea struck our Djilodar to change our march by day into night marches. But even this expedient had its inconveniences: for the coo……続きを見る

My visit to my home was very pleasant; instead of the cold surroundings I had been used to among strangers, I now met on all sides loving glances from my brothers and sisters, and more especially fr……続きを見る

The dervish is the veritable personification of Eastern life. Idleness, fanaticism, and slovenliness, are the features which in him are regarded as virtues, and which everywhere are represented by h……続きを見る

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay First published in 1841, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is often cited as the best book ever wr……続きを見る

This book tells the story of the advent, study and development of electronics which began just before the beginning of the 20th century. It covers the more important inventions that resulted from di……続きを見る

Este livro traz um conjunto de artigos referentes a Ribeirão Preto, a modernidade e a "riqueza" do café, no período de 1883-1964, dando continuidade à obra No tempo das cidades: história, cultura e ……続きを見る

Quase cem anos depois da primeira revolta proletária bem-sucedida no mundo, a Revolução Russa, quando a palavra "revolução" de certo modo se banaliza e alguns chegam a proclamar o fim da história, a……続きを見る

Sugar. It sits there, dormant, nestled in a small bowl or serving-size packet, waiting to be spooned into a cup of coffee or tea, spread across some cereal, or dropped into a recipe for cake, pie, o……続きを見る

An inevitable feature of democratic governments is the tendency of their chief executives to pursue domestic policies and foreign wars without the consent of the people. America's own presidents hav……続きを見る

Struggling for the Soul of Our Country is a book in search of answers: what does it mean to struggle for the soul of a country and how does the life of citizenship influence our common future? While……続きを見る

Evolving from the horse-drawn stage coaches that they soon eclipsed, railway carriages steadily grew in sophistication so that by the end of the nineteenth century the railway passenger travelled in……続きを見る

My name is Agar Hume. My mother died when I was two years old. My father was the first violin in a second-rate music hall orchestra at Birmingham. He had once been a gentleman. He taught me French a……続きを見る

I was hard at work in my tent. I had almost completed translating the inscription of a small stele of Amen-hotep III, dated B. C., 1382, which with my own efforts I had discovered, and I was feeling……続きを見る

Il était une fois …les droits de l’homme. Il est encore, les droits de l’homme. Ce livre illustre l’historique des droits de l’homme ainsi que les 30 articles de la Déclaration universelle des droit……続きを見る

This collection of German idioms is presented in the hope that it will prove helpful to teachers and students of the language, and that it may contribute in a modest way toward making the sentence r……続きを見る

Of all science, none is more generally interesting than that which explains the common phenomena of life. We see that salt and snow are both white, a rose red, leaves green, and the violet a deep pu……続きを見る

This book offers a fresh interpretation of the connection between the West German Catholic Church and post-1950s political debates on women’s reproductive rights and the protection of life in West G……続きを見る

Winner of the 2021 Raphael Lemkin Book Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide Honorable Mention, 2020 CALACS Book Prize Beyond Repair? explores Mayan women’s agency in the search for red……続きを見る

A complete natural history of the Hebrides – an area of great natural beauty, which draws back thousands of visitors year after year to its wonderful scenery and abundant wildlife. The Hebrides is a……続きを見る

The fascinating story of an unconventional, bisexual and powerfully loving relationship and a unique portrait of gender and feminism - with a new introduction from Juliet Nicolson. 'A brilliantly st……続きを見る

APRIL 2024 REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler . . . out……続きを見る

On a cold dull March morning we left our home in London for the Waterloo Station, to go by the London and South-Western line to Southampton, from thence to Portsmouth to join our ship. After dining ……続きを見る