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EL PORQUÉ DE LA CREACIÓN DEL PUEBLO JUDÍO La tarea trascendental del pueblo elegido. Las políticas de la Iglesia Católica. El fin del politeísmo El pueblo elegido, ¿elegido para qué? Adán y Eva, ¿lo……続きを見る

The social and linguistic history of medieval Sicily is both intriguing and complex. Before the Muslim invasion of 827, the islanders spoke dialects of either Greek or Latin or both. On the arrival ……続きを見る

Más de 480.000 libros vendidos! EL PORQUÉ DE LA CREACIÓN DEL PUEBLO JUDÍO La tarea trascendental del pueblo elegido. Las políticas de la Iglesia Católica. El fin del politeísmo El pueblo elegido, ¿e……続きを見る

How did ancient societies change the environment and how do their actions continue to affect us today? In this dramatically revised and expanded second edition of the work entitled Pan’s Travail, J.……続きを見る

"Rachel B. Herrmann's No Useless Mouth is truly a breath of fresh air in the way it aligns food and hunger as the focal point of a new lens to reexamine the American Revolution. Her careful scrutiny……続きを見る

A democracia impressa: transição do campo jornalístico e do político e a cassação do PCB nas páginas da grande imprensa brasileira (1945-1948) analisa historicamente os posicionamentos da imprensa b……続きを見る

At 60 manuscript pages and 100 sources, Target Iran is of the new genre of eBooks on critical political subjects written for the modern reader who requires reliable background information to reach a……続きを見る

"Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary."ーThe Christian Science Monitor The modern American economy was the creation of four men: An……続きを見る

Whina Cooper (Te Rarawa) found a role as a pan-tribal Māori leader from the 1950s. She was the foundation president of the Māori Women's Welfare League, but is best known for leading the famous 1975……続きを見る

Le général Denikine fut, pendant un temps, le chef de l'armée contre-révolutionnaire blanche, lors de la guerre civile qui embrasa la Russie après la révolution d'Octobre. Battu, fin 1919, par l'Arm……続きを見る

Reginald McKenna has never been the subject of scholarly attention. This was partly due to his own preference for appearing at the periphery of events even when ostensibly at the centre, and the abs……続きを見る

Dance Mania was a craze that hit Europe primarily in the late fourteenth through sixteenth centuries. Gangs of people, usually young, would spontaneously gather in circles and begin a spasmodic, jer……続きを見る

這本書蒐錄了我十多年來旅行所走訪過台灣各地23處日本神社遺跡所書寫的旅記。 日本神社的信仰，隨著1895年日本領有台灣，而進入台灣社會。1901年，首座官幣大社台灣神社在今日的圓山大飯店落成，主祀主祀日本的國……続きを見る

A groundbreaking, inclusive history of the Russian Revolution for "those who want to discover what really happened to Russia" (The New York Times Book Review) A "monumental study" (Wall Street Journ……続きを見る

Te Puea Hērangi was an influential and effective Waikato leader who was largely responsible for the establishment of Tūrangawaewae marae during the 1920s and 1930s. Her aim was to build an economic ……続きを見る

Rangitīaria Dennan of Ngāti Tarāwhai, better known as 'Guide Rangi', escorted tourists around the thermal attractions at Whakarewarewa, Rotorua, for over 40 years. 続きを見る

Revolution Goes East is an intellectual history that applies a novel global perspective to the classic story of the rise of communism and the various reactions it provoked in Imperial Japan. Tatiana……続きを見る

This entertaining Very Short Introduction reflects the enduring popularity of archaeology - a subject which appeals as a pastime, career, and academic discipline, encompasses the whole globe, and su……続きを見る

Intended to be the first in a series of short publications dealing with alchemy and the alchemists this is the biography of Thomas Charnock (1524,6 - 1581). At an early age he was left destitute by ……続きを見る

A Kentucky Cuckoo’s Egg is a 2500 word history short about the duel between Secretary of State Henry Clay and Senator John Randolph in 1826. It also delves into the history of dueling generally and ……続きを見る

Ralph de Stafford, the first earl of Stafford, was one of the most powerful men in fourteenth century England. He was a veteran of the Hundred Years War, a respected military commander and an adviso……続きを見る

This book aims at representing to the western reader whatever is most noteworthy and interesting in the home life, manners and customs, occupations and surroundings, modes of thought, superstitions ……続きを見る

For those who hate numbers; and those who like them. Are numbers weird, annoying things that don't mean much? And where did they come from anyway? We don't learn the history of numbers in Math class……続きを見る

Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds from the perspectives of archaeology and architectural history, bringing to life the physical world ……続きを見る

EL PORQUÉ DE LA CREACIÓN DEL PUEBLO JUDÍO La tarea trascendental del pueblo elegido. Las políticas de la Iglesia Católica. El fin del politeísmo El pueblo elegido, ¿elegido para qué? Adán y Eva, ¿lo……続きを見る

“Lucy is a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton who has become the spokeswoman for human evolution. She is perhaps the best known and most studied fossil hominid of the twentieth century, the benchmark by ……続きを見る

In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually pulled away from Latin America, and today the ga……続きを見る

Il progetto “La Toscana di Boccaccio: itinerari culturali nel paesaggio toscano attraverso il Decameron”, si propone di ricostruire, tramite l’analisi del Decameron, i paesaggi del Trecento, paesagg……続きを見る

The Newport Tower is a crude, round stone structure in Newport, Rhode Island. It is said that it was built by early colonists, as a windmill. However, there is little evidence to support that claim,……続きを見る

In Victorian London, the age of consent was just thirteen. Unwitting girls were regularly enticed, tricked and sold into prostitution. If not marked out for a gentleman in a city brothel, they were ……続きを見る