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Vladimir Dolinek - Illustriertes Lexikon der Handfeuerwaffen (1998).jpg
Büchsen, Pistolen, Flinten, MusketenVon den ersten Eisenlauf-Feuerwaffen des 14. Jahrhunderts über die Radschlossbüchsen des 16. und die Dopppelflinten des 18. Jahrhunderts bis zum Colt Army Revolver (1848) und britischen Lee-Enfield-Gewehr (1895): die ...

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Herwig's engrossing narrative of the first battle of the Marne in 1914, really a history of the first six weeks of fighting on the western front, treats the clash as a study in best-laid plans gone awry. The chaos and miscalculation that derailed both the German and French ...

Jared Diamond - Guns.jpg
Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist's answer: geography, demography, and ecological happenstance. Diamond evenhandedly ...

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Filling a perceived gap in "Ripperature," Curtis examines how 14 London newspapers covered the Whitechapel murders attributed to Jack the Ripper in 1888. Curtis (history, emeritus, Brown) begins with a brief account of the crimes and a description of the impoverished ...

Hew Strachan - The First World War (2005).jpg
One of the leading historians of WWI offers this superior one-volume version of his massive projected three-volume work, the first volume of which, To Arms, clocked in at 1250-plus pages last year. Strachan strenuously avoids the traditional focus on the Western Front ...

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The final volume discusses the institutions that affected social conditions and influenced values and attitudes. Social policies were made for the most part by the comfortably off and those in power for the supposed good of the less fortunate. Contributors to this volume ...

Osprey - Weapon 03 - Sean McLachlan - Medieval Handgonnes (2010).jpg
In the early 14th century, a new weapon entered the arsenals of European armies. This first generation of black powder weapons put fear into the heart of the enemy and in 1453 Ottoman cannon succeeded in pummelling the once-impregnable walls of Constantinople. But cannons, ...

Anjana M. Chandra - India Condensed.jpg
India Condensed is a book for anyone who needs a quick introduction to India. History, philosophy, religion, language, literature, arts and culture are all discussed in this lively and accessible text. More than a dry recitation of dates, names and events, the topics ...

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The focus of this dictionary-style work is the past century of African history, covering decades of tremendous change, including resistance to colonial rule and the reestablishment of African independence. Global forces that had an impact on the continent are also ...

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Much has been written about the wealth of nations, the history of unequal distribution of wealth, and the creation of zones of affluence and deprivation, both within and between societies. This book sets out to explore why some Asian nations are more prosperous than others ...

Osprey - Fortress 16 - Charles Stephenson - The Fortifications Of Malta 1530-1945 (2004).jpg
The Island of Malta occupies a pivotal position in the Mediterranean, forming an outpost between North Africa and the soft underbelly of Europe. Such has been its strategic importance throughout the years that it has become one of the most fortified places in the world. ...

Stephen Turnbull - The Book of the Medieval Knight (1995).jpg
Fearless in battle, gracious in victory, knights lived their lives on a heroic scale, during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Vividly retold with superb color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations. "...fantastic...recommend this book most ...

Gregory Clark - A Farewell to Alms.jpg
Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? Why didn't industrialization ...

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One of the most frequent lures for the average reader into the medieval world is that of the knight in armor. It's hard to resist the vision of a mounted warrior in mail or plate, hoisting a banner or swinging a mighty sword. For those of us not content to settle for the Hollywood ...

Batty Langley - Gothic Architecture.jpg
The architectural designs of Batty Langley greatly influenced England's Gothic Revival movement in the second half of the eighteenth century. This volume (beautifully engraved by his brother Thomas), which completely reproduces the author's most famous and ...

Donald M. G. Sutherland - The French Revolution and Empire. The Quest for a Civic Order (2003).jpg
This book provides students and general readers with a history of France during the Revolution and Empire. It includes a narrative of events from the fall of the Bastille to the defeat of Napoleon, and a compelling analysis of why the revolution occurred. The book explains ...

Mary Elvira Weeks - Discovery of the Elements.jpg
The material blessings that man enjoys today have re sulted largely from his ever-increasing knowledge of about one hundred simple substances, the chemical elements, most of which were entirely unknown to ancient civilizations. In the luxurious thermas of the Roman ...

Spencer G. Lucas - Chinese Fossil Vertebrates (2001).jpg
The literature on Chinese fossil vertebrates is extremely difficult for Western scholars to assimilate and interpret. In part, this is because much of that literature is in Chinese, and few useful reviews exist in Western languages. Yet China has an extensive vertebrate ...

Peter Murray - Architektura włoskiego renesansu (1999).jpg
Architektura renesansowa, która pojawiła się około roku 1420 we Florencji w dziełach Brunelleschiego i Albertiego, osiągnęła swój szczyt w następnych pokoleniach wraz z pojawieniem się takich geniuszy dojrzałego renesansu, jak Bramante, Sanmicheli, ...