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The Collapse by Sarotte Mary Elise
epub |eng | 2014-09-21 | Author:Sarotte, Mary Elise

Following Harald Jäger’s decision to open the gates at the Bornholmer Street border crossing on the night of November 9, massive crowds flow through the final barrier gate of the ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 14,2018 )
Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson by Elliot R. Wolfson
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Elliot R. Wolfson [Wolfson, Elliot R.]

The rational soul (which is the matter of the divine image) in the Jew is not comparable to the rational soul in the Gentile . . . for the rational ...
( Category: Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts April 14,2018 )
Against the Fascist Creep by Alexander Reid Ross
epub |eng | 2017-02-04 | Author:Alexander Reid Ross

* * * 436 Antonio Carioti, “From the Ghetto to the Palazzo Chigi: The Ascent of National Alliance,” in Griffin and Feldman, eds., Fascism, 4:92. 437 Martin A. Lee, “An ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 14,2018 )
Classical Civilization by Nigel Spivey
epub |eng | | Author:Nigel Spivey [Spivey, Nigel]

*1 The mosaic once adorned a house in Pompeii; it is now in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples. *2 This is one reason why a Roman imperator (beginning, ironically, ...
( Category: World April 14,2018 )
Erasmus, Man of Letters by Jardine Lisa; Jardine Lisa;
epub |eng | 2015-04-14 | Author:Jardine, Lisa; Jardine, Lisa;

21. Title page of the Epistolae D. Erasmi Roterodami ad diuersos (Basle, 1521). By definition, the letter makes the absent vividly present in writing. Unlike the classic oration or the ...
( Category: Arts & Literature April 14,2018 )
The Cult of the Modern by Murray-Miller Gavin;
epub |eng | 2017-02-28 | Author:Murray-Miller, Gavin; [Murray-Miller, Gavin]

Exorcising the Ghosts of the Past One didn’t necessarily need to be a positivist in order to appreciate the perceptive insights of thinkers like Comte and Littré. By the early ...
( Category: Social Sciences April 14,2018 )
Asian Traditions of Meditation by Eifring Halvor; Bryant Edwin F.; Khanna Madhu
epub |eng | 2016-04-14 | Author:Eifring, Halvor; Bryant, Edwin F.; Khanna, Madhu

Individual Paths Through such tales most Southern Buddhists, monks, and laity have historically been taught about meditation, its objects, and its practice: children hear Dhammapada stories as their first contact ...
( Category: Philosophy April 14,2018 )
Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials : A Personal Memoir (9780307819819) by Taylor Telford
epub |eng | 2012-05-30 | Author:Taylor, Telford [Taylor, Telford]

Lawrence replied that he had already laid down the general rule “which is binding on this defendant as upon other witnesses.” No doubt hoping that Jackson might profit by a ...
( Category: Military April 14,2018 )
Generalship of Muhammad by Rodgers Russ;
epub |eng | 2012-04-14 | Author:Rodgers, Russ;

6 The Surge After the destruction of the Banu Qurayzah in January 627, Muhammad allowed his fighters to take a well-deserved break. It would seem that during this interlude he ...
( Category: Military April 14,2018 )
Muhammad (Past Masters) by Michael Cook
epub |eng | 1983-01-25 | Author:Michael Cook [Cook, Michael]

The general question to which these examples give rise is the sense in which Koranic law is monotheist. In a basic way, much of it is not, in the sense ...
( Category: Philosophy April 14,2018 )
Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy by Frank McLynn
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Frank McLynn [McLynn, Frank]

13 The Twilight Years The history of Genghis Khan and the Mongols can sometimes seem no more than an endless recital of massacres with pyramids of skulls. Yet Genghis and ...
( Category: Asia April 14,2018 )
Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time by Clark Blaise
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-11-20 | Author:Clark Blaise [Blaise, Clark]

The Victorian mantra is simple and ringing: Be of practical use to society, serve mankind. What good is theory if it does not improve the lives of common man? This ...
( Category: Physics April 14,2018 )
The Future of Islam by Esposito John L.;
epub |eng | 2010-04-14 | Author:Esposito, John L.;

THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN MUSLIMS The traditional battle cry for the defense of Islam is “Islam in danger.” Today, some Muslims speak and write of “Islam under siege” ...
( Category: World April 14,2018 )
Syria: A History of the Last Hundred Years by John McHugo
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-03-02 | Author:John McHugo [McHugo, John]

death of Hafez al-Assad, Israel finally cut its losses and withdrew unilaterally. Since then, Israel has returned to bomb and devastate Lebanon several times, but a kind of balance of ...
( Category: Middle East April 14,2018 )
Maiwand 1880 by Edmund Yorke
epub |eng | 2013-02-21 | Author:Edmund Yorke

Every man’s eyes were turned towards the east, watching for the predicted signal; yet when it came, so brilliant, so dazzling, was the light that … men’s hearts stood still ...
( Category: Middle East April 14,2018 )

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