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The Travels of Ibn Battuta by Ibn Battuta
epub |eng | 2004-03-14 | Author:Ibn Battuta

He had five sons, the younger of whom were sShahāb Oddīn and Kotb Oddīn: the eldest he had, during his life time, ordered to be kept in prison.21 When taken ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 15,2017 )
Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West by Caldwell Christopher
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-22 | Author:Caldwell, Christopher [Caldwell, Christopher]

Chapter 8 Rules for Sex Sexual freedom as a nonnegotiable European demand—Virginity and violence—Islam or custom?—The appeal of sharia—Arranged marriages—The Danish marriage law—Controversies over the headscarf—The French veil law—Compulsory liberation ...
( Category: Islam March 12,2017 )
A Little History of Economics by Niall Kishtainy
epub |eng | | Author:Niall Kishtainy

CHAPTER 22 The Big Push Just before midnight on 6 March 1957, the president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, stood on a podium gazing down on a cheering crowd of his ...
( Category: Economic History March 12,2017 )
Caught in the Revolution by Helen Rappaport
epub |eng | | Author:Helen Rappaport

The atmosphere was ominous. There wasn’t a tram in sight and hardly any izvozchiki and the shutters on the shops were fastened tight; ‘in front of the Gostinny Dvor [indoor ...
( Category: American Revolution March 12,2017 )
War and Conflict in the Early Modern World by Sandberg Brian;
epub |eng | 2016-06-16 | Author:Sandberg, Brian;

Buddhism and violence in Southeast Asia Therevada Buddhism played a role in religious and political struggles in Southeast Asia during the sixteenth century. The Therevada form of Buddhism had spread ...
( Category: World March 11,2017 )
Space Race by Deborah Cadbury
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Deborah Cadbury

Despite the developments in the American space programme, to his great frustration Korolev still could not win the backing from the Soviet leadership for a manned space flight programme. In ...
( Category: Aerospace March 11,2017 )
Age of Greed by Jeff Madrick
epub |eng | 2011-05-30 | Author:Jeff Madrick [Madrick, Jeff]

15 George Soros and John Meriwether FABULOUS WEALTH AND CONTROVERSIAL POWER Until the mid-1980s, the takeover movement was the way to make the most money on Wall Street. Men like ...
( Category: United States March 11,2017 )
Girt by David Hunt
epub |eng, eng | 2013-06-25 | Author:David Hunt

… much intoxication was the consequence. Several of the settlers, breaking out from the restraint to which they had been subject, conducted themselves with the greatest impropriety, beating their wives, ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand March 11,2017 )
The Second Arab Awakening by Marwan Muasher
epub |eng | 2014-03-08 | Author:Marwan Muasher

MOROCCO: REFORM FROM ABOVE As I write this, Morocco’s monarchy has succeeded in staying ahead of the street by acting quickly to address at lEast some of the basic demands ...
( Category: General March 9,2017 )
Age of Jihad by Patrick Cockburn
epub |eng | | Author:Patrick Cockburn

TEN The ‘Somalianisation’ of Libya Libya, 2012–14 7 July 2012 Libyans are voting in their first democratic election to choose an interim national assembly to rule the country after the ...
( Category: Islam March 9,2017 )
Tried by Fire: The Story of Christianity's First Thousand Years
mobi |eng | 2016-03-22 | Author:William J. Bennett

And since there were no places big enough to accommodate so large a multitude, he assigned two famous churches, the Basilica Fausti and the Basilica Novarum, furnishing them with beds ...
( Category: Churches & Church Leadership March 5,2017 )
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-02-27 | Author:Timothy Snyder

Ionesco’s aim was to help us see just how bizarre propaganda actually is, but how normal it seems to those who yield to it. By using the absurd image of ...
( Category: Democracy March 4,2017 )
The Holy Roman Empire by Peter H. Wilson
epub |eng | 2015-12-13 | Author:Peter H. Wilson

Table 10. Imperial Taxation, 1521–1613 Although far above what previous emperors had received, this amount still fell far short of Charles’s burgeoning expenses. The 1544 grant provided only 3.7 per ...
( Category: Germany February 28,2017 )
The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return by Kenan Trebincevic & Susan Shapiro
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Kenan Trebincevic & Susan Shapiro

CHAPTER SEVEN * * * My Grandpa Murat’s Karma Brcko, Bosnia September 1992 “Those are not for Muslims,” yelled a Serb woman at the makeshift Brcko market, grabbing the red ...
( Category: Europe February 27,2017 )
The Substance of Civilization: Materials and Human History from the Stone Age to the Age of Silicon by Stephen L. Sass
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Stephen L. Sass [Sass, Stephen L.]

These ingredients are the basic components of gunpowder, which is a mixture of saltpeter (potassium nitrate), sulfur, and charcoal. Byzantium resisted the onslaughts first of Islam and then of the ...
( Category: History of Technology February 27,2017 )

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