Civilization & Culture
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-14 | Author:Standage, Tom [Standage, Tom]
“THE ART OF PRINTING SHOULD is outwardly thIQ BE ENCOURAGED” In May 1765 news reached the American colonies that the government in London had passed “an act for granting and ...
( Category:
Communication & Media Studies
February 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Christopher Knight & Alan Butler [Knight, Christopher]
of the Earth = 360 x 10 20 pounds 1 Megalithic-minute section of the Earth = 6 x 1020 pounds 1 Megalithic-second section of the Earth = 1020 pounds The ...
( Category:
Ancient & Controversial Knowledge
January 18,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2014-02-03 | Author:Tucker, William [Tucker, William]
After Albert’s death, Queen Victoria became exceedingly fond of her Scottish manservant, John Brown, seven years her junior. Members of the royal family grew to resent Brown’s influence and rumors ...
( Category:
Social Policy
December 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-21 | Author:Arthur Herman [Herman, Arthur]
Not many tourists go to the northeast Italian town of Padua today, except perhaps to see Giotto’s famous frescoes in the Arena Chapel. However, for more than one hundred years ...
( Category:
History & Surveys
November 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2001-06-15 | Author:Morris Berman [Berman, Morris]
we didn’t get along well until photography came into its own. Then—motion pictures in the early twentieth century. Radio. Television. Things began to have mass. . . . And because ...
( Category:
United States
October 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-30 | Author:Kenan Malik [Malik, Kenan]
CHAPTER TWELVE Passion, duty and consequence 1 In every system of morality, which I have hitherto met with, I have always remark’d, that the author proceeds for some time in ...
( Category:
Ethics & Morality
October 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-22 | Author:Peter Watson [Watson, Peter]
THE IMPERIAL KNOW-ALL Kaiser Wilhelm II also disliked Berlin. For a start, it was far too free-thinking and disrespectful of royalty. Nevertheless, Germany needed a capital to match his ambitions, ...
( Category:
Germany
October 12,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2004-01-29 | Author:Charles Freeman [Freeman, Charles]
sands of his own precious troops (hence the term Pyrrhic victory). Rome's allies stood firm. Even with mercenaries (and the riches of the Greek cities would have allowed him to ...
( Category:
Civilization & Culture
July 8,2015 )
epub |eng, eng | 2015-06-19 | Author:Urton, Gary,von Hagen, Adriana & Adriana von Hagen [Urton, Gary & Hagen, Adriana von]
HUACA Often glossed as “sacred place,” huaca is a term used frequently by the Spanish chroniclers to invoke a concept that they clearly understood to be a core principle, or ...
( Category:
Native American
June 20,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-12-28 | Author:Robert Wright [Wright, Robert]
BAD TRIBALISM MADE GOOD And what of the more literal, more disturbing forms of tribalism? What of raw nationalism, or the ethnic balkanization of states? These do seem resurgent—not surprisingly, ...
( Category:
Organic
June 12,2015 )
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome by Bauer Susan Wise
epub |eng | 2007-03-17 | Author:Bauer, Susan Wise [Bauer, Susan Wise]
Cyrus, a Persian…acquired very many people, very many cities, and very many nations, all obedient to himself…. was willingly obeyed by some, even though they were distant from him by ...
( Category:
Civilization & Culture
June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-08-15 | Author:Arthur Herman
But the Scots and Scotch Irish laity loved it, and it became the hallmark of Southern—and American—religion from then until the present. It also forged a link between the Presbyterian ...
( Category:
Scotland
June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-05 | Author:Bill Bryson
III The direction of movement for populations is not always downwards, it must be said. Sometimes populations boom, occasionally in ways that shape history. Never has that been more true ...
( Category:
Residential
June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2002-01-22 | Author:Abraham Eraly [Eraly, Abraham]
NOTHING LASTS. THE FINAL result of every gain and achievement and of every happiness—“the short-lived pleasure of the frightened in the arms of the frightened,” as the Dhammapada puts it—is ...
( Category:
India
June 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-30 | Author:William H. McNeill [McNeill, William H.]
* * * Meanwhile, two major centers of high culture had developed in the Americas—one in the highlands of Central America, the other in the coastal valleys and uplands of ...
( Category:
Civilization & Culture
June 1,2015 )
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