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Cover of La cultura bizantina
by Ernesto Ballesteros Arranz
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2015

eBook Interactivo. El desplazamiento de Diocleciano y posteriormente la transformación cristiana de Constantino, a comienzos del siglo IV, abre un nuevo mundo cultural y artístico que nos ha dejado buenas muestras de su creatividad y belleza, como queremos mostrar en esta colección dedicada al...
Cover of El barroco en los Países Bajos y Europa Central
by Ernesto Ballesteros Arranz
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2015

eBook Interactivo. Aunque los Países Bajos, como Inglaterra, tenían suficiente con ocuparse de su extraordinario desarrollo comercial a lo largo y ancho de este mundo, también tuvieron oportunidad de destacar con grandes monumentos y geniales autores barrocos que han quedado inscritos para siempre en la memoria universal, como el incomparable Rembrandt van Ryn.
Cover of Our Cosmic Ancestors
by Maurice Chatelain
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017

Our Cosmic Ancestors is a dynamic work unraveling the messages of universal astronauts and decoding the symbols and visual mathematics they have left for us in the Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge, the Mayan calendar, the Maltese cross, and the Sumerian zodiac.  The book is captivating...
Cover of King Henry the Fourth
by John Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018

While France was deluged with the blood of a civil war, young Henry was busily pursuing his studies in college. He could have had but little affection for his father, for the stern soldier had passed most of his days in the tented field, and his son had hardly known him. From his mother he had long...
Cover of Au Set of Kemet

Au Set of Kemet

The Story of Isis of Ancient Egypt

by Sharon Desruisseaux
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012

Imagine your life's purpose predetermined before you were even born? Before Au Set was born her mother had planned all she was to be.  As the first-born of an ancient legacy in a land called Eshnunna, her life was all designed theologically before she was even born as the oldest daughter of...
Cover of Some of Our East Coast Towns
by J. Ewing Ritchie
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017

CHELMSFORD, one of the youngest of the Essex Boroughs, and almost a suburb of Greater London by means of the Great Eastern Railway, was, when I first knew it, a dignified county town, the leading people of which considered a second post from London as a daily nuisance, and had no taste for what is...
Cover of Charles XII - King of Sweden
by Carl Klingspor
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017

Two centuries ago when the kingdoms of Northern Europe were struggling for supremacy on the Baltic and control of the narrow portal to the sea, there appeared a young prince, the marvel of his age, who made himself the arbiter of these kingdoms and of their rulers. The military successes of Charles...
Cover of Dimensions of African and Other Diasporas
by Franklin W. Knight, Ruth Iyob
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2014

Diasporas comprise an inescapable part of the human experience and few are more interesting and diverse than African diasporas. This collection of essays illustrates the inherent variability of African, European and Asian diasporic formation.
Cover of Genealogies of Legal Vision
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015

It was the classical task of legal rhetoric to make law both seen and understood. These conjoint goals came to be separated and opposed in modernity and a degree of blindness ensued. Legal reason was increasingly deemed to be a purely textual enterprise. Against this constraint and in furtherance...
Cover of Putting Away Childish Things: A New Synthesis
by Jon Mercurio
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012

In two sections we trace the historical path taken by man in his attempt to understand 'what in the world is this all about'. The philosopher Hegal suggested that all advances require three steps: a thesis, an antithesis and a synthesis. Religion and science are major milestones in mankind's...
Cover of In Griekenland (Geïllustreerd)

In Griekenland (Geïllustreerd)

De Aarde en haar Volken, 1909

by A. Adossidès
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018

Het Griekenland van tegenwoordig is niet meer dat van Chateaubriand of van Edmond About. Het heeft allerlei veranderingen ondergaan. Uit het kleine stadje, dat Athene in hun tijd nog was, en dat men er dertig of veertig jaren geleden ook nog zag, is thans een stad geworden, die waardig haar plaats...
Cover of The Three Voyages of Vasco da Gama, and His Viceroyalty.

The Three Voyages of Vasco da Gama, and His Viceroyalty.

From the Legendas da India of Gaspar Correa. Accompanied by Original Documents.Translated from the Portuguese, with notes and an introduction, by Henry E. J. Stanley.

by Gaspar Corrêa., Henry E. J. Stanley.
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013

Elibron Classics. Replica of 1869 edition by the Hakluyt Society, London. This is a detail acccount of 3 voyages of Vasco Da Gama to India.  
Cover of Investment: A History
by Norton Reamer, Jesse Downing
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016

Investing—the commitment of resources to achieve a return—affects individuals, families, companies, and nations, and has done so throughout history. Yet until the sixteenth century, investing was a privilege of only the elite classes. The story behind the democratization of investing is bound...
Cover of SPANISH INTELLECT

SPANISH INTELLECT

From the Fifth to the Nineteenth Century

by H. T. Buckle
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016

It is in the history of Spain and of Scotland that he [Buckle] now seeks illustrations of these cardinal propositions. Spain and Scotland exemplify more palpably than any other modern peoples the baleful action of the protective spirit of Church and State; and the use to which he turns the history...
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