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It is perhaps a little superfluous for one of my years to write an introduction for one so well known and so much esteemed and admired as Madame Novikoff. And yet it may seem just, if it does not seem vain, that a full-hearted tribute should come to her from this generation which profits by the result of her life and her work—the great new friendship between England and Russia.

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. In _Homer and the Epic_, ten or twelve years ago, I examined the...

Alaric, King of the Western Goths, entered Rome with his army, by the Salarian Gate -- outside of which Hannibal had encamped long ago--and took the Imperial City. Eleven hundred and sixty-four years had passed since its legendary foundation under Romulus; four hundred and forty-one since the battle...

A Source Book for Medieval History is a massive collection of primary source material perfect for the medieval scholar. A table of contents is included.

The Kiss and its History is an overview of the act of kissing. It was written in 1902.

One wintry night I bade my few journalistic friends adieu, and, accompanied by my mother, started on my way to Mexico. Only a few months previous I had become a newspaper woman. I was too impatient to work along at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers, so I conceived the idea of going away as a correspondent.

A Short History of the World is a period-piece non-fictional historic work by H. G. Wells.The book was largely inspired by Wells's earlier 1919 work The Outline of History.The story was about summarising  the scienctific knowledge of the time regarding the gistory of Earth and life.

Herbert Allen Giles (8 December 1845 – 13 February 1935) was a British diplomat and sinologist, educated at Charterhouse. He modified a Mandarin Chinese Romanization system earlier established by Thomas Wade, resulting in the widely known Wade-Giles Chinese transliteration system. Among his prolific...

Lorsque les Espagnols arrivèrent au Pérou en 1532, l’Empire des Incas s’étendait depuis le Cuzco jusqu’à la Colombie au nord, jusqu’au Chili et l’Argentine au sud. Ce livre retrace l’histoire de l’expansion de cette tribu qui est parvenue à dominer l’ensemble des Andes en moins...

Quatrième de couverture SABRINA MUGNOS Les Mayas et l’an 2012 Un peuple fascinant et une date très proche de nous, unis par un lien mystérieux. Une redoutable prophétie qui a déclenché un véritable chaos médiatique. Géochimiste, astrobiologiste et spécialiste...

Les Dictateurs est un livre écrit par l'historien et académicien français Jacques Bainville (1879 – 1936). Ce livre numérique présente l'édition intégrale et comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mise en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique....

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THERE is no lesson which mankind has been so slow to learn as the necessity of continuous political and social change. Each succeeding form of social and of political structure has seemed final to the men who lived under it. The greatest thinkers of antiquity, Plato and Aristotle, while recognizing...