Название: Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter
Автор: Tom Clavin
Издательство: St. Martin's Press
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 34 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The definitive true story of Wild Bill, the first lawman of the Wild West, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dodge City. In July 1865, Wild Bill Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in Springfield, MO--the first quick-draw duel on the frontier. Thus began the reputation that made him a marked man to every gunslinger in the Wild West. James Butler Hickock was known across the frontier as a soldier, Union spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman, and actor. He crossed paths with General Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody, as well as Ben Thompson and other young toughs gunning for the sheriff with the quickest draw west of the Mississippi. Wild Bill also fell in love--multiple times--before marrying the true love of his life, Agnes Lake, the impresario of a traveling circus. He would be buried however, next to fabled frontierswoman Calamity Jane.

Название: Цена утопии. История российской модернизации
Автор: Михаил Давыдов
Язык: русский
Издательство: Новое литературное обозрение
Год: 2022
Страниц: 430
Формат: pdf
Размер: 17,7 Мб

Почему все попытки модернизации и либерализации России за последние 160 лет заканчивались неудачей? Этот ключевой для нашей истории вопрос ставит в своей книге Михаил Давыдов. Чтобы попытаться на него ответить, автор предлагает обратиться ко второй половине XIX века – времени, когда, по его словам, Россия пыталась реализовать первую в своей истории антикапиталистическую утопию…

Название: A History of South Africa to 1870
Автор: Monica Wilson, Leonard Thompson
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 1003310655
Год: 1982
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 479
Размер: 36,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Originally published in 1982 and based on the 1969 Oxford History of South Africa, this book discusses some of the trends in the historiography of South Africa before the beginning of large-scale mining operations in Kimberley in 1870. A deliberate attempt was made to look at the roots of South African society and to take due account of all its peoples.

Название: The Archaeology of Roman Macedonia: Urban and Rural Environments
Автор: Vassilis Evangelidis
Издательство: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789258014
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 224
Размер: 65,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Macedonia is a region that provides its own intriguing questions due to its position on the fringe of the classical Greek world. It is also an area which is of special interest to students of history and archaeology of Roman period Greece since it was the first to be incorporated in the Roman state.

Название: All About History: History of Astrology - 2nd Edition 2022
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Future
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 132
Размер: 367,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Can the stars foretell your fate? Discover the celestial secrets of astrologers. Explore astrology's long and complex history, uncover the role of the signs of the zodiac and the planets, learn about the 12 houses, and reveal the secrets of sun, moon and rising signs.

Название: All About History: Book Of Medieval History - 7th Edition 2022
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Future
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 164
Размер: 64,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Medieval era is often dismissed as a brutal period of darkness, ignorance, bloodshed and disease – the so-called ‘Dark Ages’ dividing classical antiquity from the age of enlightenment. But while warfare, invasions and religious persecution were certainly defining themes of the period, Medieval history is also filled with intrepid explorers, revolutionary artists and thinkers, and inspirational rulers whose legacies still live on to this day.

Название: Magic Tree House Fact Tracker: Ancient Greece and the Olympics
Автор: Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce
Издательство: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307975287
Год: 2004
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 128
Размер: 68,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Where were the very first Olympics held? How are our modern Olympics similar to the ancient Olympics? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts. Filled with up-to-date information, photos, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discovered in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures.

Название: Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House
Автор: Rachel Maddow, Michael Yarvitz
Издательство: Crown
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 18 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Is it possible for a sitting vice president to direct a vast criminal enterprise within the halls of the White House? To have one of the most brazen corruption scandals in American history play out while nobody’s paying attention? And for that scandal to be all but forgotten decades later? The year was 1973, and Spiro T. Agnew, the former governor of Maryland, was Richard Nixon’s second-in-command. Long on firebrand rhetoric and short on political experience, Agnew had carried out a bribery and extortion ring in office for years, when—at the height of Watergate—three young federal prosecutors discovered his crimes and launched a mission to take him down before it was too late, before Nixon’s impending downfall elevated Agnew to the presidency. The self-described “counterpuncher” vice president did everything he could to bury their investigation: dismissing it as a “witch hunt,” riling up his partisan base, making the press the enemy, and, with a crumbling circle of loyalists, scheming to obstruct justice in order to survive.

Название: Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
Автор: Buddy Levy
Издательство: St. Martin's Griffin
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 68 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Based on the author's exhaustive research, the incredible true story of the Greely Expedition, one of the most harrowing adventures in the annals of polar exploration. In July 1881, Lt. A.W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North. What would follow was one of the most extraordinary and terrible voyages ever made. Greely and his men confronted every possible challenge—vicious wolves, sub-zero temperatures, and months of total darkness—as they set about exploring one of the most remote, unrelenting environments on the planet. In May 1882, they broke the 300-year-old record, and returned to camp to eagerly await the resupply ship scheduled to return at the end of the year. Only nothing came.

Название: От Средневековья к «Радостному дому»: школы, ученики, учителя итальянского Возрождения (XIV–XV вв.)
Автор: Н.В. Ревякина, Н.И. Девятайкина
Язык: русский
Издательство: Политическая энциклопедия
Год: 2020
Страниц: 278
Формат: pdf
Размер: 28,3 Мб

Авторы этой работы всесторонне показали, как в Италии XIV–XV вв. под влиянием серьезных изменений в экономике, социальной, политической и культурной сферах происходил постепенный переход от средневековой школы с ее устаревшими программами и методами, телесными наказаниями к школе нового типа. Важную роль в рождении новой школы сыграло гуманистическое движение и сформированная в его парадигме педагогическая программа.