Название: History and Culture of Byzantium
Автор: Falko Daim
Издательство: Brill
ISBN: 9004339337
Год: 2019
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 600
Размер: 35,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

This compendium examines the history and culture of the Byzantine world from the foundation of Constantinople (324) to the Ottoman conquest of the city, which brought the final downfall of the Byzantine Empire (1453).

Название: Father Browne's Titanic Album: A Passenger's Photographs and Personal Memoir
Автор: E. E. O'Donnell
Издательство: Messenger Publications
ISBN: 1910248274
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 136
Размер: 18,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

As a passenger on the first two legs of Titanic's ill fated voyage, Father Francis Browne SJ's photographs are an immensely important record. As well as taking a unique set of photos, Father Browne also assembled an incredibly valuable album of Titanic material such as an original deck plan, menus, letters to him from fellow passengers, contemporary newspaper cuttings and other documents, many of which are reproduced here.

Название: The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, Volume Two: Codical Texts
Автор: Martha J. Macri Ph.D., Gabrielle Vail
Издательство: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806140712
Год: 2009
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 320
Размер: 18,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

This long-awaited resource complements its companion volume on Classic Period monumental inscriptions. Authors Martha J. Macri and Gabrielle Vail provide a comprehensive listing of graphemes found in the Dresden, Madrid, and Paris codices, 40 percent of which are unique to these painted manuscripts, and discuss current and past interpretations of these graphemes.

Название: Outlaws: One Man's Rise Through the Savage World of Renegade Bikers, Hell's Angels and Gl obal Crime
Автор: Tony Thompson
Издательство: Penguin
ISBN: 0142422606
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 340
Размер: 1,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

As a member of the international motorcycle club known as the Pagans, Daniel “Snake Dog” Boone had a ringside seat to some of the most violent biker battles ever fought. When he joined his small-town club in the early 1980s, Boone could never have imagined that the ragtag group would one day grow to become a part of the Outlaws, a major gang that would challenge the Hell’s Angels for supremacy around the globe in a battle lasting decades.

Название: Wasteland: A History
Автор: Vittoria Di Palma
Издательство: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300197799
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 280
Размер: 13,1 МБ
Язык: Английский

In Wasteland, Vittoria Di Palma takes on the “anti-picturesque,” offering an account of landscapes that have traditionally drawn fear and contempt. Di Palma argues that a convergence of beliefs, technologies, institutions, and individuals in 18th-century England resulted in the formulation of cultural attitudes that continue to shape the ways we evaluate landscape today.

Название: Wayward Angel: The Full Story Of The Hells Angels
Автор: George Wethern, Vincent Colnett
Издательство: Lyons Press
ISBN: 0399900063
Год: 2008
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 304
Размер: 1,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

We all know about the Hells Angels: toughs on Harleys terrorizing the law-abiding; wild brawls and wild sex; drugs and cruelty, beatings, and even murder. But nobody really knows what it's like to be an Angel except an Angel. In this classic of Hells Angels literature, to be read alongside the works of Hunter S. Thompson and Sonny Barger, George Wethern―for many years the vice president of the Oakland Chapter―tells it like it is.

Название: Arthurian Legend in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
Автор: Susan L Austin
Издательство: Vernon Press
ISBN: 1622739477
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 184
Размер: 1,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The King Arthur we imagine did not exist in history. He is the result of stories told and retold, changed and added to by storytellers for centuries, each making the story reflect the storyteller's time and values.

Название: Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings
Автор: Jon Vidar Sigurdsson
Издательство: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501760471
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 223
Размер: 15,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

In Scandinavia in the Age of Vikings, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson returns to the Viking homeland, Scandinavia, highlighting such key aspects of Viking life as power and politics, social and kinship networks, gifts and feasting, religious beliefs, women's roles, social classes, and the Viking economy, which included farming, iron mining and metalworking, and trade.

Автор: Ф. Н. Загорский 1960
Название: Очерки по истории металлорежущих станков до середины XIX века
Издательство: М:, АН СССР
Год: 1960
Страниц: 290
Формат: DJVU, PDF
Размер: 166 МБ
Металлорежущие станки как машины, предназначенные для изготовления всякого рода оборудования, в том числе и орудий производства, имеют особо важное значение в техническом прогрессе. Истории станков в отечественной литературе уделялось недостаточное внимание, и данная книга предназначена восполнить этот пробел...

Название: The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
Автор: Israel Finkelstein, Neil Asher Silberman
Издательство: Free Press
ISBN: 0684869128
Год: 2001
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 400
Размер: 7,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

In this groundbreaking work that sets apart fact and legend, authors Finkelstein and Silberman use significant archeological discoveries to provide historical information about biblical Israel and its neighbors.
In this iconoclastic and provocative work, leading scholars Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman draw on recent archaeological research to present a dramatically revised portrait of ancient Israel and its neighbors.