Название: Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
Автор: Tracy Borman
Издательство: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 0802159109
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 576
Размер: 46,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

The author of The Private Lives of the Tudors illuminates the almost thousand-year history of the British monarchy. Since William the Conqueror, duke of Normandy, crossed the English Channel in 1066 to defeat King Harold II and unite England's various kingdoms, forty-one kings and queens have sat on Britain's throne.

Название: Аптекарь Освенцима. Неизвестная история Виктора Капезиуса
Автор: Патрисия Познер
Издательство: АСТ
Год: 2022
Формат: fb2, rtf
Размер: 12 Мб
Качество: Хорошее
Язык: Русский

«Аптекарь Освенцима» – малоизвестная история Виктора Капезиуса, продавца фармацевтической продукции из Румынии, который в возрасте 35 лет вступил в ряды нацистов и в 1943 г. стал главным аптекарем в крупнейшем лагере смерти Освенциме.
Частично основываясь на ранее засекреченных документах, Патрисия Познер рассказывает о личности Капезиуса, его бегстве от правосудия и наконец о привлечении его к суду через двадцать лет после окончания войны за многочисленные убийства.

Название: Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia: Brother and Sister of History's Most Vilified Family
Автор: Samantha Morris
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526724405
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 200
Размер: 18,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

The first ever biography that tells the true story of what really went on in the lives of Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia. Myths and rumor have shrouded the Borgia family for centuries – tales of incest, intrigue and murder have been told of them since they themselves walked the hallways of the Apostolic Palace.

Название: The Mandela Revolution: A British Soldier's Inside View of His Rise to Power
Автор: Huw Lawford
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1399009052
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 216
Размер: 9,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

On 27 April 1994 South Africa went to the polls and delivered the first black government in the country's history. This was the Mandela Revolution. This is not the story of how the Rainbow Nation was formed, but it tells a story of one part of the revolution; a vital part, that had to occur to give legitimacy to the new South Africa both at home and abroad.

Название: The Book of Wonder (Temporis Collection)
Автор: Marco Polo
Издательство: Parkstone
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 18 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The most famous travel story of the Middle Ages has never lost its charm. A story of true wonder, Marco Polo’s experiences as well as the reported myths transport us to the heart of Central Asia, China, Indochina, and the Indian Ocean. The original manuscripts were accompanied with illustrations realised from the few descriptions made by the traveller. The various illustrations found here will send the reader through the footsteps of Marco Polo, on the path to discovering the distant lands as we know them today.

Название: Disability and the Tudors: All the King's Fools
Автор: Phillipa Vincent Connolly
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1526720051
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 256
Размер: 16,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Throughout history, how society treated its disabled and infirm can tell us a great deal about the period. Challenged with any impairment, disease or frailty was often a matter of life and death before the advent of modern medicine, so how did a society support the disabled amongst them?
For centuries, disabled people and their history have been overlooked - hidden in plain sight.

Название: Technology of the Ancient Near East From the Neolithic to the Early Roman Period
Автор: Jill L. Baker
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 10 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Peoples of the distant past lived comfortably in cities that boasted well-conceived urban planning, monumental architecture, running water, artistic expression, knowledge of mathematics and medicine, and more. Without the benefits of modern technology, they enjoyed all the accoutrements of modern civilization. Technology of the Ancient Near East brings together in a single volume what is known about the technology behind these acheivements, based on the archaeological, textual, historic, and scientific data drawn from a wide range of sources, focusing on subjects such as warfare, construction, metallurgy, ceramics and glass, water management, and time keeping. These technologies are discussed within the cultural, historic, and socio-economic contexts within which they were invented and the book emphasises these as the foundation upon which modern technology is based. In so doing, this study elucidates the ingenuity of ancient minds, offering an invaluable introduction for students of ancient technology and science.

Название: 1922: Эпизоды бурного года
Автор: Ник Реннисон
Издательство: АСТ
Год: 2022
Формат: fb2, rtf
Размер: 10 Мб
Качество: Хорошее
Язык: Русский

События 1922 года отразились на всем ХХ веке, и продолжают влиять на нас сто лет спустя. Империи пали. Официально был создан Советский Союз, а Италия Муссолини стала первым фашистским государством. Впервые полностью опубликованы «Бесплодная земля» Т. С. Элиота и «Улисс» Джеймса Джойса. В США сухой закон был на пике, а потрясенная чередой скандалов голливудская киноиндустрия продолжала расти. Появилось новое средство массовой информации – радио, а в Британии основали Би-би-си. В послевоенном обществе, уже измененном кровопролитной травмой и пандемией, нравы прошлого казались еще более устаревшими; «ревущие двадцатые» начали грохотать, возвестив начало «века джаза».

Название: Student Revolt in 1968: France, Italy and West Germany
Автор: Ben Mercer
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108484484
Год: 2020
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 268
Размер: 2,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Student Revolt in 1968 examines the origins, course and dissolution of student protest at three universities in the 1960s - the Freie Universität Berlin in West Germany, the campus of Nanterre in France, and the Faculty of Sociology at Trento in Italy.

Название: The Alkhan: A Hunnic People in South Asia
Автор: Hans T. Bakker
Издательство: Barkhuis
ISBN: 9493194000
Год: 2020
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 142
Размер: 11,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book is the first fascicle in a series that is designed as a reader’s Companion to a Sourcebook that presents all written sources with regard to Hunnic Peoples in Central and South Asia from the 4th to the 6th centuries of the Common Era.