Название: The Griekwastad Murders: The Crime that Shook South Africa
Автор: Jacques Steenkamp
Издательство: Zebra Press
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 20 Мб
Язык: английский / English

New edition includes the sentencing and identifies Don Steenkamp as the murderer for the first time … Just after dusk on Good Friday, 6 April 2012, the peace and quiet permeating the small Northern Cape town of Griekwastad was disrupted when a young teenage boy sped into town in his father’s Isuzu bakkie and screeched to a halt in front of the town’s nearly deserted police station to announce that his parents and sister had been brutally shot and killed on the family farm, Naauwhoek. Based on interviews with all the role-players, including the investigating officers on the case, the forensic and ballistic experts, and family and friends of the deceased, this is the riveting account of what really happened on Naauwhoek farm on that fateful day, as told by the reporter who first broke the story ...

Название: Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe
Автор: Gordon Corera
Издательство: William Collins
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 31 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of MI14(d) and the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time. Between 1941 and 1944, sixteen thousand plucky homing pigeons were dropped in an arc from Bordeaux to Copenhagen as part of 'Columba' – a secret British operation to bring back intelligence from those living under Nazi occupation. The messages flooded back written on tiny pieces of rice paper tucked into canisters and tied to the legs of the birds. Authentic voices from rural France, the Netherlands and Belgium – they were sometimes comic, often tragic and occasionally invaluable with details of German troop movements and fortifications, new Nazi weapons, radar system or the deployment of the feared V-1 and V-2 rockets that terrorized London.

Название: The Lunar Men: The Inventors of the Modern World 1730-1810
Автор: Jenny Uglow
Издательство: Faber & Faber
Год: 2003
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 13 Мб
Язык: английский / English

ed by Erasmus Darwin, the Lunar Society of Birmingham was formed from a group of amateur experimenters, tradesmen and artisans who met and made friends in the Midlands in the 1760s. Most came from humble families, all lived far from the centre of things, but they were young and their optimism was boundless: together they would change the world. Among them were the ambitious toy-maker Matthew Boulton and his partner James Watt, of steam-engine fame; the potter Josiah Wedgwood; the larger-than-life Erasmus Darwin, physician, poet, inventor and theorist of evolution (a forerunner of his grandson Charles Darwin). Later came Joseph Priestley, discoverer of oxygen and fighting radical.

Название: Environment, Society and the Black Death: An interdisciplinary approach to the late-medieval crisis in Sweden
Автор: Per Lageras
Издательство: Oxbow Books
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 12 Мб
Язык: английский / English

In the mid-fourteenth century the Black Death ravaged Europe, leading to dramatic population drop and social upheavals. Recurring plague outbreaks together with social factors pushed Europe into a deep crisis that lasted for more than a century. The plague and the crisis, and in particular their short-term and long-term consequences for society, have been the matter of continuous debate. Most of the research so far has been based on the study of written sources, and the dominating perspective has been the one of economic history. A different approach is presented here by using evidence and techniques from archaeology and the natural sciences.

Название: Boundaries: How the Mason-Dixon Line Settled a Family Feud and Divided a Nation
Автор: Sally M. Walker
Издательство: Candlewick Press
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 29 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The Mason-Dixon Line’s history, replete with property disputes, persecution, and ideological conflicts, traverses our country’s history from its founding to today. We live in a world of boundaries — geographic, scientific, cultural, and religious. One of America’s most enduring boundaries is the Mason-Dixon Line, most associated with the divide between the North and the South and the right to freedom for all people. Sibert Medal–winning author Sally M. Walker traces the tale of the Mason-Dixon Line through family feuds, brave exploration, scientific excellence, and the struggle to define a cohesive country. But above all, this remarkable story of surveying, marking, and respecting lines of demarcation will alert young history buffs to their guaranteed right and responsibility to explore, challenge, change, and defend the boundaries that define them.

Название: Bronze Age Connections: Cultural Contact in Prehistoric Europe
Автор: Peter Clark
Издательство: Oxbow Books
Год: 2009
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 21 Мб
Язык: английский / English

New and exciting discoveries on either side of the English Channel in recent years have begun to show that people living in the coastal zones of Belgium, southern Britain, northern France and the Netherlands shared a common material culture during the Bronze Age, between three and four thousand years ago. They used similar styles of pottery and metalwork, lived in the same kind of houses and buried their dead in the same kind of tombs, often quite different to those used by their neighbours further inland. The sea did not appear to be a barrier to these people but rather a highway, connecting communities in a unique cultural identity; the 'People of La Manche'.

Название: Bubonic Panic: When Plague Invaded America
Автор: Gail Jarrow
Издательство: Calkins Creek
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 39 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Uncovering the true story of America's first plague epidemic in 1900, this book is perfect to share with young readers looking for a historical perspective of the Covid-19/Coronavirus pandemic that is gripping the world today. In March 1900, San Francisco's health department investigated a strange and horrible death in Chinatown. A man had died of bubonic plague, one of the world's deadliest diseases. But how could that be possible? Acclaimed author and scientific expert Gail Jarrow brings the history of a medical mystery to life in vivid and exciting detail for young readers. She spotlights the public health doctors who desperately fought to end it, the political leaders who tried to keep it hidden, and the brave scientists who uncovered the plague's secrets. This title includes photographs and drawings, a glossary, a timeline, further resources, an author's note, and source notes.

Название: Истории неоднозначных преступлений
Автор: Андрей Толкачев
Язык: русский
Издательство: ЛитРес
Год: 2023
Страниц: 100
Формат: pdf
Размер: 10,5 Мб

Автор провел собственное расследование некоторых известных историй, и обнаружил много «темных пятен», где интерпретации событий сильно расходятся. Книга уникальна тем, что преступниками в ней зачастую выступают не только люди, но судьи, мафия и целые государства. 21 история, – и читателю в каждом случае предстоит определить, кто и почему виноват, и должен ли виновный нести заслуженную кару. Интересно побывать в роли судьи, прокурора и адвоката.

Название: Российское самодержавие
Автор: Ерошкин Н.П.
Издательство: М.: РГГУ
Год: 2006
Cтраниц: 495
Формат: pdf
Размер: 39 мб
Язык: русский

Книга состоит из трех работ известного историка Н.П. Ерошкина (1920-1988), наиболее цельно и полно раскрывающих его взгляд на российское самодержавие XIX-начало XX века - "Крепостническое самодержавие и его политические институты", "Законодательный механизм России периода буржуазных реформ 60-70-х годов XIX в." и "Самодержавие накануне краха".

Название: Indian Rock Art of the Columbia Plateau
Автор: James D. Keyser
Издательство: University of Washington Press
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 10 Мб
Язык: английский / English

From the river valleys of interior British Columbia south to the hills of northern Oregon and east to the continental divide in western Montana, hundreds of cliffs and boulders display carved and painted designs created by ancient artists who inhabited this area, the Columbia Plateau, as long as seven thousand years ago. Expressing a vital social and spiritual dimension in the lives of these hunter-gathers, rock art captivates us with its evocative power and mystery. At once an irreplaceable yet fragile cultural resource, it documents Native histories, customs, and visions through thousands of years.