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""A wholly original history of France, filled with a lifetime's knowledge and passion-by the author of the New York Times bestseller Parisians. Beginning with the Roman army's first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending in the era of Emmanuel Macron, France takes readers on an endlessly entertaining journey through French history. Frequently hilarious, always surprising, Graham Robb's France combines the stylistic versatility of a novelist...
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How do we know about the Incas? What were Inca towns and cities like? What was the "lost city of the Incas"? Geography Matters in the Inca Empire looks at how the Inca Empire changed through time and gives fascinating insights into many different aspects of Inca life through its geography. Read about how the mountainous Inca geography led to their development of terrace farming, how the Incas worshipped the mountain peaks as gods and how the size...
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2022.
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First edition.
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xvi, 537 pages : illustrations (some color), color photographs, color maps ; 24 cm.
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"Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra Nevada mountains during the summer of 1973. He returned from that encounter a changed man, awed by a landscape that made him feel as if he were simultaneously strolling through an art museum and scrambling on a jungle gym like an energized child. He has returned to the mountains throughout his life—more than a hundred trips—and has gathered a vast store of knowledge about them. The High Sierra...
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There have been many books and movies about whether Atlantis really existed and where it was located. Now we have a new candidate location which meets the criteria established by Plato much better than any of the other candidates. A location which is the exact same size as the fabled city and is located by more than one ancient source. The story of the Eye of the Sahara is truly amazing and once you read it you will become convinced like I am of this...
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Die Oderberger Straße war zu DDR-Zeiten ein Biotop für Künstler und Unangepasste. Auch die Bürgerrechtlerin Freya Klier und ihre Tochter Nadja lebten hier zehn Jahre lang. In diesem Buch begeben sie sich auf Spurensuche in die wechselvolle Geschichte der Straße und ihrer Bewohner – von den Anfängen im 19. Jahrhundert bis in die Zeit nach dem Mauerfall, als plötzlich überall Galerien, Kneipen und Kulturprojekte in die alten Häuser einzogen....
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The Great White Hunter-Southern Africa is the third and final book of the Dutch Century Trilogy. It covers the last two-thirds of the 1600s, during which the Dutch exercised considerable control of all sub-Saharan Africa. Among the Dutch who spent significant portions of their lives in the region were farmers, traders, builders, mariners, and slavers. And, most interesting, some intrepid long-distance hunters. They sought fortunes as rewards for museum-quality...
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Entre 1963 y 1980, Horacio Serrano publicó cerca de mil notas y columnas en el diario El Mercurio. Esta selección rescata los principales ejes temáticos de esos escritos: Chile y los chilenos, el legado cultural clásico, la sabiduría oriental, nuestra confusa e incipiente modernización y el mundo de la mujer y los sentimientos. Leer a Horacio Serrano es recuperar parte de nuestro paisaje y es volver a preguntarnos por la identidad chilena. Sus...
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Cuando el hombre encuentra lugares donde detecta la presencia de algo extraño que le provoca toda clase de sentimientos y sensaciones, atribuye su poder a seres extrahumanos, ya sean benignos o malignos. La mayoría de los lugares donde el hombre se encuentra con sus dioses han sido construidos con piedras...Piedras Sagradas.
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The 50 or so mysterious Pictish symbols and the stones displaying them have become central to all discussion of the Picts. Generations of scholars have sought to interpret the symbols with little agreement. This book takes an indirect approach to the situation. The present layout of Class I stones hints at an arrangement in chains in which adjacent stones in a chain are linked by a common symbol. This is investigated and the chains identified. Between...
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The book describes the worlds oldest human settlements during the rather long and diversified sets of civilizations and cultural epochs in the regions, which are now situated within the territorial limits of Pakistan, and highlights three historical periods, namely (i) the age of neolithic settlements, (ii) the Indus Valley civilization, and (iii) the period of precolonial empires and kingdoms and against this backdrop deals with the human settlements...
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La Huerta de Valencia es un paisaje cultural de valor excepcional. Pocas ciudades europeas disponen de entornos tan singulares y valiosos. Estos entornos singulares, que entablan cada día su particular y desigual combate con la ciudad real, tienen escasas posibilidades de supervivencia de no mediar políticas eficaces de gestión. Sin embargo, no se constatan los cambios que serían necesarios en la ordenación del territorio, en la producción sostenible...
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Get the Summary of Robert Kaplan's The Loom of Time in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Loom of Time" by Robert Kaplan delves into the complex history and future of the Greater Middle East, a region stretching from Europe to China, known for its arid climate, political upheaval, and lack of consistent ruling authority. The book examines the region's history of tribalism and religious divisions, the establishment...
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Ein Sehnsuchtsort, ein Tor in Richtung Westen – das war der Alexanderplatz für Nellja Veremej, als sie in den Neunzigerjahren nach Berlin kam. Stattdessen fand sie sich auf einer unwirtlichen Brache wieder, umstellt von Häuserkästen, deren Stil sie noch aus der Sowjetunion kannte.
Erst als sie sich in Alfred Döblins berühmtem Roman vertieft und in die Geschichte des Platzes eintaucht, offenbart er sich ihr als Ort der Begegnungen und Gegensätze,...
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The Dutch Century: Domination of the Spice Trade at Any Cost is the second of three books about the remarkable 17th century, primarily owned by the Netherlands. It reveals-as historical fiction-the adventures, trials, risks, accomplishments, conflicts, atrocities, and crimes, of the Dutch and specifically of the Seagoing Van Brakel family.
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Get the Summary of Peter Frankopan's The Silk Roads in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Silk Roads" by Peter Frankopan explores the historical significance of the trade routes connecting Asia, Europe, and Africa. It begins with the early civilizations of Babylon and Mohenjo-Daro, highlighting the Persian Empire's influence and the spread of trade during the Han dynasty. The book details the exchange of goods,...
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This book analyses western maps made between the 13th to 17th centuries and shows them to be copies of maps made by ancient explorers going back as far as 5000 years. Thirteenth through fifteenth century Portolan Charts of the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North Africa reflect geography going back 5000 years and are as accurate as a Mercator Projection. Sixteenth and seventh century maps of North America, South...
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There is currently much concern about our trees and woodlands. The terrible toll taken by Dutch elm disease has been followed by a string of further epidemics, most worryingly ash chalara - and there are more threats on the horizon. There is also a widely shared belief that our woods have been steadily disappearing over recent decades, either replanted with alien conifers or destroyed entirely in order to make way for farmland or development. Trees...
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Christopher Columbus brought some cattle with him when he discovered the New World, and some of them escaped and ran wild as early as 1493. They ran wild on the Texas plains and multiplied for about four centuries. They were massive herds by the time that Jim and his team of cowboys discovered them and started trail breaking them to herd them north to Abilene.
A team of cowboys who were veterans of the Civil War forms up and decides to go to West...
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El estudio de las prácticas de hidráulica agraria desarrolladas durante la Edad Media ha mostrado que no nos hallamos ante fenómenos puramente «etnográficos» o soluciones universales sin valor histórico. En esta obra colectiva se ofrecen, por un lado, trabajos representativos de regiones donde se inicia la expansión agraria en el marco de la cristalización del sistema feudal (Cataluña Vieja, Languedoc, Borgoña) y, por otro, varios estudios...
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