Last And First Men

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When U.S.-led forces invaded Iraq in 2003, they occupied a country that had been at war for twenty-three years. Yet in their attempts to understand...

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To most students of the Peninsular War the name Robert Craufurd evokes images of a battle-hardened martinet, flogging his men across Portugal and S...

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Reducere. Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a "future history" science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapl...

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Description'In 1811, twelve young men were chosen among the families in the Emperor's personal service to serve as ushers in his apartments. My mot...

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Reducere. Russell Means is the most controversial Indian leader of our time. Where White Men Fear to Tread is the well-detailed, first-hand story of his life...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1961 the British army struggled with volunteer recruitment after the abolition of National Service. Recruiting teams were sent to thr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Fritz ZimmermanDid a race of giant humans once roam the Biblical lands, Europe and North America? Over 300 historical accou...

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Reducere. On the streets of Paris one day in July 1918, an American doughboy, Sgt. Jimmy Donovan, befriended a stray dog that he named Rags. No longer an unw...

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Though the First and Second Battles of Newtonia did not match epic Civil War battles like Antietam, where over thirty-five hundred soldiers were ki...

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From an award-winning scholar comes this definitive, single-volume history that illuminates the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolut...

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The biggest and best adventures of Marvel's mighty mutants - these are the X-Men Milestones Months ago, Cyclops gave Cable custody of the first mut...

Since its first publication in 1998, Mary Talbot's Language and Gender has been a leading textbook, popular with students for its accessibility and...

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Reducere. Susan Muaddi Darraj's short story collection about the inhabitants of a Palestinian West Bank village, Tel al-Hilou, spans generations and continen...

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Returning to the universe of New York Times Notable book This Alien Shore comes a new space opera from an acknowledged master of science fiction. W...

In the summer of 1969, men walked on the moon; Holly Lee Carter returned home in a wheelchair to save her family legacy from the Klan; and my best ...

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