State of Siege

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Reducere. DescriptionZipporah Porath, a native New Yorker, arrived in Jerusalem in 1947 for a one-year program at the Hebrew University. Almost immediately, ...

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*Includes pictures *Includes ancient historians' accounts of the siege *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Since we ...

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Reducere. DescriptionEver since the Great Siege of 1565, Malta became known as the impregnable island. It was the home of the Knights of St. John, that highl...

A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of p...

Reducere. After a violent storm in the South Pacific in the year 1643, Roberto della Griva finds himself shipwrecked-on a ship. Swept from the Amaryllis, he ...

DescriptionThe Iraqi city of Fallujah has become an epicenter of geopolitical conflict, where foreign powers and non-state actors have repeatedly w...

An important work of scholarship that should be read by anyone concerned with America's future. --Fareed Zakaria, author of The Post-American World...

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DescriptionWhile America is focused on religious militancy and terrorism in the Middle East, democracy has been under siege from religious extremis...

Reducere. It is 1992, and twenty-year-old Justin Bench has arrived, recently and unexpectedly, to the tiny, fictional mid-valley town of Appleton. Here, in t...

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Reducere. In an alternate Renaissance Italy where the church regulates magic and licenses magicians, fiery Fiametta Beneforte wants to be more than her golds...

Reducere. This is a history of the Roman siege and destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. From the preface: "HISTORY records few events more generally interesti...

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Reducere. The great struggle for imperial dominance in the ancient worldAlthough this history of Carthage covers events from the earliest days of that state,...

The Effigies seek out the true origins of the Phantoms that terrorize their world in this thrilling follow-up to Fate of Flames, which Elise Chapma...

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DescriptionDanger lurks in the wilds of Grizzly Harbor this Christmas but it's love that has Alaska Force in the cross-hairs, from the USA Today be...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe Houndsditch murders of three City of London policemen in 1910 and the ensuing "Siege of Sidney Street", in which Latvian anarchists ...