The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason, Paperback - Charles Freeman

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A biography of Wilhelm von Habsburg that intends to reconstruct the life of this extraordinary man - a man who remained loyal to his Ukrainian drea...

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An account of the rise of the Zulu nation in southern Africa, and its fall under Cetshwayo in the Zulu war of 1879. This work sets out to be not on...

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Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar - Barry Eichengreen

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Reducere. This book chronologically documents the rise and fall of the major religions of the world and explores the role that various cultural factors such ...