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Like their predecessors, and like their male counterparts, most women philosophers of the 20th century have significant expertise in several specialities. Moreover, their work represents the gamut of …

geschrieben von M. E. Waithe (Herausgeber)

Opening with a synopsis of human evolution, Doctor Heriot traces the development of civilization, chronicling the emergence of the world's greatest religions, the most important scientific …

geschrieben von Kirk Heriot (Autor)

The emergence of European powers on the world scene after the fifteenth century brought with it more than the subjugation of colonized peoples; it also brought an increase in the market for drugs, …

geschrieben von William Jankowiak (Herausgeber) und Daniel Bradburd (Herausgeber)

Founder of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, George F. Bass is now …

Firsthand accounts from around the world of more than forty of the most important shipwreck and sunken-city projects ever undertaken.
From the Pacific to the Mediterranean, from the Caribbean to …

geschrieben von George F. Bass (Herausgeber)

The author: (Location: Epsom Downs, Surrey) is an established author of history books with over 100 published titles. He has personally visited the key sites of the Thermopylae campaign, handled …

A lively, popular history book that describes the key battle of ancient Greece, against the Persians, …

geschrieben von Rupert Matthews (Autor)

Duncan Brack is the Chairman of the Liberal Democrat History Group and editor of …

What if: Nixon never resigned? Yitzhak Rabin was not assassinated? Al Gore had become president? Women ruled the world? Containing twenty highly entertaining suggestions of what might have been, …

geschrieben von Duncan Brack (Autor)

In diesem Band vereinigen sich zwischen Alexander dem Großen und dem "Wüstenfuchs" Erwin Rommel solch illustre Feldherren wie Marcus Agrippa, George Washington und Friedrich der …

geschrieben von Jan von Flocken (Autor)

The history of the early ‘Abbasid Caliphate has long been studied as a factual or interpretive synthesis of various accounts preserved in the medieval Islamic chronicles. Tayeb …

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations and note on the dates; Genealogical table: the line of the early 'Abbasid caliphs; 1. Historical background and introduction; 2. Harun al-Rashid: where it all …

"Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography is a pioneering work filled with powerful arguments that challenge historians to read Abbasid chronicles in fresh ways, to embrace techniques of literary …

The reigns of the caliph Harun al-Rashid and his successor al-Ma’mun have long been viewed as the golden age of the medieval Islamic caliphate. Yet how did chroniclers represent this crucial …

geschrieben von Tayeb El-Hibri (Autor) und David Morgan (Herausgeber)

This fascinating book is about the history of human existence. The Rise of the Aryans or Sumerians; their origination and propagation of civilization; their extension of it to Egypt and Crete; …

geschrieben von L. Austine Waddell (Autor)

Joan Ramon Resina is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University. He is the author of a number of books, including El cadaver en la cocina: La novela policiaca en la cultura del …

Since the closing decades of the nineteenth century, Barcelona has striven to sustain an image of modernity that distinguishes itself within Spain. This work begins with Barcelona's "coming of age" in …

geschrieben von Joan Ramon Resina (Autor)