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A global history of the geography of war from antiquity to modern and contemporary conflict illustrated and brought to life by histories of inter-state war, geopolitical rivalry, 'hot' and 'cold' war and terrorism. Geography is a basic element in all stages of war including preparation, planning, onset of conflict, waging wars, assessment of results, post-conflict negotiations, analysis and preparation for future conflict. Geography is the vital element...
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Get enchanted with Great Wall history and its remarkable events. Are you struggling to make sense of what happened at that specific point in history? Do you want to learn all of the historical stories in an easier manner? Pick up this overview history book today to learn the inspiring history behind Great Wall! This is the perfect book for history fans for all kids to enjoy. The Great Wall of China was constructed as protection against the invaders...
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Follow the comical adventures of Harper, Scarlet and their family as they expore Edinburgh's historic Royal Mile and get up to all sorts of mischief. A unique souvenir of the city for both children and adults. Jan-Andrew Henderson is a multi award-winning author, historian and former tour guide on Edinburgh's Royal Mile
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Extrait : "Il n'y a plus de Pyrénées ! Mot célèbre ; mot ingrat de la part d'un homme qui avait envoyé son petit duc du Maine aux eaux de Barèges ; surtout, mot prématuré, le contraire de la vérité, et fait pour mettre hors d'eux les futurs alpinistes ou pyrénéistes. A le risquer hardi, le mot vrai eût été : Il n'y a pas encore de Pyrénées."
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[2021]
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"Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography offered us a "fresh way of looking at maps" (The New York Times Book Review), showing how every nation's choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn't changed, but the world has. Now, in this revelatory new book, Marshall takes us into ten regions that are set to shape global politics and power. Find out why the Earth's atmosphere is the world's...
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NOAH (Indra) Nuh in Islam, a prophet, same as the Indian Manu, the Law giver
The Civilisation at the Time of Noah had achieved a very high standard of living and is nowadays known as ATLANTIS, that world that Atlas carried on his Back. At that time a Comet Fell onto the Earth and caused a Polar Shifting.
People of Noah had become BIG Sinners, God ordered him to build an ARK and to take his family, his followers, and two or three pairs of Every kind...
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This book is a new perspective on the history of Ukraine. It is about naval attacks and epic battles. About Scythian barrows and Viking raids.Among many other unique or little-known facts, the book provides a clue on who controlled Crimea 1,000 years ago which can be helpful to better understand the reasons for the current Russian invasion of Ukraine. The book provides insights into the literary masterpiece The Song of Igor's Campaign, and the difference...
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This book covers delightful, interesting, and thrilling journey to Amarnath Cave in Himalayas.
Also useful tips for travelers to Amarnath are added.
Many colorful photos are included to make the readers have a good time to relish.
Amarnath trek map and guide map included for the benefit of all tourists.
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THE object of this work is to represent Galilee as it was in the time of our Lord. To do this will be, the author feels, a special service to many who are desirous of learning all that can be known of the earthly-life of Christ. In fairness to the reader, it should be stated that the substance of this volume appeared as an Essay in 1874, which met with a very flattering reception in England, Germany, and America. The text for the present edition has...
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History Encounters unearths the greatest stories with the major events from The Berlin Wall to expand reader horizons for readers to be best informed. The Berlin Wall was the concrete manifestation of the Iron Curtain, which signified the profound ideological difference between the capitalist, democratic Western powers and the socialist, communist Soviet Union. After WWII ended, the Allied Powers carved up defeated Germany into four blocks. They did...
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These books, produced from the archives of the Library of Congress and edited by Vincent Virga, offer a glimpse into the history of the United States through rare historical full-color maps, narrative captions, and short essays. Combining 50 rare, beautiful, and diverse maps from the collections of the Library of Congress, a foreword by Vincent Virga about the Library of Congress collection and the Massachusetts maps, informative captions about the...
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Most people think of Lake Erie, the shallowest and second smallest of the Great Lakes, as a sun-drenched, nearly tropical retreat. But it is so much more; mysterious, unpredictable, and known by mariners for its sudden violent weather and dangerous shoals, Lake Erie has been the stage for some of the most dramatic events ever to occur on the North American continent. From the earliest explorations of First Nations and French adventurers to the brazen...
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Located in the often-contentious center of the European continent, German territory has regularly served as a primary tool through which to understand and study Germany's economic, cultural, and political development. Many German geographers throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries became deeply invested in geopolitical determinism-the idea that a nation's territorial holdings (or losses) dictate every other aspect of its existence....
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Extrait: "L'Asie-Mineure désignée aussi sous le nom d'Anatolie, qui en réalité en est une province, est baignée, au nord par la mer Noire et la mer de Marmara, à l'est et au sud par la Méditerranée. Elle présente du cté de l'Europe une façade très fantaisiste avec une dentelure capricieuse de ctes pittoresques, offrant des baies, parfois très profondes comme celles de Smyrne et de Kos, plus largement ouvertes comme le golfe d'Adalia..."...
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Eighty years since the last major, single-authored regional geography of Great Britain was published, the country's landscape is now very different from what it was in the middle of last century. Public interest in it, however, is as great as it was then. Television offers programmes about its coasts, hills and cities, government frets about it, and ecologists worry about what we have done to it. Students of urban design and landscape appreciation...
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En la actualidad presenciamos un cambio profundo en las concepciones del territorio, las fronteras y los límites, nociones que fueron construidas a finales del siglo XIX y fortalecidas durante la mayor parte del siglo XX. Sin embargo, cabe preguntar ¿tales cambios conducen invariablemente a la desaparición futura de las fronteras y los límites territoriales?, o, por el contrario, ¿acaso se trata de la continuación de un mismo proceso histórico...
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Este libro es una guía para profesores universitarios y de educación media que enseñan historia ambiental por primera vez, para maestros experimentados que desean reforzar sus cursos, para aquellos que están capacitando a futuros maestros para preparar sus propios planes de estudio y para docentes que desean incorporar la historia ambiental en sus cursos de historia universal.
Emily Wakild y Michelle K. Berry ofrecen principios de diseño para...
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The concept of the border as a metaphor has been widely exploited across the Arts and Humanities and a body of Border Theory has been developed, critiqued and "rethought". It is remarkable that this body of theory has largely been ignored by archaeologists, who have instead preferred to examine social and cultural boundaries, frontiers, marginality and ethnicity. This book, which grew out of a session at TAG in 2008, explores some of the possibilities...
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Islandology is a fast-paced, fact-filled comparative essay in critical topography and cultural geography that cuts across different cultures and argues for a world of islands. The book explores the logical consequences of geographic place for the development of philosophy and the study of limits (Greece) and for the establishment of North Sea democracy (England and Iceland), explains the location of military hot-spots and great cities (Hormuz and...
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