Название:Swifter than the Arrow: The Golden Hunting Hounds of Ancient Egypt
Автор:Michael Rice
Издательство:I. B. Tauris
ISBN:1845111168
Дата издания:2006-09-03
Страниц:240
Язык:Английский
Формат:PDF
Размер: 10.7 MB

Swifter than the Arrow explores a little-known aspect of life in Ancient Egypt, celebrating the Egyptians as the first known civilisation to have formed the special bond with the dog that persists today as the most remarkable and enduring of human-animal relationships. Five thousand years ago the Egyptians selected and bred hounds for the chase and as the loved companions of both the ruling classes and of less exalted folk. For more than twenty-five centuries they kept the breed true, a remarkable achievement to be counted alongside the development of stone architecture and the building of the pyramids, the invention of hieroglyphs, the creation of kingship and of the first nation-state in the world. Swifter than the Arrow also examines the evidence that hounds living today -- most notably modern breeds such as the so-called "Pharaoh Hound" -- are directly descended from the Egyptian hou...

Название:Formation of Turkey, The: The Seljukid Sultanate of Rum, Eleventh to Fourteenth Century
Автор:Claude Cahen
Издательство:Longman
ISBN:0582414911
Дата издания:2001-05-10
Страниц:320
Язык:Английский
Формат:PDF
Размер: 26,7 MB

B> [/b] From Byzantium to the Mongols to the Sultans of Rum, this acclaimed book offers an important insight into the evocative history of Turkey before the coming of Ottoman power and illuminates a culture and a people who came to play a major role in the shaping of Europe and Asia.. Turkey forms a historical bridge between Europe and Asia and as such has played a pivotal role throughout history. The rise of Constantinople and the later Ottoman Empire are well known: less well understood are developments in the three centuries in-between. What led to the decline of the Byzantine Empire and what happened in the intervening years before the rise of the Ottomans? Translated from the original French, this classic work examines the history of the Turkey that eventually gave rise to an imperial power whose influence spanned East and West Those interested in Eastern European or Turkish history

Название: Шадринск военной поры. Том I
Автор: Борисов С.Б. (отв. ред.)
Издательство: Шадринского пединститута
Год: 1995
Страниц: 220
ISBN: 5-87818-075-8
Формат: DjVu
Язык: Русский
Размер: 3,72 Мб

Сборник содержит воспоминания о повседневной жизни города Шадринска в период Великой Отечественной войны: быт, культура, заводское строительство и т.д.

Название:The integration of functions of a single variable
Автор:G H. 1877-1947 Hardy
Издательство:Nabu Press
ISBN:1178368319
Дата издания:2010-09-04
Страниц:82
Язык:Английский
Формат:PDF
Размер: 19,2 mb

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Название:Driving with Dead People: A Memoir
Автор:Monica Holloway
Издательство:Gallery
ISBN:1416955127
Дата издания:2008-03-04
Страниц:336
Язык:Английский
Формат:rtf, fb2
Размер:4.00 MB

Small wonder that, at nine years old, Monica Holloway develops a fascination with the local funeral home. With a father who drives his Ford pickup with a Kodak movie camera sitting shotgun just in case he sees an accident, and whose home movies feature more footage of disasters than of his children, Monica is primed to become a morbid child.
Yet in spite of her father's bouts of violence and abuse, her mother's selfishness and prim denial, and her siblings' personal battles and betrayals, Monica never succumbs to despair. Instead, she forges her own way, thriving at school and becoming fast friends with Julie Kilner, whose father is the town mortician.
She and Julie prefer the casket showroom, where they take turns lying in their favorite coffins, to the parks and grassy backyards in her hometown of Elk Grove, Ohio. In time, Monica and Julie get a job driving the company hearse to pi...

Название:Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History
Автор:Thomas Norman DeWolf
Издательство:Beacon Press
ISBN:0807072818
Дата издания:2008-01-02
Страниц:272
Язык:Английский
Формат:PDF
Размер:6.00 MB

In 2001, at forty-seven, Thomas DeWolf was astounded to discover that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in American history, responsible for transporting at least 10,000 Africans to the Americas. His infamous ancestor, U.S. senator James DeWolf of Bristol, Rhode Island, curried favor with President Thomas Jefferson to continue in the trade after it was outlawed. When James DeWolf died in 1837, he was the second-richest man in America.

When Katrina Browne, Thomas DeWolf's cousin, learned about their family's history, she resolved to confront it head-on, producing and directing a documentary feature film, Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North.

Inheriting the Trade is Tom DeWolf's powerful and disarmingly honest memoir of the journey in which ten family members retraced the steps of their ancestors and uncovered the hidden history of New England an...

Название:Magical Thinking: True Stories
Автор:Augusten Burroughs
Издательство:Picador
ISBN:0312315953
Дата издания:2005-10-01
Страниц:304
Язык:Английский
Формат:rtf, fb2
Размер:3.00 MB

From the #1 bestselling author of Running with Scissors and Dry--a contagiously funny, heartwarming, shocking, twisted, and absolutely magical collection. True stories that give voice to the thoughts we all have but dare not mention. It begins with a Tang Instant Breakfast Drink television commercial when Augusten was seven. Then there is the contest of wills with the deranged cleaning lady. The execution of a rodent carried out with military precision and utter horror. Telemarketing revenge. Dating an undertaker and much more. A collection of true stories that are universal in their appeal yet unabashedly intimate and very funny.

Автор:Струве В.В. (сост.)
Название: Хрестоматия по истории древнего мира. Т. 3. Рим.
Издательство: Учпедгиз
Год: 1953
Формат: DjVu
Размер: 5,56 мб

Третий том хрестоматии по истории древнего мира - "Древний Рим" - содержит, главным образом, документы по социально-экономической и политической истории Рима. В третий том включено значительное количество литературных и эпиграфических источников, публикуемых на русском языке впервые. В настоящем издании, в отличие от предыдущих, имеется раздел по истории Северного Причерноморья. Методические введения, предваряющие отдельные главы хрестоматии, имеют целью облегчить пользование рядом документов.
Хрестоматия предназначается для семинарских занятий студентов исторических факультетов вузов и преподавателей истории в средней школе.

Название:Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev: Reformer, 1945-1964
Автор:Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, Sergei Khrushchev
Издательство:Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
ISBN:0271028610
Дата издания:2006-09-08
Страниц:856
Язык:Английский
Формат:PDF
Размер: 11 Mb

Nikita Khrushchev's proclamation from the floor of the United Nations that "we will bury you" is one of the most chilling and memorable moments in the history of the Cold War, but from the Cuban Missile Crisis to his criticism of the Soviet ruling structure late in his career, the motivation for Khrushchev's actions wasn't always clear. Many Americans regarded him as a monster, while in the USSR he was viewed at various times as either hero or traitor. But what was he really like, and what did he really think? Readers of Khrushchev's memoirs will now be able to answer these questions for themselves (and will discover that what Khrushchev really said at the UN was "we will bury colonialism").
This is the second volume of three in what will be the only complete and fully reliable version of the memoirs available in English. In the first volume, published in 2004, Khrushchev takes his sto...

Автор: Миллер Г.Ф.
Название: Описание сибирских народов
Издательство: Памятники исторической мысли
Год: 2009
Формат: PDF
Размер: 3,19 мб

Первая часть восьмого тома серии «Источники по истории Сибири и Аляски из российских архивов» включает в себя сочинение Герарда Фридриха Миллера «Описание сибирских народов» и предисловие к этой работе в двух вариантах. «Описание...» стало итогом наблюдений и полевых исследований во время длившейся десять лет Второй Камчатской экспедиции. Пионерская попытка составить всеобъемлющее сравнительное описание народов Сибири уже тогда содержала в себе почти все элементы современных этнологических исследований. Он сам рассматривал эту свою работу как стимул и даже, не исключено, как пример для всеобщих народоописаний всех континентов и тем самым задавал высокую планку будущей этнологии как научной дисциплины.
Совместная работа Александра Христиановича Элерта и Виланда Хинтцше, подготовивших том, являет собой пример успешного русско-немецкого научного сотрудничества; немецкий и русский издательские оригиналы были завершены почти одновременно. В настоящее время идет работа над второй частью восьмого тома с этнографическими трудами Г.Ф. Миллера, в которую войдет помимо прочего полный текст обширной Инструкции Г.Ф. Миллера для Иоганна Эберхарда Фишера (1740).