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: Витебская старина. Том 1
Автор: Сапунов А.П.
Издательство: Витебск, Типография губернского правления
Год: 1883
Страниц: 664
Формат: pdf
Размер: 51 MB
Язык: Русский
Сборник документов по истории г.Витебска. Собранные в сборнике документы также прямо или косвенно касаются истории всех государственных образований, в состав которых входил Витебск в период c XI по XIX века.

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: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: 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: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.

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...

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: Коммунистический Интернационал и китайская революция
Автор: Титаренко М.Л.
Издательство: Наука
Год: 1986
Страниц: 326
Формат: DjVu
Размер: 12,9 MB

В сборнике представлены документы Коммунистического Интернационала, связанные с теоретическими проблемами китайской революции, вопросами стратегии и тактики Компартии Китая, рабочего и крестьянского движения, военного и партийного строительства и др. Ряд документов публикуется впервые.

Название: История Коммунистической партии Советского Союза
Автор: Пономарев Б.Н.
Издательство: Издательство политической лит-ры
Год: 1976
Страниц: 784
Формат: PDF
Размер: 71,4 MB

Представлена история КПСС с момента возникновения вплоть до середины 70-х годов XX века. В книге огромная роль уделена проведению различного рода съездов, принятия резолюций и т.д.
Пятое издание.