P..ve M..n (2-2009) | PDF | 256 Pages | 1403997020 | 1.5Mb 'The Jew' in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa /by Eitan Bar-Yosef, Nadia Valman. The turbulent period from the Boer War to the introduction of the Aliens Act was marked by contradictory imaginings of "the Jew"--pauper/capitalist, separatist/impostor, ideal colonizer/u
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P..ve M..n (12-2009) | PDF | 260 pages | 0230613594 | 1.3Mb The Politics of Ethnic Separatism in Russia and Georgia /by Julie A. George. In the summer of 2008, open war broke out once again in Georgia, a small, multiethnic country along Russia’s Caucasian border. It was not a new conflict. In 1990, as the Soviet Union collapsed, the region of
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J..n B..s (12-2010) | PDF | 314 pages | 9027205892 | 15.7Mb The Chain of Being and Having in Slavic /by Steven J. Clancy. The complex diachronic and synchronic status of the concepts be and have can be understood only with consideration of their full range of constructions and functions. Data from modern Slavic languages (Russian
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M..n L..y (3-2003) | EPUB+MOBI | 224 pages | 0679642811 | 1.1Mb The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror /by Bernard Lewis. In his first book since What Went Wrong? Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly being expressed in acts of terrorism. He looks at the theological or
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O..rd U..y (12-2011) | PDF | 152 pages | 0195379381 | 1.4Mb The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction /by David Carrasco. This Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history, religious studies, and anthropology as it illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry, and philosop
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D..e G..r M..n (11-2010) | PDF | 371 pages | 3110223961 | 4.8Mb Linguistic Realization of Evidentiality in European Languages /by Gabriele Diewald. The book offers the first collection of papers which explicitly deal with the linguistic realization of evidentiality in European languages. The contributions summarize relevant previous research and develop new perspectives on the view o
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W..W..N..n (11-2011) | EPUB | 688 pages | 0393081923 | 1.9Mb The Great Big Book of Horrible Things: The Definitive Chronicle of History's 100 Worst Atrocities /by Matthew White. A compulsively readable and utterly original account of world history—from an atrocitologist’s point of view. Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew Wh
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G..od 2/ed (5-2011) | PDF | 329 pages | 0313377480 | 1.9Mb The History of China (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations) /by David Curtis Wright. As Chinese society and culture evolves on a seemingly daily basis, due to its booming economy and expansion as a producer of consumer and industrial goods, its influence upon the world grows as well. Perhaps no
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U..y C..nia (1-2011) | EPUB+MOBI | 200 pages | 0520267028 | 3.4Mb Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East /by Roger S. Bagnall. Most of the everyday writing from the ancient world--that is, informal writing not intended for a long life or wide public distribution--has perished. Reinterpreting the silences and blanks of the historical record, leading. papyrol
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H..er E..n (11-2011) | PDF | 290 pages | 0340928271 | 3.3Mb Understanding Phonetics/by Patricia Ashby. Assuming little or no background knowledge and using original examples and exercises (with answers supplied), Understanding Phonetics provides with an accessible introduction to the basics of phonetics and a comprehensive analysis of traditional ph
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