This series of books are the output of the research project called "e;Sustainable Development in Asia (SDA)"e;, which was initiated by the Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia (AASA).
This is Us is a collection of over 200 interviews with New Zealanders, spanning the country, that reflects the diversity of New Zealand and its people.
This book traces the establishment of the Arab League’s little-known first peacekeeping operation (the first non-United Nations, regionally mandated peacekeeping operation after 1945), deployed to Kuwait in 1961-1963.
The only president to later serve as chief justice of the United States, William Howard Taft remarked in the 1920s that I dont remember that I ever was President.
Este livro nasceu de uma constatacao simples mas profunda: a guerra, tal como a conhecemos dos livros de historia e dos noticiarios, esta a mudar radicalmente.
Francisca Guemes de Figueroa se destaco por su conducta moral, su trato decoroso y gentil, sus arraigadas convicciones patrioticas y su amplia cultura.
"e;A Short History of Money"e; takes readers on a fascinating journey through the evolution of money, from its earliest forms in barter systems to the complex global financial structures of today.
For generations, Americans have been told a comforting lie: that slavery was only a side issue, that the Civil War was really about "e;states' rights,"e; economics, or cultural differences.
Shu and Tefnut: Dual Origin of the Egyptian UniverseBefore the rise of gods, before temples crowned the Nile, and before myth became story, the ancient Egyptians asked a question that still echoes today: how does a world begin?
Seshat: Divine Precision in Ancient Egypt explores the hidden force behind one of history's most enduring civilizations—not a goddess of spectacle, but of structure, alignment, and exactness.
Betrayed by the System is a fearless exposé and emotional reckoning with a country's slow-burning betrayal of its most essential workers and the lives lost because of it.
Lazos del tiempo reconstruye mas de dos siglos de historia a partir del devenir de la familia Szechenyi, una de las dinastias mas influyentes de Hungria, cuyas raices se extienden desde el siglo XVIII hasta la diaspora provocada por las guerras del siglo XX.
Egypts Mediterranean explores the intersections of commerce and statecraft in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire through the lives of overlooked intermediaries who lived and worked on Egypts Mediterranean coast.
Egypts Mediterranean explores the intersections of commerce and statecraft in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire through the lives of overlooked intermediaries who lived and worked on Egypts Mediterranean coast.
The favourable reception given to the first edition of the ensuing work, and the interest that was taken in the extraordinary and romantic career of the Knights Templars, induced me to publish a second edition greatly enlarged, and to introduce various collateral matters of an antiquarian and local character, interesting only to a comparatively small number of readers.
The Definitive History of the Glock Pistol – From Austrian Garage to Global IconUncover the complete, riveting story behind the most revolutionary handgun ever created in A Comprehensive History of the Glock by Mike Diamond, a retired police officer with 36 years of frontline experience.
Deadwood fue descrita en su dia como la ciudad mas diabolica sobre la faz de la tierra , un ombligo de pecado que emergio a comienzos de 1876 en las Black Hills (Dakota del Sur), excrecencia de la fiebre del oro que convoco alli a miles de mineros, buscavidas, pistoleros, prostitutas y mercachifles.
History often points to the Great Smog of London as the dawn of deadly air pollution, but the true paradigm shift happened two decades earlier in a heavily industrialized Belgian river valley.
