Sharks upon the land, Archer, Seth (university Of Cambridge)

Автор: Levy Philip
Название: George Washington Written Upon the Land: Nature, Memory, Myth, and Landscape
ISBN: 1940425905 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781940425900
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 19220.00 T
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Описание: George Washington’s childhood is famously the most elusive part of his life story. For centuries biographers have struggled with a lack of period documentation and an absence of late-in-life reflection in trying to imagine Washington’s formative years.In George Washington Written upon the Land, Philip Levy explores this most famous of American childhoods through its relationship to the Virginia farm where much of it took place. Using approaches from biography, archaeology, folklore, and studies of landscape and material culture, Levy focuses on how different ideas about Washington’s childhood functioned—what sorts of lessons they sought to teach and how different epochs and writers understood the man and the past itself.In a suggestive and far-reaching final chapter, Levy argues that Washington was present at the onset of the Anthropocene—the geologic era when human activity began to have a significant impact on world ecosystems. Interpreting Washington’s childhood farm through the lens of “big” history, he encourages scholars to break down boundaries between science and social science and between human and nonhuman.

Автор: Levy Philip
Название: George Washington Written Upon the Land: Nature, Memory, Myth, and Landscape
ISBN: 1940425891 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781940425894
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 66870.00 T
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Описание: George Washington’s childhood is famously the most elusive part of his life story. For centuries biographers have struggled with a lack of period documentation and an absence of late-in-life reflection in trying to imagine Washington’s formative years.In George Washington Written upon the Land, Philip Levy explores this most famous of American childhoods through its relationship to the Virginia farm where much of it took place. Using approaches from biography, archaeology, folklore, and studies of landscape and material culture, Levy focuses on how different ideas about Washington’s childhood functioned—what sorts of lessons they sought to teach and how different epochs and writers understood the man and the past itself.In a suggestive and far-reaching final chapter, Levy argues that Washington was present at the onset of the Anthropocene—the geologic era when human activity began to have a significant impact on world ecosystems. Interpreting Washington’s childhood farm through the lens of “big” history, he encourages scholars to break down boundaries between science and social science and between human and nonhuman.

Автор: Glantz David M., House Jonathan M.
Название: When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler
ISBN: 0700621210 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700621217
Издательство: Turpin
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Цена: 33250.00 T
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Описание: On first publication, this uncommonly concise and readable account of Soviet Russia’s clash with Nazi Germany utterly changed our understanding of World War II on Germany’s Eastern Front, immediately earning its place among top-shelf histories of the world war. Revised and updated to reflect recent Russian and Western scholarship on the subject, much of it the authors’ own work, this new edition maintains the 1995 original’s distinction as a crucial volume in the history of World War II and of the Soviet Union and the most informed and compelling perspective on one of the greatest military confrontations of all time.In 1941, when Pearl Harbor shattered America’s peacetime pretensions, the German blitzkrieg had already blasted the Red Army back to Moscow. Yet, less thanfour years later, the Soviet hammer-andsickle flew above the ruins of Berlin, stark symbol of a miraculous comeback that destroyed the Germany Army and put an end to Hitler’s imperial designs. In swift and stirring prose, When Titans Clash providesthe clearest, most complete account of this epic struggle, especially from the Soviet perspective. Drawing on the massive and unprecedented release of Soviet archival documents in recent decades, David Glantz, one of the world’s foremost authorities on the Soviet military, and noted military historian Jonathan House expand and elaborate our picture of the Soviet war effort—a picture sharply different from accounts that emphasize Hitler’s failed leadership over Soviet strategy and might.Rafts of newly available official directives, orders, and reports reveal the true nature and extraordinary scale of Soviet military operations as they swept across the one thousand miles from Moscow to Berlin, featuring stubborn defenses and monumental offensives and counteroffensives and ultimately costing the two sides combined a staggering twenty million casualties. Placing the war within its wider context, the authors also make use of recent revelations to clarify further the political, economic, and social issues that influenced and reflected what happened on the battlefield. Their work gives us new insight into Stalin’s political motivation and Adolf Hitler’s role as warlord, as well as a better understanding of the human and economic costs of the war—for both the Soviet Unionand Germany.While incorporating a wealth of new information, When Titans Clashed remains remarkably compact, a tribute to the authors’ determination to make this critical chapter in world history as accessible as it is essential.

Автор: Tirella Joseph
Название: Tomorrow-Land: The 1964-65 World`s Fair and the Transformation of America
ISBN: 0762780355 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780762780358
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Цена: 26850.00 T
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Описание: Charting new territory in the interface between science and ethics, Science and Virtue is a study of how the scientific mentality can affect the building of character, or the attainment of virtue by the individual. Drawing on inspiration from virtue-ethics and virtue-epistemology, Caruana argues that science is not just a system of knowledge but also an important factor determining a way of life.

Автор: Moore
Название: The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land
ISBN: 1107139082 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107139084
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Цена: 115110.00 T
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Описание: In this book, Moore traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Christian Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts, from the First Crusade and the emergence of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land to the anti-Islamic crusade movements of the Renaissance, as well as the Reformation.

Автор: Adams Max
Название: In the Land of Giants: A Journey Through the Dark Ages
ISBN: 1681775530 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681775531
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Цена: 15010.00 T
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Описание: Functional programming offers useful techniques for building maintainable and scalable software that solves today`s difficult problems. The demand for software written in this way is increasing - you don`t want to miss out. In this book, you`ll not only learn Elixir and its features, you`ll also learn the mindset required to program functionally.

Автор: Honey Michael K.
Название: To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice
ISBN: 0393651266 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393651263
Издательство: Wiley
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Цена: 21120.00 T
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Описание: Beyond Martin Luther King`s dream of civil and voting rights lay a revolutionary vision of economic justice.

Автор: Miller Daegan
Название: This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent
ISBN: 022633614X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226336145
Издательство: Wiley
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Цена: 27450.00 T
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Описание: A radical revelation of how American ideas of freedom, justice, and progress are rooted--and sometimes hidden--in the country`s stunning landscapes