Автор: Farquhar Michael Название: Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia ISBN: 0812979052 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812979053 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 9120.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Scandal! Intrigue! Cossacks! Here the world’s most engaging royal historian chronicles the world’s most fascinating imperial dynasty: the Romanovs, whose three-hundred-year reign was remarkable for its shocking violence, spectacular excess, and unimaginable venality. In this incredibly entertaining history, Michael Farquhar collects the best, most captivating true tales of Romanov iniquity. We meet Catherine the Great, with her endless parade of virile young lovers (none of them of the equine variety); her unhinged son, Paul I, who ordered the bones of one of his mother’s paramours dug out of its grave and tossed into a gorge; and Grigori Rasputin, the “Mad Monk,” whose mesmeric domination of the last of the Romanov tsars helped lead to the monarchy’s undoing. From Peter the Great’s penchant for personally beheading his recalcitrant subjects (he kept the severed head of one of his mistresses pickled in alcohol) to Nicholas and Alexandra’s brutal demise at the hands of the Bolsheviks, Secret Lives of the Tsars captures all the splendor and infamy that was Imperial Russia.
Автор: Farquhar, Robert W Название: Fifty Years on the Space Frontier: Halo Orbits, Comets, Asteroids, and More ISBN: 1432759272 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781432759278 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 79960.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: FIFTY YEARS ON THE SPACE FRONTIER: Halo Orbits, Comets, Asteroids, and More Robert W. Farquhar Foreword by Roger-Maurice Bonnet An autobiographical account of one man's 50-year career in creating, selling, designing, and implementing deep-space missions. The book tells the story of how the author was able to achieve several important space "firsts" despite difficult technical, management, and programmatic hurdles. These firsts include the following: * First libration-point mission, ISEE-3 (1978) * First exploration of Earth's distant magnetotail, ISEE-3 (1983) * First comet encounter, ICE (1985) * First asteroid orbiter, NEAR Shoemaker (2000) * First landing on an asteroid, NEAR Shoemaker (2001) * First orbiter of Mercury, MESSENGER (2011) First flyby of Pluto/Charon, New Horizons (2015) * At the beginning of his career, the author was motivated by a driving ambition to design and implement the first mission to a libration point. This aspiration resulted in the placement of the ISEE-3 spacecraft into a "halo orbit" around the Sun-Earth L1 libration point. By successfully demonstrating the utility and practicality of libration-point orbits, ISEE-3 prepared the way for a number of follow-on missions including SOHO, ACE, MAP, Genesis, Herschel/Planck, and JWST. The author's advocacy of libration-point staging for human missions to the Moon and beyond is also discussed. The author also had a special interest in comets and asteroids. This interest led to several proposals for missions to these small bodies----some flown, others not. The NEAR Shoemaker mission to the asteroid Eros is described in some detail. Others mentioned include missions to Halley's comet, the ICE flyby of comet Giacobini-Zinner, a U.S.- Japanese proposal for a comet sample-return, the CONTOUR multi-comet flyby mission, and the Stardust-NExT flyby of comet Tempel-1.
Автор: Crowther Samuel, Farquhar Arthur B. Название: The First Million the Hardest; An Autobiography ISBN: 1375887416 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781375887410 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 13470.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Farquhar Michael Название: Circuits of Faith: Migration, Education, and the Wahhabi Mission ISBN: 0804798354 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804798358 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 50160.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
The Islamic University of Medina was established by the Saudi state in 1961 to provide religious instruction primarily to foreign students. Students would come to Medina for religious education and were then expected to act as missionaries, promoting an understanding of Islam in line with the core tenets of Wahhabism. By the early 2000s, more than 11,000 young men from across the globe had graduated from the Islamic University.
Circuits of Faith offers the first examination of the Islamic University and considers the efforts undertaken by Saudi actors and institutions to exert religious influence far beyond the kingdom's borders. Michael Farquhar draws on Arabic sources, including biographical materials, memoirs, syllabi, and back issues of the Islamic University journal, as well as interviews with former staff and students, to explore the institution's history and faculty, the content and style of instruction, and the trajectories and experiences of its students. Countering typical assumptions, Farquhar argues that the project undertaken through the Islamic University amounts to something more complex than just the one-way "export" of Wahhabism. Through transnational networks of students and faculty, this Saudi state-funded religious mission also relies upon, and has in turn been influenced by, far-reaching circulations of persons and ideas.
Автор: Farquhar John Название: What to Expect When You`re Dead ISBN: 098981890X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780989818902 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 8030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
