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Author: Joseph V. Montville
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0739168142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays that offers a narrative of the intellectual, commercial, spiritual, philosophical, scientific, and aesthetic real-world creative engagement among Jews, Muslims, and some Christians in daily life in Spain and around the Mediterranean.
Author: Niels Peter Lemche
Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In Prelude to Israel's Past, Lemche examines the nature and function of Old Testament historical narrative. Is the biblical narrative a reliable source of historical knowledge? Or does it have a literary and theological life of its own - proclaiming a truth that cannot be contested because it recounts "events" that happened once upon a time? Lemche explores these questions from two directions. First, he analyzes the biblical narratives from Abraham to Moses and demonstrates that these narratives are literature, not documents written by professional historians. Second, he compares the biblical portrait of the patriarchs with what we know about this period from other ancient sources. He urges that the Bible continues to guide and console a believing people not because it is a historically accurate record of past events but because its living stories recount a truth unfettered by time and culture."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Charles Singer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-03-29
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 1107600693
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1946, this volume contains the complete text of the Tabulae anatomicae sex (1538) by Vesalius, together with a detailed analysis of its significance by Charles Singer and C. Rabin. This analysis provides a wealth of information on Vesalius and contextualizes his achievements in terms of the contemporary context, numerous illustrations from other anatomical documents are also included. The reader is thus given an insight into the importance of the Tabulae, both for the development of anatomy and the creation of a modern scientific method. This is a well-presented edition of an important text that will be of value to anyone with an interest in anatomy, the Renaissance, or the history of science.
Author: Daniel Singer
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 460
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arieh J. Kochavi
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780807824337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyzes the complicated domestic and international politics that shaped the Allied nations' policy toward war crimes that culminated in the Nuremberg trials, reconstructing the little-studied deliberations among the Allies at the end of the war. UP.
Author: William W. Freehling
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780195076813
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFresh analysis revises many previous theories on origins & significance of the nullification controversy.
Author: Helen Taylor Davidson
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781931807807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the spring of 1854 seventeen-year-old Adeline Elizabeth Hoe began to keep a daily diary. . . centuries later, her descendant brought it to life in a novel
Author: Richard Gravil
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2015-01-22
Total Pages: 897
ISBN-13: 019101964X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-seven original essays to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. In addition to twenty-two essays wholly on Wordsworth's poetry, other essays return to the poetry while exploring other dimensions of the life and work of the major Romantic poet. The result is a dialogic exploration of many major texts and problems in Wordsworth scholarship. This uniquely comprehensive handbook is structured so as to present, in turn, Wordsworth's life, career, and networks; aspects of the major lyrical and narrative poetry; components of 'The Recluse'; his poetical inheritance and his transformation of poetics; the variety of intellectual influences upon his work, from classical republican thought to modern science; his shaping of modern culture in such fields as gender, landscape, psychology, ethics, politics, religion, and ecology; and his 19th- and 20th-century reception-most importantly by poets, but also in modern criticism and scholarship.
Author: John F. Kennedy
Publisher: Regnery
Published: 1997-05-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780895264312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPrelude to Leadership is the private diary of John F. Kennedy when he was a 28-year-old reporter in Europe. It offers a short yet intimate look into the mind of the man who was to become the 35th President of the United States. As World War II was ending and the Cold War was just beginning, a young naval hero decommissioned before war's end because of his crippling injuries, traveled through a devastated Europe. During the trip, John F. Kennedy kept a diary, never before published. As the diary makes clear, that European trip was a turning point in the future President's life. It was on this trip that Kennedy first confronted the "long twilight struggle" for the preservation of Western freedom that would define his Presidency. In these few months an agenda for a Presidency began to be forged, and the closing pages of the diary make clear that it was at this moment in time that Kennedy began laying plans for his first run for Congress , the first step in his journey to the White House.
Author: Martin Gilbert
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2007-05-29
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0061121355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the early hours of November 10, 1938, Nazi storm troopers and Hitler Youth rampaged through Jewish neighborhoods across Germany, leaving behind them a horrifying trail of terror and destruction. More than a thousand synagogues and many thousands of Jewish shops were destroyed, while thirty thousand Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. Kristallnacht—the Night of Broken Glass—was a decisive stage in the systematic eradication of a people who traced their origins in Germany to Roman times and was a sinister forewarning of the Holocaust. With rare insight and acumen, Martin Gilbert examines this night and day of terror, presenting readers with a meticulously researched, masterfully written, and eye-opening study of one of the darkest chapters in human history.
