The War of the Worlds: Large Print
The War of the Worlds: Large Print

Author: H. G. Wells

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-03-30

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781091588417

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"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..." So begins H. G. Wells' classic novel in which Martian lifeforms take over planet Earth. As the Martians emerge, they construct giant killing machines - armed with heatrays - that are impervious to attack. Advancing upon London they destroy everything in their path. Everything, except the few humans they collect in metal traps. Victorian England is a place in which the steam engine is state-of-the-art technology and powered flight is just a dream. Mankind is helpless against the killing machines from Mars, and soon the survivors are left living in a new stone age. Includes the original Warwick Goble illustrations.

Europa Blues
Europa Blues

Author: Arne Dahl

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2015-08-06

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1448189705

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A Greek gangster arrives in Stockholm, only to be murdered in a macabre fashion at Skansen zoo, his body consumed by animals. As the Intercrime Unit – a team dedicated to solving international violent crime – investigate what brought him to Sweden, eight Eastern European women vanish from a refugee centre outside of the city while an elderly professor, the tattooed numbers on his arm hinting at his terrible past, is executed at the Jewish cemetery. Three cases, one team of detectives and an investigation that will take them across Europe and back through history as they desperately search for answers, and the identities of their killers.

The Vinyl Frontier
The Vinyl Frontier

Author: Jonathan Scott

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-03-21

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1472956117

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'Bursts with gloriously geeky detail.' The Telegraph Have you ever made someone you love a mix-tape? Forty years ago, a group of scientists, artists and writers gathered in a house in Ithaca, New York to work on the most important compilation ever conceived. It wasn't from one person to another, it was from Earth to the Cosmos. In 1977 NASA sent Voyager 1 and 2 on a Grand Tour of the outer planets. During the design phase of the Voyager mission, it was realised that this pair of plucky probes would eventually leave our solar system to drift forever in the unimaginable void of interstellar space. With this gloomy-sounding outcome in mind, NASA decided to do something optimistic. They commissioned astronomer Carl Sagan to create a message to be fixed to the side of Voyager 1 and 2 – a plaque, a calling card, a handshake to any passing alien that might one day chance upon them. The result was the Voyager Golden Record, a genre-hopping multi-media metal LP. A 90-minute playlist of music from across the globe, a sound essay of life on Earth, spoken greetings in multiple languages and more than 100 photographs and diagrams, all painstakingly chosen by Sagan and his team to create an aliens' guide to Earthlings. The record included music by J.S. Bach and Chuck Berry, a message of peace from US president Jimmy Carter, facts, figures and dimensions, all encased in a golden box. The Vinyl Frontier tells the story of NASA's interstellar mix-tape, from first phone call to final launch, when Voyager 1 and 2 left our planet bearing their hopeful message from the Summer of '77 to a distant future.

Visual Anthropology
Visual Anthropology

Author: John Collier

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780826308993

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This book provides reliable research methods from the systematic gathering of data through analysis of photographic records to transfer of insights to ethnographic records, with an emphasis on developing the skills of thorough observation rather than on technical skill.

Zelenooka
Zelenooka

Author: Inna Moore

Publisher: Blurb

Published: 2019-11-05

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780464460558

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Miller i Kat. Od neprijatelja do ljubavnika. Ona je opaka i ne da na sebe. Samostalna i britkog jezika. A on? Pa on je muskarac koji ima fetise i ponekad je nepovjerljiv. Kad se sudare dvije dominantne osobnosti, frcaju iskre i psovke, kidaju se zivci. Ova priča ima sretan kraj, ali ce vas na putu do tamo dobro protresti.

Eastern Europe in Revolution
Eastern Europe in Revolution

Author: Ivo Banac

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2019-01-24

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 150173332X

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In this book twelve outstanding authorities present their thoroughgoing assessments of the East European revolution of 1989—the definite collapse of communism as an ideology, a political movement, and a system of power in eight countries. All but two of the contributors focus on the revolution in an individual region or country—Poland, Hungary, the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Albania—and each of them addresses the theme of regime transition. In Eastern Europe, of course, the transition from communism to.... has been as complex and varied as the political geography of the notorious "fracture zone" itself, and individual authors thus concentrate on different sets of problems; they tell different kinds of stories. Pointing to the enormous difficulties of systematic transformation, they measure the dangers of nationality conflict and the potential for new authoritarianism. Ivo Banac has assembled a cast with impressive credentials. Without imposing an artificial unity on a chaotic subject, their book maps out the events of 1989-90 and sets the background for figuring out where the region may be headed.

Slovaks on the Hudson
Slovaks on the Hudson

Author: Thomas J. Shelley

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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The church served not only as a religious center but also as a social and cultural focal point, and it formed an indispensable link between the local Slovak Catholic community and an extensive network of national fraternal organizations.".

Culture and Development
Culture and Development

Author: Susanne Schech

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 2000-06-16

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780631209508

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This book introduces students to new ways of thinking about development. It integrates the recent scholarship of cultural studies within the existing frameworks of development studies, which have primarily focused on issues of political economy and structural transformation.