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When Jonathan Talat Phillips experiences a devastating loss as a countercultural media activist, he unwittingly starts on a mystical journey marked by underground ayahuasca ceremonies, kundalini awakenings, prankster spirit guides, extraterrestrial encounters at the Burning Man festival, and miraculous energy healings that reshape his skeptical worldview. Along the way, he chronicles the rise of an international movement that is trailblazing v...

The crusades are an area of medieval history that continues to fascinate modern audiences. This is the first true introduction to the crusades that provides a balanced, comprehensive overview aimed specifically at students.Jonathan Phillips outlines the key events and issues in the history of the crusades to the Holy Land down to the end of the 12th century. The work covers the history of the crusades from the origins of the First Crusade to t...

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The Second Crusade (1145-1149) was an extraordinarily bold attempt to overcome unbelievers on no less than three fronts. Crusader armies set out to defeat Muslims in the Holy Land and in Iberia as well as pagans in northeastern Europe. This book provides an understanding of the Crusades and their importance in medieval European history.

The Second Crusade (1145-49) was an unprecedented attempt to expand the borders of Christianity in the Holy Land, the Baltic, and the Iberian peninsula. This wide-ranging collection offers a series of original interpretations of new and partially explored evidence of the crusade. The essays examine the planning, execution, and consequences of the crusade for Western Europe, the Crusader States of the Holy Land, and the Muslim Near East.

But after a dramatic series of events, the crusaders turned their weapons against the Christian city of Constantinople, the heart of the Byzantine Empire and the greatest metropolis in the known world.

In 1202, zealous Western Christians gathered in Venice determined to liberate Jerusalem from the grip of Islam. But the crusaders never made it to the Holy Land. Steered forward by the shrewd Venetian doge, they descended instead on Constantinople, wreaking terrible devastation. The crusaders spared no one: They raped and massacred thousands, plundered churches, and torched the lavish city. By 1204, one of the great civilizations of history ha...

Questo è un racconto di conflitti e avventure, di protagonisti famosi e di persone comuni. Di Riccardo Cuor di Leone e del Saladino, di Melisenda, l'astuta regina di Gerusalemme che incuteva timore a tutti, e del fiero predicatore al-Sulami. Dell'imperatore scomunicato del Sacro Romano Impero, Federico II, e di Enrico di Bolingbroke che anni prima di diventare Enrico IV d'Inghilterra, spietato e paranoico, agì come un pellegrino e come un 'san...

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A tool flow is presented for deriving acceleratorcircuits on an FPGA from ANSI C source code by exploring architecturesolutions that conform to a preset template through scheduling andmapping algorithms. A case study carried out on simulatedannealing-based scheduling software used for spacecraft systems isexplained. The goal of the tool is the derivation of a design thatmaximizes throughput while minimizing footprint. Results obtained arecompa...

The second edition of "The Biology of Disease" is an introductory level text on the biological principles of human disease. The book is aimed at medical students in degree courses in biomedical science.The book fuses the biological (physiological and biochemical) processes which underlie the clinical manifestations of disease. As such, it brings together material which is conventionally dealt with by several books. The authors have covered the...

A timely and highly readable account of the phenomenon of Crusades throughout history, now in paperback. 'Elegant storytelling... Phillips delivers an excellent, compelling, flamboyant and refreshing history of the crusades and wonderful character sketches' Simon Sebag Montefiore