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Auch hundert Jahre nach Rasputins Tod bleibt uns die wahre, historische Figur des Predigers verborgen, der wegen seinen Ausschweifungen und seiner Nähe zu den Romanovs verteufelt wurde. Bis jetzt. In seiner großen, beeindruckenden Biographie zeigt uns Douglas Smith, dass Grigori Jefimowitsch Rasputin viel mehr war - eine schillernde Persönlichkeit in einer dramatischen Wendezeit. Der renommierte Historiker hat dazu in sieben Ländern eine Fülle...

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On the centenary of the death of Rasputin comes a definitive biography that will dramatically change our understanding of this fascinating figureA hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his mysterious rise to power as Nicholas and Alexandra's confidant and the guardian of the sickly heir to the Russian throne. His debau...

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A major new exploration of the history and development of gunpowder weapons in the 15th century based on the artillery of the Dukes of Burgundy.

Drawing on private correspondence and official documents, this text traces the erosion of white elite paternalism in Jim Crow Virginia. It reveals a fluidity in southern racial politics in the decades between World War I and the supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.

This is a comprehensive account of RR Lyrae stars, and traces the story from their initial discovery a century ago, through to their present status. This book reviews our current understanding of RR Lyrae stars. It is a unique explanation of the multiple applications of these variable stars for a range of astrophysical problems. Horace A. Smith describes the use of RR Lyrae stars as probes of old stellar populations, both in the Milky Way and ...

Quickly acquire the knowledge and skills you need to confidently administer, score, and interpret individual achievement tests Essentials of Individual Achievement Assessment covers the achievement tests used in educational planning, transitional programming for students with disabilities, and career/vocational planning- including the major individually administered tests such as the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT® -II), Kaufman Te...

Comparing the Taiwan model with those found in Japan, Korea, Singapore, Honk Kong, and the urban areas of China, this study looks at the junior high school years of education. It looks in particular at curriculum, homework, teaching methods, textbooks, school spirit and peer pressure.

This ready reference provides electrical engineers with practical information on accurate methods for measuring signals and noise in electronic circuits as well as methods for locating and reducing high frequency noise generated by circuits or external interference. Engineers often find that measuring and mitigating high frequency noise signals in electronic circuits can be problematic when utilizing common measurement methods. Demonstrating t...

Invertebrate Zoology deals with the animals that have no backbones, including the shrimps, crabs, sponges, worms, snails and squids. This book deals specifically with the invertebrates that spend all or part of their lifecycle in a freshwater environment. (As is usual and as in the previous edition, aquatic insects are excluded due to their vast numbers.) The invertebrate species far outnumber the vertebrate species, and a through understandin...

Using a wealth of archival sources previously unavailable to scholars, Smith examines the forces that attracted many social and intellectual leaders of eighteenth-century Russia to Freemasonry as an instrument for change and progress. By "working the rough stone" of their inner thoughts and feelings, such men sought to become champions of moral enlightenment and to create a vision of social action that could bring about change without challeng...

Epic in scope, intimate in detail, heartbreaking in its human drama, this is the first book to recount the history of the nobility caught up the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin's Russia. It is a book filled with chilling tales of looted palaces, burning estates, of desperate flights from marauding thugs and Red Army soldiers, of imprisonment, exile, and execution. It is the story of how a centuries'-old elite f...

A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. The spectre of the lustful Siberian holy man and peasant still casts its eerie shadow over Russia's bloody twentieth century. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his mysterious rise to power as Nicholas and Alexandra's confidant and guardian of the sickly heir to the throne. His debauchery and sinister political in...

Iain Crichton Smith (1928-98) was born in Glasgow and raised by his widowed mother on the Isle of Lewis before going to Aberdeen to attend university. As a sensitive and complex poet in both English and his native Gaelic, he has published many collctions of verse, from The Long RIver in 1955 to A Life in 1986. The latter volume looks back over his years in Lewis and Aberdeen, to remember a spell of National Service in the fifties, leading to h...

Der Untergang des russischen Adels nach der russischen Revolution 1917 - eine Tragödie um Terror und Tod in einer entfesselten Welt. Erstmals erzählt der renommierte Historiker Douglas Smith die ganze Geschichte. 1917 wird die russische Aristokratie im Mahlstrom der Oktoberrevolution der Bolschwisten vernichtet. Douglas Smith beschreibt die berührenden Schicksale und menschlichen Dramen, die sich dahinter verbergen. Er erzählt von nächtlichen ...

Published in commemoration of the centennial of President John F. Kennedy’s birth, here is the definitive compendium of JFK’s most important and brilliant speeches, accompanied by a commentary and reflections by leading American and international figures—including Senator Elizabeth Warren, David McCullough, Kofi Annan, and the Dalai Lama.Here is JFK at his best—thought-provoking, inspiring, eloquent, and wise—on a number of wide-ranging topics...

Published in commemoration of the centennial of President John F. Kennedy's birth, here is the definitive compendium of JFK's most important and brilliant speeches, accompanied by commentary and reflections by leading American and international figures—including Senator Elizabeth Warren, David McCullough, Kofi Annan, and the Dalai Lama—and edited by JFK's nephew Stephen Kennedy Smith and renowned historian Douglas Brinkley. Combined with over ...