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The Age of Titans examines how heavy warships crewed by thousands of men developed from the agile triremes so popular during the Greek Classical Age. Following Alexander the Great, a new focus on naval siege warfare explains the rise in popularity of big ship navies and defines the model of naval power they made possible.

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How have we gone from the striking bipartisan cooperation and relative economic equality of the postwar period to the extreme inequality and partisan divisions of today? In this sweeping look at American politics, Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos argue that the rise of social movements, from Civil Rights to the Tea Party, have pushed Republicans and Democrats away from the center and toward the fringes.

Band 33 des Musil-Forums hat den Themenschwerpunkt "Robert Musil und das literarische Leben seiner Zeit". Er präsentiert Aufsätze, die Musil programmatisch im zeitgenössischen kultur- und sozialhistorischen Kontext situieren und dabei buchgestalterische, verlags-, kommunikations- und zeitschriftengeschichtliche, autorschafts- und gendertheoretische, rezeptions- und gattungsästhetische sowie literatursoziologische Perspektiven einnehmen.

A collection 500 pieces of art to use for your own drawing inspiration. Find anything you need to draw animals with 500 simply amazing images.

Filled with stories of the troubles, joys, drama and comedies endured by Macleod's patients and family alike, this makes a charming and humorous account of community life on a small island in a bygone era.

Das künstlerische Schaffen von Moshe Gershuni (*1936 in Tel Aviv) überspannt mehr als 40 Jahre. Sein umfangreiches Werk ist kompromisslos und vielschichtig, es umfasst Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Skulpturen. Eine große Unmittelbarkeit zeichnet seine Arbeiten aus, was sich in der Malweise zeigt: Gershuni breitet Papierbögen auf dem Boden aus und kriecht darüber, dabei verteilt er die tropfende, manchmal blutrote Farbe mit den Händen auf dem Malgru...

You should buy this book. It will make you laugh. It is full of stories you'll want to read again, and again. You'll tell your friends about it. Thinking about it will make you smile during boring meetings. People will wonder what you are up to. On a bad day, when you've screwed up at work, your wife is mad at you, and the kids are sick, this book will give you half an hour's respite. It will take you to a place of adventure, danger, and humor...

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Helene Cixous, author of over 40 works of fiction, was deemed by Derrida to be the greatest living writer in French in 1990. This book explores the links between the poetic and the theoretical in Helene Cixous' writing.

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Tolstoy published Anna Karenina in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Fyodor Dostoyevsky declared it "flawless as a work of art." His opinion was shared by Vladimir Nabokov, who especially admired "the flawless magic of Tolstoy's style, " and by William Faulkner, who described the novel as, "the best ever written."Tolstoy was born in Yasnaya Polyana, the family estate in the Tula region of Russia. Th...

The mother of all conspiracy theories is about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Many of its elements have become part of American folklore: the single bullet, the Grassy Knoll shooter, and the mysterious deaths of interested parties.JFK Assassination Logic shows how to approach such conspiracy claims. Studying Lee Harvey Oswald¿s character and personality, for example, doesn¿t help determine whether he alone shot the president, ...

In the construction of a private princely identity before the eyes of a select public in the study rooms of Italian Renaissance rulers, ideals of sober recreation met with leisured reality. Echoing Helicon reconstructs, through the interpretation of painted and intarsia decoration, the roles played by music in such settings.

Information Governance and Security shows managers in any size organization how to create and implement the policies, procedures and training necessary to keep their organization's most important asset-its proprietary information-safe from cyber and physical compromise. Many intrusions can be prevented if appropriate precautions are taken, and this book establishes the enterprise-level systems and disciplines necessary for managing all the inf...

On 3 November 1957, the dog Laika was the first Earth-born creature to enter space, making her instantly famous around the world. She did not return. Her death, a few hours after launching, transformed her into a legendary symbol of sacrifice.

Lola: Diary of a Rescued Cat is the witty and sincere rags-to-riches story of a young cat abandoned in a garbage dumpster. It chronicles Lola's life beginning with her rescue from the dumpster and continues on to her stay in the shelter system (where she became very ill), her rescue from the shelter, adjustment to her forever family and new feline sibling after being adopted, and, ultimately, her recovery. It is written in the form of her diar...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-339) and index.

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