E-knihy

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Presents a history of Russia, focusing on the events that led to the establishment of the Bolshevik dictatorship, Stalinist totalitarianism, and the dramatic changes in the Gorbachev years.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 182 Velikost: 1,39 MB Knižní žánr: literatura faktu Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-0-85495-288-5 Cena: 5.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 02.03.2025, 17:40

The deeply personal diary of a young British soldier serving in France with the Royal Engineers during the First World War.

This account of the ups and downs of active service on the battleground is the perfect read for fans of Aubrey Smith, Jonathan King, John Toland, and Laurence Stallings.

In 1915, at the age of 18, John Glubb joined the 7th Field Company in the Ypres Salient. From here, he would go on to serve at Ypres, on the Somme, at Arras, and Cambrai. As the war progressed, he often found himself in command of his company until brutally injured in 1917. Desperate to return to active service and his beloved unit, he returned in 1918 to the Western Front, not as a naïve teenager but as a man who had witnessed the full horror of war.

This diary tells his own war story: the work carried out, the conditions, the sights, the comradeship, and how life was lived amidst the daily horrors, dangers, and desolation in front of and behind the lines. It also captures his very humane sensitivity towards the welfare of the horses employed under his charge, as well as the men and the contrasting beauties of the natural world.

Through Glubb’s fascinating firsthand account, the reader gains a real insight into the vital contribution the Royal Engineers made towards achieving final victory over Germany.

‘... the diaries are compelling for their freshness of observation and quiet pride in each day's duty done and, amid the glut of infantry memoirs, almost unique in offering a glimpse of the war from the Engineers’ viewpoint.’ Christopher Wordsworth, The Observer

‘... a valuable contribution to the literature of the First World War and a most interesting narrative … An absorbing, impressive account.’ Philip Warner, Times Literary Supplement

‘The author has, to a great extent, avoided up-to-date comment and the book has retained the relatively simple prose of a young RE officer. This makes the book live — you are there and share the horrors, sufferings, fortitude, heroism and eventual triumph. The Preface sets the scene, the diary tells the story.’ Royal Engineers Journal

‘The horrors he records, including his own mutilation, are all the more vivid because they are not embedded in a passionate denunciation of the war but are set down as part of the routine. There is pity here, but no self pity.’ The Economist

‘This book is unique and a joy to read.’ Brigadier Sir John Smyth, V.C., M.C.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 422 Velikost: 2,06 MB Knižní žánr: politologie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-1-5011-7553-4 Cena: 13.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 02.03.2025, 17:28

With authoritative reporting honed through nine presidencies, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies.

Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the president’s first years in office. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence.

Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. Often with day-by-day details, dialogue and documentation, Fear tracks key foreign issues from North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, the Middle East, NATO, China and Russia. It reports in-depth on Trump’s key domestic issues particularly trade and tariff disputes, immigration, tax legislation, the Paris Climate Accord and the racial violence in Charlottesville in 2017.

Fear presents vivid details of the negotiations between Trump’s attorneys and Robert Mueller, the special counsel in the Russia investigation, laying out for the first time the meeting-by-meeting discussions and strategies. It discloses how senior Trump White House officials joined together to steal draft orders from the president’s Oval Office desk so he would not issue directives that would jeopardize top secret intelligence operations.

“It was no less than an administrative coup d’état,” Woodward writes, “a nervous breakdown of the executive power of the most powerful country in the world.”

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 205 Velikost: 2,16 MB Knižní žánr: biografie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 9781409045526 Cena: 10.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 02.03.2025, 16:46

In 1450, all Europe's books were handcopied and amounted to only a few thousand. By 1500 they were printed, and numbered in their millions. The invention of one man - Johann Gutenberg - had caused a revolution. Printing by movable type was a discovery waiting to happen.

Born in 1400 in Mainz, Germany, Gutenberg struggled against a background of plague and religious upheaval to bring his remarkable invention to light. His story is full of paradox: his ambition was to reunite all Christendom, but his invention shattered it; he aimed to make a fortune, but was cruelly denied the fruits of his life's work. Yet history remembers him as a visionary; his discovery marks the beginning of the modern world.

Formát: PDF Počet stran: 273 Velikost: 10,32 MB Knižní žánr: literatura faktu Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-1-003-27215-1 Cena: 33.50 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 02.03.2025, 16:30

This updated new edition of Understanding Naval Warfare offers the reader an accessible introduction to the study of modern naval warfare, providing a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates, set within the context of relevant history.

The third edition explains traditional concepts and explores current and emerging ideas concerning the theory and practice of naval warfare, relating these to recent events including Sino-American naval competition and the Russian-Ukraine War. Navies operate in an environment that most people do not understand and that many avoid. They are equipped with a bewildering range of ships, craft and other vessels and types of equipment, the purpose of which is often unclear. Writings on naval warfare are usually replete with references to esoteric concepts explained in specialist language that can serve as a barrier to understanding. This book cuts through the obscure and the arcane to offer a clear, coherent and accessible guide to the key features of naval warfare which will equip the reader with the knowledge and understanding necessary for a sophisticated engagement with the subject. The new edition is divided into two key parts. The first focuses on concepts of naval warfare and introduces readers to the ideas associated with the theory and practice of naval operations and includes a chapter where the history of the last century of naval warfare is explored in order to illustrate the key concepts. The second part focuses on the conduct of war at sea and on peacetime roles for contemporary navies and now includes new material on hybrid warfare and grey zone operations and on joint warfare, multi-domain operations and integrated deterrence within the context of evolving great power rivalry at sea.

This textbook will be essential reading for students of naval warfare, sea power and maritime security and is highly recommended for those studying military history, strategic studies and security studies in general.

Formát: PDF Počet stran: 471 Velikost: 23,77 MB Knižní žánr: historie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-3-11-071634-4 Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 02.03.2025, 16:28

This book offers the first in-depth study of Attic funerary monuments during the geometric, archaic, and classical period. The analysis of forms, images and inscriptions shows, from an anthropological perspective, the Athenian attitude towards death in its fundamental difference to Christian occidental views.

The book, which was originally published in German, is revised.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 325 Velikost: 3,64 MB Knižní žánr: biografie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 9781250251435 Cena: 11.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 02.03.2025, 16:22

A fascinating biography and in-depth look at the work of bestselling writer and psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson, by award-winning author Jim Proser.

Who is psychologist, professor, bestselling author, and YouTube personality Dr. Peterson? What does he believe in? Who are his followers? And why is he so controversial? These are among the many questions raised in this compelling, exhaustively researched account of his life—from Peterson’s early days as a religious-school student in small-town Canada to his tenure at Harvard to his headline-making persona of the present day.

In Savage Messiah, we meet an adolescent Peterson who, scoffing at the “fairy tales” being taught in his confirmation class, asks his minister how it’s possible to believe the Bible in light of modern scientific theory. Unsatisfied with the answer he’s been given, Peterson goes on to challenge other authority figures who stood in his way as he dared to define the world in his own terms. This won Peterson many enemies and more admirers than he could have dreamed of, particularly during the digital era, when his nontraditional views could be widely shared and critically discussed. Still, a fall from grace was never far behind.

Peterson had always preached the importance of free speech, which he believed was essential to finding life-saving personal meaning in our frequently nihilistic world. But when he dismissed Canadian parliament Bill C-16, one that compelled the use of newly-invented pronouns to address new gender identities, Peterson found himself facing a whole new world. Students targeted him as a gender bigot. Conservatives called him their hero. Soon Peterson was fixed firmly at the center of the culture wars—and there was no turning back.

With exclusive interviews of Dr. Peterson, as well as conversations with his family, friends, and associates, this book reveals the heart and mind, teachings and practices, of one of the most provocative voices of our time.

Formát: PDF Počet stran: 322 Velikost: 6,31 MB Knižní žánr: počítačová literatura Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-1-491-99065-0 Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 02.03.2025, 16:18

Every enterprise application creates data, whether it’s log messages, metrics, user activity, outgoing messages, or something else. And how to move all of this data becomes nearly as important as the data itself. If you’re an application architect, developer, or production engineer new to Apache Kafka, this practical guide shows you how to use this open source streaming platform to handle real-time data feeds.

Engineers from Confluent and LinkedIn who are responsible for developing Kafka explain how to deploy production Kafka clusters, write reliable event-driven microservices, and build scalable stream-processing applications with this platform. Through detailed examples, you’ll learn Kafka’s design principles, reliability guarantees, key APIs, and architecture details, including the replication protocol, the controller, and the storage layer.

• Understand publish-subscribe messaging and how it fits in the big data ecosystem.
• Explore Kafka producers and consumers for writing and reading messages
• Understand Kafka patterns and use-case requirements to ensure reliable data delivery
• Get best practices for building data pipelines and applications with Kafka
• Manage Kafka in production, and learn to perform monitoring, tuning, and maintenance tasks
• Learn the most critical metrics among Kafka’s operational measurements
• Explore how Kafka’s stream delivery capabilities make it a perfect source for stream processing systems

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 76 Velikost: 197 kB Knižní žánr: počítačová literatura Jazyk: angličtina Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 02.03.2025, 16:04

Ever wondered how JWT came to be and what problems it was designed to tackle? Are you curious about the plethora of algorithms available for signing and encrypting JWTs? Or are you interested in getting up-to-speed with JWTs as soon as possible? Then this handbook is for you.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 276 Velikost: 16,27 MB Knižní žánr: historie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978 1 39909 761 1 Cena: 24.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 04.02.2025, 23:03

The Hellenistic period, from Alexander the Great to the Battle of Actium, was a time of great technological change and innovation in naval design. There was a naval arms race between the Successor States that culminated in a plethora of ship types and the largest oared vessels ever built.

Michael Pitassi gathers all the available evidence and comparative data to reconstruct the various classes of warship. Each is illustrated with clear diagrams and scale models, with particular attention paid to the arrangement of oars and rowers, the subject of much ongoing debate. He narrates the key naval battles of the period, huge affairs involving hundreds of ships, describing the forces engaged and the tactics employed. Strategic factors such as the location of port facilities, the supply of timber and maritime trade are also considered.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 196 Velikost: 5,52 MB Knižní žánr: biografie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978 1 78914 984 5 Cena: 13.50 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 04.02.2025, 23:00

Plato is a key figure from the beginnings of Western philosophy, yet the impact of his lived experience on his thought has rarely been explored. Born during a war that would lead to Athens’ decline, Plato lived in turbulent times. Carol Atack explores how Plato’s life in Athens influenced his thought, how he developed the Socratic dialogue into a powerful philosophical tool, and how he used the institutions of Athenian society to create a compelling imaginative world. Accessibly written, this book shows how Plato made Athens the place where diverse ideas were integrated into a new way of approaching the big questions about our lives, then and now.

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The best-selling account of World War II in every theater of operations by the foremost military analyst of our time. The late Captain Basil Liddell Hart's private library and famous and voluminous archives of personal correspondence with such giants as Lloyd George and Churchill; the notes of the detailed interviews which he conducted after the war with the captured German generals, as well as with the leading Allied commanders who had so often turned to him for inspiration and advice; the subject files and private papers placed in his hands by many of his great contemporaries-all constitute that priceless personal collection of private documents upon which the present magnificent work is based. It is military history in the broadest possible scale, ranging from the frustrating events preceding the war, through all the campaigns and battles of seven turbulent years, to the final conclusion of hostilities. Trenchant, searching, thought-provoking, it is a study in realism and object analysis, uncluttered by self-deception. Cherished illusions fade under fresh surveillance; long-held beliefs of justification fail under new questioning; reputations are reexamined by one of the most incisive minds of our time; judgments of our past are made lessons for our present and our future.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 2482 Velikost: 4,37 MB Knižní žánr: historie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 0–19–514403–1 Cena: 9.99 CZK Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 04.02.2025, 22:39

Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. This book tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities.

The Depression was both a disaster and an opportunity. As David Kennedy vividly demonstrates, the economic crisis of the 1930s was far more than a simple reaction to the alleged excesses of the 1920s. For more than a century before 1929, America's unbridled industrial revolution had gyrated through repeated boom and bust cycles, wastefully consuming capital and inflicting untold misery on city and countryside alike.

Freedom From Fear explores how the nation agonized over its role in World War II, how it fought the war, why the United States won, and why the consequences of victory were sometimes sweet, sometimes ironic. In a compelling narrative, Kennedy analyzes the determinants of American strategy, the painful choices faced by commanders and statesmen, and the agonies inflicted on the millions of ordinary Americans who were compelled to swallow their fears and face battle as best they could.

Both comprehensive and colorful, this account of the most convulsive period in American history, excepting only the Civil War, reveals a period that formed the crucible in which modern America was formed.

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This book is not your typical history book! No! In a novelistic style, Dr. Warg shows through a fictional group of men-the "Stammtisch"-how the lower and higher middle class civilians mull over the historical events during the political and economical unstable years after WWI, WWII and the Nazi regime, then occupation and division of Germany into two countries. She also draws on research of these eras, and the experiences of her own family, and their friends and how they survived mainly through keeping their Christian faith and traditions.

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Patton is a concise and penetrating biography of one of history's greatest yet most controversial commanders and draws the life of an atavistic warrior-leader who defined modern warfare in the twentieth century's most desperate and destructive theater of combat: World War II.

George S. Patton embodied contradiction: a cavalryman steeped in romantic military tradition, he nevertheless pulled a reluctant American military into the most advanced realms of highly mobile armored warfare. An autocratic snob, Patton created unparalleled rapport and loyalty with the lowliest private in his command; an outspoken racist, he led the only racially integrated U.S. military unit in World War II; an exuberantly profane man, he prayed daily and believed God had destined him for military greatness; a profoundly insecure individual, he made his Third Army the most self-confident and consistently victorious fighting force in the European theater.

From Patton's boyhood battling dyslexia and becoming an avid reader, to his leadership strategies that modernized the U.S. army, Alan Axelrod delivers a fascinating account of Patton's life and legacy.

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In 1914 the world changed. Europe’s great powers were dragged, one by one, into a war by Serbian conflict which affected very few of them directly. At least it would resemble the short sharp battles of the previous century, many thought – fought with military bands, horsemen, and swift victories. But 1914 proved to be different, a watershed, as old notions of war were trampled in the mud.

‘1914: History in an Hour’ is the indispensable overview of the year that marked the end of the Belle Époque and the shocking birth of modern mechanised warfare. It became a war of unimaginable horror, fought with terrifying new weapons that produced death on an industrial scale, a war that involved so many nations and reached into the fabric of their societies. 1914 shaped the First World War, and the years beyond.

Formát: PDF Počet stran: 425 Velikost: 3,45 MB Knižní žánr: historie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-1-3500-7731-7 Cena: 36.85 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 04.02.2025, 12:30

The French Revolution brought momentous political, social, and cultural change. Life in Revolutionary France asks how these changes affected everyday lives, in urban and rural areas, and on an international scale.

An international cast of distinguished academics and emerging scholars present new research on how people experienced and survived the revolutionary decade, with a particular focus on individual and collective agency as discovered through the archival record, material culture, and the history of emotions. It combines innovative work with student-friendly essays to offer fresh perspectives on topics such as:

* Political identities and activism
* Gender, race, and sexuality
* Transatlantic responses to war and revolution
* Local and workplace surveillance and transparency
* Prison communities and culture
* Food, health, and radical medicine
* Revolutionary childhoods

With an easy-to-navigate, three-part structure, illustrations and primary source excerpts, Life in Revolutionary France is the essential text for approaching the experiences of those who lived through one of the most turbulent times in world history.

Formát: PDF Počet stran: 419 Velikost: 7,27 MB Knižní žánr: historie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-0-19-280133-3 Cena: 12.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 04.02.2025, 12:25

This is the most authoritative account of life in Medieval Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the coming of the Renaissance.

Full coverage is given to all aspects of life in a thousand-year period which saw the creation of western civilization: from the empires and kingdoms of Charlemagne, the Byzantines, and the Hundred Years War, to the ideals of the crusades, the building of great cathedrals and the social catastrophe of the Black Death; the cultural worlds of chivalric knights, popular festivals, and new art forms. The chapters show the movement of the centre of gravity in European life from the Mediterranean to the north; and the authors explore the contrast between Byzantine and Renaissance cultures in the south and the new, complex political and social structures of north-west Europe, which by 1300 had the most advanced civilization the world had ever seen.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 189 Velikost: 62 MB Knižní žánr: literatura faktu Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-1-63624-257-6 Cena: 21.47 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 04.02.2025, 10:47

"As usual in Casemate publications, the book uses high quality pictures and diagrams extensively to illustrate and amplify the points in the text... it would be difficult to find a book as well-illustrated, accessible, and affordable as this fine offering." - National Maritime Historical Society

For nearly half a century, the battleship was the most powerful weapon on the ocean, deployed by the US Navy and many other fleets. However, their time seemed to be at an end when Japanese carrier-based aircraft destroyed so many at Pearl Harbor in 1941, ushering in the age of the aircraft carrier. Nevertheless, US battleships continued to serve with distinction in various roles throughout World War II and during the Cold War.

Naval historian Ingo Bauernfeind tells the dramatic yet successful story of the US Navy’s battleships and battle cruisers by class, ranging from the early Dreadnought-type of the South Carolina-class to the gigantic but never-built Montana-class. This fully illustrated volume gives a clear overview of each ship’s career, its fate and highlights its significance in American naval history.

Besides covering various battles in the Pacific, it also describes the important actions of US battleships providing shore bombardment during the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa as well as during the D-day landings in Normandy, thus illustrating their contribution to Allied victory in World War II. Moreover, it covers the little-known actions of the Iowa-class during the Korean and Vietnam wars and even during Operation Desert Storm in 1991, when the modernized USS Missouri and USS Wisconsin fired guided missiles and operated drones in addition to the use of their historic 16-inch guns.

This volume culminates in a guided tour through the mighty USS Missouri, an overview of the other seven preserved US battleships serving as floating museums for future generations, as well as a dive to the sunken USS Arizona and USS Utah at Pearl Harbor.

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Machine Learning with Python in this all-in-one guide designed for beginners and experienced developers alike! Whether you're diving into supervised and unsupervised learning, exploring neural networks, or mastering real-world applications, this book provides step-by-step explanations, hands-on examples, and expert insights. Machine Learning (ML) is a subset of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that focuses on the development of algorithms and statistical models enabling computers to learn from and make decisions or predictions based on data. Rather than being explicitly programmed to perform a specific task, ML algorithms identify patterns, learn from observations, and improve their performance over time. In simpler terms, Machine Learning allows systems to evolve and adapt to new scenarios without human intervention by learning from past data. This self-improvement capability has made Machine Learning a powerful tool for solving complex problems across various domains. Python's ecosystem includes several powerful libraries that form the foundation for Machine Learning. Here, we introduce four essential libraries: NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, and Scikit-learn.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 477 Velikost: 4,4 MB Knižní žánr: literatura faktu Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-0-253-21305-1 Cena: 3.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 04.02.2025, 00:32

Between the years 1942 and 1943, under the code name Operation Reinhard, more than one-and-a-half million Jews were gassed in the concentration camps of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, located in Nazi-occupied Poland. Fewer than 200 Jews survived the operation. Using sources previously overlooked, such as German and Polish official records and testimonies from Nazi war crimes trials, Yitzhak Arad records the complete history of the death camps from their construction in 1941 to their destruction in 1943. He tells the tale of the death camps' inmates -- though many lived only a few hours after their arrival -- the underground organizations, the revolts and escapes, and the details concerning the day-to-day survival of those spared instant death in the gas chambers. Arad's work retrieves the experience of Operation Reinhard's victims and survivors from obscurity and bears eloquent witness to their tragedy.

Stáhnout e-knihu

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 76 Velikost: 197 kB Knižní žánr: počítačová literatura Jazyk: angličtina Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 04.02.2025, 00:21

Ever wondered how JWT came to be and what problems it was designed to tackle? Are you curious about the plethora of algorithms available for signing and encrypting JWTs? Or are you interested in getting up-to-speed with JWTs as soon as possible? Then this handbook is for you.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 183 Velikost: 8,91 MB Knižní žánr: mytologie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-1-57863-841-3 Cena: 9.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 13.01.2025, 01:49

A poignant, powerful, inclusive, and deeply personal journey to meet the Great God Anubis. Filled with solid historical information, as well as practical contemporary rituals, magick, healing practices, and prayers, this book drew me in, opened my heart, and made me love dear Anubis even more.”
—Michael Butler Smith, author of Embracing Isis
 
Anubis is Egypt’s original Lord of the Dead. That title was eventually transferred to Osiris, but even then, Anubis continued to be the most active participant in the after-death process, supervising rituals that determined what would befall the dead soul. He is credited as the inventor of mummification. A shrine to Anubis, one of the most significant gods of ancient Egypt, was discovered within Tutankhamun’s tomb. The image of Anubis has evolved into a veritable symbol of ancient Egypt.
 
Usually identified as a jackal or as a jackal-headed man, Anubis’s domain extends beyond death—he is a guardian of children and travelers and a finder of lost things. Anubis’s adopted mother, the goddess Isis, became popular outside Egypt, with temples in Rome and as far as the British Isles. As her guardian, Anubis traveled with her. He is as modern as he is ancient, appearing in comic books, video games, and in the book American Gods and its television adaptation. In modern times, Anubis has emerged as a sacred patron of mediums and occultists.
 
In this practical guide to working with Anubis, author Charlie Larson focuses the spotlight squarely on the jackal-headed god. Steeped in history and mythology, Anubis—Ancient Egypt’s Lord of Death and Protection features devotional practices and modern worship that includes rituals, prayers, invocations, correspondences, altars, and epithets. The book leads the reader on a journey of exploration into all things Anubis, delving into his various facets—death deity, psychopomp, and protector.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 506 Velikost: 8,27 MB Knižní žánr: historie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-0-520-91706-4 Cena: 15.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 13.01.2025, 01:46

This is a reissue, with a new introduction and an update to the bibliography, of the original edition, published in 1970 as The Year of Salamis in England and as Xerxes at Salamis in the U.S.

The long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire and the fledgling Greek states reached its high point with the extraordinary Greek victory at Salamis in 480 B.C. The astonishing sea battle banished forever the specter of Persian invasion and occupation. Peter Green brilliantly retells this historic moment, evoking the whole dramatic sweep of events that the Persian offensive set in motion. The massive Greek victory, despite the Greeks' inferior numbers, opened the way for the historic evolution of the Greek states in a climate of creativity, independence, and democracy, one that provided a model and an inspiration for centuries to come.

Green's accounts of both Persian and Greek strategies are clear and persuasive; equally convincing are his everyday details regarding the lives of soldiers, statesmen, and ordinary citizens. He has first-hand knowledge of the land and sea he describes, as well as full command of original sources and modern scholarship. With a new foreword, The Greco-Persian Wars is a book that lovers of fine historical writing will greet with pleasure.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 254 Velikost: 6,55 MB Knižní žánr: historie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978 1 39908 443 7 Cena: 16.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 13.01.2025, 01:40

Who qualifies as the worst of Roman emperors and why? Join L J Trafford for a tour of the very worst leadership in ancient Rome featuring Caligula, Commodus and many more.

Between 27 BCE and 476 CE a series of men became Roman Emperor, ruling a domain that stretched across Europe, North Africa and the Near East. Some of them did this rather well, expanding Rome’s territories further, installing just laws and maintaining order within the city. Others, however, were distinctly less successful at the job.

Ancient Rome’s Worst Emperors takes an engaging and amusing look at the mad, the bad and the catastrophically incompetent of Rome’s rulers. From the sadistically cruel Caligula to the hopelessly weak Valentinian II, there were many who failed dismally at the top job for a variety of reasons.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 291 Velikost: 8,56 MB Knižní žánr: historie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978 1 39904 673 2 Cena: 25.00 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 13.01.2025, 00:15

Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer died at the hands of native Americans by the banks of the Little Big Horn in Montana 25th June 1876. This is an established undisputed fact. What is disputed is the real reason that he died. So forget all you have been indoctrinated to believe and begin to learn the truth. George Custer was an anathema to his superiors, but the populace loved him. If he were to stand for president in the coming elections there was a strong possibility that he would win. Neither William T. Sherman nor ‘Little Phil’ Sheridan could allow that to happen. Thus they conspired to put Custer in a position in the field where the opposing Sioux and Cheyenne were stronger and could deliver the ‘Coup de Gras’.

The first of two volumes to deal with the circumstances that arose leading the native Americans on a collision course with the US Army that fateful day and the death of a national hero. Subsequently the conspiracy is uncovered and shows how these men used their powers and positions and so deftly covered their tracks. Perhaps, but not quite.

30 years of diligent research has uncovered the truth in this ground breaking history. Unmissable and shocking, dare you not read this surprising revelation.

Formát: PDF Počet stran: 300 Velikost: 7,78 MB Knižní žánr: sociologie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 0-226-17336-4 Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 13.01.2025, 00:08

Emile Durkheim is best known in this country as a great sociologist and methodologist. Yet it was Durkheim’s reflections on morality and society that spoke most deeply of his vital concerns. In his informative introduction to this work, Robert N. Bellah describes Durkheim as moralist, philosopher, theologian, and prophet, as well as sociologist, and the selections in this volume are representative of these aspects of Durkheim’s many-faceted scholarship.

The first two selections of the volume set the context for the development of Durkheim’s sociology of morality. Section I, “The French Tradition of Social Thought,” gives Durkheim’s picture of how his sociology is to be situated relative to the general French tradition. Section II, “Sociology and Social Action,” shows Durkheim grappling with moral and political issues in his society and indicates the immediate social context of his thinking.

The remaining selections indicate some of the major substantive areas of Durkheim’s sociology of morality. Section III, taken from The Division of Labor in Society, demonstrates his basically evolutionary approach to the development of moral norms in society. Section IV, “The Learning of Morality,” gives examples of Durkheim’s work on socialization. Section V, “Social Creativity,” deals with the important question of how new moral norms arise in society.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 44 Velikost: 1,03 MB Knižní žánr: literatura faktu Jazyk: angličtina Cena: 2.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 12.01.2025, 23:26

The term “Wild West” conjures images known the world over—of outlaws in dusty towns, lawmen and lone cowboys, six-shooters blazing in tense gunfights, creaking stagecoaches, and sleepy, one-horse towns baking under a relentless sun. It carries with it a certain code, the so-called “Code of the West,” that whispers of personal honor, frontier justice, and a hard-edged sense of right and wrong. But in truth, these images are stitched together more from the reels of countless movies than from any historical fact.

The real history of the Wild West is both more complex and more interesting. This was a time when the United States was changing from a mainly agrarian nation to one of the world’s leading industrial producers. Americans were moving in vast numbers from farms and ranches to growing cities. New technology was changing everything. These changes led to a nostalgia for an older, simpler way of life, which the Wild West—in all its grit and glory—seemed to represent.

This is the story of the people, places, and events associated with the dramatic growth and equally rapid decline of the Wild West. It’s also the story of how myth and legend have shaped our understanding of this time to create an idealized perception of the American frontier. This is the real story of the Wild West.

Discover a plethora of topics such as

Westward Bound
Life on the Frontier
Towns of the Wild West
Outlaws and Lawmen
Guns and Range Wars
The End of the Wild West
And much more!

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 1844 Velikost: 2,16 MB Knižní žánr: beletrie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-1-1012-0905-9 Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 12.01.2025, 18:10

This digital edition of the Epic Historical Collection includes #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth and World Without End.

Formát: EPUB Počet stran: 819 Velikost: 1,64 MB Knižní žánr: beletrie Jazyk: angličtina ISBN: 978-1-101-54355-9 Cena: 14.99 USD Přečteno: NE Vloženo: 12.01.2025, 18:04

Ken Follett’s magnificent historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage.

A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson’s White House. . . . A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with a German spy. . . . And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution. 

From the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty, Fall of Giants takes us into the inextricably entangled fates of five families—and into a century that we thought we knew, but that now will never seem the same again. . . .