The Byzantine empire began with the transformation of the Roman empire initiated by the official acceptance of Christianity and the establishment of Constantinople as the capital city. It ended with the fall of that city to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. ..

First published in 1909, The Great Illusion sets out to answer one of the greatest questions in human history: Why is there war? Specifically, Angell wishes to discuss why there is war between the countries of Europe, which seem to always be at one ..

Long live Solaris.One bloodthirsty ruler has been overthrown by another, casting the shadow of death over the Solaris Empire. Vhalla Yarl stands upon the stage of fate, prepared to do battle one final time. Fragile alliances will be tested and ..

Democrat and Republican. Meat Eaters and Vegetarians. Black and White. As human beings we sort ourselves into groups. And once we identify ourselves as a member of a particular group–say, Red Sox fans–we tend to feel more comfortable with others of our o

Аннотация Эта книга – мировой супербестселлер, работа №1 по теме личностного роста. Она оказала большое влияние на жизни миллионов людей во всем мире, включая Билла Клинтона, Ларри Кинга и Стивена Форбса. Половина крупнейших мировых корпораций, входя ..

Diagnostics: Test don't guess. Learn all the skills you need to pass Level 3 and 4 Vehicle Diagnostics courses from IMI, City& Guilds, and BTEC, as well as ASE, AUR, and other higher-level qualifications. Along with25 new real-life case studies, this ..

A sloka-by-sloka interpretation of a great work by a great sage. The Bhagavad Gita is perhaps the greatest work of practical Indian philosophy. Among the various interpretations of the Bhagavad Gita, the one by ..

In 1993, a band of U.S. soldiers in Somalia were on a mission to capture two lieutenants of a Somali warlord. Through the night, in the longest sustained fighting by American troops since Vietnam, they battled thousands of armed Somalis. By morning, ..

Blessed Possibilities, a new book by Access Consciousness founder, Gary Douglas, is about the blessed choice of possibility we have available to create things we never even realized were possible. Instead of being the phenomenon we truly are on plane ..

Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, this profoundly original work explores the nature of physical suffering. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture ..

Was wäre, wenn man einfach mal die Schicksale zweier Hauptfiguren vertauscht? Wenn sich Ryonosuke Akutagawa auf der Suche nach seiner kleinen Schwester dem Büro der Wehrhaften Detektive anschließt und nicht der grausamen Mafia? Und im Gegenzug der We ..

Was wäre, wenn man einfach mal die Schicksale zweier Hauptfiguren vertauscht? Wenn sich Ryonosuke Akutagawa auf der Suche nach seiner kleinen Schwester dem Büro der Wehrhaften Detektive anschließt und nicht der grausamen Mafia? Und im Gegenzug der We ..