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Fighting for Time: Rhodesia's Military and Zimbabwe’s Independence [Hardback]
Charles D. Melson(Author)
$65.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781952715068
Published by : Casemate Academic
This academic book looks at the conflicts involving Rhodesia, South Africa and Portugal in conflict with the so-called Frontline states.
From the 1960s through 1970s there were a series of conflicts in Africa involving Rhodesia, ... .... Learn More -
Maritime connections across the North Sea: The exchange of maritime culture and technology between Scandinavia and the Netherlands in the early modern period [Paperback]
Dr Asger Nørlund Christensen(Author)
$65.00ISBN: 9789088909863
Published by : Sidestone Press
Why are so many nautical words in Danish the same as in Dutch? Who taught the shipwrights in the Royal Danish Shipyard in Copenhagen to build carvel planked ships? How did the first Danish ships find their way to the riches of the East Indies? The... .... Learn More -
Maritime connections across the North Sea: The exchange of maritime culture and technology between Scandinavia and the Netherlands in the early modern period [Hardback]
Dr Asger Nørlund Christensen(Author)
$195.00ISBN: 9789088909870
Published by : Sidestone Press
Why are so many nautical words in Danish the same as in Dutch? Who taught the shipwrights in the Royal Danish Shipyard in Copenhagen to build carvel planked ships? How did the first Danish ships find their way to the riches of the East Indies? The... .... Learn More -
Bath Quays Waterside: the archaeology of industry, commerce and the lives of the poor in Bath’s lost quayside district [Paperback]
Cai Mason(Author); Philippa Bradley(Editor)
$22.00ISBN: 9781911137160
Published by : Wessex Archaeology
Series: Wessex Archaology Occasional Paper
Excavations at Bath Quays Waterside represent the first detailed archaeological investigation of industrial buildings and housing within a ‘slum’ district on the southern edge of the city. The area was first developed in the early 18th... .... Learn More -
Testimone a Chernobyl: La Catastrofe che Sconvolse l’URSS [Paperback]
Francesco Bigazzi(Author)
$23.00ISBN: 9788856404425
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Libro verità | Nuova Serie
Volume: 44
Text in Italian.
On May 9, 1986, thirteen days after the Chernobyl disaster, eight reporters were allowed to enter the scene of the tragedy. Among them was Francesco Bigazzi, the correspondent of Ansa agency. Since that day, Bigazz... .... Learn More -
A Quite Impossible Proposal: How Not to Build a Railway [Paperback]
Andrew Drummond(Author)
$34.95Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781912476886
Published by : Origin
In the 1890s, the people of north-west Scotland grew tired of Government Commissions sent to consider a railway to Ullapool. Despite rock-solid arguments in favour of such a railway, neither government nor the big railway companies lifted a ... .... Learn More -
The Russian Civil War, 1918–1921: An Operational-Strategic Sketch of the Red Army’s Combat Operations [Hardback]
A S Bubnov(Editor); S S Kamenev(Editor); M N Tukhachevskii(Editor); R P Eideman(Editor); Richard W Harrison(Translator)
$65.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781952715044
Published by : Casemate Academic
The Russian Civil War was one of the most fateful of the 20th century's military conflicts, a bloody three-year struggle whose outcome saw the establishment of a totalitarian communist regime within the former Russian Empire. As such, it commands ... .... Learn More -
Una breve storia di Firenze [Paperback]
Fabrizio Ricciardelli(Author)
$25.00ISBN: 9788856404166
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Storie del mondo
Volume: 37
The book traces the history of Florence in a synthetic and accessible way, starting from 59 BC, traditional date of the foundation of the Roman colony, until 1967, the year after the terrible flood of the Arno river. The main events, the historica... .... Learn More -
Tiziano Bonanni: Identity 1,618: 1989-2019: dalla caduta del muro di Berlino all’intelligenza artificiale / 1989-2019: from the Fall of the Berlin Wall to Artificial Intelligence [Hardback]
Nicola Nuti(Editor)
$100.00ISBN: 9788859620105
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
A circular confrontation on identity as the value of diversity, from its historic roots to its transformations linked to processes of globalization, up to artificial intelligence where identity is reduced to pure alphanumerical codes. With the 500... .... Learn More -
David I: King of Scots, 1124–1153 [Hardback]
Richard D. Oram(Author)
$95.00ISBN: 9781910900291
Published by : John Donald
David I was never expected to become king, but on succeeding to the Scottish throne in 1124 he quickly demonstrated that he had the skills, ruthlessness and ambition to become one of the kingdom’s greatest rulers. Drawing on the experiences ... .... Learn More
