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A history about the "Universal Monster" movies, both old and new. In detail, this book will cover the background of these movies, casting information, production history, and how they did when they were released in theaters. This book covers the first 100 years of a movie franchise that remains iconic and a must-buy for any fan of these movies.
With hundreds of sources ranging from books, magazines, newspapers, and so on, with the addition of...
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Anton Rippon is a Derby boy, born and bred. He is also one of the city's best-known writers and personalities, with a string of highly acclaimed books to his name. For the past eight years, he has written a popular weekly column in the Derby Telegraph in which he takes a whimsical, often sideways, look at life in Derby, both the serious side and the frivolous. In the process he captures perfectly the essence of this sturdy Midlands city.
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Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world's largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell's revolutionary "harmonic telegraph," by the middle of the twentieth century the phone system had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cutting-edge switching machines and human operators that...
4) Las siete maravillas del mundo moderno: Una guía fascinante sobre la Gran Muralla China, el Colis
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¿Sabía que Sha Jahan planeó una vez construir otro Taj Mahal en su imperio?El Taj Mahal es famoso por su excepcional arquitectura, en la que se mezclan elementos de diversas influencias de todo el mundo, como la magnificencia de los estilos arquitectónicos mogol, persa e islámico.Sha Jahan, emperador reinante del Imperio mogol, estaba sumido en la tristeza tras la muerte de su amada esposa, Mumtaz Mahal. Como regalo de despedida, el emperador...
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These chapters offer a modern perspective on the legacy of the Mongols, covering aspects of cultural resilience, economic transformation, political developments, global interactions, and environmental stewardship. They highlight the ongoing relevance and influence of Mongolian history and traditions in shaping the nation's trajectory in the present day.
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¿Qué tienen en común el neurólogo Oliver Sacks, los problemas de la traducción, el escritor centroeuropeo Joseph Roth, la lectura en los transportes públicos, el poeta chileno Raúl Zurita, la ciencia ficción hispánica, la estación de Retiro y Diego Armando Maradona? Que han sido analizados por Marcelo Cohen. Además de ser uno de los grandes autores de ficción y traductores iberoamericanos, Cohen es un extraordinario narrador y pensador...
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“France in Centrafrique” explores the pre-and post-colonial history of the Republic of Central Africa as well as giving the reader a taste of the country's involvement in WWII itself. The main focus of this volume is on Central Africa's independence and the rise to power of Jean Bedel Bokassa including the Focard network and Françafrique connections, France's military links with RCA (defense agreements), the republic's post-independence military,...
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It seems hard to imagine a concept more significant to modern thought than critique. Critique involved distancing oneself from religious explanations and theological argumentation and came to represent the essence of secular consciousness's potential to deliver modernity's promise of human progress through rational inquiry and scientific development. Critiques of Theology debunks this common understanding. Based on a novel reading of previously less-discussed...
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Gnter Koschorrek wrote his illicit diary on any scraps of paper he could lay his hands on, storing them with his mother on infrequent trips home on leave. The diary went missing, and it was not until he was reunited with his daughter in America some forty years later that it came to light and became Blood Red Snow.
The authors excitement at the first encounter with the enemy in the Russian Steppe is obvious. Later, the horror and confusion of fighting...
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This candid memoir of a GI serving under General Patton offers a rare glimpse into the realities of life and combat in Europe during WWII.
Though General Patton's army is famous for dashing armored attacks, some of the most intensive fighting of World War II was done by Patton's infantry-the foot sloggers who were deployed to reduce enemy strong points. This candid account of the US infantry in the European theater takes the reader from the beaches...
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Reveals the global effects of the bubonic plague, and what we can learn from this earlier pandemic
A century ago, the third bubonic plague swept the globe, taking more than 15 million lives. Plague Ports tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the epidemic in its initial years: Hong Kong and Bombay, the Asian emporiums of the British Empire where the epidemic first surfaced; Sydney, Honolulu and San Francisco, three...
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There has been a recent trend in history to interpret the rise and fall of great powers in terms of economics, or demographics, or geography. This is not always true, as this book proves, because sometimes pure military skill can propel a nation to prominence, if it is simply able to crush all its opponents on a battlefield. No better example arises than that of Sweden beginning in the 17th century, which held supremacy over northern Europe for 100...
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This classic account of Wellington’s tactics and strategy in the Peninsular War is one of the best single-volume works ever written on the epic campaign.
Jac Weller covers all the battles with the French in which Wellington was involved. Talavera, Busaco, Salamanca and Vitoria are among the famous battles that he brings to life once more, with the aid of meticulous research, extensive visits to and photographs of the battlefields themselves, and...
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The Wreck of the Medusa is Jonathan Miles's spellbinding account of the most famous shipwreck before the Titanic. Drawing on contemporaneously published accounts and journals of survivors, Miles brilliantly reconstructs the ill-fated voyage and the events that inspired Theodore Gericault's magnificent painting The Raft of the Medusa. In July of 1816, the French frigate Medusa, bound for the Senegalese port colony of Saint Louis under the command of...
16) Balkan Blue
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Contrary to popular misconception, the Army is capable of tolerating, even encouraging, individuality amongst its officers, particularly when they are inherently competent. Yet, as readers of Balkan Blue will discover it is a gloriously untypical autobiography covering the unlikely combination of the eccentric Redgrave clan and service life, the lighter side of which the author refreshingly captures.
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De Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872) pudo escribir Søren Kierkegaard: «Es falso cuando la cristiandad actual dice que Feuerbach ataca al cristianismo. ¡No es verdad! Ataca a los cristianos, mostrando que su vida no se corresponde con la doctrina del cristianismo». El propio Feuerbach habla en el prólogo a La esencia del cristianismo de la finalidad «terapéutica» del libro. Más que la negación de la religión, lo que pretende es su purificación...
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This sweeping history of philosophy by the author and founder of the Philosophical Library ranges from the pre-Socratics to existentialism.
In this historical survey, Dagobert D. Runes introduces readers to the major developments in philosophical inquiry that began with the ancient Greeks. In clear and accessible prose, he traces the progression of thought through influential figures such as Jesus, Muhammad, Francis Bacon, and René Descartes. He...
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When Monty was given Allied command of the D Day landings he wasted no time gathering around him individuals and formations he could trust. Foremost among the latter were two armoured brigades: 4th (Black Desert Rats) and 8th (Red Fox's Mask). Both these brigades had unrivalled fighting records whether in North Africa, Sicily or Italy. They had proved themselves in bitter fighting against Rommel's Afrika Korps and the Italians. Once ashore in Normandy...
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Verdadera acta fundacional de una nueva época del pensamiento, en el Discurso del método, primer escrito publicado por René Descartes (1596-1650), se forjan los tópicos en torno a los cuales girará la reflexión filosófica hasta que la Modernidad entre en una crisis definitiva. La presente edición trilingüe incorpora una selección de la correspondencia de Descartes sobre el Discurso así como el texto polémico de Pierre Petit, uno de los...
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