Название: Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: A Historical Encyclopedia
Автор: Michael Richard Thomas Dumper, Bruce Stanley
Издательство: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 1576079198
Год: 2006
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 439
Размер: 18,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

The first work to offer 5,000 years of authoritative historical coverage of ancient and modern cities in the Middle East and North Africa―from their founding to the present―highlighting each city's cultural, social, political, and economic significance.

Название: Providing the Means of War: Historical Perspectives on Defense Acquisition, 1945–2000
Автор: Shannon A. Brown
Издательство: aIc Books
ISBN: 1507872127
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 412
Размер: 1,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Acquisition as defined by the Department of Defense denotes our national security establishment harnessing the scientific and engineering knowledge of military and civilian professionals to create the tools of modern war. It encompasses research and development, engineering, contracting, test and evaluation, fielding, and disposal of weapon systems and other forms of technology that are vital to the nation.

Название: Historical Atlas of Central Europe: Third Revised and Expanded Edition
Автор: Paul Robert Magocsi
Издательство: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487523312
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 299
Размер: 23,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Central Europe remains a region of ongoing change and continuing significance in the contemporary world. This third, fully revised edition of the Historical Atlas of Central Europe takes into consideration recent changes in the region. The 120 full-colour maps, each accompanied by an explanatory text, provide a concise visual survey of political, economic, demographic, cultural, and religious developments from the fall of the Roman Empire in the early fifth century to the present.

Название: A Historical Dictionary of the Railways of the British Isles
Автор: David Wragg
Издательство: Wharncliffe
ISBN: 1844680479
Год: 2009
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 288
Размер: 5,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Railways played a key role in Britain's social, economic and industrial history. These companies have long since gone, but all over the country relics remain to remind us of that pioneering age. David Wragg's Historical Dictionary of Railways in the British Isles is a comprehensive, single-volume reference guide to the old railway companies and their heritage.

Название: Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 B.C.: A Historical Biography
Автор: Peter Green
Издательство: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520275867
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 672
Размер: 3,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Until recently, popular biographers and most scholars viewed Alexander the Great as a genius with a plan, a romantic figure pursuing his vision of a united world. His dream was at times characterized as a benevolent interest in the brotherhood of man, sometimes as a brute interest in the exercise of power.