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Red Nile: A Biography of The Worlds Greatest River
Robert Twigger's ambitious biography of the Nile is an unexpected triumph ......... a scintillatingly colorful account of a river and a region Twigger knows intimately ...... an elegiac moving book ........ hugely entertaining ..... probably the author's magnum opus. - The Sunday Times (UK). Twigger has found a narrative voice all too rare in contemporary travel writing: clear-eyed, uneffec…
- Edition
- First U.S. Ed, October 2014
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-250-05233-9
- Collation
- xiv, 468 p.; ilus.; 23 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 962 TWI r
Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of The Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath
In This Harrowing History of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombings had little impact on the eventual outcome of the Pacific War. More than 100,000 people were killed instantly by the atomic bombs, mostly women, children, and the elderly. Many hundreds of thousan…
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition, August 2014
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-250-04711-3
- Collation
- x, 632 p.: ill.; 25 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 940 HAM h
Modern History
there are 100 illustrated topic panels on modern history and each panel contains 10 key facts. Facts like these:rn* When gold was discovered in Australia 1851, fourtune seekers helped to triple the country's population in just nine years.rn* Im 1837, 18 year-old Victoria became queen and reigned for 63 years- the longest reign in British history.rn* In the 1980s the JApanese government was roc…
- Edition
- Cet. 1, 2001
- ISBN/ISSN
- 1902947983
- Collation
- 66 p.: Ilus.; 30 cm
- Series Title
- 1000 Things You Should Know About
- Call Number
- R 909 FAR m
Ancient History
There 100 illustrated topic panels on Ancient History and each panel contains 10 key facts. Facts like these:rn* The Emperor Trajan went to a gladiator contest that lasted 117 days and involved 10.000 gladiators. rn* Catching a bull by the horns and leaping over it ( leaping) was an important Minoan religious rite.rn* Legend has it that Cleopatra had herself delivered to Caesar in a carpet. Wha…
- Edition
- Cet. 1, 2001
- ISBN/ISSN
- 1902947778
- Collation
- 64 p.: ilus.; 30 cm
- Series Title
- 1000 Things You Should Know About
- Call Number
- R 930 FAR a
Indonesia Heritage Early Modern History
Bhinneka Tunggal Ika - it is various, and yet it is one. This mystical saying of a 14th century Javanese poet is profoundly appropriate as the motto for the Indonesian state. It is the variety of Indonesia that gives it is common character. Each region replicates, in its own way, the diversities between mountail and valley, upstream and downstream large (mainland) islands and small ones, forest…
- Edition
- Cet.1, 1996
- ISBN/ISSN
- 979892603x
- Collation
- p.150: 29 cm
- Series Title
- Seri Heritage Indonesia
- Call Number
- R 959.8 REI e
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