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We live in the era of the Mesozoic era, Antiquity and the Middle Ages. We dance the minuet, listen to the clash of swords and the sighs of the first steam engines. We ride through the empire of Genghis Khan, compose poems with the warriors of the Inc…

History, science, politics, philosophy and religion in a single semantic conglomerate. If the question for you is «What to do?» is essential, open this book

This book focuses on Kaliningrad’s development as a transnational bordered zone, and the self-understanding and self-positioning of its youth in the context of regional culture. By taking into consideration historical and geopolitical factors, this e…

The book tells about the spiritual capital of Siberia. It was created by the author on the basis of literary sources on the history of the city, as well as on various topical publications in the press and on electronic resources. The book is intended…

Real historical events, facts, scientists, military and political leaders are used in the tasks. Only few characters are fictional. The complexity of the tasks may vary. As a result, this book has a great opportunity to help pupils to build bridges …

This collection, by an international team of scholars, presents exciting research currently being undertaken on early modern Italy which questions the conventional boundaries of medical history. Brings together historians of medicine and scholars of …

This fourth edition of Sir John Hale’s classic history of England and the Italian Renaissance includes a detailed introduction by Edward Chaney surveying scholarly developments since the book was first published. Fourth edition of Sir John Hale’s cla…

This book traces the emergence of the concept of self-identity in modern Western culture, as it was both reflected in and advanced by the development of autobiographical practice in early modern England. It offers a fresh and illuminating appraisal o…

This fourth edition of Sir John Hale’s classic history of England and the Italian Renaissance includes a detailed introduction by Edward Chaney surveying scholarly developments since the book was first published. Fourth edition of Sir John Hale’s cla…

The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language – a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in recent years. Drawing on the work of sociolinguists and others, Burke uses the…

This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.

The Conquest of Mexico is a brilliant account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, written from a new and unfamiliar angle. Gruzinski analyses the process of colonization that took place in native Indian societies over three centuries, focusing on disr…

Scientific line-by-line analysis of the Biblical books of the prophets Ezekiel and Daniel. In English. Научный построчный разбор библейских книг пророков Иезекииля и Даниила. На английском языке.