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The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In - Hugh Kennedy - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=nV28i9Ticz0C
Today's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. In just over one hundred years following the death of Mohammed in 632, Arabs had subjugated a territory with an east-west expanse greater than the Roman Empire, and they did it in about one-half the…
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The Book of Inventions - Ian Harrison - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=n4NGAAAAYAAJ&q=emil+lerp&dq=emil+lerp&hl=de&sa=X&ei=o11zVLLFEIurPNvCgLAC&ved=0CEsQ6AEwBQ
Combining curious and colorful anecdotes with intricate research and photographs, National Geographic presents a fact-filled and lively history of inventions and their inventors. With a creative and humorous approach to reference, The Book of Inventions is…
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A Dangerous Liaison: A Revelatory New Biography of Simone DeBeauvoir and ... - Carole Seymour-Jones - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=uW4jCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT244&lpg
A Dangerous Liaison tells the intense, passionate, and sometimes painful story of how two brilliant free-thinkers, lovers, and rivals came to share a relationship that lasted more than fifty years. Moving from the corridors of the Sorbonne to the cafés of…
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The Ultimate Book of Gangster Movies: Featuring the 100 Greatest Gangster ... - George Anastasia, Glen Macnow - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=kY5tHAksa7kC&pg=PA125&dq=argot+rififi&hl=de&sa=X&ei=G59zUsL9CoXI4AST34CgCA&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAjgK#v=o
The gangster movie is one of the most popular genres in film. From the Italian, Irish, and Russian “families” in America to similarly sinister groups in Europe, Japan, and beyond, the cinema has never shied away from portraying the evil exploits of these…
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The Secrets of Q Central: How Leighton Buzzard Shortened the Second World War - Paul Brown, Edward Herbert - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=YC4cBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT340&lpg=PT340&dq=Charles+Victor+Douglas+Willis&source=bl&ots=8D2iFZOS8r&sig=_
A quiet market town with no military presence was chosen as the secret communications centre for Britain as the country prepared for war with Germany in 1937. When hostilities began, ‘Q Central’ attracted a dozen other clandestine operations set up to…
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The Heart is a Sleeping Beauty: The Million Dollar Hotel : a Film Book - Wim Wenders, Donata Wenders - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=Po-GAAAAIAAJ&q=Tatiana+S.+Riegel+editor&dq=Tatiana+S.+Riegel+editor&hl=de&sa=X&ei=lg2fVcDBKouGy
Hot on the heels of the wildly successful collection of stills from Wim Wenders' hit movie, "The Buena Vista Social Club" comes this volume of images from "The Million Dollar Hotel". Wenders' newest movie, an enigmatic, eerily beautiful masterpiece that…
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Happening: design for events - Sarah Schultz, Marlous Willems - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=qc4LAQAAMAAJ&q=atelier+markgraph&dq=atelier+markgraph&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiO4_KAjLzbAhUCJcAKH
How can design help to make PR events unique and compelling occasions? For the first time, Happening! Design for Events sets its sights on the total design of PR events and uses selected projects to show that there is virtually no limit to the influence…
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Model Nazi: Arthur Greiser and the Occupation of Western Poland - Catherine Epstein - Google Ksi±¿ki
http://books.google.de/books?id=ye6P_h_RU4oC&pg=PA295&lpg=PA295&dq=wola,+reinefarth&source=bl&ots=zwSYYLKtAy&sig=nSuIf56pjSDGXSV
Model Nazi tells the story of Arthur Greiser, the man who initiated the Final Solution in Nazi-occupied Poland. Between 1939 and 1945, Greiser was the territorial leader of the Warthegau, an area of western Poland annexed to Nazi Germany. In an effort to…
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Notes from the House of the Dead - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=r2bIFOdn5gEC
Master translation of a neglected Russian classic into EnglishLong before Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago came Dostoevsky's Notes from the House of the Dead, a compelling account of the horrific conditions in Siberian labor camps. First published in 1861,…
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Prokofiev - Lars David Kellner, Sergej Prokofieff: Amazon.de: Musik
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B005NKAYEO/
Prokofiev - Lars David Kellner, Sergej Prokofieff: Amazon.de: Musik
