11 Ergebnisse für: jonfaith
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The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late ... - John V. A. Fine, John Van Antwerp Fine - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=YbS9QmwDC58C&pg=PA141
Discusses the development of ethnic nationalism among Bulgars, Croatians, Serbians, and Macedonians
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The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late ... - John V. A. Fine, John Van Antwerp Fine - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=YbS9QmwDC58C&pg=PA141&dq=Prvoslav&hl=de&ei=YAvMTpP8N47A8QP-1pkG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&re
Discusses the development of ethnic nationalism among Bulgars, Croatians, Serbians, and Macedonians
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The Fall of Constantinople 1453 - Steven Runciman - Google Libri
https://books.google.de/books?id=CJz8BCdxlfEC&lpg=PP1&hl=it&pg=PA50#v=onepage&q&f=false
This classic account shows how the fall of Constantinople in May 1453, after a siege of several weeks, came as a bitter shock to Western Christendom. The city's plight had been neglected, and negligible help was sent in this crisis. To the Turks, victory…
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The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later ... - Steven Runciman - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=0GsTqFtBIiUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=runciman+Steven&hl=de&sa=X&ei=fbWJT7PAH8n3sgaJ45XBCw#v=onepa
On 30 March 1282, as the bells of Palermo were ringing for Vespers, the Sicilian townsfolk, crying 'Death to the French', slaughtered the garrison and administration of their Angevin King. Seen in historical perspective it was not an especially big…
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The Sicilian Vespers: A History of the Mediterranean World in the Later ... - Steven Runciman - Google Libri
https://books.google.de/books?id=PpjUIK8hru8C&lpg=PR2&hl=it&pg=PA176#v=onepage&q&f=false
On 30 March 1282, as the bells of Palermo were ringing for Vespers, the Sicilian townsfolk, crying 'Death to the French', slaughtered the garrison and administration of their Angevin King. Seen in historical perspective it was not an especially big…
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Turning Back the Clock: Hot Wars and Media Populism - Umberto Eco - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=DHntgsAvMSgC&pg=PA3&dq=%22Mamma+li+Turchi!%22&hl=en&ei=N9yITq7XKMHg0QG-qr2QDA&sa=X&oi=book_resu
The time: 2000 to 2005, the years of neoconservatism, terrorism, the twenty-four-hour news cycle, the ascension of Bush, Blair, and Berlusconi, and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Umberto Eco's response is a provocative, passionate, and witty series…
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Living in the End Times - Slavoj Zizek, Slavoj Žižek - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=MIz6BPT23Q4C
Zizek analyzes the end of the world at the hands of the “four riders of the apocalypse.”The underlying premise of the book is a simple one: the global capitalist system is approaching an apocalyptic zero-point. Its four riders of the apocalypse are the…
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Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=w-rb62wiFAwC&pg=PA10
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his…
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The Early Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Sixth to the Late ... - John V. A. Fine, John Van Antwerp Fine - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=Y0NBxG9Id58C
Discusses the development of ethnic nationalism among Bulgars, Croatians, Serbians, and Macedonians
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster - Jon Krakauer - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=lI_2H3GUulEC
National Bestseller A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The…