1.《中国国家地理百科全书》是一套色彩艳丽、内容丰富、特色鲜明的大众地理读物。 2.全书内容是经过社科院专家和中国地理协会的老师专门审核后完成的，地理知识具有较高的权威性。3.全书共分10卷，分别从多方面介绍了世界七大洲的200多个国家与地区，资料翔实、数据全面、图片丰富。4.这套书也是目前国内图书市场上为数不多的以彩图版的形式...

1.《中国国家地理百科全书》是一套色彩艳丽、内容丰富、特色鲜明的大众地理读物。 2.全书内容是经过社科院专家和中国地理协会的老师专门审核后完成的，地理知识具有较高的权威性。3.全书共分10卷，分别从多方面介绍了世界七大洲的200多个国家与地区，资料翔实、数据全面、图片丰富。4.这套书也是目前国内图书市场上为数不多的以彩图版的形式...

1.《中国国家地理百科全书》是一套色彩艳丽、内容丰富、特色鲜明的大众地理读物。 2.全书内容是经过社科院专家和中国地理协会的老师专门审核后完成的，地理知识具有较高的权威性。3.全书共分10卷，分别从多方面介绍了世界七大洲的200多个国家与地区，资料翔实、数据全面、图片丰富。4.这套书也是目前国内图书市场上为数不多的以彩图版的形式...

James Dean is known as the first rebel. He was a '50s-styled, leather-clad biker rebuking authority. With his black turtleneck and a penchant for bongo drums and poetry, he could also easily be a kind of forerunner to the beatniks. And with his unkempt, wild hair and far-reaching philosophies, he is often cited as a...

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Buddhist-Inflected Sovereignties across the Indian Ocean draws attention to the varied, historically contingent, and sometimes competing, arguments for and about sovereignty that operated in the Pali arena during the first half of the second millennium AD. It was a time of expanding interaction within the Indian Oce...

A rich visual illustration of South Carolina's physical, political, social, and cultural geography What is the regional distribution of South Carolinians' preferred barbeque sauces? Where were colonial roads located, and how did they relate to the sites of Revolutionary War battles? Where were the key locales of pro...

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"Fiery, insightful memoir from the former Iraqi translator who fought alongside US Special Forces during the recent war in Iraq . . . harrowing." ー Kirkus Reviews As the insurgency in Iraq intensified following the American invasion, US Navy SEALs were called upon to root terrorists from their lairs. Unsure of the ...

Why did social democrats in the 1940s and 1950s idealise Zionism and Israel? And why did ‘the New Left’ of the 1960s denounce Israel as an apartheid state and a ‘bridgehead of imperialism’? The Meaning of Israel: Anti-Zionism and Philo-Zionism in the Postwar Left, a case study of Norway, offers new and intriguing an...

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Drawing on expertise from professionals, government officials, and academics, this book uncovers the proactive measures taken by Latvia to build resilient cybersecurity capabilities. The work offers a comprehensive exploration of Latvia’s cyber domain, structured around three overarching themes: the ecosystem, its p...

One small pamphlet. One massive revolution. Common Sense is the electrifying political manifesto that sparked a nation's fight for freedom. Published in 1776, Common Sense by Thomas Paine ignited the American Revolution with words alone. In clear, forceful language, Paine challenged the authority of the British mona...

The bestselling author of All the Shah’s Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA’s secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and ’60s. The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA’s master magician and gentlehearted torturerーthe agency’s “poisoner in chief.” ...

Publicado pela primeira vez no Brasil e com tradução direta do francês, Escritos políticos abrange uma seleção de artigos jornalísticos de Frantz Fanon. Redigidos originalmente para o El Moudjahid, jornal da Frente de Libertação Nacional da Argélia, do qual Fanon foi colaborador de 1957 a 1960, os textos acompanham ...

Discover the People Who Made France What It Is Today From prehistoric cave artists and medieval mystics to revolutionary thinkers, fearless warriors, and daring inventors, 101 People Who Made France tells the story of a nation through the lives of the people who shaped it. Across more than two thousand years of Fren...