Sultan Selim I was an extraordinary sultan who virtually re-established the Ottoman state. This work relates his approach to developments in his time with an objective style and comparative analysis. It is an important reference for those who seek serious information about the period in which he lived. The book focuses on the life of Sultan Selim ......
Hypatia was a female philosopher and mathematician during the early Christian era in Alexandria. She was brutally murdered by a Christian mob and has become an icon for various groups. But who was the woman behind the myth? Using the available evidence these myths are dispelled and the woman who was Hypatia is visible for the first time.
This book will stir many memories. Cranwellians of the late 50s and early 60s engaged in jet conversion to Vampires will recall a sympathetic instructor who made this testing time a pleasure. From 1954 Initial Training at Kirton Lindsey to his retirement as Deputy Commandant at Cranwell 1984 Mike Williams had a long and distinguished RAF career.
Tells the riveting narrative of the growth, disappearance, and eventual rediscovery of one of the largest free black communities of the nineteenth century In 1966 a group of students, Boy Scouts, and local citizens rediscovered all that remained of a then virtually unknown community called Weeksville: four frame houses on Hunterfly Road. The ......
From Secret Luftwaffe to Hossbach War Conference 1935-37
Revealed is Goering's role in creating the Luftwaffe and the German prewar economy during 1935-37 that set the stage for the launching of WWII in 1939. Also revealed are his second marriage to a popular stage actress, occupation of the Rhineland, diplomatic missions to Poland and Italy, hunting career, and the top-secret Hossbach war conference.
How Lord Byron's Daughter Launched the Digital Age Through the Poetry of
Through the infamous divorce of her parents, Ada Lovelace became the most talked-about child in Georgian Britain. This riveting biography tells the extraordinary yet little known story of her life and times-when mathematics was as fashionable as knitting among women and Ada became the world's first computer programmer. But for her era's view on ......
To millions of ardent fans, Donald Trump will restore the American Dream. To his enemies, he is the country's worst nightmare - a braggart, a fraud, a false prophet, and, to the most extreme of the Evangelists, the Anti-Christ. Whether he eventually occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue or not, he remains one of the most reviled and envied men on the ......
