Donald K. McKim, The Cambridge Companion to Martin Luther (Cambridge Companions to Religion)Cambridge University Press | ISBN 0521016738 | 2003 | PDF | 1 MB | 338 pagesMartin Luther (1483-1546) stands as one of the giant figures in history. His activities, writings, and legacy have had a huge effect on the western world. This Cambridge […]

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Geoffrey Jensen, Franco: Soldier, Commander, Dictator (Military Profiles)Potomac Books Inc. | ISBN 1574886444 | 2005 | PDF | 1 MB | 163 pagesBorn into a military family in 1892, Francisco Franco first made a name for himself leading attacks against rebellious Moroccan warlords and tribesmen and by 1926 was promoted to brigadier general. His role […]

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Edward Edelson, Francis Crick and James Watson: And the Building Blocks of LifeOxford University Press | ISBN 0195139712 | 2000 | PDF | 0.5 MB | 113 pagesThe names of James Watson and Francis Crick are bound together forever because the scientific discovery they made was truly a joint enterprise. As Edward Edelson reveals in […]

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James D. G. Dunn, The Cambridge Companion to St Paul Cambridge University Press | ISBN 0521786940 | 2003 | PDF | 1 MB | 314 pagesThe apostle Paul has been justifiably described as the first and greatest Christian theologian. His letters were among the earliest documents to be included in the New Testament and, as […]

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John Phillips, The Marquis de Sade: A Very Short IntroductionOxford University Press | ISBN 0192804693 | 2005 | PDF | 1 MB | 160 pagesHailed by the early 20th-century French poet Guillaume Apollinaire as ‘the freest spirit who ever lived’, but demonized throughout the last two hundred years as a misogynistic pornographer, and as the […]

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Charlotte Fell-Smith , “John Dee 1527 - 1608 - The Secret Life of Queen Elizabeth I’s Astrologer”PDF | ISBN 0892541040 | Year 1909 | 157 pages | English | 1.34 MBThe first complete biography of the 14th-century scientist, philosopher, and magician. Essential for students who want a full understanding of the ground from which the […]

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Rebecca Stefoff, Charles Darwin: And the Evolution Revolution (Oxford Portraits in Science)Oxford University Press | ISBN 0195089960 | 1996 | PDF | 1 MB | 129 pagesON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, published in 1858, transformed our view of the world and made Charles Darwin one of the most controversial figures in science. This new biography […]

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Karen C. Fox, Einstein A to ZJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc. | ISBN 0471466743 | 2004 | PDF | 3.30 MB | 321 pagesTackling a human life in alphabetical order is a fascinating task. Instead of a continuous story that includes highs and lows, descriptions of a personality with both strengths and weaknesses, a tale […]

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Barry B. Powell, Homer (Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World)Blackwell Publishers | ISBN 0631233865 | 2004 | PDF | 2.48 MB | 189 pagesThe earliest and greatest works of Greek literature - the Iliad and the Odyssey - have been attributed since antiquity to the poet Homer. This concise book is an ideal introduction to […]

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Michael Dobson and Stanley Wells, The Oxford Companion To ShakespeareOxford University Press | ISBN 0198117353 | 2001 | PDF | 26.8 MB | 575 pagesFrom the conjectured identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets to misprints in the First Folio, from Shakespeare’s favorite figures of speech to the staging of Othello in South Africa, […]

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Heinrich Harrer - Seven Years in Tibet Tarcher| ISBN 0874778883| 1997-08-25 | PDF | 352 pages | 1.65 MBIn a motion picture starring Brad Pitt, SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET is the autobiographical account of a young Austrian adventurer and the escape from an internment camp that changed his life forever. In 1943, Heinrich Harrer, a […]

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Marie Curie: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)Greenwood Press| ISBN 0313325294 | 2004-09-30 | PDF | 184 pages | 752 KBMarie Curie (1867-1934) was one of the most important woman scientists in history, and she was one of the most influential scientists–man or woman–of the 20th century. Curie postulated that radiation was an atomic property, a discovery […]

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Randolph Lewis, “Alanis Obomsawin: The Vision of a Native Filmmaker (American Indian Lives)”University of Nebraska Press | ISBN 0803229631 | May 1, 2006 | PDF | 262 Pages | 2MBIn more than twenty powerful films, Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin has waged a brilliant battle against the ignorance and stereotypes that Native Americans have long endured […]

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Isaac Newton (Lives and Legacies Series)Cambridge University Press | ISBN 019530070X | 2005-09-27 | DJVU |160 pages | 835 kbQuarrelsome and quirky, a disheveled recluse who ate little, slept less, and yet had an iron constitution, Isaac Newton rose from a virtually illiterate family to become one of the towering intellects of science. Now, in […]

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