The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond 039324685X, 9780393246858

For centuries the Alps have seen the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers, and

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The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond
039324685X, 9780393246858

When he left his Spanish base one spring day in 218 B.C. with his 100,000-man army of mercenaries, officers, and elephan

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If you have not tried - how do you know you cannot? --- A gripping personal journey rich with challenges, crises, and pe

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Rome was liberated on 5 June 1944 but the Italian campaign had another eleven gruelling months to run. The US Fifth and

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Savoy and its Alps were for seven centuries an independent state at the centre of Europe, separating France from the pat

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Film history is merged with psychiatric history seamlessly, to show how and why bad depictions of mind doctors (especial

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Physics, the Human Adventure is the third edition of the classic text Introduction to Concepts and Theories in Physical

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Take a deep dive into the history of cinematic animation in the United States with the book that Publishers Weekly says

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One cannot understand Latin America without understanding the history of the Catholic Church in the region. Catholicism

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If history is written by the victors, can we really know Hannibal, whose portrait we see through the eyes of his Roman c

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'I'm not going with you, Aunt Dete!' Heidi cries. 'Oh yes, you are!' Dete answers. Heidi loves

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