Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial (Repost)

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Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial (Repost)

Penny Colman, "Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial"
English | ISBN: 0805050663 | edition 1997 | EPUB | 196 pages | 3,3 mb

Assorted Prose

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Assorted Prose

John Updike, "Assorted Prose"
English | ISBN: 0812983777 | edition 2012 | EPUB | 225 pages | 2 mb

Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence (Repost)

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Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence (Repost)

Karen Armstrong, "Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence"
English | ISBN: 0307957047 | edition 2014 | EPUB | 501 pages | 2,6 mb

First You Build a Cloud: And Other Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life (Repost)

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First You Build a Cloud: And Other Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life (Repost)

K. C. Cole, "First You Build a Cloud: And Other Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life"
English | ISBN: 0156006464 | edition 1999 | EPUB | 166 pages | 3,3 mb

A Curious History of Food and Drink (Repost)

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A Curious History of Food and Drink (Repost)

Ian Crofton, "A Curious History of Food and Drink"
English | ISBN: 162365825X | edition 2014 | EPUB | 161 pages | 25,3 mb

Dirk Bartel, "Simulation von Tribosystemen: Grundlagen und Anwendungen" (Repost)

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Dirk Bartel, "Simulation von Tribosystemen: Grundlagen und Anwendungen" (Repost)

Dirk Bartel, "Simulation von Tribosystemen: Grundlagen und Anwendungen"
Publisher: Vie weg+Te ubner Verlag | ISBN: 3834812412 | edition 2010 | PDF | 179 pages | 2,68 mb

Um Tribosysteme zeit- und kostengünstig auslegen zu können, wird die Simulation künftig einen immer höheren Stellenwert einnehmen.
Dirk Bartel erläutert wichtige theoretische Grundlagen zur Simulation von geschmierten und trockenlaufenden Tribosystemen.

Alex Berenson, "The Midnight House"

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Alex Berenson, "The Midnight House"

Alex Berenson, "The Midnight House"
Publisher: Jove | ISBN: 0515148954 | edition 2011 | PDF | 291 pages | 1,26 mb

When two former covert agents are gunned down, John Wells learns that the victims were part of an interrogation team that operated out of a secret base called the Midnight House, where they extracted information from the toughest jihadis. Wells must find out who is hunting and killing them. But the trail of blood leads him to a place he couldn't have imagined.

Raymond Chandler, "The Long Goodbye" (Repost)

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Raymond Chandler, "The Long Goodbye" (Repost)

Raymond Chandler, "The Long Goodbye"
Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: 0394757688 | edition 1988 | PDF | 384 pages | 1,39 mb

Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he''s divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.

"Remembering Socrates: Philosophical Essays"

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"Remembering Socrates: Philosophical Essays"

Lindsay Judson, Vassilis Karasmanis, "Remembering Socrates: Philosophical Essays"
Publisher: Oxford University Press | ISBN: 0199558124 | edition 2009 | PDF | 213 pages | 2,42 mb

Lindsay Judson and Vassilis Karasmanis present a selection of philosophical papers by an outstanding international team of scholars, assessing the legacy and continuing relevance of Socrates' thought 2,400 years after his death. Socrates' life, philosophical activity, and death not only had a formative effect on his follower Plato, and thus indirectly on almost the whole course of Greek philosophy, but also represented a moral and philosophical ideal which has been the inspiration, or the despair, of many philosophers and other thinkers down to the present day.

Raymond Chandler, "The Lady in the Lake" (Repost)

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Raymond Chandler, "The Lady in the Lake" (Repost)

Raymond Chandler, "The Lady in the Lake"
Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: 0394758250 | edition 1998 | PDF | 137 pages | 1,01 mb

A couple of missing wives—one a rich man''s and one a poor man''s—become the objects of Marlowe''s investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be dead. Marlowe''s not sure he cares about either one, but he''s not paid to care.

W. V. Harris, "The Monetary Systems of the Greeks and Romans" (Repost)

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W. V. Harris, "The Monetary Systems of the Greeks and Romans" (Repost)

W. V. Harris, "The Monetary Systems of the Greeks and Romans"
Publisher: Oxford University Press | ISBN: 0199233357 | edition 2008 | PDF | 345 pages | 1,96 mb

Most people have some idea what Greeks and Romans coins looked like, but few know how complex Greek and Roman monetary systems eventually became. The contributors to this volume are numismatists, ancient historians, and economists intent on investigating how these systems worked and how they both did and did not resemble a modern monetary system.

David Wolfsdorf, "Trials of Reason: Plato and the Crafting of Philosophy"

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David Wolfsdorf, "Trials of Reason: Plato and the Crafting of Philosophy"

David Wolfsdorf, "Trials of Reason: Plato and the Crafting of Philosophy"
Publisher: Oxford University Press | ISBN: 0195327322 | edition 2008 | PDF | 296 pages | 1,32 mb

Scholarship on Plato's dialogues persistently divides its focus between the dramatic or literary and the philosophical or argumentative dimensions of the texts. But this hermeneutic division of labor is naïve, for Plato's arguments are embedded in dramatic dialogues and developed through complex, largely informal exchanges between literary characters. Consequently, it is questionable how readers can even attribute arguments and theses to the author himself.

"Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints (Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics)"

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"Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints (Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics)"

Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Louis Neal Irwin, "Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints (Advances in Astrobiology and Biogeophysics)"
Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 3540768165 | edition 2008 | PDF | 260 pages | 5,46 mb

Examines each of these parameters in crucial depth and makes the argument that life forms we would recognize may be more common in our solar system than many assume.

Ian Falk, Ruth Wallace, Marthen L. Ndoen, "Managing Biosecurity Across Borders"

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Ian Falk, Ruth Wallace, Marthen L. Ndoen, "Managing Biosecurity Across Borders"

Ian Falk, Ruth Wallace, Marthen L. Ndoen, "Managing Biosecurity Across Borders"
Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 9400714114 | edition 2011 | PDF | 327 pages | 2,79 mb

Managing biosecurity is everybody’s business. The book’s multi-site, multi-sectoral research contributes to an holistic, evidence-based strategy for managing plant biosecurity in complex contexts. The intent is to provide a starting point for all stakeholders in the biosecurity endeavor – policy personnel at all levels of governance, planners and regional developers, non-government organizations, community groups and individuals – to plan localized strategies that ‘fit’ national needs and constraints and the way people live their lives.

Doreen Tovey, "Double Trouble" (Repost)

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Doreen Tovey, "Double Trouble" (Repost)

Doreen Tovey, "Double Trouble"
Publisher: Summersdale | ISBN: 1840245697 | edition 2007 | PDF | 160 pages | 1,45 mb

The behavior of a Siamese cat is never predictable, as all owners well know. The calm of the Tovey household is once again torn to shreds when Doreen's cat Seeley instantly loathes the new arrival, Shebalu, and she—all five inches of her—loathes him back. And then, even worse, they become firm friends, and team up to create havoc. The characters of Cats in the Belfry return with a vengeance: Father Adams, Miss Wellington, and Annabel the donkey. But Seeley and Shebalu steal the show with their loveable mischief, and their antics will bring tears of laughter.