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(0)Robert Marshall
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English
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The greatest conquest in history
Genghis Khan left an empire more than twice the size of Alexander's: his successors went on to conquer and govern an area stretching from Korea to the River Danube. How did a band of nomadic herdsmen achieve so much, so fast?
Despite these stunning achievements, many writers dismiss the Mongols as just ferocious barbarians. This bestselling book sets the record straight. The epic starts in 1206 - when Genghis became...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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The story of one of the most astonishing episodes of espionage and deception of World War Two.
This is the tale of two men: Claude Dansey, deputy head of MI6, and double agent Henri Dericourt, who was planted with the rival wartime secret service – SOE – at Dansey's instructions. From there began a terrifying trail of destruction.
After making contact with Dansey in 1942, Dericourt was recruited to SOE as the man desperately needed to organize...
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The History Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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The Doncaster Rovers Miscellany is jam-packed with facts, stats, trivia, stories, and legends. Featured here are an abundance of stories about the club from its inception in 1879 to the present day. Here you will find player feats, individual records, and plenty of weird and wonderful tales, quotes ranging from the profound to the downright bizarre, and cult heroes from yesteryear--a book no true Rovers fan should be without.
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Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The greatest conquest in history Genghis Khan left an empire more than twice the size of Alexander's: his successors went on to conquer and govern an area stretching from Korea to the River Danube. How did a band of nomadic herdsmen achieve so much, so fast? Despite these stunning achievements, many writers dismiss the Mongols as just ferocious barbarians. This bestselling book sets the record straight. The epic starts in 1206 - when Genghis became...
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English
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An extraordinary true story of survival and courage through the Holocaust.
Poland, 1943. It was the last refuge of the desperate, a warren of sewers underneath their city. Above, as the Nazis destroyed the ghetto of the city of Lvov, a small band of Jews escaped into a grim network of tunnels, living for fourteen months with the city's waste, the sudden floods, the fumes and the damp, the rats, the darkness, and the despair.
Their only support was...
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University of Michigan Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The origins of this study of rural Japanese decision making lie in my nearly simultaneous discoveries of Niwa Fumio’s fine novel of rural passion and intrigue, The Buddha Tree, and the transactional analysis of social relations and organizations, or, as it is sometimes called, social exchange theory, which was made especially prominent in political science by Olson (1956), in sociology by Blau (1964), and in anthropology by Barth (1966). Thus, this...
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English
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The failure of ninth grade students at the state and national level is astronomical and the percentage of students who are retained in the grade or drop out of school as a result has not changed significantly in the past ten years. Freshman year in high school is truly a pivotal year in the lives of many students and a few cost-effective and simple interventions can be implemented to change the current trends of high failure and graduation rate deficits....