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Rubens's House: Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard XXII.2The house that Rubens built a few years after his return to Antwerp from Italy, and where he lived to the end of his life, was for the most part lost during the course of alterations carried out over the years. Two original parts...
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Royal Navy Grand Fleet 1914-18: Britain's Last Supreme Naval FleetWorld War I was Britain's last moment as the world's naval superpower, and its Grand Fleet was then the most powerful ever seen. Fully illustrated, this explores its fighting power. At the start of World War I, the Royal Navy's forces were amalgamated into...
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Rome: Roman Empire: Ancient Rome & The Rise & Fall#1 Best Seller - Learn the Epic Story of the Roman Empire!Are you fascinated by Ancient Rome? Would you like to know more about Caesar, Augustus, and Constantine? Is it time to dig in and really get to know this culture that shaped the...
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Roman Soldier Vs Dacian Warrior: Dacian Wars AD 85-106Fully illustrated, this book assesses the Roman and Dacian fighting men who clashed in three bloody encounters during the Dacian Wars of AD 85-106. While the Roman emperor Trajan's two campaigns against the Dacian people (AD 101-02 and 105-06) are widely known, the earlier...
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RockfordNestled in one of nature's beauty spots and spread out on both banks of Rock River, Rockford has grown and developed to become one of the principal cities of the state of Illinois and the Midwest. With its proliferation of trees, well-kept neighborhoods, and...
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Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam: Volume 2: Continuity and Change. the Plurality of Eschatological RepresentationRoads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam offers a multi-disciplinary study of Muslim thinking about paradise, death, apocalypse, and the hereafter. It focuses on eschatological concepts in the Quran and its exegesis, Sunni and Shi'i traditions, Islamic theology, philosophy, mysticism,...
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Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam: Volume 1: Foundations and Formation of a Tradition. Reflections on the HereafteRoads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam offers a multi-disciplinary study of Muslim thinking about paradise, death, apocalypse, and the hereafter. It focuses on eschatological concepts in the Quran and its exegesis, Sunni and Shi'i traditions, Islamic theology, philosophy, mysticism,...
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Roadside Memories: Beloved and Bizarre Attractions from North America's PastTHESE ARE STORIES OF CREATIVE BRAVERY AND A CHRONICLE OF WHAT CAN BE ACHIEVED WHEN WE INSIST OUR DREAMS SHOULD BECOME REALITYRoadside Memories presents fascinating stories of daring entrepreneurs driven to create unforgettable experiences for North American travelers. These pioneers transported visitors to new...
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Ritual Voices of Revelation: The Origin Narratives of the Rotenese of Eastern IndonesiaThis is a study of a collection of oral compositions of the Rotenese of eastern Indonesia. Recited in semantic parallelism, these compositions require a strict pairing of all words to produce correspondingly ordered verses. These narrative verses create an elevated discourse-a 'scriptural voice'-intended to...
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Risk, Emotions, and Hospitality in the Christianization of the Baltic Rim, 1000-1300What anxieties did medieval missionaries and crusaders face and what role did the sense of risk play in their community-building? To what extent did crusaders and Christian colonists empathize with the local populations they set out to conquer? Who were the hosts and who...
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Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War IIHighly acclaimed and thoroughly updated, Return to Diversity, Fourth Edition, provides a comprehensive political history of East Central Europe from World War II to the present. An engaging and straightforward political narrative, the book is organized chronologically in a country-by-country format that students can...
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Religious Transformations in New Communities of Interpretation in Europe (1350-1570): Bridging the Historiographical DividesThis volume brings together medievalist and early modernist specialists, whose research fields are traditionally divided by the jubilee year of 1500, in order to concentrate on the role of the laity (and those in holy orders) in the religious transformations characterizing the 'long fifteenth...
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Religious Life in Late Classical and Hellenistic RhodesThe ancient state of Rhodes was famous for many things in the Hellenistic period; it emerged as an economic powerhouse thanks to its strategic position on maritime trade routes, its status further bolstered by its proud independence in an era of great kings, and...
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Rebel with a Cause: The Daring Adventure of Dicey Langston, Girl Spy of the American RevolutionBloody Bill is coming The American Revolution is raging, and 14-year-old Dicey Langston overhears that a fierce Loyalist leader is heading for the Patriot camp where her brothers are secretly based. This gripping narrative tells the surprising true story of a brave young girl...
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Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and MonstersTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERQueer as Folklore takes readers across centuries and continents to reveal the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter investigates the queer history of different mythic and...
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Queen Victoria: The biography of a women that ruled the British Empire, her Throne and LegacyStep into the captivating world of Queen Victoria, a monarch whose reign defined an entire era-the Victorian era. From her ascension to the throne on June 20, 1837, until her passing on January 22, 1901, Victoria's 63-year and 216-day rule surpassed that of any...
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Queens of Islam: The Muslim World's Historic Women RulersAuthor: Tom VerdePublisher: Olive Branch PressPublished: 04/22/2025Pages: 248Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781623717940About the AuthorTom Verde is a writer and journalist. He holds a Master's Degree in Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations from Hartford Seminary. He has lived and traveled in the Middle East, North Africa,...
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Pushing Sacred Boundaries in Early Judaism and the Ancient Mediterranean: Essays in Honor of Jodi MagnessThis volume celebrates Jodi Magness's long and illustrious career as a scholar of archaeology, early Judaism, and the ancient Mediterranean world. It brings together a series of studies on history, archaeology, and society in Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic Palestine, Qumran and the Dead Sea...
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Public Opinion and Political Contest in Late Medieval Paris: The Parisian Bourgeois and His Community, 1400-1450Public Opinion and Political Contest presents an important historiographical intervention regarding the emergence of larger political publics during the fifteenth century, analysing political interaction and public opinion in medieval Europe's largest city through the lens of the only continuous narrative source compiled in Paris...
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Practicing Interdisciplinarity: A Bottom-Up ApproachIn interdisciplinary projects and research collaborations, participants face multiple demands. However, these expectations encounter a reality that is characterized by time pressure, high demands in one's own discipline, and often increasingly administrative tasks. What can meaningful interdisciplinary work look like in an academic environment?...
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