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The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs


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English | June 6, 2006 | ISBN: 0801883490, 1421425653 | True EPUB | 328 pages | 3.5 MB
Explores the scientific and social factors that continue to influence the public’s lingering uncertainty over how disease can―and cannot―be spread.

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Visionary Leadership A Guidebook for 21st Century Organizations and Entrepreneurial Teams


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English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 322 Pages | ISBN : 3031677242 | 16.2 MB
This book provides managers and leaders with a conceptual framework for visionary leadership to help them rediscover their vision in a more meaningful way with long-lasting results. It guides managers and leaders through four overlapping phases of the vision development and realization cycle at different levels and during various life stages. It teaches leaders to embrace employees as visionary partners in the journey to build a better organization.

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The Latino Century How America’s Largest Minority Is Transforming Democracy


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English | June 18, 2024 | ISBN: 1668015269 | 272 pages | PDF | 4.44 Mb
An insightful investigation of how and why the two major political parties have failed to appeal to the Latino vote-the largest ethnic voting group in the country-and the impact it will have on American democracy and politics for decades to come.

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The Hamlyn Pictorial History of the 20th Century


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1995 | 592 Pages | ISBN: 0600587762 | DJVU | 70 MB
This wide-ranging history of the 20th century offers a survey of the century’s events and achievements. With the aid of illustrations, it covers the two world wars, international political and economic changes, and the famous personalities who have occupied the world stage in the arts and sciences.

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Islamic Art in the 19th Century Tradition, Innovation, And Eclecticism


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English | ISBN: 9004144420 | 2005 | 446 pages | PDF | 72 MB
This collection of essays provides a timely reassessment of nineteenth-century Islamic art and architecture. The essays demonstrate that the arts of that era were vibrant and diverse, making ingenious use of native traditions and materials or adopting imported conventions and new technologies. However, traditionalists, revivalists and modernists all referred in one way or another to an Islamic heritage, whether to reinvent, revive or reject it.

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A Life in the American Century


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English | ISBN: 1509560688 | 2024 | 254 pages | PDF | 19 MB
For the past eight decades, we have lived in "the American Century" – a period during which the US has enjoyed unrivalled power – be it political, economic or military – on the global stage. Born on the cusp of this new era, Joseph S. Nye Jr. has spent a lifetime illuminating our understanding of the changing contours of America power and world affairs. His many books on the nature of power and political leadership have rightly earned him his reputation as one of the most influential international relations scholars in the world today.

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A Distant Mirror The Calamitous 14th Century


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English | July 12, 1987 | ISBN: 0345349571 | 784 pages | PDF | 21 Mb
A "marvelous history"* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns of August

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The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy


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English | ISBN: 0415429587 | 2008 | 1040 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The twentieth century was one of the most significant and exciting periods ever witnessed in philosophy, characterized by intellectual change and development on a massive scale. The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy is an outstanding authoritative survey and assessment of the century as a whole. Featuring twenty-two chapters written by leading international scholars, this collection is divided into five clear parts and presents a comprehensive picture of the period for the first time:

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