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Art Treasures of Russia by Mikhail Vladimirovich Alpatov
Art Treasures of Russia by Mikhail Vladimirovich Alpatov
A beautiful copy of the highly sought-after “Art Treasures of Russia” in good condition. Full color plates are vivid and intact. This astounding compendium of Eastern Orthodox icons and religious paintings is a must-have for church historians, collectors and art aficionados alike. This book regularly sells for $500 or more.
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Artificial Intelligence: 101 Things You Must Know Today About Our Future
Artificial Intelligence: 101 Things You Must Know Today About Our Future
by Lasse RouhiainenDid you know that artificial intelligence is changing our world faster than we can imagine? It will impact every area of our lives.And this is happening whether we like it or not. Artificial intelligence will help us do almost everything better, faster and cheaper, and it will profoundly change industries such as transportation, tourism, healthcare, education, retail, agriculture, finance, sales and marketing. In fact, AI will dramatically change our entire society.You might have heard that many jobs will be replaced by automation and robots, but did you also know that at the same time a huge number of new jobs will be created by AI? This book covers many fascinating and timely topics related to artificial intelligence.
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Relativity for Scientists and Engineers (Dover Books on Physics) Illustrated Edition by Ray Skinner
BooksRelativity for Scientists and Engineers (Dover Books on Physics) Illustrated Edition by Ray Skinner
Relativity for Scientists and Engineers by Ray Skinner
An ideal choice for undergraduate students of science and engineering Presents a thorough exploration of the basic concepts of relativity. The treatment provides more than the typical coverage of introductory texts, and it offers maximum flexibility since many sections may be used independently, in altered order, or omitted altogether. Numerous problems — most with hints and answers — make this volume ideal for supplementary reading and self-study.
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The End: The Fall of the Political Class and break through to the future
You see it everywhere. Congress can’t pass bills. Presidents can’t stop terror. Mayors can’t stop murder. Police can’t stop crime. The news has broken with reality. Nations can’t steer out of ruinous spending.
Why? Because politics – the use of centralized coercion to control society – is obsolete. It’s archaic. The rise of technology has passed it by. Politicians today can no more repair society than they can use a stone ax to fix the logic boards in their smart phones.
In The End: The Fall of the Political Class, Chas Holloway explains that while the political class falls, there’s a revolutionary new way to understand and organize society.
It’s called “Open Source Government.”
This startling new conceptual map will take hold of your old social paradigms and explode them.
In clear, non-technical language, Holloway explains the science behind this astonishing breakthrough. Its revolutionary nature. Its logical framework. Its fundamental concepts. It’s novel, new social nets that are already changing everything about how people connect.
Get ready for a mind expanding experience.
The waters are raging.
The crash of the political system is imminent.SKU: n/a -
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The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923 by Sean McMeekin SIGNED
BooksThe Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923 by Sean McMeekin SIGNED
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923 – SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
by Sean McMeekin
An astonishing retelling of twentieth-century history from the Ottoman perspective, delivering profound new insights into World War I and the contemporary Middle East
Between 1911 and 1922, a series of wars would engulf the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, in which the central conflict, of course, is World War I—a story we think we know well. As Sean McMeekin shows us in this revelatory new history of what he calls the “wars of the Ottoman succession,” we know far less than we think.
The Ottoman Endgame brings to light the entire strategic narrative that led to an unstable new order in postwar Middle East—much of which is still felt today. The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East draws from McMeekin’s years of groundbreaking research in newly opened Ottoman and Russian archives. With great storytelling flair, McMeekin makes new the epic stories we know from the Ottoman front, from Gallipoli to the exploits of Lawrence in Arabia, and introduces a vast range of new stories to Western readers. His accounts of the lead-up to World War I and the Ottoman Empire’s central role in the war itself offers an entirely new and deeper vision of the conflict. Harnessing not only Ottoman and Russian but also British, German, French, American, and Austro-Hungarian sources, the result is a truly pioneering work of scholarship that gives full justice to a multitiered war involving many belligerents.
McMeekin also brilliantly reconceives our inherited Anglo-French understanding of the war’s outcome and the collapse of the empire that followed. The book chronicles the emergence of modern Turkey and the carve-up of the rest of the Ottoman Empire as it has never been told before, offering a new perspective on such issues as the ethno-religious bloodletting and forced population transfers which attended the breakup of empire, the Balfour Declaration, the toppling of the caliphate, and the partition of Iraq and Syria—bringing the contemporary consequences into clear focus.
Every so often, a work of history completely reshapes our understanding of a subject of enormous historical and contemporary importance. The Ottoman Endgame is such a book, an instantly definitive and thrilling example of narrative history as high art.
SKU: 0621-2.82-DRA305-TDW-4420