Laborie Leonard Laborie & Richez Sebastien Richez 
Attention, fragile ! [PDF ebook] 
Economie et politique de la messagerie postale en France, XIXe-XXe siecle

This volume examines the connection between culture and defence by providing an inside look at Brazil’s aerospace strategies. Brazil is becoming increasingly important geopolitically, and several stu …

With the help of over 100 illustrations, many of them little known, Martin Henig shows that the art produced in Britannia–particularly in the golden age of Late Antiquity–rivals that of other provi …

This illustrated work is intended to acquaint readers with the early maps produced in both Europe and the rest of the world, and to tell us something of their development, their makers and printers, …

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The period 1829-1856 witnessed the introduction of the »New Police» to Great Britain and Ireland. Via a series of key legislative acts, traditional mechanisms of policing were abolished and new, su …

This charming book The Many Worlds of Sarala Devi and The Tagores and Sartorial Styles, as the titles suggest, contain two separate but related writings on the Tagores. The Tagores were a pre-eminent …

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The Spanish Civil War was fought on land and at sea but also in an age of great interest in air warfare and the rapid development of warplanes. The war in Spain came a turning point in the developmen …