Magnum photographers are among the best in the world, and fortunately for us and for history, a lot of them were in New York City on Sept.11. The photo agency had brought several of them into town for a meeting the day before. Many of these highly experienced photojournalists raced to the site or to other spots in the city when they heard or saw the planes hit the towers, and our knowledge of the disaster is so much deeper for their efforts. Together, through their different personal lenses, they’ve compiled an important historical record of the attack and its effects on the city. This book is a wonderful collection of pictures

This book is about the Mississippi River and its history. It is great natural wonder, a priceless treasure bought for a fledgling America by the visionary Thomas Jefferson just 200 years ago

Le present livre reprend les questions abordees dans le volume publie en 2004 sous les auspices de la Bibliotheque Polonaise de Paris et de I'Institut d'Europe du Centre-Est de Lublin, consacre au patrimoine historique de la Res Publica de Plusieurs Nations

Цивилизацияләр - һаят кәчүрүшкә һажәтлик нәрсәкерәкләрни өз қоли, әмгиги билән ясашқа маслашқан муһитта яшиғучи адәмләрниң чоң бирләшмиси - мана шундақ шәкилләнди

The world`s first great narrative history, Herodotus`s The Histories vividly describes how the Greeks - few in number, poor, and disunited - managed to repulse a massive invasion by the powerful Persian army in the 5th century B.C.

A monumental work unsurpassed for its brilliant description, accuracy, and penetrating insights, Thucydide`s History of the Peloponnesian War is a spectacular eyewitness report of the war between Greece`s two most powerful city-states, Athens and Sparta, as it unfolded during the fifth century B.C.E

A classic of American political thought, The Federalist is a series of eighty-five essays by three authors - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay - written to curry support for the proposed new Constitution of the United States, a document that many considered too redical

One of the most influential books ever published in America, W.E.B. Du Bois`s The Souls of Black Folk is an eloquent collection of fourteen essays that discribe the life, the ambitions, the struggles, and the passions of African Americans at the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century

In what has become a landmark of American History and literature, Incidents in the kife of a slave girl recounts the incredible but true story of Harriet Jacobs, born a slave in North Carolina in 1813. Her tale gains its importance from her description, in great and painful detail, of the sexual exploitation that daily haunted her life - and the life of every other black female slave

This books contains the following topics: Constitution, presidency, Executive Branch, Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch