Soul of Saul

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Richard Stites

Stites explores the ideals behind the revolution, including drawing parallels between philosophies of imperial Russia's intelligentsia class and how the Bolsheviks molded their ideas during the revolution.

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Karen Arms

Our environmental problems are huge, and they require careful attention and action. The twenty-first century will be a crucial time in human history, a time when we must find solutions that allow people on all parts of our planet to live in a clean, healthy environment and have the resources they need for a good life. - p. 5.

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Dominic Phelan

<p><i>Cold War Space Sleuths</i> reads like a Cold War espionage novel, but the reality of the story about the dedicated amateur observers bent on finding out about Soviet spaceflight during the Cold War is just as exciting and absorbing. Told in the sleuth's own words, each chapter unfolds a piece of the hidden history of what was happening behind the Iron Curtain.</p><p>Coming from all over the world, including Russia itself, the amateur spies give first-hand accounts of often-forgotten aspects of the Cold War space race. Amongst others, their stories include:</p><p>- the history of the Kettering Group;<br>- looking inside the Russian archives;<br>- unsolved mysteries, such as why cosmonauts were airbrushed out of the official archives;<br>- reading between the lines of the Soviet media;<br>- the impact of Gorbachev's g<i>lasnost</i> on sleuthing;<br>- new research, including chapters by James Oberg, Asif Siddiqi, and Bart Hendrickx.</p>

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Pascal Richet

A history of how the Earth's age was determined by the ancient Greeks (eternal) through the Judaeo-Christian tradition (a handful of millennia) to particle physics (4.5 billion years).