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Alexandria : city of memory
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ISBN: 9789774243875 9774243870 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cairo, Egypt : American University in Cairo Press,

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Alexandria
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ISBN: 9774243390 Year: 1993 Publisher: Cairo : The American University in Cairo Press,

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The tragedy of the Templars : the rise and fall of the Crusader states
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ISBN: 9781846684517 184668451X Year: 2014 Publisher: London Profile Books

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In 1187, nearly a century after the victorious First Crusade, Saladin captured Jerusalem. The Templars, headquartered on the Temple Mount, were driven from the city along with the Frankish population. The fall of Jerusalem was a turning point, the start of a narrative of desperate struggle and relentless loss. In little more than a century Acre would be destroyed, the Franks driven from Outremer, and the Templars themselves, reviled and disgraced, would face their final immolation. Michael Haag's new book explores the rise and fall of the Templars against the backdrop of the Crusader ideal and their settlement venture in Outremer. Haag argues that the Crusader States were a rare period when the population of Palestine had something approaching local rule, representing local interests - and the fall of Jerusalem to Saladin was a disaster. He contends that the Templars, as defenders of the Crusader States, were made scapegoats for a Europe whose newfound nationalism caused it to withdraw support for the Crusader venture. Throughout, he charts the Templars' rise and fall in gripping narrative, with their beliefs and actions set in the context of their time.


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The Durrells of Corfu.
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ISBN: 1782833307 Year: 2017 Publisher: London : Profile Books,

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The Durrell family are immortalized in Gerald Durrell's "My Family and Other Animals", but what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first place-- and what happened to them after they left? The real story of the Durrells is as surprising and fascinating as anything in Gerry's books, and Michael Haag, with his first hand knowledge of the family, is the ideal narrator, drawing on diaries, letters and unpublished autobiographical fragments. [This book] describes the family's upbringing in India and the crisis that brought them to England and then Greece. It recalls the genuine characters they encountered on Corfu-- Theodore the biologist, the taxi driver Spiro Halikiopoulos and the prisoner Kosti-- as well as the visit of American writer Henry Miller. And Haag has unearthed the story of how the Durrells left Corfu, including Margo's and Larry's last-minute escapes before the war. An extended epilogue looks at the emergence of Larry as a work famous novelist, and Gerry as a naturalist and champion of endangered species, as well as the lives of the rest of the family, their friends and other animals.

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Natural history. --- Families. --- Homes.


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Shooting incident reconstruction
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ISBN: 1283114720 9786613114723 0123822424 0123822416 9780123822413 9780123822420 Year: 2011 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press,

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Forensic scientists, law enforcement, and crime scene investigators are often tasked with reconstruction of events based on crime scene evidence, and the subsequent analysis of that evidence. The use and misuse of firearms to perpetrate crimes from theft to murder necessitates numerous invitations to reconstruct shooting incidents. The discharge of firearms and the behavior of projectiles create many forms of physical evidence that, through proper testing and interpretation by a skilled forensic scientist, can establish what did and what did not occur. This book is generated from the authors'


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Shooting incident reconstruction
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ISBN: 0128193964 0128193972 9780128193969 9780128193976 Year: 2021 Publisher: London, United Kingdom Academic Press

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Shooting incident reconstruction
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ISBN: 9780128193969 0128193964 9780128193976 0128193972 Year: 2021 Publisher: London : Elsevier,

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Shooting incident reconstruction
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ISBN: 9780123822413 0123822416 9780123822420 0123822424 Year: 2011 Publisher: Burlington, MA Academic Press

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Forensic scientists, law enforcement, and crime scene investigators are often tasked with reconstruction of events based on crime scene evidence, and the subsequent analysis of that evidence. The use and misuse of firearms to perpetrate crimes from theft to murder necessitates numerous invitations to reconstruct shooting incidents. The discharge of firearms and the behavior of projectiles create many forms of physical evidence that, through proper testing and interpretation by a skilled forensic scientist, can establish what did and what did not occur. This book is generated from the authors' numerous years of conducting courses and seminars on the subject of shooting incident reconstruction. It seeks to thoroughly address matters from simple to complex in providing the reader an explanation of the factors surrounding ballistics, trajectory, and shooting scenes. The ultimate objectives of this unique book are to assist investigators, crime scene analysts, pathologists, ballistics experts, and lawyers to understand the terminology, science, and factors involved in reconstructing shooting incident events to solve forensic cases. The book will cover the full range of related topics including the range from which a firearm was discharged, the sequence of shots in a multiple discharge shooting incident, the position of a firearm at the moment of discharge, the position of a victim at the moment of impact, the probable flight path of a projectile, the manner in which a firearm was discharged and much more. - Written by the most well-respected shooting scene and ballistics experts in the world - Contains over 200 full-color diagrams and photographs that support and illustrate key concepts - Case studies illustrate real-world application of technical concepts.

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The rough guide to the Da Vinci code
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ISBN: 9781843535171 1843535173 Year: 2004 Publisher: London Rough Guides

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Les Templiers : de la légende à l'histoire
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ISBN: 9782875151841 Year: 2013 Publisher: Bruxelles Ixelles éditions

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