Оглавление: “...The red phone -- The redneck epidemiologist -- In Mann Gulch -- The L6 -- PART 3. The bug in the system -- Optics -- Epilogue: The sin of omission....”

Оглавление: “...Introduction -- The gap instinct -- The negativity instinct -- The straight line instinct -- The fear instinct -- The size instinct -- The generalization instinct -- The destiny instinct -- The single perspective instinct -- The blame instinct -- The urgency instinct -- Factfulness in practice -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix 1: How did your country do? -- Notes -- Index....”

Предметы: “...Medicine United States History 20th century....”
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Оглавление: “...Prehistory: Before 3000 BCE -- The Ancient world: 3000 BCE-500 CE -- The Medieval world: 500-1450 -- The age of exploration: 1450-1750 -- The age of revolution: 1750-1914 -- The modern world: after 1914....”

“...Зууны мэдээ сонин. 1999,03,02 №39, 2-р тал....”

Оглавление: “...Ancient civilizations, 6000 BCE-500 CE --...”
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Оглавление: “...Bodyguards and companions -- The testing of Perdiccas -- The Athenians' last stand (I) -- Resistance, rebellion, reconquest -- The Athenians' last stand (II) -- A death on the Nile -- The fortunes of Eumenes -- The war comes home -- Duels to the death -- The closing of the tombs....”

Оглавление: “...Childhood & youth: becoming a knight -- Adulthood: a knight in service -- Middle age: a lord of the realm -- Old age: England's great magnate -- Epilogue....”
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Оглавление: “...We shall return -- The vanishing -- The search begins -- Buried treasure -- Blank spots on the map -- The disciple -- Freeze-dried icecream and adrenaline socks -- Into the Amazon -- The secret papers -- The green hell -- Dead Horse Camp -- In the hands of the gods -- Ransom -- The case for Z -- El Dorado -- The locked box -- The whole world is mad -- A scientific obsession -- An unexpected clue -- Have no fear -- The last eyewitness -- Dead or alive -- The colonel's bones -- The other world -- Z....”
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Предметы: “...Nationalism Puerto Rico History 20th century....”

Оглавление: “...v. 1. Visions of glory, 1874-1932 -- v. 2. Alone, 1932-1940 -- v. 3. ...”

Оглавление: “...-- Will artificial intelligence outsmart us? -- How do we shape the future? -- Afterword / Lucy Hawking....”

Оглавление: “...3.5 MYA-3000 BCE: before history began -- 3000 BCE-700 BCE: really ancient history -- 700 BCE-500 CE: much more civilized -- 500-1450: the marvelous Middle Ages -- 1450-1750: exploring and reforming -- 1750-1850: time for change -- 1850-1945: empires and world wars -- 1945-present: fast forward....”
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Предметы: “...Drinking of alcoholic beverages United States History 20th century....”
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Оглавление: “...How power corrupts -- 12. What the Enlightenment got wrong -- Part 4. ...”

Оглавление: “...General Jackson's Protégé -- Gone to Texas -- -- "Come and Take It" -- Concepción -- A Slow Siege at the Alamo -- The Defenders -- Twelve Days of Uncertainty -- The Massacre -- Bring Out the Dead -- Houston Hears the News -- Fort Defiance -- The Texian Exodus -- An Army Assembles -- The Battle at San Jacinto -- "Remember the Alamo!" ...”

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Оглавление: “...Prologue: the triumph of the Roman Republic -- The beasts of Italy -- The stepchildren of Rome -- Daggers in the forum -- A city for sale -- The spoils of victory -- The golden earring -- Marius's mules -- The third founder of Rome -- Italia -- The ruins of Carthage -- The spiked boots -- Civil War -- Dictator for life....”

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Оглавление: “...Dr. Mae Jemison -- Bessie Coleman -- Sojourner Truth -- Ida B. ...”