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The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum is a unique guide into the world of tarot. Within 22 chapters readers will find out the true meaning of each of the twenty-two tarot trumps. Every chapter is enriched with a brief editor's note describing the card's iconography and summarising interpretations. Finally, the book ends with Kabbalistic prayers and rituals, praise of Jesus Christ.

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Canada under British Rule covers the first 400 years of Canadian history, from the French discovery in the early 16th century until the establishing of the Confederation in 19th century. This book serves as an excelent

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The American Indians is posthumously published work by Henry Schoolcraft. The book is based on Schoolcraft's original notes and manuscripts which are great source of knowledge of Native American culture and tradition and authentic first hand account of south western frontier.

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Musaicum Books presents to you this meticulously edited collection of Hilaire Belloc's greatest nonfiction works, as well as his novels, stories and poems. Hilaire Belloc was a British-French writer and historian and one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. Contents: Nonfiction History The Book of the Bayeux Tapestry The Path to Rome The Old Road The French Revolution Blenheim Tourcoing Crécy Waterloo Malplaquet Poitiers First and Last Europe and the Faith Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church The Jews The Historic Thames A Change in the Cabinet A General Sketch of the European War: The First Phase The Two Maps of Europe Economics Servile State Essays Avril: Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance Hills and the Sea On Nothing and Kindred Subjects On Everything On Anything On Something This and That On The Free Press Fiction Novels & Short Stories The Mercy of Allah The Green Overcoat Poetry A Moral Alphabet Bad Child's Book of Beasts More Beasts For Worse Children The Modern Traveller Cautionary Tales for Children More Peers
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Antigua and the Antiguans in two volumes presents a full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to modern days. The history of the Antigua island can be traced from Columbus' discovery, but the first written sources date from the early 17th century when the first settlers claimed their possessions, and were disturbed by Caribs from nearby islands. The account begins with the forming of the colony and follows the development of the island to modern days. The story of Antigua and the Antiguans is interspersed with anecdotes and legends recorded from the earliest days. The book also provides an impartial view of slavery and the free labor systems.

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The History of American Indian in the Period of Reconstruction is a historical book which primarily deals with the establishment of a new relationship with the United States government and the great southern tribes. The book examines in great detail, the enormous price that the unfortunate Native Americans had to pay for having allowed themselves to become a secessionists and a soldiers. Overtures of Peace and Reconciliation The Return of the Refugees Cattle-driving in the Indian Country The Muster Out of the Indian Home Guards The Surrender of the Secessionist Indians The Peace Council at Fort Smith, September, 1865 The Harlan Bill The Freedmen of Indian Territory The Earlier of the Reconstruction Treaties of 1866 Negotiations With the Cherokees

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Xenophon war ein antiker griechischer Politiker und Schrifsteller. Er war ein Schüler des Sokrates. Xenophons Werke, insbesondere die sokratischen Schriften und die Anabasis, waren unter anderem wegen ihrer nüchtern-klaren Sprache beliebt (er wurde unter anderem von Marcus Tullius Cicero gelesen und gelobt); er bleibt auch bis heute ein wichtiges Stilvorbild für das attische Griechisch. Da Xenophon teilweise Augenzeuge der berichteten Ereignisse war, ist er außerdem eine wichtige Quelle für die griechische Geschichte des 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. und hat in neuerer Zeit wieder das Interesse der Forschung erregt. "Anabasis" behandelt hauptsächlich den sogenannten «Zug der Zehntausend», den Rückzug der griechischen Söldner, die der achämenidische Prinz Kyros der Jüngere für den Aufstand gegen seinen älteren Bruder Artaxerxes II. angeworben und nach Mesopotamien geführt hatte. Den Zug beschrieb Xenophon aus Sicht seiner persönlichen Teilnahme. "Die Kyropädie" ist eine Biographie von Kyros dem Großen. Diese Buch beschriebt die Eroberungen eines Königs sowie eine Reflexion darüber, was Menschen dazu bringt, bestimmten Herrschern bereitwillig zu gehorchen. "Sokratische Gespräche aus Xenofons denkwürdigen Nachrichten von Sokrates" – Nach der Hinrichtung von Sokrates im Jahr 399 vor Christus schufen seine Anhänger eine Auswahl von Dialogen mit ihm. Da Sokrates der Lehrer und Mentor von Xenophon war, enthüllt Xenophon selbst in diesem Buch persönliche Einzelheiten seiner Kommunikation mit Sokrates und gibt auch eine persönliche Einschätzung der Philosophie von Sokrates. "Xenofons Erinnerungen an Sokrates" ist eine Sammlung sokratischer Dialoge von Xenophon, die enthaltet eine Apologia von Sokrates, die sich sowohl von Xenophons Entschuldigung für Sokrates an die Jury als auch von Platons Entschuldigung unterscheidet, hauptsächlich darin, dass die Entschuldigungen Sokrates als Verteidiger vor der Jury darstellen. "Xenofons Gastmahl" ist ein Werk des Xenophons, der ein Festessen beschreibt, das von Kallias, einem der reichsten Menschen des antiken Griechenlands wurde. Xenophon hatte herausgefunden, dass es für Gäste vorteilhafter war, Zeit in Gesprächen als in der Unterhaltung zu verbringen. Die wichtigste Rolle dieser Arbeit spielen natürlich die Reden von Sokrates. Im Allgemeinen ist diese Buch auch Teil des Lebens von Sokrates.

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The Military Maxims of Napoleon will provide the reader with the very essence of the Napoleonic art of war. This book is a collection of maxims which directed the military operations of the greatest captain of modern times, Napoleon Bonaparte. This extraordinary collection shades light to the period of French domination over Europe, which was build on Napoleon's great military and political skills. On War is one of the most important treatises on political-military analysis and strategy ever written, and remains both controversial and influential on strategic thinking. It was written by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz, after the Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1830. Clausewitz had set about revising his accumulated manuscripts, but did not live to finish the task. On War represents his theoretical explorations. Clausewitz analyzed the conflicts of his time along the line of the categories Purpose, Goal and Means. He reasoned that the Purpose of war is one's will to be enforced, which is determined by politics. The Goal of the conflict is therefore to defeat the opponent in order to exact the Purpose. The Goal is pursued with the help of a strategy that might be brought about by various Means such as by the defeat or the elimination of opposing armed forces or by non-military Means (such as propaganda, economic sanctions and political isolation). Thus, any resource of the human body and mind and all the moral and physical powers of a state might serve as Means to achieve the set goal.

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Punch's History of Modern England is a unique review of the English customs, traditions, education, nobility, courts, fashion, culture, and personalities entirely based on the articles from Punch, the British satirical journal. As the author mentions in the preface, «The Files of Punch have been generally admitted to be a valuable mine of information of the manners, customs and fashions f the Victorian age.» This is one of the best examples of Victorian-era humor prose and gives a unique insight into the history of England outside political matters.

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Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, during the years 1799-1804 is a three-volume account of an expedition taken from Spain to South America by naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland. The authors visited Venezuela, Cuba, Andes, Mexico and USA where they collected the material and made extensive notes. Their joint effort to record a memoir of this great expedition is quite interesting and valuable because it contain specific documentation of their scientific observations, but it also presents an intriguing and romantic work with many poetic descriptions of nature and the people who lived in the areas he visited.

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