101 world heroes : great men and women for an unheroic age / (Record no. 4651)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 03732nam a2200169 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 1847241387 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 920.02 |
| Item number | MOW/1 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sebag, Simon |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | 101 world heroes : great men and women for an unheroic age / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Simon Sebag Montefiore with Dan Jones and Claudia Renton |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Quercus, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2007. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 320 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. (chiefly col.), portraits (chiefly col.) ; |
| Dimensions | 26 cm. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Royal marriage in the ancient Egypt -- The ark of the covenant -- Lyrics from the ashes -- Persian empires up to the ayatollahs -- Enlightment and rebirth; or; whatever next -- Sun Tzu and the art of war -- The school for wariors -- The father of biography -- Plutarch -- The greek trireme --<br/>Plato -- Cleopatra, last of the Ptolemies -- Elephants at war -- The jewish temple -- Julius Caesar, or, how to make it in ancient Rome -- Prophets and messiahs in the age of Jesus -- The emperor's wisdom -- Constantinople, city of the world's desire -- Arab, conquests, east and west -- Write quickly -- The death of Bede -- Imperial coronation -- The court of the caliphs -- The troubadours -- Richard the Lionheart -- Falconry -- A 15th-century knight -- The gates of paradise -- Henry V and English archery -- Mapping the world -- Taj Mahal and the glory of the Mughals -- Clash of the empires -- Power and powder --<br/>The Samurai tradition -- Colonizing Virginia -- The history of the telescope -- Who was the real Shakespeare? -- The execution of Charles I -- The great fire of London -- Theories of the universe -- Prince Eugene of Savoy -- Torture and the Calas case -- Johnson's dictionary --<br/>The regiment of giants -- Dangerous liaisons -- The endeavour -- Prince Potemkin -- The men who would be king -- from White Rajahs to King Zog -- America's first middle East War -- Bolivar and the liberators -- Famous corpses, lost and found -- Morning rituals of the old aristocracy -- Who was the greatest composer? -- Powder monkeys and naval guns -- Redcoats, Tommys and Victoria crosses -- The empress Josephine -- Deafness and genius -- Debutantes and dowries;or; how to marry an English Gentleman -- The life of the Bedouin -- The romantics: Keats and Shelley --Victor Hugo and Emile Zola -- Pistol duelling -- From the 'Black Marquis' to the Dame aux camelias -- Democratic dynasties -- Fathers of nations -- Assassinated presidents and prime ministers -- Soapy Sam versus Darwin's bulldog -- The real Fagin and the victorian underworld -- The adventures of the Jane Digby- Dosert to Damascus -- The charge of the light brigade -- Jenner and smallpox -- The battle of Borodino -- The Russian dancer -- The actor-managers -- Isaac Babel -- The Ballad of reading gaol -- Tiger Clemenceau -- The grandes horizontales -- Midnight's children and Nehru's democracy -- The great modernist dinner party -- Antarctic rivals: Scott versus Amundsen -- The last charge at Omdurman : Gordon and Kitchener -- The theory of relativity -- Powerful corpses, embalmed leaders -- Guernica -- American heroes: GIs and medals of honour -- Middle Eastern peacemakers -- Doctors-writers-from chekhov to Conan Doyle -- The machine that won the Second World War -- The dance of death -- The old school tie -- Righteous gentiles and resistance fighters -- Violette and Hannah: female spies and the SOE -- The cuban missile crisis -- Sotho, Xhosa and Zulu -- Polish heroes: Sobieski to the warsaw uprising -- Courageous Soviet bloc dissidents -- Great women leaders -- A lot and refound masterpiece -- Immortal heroism: Elvis to Anastasia -- Mohammed Ali has a dream -- People power -- Tank man; or; the unknown rebel |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | World History |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Heroes and Heroines |
| General subdivision | Biography |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | GN Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession number | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Koha item type |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 12/07/2016 | 920.02 MOW/1 | P02394 | 10/02/2023 | 09/03/2017 | General Books |