Free Download The Power and Pains of Polysemy: Maritime Trade, Averages, and Institutional Development in the Low Countries (15th-16th Centuries) (Brill's Studies in Maritime History) by Gijs Dreijer
English | February 24, 2023 | ISBN: 9004540342 | True PDF | 324 pages | 84.8 MB
As the fall-out of the Ever Given Suez canal blockage shows, an ancient instrument like General Average (GA) is still highly relevant in redistributing risks and costs in maritime trade. However, bar marine insurance, not much is known about the development of tools of maritime risk management like GA, which redistributes extraordinary costs incurred for the common safety of maritime ventures.

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Fit Nation
by Petrzela, Natalia Mehlman;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 022665110X | 460 pages | True PDF | 15.37 MB

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English | ASIN: B0B5FJ744R | 2022 | 14 hours and 50 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 398 MB
The author presents some of history's boldest, baddest, and bawdiest royals. The bad seeds on the family trees of the most powerful royal houses of Europe often became the most rotten of apples: über-violent autocrats Vlad the Impaler and Ivan the Terrible literally reigned in blood. Lettice Knollys strove to mimic the appearance of her cousin Elizabeth I and even stole her man. And Pauline Bonaparte scandalized her brother Napoleon by having a golden goblet fashioned in the shape of her breast. Chock-full of shocking scenes, titillating tales, and wildly wicked nobles, Royal Pains is a rollicking compendium of the most infamous, capricious, and insatiable bluebloods of Europe.

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