Ian Richardson
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Da Vinci and mysteries of the Renaissance volume disc 4
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Survey of the religious ideas of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance and those who dissented from them. Also explores the role of dissent in the modern world.
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Da Vinci and mysteries of the Renaissance volume disc 6
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"The Prince" examines the life and ideas of Niccolo Machiavelli and how they were reflected in the politics and government of Florence, Spain. and England. "The warior" examines the art, methods and morality of Renaissance warfare and how they differ from modern perceptions of armed conflict.
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Da Vinci and mysteries of the Renaissance volume disc 3
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Examination of scientists of the Renaissance and how their investigations altered our view of the natural world.
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Da Vinci and mysteries of the Renaissance volume disc 5
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Traces the creation of new styles and roles for art through the lives and work of various masters including Donatello, Brunelleschi, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian and Caravaggio.
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Some say George Smiley is in innocent retirement. Others say he was sacked after the Czech scandal. But all agree that nobody ever leaves the 'Circus' without some unfinished business. Brought out of retirement to trace an enemy infiltrator in the department where he was once the prize employee, the shy and retiring master of espionage moves forwards to investigate and finds himself going backwards over very old ground.
7) From hell
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In 1888 London's Whitechapel slums, poor women like Mary Kelly and her friends walk the streets for a living. When the streetwalkers begin to be murdered one by one, it attracts the attention of Inspector Abberline, who takes a personal interest in the case, and Mary Kelly. Now he must use his psychic abilities to stop the most notorious serial killer in history--Jack the Ripper--before Mary is killed.