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After the First World War, the improvement of working and living conditions in agriculture became an international issue for the first time. Led by the International Labour Organization and related organizations, as well as overlapping expert networks, agrarian interest...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-19
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The idea that a child is intellectually 'gifted' has...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-13
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Previous scholarship on fascism in Slovakia has focused on either state actors operating from urban centres or the mechanisms of violence on a grassroots level - with the result being that the Holocaust is seen as primarily a top-down and state-centred process.
In...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-10
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After the First World War, the improvement of working and living conditions in agriculture became an international issue for the first time. Led by the International Labour Organization and related organizations, as well as overlapping expert networks, agrarian interest...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-03
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The idea that a child is intellectually 'gifted' has...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-01-28
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Annemarie Schwarzenbach was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable women, possibly the greatest sexual and political radical of the 1930s. But until now she’s been largely ignored. Born to a wealthy family in Switzerland, as a teenager she rebelled against her...
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Polity
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2025-01-23
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The transnational anti-apartheid sport boycott of South Africa represented the most prominent, extended, and controversial anti-racism campaign in the history of sport. Spearheaded by prominent British religious and anti-colonial figures and exiled South Africans,...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-12-11
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The transnational anti-apartheid sport boycott of South Africa represented the most prominent, extended, and controversial anti-racism campaign in the history of sport. Spearheaded by prominent British religious and anti-colonial figures and exiled South Africans,...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-11-25
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'A chilling look at Nazi Germany in collapse' Globe and Mail'Excellent' Evening Standard | 'Fascinating' Ben MacintyreRaze Paris to the ground. Burn the bridges. Destroy all industry.These were just a few of the insane orders issued by Hitler in the closing months of...
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August Books
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2024-10-10
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** THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER **'Extraordinary' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES • 'Thrilling' MAX HASTINGS • ‘An epic thriller . . . droll, moving, with a cinematic eye and not a boring line in it' OBSERVER • ‘Fascinating . . . gripping' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH •...
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Penguin
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2024-07-25
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'On the Shadow Tracks harnesses the railway lines of Myanmar’s complicated past to its turbulent present, and the result is part travelogue, part history and completely absorbing. An astonishing achievement’Joanna LumleyIn 2016, while working as a journalist in Yangon,...
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Penguin
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2024-06-06
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The pivotal true story of the first fifty-three days of the standoff between Imperial Japanese and a handful of Marine aviators defending the Americans dug in at Guadalcanal, from the New York Times bestselling author of Indestructible and Race...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2024-05-14
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The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever.On the 14th of August 1941, a Polish priest named Maximilian Maria Kolbe was murdered in Auschwitz.Kolbe's life had been remarkable. Fiercely...
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Vintage Digital
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2024-04-18
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'Outstanding' JOHN PRESTON | 'Extraordinary' THE TIMES | 'A master-storyteller' ANDREW ROBERTS | 'Vivid and compelling' IRISH TIMES | 'Psychologically shrewd' IRISH INDEPENDENT | 'A page-turning finale' HISTORY TODAY | 'Superb' TELEGRAPH *5 STARS*Celebrated reformer and...
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Vintage Digital
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2024-04-04
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A dramatic narrative of the six months leading up to President Paul von Hindenburg's decision to appoint Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany on 30 January 1933. Takeover brings to life the secret meetings, political manoeuvrings, and shifting loyalties involved in...
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Headline
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2024-03-26
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"The era that taste forgot..."Famous for glam rock, flares and platform shoes, the 1970s also saw the emergence of new ideas, movements and trends that continue to influence our world today. From the Watergate Scandal to the growing feminist and LGBTQ+ movements, the...
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OH
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2024-03-14
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Discover the key battles, tactics, technologies and turning points of the First World War - the epic conflict that was supposed to be "the war to end all wars".Combining authoritative, exciting text and bold images The World War I Book explores the historical background...
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Dk
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2024-03-07
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Provides an engaging narrative account of modern European history, featuring new chapters on modern Europe and the post-Cold War world Twentieth-Century Europe: 1900 to the Present provides a concise and accessible review of the significant themes and major events that...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2023-12-06
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This is the first fully researched biography of Martin Niemöller (1892-1984). It charts his life from his service in the Imperial German Navy, his work for the Inner Mission and as a Protestant pastor in the Berlin suburb of Dahlem from 1931. Niemöller's work as a...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-11-22
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