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A moving multigenerational memoir of Indigenous resistance, environmental justice, and a Yurok family's fight to protect their legacy and the Klamath River. For the members of a Northern California tribe, salmon are the lifeblood of the people—a vital...
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Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2025-10-28
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This book aims to examine the role and status of sacred cities in the context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and associated cultural and sacred landscapes with an emphasis on awakening the deeper cultural sense in harmonising the world and enhancing...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-10-28
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Drawing upon a unique cliometric approach, this book offers a comprehensive examination of major conflicts and their consequences. War and imperialism have shaped the modern world in profound ways, leaving an indelible mark on nations and peoples. In this book,...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-10-27
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As one of the few monographs available on the history of Chinese tomb murals, this book offers a comprehensive study.
Theoretically, the authors put forward rebirth belief and state explicitly that Chinese tomb murals gain their theoretical support from rebirth...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-10-25
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Studying mine-drainage works of a medieval principality living through times of war, social turmoil, and land reclamation, this book examines the relation between political power and mineral wealth. It argues that mine-drainage works in Monte Calisio, Trento emerged...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-25
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The purpose of this book is to evaluate the current international order and its efficiency and ability to achieve and maintain peace and justice through the philosophical debate on the foundation theories of state and order. Adding non-western perspectives and theories...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-10-25
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This book is about the dramatic changes that the world is witnessing in its attitude toward the past. For the first time in many generations, ordinary citizens around the globe have burst into disputes about history that were previously the province of politicians and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-25
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This is the first book-length study of the history of working-class courtship and marriage in Scotland, from the establishment of civil registration to the introduction in 1939 of legislation which abolished irregular marriage and introduced civil marriage. Adopting a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-25
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Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church today often frame queer genders and sexualities as perverse deviations from ‘tradition’. While historians often assume the Church has always condemned homosexuality, this book reassesses the supposed...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-24
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This book delves into one of the most decisive periods in European history: the birth of the German Empire and the extraordinary fate of its architect, Otto von Bismarck.In the salons of Versailles, in January 1871, shortly after the Prussian victory over France,...
Editeur :
Metvox Publications
Parution :
2025-10-24
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'Packed with more detail and colour than many books twice its size, Hughes brings the epic story of Rome vividly to life.'PAUL COOPER, HOST AND AUTHOR OF FALL OF CIVILIZATIONSExperience the sights, sounds and smells of the Roman world, and meet its most intriguing and...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2025-10-23
ePub
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Rediscover legendary tales from Ancient Mythology, centred around the stories of women, perfect for fans of Mythos, Circe, Pandora and Clytemnestra in this beautifully-illustrated bold feminist retelling of ancient mythological stories, written by expert classicist Mara...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2025-10-23
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This book examines the cultural encounter and conflict that arose during the French occupation of Egypt (1798–1801) by analyzing mutual perceptions of the French and Egyptians. It investigates how the image of Egypt, originally shaped by the writings of late...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-22
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'Few historians write with Serhii Plokhy’s authority, clarity or global vision... Essential reading, and a marvellous book' Peter FrankopanFrom the bestselling author of Chernobyl comes a sweeping history of the geopolitics behind the nuclear arms race, from the first...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2025-10-21
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Pinning down Byzantium (or East Rome) is as difficult today as it was for contemporaries during its 1,000-year-long existence. Dimitri Obolensky sought to characterize its impact on Eastern Europe in his classic The Byzantine Commonwealth, focusing on the elements of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-21
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This book is about “zero generation” witness literature: texts written by those who died in the Holocaust and who knew, at the time of their writing, that they would not survive. As such, they offer a unique perspective that differs from the more widely read...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-19
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For much of the Crescent City's history, days began with the cries of roaming street vendors and the percussive thwack of butchers' meat cleavers echoing out from the municipal markets. Generations of New Orleanians--Black and white, enslaved and free, men and women,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-10-17
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Dieses Buch untersucht die politisch-historischen Hintergründe des russisch-ukrainischen Konflikts und ordnet insbesondere den seit 2014 eskalierenden Krieg bis hin zur großflächigen Invasion Russlands im Jahr 2022 in einen breiten historischen Kontext...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-10-17
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This book utilizes postcards as a historical and visual lens to consider the built environment of the Philippines after the governmental regime change in 1898. By compiling and using visual references to show shifting patterns of urban environmental design during the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-17
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'A horrific tale of the slave trade, destined to become a classic' New York Times* PEN Literary Award Finalist 2026* New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2025* Time’s 100 Must Read Books of 2025* The New Yorker 12 Essential Non-Fiction Reads 2025From the author of New...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2025-10-16
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