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This book seeks to place children and young people centrally within the study of the contemporary British home front, its cultural representations and its place in the historical memory of the First World War. This edited collection interrogates not only war and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-10-08
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'An utterly fascinating book - conversations and human behaviours recorded in real time' Tom Hanks'Fascinating ' Elizabeth Day'A hugely affecting and absorbing read.' The Bookseller'Finally, a book that is proving very therapeutic in these difficult times... Full of...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2020-10-08
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'An astonishing piece of work' James O'Brien'This book was a delight. Funny, scathing and witty' Ian Dunt You should buy this book if: a) you dislike the Sun, but have never actually read it to know why and/or b) you're still not sure how we got into this mess. Using...
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Sphere
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2020-10-08
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Als die vormaligen Herzogtümer Schleswig und Holstein 1867 zur preußischen Provinz gemacht wurden, bedeutete dies für die zeitgenössischen Schleswig-Holsteiner und Schleswig-Holsteinerinnen eine markante Zäsur, die auch für die Folgejahre nicht an Prägnanz verlor. In...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-10-07
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__________Out now: The most entertaining and fascinating book about architecture and design, from the wildly popular podcast 99% Invisible. __________A New York Times Bestseller'Full of surprises and quirky information . . . a fascinating journey through the...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2020-10-06
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During World War II, the Allied leaders banded together, forged a great victory--and created a new and dangerous post-war world.In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send aid to...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2020-10-06
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A beautifully illustrated, wonderfully engaging A-to-Z guide to more than 700 major and minor gods and goddesses, characters, creatures, and places of classical Greek and Roman mythology.Classical Mythology A-to-Z is a comprehensive and engrossing guide to...
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Black Dog & Leventhal
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2020-10-06
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Finalist, Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Award for Best New Book on Drinks Culture, History, or Spirits“An impassioned case against a senseless system . . . Come for the cocktail recipes, stay for the call to arms.” —Clay Risen, author of American...
Editeur :
Artisan
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2020-10-06
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This dynamic visual history of the world's largest transit system -- in all its intriguing, colorful, and even seedy glory -- is packed with fascinating facts and hundreds of compelling photographs.When the first New York subway line opened in 1904, it was the most...
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Black Dog & Leventhal
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2020-10-06
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Circa quarant'anni fa la collana della Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome accoglieva il lavoro di H. Pavis d’Escurac, La préfecture de l'annone, service administratif impérial d'Auguste à Constantin (Rome, 1976), un contributo alla storia della...
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
Parution :
2020-10-06
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Collection de l'École française de Rome
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C. Vann Woodward is one of the most significant historians of the post-Reconstruction South. Over his career of nearly seven decades, he wrote nine books; won the Bancroft and Pulitzer Prizes; penned hundreds of book reviews, opinion pieces, and scholarly essays; and...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-10-06
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This book analyzes the central vision of three student movements organized by different generations of Kosovo Albanian students in 1968, 1981 and 1997. By examining the dynamics of the demonstrations, the author explores the dimensions, forms and implications of student...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-06
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Latin books are among the most numerous surviving artifacts of the Late Antique, Mediaeval, and Renaissance periods in European history; written in a variety of formats and scripts, they preserve the literary, philosophical, scientific, and religious heritage of the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-10-02
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From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world orderSteam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the consequences of which...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2020-10-01
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Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why we need it. 'The best introduction to the scientific enterprise that I know. A wonderful and important book' David Wootton, author of The...
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Penguin
Parution :
2020-10-01
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'Brilliant, a 5 out of 5 masterpiece' Evening StandardThe renowned historian of the Third Reich takes on the conspiracy theories surrounding Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, in a vital history book for the 'post-truth' ageThe idea that nothing happens by chance in history,...
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Penguin
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2020-10-01
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The Irish Times Top 10 Bestseller!From war to revolution, famine to emigration,The Darkness Echoing travels around Ireland bringing its dark past to lifeIt's no secret that the Irish are obsessed with misery, suffering and death. And no wonder, for there is darkness...
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Transworld Digital
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2020-10-01
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In The History of the Destruction of Troy, Dares the Phrygian boldly claimed to be an eyewitness to the Trojan War, while challenging the accounts of two of the ancient world's most canonical poets, Homer and Virgil. For over a millennium, Dares' work was circulated as...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-09-30
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This lively and accessible book charts how Australian audiences have engaged with radio and television since the 1920s. Ranging across both the commercial and public service broadcasting sectors, it recovers and explores the lived experiences of a wide cross-section of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-09-29
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“We can no longer see ourselves as minor spectators or weary watchers of history after finishing this astonishing work of nonfiction.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy Connor Towne O’Neill’s journey onto the battlefield of white...
Editeur :
Algonquin Books
Parution :
2020-09-29
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