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This book provides the first detailed account of the formative decades of BBC televised sport when it launched its flagship programmes Sportsview, Grandstand and Match of the Day. Based on extensive archival research in the BBC’s written archives and interviews...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-11-17
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WINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZEThe compelling, inspiring, (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.One of the comedy world's brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a light-footed...
Editeur :
John Murray
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2016-11-17
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In the days of the Roman Empire, the emperor was considered not only the ruler of the state, but also its supreme legal authority, fulfilling the multiple roles of supreme court, legislator, and administrator. The Emperor of Law explores how the emperor came to assume...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-17
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In ad 330 the Emperor Constantine consecrated the new capital of the eastern Roman Empire on the site of the ancient city of Byzantium. Its later history is well known, yet comparatively little is known about the city before it became Constantinople and then Istanbul....
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-17
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The Russian Revolution, 1905-1921 is a new history of Russia's revolutionary era as a story of experience-of people making sense of history as it unfolded in their own lives and as they took part in making history themselves.The major events, trends, and explanations,...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-17
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Dystopia: A Natural History is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition of satirical works, mostly on totalitarianism, as well as real despotisms and societies in a state of disastrous collapse, this...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-11-17
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They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke.They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria.They wrote the timeless myths of Odysseus and Oedipus, and the histories of Leonidas’s three hundred Spartans and Alexander the Great. But who...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-11-17
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Als einzige Revolution des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts besaß die Revolution von 1848/49 eine gesamteuropäische Dimension. Sie erfasste zahllose Menschen und kannte viele Bühnen, an allen europäischen Brennpunkten des Jahres 1848. Dieses Buch setzt Schlaglichter,...
Editeur :
Centaurus Verlag & Media
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2016-11-15
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This book explores a vital but neglected chapter in the histories of nationalism, racism and science. It is the first comprehensive study of the transnational scientific community that in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries attempted to classify Europe's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-15
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Cocktail marketers and male bartenders like to tell women what we want to drink and it’s usually fruity, frilly, fancy, and pink. In Drink Like a Woman, Jeanette Hurt shakes up barroom expectations, stirs up some new ideas, and pours a lively collection of...
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Seal Press
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2016-11-15
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An illuminating, elegant history of New York City, told through the stories of the women who made it the most exciting and influential metropolis in the world Read any history of New York City and you will read about men. You will read about men who were political...
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Seal Press
Parution :
2016-11-15
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The essays in this book demonstrate the breadth and vitality of American intellectual history. Their core theme is the diversity of both American intellectual life and of the frameworks that we must use to make sense of that diversity.The Worlds of American Intellectual...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-15
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Outside In presents the newest scholarship that narrates and explains the history of the United States as part of a networked transnational past. This work tells the stories of Americans who inhabited the border-crossing circuitry of people, ideas, and institutions that...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-11-15
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This book offers an interpretive and critical comparative politics analysis of the post-1945 development trajectory of the broad East Asian region and its component countries. The discussion considers the region and its countries in terms of their historical legacies...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-14
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This book provides a fresh approach to understanding the origins and possible future direction of the Northeast Asia “history wars.” Leading scholars in history, literary studies, and education present the complex issue in a historical context by assessing its political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-14
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As the centenary of the Treaty of Versailles approaches, this book presents the pre-1914 precursors to the interwar naval arms treaties arising from the peace of 1919, providing a fresh perspective on arms control efforts through an interdisciplinary approach....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-13
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Rather than providing a dictionary of superstitions, of which there are already numerous excellent, exhaustive and, in many cases, academic works which list superstitions from A to Z, Bainton gives us an entertaining flight over the terrain, landing from time to time in...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2016-11-10
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Mammoth Books
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In the days of the Roman Empire, the emperor was considered not only the ruler of the state, but also its supreme legal authority, fulfilling the multiple roles of supreme court, legislator, and administrator. The Emperor of Law explores how the emperor came to assume...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-10
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George Hudson - the eponymous Railway King - started his career with a stroke of luck, inheriting £27,000 (a fortune in 1827) from a distant relative. He invested successfully in the North Midland Railway, then formed his own Midland Railway, raising £5 million and...
Editeur :
Headline
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2016-11-10
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