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Von Achill bis Zentaur, von Aberglaube bis Zahnpflege: 4.500 Stichworte erschließen prägnant die griechisch-römische Antike. Abgestimmt auf den Unterricht an Gymnasien und Universitäten beantwortet das in der Neuauflage um rund 500 Einträge erweiterte Lexikon alle...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-08-16
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This book offers an interpretation of Yoruba people’s affective responses to an adult Yoruba male with a ‘deviant’ hairstyle. The work, which views hairstyles as a form of symbolic communicative signal that encodes messages that are perceived and interpreted within a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-13
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This book investigates the ‘decline and fall’ of Rome as perceived and imagined in aspects of British and American culture and thought from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries. It explores the ways in which writers, filmmakers and the media...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-13
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In the last two centuries Britain has experienced a revolution in higher education, with the number of students rising from a few hundred to several million. Yet the institutions that drove - and still drive - this change have been all but ignored by historians....
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OUP Oxford
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2016-08-11
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'ABSORBING' Guardian'ENTHRALLING' New Statesman'EPIC' Evening Standard'INESCAPABLE' The Sunday Times'MAGISTERIAL' Irish ExaminerFully revised and updated, the definitive history of Argentinian football from the award-winning author of Inverting the PyramidAlfredo Di...
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Seven Dials
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2016-08-11
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In the 1940s, the brightest minds of the United States and Nazi Germany raced to West Africa with a single mission: to secure the essential ingredient of the atomic bomb -- and to make sure nobody saw them doing it Albert Einstein told President Franklin D. Roosevelt in...
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PublicAffairs
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2016-08-09
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This book offers a comprehensive and inclusive insight into the history of prostate cancer and its sufferers. Until recently, little practical help could be offered for men afflicted with the devastating diseases of the genitourinary organs.This is despite ...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-05
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This
book traces the activities of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6) and
the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) during the Suez Crisis, one of the most
infamous episodes of British foreign policy. In doing so it identifies broader
lessons not only about the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-08-05
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Die 68er polarisieren noch heute: Politisch gescheitert, erfolgreich in der Entwicklung neuer Lebensstile? Dabei gingen Kulturrevolution und Medienevolution Hand in Hand. Presse, Rundfunk und Fernsehen stilisierten Rudi Dutschke, die Kommune I, Che Guevara oder Mao...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-08-05
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The North American Arctic was one of the last regions on Earth to be settled by humans, due to its extreme climate, limited range of resources, and remoteness from populated areas. Despite these factors, it holds a complex and lengthy history relating to Inuit, Iñupiat,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-08-05
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Von Achilleus bis Zeus, von Altar bis Zauberpapyri - in über 1.000 Artikeln werden die mythologischen Figuren der griechischen und römischen Antike und die wichtigsten Mythographen und ihre Werke ebenso lebendig wie die antike Religion und Religiosität.
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2016-08-05
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This book explores the profound social, cultural, and political changes that affected the way in which Canadians and Australians defined themselves as a «people» from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. Taking as its central theme the way each country responded to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-08-05
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Der Autor untersucht die übergeordnete Rolle, die der Erste Weltkrieg in der «kurzen» Geschichte Australiens spielt. Dieser Krieg und der in seiner Folge entstandene Anzac-Mythos besitzen seit der Landung australischer Truppen auf der Gallipoli-Halbinsel am 25. April...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-08-05
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Henry Green: Class, Style, and the Everyday offers a critical prism through which Green's fiction--from his earliest published short stories, as an Eton schoolboy, through to his last dialogic novels of the 1950s--can be seen as a coherent, subtle, and humorous critique...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-08-04
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1 July 1916: the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The hot, hellish day in the fields of northern France that has dominated our perception of the First World War for just shy of a century. The shameful waste; the pointlessness of young lives lost for the sake of a...
Editeur :
Abacus
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2016-08-04
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The Life of the Madman of Ü tells the story of Künga Zangpo (1458-1532), a famous Tibetan Buddhist ascetic of the Kagyü sect. Having grown weary of the trials of human existence, Künga Zangpo renounced the world during his teenage years, committing himself to learning...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-08-02
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Quantifiable citizenship in the form of birth certificates, census forms, and immigration quotas is so ubiquitous that today it appears ahistorical. Yet before the modern colonial era, there was neither a word for "population" in the sense of numbers of people, nor...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-08-02
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Bring out the best in every student, enabling them to develop in-depth subject knowledge and historical skills with the market-leading series for WJEC Eduqas, fully updated for 2016 to help you navigate the new content and assessment requirements with ease.- Maps the...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2016-08-01
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Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for two things: plotting to murder her brother to usurp the throne, and writing the Alexiad, an epic history of her father Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118) that is a key historical source for the era of the First Crusade. Anna...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-08-01
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Most of the major black literary and cultural movements of the twentieth century have been understood and interpreted as secular, secularizing and, at times, profane. In this book, Josef Sorett demonstrates that religion was actually a formidable force within these...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-08-01
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