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Six Tudor Queens: Writing a New Story is an introduction to theSix Tudor Queens series by eminent historian Alison Weir. The lives of Henry VIII's queens make for dramatic stories that will offer insights into the real lives of the six wives based on extensive research...
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Review
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2016-03-10
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'Excellent . . . This is narrative history of the highest quality' Andrew Lycett, Sunday Telegraph'Wonderfully engrossing and intelligent . . . clever and entertaining' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesHEYDAY brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in modern...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2016-03-10
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'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,' is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated humanity ever since. Did they really exist? For centuries, scholars consigned them to the...
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Robinson
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2016-03-10
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Brief Histories
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Horace's Epodes rank among the most under-valued texts of the early Roman principate. Abrasive in style and riddled with apparent inconsistencies, the Epodes have divided critics from the outset, infuriating and delighting them in equal measure. This collection of...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-03-10
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Horace's Epodes rank among the most under-valued texts of the early Roman principate. Abrasive in style and riddled with apparent inconsistencies, the Epodes have divided critics from the outset, infuriating and delighting them in equal measure. This collection of...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-03-10
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First of the Small Nations traces the ideas and aspirations of the revolutionary generation in Ireland from the 1890s to 1918 who dreamt of an independent Irish state and imagined how an Irish foreign policy might look. It follows attempts to put these ideas into...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-03-10
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On 12th April 1981 a revolutionary new spacecraft blasted off from Florida on her maiden flight. NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia was the most advanced flying machine ever built – the high watermark of post-war aviation development. A direct descendant of the...
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Transworld Digital
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2016-03-10
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'The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.'This inspiring collection gathers together Winston Churchill’s wisest and wittiest quotations.The Wit and Wisdom of Winston Churchill showcases his finest hour...
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Summersdale
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2016-03-10
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Isaac Lewin (1887–1945), Wirtschaftswissenschaftler in St. Petersburg, schreibt kritisch über Lenins ökonomisches Denken und muss ins Exil. Im Russischen Berlin ist er bald ein erfolgreicher Bankier, wird aber 1929, am Beginn der Bankenkrise, als Wechselfälscher...
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Centaurus Verlag & Media
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2016-03-08
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Viele protestantische Pfarrer und Theologen unterstützten hemmungslos das Militär und den Kriegskurs desimperialistischen Kaiserreichs. Viele, aber nicht alle. Die Positionen der Friedenspfarrer sind nur sehr bedingtGegenstand von wissenschaftlichen Untersuchungen. Eine...
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Centaurus Verlag & Media
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2016-03-08
Collection :
Reihe Geschichtswissenschaft
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Nineteenth-Century British Secularism offers a new paradigm for understanding secularization in the nineteenth century. It addresses the crisis in the secularization thesis by foregrounding a nineteenth-century development called 'Secularism' – the particular movement...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-03-08
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Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000
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In their long struggle for independence from British rule, Irish republicans had long looked west for help, and with reason. The Irish-American population in the United States was larger than the population of Ireland itself, and the bond between the two cultures was...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-03-08
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Das Buch versteht sich als kritische Fortsetzung und Erweiterung der Kulturtheorie Freuds, die den unterdrückten Aggressionstrieb für das „Unbehagen in der Kultur“ verantwortlich macht. Es verweist darüber hinaus mit zahlreichen kulturgeschichtlichen Belegen auf eine...
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Springer VS
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2016-03-07
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In this important work of deep learning and insight, David Brundage gives us the first full-scale history of Irish nationalists in the United States. Beginning with the brief exile of Theobald Wolfe Tone, founder of Irish republican nationalism, in Philadelphia on the...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-03-07
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Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Rezeption des Paracelsismus im Osmanischen Reich des 17. Jahrhunderts. Im Mittelpunkt der Arbeit steht die Erforschung der arabischen Übersetzungen von Oswaldus Crollius‘ Basilica Chymica und Daniel Sennerts De Chymicorum cum...
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Centaurus Verlag & Media
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2016-03-05
Collection :
Neuere Medizin- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte
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Contagionism is an old idea, but gained new life in Restoration Britain. The Germ of an Idea considers British contagionism in its religious, social, political and professional context from the Great Plague of London to the adoption of smallpox inoculation. It...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-03-05
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Invisible Subjects broadens the archive of Asian American studies, using advances in Asian American history and historiography to reinterpret the politics of the major figures of post-World War II American literature and criticism.
Taking its theoretical inspiration...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-03-04
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'We have nothing left in the world but what we can win with our swords.'The remarkable account of Hannibal crossing the Alps with his elephants and winning the Battle of the Trebbia.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the...
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Penguin
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2016-03-03
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'Once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way; it is impossible.'A potted history of the women who pioneered feminism and changed the world.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics...
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Penguin
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2016-03-03
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The end of the Cold War led to a dramatic and fundamental change in the foreign policy of the United States. In Mission Failure, Michael Mandelbaum, one of America's leading foreign-policy thinkers, provides an original, provocative, and definitive account of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-03-03
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