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Before invasion, Turtle Island-or North America-was home to vibrant cultures that shared long-standing philosophical precepts. The most important and wide-spread of these was the view of reality as a collaborative binary known as the Twinned Cosmos of Blood and Breath....
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Oxford University Press
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2016-01-06
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The challenges facing General Dwight Eisenhower before the Invasion of Normandy were not merely military but political as well. He knew that to liberate France, and to hold it, the Allies needed local help, which would necessitate coordinating with the highly...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-01-06
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An engaging study of a great national institution. Essays explore the changing roles of museums and the perceived public role of a museum of science and technology. Illuminates the ways in which we think about the collecting and display of objects and the often...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-01-05
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A Companion to Roman Italy investigates the impact of Rome in all its forms—political, cultural, social, and economic—upon Italy's various regions, as well as the extent to which unification occurred as Rome became the capital of Italy. The collection presents new...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2016-01-05
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Taking as its starting point two uprisings in England and Germany (Richard Marshal in 1233-4 and Henry (VII) in 1234-5), this book offers a new take on the political culture of high medieval Europe. Themes include: the role of violence; the norms of political behaviour;...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-01-05
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The Velvet Revolution in November 1989 brought about the collapse of the authoritarian communist regime in what was then Czechoslovakia, marking the beginning of the country's journey towards democracy. Though members of the elite have spoken about the transition to...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-01-04
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Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class, black woman, and George Wilson, a former neighbor whom Tabbs implicated after her arrest.
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Oxford University Press
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2016-01-04
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Fully revised, updated, and extended, the fifth edition of Hollywood’s America provides an important compilation of interpretive essays and primary documents that allows students to read films as cultural artifacts within the contexts of actual past events. A new...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-01-04
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Black people in the British Empire have long challenged the notion that "there ain't no black in the Union Jack." For the post-World War II wave of Afro-Caribbean migrants, many of whom had long been subjects of the Empire, claims to a British identity and imperial...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-01-04
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Although long considered to be a barren region on the periphery of ancient Chinese civilization, the southwest massif was once the political heartland of numerous Bronze Age polities. Their distinctive material tradition--intricately cast bronze kettle drums and cowrie...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-01-04
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Since the turn of the millennium, the British media has been awash with stories of bankers and financiers caught engaging in acts of corporate wrongdoing and financial skullduggery. But just how different are these crimes to those committed in the past? And, is the...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2016-01-03
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This is for me Egypt, the promised land of Ra-Ta if my readers have followed my good ideas. Indeed, Edgar Cayce, in his mediumship, spoke about the departure of his hero from Mount Ararat (there is only one in the world) with his tribe to invade ...
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JePublie
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2016-01-01
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JePublie présente
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The introduction to Africa begins with Egypt, and we will follow the migratory paths along the Red Sea, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, and return to Mauritania. Along the Mediterranean is Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. There are still ...
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JePublie
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2016-01-01
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JePublie présente
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South Asia includes Bangladesh, Bhutan and India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. I studied Afghanistan, India and Pakistan in Volume 05 of the rush to the east, because these countries are on the path of China's population, and lead ...
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JePublie
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2016-01-01
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JePublie présente
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It really seemed out of place to venture into this vast Pacific Ocean, the largest, 166 million square kilometres, the deepest 10 000 meters in the Mariana Islands, Kuril and the Philippines, the most shaken, about 800 tsunamis a century nearly 17% ...
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JePublie
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2016-01-01
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JePublie présente
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Having gone around the world, I thought I had the right to a well deserved rest, and what was my surprise by returning to the Ainu, a tall tale in their relationship with the Quebec Innu. I found it very amusing and I went up contact by Internet ...
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JePublie
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2016-01-01
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JePublie présente
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Ah yes, dear reader, there are 50 000 other nuggets. You have to get them. If you could revel in Volume 11 above, you will have made reconciliation with volumes "geographical" implementation of the peoples migration. What then of those who return ...
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JePublie
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2016-01-01
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JePublie présente
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In January of 1950, Mary Church Terrell, an 86-year-old charter member of the NAACP, headed into Thompson's Restaurant, just a few blocks from the White House, and requested to be served. She and her companions were informed by the manager that they could not eat in his...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-12-30
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A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean presents a concise account of the full sweep of U.S. military invasions and interventions in Central America, South America, and the Caribbean from 1800 up to the present day. Engages in debates...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-12-30
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Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
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