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The Sunday Times bestseller. An astonishing account of the sailors, scientists and inventors who sought to understand the weather.**Book of the Week on Radio 4**'Gripping'The Times'Exhilarating' Sunday TimesIn an age when a storm was evidence of God’s wrath, pioneering...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-05-07
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On Palestine is Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe's indispensable update on a suffering region. What is the future of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement directed at Israel? Which is more viable, the binational or one state solution? Ilan Pappé and Noam Chomsky,...
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Penguin
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2015-05-07
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Konrad Morgen: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge is a moral biography of GeorgKonrad Morgen, who prosecuted crimes committed by members of the SS in Nazi concentration camps and eventually came face-to-face with the system of industrialized murder at Auschwitz. His wartime...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-07
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A bloody murder. An open and shut case? In Oliver Cromwell's London, nothing is as it seems - Captain Damian Seeker must battle to find justice, when an innocent man's life hangs in the balance.'Challenges CJ Sansom for dominion of historical crime' Sunday Times'The...
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Quercus
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2015-05-07
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The Seeker
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The Great Explosion by Brian Dillon: a masterful account of a terrible disaster in a remarkable placeIn April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, a fire started in a vast munitions works located in the Kentish marshes.The resulting series...
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Penguin
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2015-05-07
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'Fast-paced and punchy ... accomplished' Independent With journalistic acumen and a novelist's flair, Xinran tells the remarkable stories of men and women born in China after 1979 - the recent generations raised under China's single-child policy. At a time when the...
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Ebury Digital
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2015-05-07
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A key duty of the Renaissance monarchy was the defence of its subjects. For the English monarchy, the rule and defence from enemies beyond the long-landed frontiers in Ireland and the English far-north proved an intractable problem. It was not, however, a duty which was...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-05-07
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On March 15th, 44 BC a group of senators stabbed Julius Caesar, the dictator of Rome. By his death, they hoped to restore Rome's Republic. Instead, they unleashed a revolution. By December of that year, Rome was plunged into a violent civil war. Three men--Mark Antony,...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-05-06
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This book brings together the newest and the most innovative scholarship on Nigerian children—one of the least researched groups in African colonial history. It engages the changing conceptions of childhood, relating it to the broader themes about modernity, power,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-05
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The definitive account of the 1945 Potsdam Conference: the historic summit where Truman, Stalin, and Churchill met to determine the fate of post-World War II Europe After Germany's defeat in World War II, Europe lay in tatters. Millions of refugees were dispersed across...
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Basic Books
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2015-05-05
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The assassination of Osama bin Laden by SEAL Team 6 in May 2011 will certainly figure among the greatest achievements of US Special Forces. After nearly ten years of searching, they descended into his Pakistan compound in the middle of the night, killed him, and...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-05-05
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The Allies and the German Problem, 1941-1949 examines Allied policymaking during the Second World War and the military occupation of postwar Germany, demonstrating how the initial unity of the Allies disintegrated during the postwar military occupation in the face of...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2015-05-05
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Seafarers were the first workers to inhabit a truly international labour market, a sector of industry which, throughout the early modern period, drove European economic and imperial expansion, technological and scientific development, and cultural and material exchanges...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-04
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Der Autor verfolgt mit seinem Buch zwei Ziele: Er zeichnet ein Bild der chinesischen Rezeptionsgeschichte am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts und spürt darüber hinaus den möglichen Gründen für und Einflüssen auf die Rechtsrezeption nach. Das Deliktsrecht wird von ihm als...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-05-04
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Terrains of Exchange offers a bold new paradigm for understanding the expansion of Islam in the modern world. Through the model of religious economy, it traces the competition between Muslim, Christian and Hindu religious entrepreneurs that transformed Islam into a...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-05-02
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Until his death in 1877, Brigham Young guided the religious, economic, and political life of the Mormon community, whose settlements spread throughout the West and provoked a profound political, legal, and even military confrontation with the American nation. Young...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-05-01
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Over the course of twelve centuries, Russia's peoples overcame the constant challenges posed by geography, climate, availability of natural resources, and devastating foreign invasions to become the world's second largest land empire and the largest in modern history....
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Oxford University Press
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2015-05-01
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'James was a king tragically trapped by principle. Yet was it wise to attempt to change the national religion?'The short reign of James II is generally seen as one of the most catastrophic in British history, ending in his exile after he unsuccessfully tried to...
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Penguin
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2015-04-30
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Im März 1939 wurde Rudolf (Rudi) Wunderlich als politischer Häftling in das Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen bei Oranienburg eingewiesen. Hier blieb er bis zu seiner Flucht im Juni 1944. Er erlebte – zeitweilig als Mitglied eines «Außenkommandos» – den Terror der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-04-30
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This is a comprehensive account of how the British Army coped with and adapted to the enormous challenges and pressures of the First World War -- the first major continental war that the army had had to fight for almost a hundred years. Following the course of the War,...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2015-04-30
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