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Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony was first played in the city of its birth on 9 August, 1942. There has never been a first performance to match it. Pray God, there never will be again. Almost a year earlier, the Germans had begun their blockade of the city. Already many...
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Quercus
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2013-11-07
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The Group Theatre , a groundbreaking ensemble collective, started the careers of many top American theatre artists of the twentieth century and founded what became known as Method Acting. This book is the definitive history, based on over thirty years of research and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-11-06
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The relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension and always has been. Pakistan -- to American eyes -- has gone from being a quirky irrelevance, to a stabilizing friend, to an essential military ally, to a seedbed of terror. America -- to...
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PublicAffairs
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2013-11-05
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Karl Ludwig von Bruck (1798-1860), Gründer des «Österreichischen Lloyd», höchst effizienter Handelsminister der ersten Ära Kaiser Franz Josephs I., später Internuntius in Konstantinopel, wurde schließlich im März 1855 Finanzminister, um als Retter in der Not den...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-05
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What did Lee Harvey Oswald do in the 48 hours after he shot President John F. Kennedy? This riveting companion to the upcoming History Channel documentary follows Oswald in the immediate aftermath of the assassination, searching for the answers to the questions that...
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Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2013-11-05
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The relationship between America and Pakistan is based on mutual incomprehension and always has been. Pakistan—to American eyes—has gone from being a quirky irrelevance, to a stabilizing friend, to an essential military ally, to a seedbed of terror....
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PublicAffairs
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2013-11-05
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The articles of this volume treat the expansion of the Nordic ideology in the first half of the twentieth century. They concentrate on the amalgamation of scientific, religious and political features, which transformed the idea of the North into a mainstay of extreme...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-05
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Based on an exploration of both pre-Nazi and Nazi theory and practice, Pete Kakel challenges the dominant narrative of the murder of European Jewry, illuminating the Holocaust's decidedly imperial-colonial origins, context, and content in a book of interest to...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2013-11-04
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The Sourcebook for Garden Archaeology addresses the increasing need among archaeologists, who discover a garden during their own excavation project, for advice and update on current issues in garden archaeology. It also aims at stimulating broader interest in garden...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2013-11-04
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In 1873 the German naturalist A.B. Meyer spent five months in New Guinea. He had expected «bloodthirsty and untamed savages» and was amazed to find «men of milder customs». His compatriot Otto Finsch returned from a voyage through Hawaii, Micronesia, New Zealand and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Die Studie erforscht die narrativen Verfahren zur Darstellung der Inhalte und Funktionsweisen von Erinnerung und Gedächtnis in den Werken jüdischer Migrationsautoren innerhalb der Quebecer écritures migrantes. Das Textkorpus umfasst Romane von bereits kanonisierten...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Mountain of Paradise challenges conventional taxonomies of world civilizations by introducing a new and formidable candidate: the civilization of Greater California presently incubating as the evolution of California into a veritable «nation-state» or «world...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-11-04
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What role should the United Nations play in a globalising world? How can it support and embody international democracy? The decline of state sovereignty, an effect of globalisation, is bringing about a crisis both in politics, as a tool to pursue the common good, and in...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der nuklearen Komponente der Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik der Ära Adenauer. Auf breiter Quellenbasis und unter Einbeziehung bisher unbenutzter Dokumente werden deutsche Bemühungen geschildert, unterschiedliche Zugänge zu nuklearer...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Isaiah Shembe’s Prophetic Uhlanga: The Worldview of the Nazareth Baptist Church in Colonial South Africa examines the worldview generated and sustained by the Zulu Zionist prophetIsaiah Shembe and his congregation, the Nazareth Baptist Church, during South Africa’s...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Rome and Judea in Transition is the first English-language book to study exclusively the first century and a half of Roman-Judean political relations (164–37 B.C.). It presents a comprehensive reassessment of the Late Republic's involvement in the Levant, the motives of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Pur essendo, fin dalle origini della comunità cristiana, oggetto di studi e riflessioni, l’apostolo Paolo, con i suoi viaggi e il suo insegnamento, non cessa di affascinare gli studiosi, credenti e non credenti. Il volume raccoglie i contributi offerti in occasione del...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Migration began with our origin as the human species and continues today. Each chapter of world history features distinct types of migration. The earliest migrations spread humans across the globe. Over the centuries, as our cultures, societies, and technologies evolved...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-11-04
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By the second half of the 1940s, newly conquered nations of Central and Eastern Europe were expected to adjust multiple professions, including those related to the historical sciences, to the Soviet model. However, Marxism, soon to become the only acceptable...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-11-04
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Sixteen years after René Descartes' death in Stockholm in 1650, a pious French ambassador exhumed the remains of the controversial philosopher to transport them back to Paris. Thus began a 350-year saga that saw Descartes' bones traverse a continent, passing between...
Editeur :
Abacus
Parution :
2013-11-01
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