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Natural Disasters in a Global Environment is a transnational, global and environmental history of natural and man-made disasters. Detailed case studies of past and present events are presented in a historical narrative, making use of the most recent scholarship. ...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-05-03
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For Chris Moore, the Great War has developed from a childhood fascination to a full-blown obsession, both for the actuality, of the war - its archives and its archaeology - as well as its abiding influence on English language, manners and customs.Exasperated with the...
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Abacus
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2013-05-02
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The liberation of Europe and the destruction of the Third Reich is a story of courage and enduring triumph, of calamity and miscalculation. In this first volume of the Liberation Trilogy, Rick Atkinson shows why no modern reader can understand the ultimate victory of...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2013-05-02
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Liberation Trilogy
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In An Army at Dawn - winner of the Pulitzer Prize - Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of the Battle, he follows the strengthening American and British armies as they invade Sicily in July...
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Abacus
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2013-05-02
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Liberation Trilogy
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Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist.Following in his father’s footsteps, Frantz entered the executioner’s trade as an Apprentice. 394 executions and forty-five years later, he retired to focus his attentions on running...
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Vintage Digital
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2013-05-02
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Dieses Buch macht die Haltung und Sichtweise der Kirchenfürsten der Rumänischen Unierten Kirche beim Ersten Vatikanischen Konzil 1869/70 deutlich. Auch werden die Probleme deutlich gemacht, die in jener Zeit zwischen der Kirchenpolitik Siebenbürgens und der katholischen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-02
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Nechama Tec's Defiance, an account of a Jewish partisan unit that fought the Nazis in the Polish forests during World War II, was turned into a major feature film. Yet despite the attention this film brought to the topic of Jewish resistance, Tec, who speaks widely...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-05-02
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The Soviet Union and the United States were involved in a complicate interplay of ideological, political, social and cultural factors, which wavered between open rivalry and cautious cooperation. Their relationship was fluctuating. Antagonism was accompanied with...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-02
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Indian software entrepreneur Nandan Nilekani has written the definitive book about modern India. Nilekani gives us a fascinating new perspective for the twenty-first century, defying received and imported wisdom, and showing us what is really at stake in the world's...
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Penguin
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2013-05-02
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This collection of essays considers the contribution made by German settlers in Queensland over the last century and a half of the state’s history. The volume also analyses the role of other German travellers and visitors who have had an impact on the state. Over this...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-02
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In this book, McEvoy explodes the myth that the remarkable phenomenon of the late Roman child-emperor reflected mere dynastic sentiment or historical accident. Tracing the course of the frequently tumultuous, but nevertheless lengthy, reigns of young western emperors in...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-05-02
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Winner of an Award of Merit in the Christianity Today Book Awards, History/Biography category
On January 17, 1776, one week after Thomas Paine published his incendiary pamphlet Common Sense, Connecticut minister Samuel Sherwood preached an equally patriotic sermon....
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Oxford University Press
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2013-05-02
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Die akademische Würde der Ehrenbürger, Ehrensenatoren und Ehrenmitglieder ist eine deutsche Erfindung zu Beginn der Weimarer Zeit, als in Hochschulen eine Alternative zur Ehrenpromotion gesucht wurde.Die neuen Auszeichnungen wurden vor allem für Finanzhilfen zugunsten...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-02
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How did Roman poets create character? The mythological figures that dot the landscape of Roman poetry entail their own predetermined plotlines and received characteristics: the idea of a gentle, maternal Medea is as absurd as a spineless and weak Achilles. For Roman...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-05-01
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Dieser Band enthält die überarbeiteten Fassungen von Vorträgen, die auf dem 6. Erhard-Weigel-Kolloquium am 10. Dezember 2011 in Jena gehalten wurden. Erstmals werden hier mehrere Disputationen, denen Weigel als Präses vorstand, einer wissenschaftshistorischen Analyse...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-05-01
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A captivating read spanning 5,000 years of the ocean's historyConquest of the Ocean tells the 5,000 year history of the remarkable individuals who sailed seas, for trade, to conquer new lands, to explore the unknown. From the early Polynesians to the first...
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Dk
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2013-05-01
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In this enthralling historical detective story, the authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail trace the flight after 1309 of the Knights Templar from Europe to Scotland, where the Templar heritage was to take root, and would be perpetuated by a network of noble...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2013-04-30
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Chris von der Ahe knew next to nothing about baseball when he risked his life's savings to found the franchise that would become the St. Louis Cardinals. Yet the German-born beer garden proprietor would become one of the most important -- and funniest -- figures in the...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
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2013-04-30
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Five thousand years ago there began the most momentous revolution in human history. Starting in Mesopotamia, city civilization emerged for the first time on earth, to be followed in Egypt, India, China and the Americas. The ideals of these ancient civilizations still...
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Bbc Digital
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2013-04-30
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Six hundred years ago, the Czech priest Jan Hus (1371-1415) traveled out of Bohemia, never to return. After a five-year legal ordeal that took place in Prague, in the papal curia, and finally in southern Germany, the case of Jan Hus was heard by one of the largest and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-04-30
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