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At Warburg, Germany, in 1941, four British PoWs find an unexpected means of escape from the horrors of internment when they form a birdwatching society, and embark on an obsessive quest behind barbed wire.Through their shared love of birds, they overcome hunger,...
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Short Books
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2012-01-11
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A Companion to Tacitus brings much needed clarity and accessibility to the notoriously difficult language and yet indispensable historical accounts of Tacitus. The companion provides both a broad introduction and showcases new theoretical approaches that enrich our...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-01-09
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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It is well known that World War II gave rise to human rights rhetoric, discredited a racist regime abroad, and provided new opportunities for African Americans to fight, work, and demand equality at home.It would be all too easy to assume that the war was a key stepping...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-01-06
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Sportsman. Naturalist. Warrior. President. There are so many sides to Theodore Roosevelt that it is easy to overlook one of his most enduring contributions to American public life: the use of fame to fuel his political career.
In this concisely written, enlightening...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-01-06
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A vastly influential form of filmmaking seen by millions of people, educational films provide a catalog of twentieth century preoccupations and values. As a medium of instruction and guidance, they held a powerful cultural position, producing knowledge both inside and...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-01-06
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This book is important because it is:Unique. Heaven on Earth offers a critique of extremism that is human rights-based and entertaining – combining the comparative approach of Karen Armstrong and the immediacy of Ed Husain (The Islamist) with storytelling. Timely. At a...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-01-05
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Between the Second World War and the early 1970s, political leaders, activists, citizens, protestors. and freedom fighters triggered a human rights revolution in world affairs. Stimulated particularly by the horrors of the crimes against humanity in the 1940s, the human...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-01-05
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Collected here for the first time are the remarkable and moving stories of the 27 British recipients of the ‘Hero of the Holocaust’ award. During one of the darkest times in human history they refused to stand by and do nothing; risking their lives to save Jewish...
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Ebury Digital
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2012-01-05
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'How do such people, with brilliant members and dull ones, fare when they pass from being a dominant minority to being a powerless one?' So asked the Kilkenny man-of-letters Hubert Butler (1900-1991) when considering the fate of Southern Protestants after Irish...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-01-05
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When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America's democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our language and separating it from the mother tongue?
A wide-ranging account of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-01-04
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When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America's democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our language and separating it from the mother tongue?
A wide-ranging account of...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-01-04
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This book illuminates our understanding of what happens when different cultures meet. Twelve cultural historians explore the mechanism and inner dynamic of such encounters, and demonstrate that while they often occur on the wave of global forces and influences, they...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-02
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Drawing on a wide range of studies of Europe, the United States, Asia, and Africa, the contributions gathered here consider how political history, business history, the history of science, cultural history, gender history, intellectual history, anthropology, and even...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-02
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This study explores two categories—empire and citizenship—that historians usually study separately. It does so with a unifying focus on racialization in the lives of outstanding women whose careers crossed national borders between 1880 and 1965. It puts an individual,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-02
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The chaotic events leading up to Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 election indicated how far the Republican Party had rocketed rightward away from the center of public opinion. Republicans in Congress threatened to shut down the government and force a U.S. debt default....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-01-02
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It is with these unique documents - some 130 articles published in the major international press and 25O often previously unseen photos - that a pair of reporters, a photographer and a journalist, publishing their reportages under the name of Chris ...
Editeur :
JePublie
Parution :
2012
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Why has it been so long since an American president has effectively and consistently presented well-crafted, intellectually substantive arguments to the American public?Why have presidential utterances fallen from the rousing speeches of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-01-01
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In a literary journey from the Sierra Madre to the sea, Júpiter Martínez guides us, between stories and scenes of daily life, through the astonishing—and at times dangerous—geography of Sonora. This second volume in the series Archaeology in ...
Editeur :
Cacciani, S.A. DE C.V.
Parution :
2012
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The Greek Bronze Age, roughly 3000 to 1000 BCE, witnessed the flourishing of the Minoan and Mycenean civilizations, the earliest expansion of trade in the Aegean and wider Mediterranean Sea, the development of artistic techniques in a variety of media, and the evolution...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-01-01
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Duff Cooper's classic biography charts the remarkable progress of Talleyrand; a silver-tongued master diplomat, infamous turncoat, peacekeeper and libertine. Talleyrand held high office in five successive regimes from France's Ancient Regime, into the Revolution of...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-12-31
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