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From an award-winning historian, a new global history of Communism. “With vivid prose, McMeekin punctures many myths of communism … This is history as a warning.” —Washington Examiner Winner of the Hayek Book Prize When the USSR...
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Basic Books
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2024-09-10
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'a master class in eyewitness storytelling . . . this gripping narrative chronicles one of history's darkest nightmare moments' - Annie Jacobsen, author of Nuclear War: A ScenarioOn the 80th anniversary of the devastating bombing of Hiroshima, the stories of the...
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Headline Press
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2024-09-10
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Klimonas is the oldest Mediterranean island village. Occupied ca. 8 800 cal BC, it postpones by several centuries the Neolithic presence in Cyprus, at that time located more than 80 km offshore. The village extended over more than 5,500 m2, facing the sea, 2 km from the...
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CNRS Éditions via OpenEdition
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2024-09-09
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Gallia Préhistoire Supplément
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The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism is the first detailed and critical study of the intellectual and political connections that existed between some German scholars specializing on India, non-academic 'India experts,' Indian anti-colonialists and various...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-09-09
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For centuries, the Roman aristocracy encoded its social and cultural superiority in classical poetry. In the late Roman world, however, Christian poets--especially those in the outlying provinces of Gaul--began to experiment with poetry as a medium for exploring and...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-09-09
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Hitlers Reden spielten eine entscheidende Rolle im Prozess der nationalsozialistischen „Machtergreifung“ und der späteren Durchsetzung ihrer Politik. Das Buch untersucht die Gründe für die enorme Wirkung vonHitlers Auftritten, indem es die 1,7 Millionen Wörter, die die...
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J.B. Metzler
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2024-09-06
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Um 1800 wird die Nachahmung aus dem Zentrum der schönen Künste in deren Peripherie verbannt. Mit der Durchsetzung des Originalitätskonzepts wird die regelgeleitete Imitation klassischer Vorbilder als minderwertige, dilettantische oder epigonale Kunst abgewertet. Dieser...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-09-06
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A sparkling exploration of direction, by the acclaimed author ofA History of the World in 12 MapsNorth, south, east and west: almost all societies use the four cardinal directions to orientate themselves, to understand who they are by projecting where they are. For...
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Penguin
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2024-09-05
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From the bestselling author of Abbey Road comes the story of how enduring rock icons like Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen and many more have remained in the ever-changing music game.‘May be his best yet…recommended to anyone for whom pop music means anything at all’ Daily...
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Transworld Digital
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2024-09-05
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Trust the power of cognitive science to help students to understand more, remember more and feel more confident about their exams.This textbook is guaranteed to make learning more effective. The approach was created by author and teacher Dale Banham, who has amazing...
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Hodder Education
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2024-09-05
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The gold standard of American labor history references, updated to include the latest political, social, and economic developments of the 2020s Labor in America: A History, Tenth Edition, is a comprehensive and authoritative discussion of the U.S. labor movement from...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2024-09-04
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Why do some countries hold elections that meet global democratic standards, while other countries do not? Electoral Commissions and Democratization in Africa makes a novel contribution to this question. In a departure from the typical story about the “boring”...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-09-04
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'A stunning book, a powerful investigation, utterly compelling,' James Holland, The Daily Telegraph, Five starsPonar, Lithuania. 1944. The Nazis have enslaved Jewish men to exhume and incinerate the bodies of more than 70,000 Jews previously shot to death in the forest....
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The Bridge Street Press
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2024-09-03
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The book analyses the development of Israel's national identity through the world of local Jewish Zionist historiography. Inspired by Norbert Elias’ historical and figurational sociology, the book examines the different phases and generations in Israel in light of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-09-03
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This book pays particular attention to the experiences of younger child survivors of the Holocaust, considering how they kept in touch with one another, and how they integrated into larger cohorts of survivors settling in postwar Britain. Digging deeper than ever before...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-09-03
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Latino USA represents the culmination of Ilan Stavans's lifelong determination to meet the challenges of capturing the joys, nuances, and multiple dimensions ofLatino culture within the context of the English language. In this cartoon history of Latinos, Stavans seeks...
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Basic Books
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2024-09-03
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'A necessary book – and I can think of no writer better qualified to write it' Cal Flyn What if Chernobyl was just the beginning?The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of warOn 24 February...
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Penguin
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2024-09-03
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Despite the multidirectional nature of modern research, the interpretation of the political history of thirteenth-century England has remained locked into a traditional framework bequeathed by the mid-twentieth-century historian, R. F. Treharne, and embellished by the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-09-03
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Despite the multidirectional nature of modern research, the interpretation of the political history of thirteenth-century England has remained locked into a traditional framework bequeathed by the mid-twentieth-century historian, R. F. Treharne, and embellished by the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-09-03
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A harrowing tale of how political polarization threatens America’s social fabric, told through the differing fates of two communities riven by ideological and partisan battles Donald Trump’s 2016 electoral victory set off a reign of demagoguery and—ten...
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Bold Type Books
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2024-09-03
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