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This book explores the unique trajectory of urbanization in South Asia, from the earliest beginnings of civilization to the present-day mega cities, the life in the cities with its associated issues of inequality, struggle, management of scarce resources, migration and...
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Springer
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2026-04-15
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This book is a collection of essays covering a wide range of issues related to tribes residing in the Aravalli ranges, traditional medicinal societies of Kashmir, wandering communities and the martial classes of Haryana and Punjab. The depiction of certain communities...
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Springer
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2026-04-05
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From the mid-seventeenth to early eighteenth century, a wide network of English-speaking men, women, and children took up residence in the Ottoman Maghrebi regencies of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli. There they formed expatriate communities, engaged with the societies...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-04-02
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'A remarkable story, a real page-turner' JOE DUFFY'Powerfully written ... a gripping narrative' FINTAN O'TOOLEThe remarkable story of one man's journey from the edge of death to the heart of a hidden past.Adopted at age three, Paul Cullen always felt like an outsider....
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Hachette Books Ireland
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2026-02-05
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'Superb... Immensely important... This is a tragic story, and Smith tells it magnificently' The TelegraphOne of the most anticipated books of 2026 according to Financial Times and New StatesmanAn extraordinarily atmospheric and powerful history of the world's largest...
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Penguin
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2026-01-29
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A celebration of the printed book, told through the lives of 18 people who took it in radical new directions.* AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 *A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE SUMMER 2024 *'This really is the loveliest of books' I'I cannot recommend it highly enough'...
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Vintage Digital
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2024-04-18
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The African Origins of Democracy challenges the myth that democracy was born in ancient Greece. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, and political science, Bernd Reiter shows that egalitarian African societies practiced self-rule tens of thousands of years...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book aims to examine the role and status of sacred cities in the context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and associated cultural and sacred landscapes with an emphasis on awakening the deeper cultural sense in harmonising the world and enhancing...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-10-28
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'A wonderful take on the chaos of the modern word' Louise O'Neill 'Carl has the rare gift of combining analytical clarity with maniacal vulnerability' Blindboy Boatclub'Sharp, inventive and irresistibly engaging' Sophie WhiteIn At Least It Looks Good From Space,...
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Hachette Books Ireland
Parution :
2025-10-16
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Following the death in 1789 of Abbé de l'Epée, the first teacher of deaf pupils renowned in France and beyond, revolutionaries committed to founding national institutes for the education of deaf pupils. There was little doubt about their ability to integrate as full...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-16
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Petitioning was the main route by which the agency of subjects engaged the authority of rulers. Most studies explore it as a practice for sending requests to central and local representatives of state power in empires, kingdoms, and city-states. Yet the practice occurs...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-08
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We are used to thinking that the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s was an essentially Western phenomenon. The surge in pornographic production, effective oral contraception, and new developments in fashion and popular culture all seem to be inextricably linked...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-08
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Lee Lawrence was just eleven when his mother, Cherry Groce, was shot by police during a raid on the family's south London home. It was an event that would spark a violent uprising and dominate his life for the next 30 years as he fought for justice and for the police to...
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Abacus
Parution :
2025-10-02
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From the first steam trains to the high-speed bullet trains of today, Rise of the Railway tells the hidden stories of railway history – the inspired engineering, technical ingenuity, and sheer determination that forged the world’s railways.Award-winning writer and...
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Dk
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2025-10-02
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Following the death in 1789 of Abbé de l'Epée, the first teacher of deaf pupils renowned in France and beyond, revolutionaries committed to founding national institutes for the education of deaf pupils. There was little doubt about their ability to integrate as full...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-28
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Pizza is the Italian food that has conquered the world: from Brussels to LA, from Beijing to Buenos Aires, pizzas and pizzerias can be found everywhere today. But what are the origins of this food and how did it rise from its humble beginnings to become the world’s...
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Polity
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2025-09-10
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This book offers a holistic re-evaluation of the Spithead and Nore mutinies of 1797, which immobilised the two Royal Navy fleets responsible for Britain's defence at a time when invasion seemed likely. The mutinies represent two of the most serious manifestations of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-02
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Scotland's Clans & their Tartans offers an authoritative exploration of the origins and evolution ofScotland's unique clan system, tracing its roots back to the 5th century in Ireland, where the Scots originally lived. From the Abercrombies to the Wemyss clan, this...
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Cassell
Parution :
2025-08-14
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At the Restoration of 1660, there was no distinctive banking sector, and banking services were provided by a variety of traders, most notably the London goldsmiths. In the later seventeenth century, the first specialists appeared against a background of rapid economic...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-08-05
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Petitioning was the main route by which the agency of subjects engaged the authority of rulers. Most studies explore it as a practice for sending requests to central and local representatives of state power in empires, kingdoms, and city-states. Yet the practice occurs...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-08-05
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