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The death of the ruler poses a significant threat to the stability of any polity. Arranging for a peaceful and orderly succession has been a formidable challenge in most historical societies, and it continues to be a test that modern authoritarian regimes regularly face...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-07-08
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The death of the ruler poses a significant threat to the stability of any polity. Arranging for a peaceful and orderly succession has been a formidable challenge in most historical societies, and it continues to be a test that modern authoritarian regimes regularly face...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-07-08
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This book proposes and systematically discusses four trends of thoughts in contemporary Chinese urban design. As the first book to systematically introduce contemporary Chinese urban design thoughts, this book objectively displays the macroscopic picture of contemporary...
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Springer
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2022-07-08
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What Happened to the Soviet University? explores how one of the largest geopolitical changes of the twentieth century—the dissolution of the Soviet Union— triggered and inspired the reconfiguration of the Soviet university. The reader is invited to engage in a...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-07-08
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Since the publication of Phillip Buckner and R. Douglas Francis’ ground-breaking Rediscovering the British World, there has not been a collection of essays that looks at the history of the British World from an all-round thematic perspective. This edited collection...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2022-07-08
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'THOUGHT-PROVOKING' Bernardine Evaristo | 'IMPORTANT' Melissa Hemsley | 'RAZOR-SHARP' Nels Abbey | 'ESSENTIAL' Jaspreet Kaur | 'INSPIRATIONAL' Sophie Williams | 'REVEALING' Tineka Smith | 'NECESSARY' Natalie Alexis LeeWhat does it mean to be mixed race in today's...
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Vintage Digital
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2022-07-07
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For more than two centuries Egypt was ruled by the most powerful, successful, and richest dynasty of kings in its long end epic history. They included the female king Hatshepsut, the warrior kings Thutmose III and Amenhotep II, the religious radical Akhenaten and his...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2022-07-07
Collection :
Karen Pirie
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The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved... and is still evolving. We've come a long way.The earliest human had a brain as small as a child's fist; ours are four times bigger, with spectacular abilities and potential we are only just beginning to...
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John Murray
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2022-07-07
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As the United Kingdom left the European Union, during a period of international and domestic turmoil, London found itself at a turning point. This critical moment presents an opportunity to look back, with a distinctive perspective, a focus on London in its national...
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Robinson
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2022-07-07
Collection :
Brief Histories
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TARAN KHAN, author of Shadow CityTRANSLATED FROM BENGALI BY NAZES AFROZAn intrepid traveller and true cosmopolitan, legendary Bengali writer Syed Mujtaba Ali spent a year and a half teaching in Kabul from 1927 to 1929. Curious to explore...
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John Murray
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2022-07-07
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This book examines international education in Turkey after World War I. In this period, a movement for peace and international education among American educators emerged.This effort, however, had to be reconciled with the nationalist projects of new nation-states...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-07-06
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This book investigates how desires to transform our bodies can bring utopia to the present, and how utopian practices often lead to distinctly dystopian or anti-utopian outcomes. It is the first comprehensive study to address the paradoxical relationship between bodies...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-07-04
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Utopianism
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In the analysis of communicational practices — whether in the form ofaudience, audience, consumers, users, recipients, participants, spectators —there is an imprecision of terms and occurrences that leaves room forterminological and theoretical indecision. Hence the...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2022-07-04
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The first work to lay out Roman strategic thinking from its start under Augustus until its final demise in 476 CE
From Octavian's victory at Actium (31 bc) to its traditional endpoint in the West (476), the Roman Empire lasted a solid 500 years—an impressive number by...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-07-04
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A perceptive introduction to the mind of one of German's greatest writers, in a new translation for the first time in 150 years'The best German book there is' Nietzsche By the turn of the nineteenth century, the poet, novelist and thinker Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was...
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Penguin
Parution :
2022-06-30
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Die Untersuchung analysiert die Entstehung von Wissenschaftsorganisator*innen sowie den Wandel dieser Figur in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel der Sozialwissenschaften in Frankreich und den USA. Mittels dreier Fallstudien werden Organisator*innen in...
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Springer VS
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2022-06-30
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The Battle of Tsushima was the most decisive naval engagement in the century that elapsed since the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
Although these two battles are often compared, the Battle of Tsushima, in which the Japanese Imperial Navy defeated the Russian Imperial...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-30
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The Battle of Tsushima was the most decisive naval engagement in the century that elapsed since the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
Although these two battles are often compared, the Battle of Tsushima, in which the Japanese Imperial Navy defeated the Russian Imperial...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-30
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'A story told with verve and passion' The Times, Book of the Week'An alternative and engaging biography...accessible and unpretentious' The Telegraph'A stunning portrayal of two of the most powerful women in European history' Tracy Borman'Exciting and compelling, packed...
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Ebury Digital
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2022-06-30
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This book is the first epoch-spanning study on Jewish participation in the Italian women’s movement, focussing in a transnational perspective on the experience of Italian-Jewish protagonists in Liberal Italy, during the First World War and the Fascist dictatorship until...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-30
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