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The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch.
On the cusp of the Second World War, four women went to Oxford to begin their studies: a fiercely brilliant...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-10-01
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Shows vividly how the Great Fire of 1835, which nearly leveled Manhattan also created the ashes from which the city was reborn.
On a freezing December night almost two centuries ago, a fire erupted in lower Manhattan. The city's inhabitants, though accustomed to blazes...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-10-01
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*WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2022*A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS CHOSEN BY THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'A big historical advance. Ours, it turns out, is a very un-insular "Island Story". And its 17th-century chapter will never...
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Penguin
Parution :
2021-09-30
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'War as it should be described - ordinary men facing extraordinary horror' The Times'Epic and moving...Holland brings this cramped universe vividly to life' Daily Telegraph'Does not disappoint... Holland takes us down to the individual's experience' Times Literary...
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Transworld Digital
Parution :
2021-09-30
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Unsere Gegenwart ist eingebettet in Vergangenheit und Zukunft. Dem Leser wird hier eine Zusammenschau auf die sich ständig verändernden globalen Strukturen und Ereignisse geboten, jeweils mit einem Blick zurück auf die vergangenen Jahre und mit einem Blick nach vorne...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-09-30
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Discover the stories of the brave men and women who worked, trained and fought across the UK, from Bletchley Park in southern England all the way to Arisaig in northern Scotland, in an unbelievable effort to defeat the Nazis and win the Second World War .From the outset...
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Headline
Parution :
2021-09-30
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This book is about the life and times of Richard Congreve. This polemicist was the first thinker to gain instant infamy for publishing cogent critiques of imperialism in Victorian Britain. As the foremost British acolyte of Auguste Comte, Congreve sought to employ...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-29
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This edited book deepens the engagement between 21st century philosophy of mind and the emerging technologies which are transforming our environment. Many new technologies appear to have important implications for the human mind, the nature of our cognition, our...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-09-28
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Aus der Betrachtung der Flavier ergibt sich noch immer häufig ein zweigeteiltes Bild: Den ‚guten‘ Kaisern Vespasian und Titus steht der ‚Tyrann‘ Domitian entgegen, der sich zu weit vom augusteischen Ideal entfernt hatte. Vor diesem Hintergrund analysiert die vorliegende...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-09-27
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THE NEVER-BEFORE-TOLD STORY OF HOWTHE TROUT CAME TO CALL INDIAN RIVERS ITS HOME. When the East India Company's business venture with India turned into a full-fledged occupation of the country, the British in India, apart from establishing their governance, were...
Editeur :
Hachette India
Parution :
2021-09-25
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This book looks at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games as a complex nation-building project. Sports mega-events have been mostly studied as homogenous government-led strategies, but more work is needed around the diverse reception and performances. The preparation period for...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-25
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Based on five years of archival research, this book offers a radical reinterpretation of Britain and Spain’s relationship during the growth, apogee and decline of the British Empire. It shows that from the early nineteenth century Britain turned Spain into an ‘informal’...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-25
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This book is the first to present a comprehensive historical picture of the modern Catholic concern with the body and sexuality. The Catholic church is commonly believed to have always opposed birth control and abortion throughout the centuries. Yet the Catholic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-24
Collection :
Genders and Sexualities in History
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From the 1880s to the 1940s, an upsurge of explosive pogroms caused much pain and suffering across the eastern borderlands of Europe. Rioters attacked Jewish property and caused physical harm to women and children. During World War I and the Russian Civil War, pogrom...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-09-24
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A comprehensive history of the concept of freedom of therapeutic choice in the United States that presents a compelling look at how persistent but evolving notions of a right to therapeutic choice have affected American policy and law from the Revolution through the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-09-24
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This book sheds new light on the life and times of Theodore Roosevelt, drawing on a remarkable set of oral histories gathered in the 1950s from those who knew him. Remembering Theodore Roosevelt presents fourteen intimate interviews with Roosevelt’s friends, family, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-09-23
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During the Second World War, across the frontline as well as on the Home Front, millions of people recorded their thoughts of their experiences - whether in letters, their personal diaries or those prosecuting the war giving speeches. Much as Letters of Note celebrated...
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Headline
Parution :
2021-09-23
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In the third century BCE, Macedon dominated mainland Greece, but was rapidly descending into chaos. One of the consequences was a massive invasion of Celts, who ravaged and plundered Macedon and northern Greece for several years. Antigonus Gonatas, son of one of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-09-23
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In the third century BCE, Macedon dominated mainland Greece, but was rapidly descending into chaos. One of the consequences was a massive invasion of Celts, who ravaged and plundered Macedon and northern Greece for several years. Antigonus Gonatas, son of one of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-09-23
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This groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated, and what rewritten, are questions that have been asked recently not just within the history world, but by all...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2021-09-23
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