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THE NEW BOOK FROM ELINOR CLEGHORN: A WOMAN'S WORK IS OUT NOW 'An essential history' - Leah Hazard'Powerful' NEW YORK TIMES'A passionate and indignant history'THE TIMES'Unputdownable' TELEGRAPHMedicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries,...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2021-06-10
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The story of extraordinary women who lost their way - their sense of self, their identity, their freedom - and found it again through walking in the wild. 'Moving and memorable' Virginia Nicholson, author of How Was It for You?'A triumph ... I felt as though I were...
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John Murray
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2021-06-10
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JOIN SAS LEGEND PHIL CAMPION AS HE SHARES HIS DEEPLY PERSONAL LIFE STORY, WARTS AND ALLIn WHO DARES WINS Big Phil Campion reveals his chequered past, from terrible abuse suffered in a string of kids' homes to psychological abuse suffered at a top public school.Phil...
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Quercus
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2021-06-10
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'A brilliant and important book ... Five Stars!' Mark Dolan, talkRADIO'An important new book' Daily Express An alternative history of the world that exposes some of the biggest lies ever told and how they've been used over time.Lincoln did not believe all men were...
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Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
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2021-06-10
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Documentation, analysis, and explanation of culture change have long been goals of archaeology. Scientific graphs facilitate the visual thinking that allow archaeologists to determine the relationship between variables, and, if well designed, comprehend the processes...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-06-10
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Documentation, analysis, and explanation of culture change have long been goals of archaeology. Scientific graphs facilitate the visual thinking that allow archaeologists to determine the relationship between variables, and, if well designed, comprehend the processes...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-06-10
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What is it about Brittany that makes it such a favourite destination for the British?
To answer this question, Bretons and Britons explores the long history of the Bretons, from the time of the first farmers around 5400 BC to the present, and the very close...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-06-10
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This book examines public discussions around France's four most prominent royal women during the first and second Restoration and July Monarchy: the duchesse d’Angoulême, the duchesse de Berry, Queen of the French Marie-Amélie, and Adélaïde d’Orléans. These...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-06-10
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Mit der Gründung des ungarischen Staates vor 1.000 Jahren entstand im Karpatenbecken inmitten Europas eine besondere Formation aus Sprache, Sitten, Geschichte und Politik. In den letzten tausend Jahren verschmolzen die verschiedenen historischen Epochen, die Völker, die...
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Springer VS
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2021-06-09
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A “can’t-miss for anyone interested in current military affairs,” On Killing Remotely reveals and explores the costs—to individual soldiers and to society—of the way we wage war today (Kirkus Reviews, starred). Throughout history...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2021-06-08
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This open access book uses Finland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as an empirical case in order to study the emergence, shaping and renewal of a nation through histories of experience and emotions. It revolves around the following questions: What kinds of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-06-07
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In his critical study of Australian imperialism, Erik Paul analyses the making, character and contours of the geopolitical state from the time of the British invasion and colonisation to the present, expanding the country’s continental political and economic power. War...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2021-06-07
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The Avon Lady acquired iconic status in twentieth century American culture. This first history of Avon tells the story of a direct sales company that was both a giant in its industry and a kitchen-table entrepreneurial venture.
With their distinctive greeting at the...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-06-04
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Out now: the new book by Dr Fern Riddell, a powerful and entertaining history of sex. Revised and updated. __________These are the facts: throughout history human beings have had sex. Sexual culture did not begin in the sixties. It has always been celebrated, needed,...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
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2021-06-03
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How do things change? The question is critical to the historical study of any era but it is also a profoundly important issue today as western democracies find the fundamental tenets of their implicit social contract facing extreme challenges from forces espousing ideas...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-06-03
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'Elegantly written, full of wit and charm, this is travel writing at its very best' Orlando FigesIn the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy's legendary revolutionary hero, fled Rome and led 4,000 of his men hundreds of miles through Umbria and Tuscany, then across...
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Vintage Digital
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2021-06-03
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***'If you only read one book about the Falklands make sure it's this one.' - Soldier magazine'An extraordinarily detailed account of the bloodiest battle of the Falklands war.' - Major General Jonathan Shaw CB CBEWhen 3 Para began their assault under cover of darkness...
Editeur :
Monoray
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2021-06-03
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A groundbreaking narrative of how the United States offered the promise of nuclear technology to the developing world and its gamble that other nations would use it for peaceful purposes.
After the Second World War, the United States offered a new kind of atom that...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-06-03
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This volume comprises the proceedings of a workshop with the same title which took place in October 2015. It was organised within the frame of the ARC13/18-049 (concerted research action) ‘A World in Crisis?’. It has both a large chronological scope-from the Late...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Louvain
Parution :
2021-06-03
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AEGIS
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Following a first 5-year programme between 2007 and 2011 and three earlier preliminary reports published as Aegis 1, 4 and 6, the Belgian School at Athens returned to Sissi in 2015. This volume describes the results of the 2015 and 2016 campaigns, in part concentrating...
Editeur :
Presses universitaires de Louvain
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2021-06-03
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AEGIS
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