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The dissolution of the Order of the Temple and the persecution of the Knights Templar are still fresh in people's minds. Why did King Philip the Fair and Pope Clement V set out to destroy them? What secrets did the Knights Templar hold?Just as the Da Vinci Code revealed...
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Max Milo Éditions
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2025-04-03
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This open access book presents the main theme which advances the significance of cultural dialogue between China and Europe. The essence of the historical ties between China and Europe has resurfaced, much because of the Belt and Road Initiative launched in 2013 by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-04-02
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Louis XIII's court has long been a fixture of popular culture, thanks in part to the many movie and TV adaptations of Alexandre Dumas's novel, The Three Musketeers. Yet it remains misunderstood, commonly mischaracterized as unimportant, or wholly subservient to the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-02
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Few know that the president’s desk in the Oval Office plays a part in one of the world’s most extraordinary sagas; in Resolute, noted historian Martin Sandler brings the story to light. After Sir John Franklin and his ships disappeared in the Arctic...
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Union Square & Co.
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2025-04-01
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Garden of Wisdom: Timeless Teachings in an AI Era is a transformative exploration of the intersection between ancient wisdom and modern technology. This book offers a comprehensive framework for the ethical evolution of artificial intelligence, integrating timeless...
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Springer
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2025-03-31
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„Burmeister habe die Republik Argentinien wissenschaftlich urbanisiert“. Diese Aussage tätigte der argentinische Innenminister Joaquín Victor Gonzáles auf dem 17. Amerika-Kongress im Mai 1910 in Buenos Aires. Von dieser Aussage abgeleitet,...
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Springer VS
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2025-03-31
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Until recently, historians tended to...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-03-30
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This book provides a detailed examination of the questions that preoccupied British alienists throughout the second half of the nineteenth century. Was insanity one disorder with different forms or a set of distinct natural kinds that each had different causes,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-30
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This book explores intermedial compositional processes in later Byzantium, building on the Akathistos Hymnos. The relationship between the hymn’s text, music, and illustrations has yet to be explored in detail. The contributions here argue that these painted cycles...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-28
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This book traces the genesis of the indebtedness of the nation-state in the West, arguing that it is a phenomenon which preceded the emergence of capitalism. Even prior to the emergence of the capitalist mode of production, the ruling class of feudal landowners in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-28
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Galen of Pergamum (AD 129--c. 210), physician and philosopher, anatomist, logician, clinical and pharmacological theorist and researcher, and personal doctor to the emperor Marcus Aurelius, was the most influential and versatile medical author of the Graeco-Roman world....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-03-28
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'Dazzling ... The remarkable story of how British culture was transformed by émigré architects, filmmakers and writers' Guardian Britain. Made in Europe.In the 1930s, tens of thousands of central Europeans sought sanctuary from fascism in Britain. While the rainy,...
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Penguin
Parution :
2025-03-27
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe new page-turning, feminist retelling of the historical true-crime story of infamous wife-murderer Dr Crippen, brought to justice by an extraordinary group of women.FROMTHE AWARD-WINNING, SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING HISTORIAN AND...
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Transworld Digital
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2025-03-27
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Vietnam: The Unwinnable War is a dramatic guide to the suffering, sacrifice and heroism of one of the most significant and debated periods in twentieth-century history. Expertly retold with searing imagery and accounts of the events that unfolded, this definitive visual...
Editeur :
Welbeck
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2025-03-27
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A visceral account of the white-knuckled bombing mission carried out on Hitler's hometown.In April 1945, Linz was one of Nazi Germany's most vital assets: a crucial transportation hub and communications centre, its railyards brimming with war materiel destined for the...
Editeur :
August Books
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2025-03-27
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In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty women and girls from eleven nations were drafted into a hurriedly assembled band that would play marching music to other...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2025-03-27
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A global and comprehensive history of a modern institution of inhumanity.
In popular perception concentration camps are synonymous with genocide and Nazi racial extermination. Yet concentration camps were and are a global phenomenon, not restricted to Nazi Germany,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-26
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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
Parution :
2025-03-24
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A global and comprehensive history of a modern institution of inhumanity.
In popular perception concentration camps are synonymous with genocide and Nazi racial extermination. Yet concentration camps were and are a global phenomenon, not restricted to Nazi Germany,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-24
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This book examines the legacy of one of the most influential members of Spanish society in the seventeenth-century Philippines, Dominican scholar Juan de Paz. Using a unique manuscript from the collections of the Archivo de la Universidad de Santo Tomás in Manila,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-03-22
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