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This book highlights the broad scope and span of resistance as a contentious practice in the early modern Iberian world. In this context, from the late Middle Ages onwards, resistance, rooted in the political and legal language of the ‘old regime’ that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-10-01
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An award-winning journalist presents a thoroughly researched examination of the Israeli-Palestine conflict, and illustrates how a shocking yet little-known massacre one century ago in what was then simply Palestine became ground zero of a war that continues to...
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Union Square & Co.
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2024-10-01
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"America is the world's biggest haunted house and American Scary is the only travel guide you need. I loved this book." —Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support GroupFrom the...
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Algonquin Books
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2024-10-01
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“Remarkable… the best overview of America’s misadventure in Southeast Asia, and it is sure to become the standard one-volume book on the war.” – Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times The Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from...
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Basic Books
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2024-10-01
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This book documents and analyses Chilean university and school students’ opposition to the Pinochet regime during the latter years of the 1970s and the 1980s. The book focuses on key episodes such as the establishment of cultural groups within the militarily controlled...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-30
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The nature and purpose of elementary education featured prominently in English periodicals throughout the nineteenth century. This book’s central argument is that the periodical press provided a unique cultural space for literary and intellectual contributions to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-30
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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
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2024-09-27
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**A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR** 'Quite simply, this book is a work of genius' Matthew Parris, SpectatorThe second in a major two-part anthology uncovering the rich reality of life for queer men in London, from the end of the Second World War to...
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Penguin
Parution :
2024-09-26
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'Haunting . . . The writing is often breathtaking, brutality amplified through perfectly crafted prose.' The Times'Extraordinary . . . Serious history and skillful journalism, but with the nuance and wallop of a finely wrought novel.' Washington Post'With a passion for...
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Penguin
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2024-09-26
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WHEN GODS TURN VENGEFUL, ONLY THE BRAVE CAN DEFY FATE AND FIND THEIR WAY HOMEDiscover Stephen Fry's epic re-telling of the Odyssey for the 21st century'Relatable and full of humour ' GUARDIAN'Fry breathes contemporary relevance into these ancient tales' OBSERVER--After...
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Penguin
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2024-09-26
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‘It should become a standard work on this campaign’ Telegraph'James Holland is now our foremost authority on the Italian campaign' John C. McManus'A heart-pounding narrative of the brutal Allied fight to take Rome... This is history at its finest' James M. Scott,...
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Transworld Digital
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2024-09-26
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Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges wurden in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika bereits verschiedene Visionen zur Zukunft und Nachkriegsordnung Europas ausgearbeitet, die als solche den ideellen Grundstein für spätere außenpolitische Vorhaben legten und folglich einen...
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Springer VS
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2024-09-26
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Ein Tötungsverbot gehört zu den Grundregeln aller zivilisierten Gesellschaften - im Krieg ist dieses Verbot aber plötzlich außer Kraft gesetzt. Dies führt zu sozialen, religiösen und ideologischen Problemen, die häufig durch die Dehumanisierung der Gegner gelöst werden....
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-09-26
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This is an open access book.This OA book contains extensive research on social justice during China’s transition period. Rather than taking a macro-historical approach, or looking at social justice from a philosophical perspective, the book focuses on relevant theories...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-25
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This book examines the impact of shipbuilding on the society of the Song Dynasty from multiple perspectives and points out the positive contribution of ancient manufacture industry to social development at that time.
It explores some virgin territories and...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-09-25
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The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism is the first detailed and critical study of the intellectual and political connections that existed between some German scholars specializing on India, non-academic 'India experts,' Indian anti-colonialists and various...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-09-25
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Die Bewertung der mittleren Römischen Republik ist in der Forschung umstritten. Inzwischen ist zwar akzeptiert, die Epoche nicht mehr als ‚klassisch‘ zu apostrophieren; ob sie aber unter dem Leitmotiv konsensualer Stabilität oder konflikthafter Dynamik gesehen werden...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-09-24
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Focussing on late medieval and early modern philosophy and medicine, this edited collection explores the replacement of hylomorphism—the dominant theory of bodies in the Middle Ages—with new theories of matter such as corpuscularianism and atomism at the dawn of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-24
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Dieses Buch behandelt die globale Geschichte von Technologie, Kriegsführung und Staatenbildung vom Steinzeitalter bis zum Informationszeitalter. Unter Verwendung einer Kombination von Top-Down- und Bottom-Up-Methoden untersucht es sowohl zwischenstaatliche als auch...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-09-24
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