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'A Scout is a Friend to all'
An amalgam of imperial myth, borrowed tips on health and hygiene, and object lessons in woodcraft, the 1908 text of Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys is the original blueprint and 'self-instructor' of the Boy Scout Movement. One of...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-05-08
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In this “forensic, unflinching, devastating work of historical recovery” (Sathnam Sanghera), Bud Dajo—an American atrocity bigger than Wounded Knee or My Lai, yet today largely forgotten—is revealed, thanks to the rediscovery of a single...
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PublicAffairs
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2024-05-07
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A thrilling narrative investigation into the National Socialist Underground (NSU)—a German terror organization that targeted immigrants—and how a government failed to stop it. Not long after the Berlin Wall fell, three teenagers became friends in the...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2024-05-07
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This book presents a history of Swedish sport, highlighting in particular the relationship between sport politics and people’s changing attitudes towards sport from the eighteenth century until today. It scrutinizes the interaction between sport politics and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-05-07
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An instant New York Times bestseller, this “profound book” (Wall Street Journal) charts how and why some societies chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time War can settle disputes, topple...
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Basic Books
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2024-05-07
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Making Makers presents a comprehensive history of a seminal work of scholarship which has exerted a persistent attraction for scholars of war and strategy: Makers of Modern Strategy. It reveals the processes by which scholars conceived and devised the book, considering...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-05-07
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What was Christianity like for ordinary people between the turn of the millennium and the coming of the Black Death?What changed and what continued, in their experiences, habits, feelings, hopes, and fears? How did they know themselves to be Christians, and indeed to be...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-05-07
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Roswell, 1947. Washington, DC, 1952. Quarouble, 1954. New Hampshire, 1961. Pascagoula, 1973. Petrozavodsk, 1977. Copley Woods, 1983. Explore how sightings of UFOs and aliens seized the world's attention and discover what the fascination with flying saucers and...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-05-06
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The dramatic story of one of the most violent episodes of the civil rights movement and its role in the ongoing reckoning with racial injustice in the United States.
On Bloody Sunday, activist John Lewis led over 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-05-06
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Dieses Buch erzählt faszinierende Geschichten von deutsch-französischen Familien in der Nachkriegszeit in einer spannenden historischen Studie. Es basiert auf Zeitzeugenberichten über eine Zeit, in der der Umgang mit einem Vertreter des Erbfeindes schwierig war und...
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Springer VS
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2024-05-06
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What are the prospects for ambitious political reform in communities of traditional, passionate, and even self-righteous citizens? Can thoughtful legislators create a healthy society for citizens whose judgment is typically unsound? In this searching and provocative...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-05-03
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‘A superb account of the 1860 Damascus massacres—much neglected nowadays but central to the creation of the modern Middle East’ - Simon Sebag Montefiore‘A stunning portrait of the Ottoman Empire and of Damascus during a time of crisis. Absolutely riveting’ - Peter...
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Allen Lane
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2024-05-02
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The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women explores the vital and unexplored ways in which women's life writings acted to undergird, guide, and indeed shape religious communities. Through an exploration of various significant but...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-05-01
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A Palestinian prisoner’s memoir of thirty years’ captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts him This is the story of a wall that somehow chose me as the witness of what it said and didNasser Abu Srour grew up in a refugee camp in the West...
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Penguin
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2024-04-30
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Reflecting the growing interest of historians in memory studies, this edited collection examines the relationship between memory and global social movements from 1848 to the present. For a long time, there has been little attempt by historians to consider memory and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-04-29
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This book shows how inflation can disrupt politics and society. With no recent precedent, mild inflation spurred mass protests, myriad remedial schemes, and partisan political reversals between 1910 and 1914. Then wartime demand and inflationary fiscal policy doubled...
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Springer
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2024-04-29
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China’s international political prominence is currently facing a strategic challenge and significant dilemma due to its image abroad. To address this, China is utilizing the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to shape its global image and enhance strategic engagements in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-04-29
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How did the premodern Ottomans understand public office corruption? To answer this question, Defining Corruption in the Ottoman Empire explores how Ottoman jurists, statesmen, political commentators, and others characterized this notion and what specific transgressions...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-04-29
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Mobilization for World War II disrupted life in the Deep South of the United States, sparking new-and, in some cases, reigniting old-battles across the home front. Rural migrants flocked to towns and cities, hoping to take advantage of new war-related job opportunities....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-04-29
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Die Beiträge des Sammelbands behandeln innovativ und vergleichend Fragen zu zeitgebundenen Phänomenen der periodischen Presse. Der zeitliche und mediale Rahmen spannt sich von Andreas Gryphius’ Perikopendichtung über Zeitschriften und Kalender sowie das im Mittelpunkt...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-04-29
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