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What is the academic specialty that deals with team building? This book represents the quintessence of an interdisciplinary project, in which specialists from economics, sports, psychology and acting decipher teambuilding, creating a flexible product adapted to the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-11-11
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This book examines how Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863–1938) reimagined the Renaissance as a metaphor for Italy’s national rebirth. Rather than a nostalgic revival, the Renaissance became, in his hands, a future-oriented ideological project that served as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-10
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This book examines the use of diagrams throughout history, from their Paleolithic antecedents to the present day. Drawing on theories and concepts from the cognitive sciences, the author explores the evolution of diagrammatic forms and their impact on the accumulation...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-09
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This book traces the establishment of the Arab League’s little-known first peacekeeping operation (the first non-United Nations, regionally mandated peacekeeping operation after 1945), deployed to Kuwait in 1961-1963. It follows how the Arab League, a loose...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-07
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The global powerhouse that is the United States of America is younger even than the British Museum, Guinness and the flushing toilet. In 2026 it will celebrate its 250th birthday. How did this vast land, long inhabited by diverse indigenous cultures, come to be...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2025-11-06
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From the bestselling author of FEMINA, a brilliant reappraisal of the medieval women whose lives have been exploited over centuries for political, nation-building ends.In LEGENDA, bestselling historian Professor Janina Ramirez peels back the layers of time to reveal how...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2025-11-06
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LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD"One of those books that changes the way you see the world. Gripping, urgent, important." ED CONWAY "This wonderful book is as welcome as it is overdue ... shines a much-needed light on...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2025-11-06
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In recent years, supernatural beliefs systems in medieval and modern Islamicate cultures have been the subject of sustained scholarly attention. But we know very little about these concepts and practices in an Ottoman context.
Marinos Sariyannis proposes here to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-05
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This is the first book-length study of the history of working-class courtship and marriage in Scotland, from the establishment of civil registration to the introduction in 1939 of legislation which abolished irregular marriage and introduced civil marriage. Adopting a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-05
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Der Band beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie die Erinnerung von Zeitzeugen in der Grundschule vermittelt werden kann. Mit einer umfassenden Dokumentation des Projektes „Inge-Auerbacher-Tag“ zielt dieses Buch auf die nachhaltige Gestaltung der...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-11-05
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The forgotten life and complex legacies of Wakara, the mighty, once-notorious Native leader whose battles and conquests shaped the American West “A sobering reassessment of the history of the Great Basin and locates the disruptive and violent influences of...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2025-11-04
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In a humane world, cruelty should not exist, and yet it has been a feature of our societies since time immemorial. From individual acts of cruelty to systematic torture and mass murder, cruelty has been humanity’s constant companion, attesting to a darker side of human...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-11-03
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This book offers the first in-depth analysis of the antisemitic rhetoric expressed by the interwar Romanian cultural elite, examining eight public voices of the period (A. C. Cuza, N. Iorga, N. Crainic, N. Ionescu, O. Goga, N. Paulescu, M. Vulcanescu and V. Horia) and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-03
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Reflections on Chinese Culture presents a curated collection of Professor Lou Yulie‘s seven seminal lectures, offering profound insights into the essence of China‘s cultural heritage. This work examines the foundational concepts— including the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-01
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This book explores a significant historical event in sixteenth-century European history. The Italian crusade against the German Lutherans in 1546 was, for many reasons, the catalyst for the military phase of the Lutheran opposition in Germany's clash with Emperor...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-01
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The First World War hardly ended with the formal Armistice in Europe on November 11, 1918, amid the continuing violence of blockades and epidemics, amid numerous forms of reconstruction and revolution. Its legacies, in fact, resonate deeply in our present. Nor is it...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-29
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Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides explores three of the earliest, and most influential, accounts of plague visitations in Western literature: Homer's Iliad book 1 (1-487), Sophocles' Oedipus the King (esp. 1-215), and Thucydides' History of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-10-29
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This group biography follows the four Ashurst sisters, contemporaries of Queen Victoria, who rebelled against the limitations of their era to become influential activists. Raised by progressive parents in a London household with few boundaries between private life and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-29
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The book explores the symbolic emergence of the Second Spanish Republic in Madrid’s public space in the aftermath of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. Despite the constraints of a transition to democracy premised on restoring the Bourbon monarchy and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-10-28
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