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The World's Most Prestigious Prize:The Inside Story of the Nobel Peace Prize is a fascinating, insider account of the Nobel peace prize. Drawing on unprecedented access to the Norwegian Nobel Institute's vast archive, it offers a gripping account of the founding of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-09-12
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'A compassionate, wide-ranging study.'
Terry Eagleton, The Guardian
Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected.
A Biography of Loneliness is the first history of its kind to be published in English, offering...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-09-12
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'A compassionate, wide-ranging study.'
Terry Eagleton, The Guardian
Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected.
A Biography of Loneliness is the first history of its kind to be published in English, offering...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-09-12
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Since 1947-48, when India and Pakistan fought their first war over Kashmir, it has been reduced to an endlessly disputed territory. As a result, the people of this region and its rich history are often forgotten. This short introduction untangles the complex issue of...
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OUP India
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2019-09-11
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One of the "10 Must-Read Histories of the Palestine-Israel Conflict"—Ian Black, Literary Hub, on the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration The new edition of the acclaimed text that explores the issues continuing to define the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2019-09-11
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Contesting the Past
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Until surprisingly recently the history of the Irish Catholic Church during the Northern Irish Troubles was written by Irish priests and bishops and was commemorative, rather than analytical. This study uses the Troubles as a case study to evaluate the role of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-09-11
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Until surprisingly recently the history of the Irish Catholic Church during the Northern Irish Troubles was written by Irish priests and bishops and was commemorative, rather than analytical. This study uses the Troubles as a case study to evaluate the role of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-09-11
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A Dissenting Companion to the U.S. History Textbook Most U.S. History textbooks track the origins and evolution of American identity. They therefore present the American Revolution as the product of a gradual cultural change in English colonists. Over time, this...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2019-09-11
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This book analyses the successive appearances of Adolf Hitler in French fiction between 1945 and 2017. It discusses why, unlike what has been observed in the US and in the UK, it has proven problematic for French novelists to write about Hitler in their numerous...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2019-09-11
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Incredibly evocative and compelling." The Washington Post"A hugely powerful new book." Dan Snow"The most moving and chilling oral history you will read." The Times"Astonishing book about an astonishing, terrifying atrocity, relived in real...
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Monoray
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2019-09-10
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From New York Times bestselling author and Founding Fathers' biographer Harlow Giles Unger comes the astonishing biography of the man whose pen set America ablaze, inspiring its revolution, and whose ideas about reason and religion continue to try men's souls.Thomas...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2019-09-10
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A deeply researched international history and "exemplary study" (New York Times Book Review) of how a divided world ended and our present world was fashioned, as the world drifts toward another great time of choosing.Two of America's leading scholar-diplomats, Philip...
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Twelve
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2019-09-10
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Since the colonization of the Philippines by Spain in the sixteenth century, the island archipelago has been at the center of global trade flows. And from its status as the main base of Spain's Pacific galleon trade to its conquest centuries later by late-arriving...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-09-10
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This pioneering book is the first English volume on Korean memories. In it, Mikyoung Kim introduces ‘psycho-historical fragmentation’, a concept that explains South Korea’s mnemonic rupture as a result of living under intense temporal, psychological and physical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-09-09
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Thirty-two years after his assassination, Thomas Sankara's name remains appealing throughout Africa and beyond. The revolutionary leader's legacy consists of a call to unity, selfconfidence and good governance. To the world's leaders, Sankara's concern for the less...
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Editions L'Harmattan
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2019-09-09
Collection :
Études africaines
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Provide students with a solid foundation in Caribbean history and encourage social studies skills, with an active approach to the study of social history for Lower Secondary. - Ensure full coverage with content spanning history from ancient civilisations to more recent...
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Hodder Education
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2019-09-09
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The Italian Army’s participation in Hitler’s war against the Soviet Union has remained unrecognized and understudied. Bastian Matteo Scianna offers a wide-ranging, in-depth corrective. Mining Italian, German and Russian sources, he examines the history of the Italian...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-09-09
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In der Welt bewähren und wandeln sich Haus und Staat als Basisinstitutionen menschlichen Zusammenlebens. Sie sind auf einer ökotheoretischen Grundlage Gegenstand einer vergleichenden Studie. Im globalen Rahmen haben sich in Haus und Staat die Modi gesellschaftlicher...
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Springer VS
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2019-09-09
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Following Never Again and Having It So Good, the third part of Peter Hennessy's celebrated Post-War Trilogy'By far the best study of early Sixties Britain ... so much fun, yet still shrewd and important' The Times, Books of the Year Harold Macmillan famously said in...
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Penguin
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2019-09-05
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**DAILY MAIL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2019****SUNDAY TELEGRAPH CHRISTMAS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2019**'So blissfully good that I'd give it to a reader of any age . . . deeply touching, unforgettable family memoir'ALLISON PEARSON, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Uplifting and enlightening . . ....
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2019-09-05
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