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Bring out the best in every student, enabling them to develop in-depth subject knowledge and historical skills with the market-leading series for WJEC Eduqas, fully updated for 2016 to help you navigate the new content and assessment requirements with ease.- Maps the...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2016-10-17
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This volume brings together a fascinating selection of studies exploring the soft power tools used by heirs to the throne in order to enhance the communication of monarchies with their audiences during the nineteenth-century. How we perceive royals and their dynasties...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-15
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For many generations, the Nahuas of Mexico maintained their tradition of the xiuhpohualli. or "year counts," telling and performing their history around communal firesides so that the memory of it would not be lost. When the Spaniards came, young Nahuas took the Roman...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-14
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THE NO. 1 BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF POLITICS ONTHE EDGECombining memoir, history and travel writing, a moving exploration of landscape, identity and the love between a father and son.Rory Stewart and his father set out on their final walk together along the border between...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-10-13
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This book reconstructs the intellectual and social context of several influential proponents of European unity before and after the First World War. Through the lives and works of the well-known promoter of Pan-Europe, Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, and his less...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-10-13
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When we are confronted with a work of art, what is its effect on us? In contrast to post-Enlightenment conceptions, which tend to restrict themselves to aesthetic or discursive responses, the ancient Greeks and Romans often conceived works of art as having a more...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-10-13
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'If I had to pick a single general martial arts history book in English, I would recommend A Brief History of the Martial Arts by Dr Jonathan Clements' RICHARD BEITLICH, Martial History Team blogFrom Shaolin warrior monks to the movies of Bruce Lee, a new history of the...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2016-10-13
Collection :
Brief Histories
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Exploring the experiences of early to mid-twentieth century British theatre-makers in Russia, this book imagines how these travellers interpreted Russian realism, symbolism, constructivism, agitprop, pageantry, dance or cinema.With some searching for an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-13
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Kings and Usurpers in the Seleukid Empire: The Men who would be King focuses on ideas of kingship and power in the Seleukid empire, the largest of the successor states of Alexander the Great. Exploring the question of how a man becomes a king, it specifically examines...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-10-13
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'Robert Twigger is not so much a travel writer as a thrill-seeking philosopher' EsquireThe Himalayas beckon and we go ... Some to make real journeys and others to make imaginary ones. These mountains, home to Buddhists, Bonpos, Jains, Muslims, Hindus, shamans and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2016-10-13
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Did you know… William IV was wont to speak his mind and could sometimes lack tact, which is said to have inspired the nickname ‘Silly Billy’? Edward III banned all sports, including football, on Sundays, so that his subjects could be free to concentrate solely on their...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2016-10-13
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Esito del 2° convegno della serie «E pluribus unum? L’Italia dalla frammentazione preromana all’unità augustea», tenutosi a Roma nel 2014, il libro tratta la «romanizzazione» dell’Italia preromana, affrontando le dinamiche socio-politiche e linguistico-epigrafiche, le...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-10-12
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The foundation of a stable democracy in Spain was built on a settled account: an agreement that both sides were equally guilty of violence, a consensus to avoid contention, and a pact of oblivion as the pathway to peace and democracy. That foundation is beginning to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-11
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Beautifully designed and carefully curated, a fascinating collection of the things that shaped the way we live and play in America What artifact best captures the spirit of American sports? The bat Babe Ruth used to hit his allegedly called shot, or the ball on which...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2016-10-11
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From the legendary antagonism between Athens and Sparta during the Peloponnesian War to the Napoleonic Wars and the two World Wars of the twentieth century, the past is littered with long-term strategic rivalries. History tells us that such enduring rivalries can end in...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-11
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In this remarkable WWII story by New York Times bestselling author John R. Bruning, a renegade American pilot fights against all odds to rescue his family -- imprisoned by the Japanese--and revolutionizes modern warfare along the way. From the knife fights and smuggling...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2016-10-11
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On October 24, 1944, more than two hundred American soldiers realized they were surrounded by German infantry deep in the mountain forest of eastern France. As their dwindling food, ammunition, and medical supplies ran out, the American commanding officer turned to the...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2016-10-11
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Bring out the best in every student, enabling them to develop in-depth subject knowledge and historical skills with the market-leading series for WJEC Eduqas, fully updated for 2016 to help you navigate the new content and assessment requirements with ease.- Maps the...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2016-10-10
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This book illuminates the neglected history of the Dublin Metropolitan Police – a history that has been long overshadowed by existing historiography, which has traditionally been preoccupied with the more radical aspects of Irish history. It explores the origins of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-10
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Exam board: OCRLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbookTrust Ben Walsh to guide you through the 9-1 GCSE specification and motivate your students to excel with his trademark mix of engaging narrative and...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2016-10-10
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