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A fully-revised and updated new edition of a concise and insightful socio-historical analysis of the Cuban revolution, and the course it took over five and a half decades. Now available in a fully-revised second edition, including new material to add to the book’s...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-02-02
Collection :
Viewpoints / Puntos de Vista
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Acknowledged as a masterpiece of materialist criticism, this book delves into the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination. Surveying two hundred years of history and English literature – from George Eliot to George Orwell – Williams provides insights into...
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Vintage Digital
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2015-01-31
Collection :
Everyman's Library CLASSICS
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Mormonism is one of the few homegrown religions in the United States, one that emerged out of the religious fervor of the early nineteenth century. Yet, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have struggled for status and recognition. In this book,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-01-30
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Buddhism in Mongolian History, Culture, and Society explores the unique elements of MongolianBuddhism while challenging its stereotyped image as a mere replica of Tibetan Buddhism. Vesna A. Wallace brings together an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-01-30
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'Hooper has written a fascinating, affectionate and well-researched study that delivers the tantalising flavour of a country as hot, cold, bitter and sweet as an affogato' The Telegraph'This portrait of a nation is required reading for anyone heading to a Tuscan villa...
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Penguin
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2015-01-29
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Guilty But Insane takes an historical approach to golden age detective fiction by Margery Allingham, Christianna Brand, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Gladys Mitchell. It examines how writers and readers of detective fiction during the 1920s to 1940s understood...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-01-29
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Any list of the six greatest European poets would include Virgil, Aeschylus and Homer. A recent history of philosophy named Aristotle and Plato as two of the world's four greatest philosophers. The greatest historian of all is likely to be Thucydides. Why was Ancient...
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Pelican
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2015-01-29
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Drone Theory is Gregoire Chamayou's poignant and sharply argued polemic against US drone warfare.In 2011 alone, the US deployed one drone strike every four days in Pakistan.Drone Theory is a rigorous polemic against the increasing use of robot warfare around the world....
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Penguin
Parution :
2015-01-29
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'A wonderful idea, gloriously put into practice. Greg Jenner is as witty as he is knowledgeable' - Tom Holland'You will love Greg Jenner's jolly account of how we have more in common with our ancestors than we might think ... all human life is here, amusingly conveyed...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2015-01-29
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Dachau and the SS studies the concentration camp guards at Dachau, the first SS concentration camp and a national 'school' of violence for its concentration camp personnel. Set up in the first months of Adolf Hitler's rule,Dachau was a bastion of the Nazi 'revolution'...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-01-29
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Early Greek Relative Clauses contributes to an old debate currently enjoying a revival: should we expect languages spoken a few thousand years ago, such as Proto-Indo-European, to be less well-equipped than modern languages when it comes to subordinate clauses?Early...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-01-29
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This book explores heritage from a wide range of perspectives and disciplines and in doing so provides a distinctive and deeply relevant survey of the field as it is currently researched, understood and practiced around the world.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-28
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Aleksandr Nikolaevic Radišcev, geboren 1749, erhielt seine juristische Ausbildung an der Leipziger Universität. Er gehört zu den bedeutenden Schriftstellern Rußlands in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts. Seine von der europäischen Aufklärung beeinflußten radikalen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-01-28
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Shin Kanemaru (1914-1996) served as a key power broker at the national level in Japan from the 1970s until the early 1990s. He was at the heart of the '1955 system' of conservative political rule. Though never Prime Minister himself, he controlled or strongly influenced...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-01-28
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The essential travel companion for anyone visiting Gallipoli.Each year, thousands of Australians visit Gallipoli to pay homage and see where their forebears fought, suffered and died. Anzac Cove, Quinn's Post, Lone Pine - the iconic places where our national legend was...
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Hachette Australia
Parution :
2015-01-27
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For many years the story of Cromie has been overshadowed by histories of the greater tragedy found on the Western Front in World War I. Yet, like T E Lawrence, Cromie's individual exploits reveal a classic British hero: noble, tenacious and beloved by all who served...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2015-01-26
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This book examines the striking way in which medical and scientific work on hearing in 18th and 19th-century France helped to shape modern French society and culture. The author argues that of all the senses hearing offered the greatest resources for remodelling the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-26
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American ideals and models feature prominently in the master narrative of post-war European consumer societies. This book demonstrates that Europeans did not appropriate a homogenous notion of America, rather post-war European consumption was a process of selective...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-26
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The essays of this collection explore how ideas about 'blood' in science and literature have supported, at various points in history and in various places in the circum-Atlantic world, fantasies of human embodiment and human difference that serve to naturalize existing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-26
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This book examines how, from the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, British policymakers, welfare providers, and working-class men struggled to accommodate men's dependence on the state within understandings of masculine citizenship.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-01-22
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