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THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BESTSELLER, NOW AN ACCLAIMED TV SERIESThis is the definitive account of the run-up to 9/11: from the man who lit the spark of radical Islam in 1948, to those who built up a terror network, and to the FBI agent whose warnings of 'something big'...
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Penguin
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2014-11-27
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At Home in the Institution examines space and material culture in asylums, lodging houses and schools in Victorian and Edwardian England, and explores the powerful influence of domesticity on all three institutional types.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-11-27
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The fertile plains of the ancient Greek region of Thessaly stretch south from the shadow of Mount Olympus. Thessaly's numerous small cities were home to some of the richest men in Greece, their fabulous wealth counted in innumerable flocks and slaves. It had a strict...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-11-27
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This history of the 'Torrid Zone' offers a comprehensive and powerfully rich exploration of the 17th century Anglophone Atlantic world, overturning British and American historiographies and offering instead a vernacular history that skillfully negotiates diverse...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-11-26
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Asa Briggs has been a prominent figure in post-war cultural life - as a pioneering historian, a far-sighted educational reformer, and a sensitive chronicler of the way in which broadcasting and communication more generally have shaped modern society. He has also been a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-11-25
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Die konfliktreiche Landnahme des Deutschen Ordens in der Terra Prussie, dem Lande Preußen, und der folgende Aufbau des Ordensstaates Preußen als eine damals viel bewunderte Institution erfolgten ganz im Geiste der Kreuzzüge. Durchdrungen von der Mission seines Ordens...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-11-25
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Die Studie beschäftigt sich mit der Entwicklung der Medizinischen Fakultät zwischen 1945 und 1970. Im Fokus der Untersuchung steht dabei das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Medizinischer Fakultät und öffentlichem Raum, der wiederum die regionale Öffentlichkeit,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-11-25
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Die Publikation gibt einen detaillierten Überblick über ausgewählte Bestandsteile aus der archivalischen Überlieferung des Bezirkstages und des Rates des Bezirkes Potsdam aus dem Zeitraum 1952–1990. In diesen Jahrzehnten waren die Bezirke in der DDR das wichtigste...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-11-25
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Die Publikation gibt einen detaillierten Überblick über ausgewählte Bestandsteile aus der archivalischen Überlieferung des Bezirkstages und des Rates des Bezirkes Potsdam aus dem Zeitraum 1952–1990. In diesen Jahrzehnten waren die Bezirke in der DDR das wichtigste...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-11-25
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As England suffered heavy casualties at the front during World War One, the nation closed ranks against outsiders at home. England sought to reaffirm its racial dominance at the heart of the empire, and the Chinese in London became the principal scapegoat for...
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E-Penguin
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2014-11-24
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During Germany's occupation of France in WWII, French regional languages became a way for people to assert their local identities. This book offers a detailed historical sociolinguistic analysis of the various language policies applied in France's regions (Brittany,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-11-24
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In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small towns and cities from New York to New Orleans.The trip became Travels With Charley, one of his best-loved books.Half a century on, Geert Mak...
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Vintage Digital
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2014-11-20
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In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom the Paris Review has called 'a literary institution', explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people who lived more than three thousand years ago in northern India: they left behind...
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Penguin
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2014-11-18
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Drawing upon economic history, cultural studies, intellectual history and the history of science and medicine, this collection of case studies examines the transatlantic transfer and transformation of goods and ideas, with particular emphasis on their reception in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-11-18
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The essays in this volume examine United States-East Asian relations in the framework of global history, incorporating fresh insights that have been offered by scholars on such topics as globalization, human rights, historical memory, and trans-cultural relations.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-11-18
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A "masterly" account of the origins of the transcontinental railroad (Douglas Brinkley) by the author of the bestselling The Admirals. After the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, the rest of the United States was up for grabs, and the race was...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2014-11-18
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In 1654 Zen Master Yinyuan traveled from China to Japan. Seven years later his monastery, Manpukuji, was built and he had founded a new tradition, called Obaku.In this sequel to his 2008 book, Enlightenment in Dispute, Jiang Wu tells the story of the tremendous...
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Oxford University Press
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2014-11-14
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A definitive portrait of one of the most compelling monarchs England has ever had: Elizabeth I.'We are a prince from a line of princes.'Lisa Hilton's majestic biography of Elizabeth I, 'The Virgin Queen', uses new research to present a fresh interpretation of Elizabeth...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2014-11-13
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Turks Across Empires tells the story of the pan-Turkists, Muslim activists from Russia who gained international notoriety during the Young Turk era of Ottoman history. Yusuf Akçura, Ismail Gasprinskii and Ahmet Agaoglu are today remembered as the forefathers of Turkish...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-11-13
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Lyn MacDonald's acclaimed history 1914: The Days of Hope, is not so much the story of war as the story of an army.In this vivid account of the first months of the First World War,Lyn Macdonald draws on personal accounts of surviving veterans, bringing to life the...
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Penguin
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2014-11-13
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