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30,000 years ago, before the pyramids are built, before the Ice Age comes and goes, and before Neanderthals become extinct, the Yam tribe live in peace on Bird Island. But the Crocodile tribe have other ideas... The ferocious Crocodile warriors have already killed Bent...
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E-Penguin
Parution :
2014-02-26
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Exciting, action-packed adventures in Australian history for boys aged 8 to 12.From acclaimed author Alison Lloyd comes this gripping story of early colonial life.
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E-Penguin
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2014-02-26
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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Complete Essays and Satires of Mark Twain” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Table of Contents:
How To Tell A Story And Other Essays; How To Tell A Story; The Wounded Soldier.; The...
Editeur :
e-artnow
Parution :
2014-02-25
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Told through the eyes of current and former Navy SEALs, EYES ON TARGET is an inside account of some of the most harrowing missions in American history-including the mission to kill Osama bin Laden and the mission that wasn't, the deadly attack on the US diplomatic...
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Center Street
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2014-02-25
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Sexuality was critical to how individuals experienced, learned, and contested their place in early America. Regulating Passion shows the sweeping changes that affected the social and political morass centered on sexual behavior during the late eighteenth and early...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-02-24
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The Lamaze method is virtually synonymous with natural childbirth in America. In the 1970s, taking Lamaze classes was a common rite of passage to parenthood.The conscious relaxation and patterned breathing techniques touted as a natural and empowering path to the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-02-20
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The Conquest of Mexico is a brilliant account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, written from a new and unfamiliar angle. Gruzinski analyses the process of colonization that took place in native Indian societies over three centuries, focusing on disruptions to the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-02-20
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As in Europe, secular nation building in Latin America challenged the traditional authority of the Roman Catholic Church in the early twentieth century. In response, Catholic social and political movements sought to contest state-led secularisation and provide an answer...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-02-20
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In The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet, Wecowski offers a comprehensive account of the origins of the symposion and its close relationship with the rise of the Greek city-state or polis. Broadly defined as a culture-oriented aristocratic banquet, the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-02-20
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Für Alltag, Sozialleben und Erfahrungshorizont der Menschen in der Vormoderne waren militärische Aspekte allgegenwärtig. Das gesellschaftsgeschichtlich ausgerichtete Quelleninventar für die preußische Zentrallandschaft von der Elbe bis zur Oder führt tief in diese Welt....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-19
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The observation that domestic artefacts are often recovered during church excavations led to an archaeological re-assessment of forty-seven Early Byzantine basilical church excavations and their historical, gender and liturgical context.The excavations were restricted...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-02-19
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A groundbreaking study of the Franco regime's utilization of Hollywood film production in Spain, American tourism, and sophisticated public relations programs - including the most popular national pavilion at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair - in a determined effort to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-02-18
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A Companion to the Meuse-Argonne Campaign explores the single largest and bloodiest battle in American military history, including its many controversies, in historiographical essays that reflect the current state of the field. Presents original essays on the French...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-02-14
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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This volume explores the life stories of ordinary Burmese by drawing on the narratives of individual subjects and using an array of interdisciplinary approaches, covering anthropology, history, literature, ethnomusicology, economics and political science. Burma is one...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-02-14
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The closing months of 2008 saw the world's nations united in financial uncertainty. Amid endless reports of collapsing stock markets, failed banks, fiscal fraud and snowballing unemployment, THE AGE OF NOTHING offers a compelling insight into the demise of capitalism...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2014-02-13
ePub
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Until 1919, European wars were settled without post-war trials, and individuals were not punishable under international law. After World War One, European jurists at the Paris Peace Conference developed new concepts of international justice to deal with violations of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-02-13
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In a series of literary studies, Priestley explores some of the earliest ancient responses to Herodotus' Histories through the extant written record of the early and middle Hellenistic period. Responses to the Histories were rich and varied, and the range of Hellenistic...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-02-13
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More than two thousand years ago the Chinese strategist Sun Tzu advised us to know our enemies. The question has always been how. In A Sense of the Enemy, the historian Zachary Shore demonstrates that leaders can best understand an opponent not simply from his pattern...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-02-13
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Emotions are as old as humankind. But what do we know about them and what importance do we assign to them? Emotional Lexicons is the first cultural history of terms of emotion found in German, French, and English language encyclopaedias since the late seventeenth...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-02-13
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British children were mobilised for total war in 1914-18. It dominated their school experience and they enjoyed it as a source of entertainment. Their support was believed to be vital for Britain's present and future but their participation was motivated by a desire to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-02-13
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