Men, money, duelling and murder: welcome to the infamous Derby race of 1844 and the gambling mania that gripped early 19th century Britain.This is a tale of money, gambling and sporting obsession; of rogues and rascals, outrageous criminality, aristocratic complacency,...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2010-05-27

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In At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A Short History of Nearly Everything one of the most lauded books of the last decade, and delivers one of the most entertaining and...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2010-05-27

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Model Nazi tells the story of Arthur Greiser, the man who initiated the Final Solution in Nazi-occupied Poland. Between 1939 and 1945, Greiser was the territorial leader of the Warthegau, an area of western Poland annexed to Nazi Germany. In an effort to make the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-05-27

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Model Nazi tells the story of Arthur Greiser, the man who initiated the Final Solution in Nazi-occupied Poland. Between 1939 and 1945, Greiser was the territorial leader of the Warthegau, an area of western Poland annexed to Nazi Germany. In an effort to make the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-05-27

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German philosophy remains the core of modern philosophy. Without Kant, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Husserl there would be no Anglo-American 'analytical' style of philosophy. Moreover, without Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, the 'Continental Philosophy' of...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-05-27

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The Origins of the English Parliament is a magisterial account of the evolution of parliament, from its earliest beginnings in the late Anglo-Saxon period. Starting with the national assemblies which began to meet in the reign of King Æthelstan, it carries the story...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-05-27

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It was during the period 1913-1923 that the seeds of political polarization and social violence culminating in the Spanish Civil War were sown. This volume explores the causes of the growing schism within Spanish society, focusing on the crisis of the Spanish liberal...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-05-26

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“The story is tragic, the scholarship exhilarating” (Elliott West, author of The Contested Plains) in this history of the massacre of the Lakota Sioux On December 29, 1890, American troops opened fire with howitzers on hundreds of unarmed Lakota...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2010-05-25

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNow a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott starring Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Jodie Comer.In 1386, a few days after Christmas, a massive crowd gathered at a Paris monastery to watch two men fight a duel to the death. A trial by...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-05-25

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Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields, lived in the lands of the Mekong river. This is his account of those years, and the way in which the tumultuous events affected his perceptions of life and...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-05-25

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Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. His fascinating attempt to capture their way of life and the secrets of...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-05-25

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The story of America's elite military unit told by one of its founding membersThey are the U.S. Army's most élite top secret strike force. They dominate the modern battlefield, but you won't hear about their heroics on CNN. No headlines can reveal their top-secret...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2010-05-25

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This book takes a new look at one of the most contentious periods in American history. The battles over schools that surrounded the famous Scopes "monkey" trial in 1925 were about much more than evolution. Fundamentalists fought to maintain cultural control of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-05-24

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This book is a cultural and intellectual history of anti-Catholicism in the period 1840-1870. The book will have two major themes: trans-nationalism and gender. Previous approaches to anti-Catholicism in the United States have adopted an exclusively national focus.This...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-05-24

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This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious.This aesthetic is applied in the second part to etymology, poking through the 'paternal dungheaps' of words, and tracing their origins not to Eden but to...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-05-24

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Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New York's urban renewal in the decades after World War II. Focusing on four...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-05-24

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Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New York's urban renewal in the decades after World War II. Focusing on four...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-05-24

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This book traces the profound influence that Russian literature, which was tied inseparably to the political victory of the Russian revolution, had on China during a period that saw the collapse of imperial rule and the rise of the Communist Party.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-05-24

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This book examines the ways in which usury was perceived and portrayed as it rose to popularity in Renaissance England, taking into account the works of key literary figures of this period, including Milton and Shakespeare.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-05-24

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Before the American Revolution, no colony more assiduously protected its established church or more severely persecuted religious dissenters than Virginia. Both its politics and religion were dominated by an Anglican establishment, and dissenters from the established...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-05-19

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