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In 1960, the FDA approved the oral contraceptive that would come to be known as the pill. Within a few years, millions of women were using it. At a time when the population was surging, many believed that the drug would help eradicate poverty around the globe, ensure...
Editeur :
Basic Books
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2010-04-27
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A riveting narrative about America's ferocious drive towards empire during the Gilded Age, told by one of our most acclaimed historians. On February 15, 1898, the American ship USS Maine mysteriously exploded in the Havana Harbor. News of the blast quickly...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2010-04-27
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This work is a study of the nature and origin of nationality and modern social ideals in the Middle East, particularly Egypt, in the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Bringing together writings on political and social reform with literary works, Noorani...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-04-26
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Through a close analysis of key texts and the larger historical contexts within which they were composed, this study explores George Berkeley's engagement with the social and economic threats facing Ireland and Britain, highlighting his belief that virtue and religion...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2010-04-26
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Britain's mining and quarrying industries date back to the Stone Age flint mines of 2500 BC and still exist. In that period of more than 4,000 years the country's miners have produced colossal amounts of copper, tin, lead, zinc, iron, a lot of silver and some gold, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-04-22
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Britain's mining and quarrying industries date back to the Stone Age flint mines of 2500 BC and still exist. In that period of more than 4,000 years the country's miners have produced colossal amounts of copper, tin, lead, zinc, iron, a lot of silver and some gold, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-04-22
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The Cyprus conflict was for long an inactive volcano, but it erupted violently in 1955, 1963 and 1974. Now more of a smouldering fire, its persistence is a serious obstacle on Turkey's route to EU accession. Uniquely utilizing Turkish sources, this book looks at how the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-04-21
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During the heyday of camel caravan traffic--from the eighth century CE arrival of Islam in North Africa to the early twentieth-century building of European colonial railroads that linked the Sudan with the Atlantic--the Sahara was one of the world's great commercial...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-04-19
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'the glory of wealth and physical beauty is fluid and fragile; but virtue is held brilliant and eternal'
The Roman historian Sallust lived through troubled times. He deplored the moral and political decline of the Republic, and in his two monographs he set out to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-04-15
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Genocide has scarred human societies since Antiquity. In the modern era, genocide has been a global phenomenon: from massacres in colonial America, Africa, and Australia to the Holocaust of European Jewry and mass death in Maoist China. In recent years, the discipline...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-04-15
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Genocide has scarred human societies since Antiquity. In the modern era, genocide has been a global phenomenon: from massacres in colonial America, Africa, and Australia to the Holocaust of European Jewry and mass death in Maoist China. In recent years, the discipline...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-04-15
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A comprehensive history of the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews, paying detailed attention to an unrivalled range sources.
Focusing clearly on the perpetrators and exploring closely the process of decision making, Longerich argues that anti-Semitism was...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-04-15
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A unique exploration of the changing ideas about the place of voluntarism and health care within society in Britain since the 1960s. By considering the work of voluntary organisations with illegal drug users, the authors provide a lens through which wider developments...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-04-14
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As the country's first African American military pilots, the Tuskegee Airmen fought in World War II on two fronts: against the Axis powers in the skies over Europe and against Jim Crow racism and segregation at home. Although the pilots flew more than 15,000 sorties and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-04-14
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As the country's first African American military pilots, the Tuskegee Airmen fought in World War II on two fronts: against the Axis powers in the skies over Europe and against Jim Crow racism and segregation at home. Although the pilots flew more than 15,000 sorties and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-04-14
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Intimate, anecdotal, and spell-binding, Singing Out offers a fascinating oral history of the North American folk music revivals and folk music. Culled from more than 150 interviews recorded from 1976 to 2006, this captivating story spans seven decades and cuts across a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-04-14
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A comprehensive history of the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews, paying detailed attention to an unrivalled range sources.
Focusing clearly on the perpetrators and exploring closely the process of decision making, Longerich argues that anti-Semitism was...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2010-04-14
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NOBODY IN PARTICULAR is the hand-on-heart, honest, charming and occasionally tear-inducingly tragic, often laugh out loud funny story of what it was like to grow up in Liverpool in the 1950s and '60s as the youngest child in a large and somewhat eccentric Anglo-Irish...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2010-04-13
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This book investigates how Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and their circle understood the idea of Europe. What geographical, cultural, and ideological concepts did they associate with the term? What does this tell us about politics and identity in early nineteenth-century...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-04-12
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In the 1630s, Anne Hutchinson--the wife of a Boston merchant and mother of fifteen children--defied the Calvinist clergy by holding meetings and espousing a controversial religious stance. When asked to stop, she did not, and as a result of her outspokenness, Hutchinson...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2010-04-10
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