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'Both pioneering and fundamental. This is the essential history of Ukraine, from one of the greatest Ukrainian thinkers and scholars.' Timothy Snyder #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of On Tyranny 'Ukrainian historian Yaroslav Hrytsak's vivid,...
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Sphere
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2023-11-02
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'FASCINATING' Guardian | 'WE LOVE THIS BOOK' Blackwells | 'THE BEST GIFT BOOK THERE IS' IndependentA GUIDE TO LIVING IN DARK TIMES, FROM PEOPLE WHO REALLY DIDBursting with wisdom and artwork from the Middle Ages, this handy guide will give you time-tested solutions for...
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Vintage Digital
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2023-11-02
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*A Telegraph History Book of the Year, 2023*'An astonishing achievement' ANTONY BEEVOR‘A remarkably moving and humane book’ WILLIAM BOYDAn intimate history of the most important month of the Second World War as experienced by those who lived through it, completely based...
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Vintage Digital
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2023-11-02
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Shortlisted for the 2024 Wolfson History PrizeA Telegraph and Der Spiegel Book of the YearSueddeutsche Zeitung's Number One Most Important Political Book of 2023Die Zeit, ZDF, Deutschlandfunk, taz Number One, Best Non-Fiction Books December 2023 and January 2024A...
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Penguin
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2023-11-02
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The publication is a collection of research articles that provide an insight to mnemonic governance – a process of shaping the shared social imaginary of the past by legislators, courts, scholars and other actors. This phenomenon can be observed as an element of...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2023-11-02
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Editeur :
Sceptre
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2023-11-02
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De gestis Giraldi is a narrative of the deeds of Gerald of Wales (c. 1146-1223), written in the third person but actually by Gerald himself, and framed as the biography of a bishop although Gerald never became a bishop. Gerald was born in south-west Wales of mixed...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-11-01
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On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the seemingly unassailable...
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Hachette Australia
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2023-11-01
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In early 1618, Anne Cecil (nee Lake), Lady Roos, accused Frances Cecil, countess of Exeter, of having committed adultery and incest with her husband, the countess's step grandson, William Cecil, Lord Roos. The countess had attempted to poison her twice, first with a...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-11-01
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Das Buch liefert eine Analyse des Phänomens Tradition, wie es in der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts vor allem betrachtet wurde. Dabei werden auch die relevanten vorhergehenden Ansätze des Mittelalters und der Aufklärung erläutert. Es kommen alle namhaften Vertreter...
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J.B. Metzler
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2023-11-01
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FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY A "lively, fast-paced history" (Adam Hochschild, bestselling author of American Midnight) of America’s anarchist movement and the government’s tireless efforts to destroy it In the early...
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Basic Books
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2023-10-31
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The untold story of two sisters whose discoveries sped the growth of American science in the nineteenth century, combining "meticulous research and sensitive storytelling" (Janice P. Nimura, New York Times-bestselling author ofThe Doctors Blackwell) In...
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Basic Books
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2023-10-31
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The book is the last volume of an extensive four-volume monograph devoted to the work of Cyprian Norwid (1821–1883), one of the most outstanding Polish authors.The impact of Norwid’s oeuvre does not fade, as he addresses fundamental and timeless issues, such as the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2023-10-31
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"Did You know? The urban population during Akbar's rule had exceeded the urban population of the entire Europe of that time!By 1500 CE, the city of Hampi was the world's second-largest medieval-era city after Beijing. Dholavira, the Harappan desert city, adopted highly...
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Hachette India
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2023-10-30
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This book addresses a conundrum. Alone of the major competing political interests during the civil wars of the 1640s, royalism needed to transcend attachment to one nation or one religious tradition and recruit a support base in each of England, Ireland and Scotland....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-10-30
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This book studies the academic history of the humanities of Southwestern Associated University from the following aspects: the general situation of academic research, research institutions and academic journals, philosophical research, historical research, literary...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2023-10-30
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In 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the ‘Kindertransport’, this effort has long been hailed as a wartime success story – but there are uncomfortable truths at its heart. The Kindertransport was a...
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Polity
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2023-10-27
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New edition to match the revised Cambridge IGCSE™, IGCSE (9-1) and O Level syllabuses (0470/0977/2147) for examination from 2024.Reinforce knowledge and skills using a concise summary of the syllabus content and step-by-step support from an experienced author.> Target...
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Hodder Education
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2023-10-27
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The No. 1 Bestseller in True Crime on Kindle‘A major page-turner . . . fascinating’ Nicola Tallant, Crime World podcast---November 1983. Early morning in suburban south Dublin. Businessman Don Tidey is snatched from his car and the IRA has its latest kidnap victim....
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Penguin
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2023-10-26
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This book traces how Gottfried Feder and Fritz Todt made technology essential to the Nazi ‘world view’. They groomed engineers with a racist technical ideology that prepared them to later supervise slave labor and the Holocaust. Their concepts evolved from völkisch...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-10-26
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