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A gripping and atmospheric Black Forest Investigation featuring Detective Inspector Louise Bonì."Oliver Bottini is one of the most sophisticated crime writers of modern times" Sunday TimesIn a Berlin hotel a man is beaten up, but it's more than a random assault and the...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2023-05-25
Collection :
The Black Forest Investigations
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Xenophon wrote the Cyropaedia to outline his political and moral philosophy. He did this by endowing a fictional version of the boyhood of Cyrus the Great, founder of the first Persian Empire, with the qualities of whatXenophon considered the ideal ruler.
The Cyropaedia...
Editeur :
Pekka Mansikka
Parution :
2023-05-24
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The most comprehensive reference work on Tacitus published in EnglishThe Tacitus Encyclopedia is the only complete reference of its kind in the field of Tacitean studies. Spanning two volumes, this unprecedented resource contains more than 1,000 entries covering every...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-05-24
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If a deep and lasting crisis shook our democracies, as happened to German society from 1929 to 1933, would we be able to resist the fascist temptation? On January 31, 1933, thirty-two million Germans, who had not voted Nazi woke up caught in the trap of dictatorship....
Editeur :
Max Milo Editions
Parution :
2023-05-22
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'Vivid, atmospheric, packed with brilliant story-telling' - Humphrey Hawksley, former BBC Beijing, Hong Kong and Asia Correspondent'[An] entertaining guide, rich in anecdote and understanding for an early globalised world that has gone' - Michael Sheridan, Sunday...
Editeur :
Corsair
Parution :
2023-05-18
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From the outset, Caroline Lamb had a rebellious nature.From childhood she grew increasingly troublesome, experimenting with sedatives like laudanum, and she had a special governess to control her. She also had a merciless wit and talent for mimicry. She spoke French and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2023-05-18
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With a population of nearly 1.5 billion and the world’s second largest economy, China is a major player in the world today, and yet many in the West know very little about contemporary China. This book provides a clear, authoritative and up-to-date history of China...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-05-18
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'An incredible and compelling story' MATT COOPER'Gripping, unpretentious, brilliant and unputdownable' BUSINESS POSTA Murderer. A Leader. The Scandal of an Era.In the summer of 1982, Irish aristocrat Malcolm Macarthur embarked on a brutal killing spree in a doomed plan...
Editeur :
Hachette Books Ireland
Parution :
2023-05-18
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How was it possible for a well-educated nation to support a regime that made it a crime to think for yourself? This was the key question for the Stuttgart-based author Anna Haag (1888–1982), the democratic feminist whose anti-Nazi diaries are analysed in this book. Like...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-05-16
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A centuries-old secret document unravels the origin story of America and reveals the intellectual crime of the millennia in this "hugely entertaining" dive into our country’s history to discover the first, true Declaration of Independence (Andrew...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2023-05-16
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Editeur :
Headline
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2023-05-11
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Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2023-05-11
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Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2023-05-11
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This is the first single volume in either English or Russian on the representation of Pushkin in Yuri Tynianov’s novels. It demonstrates the percipience and originality of Tynianov’s concept of Pushkin’s personality and assesses Tynianov’s contribution to the Soviet...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-05-09
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Booker T. Washington’s famous 1901 memoir, Up From Slavery, charts Washington’s rise from an enslaved child with a passion for learning to the nation’s most prominent Black educator and first president of Tuskegee University. A tireless advocate for...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2023-05-09
Collection :
Signature Editions
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Brazil has long been an enigma to outsiders. Over the last two decades alone, Latin America’s largest and most populous country has been celebrated as a vibrant new democracy with a powerful economy, and derided as a nation in complete disarray heading toward the status...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-05-09
Collection :
Polity Histories
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'A stunningly good and surely definitive biography of one of the most fascinating British engineers ever to have lived' JAMES HOLLANDBarnes Wallis is remembered for contributions to aviation that spanned most of the 20th century, from airships at its start to reusable...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2023-05-04
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This book examines how the Embassy members approached, selected, and represented information, and how, in doing so, they helped to shape European perceptions of China. The Macartney Embassy of 1793 was the first British diplomatic mission to China, seeking to open ties...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-04-30
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The book is a meticulous work in answering these questions which often occur to foreigners as well as modern Chinese themselves at the thought of the old China and its experience in modern times: What is Chinese civilization? How could it exist for several millennia and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-04-29
Collection :
China Academic Library
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Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2023-04-27
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