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"The calculated location of the ancient solar eclipses could have an error of up to about 10 kilometers."
This statement by the U.S. Space Administration NASA is a scientific outstretching of how ancient eclipses can be found. When numerous eclipses observed in ancient...
Editeur :
Pekka Mansikka
Parution :
2023-04-25
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When the Berlin Wall was stormed and the Soviet Union fell apart, the West and above all the United States looked like the sole victors of history. Three decades later, the spirit of triumph rings hollow. What went wrong? In this sequel to his award-winning history of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-04-25
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Adopting the perspective of anthropology of art and combining it with global academic insights, this book helps the readers to recognize that “history is, in great measure, the record of human activity which spreads from the local to the regional, from the regional to...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-04-21
Collection :
China Academic Library
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A historian explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood in this “timely, refreshingly open-hearted study of the choices women make and the cards they’re dealt” (Ada Calhoun, author of Why We Can’t Sleep). In...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2023-04-18
ePub
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Wigging Out is a comprehensive visual history of wigs and hairpieces, covering thousands of years of hair worn by everyone from Cleopatra and Louis XIV to Naomi Campbell and Lady Gaga. Starting in ancient Egypt and ending on the red carpet of the Met Gala,Wigging...
Editeur :
Black Dog & Leventhal
Parution :
2023-04-18
ePub
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It all happened in a flash. February 1933 was the month in which the fate of German writers, as for so many others, was decided. In a tensely spun narrative, Uwe Wittstock tells the story of a demise which was predicted by some but also scarcely thought possible. He...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2023-04-18
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Pellegrino Artusi, the great gastronome and amateur detective, is back. It is 1900 and Pellegrino's famed cookbook is in its fifth edition. Flushed from his fortune and success, our hero joins a weekend party at the Tuscan castle of the wealthy agricultural...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2023-04-13
ePub
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Headline
Parution :
2023-04-13
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Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2023-04-06
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The thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they paid for in this Murder on the Orient Express–style adventure, set in China’s republican era. In May 1923, when Shanghai publisher and reporter John...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2023-04-04
ePub
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Is it possible that more than 50 years after the assassination of Che Guevara, and after hundreds and perhaps thousands of biographers, analysts, journalists, and scientists researching the life and legacy of Che Guevara, it has not yet been discovered that one of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-04-03
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Ethnic classification is the process of establishing standards, such as shared ancestry, language, religious practices, cultural traditions, and geographical distributions, for categorizing ethnic groups. Tracing the history of China to its tribal origins, the book...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-04-03
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This book offers a collection of contributions on medieval, early modern, and contemporary perspectives on social ontology. Since the 1990s, social ontology has emerged as a vibrant research area in contemporary analytical philosophy. Questions concerning the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-04-03
Collection :
Historical-Analytical Studies on Nature, Mind and Action
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'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began speaking of the earth beneath our feet as la terra ballerina, the dancing earth. The dance they spoke of was unrelenting.'Foreign...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2023-03-30
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Editeur :
Riverrun
Parution :
2023-03-30
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In this book, rock-cut and underground structures of Koramaz Valley on the Anatolian Plateau in Turkey are described in detail. The valley; located in eastern Turkey near the town of Kayseri, has hundreds of rock-cut structures, in addition to several underground...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-03-28
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The new edition of the most up-to-date, interdisciplinary history of Ohio currently available Now in its second edition, Ohio: A History of the Buckeye State surveys the long and rich history of Ohio from its earliest geological periods to the present day. Designed for...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2023-03-28
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This book is a comprehensive academic introduction of the natural conditions and cultural characteristics of the ChangJiang River Basin. Describing in detail the geographical location and natural conditions of the main stream and the tributaries as the starting point,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-03-23
Collection :
Understanding China
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This open access book includes forty-one chapters about foreign observers’ discourses on Japan. These include a wide range of perspectives from the travelogues of curious visitors to academic theses by scholars, which offer us a broad spectrum of contents, reflecting a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-03-23
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