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'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as they were then' GUARDIAN'She writes vividly and movingly' DAILY TELEGRAPH26th September 1939. I am beginning to wonder whether the point of a...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2022-11-17
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This book examines the origins and basic concepts of sociology in China and traces the discipline’s evolutionary trajectory. Building on the premise that qunxue, which goes back to Xunzi, is essentially the Chinese antecedent of...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-11-14
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The child is never just a child. While the image, voice and gaze of the victimized child is a universal symbol of a failing world, it can be an equally potent aesthetic screen for historical obfuscation. Analysing selected works by Dieter Forte, Günter Grass, Gisela...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-11-10
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Headline
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2022-11-10
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Everyone knows the wind’s touch, its presence, its force. Sometimes it roars and howls, at other times we hear its wistful sighs and feel its soothing caresses. Since antiquity, humans have borne witness to the wind and relied on it to navigate the seas. And yet,...
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Polity
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2022-11-09
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Michel Beheim (1420–ca. 1474), prolific and peripatetic composer of almost 500 song-poems, explored a very wide thematic and stylistic range, embracing almost every type of song accessible to the late medieval and early modern singer. He wrote lyrics on history and...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-11-09
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This book aims at exploring in a long historical perspective and in a wide historical context the reactions of political institutions and players towards new media and new forms of communication, as well as their strategies in order to combat and/or exploit their...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2022-11-07
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This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education to support Option B for examination from 2024.New edition to match the revised Cambridge IGCSETM, IGCSE (9-1) and O Level syllabuses (0470/0977/2147)Rely on author Ben Walsh's bestselling approach to...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2022-11-07
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If only these walls and this land could talk . . . The Sydney Opera House is a breathtaking building, recognised around the world as a symbol of modern Australia. Along with the Taj Mahal and other World Heritage sites, it is celebrated for its architectural grandeur...
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Constable
Parution :
2022-11-03
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Explorers and travellers have always been attracted by the lure of the unknown. By traversing and mapping our planet, they have played a vital role in mankind's development. For almost two hundred years, the Royal Geographical Society has recognised their achievements...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2022-11-03
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East Asia has been a growing focal point of geopolitical conflict since the 1940s, and today increasingly sits at the heart of the global economy and high tech as rising regional powers challenge the centuries-old primacy of the Western world. With half a millennium of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-10-28
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Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2022-10-27
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Editeur :
Quercus
Parution :
2022-10-27
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This book presents an interdisciplinary study of the El Mirador cave located on the Atapuerca karstic system, one of the longest Pleistocene and Holocene archaeopaleontological deposits in Iberia.This book presents the results including new unpublished and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-10-20
Collection :
Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
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Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2022-10-20
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The epic story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our veneration took a modern turn in the eighteenth...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2022-10-18
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