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The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle a story of mounting civic breakdown and violent disorder, in a vivid eyewitness narrative of revelatory explanatory power.'This is a searing book, exquisitely reported, lyrically...
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Riverrun
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2022-09-13
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Exam board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2021First exams: Summer 2022Target success in Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision.Key content coverage is combined with exam-style...
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Hodder Education
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2022-09-08
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Rescue Me meets Blue Bloods in this riveting social history of the New York City Fire Department told from the perspective of the Feehan family, who served in the FDNY for four generations and counting.Seen through the eyes of four generations of a firefighter family,...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2022-09-06
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One of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America’s Third ReconstructionIn The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new...
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Basic Books
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2022-09-06
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In October 2019, the regular conference of the International Feuchtwanger Society took place for the first time in Lion Feuchtwanger's hometown of Munich. Its aim was to get closer to the «early Feuchtwanger», the «Munich Feuchtwanger», and to illuminate and classify...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2022-09-05
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Duke's Company actress Kitty Burgess has a stunning future before her - until she vanishes after the opening performance of Aminta Grey's new play, The Summer Birdcage. One of her fellow actors swears he saw her being bundled into a black coach driven by six black...
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Constable
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2022-09-01
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A John Grey Historical Mystery
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In the 1790s an extraordinary group of friends changed the world. Disappointed by the French Revolution's rapid collapse into tyranny, what they wanted was nothing less than a revolution of the mind. The rulers of Europe had ordered their peoples how to think and act...
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John Murray
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2022-09-01
ePub
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A bold new history of modern conservatism that finds its origins in the populist right-wing politics of the 1990s Ronald Reagan has long been lionized for building a conservative coalition sustained...
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Basic Books
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2022-08-30
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This book summary introduces the key research findings, exploration and excavation works carried out during the 80 years of archaeological endeavours entirely devoted to Liangzhu historical sites. Xingeng SHI first discovered of neolithic remains in 1936, followed along...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-08-29
Collection :
Liangzhu Civilization
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Is the lion the symbol of China? Or should it be the dragon or the phoenix? This book makes a provocative interpretation of the Chinese ancient totems such as the bear and the owl. Taking a mythological approach, it explores the origin of Chinese civilization using the...
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Springer
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2022-08-26
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Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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The latest edition of an accessible and comprehensive survey of Native America In this newly revised third edition of Native America: A History, Michael Leroy Oberg and Peter Jakob Olsen-Harbich deliver a thoroughly updated, incisive narrative history of North America’s...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-08-26
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ON EVERY TIDE is a wide-ranging and challenging reassessment of the Irish diaspora. Drawing on the latest ground-breaking research, and his own career-long engagement with the complexities of Irish identity, Sean Connolly reveals the forces that compelled millions of...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2022-08-25
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The Cold War meets Mad Men in the form of Karel Koecher, a double agent whose shifting loyalties and over-the-top hedonism reverberated from New York to Moscow In the mid-1970s, the CIA and KGB watched Karel Koecher closely—they were both convinced he was...
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PublicAffairs
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2022-08-23
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A biography of the spectacular rise and fall of Eddie Antar, better known as "Crazy Eddie," whose home electronics empire changed the world even as it turned out to be one of the biggest business scams of all timeBack in the fall of 2016 we heard the news...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2022-08-23
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This book analyzes the drawing data and methods of the Chinese ancient maps that are neglected by the previous researches, and reevaluates the drawing theories and methods, the influences, and accuracy of the maps that represents the scientificity of Chinese ancient...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-08-23
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In War and Conflict in the Middle Ages, Stephen Morillo offers the first global history of armed conflict between 540 and 1500 or as late as 1800 CE, an age shaped by climate change and pandemics at both ends. Examining armed conflict at all levels, and ranging across...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-08-19
Collection :
War and Conflict Through the Ages
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A vivid, first-hand account of the tension and excitement of flying missions over Nazi GermanyThe British and American bomber crews of the Second World War often had to endure the most terrifying conditions. Not for them the glorious, all-or-nothing exhilaration of the...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2022-08-18
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One of Grossman's three great war novels - alongside Life and Fate and Stalingrad."A significant, valuable addition to Grossman's small but powerful body of work" WILLIAM BOYD"A remarkable novel that illuminates the terrible realities of Barbarossa and the banal horror...
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Maclehose Press
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2022-08-18
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Inaugural lectures often comprise stimulating discussions by top-level academics; indeed, inaugural lectures are often given by the top five percent of scholars in the discipline concerned, yet there are hardly any series dedicated solely to these high quality lectures....
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Galda Verlag
Parution :
2022-08-17
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Two Brothers tells the story of a great sporting family, uncovering new details, exposing myths and placing Jack and Bobby Charlton in their historical context. It's a book about two English footballers but also about English football and England itself.In later life...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2022-08-11
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