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Bis zur Mitte des vorigen Jahrhunderts galt das menschliche Herz als der Mittelpunkt der religiösen Vorstellungen der Azteken. Dieses Gedankengut war allgemein wissenschaftlich anerkannt. Seit etwa einem halben Jahrhundert wird die Bedeutung des Herzens zu Gunsten der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-08-11
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This book addresses the global history of technology, warfare and state formation from the Stone Age to the Information Age. Using a combination of top-down and bottom-up methodologies, it examines both interstate and intrastate conflicts with a focus on Eurasian...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-08-05
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How do British pavements remain free of dog mess? Why are paths not littered with cigarette butts or roads not lined with abandoned cars? What does the decline of the public lavatory say about us and is the national reputation for queuing still deserved today?Orderly...
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Robinson
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2022-08-04
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The third part in an epic historical trilogy -The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writer 1578. A ship from Rostock arrives in Tallinn loaded with printed copies of Balthasar Russow's Chronicle - the culmination of our hero's life's work....
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Maclehose Press
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2022-08-04
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This book presents a collection of annotated English translations of German diplomatic documents—including telegrams, dispatches and reports—sent to the Foreign Office in Berlin and the German Ambassador in Hankou, China, by German diplomatic officials in...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-08-02
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The new millennium offers perfect timing for publication of a large volume on the history of eroticism. Today, we paradoxically face both new freedoms and increasingly stereotyped language. Political correctness is the new norm and images now stand raised to the status...
Editeur :
Parkstone International
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2022-07-31
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Seit einiger Zeit erlebt die Nation als Ordnungs- und Wertesystem im europäischen Raum erneut Aufwind. Die Autorin begibt sich auf die Spuren der Herausbildung eines neuzeitlichen Nationsbegriffs im deutschen und französischen Sprach- und Kulturraum. Anhand...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-07-29
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With a keen eye for the juicy anecdote, Thévoz tells the fascinating and entertaining story of the rise, decline and resurgence of London's private members' clubs, from the late-eighteenth century to the present day. In doing so he looks at cultural and political...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2022-07-28
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Karen Pirie
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'Stunning. History at its very best: a blend of impeccably researched scholarship, genuinely revelatory primary sources, and a beautifully written narrative.' - James Holland'The sheer brutal intimacy of his descriptions of the fighting are extraordinary.' - Frederick...
Editeur :
Constable
Parution :
2022-07-28
Collection :
Karen Pirie
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Changing the narrative of mountaineering books, Sherpa focuses on the people who live and work on the roof of the world.Amid all the foreign adventurers that throng to Nepal to scale the world's highest peaks there exists a small community of mountain people at the...
Editeur :
Cassell
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2022-07-28
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I decenni che precedettero la terribile epidemia di “Peste Nera” del 1348 in Europa sono stati a lungo presentati univocamente come un periodo di gravi difficoltà, dovute all’instabilità politica e, soprattutto, all’eccessiva crescita della popolazione rispetto alle...
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
Parution :
2022-07-27
Collection :
Collection de l'École française de Rome
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Apart from the fifteen years that Sher Shah Suri snatched upon defeating Humayun, the flag of the grand Mughal Empire flew over Delhi undefeated for over 300 years. But then, 1857 arrived and the mighty sword fell helpless in the face of a mightier British force. After...
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Hachette India
Parution :
2022-07-25
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In the thirteenth century, mendicant orders introduced new ways of religious life that engaged the laity through preaching and conversion. Moreover, they founded new movements for religious women dedicated to prayer and contemplation, such as the Dominican nuns and the...
Editeur :
Publications de l'École française de Rome
Parution :
2022-07-20
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Collection de l'École française de Rome
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The book deals with a historically unique case of international transfer of professionalknowledge and techniques in social care and social work.
Principles of modern social work were introduced to the Jewish Jishuv (pre-statecommunity) in Palestine largely by...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-07-18
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Richly illustrated with citations from ancient authors, the book Sparta introduces the reader to the universe of a polis which in the fifth and fourth century BC was a Greek superpower. Part I describes Sparta’s political institutions and mechanisms of governance, the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-07-15
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Explores the modern history of Latin America using an intersectional approach, newly revised and updated. A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present, Third Edition offers a lively account of the rich political, cultural, and social history of the independent...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-07-12
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Concise History of the Modern World
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Since the publication of Phillip Buckner and R. Douglas Francis’ ground-breaking Rediscovering the British World, there has not been a collection of essays that looks at the history of the British World from an all-round thematic perspective. This edited collection...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-07-08
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This book proposes and systematically discusses four trends of thoughts in contemporary Chinese urban design. As the first book to systematically introduce contemporary Chinese urban design thoughts, this book objectively displays the macroscopic picture of contemporary...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-07-08
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For more than two centuries Egypt was ruled by the most powerful, successful, and richest dynasty of kings in its long end epic history. They included the female king Hatshepsut, the warrior kings Thutmose III and Amenhotep II, the religious radical Akhenaten and his...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2022-07-07
Collection :
Karen Pirie
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The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved... and is still evolving. We've come a long way.The earliest human had a brain as small as a child's fist; ours are four times bigger, with spectacular abilities and potential we are only just beginning to...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2022-07-07
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