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This book is an exploration of the way in which the characters in Rudyard Kipling’s short stories use superior knowledge, which often involves deception and the playing of practical jokes. There was early critical hostility to the stance adopted by Kipling’s characters,...
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NBN International
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2021-06-18
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In der fast 2000 Jahre alten Geschichte der Verschriftlichung des Gottesdienstes der christlichen Kirchen spiegelt sich ein wesentlicher Teil der abendländischen Kultur wieder: Schrift, Malerei, Musik, Buchkunst und gelebte Frömmigkeit in den verschiedenen...
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Springer
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2021-06-17
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Ludwig Bechstein (1801–1860) hat außer seinen Märchen- und Sagenadaptationen auch 15 vom Autor sogenannte große Novellen und Romane geschrieben. Diese Studie verwendet eine interdisziplinäre Methode, die Arbeitsweisen der Literaturwissenschaft um die einer Linguistik...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-06-16
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Diese Arbeit behandelt ein Thema griechischer Zeitgeschichte aus dem Bereich der Politikgeschichte. Sie leistet einen Beitrag zur Autoritarismusforschung jenseits von links- und rechtspolitischen Stereotypisierungen. Auf der Makroebene steht das griechische...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2021-06-16
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An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account.One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street JournalThe islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge...
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Basic Books
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2021-06-15
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Identifying gaps in knowledge is the first duty of any historian who sets out to understand the past. It is impossible fully to understand our forebears without some idea of what they did not know: the history of ignorance is an indispensable part of history itself....
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Polity
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2021-06-15
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Exam board: AQA; Pearson Edexcel; OCRLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better...
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Hodder Education
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2021-06-14
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Exam board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better grades for over 30...
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Hodder Education
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2021-06-14
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In Researching Yugoslavia and its Aftermath, a common thread is the authors’ path through the time and space context in which fieldwork has taken place. Accordingly, this collection tackles problems that have always existed but have not been dealt with in a single...
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Springer
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2021-06-14
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Societies and Political Orders in Transition
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Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries, women's bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, felt ashamed of them, were humiliated by them. But as doctors, researchers, campaigners and most of all as patients, women...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2021-06-10
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The story of extraordinary women who lost their way - their sense of self, their identity, their freedom - and found it again through walking in the wild. 'Moving and memorable' Virginia Nicholson, author of How Was It for You?'A triumph ... I felt as though I were...
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John Murray
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2021-06-10
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JOIN SAS LEGEND PHIL CAMPION AS HE SHARES HIS DEEPLY PERSONAL LIFE STORY, WARTS AND ALLIn WHO DARES WINS Big Phil Campion reveals his chequered past, from terrible abuse suffered in a string of kids' homes to psychological abuse suffered at a top public school.Phil...
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Quercus
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2021-06-10
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'A brilliant and important book ... Five Stars!' Mark Dolan, talkRADIO'An important new book' Daily Express An alternative history of the world that exposes some of the biggest lies ever told and how they've been used over time.Lincoln did not believe all men were...
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Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
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2021-06-10
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A “can’t-miss for anyone interested in current military affairs,” On Killing Remotely reveals and explores the costs—to individual soldiers and to society—of the way we wage war today (Kirkus Reviews, starred). Throughout history...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2021-06-08
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Out now: the new book by Dr Fern Riddell, a powerful and entertaining history of sex. Revised and updated. __________These are the facts: throughout history human beings have had sex. Sexual culture did not begin in the sixties. It has always been celebrated, needed,...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2021-06-03
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***'If you only read one book about the Falklands make sure it's this one.' - Soldier magazine'An extraordinarily detailed account of the bloodiest battle of the Falklands war.' - Major General Jonathan Shaw CB CBEWhen 3 Para began their assault under cover of darkness...
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Monoray
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2021-06-03
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In 1861, the great journalist and social advocate Henry Mayhew published London Labour and the London Poor, an oral history of those living and working on the streets of Victorian London. Nothing on this scale had been attempted before. On the surface, the streets of...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2021-06-03
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This volume, in honour of one of the Odysseuses in Aegean archaeology, Professor Robert Laffineur, comprises a combination of papers presented during a seminar series on recent developments in Mycenaean archaeology at the Université de Louvain during the academic year...
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Presses universitaires de Louvain
Parution :
2021-06-03
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AEGIS
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This volume comprises the proceedings of a workshop with the same title which took place in October 2015. It was organised within the frame of the ARC13/18-049 (concerted research action) ‘A World in Crisis?’. It has both a large chronological scope-from the Late...
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Presses universitaires de Louvain
Parution :
2021-06-03
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AEGIS
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Following a first 5-year programme between 2007 and 2011 and three earlier preliminary reports published as Aegis 1, 4 and 6, the Belgian School at Athens returned to Sissi in 2015. This volume describes the results of the 2015 and 2016 campaigns, in part concentrating...
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Presses universitaires de Louvain
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2021-06-03
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AEGIS
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