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Few know that the president’s desk in the Oval Office plays a part in one of the world’s most extraordinary sagas; in Resolute, noted historian Martin Sandler brings the story to light. After Sir John Franklin and his ships disappeared in the Arctic...
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Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2025-04-01
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Garden of Wisdom: Timeless Teachings in an AI Era is a transformative exploration of the intersection between ancient wisdom and modern technology. This book offers a comprehensive framework for the ethical evolution of artificial intelligence, integrating timeless...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-31
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Vietnam: The Unwinnable War is a dramatic guide to the suffering, sacrifice and heroism of one of the most significant and debated periods in twentieth-century history. Expertly retold with searing imagery and accounts of the events that unfolded, this definitive visual...
Editeur :
Welbeck
Parution :
2025-03-27
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In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty women and girls from eleven nations were drafted into a hurriedly assembled band that would play marching music to other...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2025-03-27
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Trust the power of cognitive science to help students to understand more, remember more and feel more confident about their exams.This textbook is guaranteed to make learning more effective. The approach was created by author and teacher Dale Banham, who has amazing...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2025-03-24
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Explore the good, the bad, and the ugly of the United States history Looking for the essentials of more than 200 years of United States history? Starting at the early civilizations, U.S. History For Dummies covers the growing pains of a new nation. Brush up on the major...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2025-03-20
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From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential and glamorous women in nineteenth-century Europe-Elisabeth, empress of Austria, and Eugénie, empress of France-and their efforts to rule amid the...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2025-03-20
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In an urgent and personal new book, Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, the highest-elected Jewish official in America, sheds light on the Jewish American experience and sounds the alarm about the troubling resurgence of antisemitism. For...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2025-03-18
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This book explores the dynamic interplay between memory and history during the crucial period from the 8th to the 14th century in medieval India. It takes up an interdisciplinary approach and includes contributions from seasoned scholars and emerging...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-03-18
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This open access book is an ambitious study about how to use comparative methods to analyze contemporary military strategy in the maritime domain. Based on the three strategic concepts of area denial, sea control and power projection, this book analyzes the intensive...
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Springer
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2025-03-17
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In the nineteenth century, as Britain became the world's most powerful industrial empire, Ireland starved. The Great Famine fractured long-held assumptions about political economy and 'civilisation', threatening disorder in Britain itself. Ireland was a laboratory for...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2025-03-13
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A fascinating compendium of reported alien sightings, encounters and abductions, such as the mysterious Belgian UFO wave, the unusual Lubbock lights, and the infamous Roswell incidentWhat did Kenneth Arnold see flying above Mount Rainier?What were the Phoenix...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2025-03-13
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An exquisite abridged edition of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations by a renowned translator Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the sixteenth emperor of Rome—and by far the most powerful man in the world. His collected thoughts, gems that have come to be...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2025-03-11
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This book presents the history of the British Empire as the “Bridge” for creating a Global History, especially emphasizing its connections with Asian regions. The United Kingdom ruled most of the world in the nineteenth century. Its influence spread around the globe in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-03-07
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«This unique volume takes the reader on an extraordinary journey through flights of the political and social imagination across Iberia and Latin America from the conquest of the Americas, via insurgent and reactionary modern movements, to the Cold War and on to...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-03-06
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Mehr als drei Jahrzehnte nach dem Fall der Berliner Mauer und der deutschen Einheit lebt die DDR weiter – nicht nur in der (lebendigen) Erinnerung von Zeitzeug:innen und Erb:innen, sondern auch in vielfältigen kulturhistorischen, künstlerischen, literarischen und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-03-06
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From the authors of Cocktails in Color comes a revolutionary celebration of the women who have shaped the spirits industry from ancient times to today. Alcohol and spirits has long been thought of as a male-dominated field, but the truth is that women have been...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2025-03-04
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An “essential” (James Oakes, author of The Crooked Path to Abolition) history of the study of slavery in America, from the Revolutionary era to the 1619 Project, showing how these intellectual debates have shaped American public life In recent years, from...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2025-03-04
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'I never realised that there could be such suffering in the world, and that anyone could live through it' - from Edith's diary, 1st July 1945In 1940, while the Germans occupied Holland, fourteen-year-old Edith van Hessen was filling her diary with the intimate, carefree...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2025-02-27
Collection :
Virago Modern Classics
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