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'Fascinating ' Elizabeth Day'Finally, a book that is proving very therapeutic in these difficult times... Full of doubt, fear, anger and rueful comedy, they give the lie to the idea that the Brits maintained a stiff upper lip, but it's immensely consoling to know that...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2020-10-08
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Als die vormaligen Herzogtümer Schleswig und Holstein 1867 zur preußischen Provinz gemacht wurden, bedeutete dies für die zeitgenössischen Schleswig-Holsteiner und Schleswig-Holsteinerinnen eine markante Zäsur, die auch für die Folgejahre nicht an Prägnanz verlor. In...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-10-07
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__________Out now: The most entertaining and fascinating book about architecture and design, from the wildly popular podcast 99% Invisible. __________A New York Times Bestseller'Full of surprises and quirky information . . . a fascinating journey through the...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2020-10-06
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During World War II, the Allied leaders banded together, forged a great victory--and created a new and dangerous post-war world.In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send aid to...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2020-10-06
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A beautifully illustrated, wonderfully engaging A-to-Z guide to more than 700 major and minor gods and goddesses, characters, creatures, and places of classical Greek and Roman mythology.Classical Mythology A-to-Z is a comprehensive and engrossing guide to...
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Black Dog & Leventhal
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2020-10-06
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This dynamic visual history of the world's largest transit system -- in all its intriguing, colorful, and even seedy glory -- is packed with fascinating facts and hundreds of compelling photographs.When the first New York subway line opened in 1904, it was the most...
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Black Dog & Leventhal
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2020-10-06
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Circa quarant'anni fa la collana della Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome accoglieva il lavoro di H. Pavis d’Escurac, La préfecture de l'annone, service administratif impérial d'Auguste à Constantin (Rome, 1976), un contributo alla storia della...
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
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2020-10-06
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Collection de l'École française de Rome
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Finalist, Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Award for Best New Book on Drinks Culture, History, or Spirits“An impassioned case against a senseless system . . . Come for the cocktail recipes, stay for the call to arms.” —Clay Risen, author of American...
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Artisan
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2020-10-06
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“We can no longer see ourselves as minor spectators or weary watchers of history after finishing this astonishing work of nonfiction.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy Connor Towne O’Neill’s journey onto the battlefield of white...
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Algonquin Books
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2020-09-29
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THE MAKING AND MEANING OF RADIOHEAD'S GROUNDBREAKING, CONTROVERSIAL, EPOCHDEFINING ALBUM, KID A. In 1999, as the end of an old century loomed, five musicians entered a recording studio in Paris without a deadline. Their band was widely recognized as the best and most...
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Da Capo
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2020-09-29
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A timely and academically-significant contribution to scholarship on community, identity, and globalization in the Roman and Hellenistic worlds Community and Identity at the Edges of the Classical World examines the construction of personal and communal identities in...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2020-09-28
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'An empowering read . . . it is refreshing to see somebody celebrate the role that black Britons have played in this island's long and complicated history'DAVID LAMMY, author of Tribes, in 'The best books of 2020', the Guardian'Timely and so important . . . recognition...
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Robinson
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2020-09-24
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From an award-winning historian, the outlandish story of the man who gave rights to animals.In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-by-jowl in environments that were dirty and dangerous to man and beast alike. The industrial city brought suffering, but it...
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Basic Books
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2020-09-22
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Republicanism is a centuries-old political tradition, yet its precise meaning has long been contested. The term has been used to refer to government in the public interest, to regimes administered by a collective body or an elected president, and even just to systems...
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Polity
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2020-09-22
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'Written with both charm and elegance, The Real Crown Jewels of England is a triumphant tribute to some of England's original treasures . . . lovingly captures the magic of the places that underpin our national identity and is a chance to rejoice in that heritage'...
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Constable
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2020-09-17
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This autobiographical narrative provides a unique personal account of the life of a Volga German under the Bolshevik Revolution and subsequent famine, agricultural collectivization, and Stalinist regime with its persecution of minorities including ethnic Germans in the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-09-14
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Exam board: 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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2020-09-14
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This book explores the interplay of childhood and the fairy tale as they both changed character in accordance with the historical transformations of the mid-nineteenth century. While the fairy tale was instrumental in the social construction of childhood, the latter for...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-09-14
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Kazimierz Moczarski (1907–1975) was a journalist, soldier, and political prisoner. His life exemplifies a Central European biography under Nazism and Comunism. The addictive and moving Civility in Uncivil Times reveals the story of a man who defended law and democracy...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-09-10
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What remains of the colours of our childhood?What are our memories of a blue rabbit, a red dress, a yellow bike – and were they really those colours?What colours do we associate with our student years, our first loves, our adult lives? How does colour leave its mark on...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-09-08
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