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This volume explores how scholars wrote, preserved, circulated, and read knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia. It offers an exercise in micro-history that provides a case study for attempting to understand the relationship between scholars and scholarship during this time...
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Springer
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2019-01-08
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Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter
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This book highlights the quantitative methods of data mining and information visualization and explores their use in relation to the films and writings of the Russian director, Dziga Vertov. The theoretical basis of the work harkens back to the time when a group of...
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Springer
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2019-01-02
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Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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This book is a synthesis of the first thirteen digital editions, which were often hard to be born. 50 000 years of prehistory of humanity, that is what this volume tries to summarize; it is a little short for a single work, and it relies on the ...
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JePublie
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2019-01-01
Collection :
JePublie présente
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This volume presents the results of a multidisciplinary research program (“Balkans 4000”) financed by the French National Research Agency (ANR) and coordinated by the editor between 2007 and 2011, when she was a member of the Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée...
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MOM Éditions
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2018-12-18
Collection :
Travaux de la Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée
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Five years after the death of Nelson Mandela, and 25 years after sharing the Nobel Peace Prize with him, Frederik de Klerk reflects on his political legacy in a revealing series of letters to his old friend and political rival. In them, he recalls...
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Débats Publics
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2018-12-06
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From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village, comes the definitive history of Gotham during the World War II era. New York City during World War II wasn't just a place of servicemen, politicians, heroes, G.I. Joes and Rosie the Riveters, but also...
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Twelve
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2018-12-04
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'An incredible story crackling with royal passion, envy, ambition and betrayal ... Field's account of the psychological power play between Queen Anne and her confidante is surely definitive. A tour de force' Lucy WorsleySarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, was as...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2018-11-29
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All school children know the story of the fatal duel between Hamilton and Burr - but do they really? In this remarkable retelling, Thomas Fleming takes the reader into the post-revolutionary world of 1804, a chaotic and fragile time in the young country as well as a...
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Basic Books
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2018-11-27
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We need history because we need rest: a pause to rest our consciousness, so that the possibility of a consciousness may remain – as the seat not only of thought, but of practical reason, affording full latitude for action. Saving the past, saving time from the frenzy of...
Editeur :
Collège de France
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2018-11-19
Collection :
Leçons inaugurales
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On which day was history's shortest war waged and won (in roughly 40 minutes)? How was Napoleon bested by a group of rabbits in 1807? Why did a dispute about beer in an Oxford pub lead to over 100 deaths and 470 years of penance? Why in 1752 did Britain go to bed on 2nd...
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John Murray
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2018-11-15
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This book discusses the relationship between geology and fighting during the American Civil War. Terrain was largely determined by the underlying rocks and how the rocks weathered.This book explores the difference in rock type between multiple battlegrounds and how...
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Springer
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2018-11-14
Collection :
Advances in Military Geosciences
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A vivid political history of the schemes, plots, maneuvers, and conspiracies that have attempted -- successfully and not -- to remove unwanted presidents To limit executive power, the founding fathers created fixed presidential terms of four years, giving voters regular...
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PublicAffairs
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2018-11-13
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The life of John Marshall, Founding Father and America's premier chief justice. In 1801, a genial and brilliant Revolutionary War veteran and politician became the fourth chief justice of the United States. He would hold the post for 34 years (still a record),...
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Basic Books
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2018-11-13
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A comprehensive portrait of a uniquely American epidemic -- devastating in its findings and damning in its conclusions The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But calling it a mistake is a generous rewriting of the...
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PublicAffairs
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2018-11-13
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The dramatic untold story of the Weavers, the hit-making folk-pop quartet destroyed with the aid of the United States government -- and who changed the world, anyway Following a series of top-ten hits that became instant American standards, the Weavers dissolved at the...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2018-11-06
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The text of the celebrated 2018 royal wedding sermon, plus four other sermons touching on themes of love, commitment, and social justice, by Bishop Michael CurryTwo billion people watched Bishop Michael Curry deliver his sermon on the redemptive power of love at the...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2018-11-01
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There are 37,780 First World War memorials in Britain, listing names from all walks of life - estates, villages, places of work. They stand as landmarks to a defining period in British history - and yet one which is in danger of slipping away from popular memory. NOT...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2018-11-01
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'The most detailed, amusing and accurate account ever of the post-war world of the English Establishment' William Shawcross, Daily Telegraph'Extremely entertaining' Jane Ridley, Literary ReviewKenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the establishment for...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2018-11-01
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The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the climax of the multi Oscar-winning filmThe King's Speech - was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic Australian-born speech...
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Quercus
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2018-11-01
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A THRILLING LOOK AT THE MEN BEHIND HENRY VIII'S THRONE: THE TRUE STORIES THAT INSPIRED WOLF HALL 'An outstanding work of historical artistry' Alison Weir -------Henry VIII is well known for his tumultuous relationships with women, and he is often defined by his many...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2018-11-01
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