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'How I loved reading Fruit of Knowledge ... Clever, angry, funny and righteous, also informative to an eye-popping degree' Rachel Cooke, OBSERVER GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE MONTHFrom Adam and Eve to pussy hats, people have punished, praised, pathologised and politicised...
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Virago
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2018-08-21
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Shakespeare's largely misunderstood narrative poems contain within them an explosive commentary on the political storms convulsing his country The 1590s were bleak years for England. The queen was old, the succession unclear, and the treasury empty after decades of war....
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PublicAffairs
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2018-08-21
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Between two attempts in 1800 and 1804 to assassinate Napoleon Bonaparte, the British government launched a campaign of black propaganda of unprecedented scope and intensity to persuade George III's reluctant subjects to fight the Napoleonic War, a war to the death...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2018-08-16
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Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: Summer 2018The recent changes in assessment for National 5 History have been fully incorporated in this new edition, as have changes in subject content which affect some but not...
Editeur :
Hodder Gibson
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2018-08-13
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Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2017Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and accessibility. Access to History...
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Hodder Education
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2018-08-06
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Delhi claims a noble history as the site of at least seven capitals dating from before the time of Alexander the Great. The glorious Mogul Empire brought great riches to the city and to Agra, where the world-famous Taj Mahal has excited awe in visitors for over 380...
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Robinson
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2018-08-02
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Did you know that a child can be cured of the whooping cough by passing it under the belly of a donkey?The history of medicine in Britain is filled with the most bizarre and gruesome cures for many common ailments. Although enthusiastically supported by doctors of the...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2018-08-02
Collection :
Tom Thorne Novels
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Im Kontext von Nachrüstungsdebatte und Friedensbewegung kam zu Beginn der 1980er Jahre in einigen Städten die Forderung nach der Errichtung von Denkmälern für Deserteure auf. Das kontrastierte scharf mit der bisherigen Sichtweise auf Deserteure: Bis dato wurden sie in...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2018-07-31
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An authoritative overview of the developing field of public history reflecting theory and practice around the globe This unique reference guides readers through this relatively new field of historical inquiry, exploring the varieties and forms of public history, its...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2018-07-30
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: Summer 2018The recent changes in assessment for National 5 History have been fully incorporated in this new edition, as have changes in subject content which affect some but not...
Editeur :
Hodder Gibson
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2018-07-30
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What do we know of the emotional life of the Middle Ages? Though a long-neglected subject, a multitude of sources – spiritual and secular literature, iconography, chronicles, as well as theological and medical works – provide clues to the central role emotions played in...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-07-26
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What is the use of social theory to historians, and of history to social theorists? In clear and energetic prose, a pre-eminent cultural historian here offers a far-reaching response to these deceptively simple questions. In this classic text, now revised and updated in...
Editeur :
Polity
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2018-07-26
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Baroness Orczy's classic tale of adventure during the French Revolution. Also available as an unabridged audiobook, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt.Paris, 1792. The Terror has begun. Every day, scores of the French nobility are delivered to the guillotine. Trapped in the...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
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2018-07-19
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Viele berühmte Männer und Frauen haben die Geschichte geprägt. Christa Pöppelmann erweckt sie in diesem Buch zum Leben, stellt ihre berühmten Taten und Werke, ihre Bedeutung und Schattenseiten vor. Dabei blickt sie nicht nur auf Politiker und Herrscher, sondern...
Editeur :
Wiley-VCH
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2018-07-17
Collection :
Für Dummies
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The sequel and companion volume to C.A. Bayly's ground-breakingThe Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914, this wide-ranging and sophisticated study explores global history since the First World War, offering a coherent, comparative overview of developments in politics,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-07-16
Collection :
Blackwell History of the World
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The Philippine Research Colloqium series offer highly specialized works from the Philippine humanities and social sciences.In many cases, these are award-winning dissertations by promising young scientists.
Editeur :
Galda Verlag
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2018-07-12
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At the start of 1987, Primo Levi took part in a remarkable series of conversations about his early life with a friend and fellow writer, Giovanni Tesio. This book is the result of those meetings, originally intended to be the basis for an authorized biography and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2018-07-04
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'The best conceivable guide to the city' - an essential cultural history for all visitors of FlorenceThe rich and glorious past of one of the best loved cities in the world, Florence, is brought vividly to life for today's visitor in this collection which draws on...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2018-06-28
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The Royal College of Physicians celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2018, and to observe this landmark is publishing this series of ten books. Each of the books focuses on fifty themed elements that have contributed to making the RCP what it is today, together adding up...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2018-06-28
Collection :
500 Reflections on the RCP, 1518-2018
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'Shanghai's champion storyteller - He grips his reader to the end' Economist'Gripping, breakneck ultra-noir reminiscent of vintage Ellroy' David Peace, author of Red or Dead'If you love Richard Lloyd Parry and David Grann, don't miss City of Devils' Megan Abbott, author...
Editeur :
Riverrun
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2018-06-28
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