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Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Target success in Edexcel AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
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2017-04-24
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Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Target success in AQA AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation activities and...
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Hodder Education
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2017-04-24
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One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite Runner in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. "A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better placed than Muhsin Al-Ramli, already a star in the Arabic literary scene, to tell this story. I read it in one sitting". Hassan...
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Maclehose Press
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2017-04-20
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The contributions in this book focus on U.S. migration policies, receiving society, ethnic communities and return migration.The authors analyze various aspects of migratory history ranging from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. They cover such topics as the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-04-18
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“This is by far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and grotesque mentality, as well as its chaotic development.”―Antony Beevor, bestselling author of Stalingrad Laurence Rees has spent...
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PublicAffairs
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2017-04-18
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The tenacious belief in a disjunction of genocide and art has risen a persisting polemic in literary cricism. Narrating Itsembabwoko challenges this dichotomous thinking by assuming that a narrative about genocide is both a work and a testimony because the sense-making...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-04-13
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The alarming history of the British, and European, aristocracy - from Argyll to Wellington and from Byron to Tolstoy, stories of madness, murder, misery, greed and profligacy.From Regency playhouses, to which young noblemen would go simply in order to insult someone to...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2017-04-13
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In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this...
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Basic Books
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2017-04-11
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From Lincoln's election to secession from the Union, this compelling history explains how South Carolina was swept into a cultural crisis at the heart of the Civil War."The tea has been thrown overboard -- the revolution of 1860 has been initiated." -- Charleston...
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PublicAffairs
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2017-04-11
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Die Studie zeigt, wie hansische Tagfahrten durch Repräsentation und Zeremoniell zum Schauplatz von Rang und Ansehen wurden und sich die Kommunikation der Beteiligten um den Erhalt von Ehre drehte. Für Hansetage um 1500 liegen Reiserechnungen von Teilnehmern sowie...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-04-07
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A Companion to Dwight D. Eisenhower brings new depth to the historiography of this significant and complex figure, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date depiction of both the man and era. Thoughtfully incorporates new and significant literature on Dwight D....
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-04-07
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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It's the dawning of a new era for Alexandria and Cleopatra and her younger brother, Ptolemy are established on the throne. Long overlooked by his father in favor of his beguiling sister, eleven-year-old Ptolemy is desperate to assert himself as a man and as a king. But...
Editeur :
Sphere
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2017-04-06
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Eddie Chapman was a womaniser, blackmailer and safecracker. He was also a great hero - the most remarkable double agent of the Second World War. Chapman became the only British national ever to be awarded an Iron Cross for his work for the Reich. He was also the only...
Editeur :
Piatkus
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2017-04-06
ePub
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"Lyuba Vinogradova is a historian with a writer's dramatic eye. By personally interviewing many of the Russian women who as teenagers during WW2 took up arms to defend the motherland, her story becomes undeniably poignant and powerful" MARTIN CRUZ SMITH, author of Gorky...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
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2017-04-06
ePub
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The book puts the current interest in historical Jesus research into a proper historical context, highlighting Gnosticism’s lasting influence on early Christianity and making the provocative claim that nearly all Christian Churches are in some way descended from Roman...
Editeur :
Springer
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2017-04-05
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An expanded edition of a classic intellectual history of Zionism, now covering the rise of religious Zionism since the 1970s For eighteen centuries pious Jews had prayed for the return to Jerusalem, but only in the revolutionary atmosphere of nineteenth-century Europe...
Editeur :
Basic Books
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2017-04-04
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The definitive account of the Ghost Dance religion, which led to the infamous massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890Winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History In 1890, on Indian reservations across the West, followers of a new religion danced in circles until they...
Editeur :
Basic Books
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2017-04-04
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From a distinguished literary historian, a look at Gustave Flaubert and his correspondence with George Sand during France's "terrible year" -- summer 1870 through spring 1871From the summer of 1870 through the spring of 1871, France suffered a humiliating defeat in its...
Editeur :
Basic Books
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2017-04-04
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The scholarly community has become increasingly aware of the differences between Roman myths and the more familiar myths of Greece. Early Rome: Myth and Society steps in to provide much-needed modern and accessible translations and commentaries on Italian legends. This...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2017-04-03
Collection :
Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History
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THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OFTHE LEWIS TRILOGY ANDTHE ENZO FILESAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OFTHE CWA DAGGER INTHE LIBRARY 2021'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.' Undiscovered Scotland 'No one can create a more eloquently written...
Editeur :
Riverrun
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2017-03-31
Collection :
China Thrillers
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