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Rest occupies a space outside of sleep and alertness: it is a form of recuperation but also of preparation for what is to come, and is a need felt by human and animal alike. Through the centuries, different and conflicting definitions and forms of rest have blossomed,...
Editeur :
Polity
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2024-06-12
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The dramatic life of Vietnam War hero Roy Benavidez, revealing how Hispanic Americans have long shaped US history, from "a major new voice [with] lyrical powers as a biographer” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass) In...
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Basic Books
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2024-06-11
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The Mighty Moo is the tale of how a scrappy little World War II aircraft carrier and its untested crew earned a distinguished combat record and beat incredible odds to earn 12 battle stars in the Pacific. The USS Cowpens and her crew weren’t your typical...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2024-06-11
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This book identifies the formation, development and changes in New Zealand perceptions of its Asian neighbours, the work of which is based mainly on New Zealand sources—newspaper reports, Government and Parliamentary papers and documents from New Zealand individuals and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-10
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This edited collection explores the problem of space under socialist regimes in the twentieth century. Bringing together contributions from international scholars with expertise in the architectural, urban, social, and cultural history of twentieth-century socialism,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-06-10
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This book is both a conceptualization and detailed analysis of the current crisis in which modern utopian categories of political institutions find themselves, as well as a reflection and clarification of the new dangers and opportunities facing post-utopian politics...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-06
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'Gripping history that also informs the present' Sunday Times'Fascinating . . . Wilford writes engagingly with a telling eye for colourful detail' The Spectator'A spectacular achievement . . . I loved it' Dominic Sandbrook How the CIA became an instrument of a new...
Editeur :
Basic Books
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2024-06-06
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A highly readable cultural history of queer women's lives in the second half of the twentieth century'An inspiring celebration of lesbian camaraderie, activism and fun' SARAH WATERS'A cracking read, and a reminder of what shaped where we are now' VAL MCDERMID 'Riveting;...
Editeur :
Virago
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2024-06-06
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Canada is repeatedly ranked the world's most favourite tourist destination. And there's a lot of reasons why. It is a nation of vast, unspoiled wilderness, and yet you still get the feeling everyone still knows each other's name. It has a ton of bears. And maple syrup....
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OH
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2024-06-06
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"A fitting and frightening conclusion to a magnificent series" The TimesThe final instalment of the acclaimed Black Forest Investigations brings the series to a shattering close.Louise Bonì, Chief Inspector of the Freiburg criminal police, gets intelligence from an...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2024-06-06
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The Black Forest Investigations
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Moving book history in a new direction, this study examines publishers as brokers of Central Europe's political public sphere. They created international print markets, translated new texts, launched new journals, supported outspoken authors, and experimented with...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-05
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Robert Vipper (1859–1954) war vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg Professor für Universalgeschichte an der Moskauer Universität und hatte sich ebenfalls als Geschichtstheoretiker und Geschichtsdidaktiker einen Namen gemacht. Die Revolution von 1917 änderte die Rahmenbedingungen...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-06-05
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This book examines for the first time how ancient Egypt is reflected in early modern Venetian sources. As a center of the printing industry, Venice was an important hub for the accumulation and dissemination of direct information on the Near East and the Levant....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-04
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A story of espionage, shadow diplomacy, foreign scheming, and domestic backstabbing in the formative years of the American republic.
Tyson Reeder's book traces early America's rocky beginnings, when foreign interference and political conflict threatened to undermine...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-06-03
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A unique perspective on war and its impact.Poets have written about the experience of war since ancient times, but the young soldier poets of the First World War established war poetry as a literary genre. Leaving an indelible mark on literature, their poems offered a...
Editeur :
OH
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2024-06-01
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Die Mindener Stadtrechtsreformation aus dem Jahre 1613 schlummerte bisher fast unbeachtet in den Archiven. Sie wird nun erstmalig aufgearbeitet und rechtshistorisch eingeordnet. Diese Analyse fokussiert sich auf mögliche Quellen des Rechtstextes, insbesondere ältere...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-05-31
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80th ANNIVERSARY EDITIONProduced in collaboration with Imperial War MuseumsRelive the day that changed the course of history. On 6 June 1944, D-Day marked the beginning of a campaign that involved more than a million men and helped seal the fate of Hitler's...
Editeur :
Welbeck
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2024-05-30
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This handbook offers an updated and comprehensive presentation of knowledge on Korean modern and contemporary food history. It covers the changes in food availability, nutrition, and the health status of Koreans, and the Korean food industry's development from the late...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-05-29
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From being the last country in the world to open its doors to global trade in the 1850s to becoming the second industrialized nation in the 1960s, Japan has experienced impressive economic and social development over the last two centuries. In the last three decades,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-05-27
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