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Step into the enchanting world of faeries, pixies, sprites and more with this beginner's guide to the history and mythology of fae folkPeople have long been mesmerized by the magic and mystery of faeries. From the winged spirits of Persian mythology to Shakespeare's...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2024-08-08
ePub
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4,49€
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Der Band rekonstruiert den Lebenslauf des aus der Berliner jüdischen Gesellschaft stammenden und 1933 nach Paris und in die USA emigrierten Rudolf Bodländer (1903-1988). Angelpunkte sind bisher z.T. erstmals publizierte Briefe aus der Korrespondenz mit Rainer Maria...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-08-06
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This book contributes to various political debates about Central Europe in terms of its literary-symbolic geography. The author contends that the research about Central Europe must, first of all, be exempted from its mythicisation. The idealisation of a past of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-08-06
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2025 Winner of The Fletcher School's Best Book on U.S.-Russian Relations | One of The Cipher Brief’s “Best National Security Reads for 2024”A memoir of service by the American ambassador who was on the diplomatic front lines when Putin...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2024-08-06
ePub
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'Clay contains infinite possibilities in its transmutations, evidenced on the shelves of our homes, our galleries and museums. Every time we make something with clay, we engage with the timelines that are in the material itself, whether it was dug from a clifftop,...
Editeur :
White Rabbit
Parution :
2024-08-01
ePub
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Editeur :
Monoray
Parution :
2024-08-01
ePub
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5,49€
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Herbert Kenny, an army dispatch rider, was the first ally to push open the gates at Belsen Concentration Camp, in April 1945.He kept his story from the world until a chance correspondence with a trainee journalist brought it to light. Now, forty years on, that reporter...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2024-08-01
ePub
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Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2024-07-25
ePub
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This book presents detailed research regarding the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, including studies of inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells, bronzeware, bamboo scripts, and silk manuscripts, in order to demonstrate the main features of various historical periods...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-07-24
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This open access book provides fascinating insights into the incredible changes that Vietnam underwent in the long twentieth century as it transformed from an early modern kingdom to a European colony, to a divided land with opposing ideologies, and to a unified country...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-07-22
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This book presents a comprehensive and inclusive exploration of the core essence of Chinese civilization and its deeply-rooted humanistic values. It goes beyond the surface and delves into the philosophical, ethical, and historical aspects, aiming to unravel the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-07-20
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15,99€
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This harrowing tale of early twentieth century New York reveals the true stories of an immigrant underworld, a secret vice squad, and the rise of organized crime. In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the...
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
Parution :
2024-07-16
ePub
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A partire dalla fine del II sec. a.C., la villa maritima, lussuosa residenza destinata alle alte sfere dell’aristocrazia romana, caratterizza le coste dell’Italia centrale per poi diffondersi, in epoca imperiale, in tutto il bacino del Mediterraneo. Nonostante gli studi...
Editeur :
Publications de l'École française de Rome
Parution :
2024-07-16
Collection :
Collection de l'École française de Rome
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In this path-breaking book, he reflects on the evolution of Polish Jewry in these years against the background of its enormous contribution to Jewish religious traditions and its tragic fate in the Holocaust. A Jewish community, ‘small in numbers’ but with a ‘big...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-07-15
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This book aims to present a theoretical study of the concept of collaboration during the Second World War, understood as social behaviour and actions within specific conditions of military occupation. It is based on the theories of social behaviour and action developed...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-07-11
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What happens when death becomes the ultimate marker of one’s commitment to one’s freedom?What happens when the opposite of freedom is not unfreedom but death, not slavery but mortality? How are we to think of the right to life when a political demand for dignity and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-07-09
Collection :
After the Postcolonial
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In this third edition of his widely acclaimed survey, historian Randall D. Law makes sense of the history of terrorism by examining it within its broad political, religious and social contexts from the ancient world to the present day. In Terrorism: A History, Law...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-07-09
ePub
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In diesem Band werden die Erkenntnisse des 70. Baltischen Historikertreffens 2017 in Göttingen präsentiert. Er beleuchtet, wie sich die Staaten Nordosteuropas nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg entwickelten, wobei ein besonderer Fokus auf multiethnischen Gesellschaften und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-07-08
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"A joy to read" Times Literary Supplement"[A] stirring and accessible history of the mighty Rhine" Irish Times"It's easy to be swept away by Deen's delightful prose" New Statesman"A beautiful book, by turns poetic, witty and full of learning " PATRICK McGUINNESSThe...
Editeur :
Maclehose Press
Parution :
2024-07-04
ePub
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