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Like so many other cities of South America, Rio is an urban sprawl containing some truly stunning contrasts. Yet Rio comes alive, really, for only two things – soccer and the samba. According to tradition, founded by the Portuguese navigator André Gonçalves on 1 January...
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Parkstone International
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2024-05-17
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Es gibt keine schönere Stadt und kaum eine unergründlichere und unübersichtlichere. Man wird mit ihr nicht fertig. Das hat einst Stefan Zweig über Rio de Janeiro gesagt, diesen 12-Millionen-Hexenkessel mit dem berühmten Zuckerhut und der weltberühmten Copacabana. Doch...
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Parkstone International
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2024-05-17
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Bangkok ist zwar weltberühmt für seine unzähligen Massagesalons, doch birgt die Hauptstadt Thailands unglaublich viele historische Schätze, die den Besucher in ihren Bann ziehen. Einige der buddhistischen Tempel sind mehr als vierhundert Jahre alt und bilden einen...
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Parkstone International
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2024-05-17
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Saigon – eine Stadt, die in manch einem Europäer oder Amerikaner, der dort einmal gelebt hat, Heimweh erweckt. Die bunten Bilder der Erinnerungen an Mädchen in ihrer traditionellen Kleidung, an die nachhaltigen Gerüche der Ngoc Man-Küche, an den Lärm des ständig...
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Parkstone International
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2024-05-17
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Saigon is the city known for the unexplainable languidness that possessed the “French and American” Europeans that lived in Vietnam. At night, in front of a drink, the memories of flowery young girls in their traditional costumes surrounded by the thick smells of the...
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Parkstone International
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2024-05-17
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Bangkok by night draws its lifeblood from the realms of the steamy and the seamy. The capital of Thailand is world-famous for its innumerable massage parlours, yet at the same time the city is rich in historical treasures. Some of its Buddhist temples are more than 400...
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Parkstone International
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2024-05-17
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025: 'A masterfully written biography... inspiring and powerful''Gripping, moving and important' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE'Agent Zo is a triumph. Absolutely essential reading' HALLIE RUBENHOLD'The astonishing story of an...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2024-05-16
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This book presents a study of the history of ancient Chinese books, not only highlighting specific aspects of the ontology of book history, such as printing and publishing, but also analyzing the internal and external causes of the development of book undertakings from...
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Springer
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2024-05-15
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This book contributes to a worldwide history of textual criticism and critical editions of ancient scientific texts. It first looks at ancient editorial practices, and at their impact on modern editions. Contributions analyze how, through time, the perception of what a...
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Springer
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2024-05-14
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The pivotal true story of the first fifty-three days of the standoff between Imperial Japanese and a handful of Marine aviators defending the Americans dug in at Guadalcanal, from the New York Times bestselling author of Indestructible and Race...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2024-05-14
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Der Rückblick auf die Jahre des Ersten Weltkrieges würde unvollständig bleiben, wenn man das Landvolk, das damals noch überall die Bevölkerungsmehrheit ausmachte, nicht berücksichtigen würde. Diesem Thema widmet sich der vorliegende Sammelband, der aufzeigt, wie sehr...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-05-13
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Germany, like many countries, has witnessed the rise of extremist far-right groups and parties in recent years, and no more so than in the eastern regions. Why have those parts of Germany that used to be part of the old GDR turned out to be so supportive of extremist...
Editeur :
Polity
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2024-05-13
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What did Mao Zedong bring to China? Mao Zedong, a rare leader who is still regarded as a great hero on the Chinese continent, despite the large number of victims caused by the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. He called himself "Qin Shi Huang (First...
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Springer
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2024-05-11
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NOW WITH NEW MATERIAL - the first book to analyse government documents released in January 2025.'Sensational' Daily Express'A bombshell book' Daily Mail'A breath-taking review of WWII's greatest betrayal and the moment that changed history forever' Sunday Post'Mr....
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Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
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2024-05-09
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This book addresses the transformation of primary education in the former Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) after the fall of the communist regime in 1989. It follows the overall transformation of education and school policy and offers original insights into the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-05-09
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In this “forensic, unflinching, devastating work of historical recovery” (Sathnam Sanghera), Bud Dajo—an American atrocity bigger than Wounded Knee or My Lai, yet today largely forgotten—is revealed, thanks to the rediscovery of a single...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
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2024-05-07
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A thrilling narrative investigation into the National Socialist Underground (NSU)—a German terror organization that targeted immigrants—and how a government failed to stop it. Not long after the Berlin Wall fell, three teenagers became friends in the...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2024-05-07
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An instant New York Times bestseller, this “profound book” (Wall Street Journal) charts how and why some societies chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time War can settle disputes, topple...
Editeur :
Basic Books
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2024-05-07
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