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Guides students through a rich menu of American history through food and eating This book features a wide and diverse range of primary sources covering the cultivation, preparation, marketing, and consumption of food from the time before Europeans arrived in North...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2018-02-26
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Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History
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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...
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Little, Brown Book Group
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2018-02-22
Collection :
500 Reflections on the RCP, 1518-2018
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John Tusa is a distinguished journalist, broadcaster and leader of arts organisations, best remembered for his times at the BBC, including creating Newsnight.Tusa's memoir is etched with candour. His account of two years of internecine warfare at the top of the BBC...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2018-02-22
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A history of the 1119 Battle of the Field of Blood, which decisively halted the momentum gained during the First Crusade and decided the fate of the Crusader states During the First Crusade, Frankish armies swept across the Middle East, capturing major cities and...
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Basic Books
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2018-02-20
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Is civilization teetering on the edge of a cliff? Or are we just climbing higher than ever? Most people who read the news would tell you that 2017 is one of the worst years in recent memory. We're facing a series of deeply troubling, even existential problems: fascism,...
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PublicAffairs
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2018-02-20
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A Timely Look Back at the Era That Shaped Our World Thousands of years of recorded history show that the main way in which human societies have been organized is as empires. Today, the evidence of recent European overseas empire’s lasting effects is all around us: from...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-02-16
Collection :
Wiley Short Histories
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The Soviet / Russian space program was in the hands of three industrial empires: those of Serguei Korolev, the Soviet von Braun who launched Sputnik-1 and Yuri Gagarin, Vladimir Tchelomei, his main competitor, and Mikhail Yangel, Many launchers and satellites in...
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Wiley-ISTE
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2018-02-14
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A newly updated, lavishly illustrated account of the ANZACs involvement in the Western Front—complete with walking and driving tours of 28 battlefields. With rare photographs and documents from the Australian War Memorial archive and extensive travel information, this...
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Wiley
Parution :
2018-02-14
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Il volume raccoglie gli Atti del III Seminario ostiense, tavola rotonda internazionale ormai divenuta annuale presso l’École française de Rome cui hanno partecipato studiosi, ed articolato, come è consuetudine, in due sezioni. La prima, tematica, ha come oggetto Ostia e...
Editeur :
Publications de l'École française de Rome
Parution :
2018-02-14
Collection :
Collection de l'École française de Rome
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For fans of the Netflix series The Crown and from the author of the New York Times bestseller 17 Carnations comes a captivating biography of Wallis Simpson, the notorious woman for whom Edward VIII gave up the throne."You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2018-02-13
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'An uplifting record of progress and strength... You'll lay the book down feeling not only informed, but galvanised to take action yourself.' Independent'An incredible book . . . with the potential to change women's lives.' Sandi ToksvigWhy is it taking so long? Despite...
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Sceptre
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2018-02-06
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Brought together first as enemies in the Anglo-Boer War, and later as allies in the First World War, the remarkable, and often touching, friendship between Winston Churchill and Jan Smuts is a rich study in contrasts. In youth they occupied very different worlds:...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2018-02-01
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Target success in Edexcel A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation activities and exam-style questions to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2018-01-29
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Exam board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: History First teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Target success in OCR A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation activities and...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2018-01-29
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Exam board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: History First teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Target success in OCR AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation activities...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2018-01-29
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This is a devastating book. It is matter-of-fact, makes no attempt to score political points, does not attempt to solicit sympathy for its protagonist and yet is among the most chilling indictments of war I have ever read. Everybody, in particular every woman ought to...
Editeur :
Virago
Parution :
2018-01-25
Collection :
Virago Modern Classics
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Yorkshire is 'a continent unto itself', a region where mountain, plain, coast, downs, fen and heath lie close. By weaving history, family stories, travelogue and ecology, Richard Morris reveals howYorkshire took shape as a landscape and in literature, legend and popular...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2018-01-25
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'A pretty awesome present for the feminist in your life' - Caroline Criado Perez, OBE, author of Do It Like a WomanAt the last count, the Blue Plaque Guide honours 903 Londoners, and a walking tour of these sites brings to life the London of a bygone era. But only 111...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2018-01-18
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Exam board: CCEALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First exam: Summer 2019Trust the experts to guide you through the new specification with this bestselling Student Book for CCEA GCSE History, fully updated to cover every option in a single volume;...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2018-01-15
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'This is history with a surgeon's touch: deft, incisive and sometimes excruciatingly bloody' The Sunday Times'Utterly eccentric and riveting' Mail on Sunday 'Eye-opening and, frequently, eye-watering . . . a book that invites readers to peer up the bottoms of kings,...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2018-01-11
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