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Why is our sense of smell so under-appreciated? We tend to think of smell as a vestigial remnant of our pre-human past, doomed to gradual extinction, and we go to great lengths to eliminate smells from our environment, suppressing body odour, bad breath and other...
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Polity
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2020-05-07
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Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook?The nameCaptain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history -...
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Constable
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2020-05-07
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This is the first modern study of the Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers - England's most important trading company of the sixteenth century - in its final century of existence as a privileged organisation. Over this period, the Company's main trade, the export of cloth...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-05-07
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A COMPANION TO GREEKS ACROSS THE ANCIENT WORLD An innovative, up-to-date treatment of ancient Greek mobility and migration from 1000 BCE to 30 BCEA Companion to Greeks Across the Ancient World explores the mobility and migration of Greeks who left their homelands in the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2020-05-07
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
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Solitude has always had an ambivalent status: the capacity to enjoy being alone can make sociability bearable, but those predisposed to solitude are often viewed with suspicion or pity. Drawing on a wide array of literary and historical sources, David Vincent explores...
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Polity
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2020-05-06
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From the award-winning historian, Saul David, the riveting narrative of the heroic US troops, bonded by the brotherhood and sacrifice of war, who overcame enormous casualties to pull off the toughest invasion of WWII's Pacific Theater -- and the Japanese forces who...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2020-05-05
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Exam board: Pearson Edexcel; OCRLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better...
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Hodder Education
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2020-05-04
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Exam board: AQA; OCRLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better grades for over...
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Hodder Education
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2020-05-04
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This contributed volume is devoted to the recent history and evolution of mathematics education in Eastern Europe, exploring how it was influenced by social and political changes in this part of the world. Despite the broad recognition of the importance of these...
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Springer
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2020-05-04
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A major new history of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, set in a larger global context than previous accounts
Previous accounts of the fall of the Inca empire have played up the importance of the events of one violent day in November 1532 at the highland Andean...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-05-01
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Understanding Adolf Hitler's ideology provides insights into the mental world of an extremist politics that, over the course of the Third Reich, developed explosive energies culminating in the Second World War and the Holocaust. Too often the theories underlying...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-05-01
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Beginning with Etan Patz's disappearance in Manhattan in 1979, a spate of high-profile cases of missing and murdered children stoked anxieties about the threats of child kidnapping and exploitation. Publicized through an emerging twenty-four-hour news cycle, these cases...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-05-01
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The Merovingian era is one of the best studied yet least well known periods of European history. From the fifth to the eighth centuries, the inhabitants of Gaul (what now comprises France, southern Belgium, Luxembourg, Rhineland Germany, and part of modern Switzerland),...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-05-01
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'They will have to choose between giving us freedom or giving us death'So said,in 1913 ,the brilliant orator and suffragette ,Emmeline Pankhurst, just one of the inspiring women who won the vote for women. She remains a heroine for those determined to go to any lengths...
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Virago
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2020-04-30
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'This captivating account . . . is the story of an ordinary soldier, but an extraordinary man. I commend this book most warmly.'Richard Dannatt, General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL, Chief of the General Staff 2006-9'The amazing account of a young man, Neville...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2020-04-30
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This is the first modern study of the Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers - England's most important trading company of the sixteenth century - in its final century of existence as a privileged organisation. Over this period, the Company's main trade, the export of cloth...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-29
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Demetrius the Besieger offers the first historical and historiographical biography ofDemetrius Poliorcetes (336-282 BC) to be published in English. Also known as 'The Besieger of Cities',Demetrius is an outstanding, yet enigmatic figure who presided over the...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-29
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Demetrius the Besieger offers the first historical and historiographical biography ofDemetrius Poliorcetes (336-282 BC) to be published in English. Also known as 'The Besieger of Cities',Demetrius is an outstanding, yet enigmatic figure who presided over the...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-29
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Among the imperial states of the ancient world, the Roman empire stands out for its geographical extent, its longevity and its might. This collective volume investigates how the many peoples inhabiting Rome’s vast empire perceived, experienced, and reacted to both the...
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Publications de l'École française de Rome
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2020-04-29
Collection :
Collection de l'École française de Rome
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The book assembles case studies on the human dimension of the Holocaust as illuminated in the academic work of preeminent Holocaust scholar Deborah Dwork, the founding director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, home of the first doctoral...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-28
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide
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