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“Remarkable… the best overview of America’s misadventure in Southeast Asia, and it is sure to become the standard one-volume book on the war.” – Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times The Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from...
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Basic Books
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2024-10-01
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This book documents and analyses Chilean university and school students’ opposition to the Pinochet regime during the latter years of the 1970s and the 1980s. The book focuses on key episodes such as the establishment of cultural groups within the militarily controlled...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-30
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The nature and purpose of elementary education featured prominently in English periodicals throughout the nineteenth century. This book’s central argument is that the periodical press provided a unique cultural space for literary and intellectual contributions to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-09-30
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Trust the power of cognitive science to help students to understand more, remember more and feel more confident about their exams.This textbook is guaranteed to make learning more effective. The approach was created by author and teacher Dale Banham, who has amazing...
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Hodder Education
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2024-09-27
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Während des Zweiten Weltkrieges wurden in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika bereits verschiedene Visionen zur Zukunft und Nachkriegsordnung Europas ausgearbeitet, die als solche den ideellen Grundstein für spätere außenpolitische Vorhaben legten und folglich einen...
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Springer VS
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2024-09-26
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Ein Tötungsverbot gehört zu den Grundregeln aller zivilisierten Gesellschaften - im Krieg ist dieses Verbot aber plötzlich außer Kraft gesetzt. Dies führt zu sozialen, religiösen und ideologischen Problemen, die häufig durch die Dehumanisierung der Gegner gelöst werden....
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
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2024-09-26
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This is an open access book.This OA book contains extensive research on social justice during China’s transition period. Rather than taking a macro-historical approach, or looking at social justice from a philosophical perspective, the book focuses on relevant theories...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-25
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This book examines the impact of shipbuilding on the society of the Song Dynasty from multiple perspectives and points out the positive contribution of ancient manufacture industry to social development at that time.
It explores some virgin territories and...
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Springer
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2024-09-25
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The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism is the first detailed and critical study of the intellectual and political connections that existed between some German scholars specializing on India, non-academic 'India experts,' Indian anti-colonialists and various...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-09-25
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Die Bewertung der mittleren Römischen Republik ist in der Forschung umstritten. Inzwischen ist zwar akzeptiert, die Epoche nicht mehr als ‚klassisch‘ zu apostrophieren; ob sie aber unter dem Leitmotiv konsensualer Stabilität oder konflikthafter Dynamik gesehen werden...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-09-24
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Focussing on late medieval and early modern philosophy and medicine, this edited collection explores the replacement of hylomorphism—the dominant theory of bodies in the Middle Ages—with new theories of matter such as corpuscularianism and atomism at the dawn of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-09-24
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Dieses Buch behandelt die globale Geschichte von Technologie, Kriegsführung und Staatenbildung vom Steinzeitalter bis zum Informationszeitalter. Unter Verwendung einer Kombination von Top-Down- und Bottom-Up-Methoden untersucht es sowohl zwischenstaatliche als auch...
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J.B. Metzler
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2024-09-24
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CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF. Those words, scratched on parchment in 1789, open the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment. From them, countless interpretations have been drawn. As a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-09-24
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Leuthen (1757) is one of the best-known battles of the Seven Years' War, the most consequential conflict in continental Europe between the Thirty Years' War and the wars of Revolutionary and then Napoleonic France. It was a victory against the odds, over a vastly...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-09-24
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The persistent desire to animate inanimate objects has been a recurring theme in European culture dating back to ancient Greek and Roman times. Technological Animation in Classical Antiquity aims to establish, for the first time, the significance of this aspiration and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-09-24
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The persistent desire to animate inanimate objects has been a recurring theme in European culture dating back to ancient Greek and Roman times. Technological Animation in Classical Antiquity aims to establish, for the first time, the significance of this aspiration and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-09-24
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Winner of the National Jewish Book Award |Winner of the Bernstein Prize The Gates of Gaza is a gripping first-person account of how one Israeli grandfather helped rescue two generations of his family on October 7, 2023—a saga that reveals the deep tensions and...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2024-09-24
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Writing from Invention to Decipherment...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-09-23
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How is nostalgia expressed through space?
Studies of nostalgia have long illustrated the emotional dynamics which condition our desire to go back to a time and a space that belong to the past. This book addresses this condition from an innovative perspective, by...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-21
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