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This book discusses ethical behavior through the genocidal stages of the Holocaust. Paul E. Wilson first looks at the antisemitism in Germany and Europe beginning in the decades preceding the Nazis reign of terror, and goes on to discuss the ethical decisions made in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-12
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Histories you can trust.
The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And what did it include?
Traditionally regarded as a revival of classical art and learning, centred upon fifteenth-century...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-11
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The Social Topography of a Rural Community is a micro-history of an exceptionally well-documented seventeenth-century English village: Chilvers Coton in north-eastern Warwickshire. Drawing on a rich archive of sources, including an occupational census, detailed estate...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-11
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As he prepared to embark for India in 1774, Alexander Mackrabie's excitement at the sights to be seen and novelties to be experienced was palpable. Mackrabie's journey was conducted under the auspices of the London-based East India Company and was one of the many...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-11
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Sceptre
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2023-05-11
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What happens when we juxtapose medicine and law in the ancient Roman world? This innovative collection of scholarly research shows how both fields were shaped by the particular needs and desires of their practitioners and users. It approaches the study of these fields...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-11
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What happens when we juxtapose medicine and law in the ancient Roman world? This innovative collection of scholarly research shows how both fields were shaped by the particular needs and desires of their practitioners and users. It approaches the study of these fields...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-11
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Headline
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2023-05-11
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'Revelatory and illuminating' New YorkerThe true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley.Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with...
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Riverrun
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2023-05-11
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The introduction of omnibus services in the late 1820s revolutionised urban life in Paris, London and many other cities. As the first form of mass transportation—in principle, they were ‘for everyone’—they offered large swaths of the population new ways of seeing both...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-05-10
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Histories you can trust.
Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it—with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can´t attain.
The Oxford History of the World encompasses the...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-10
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. They are visceral reactions but also beliefs about the world. They are spontaneous outbursts but also culturally learned performances. They are intimate and...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-10
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In twelfth-century Byzantium, poetry played a key part in various contexts of textual production and consumption. One of the leading poets of this period was Theodoros Prodromos, whose surviving corpus comprises approximately 17,000 verses. Even though most of his...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-10
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This is the first single volume in either English or Russian on the representation of Pushkin in Yuri Tynianov’s novels. It demonstrates the percipience and originality of Tynianov’s concept of Pushkin’s personality and assesses Tynianov’s contribution to the Soviet...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2023-05-09
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Booker T. Washington’s famous 1901 memoir, Up From Slavery, charts Washington’s rise from an enslaved child with a passion for learning to the nation’s most prominent Black educator and first president of Tuskegee University. A tireless advocate for...
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Union Square & Co.
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2023-05-09
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Signature Editions
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Brazil has long been an enigma to outsiders. Over the last two decades alone, Latin America’s largest and most populous country has been celebrated as a vibrant new democracy with a powerful economy, and derided as a nation in complete disarray heading toward the status...
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Polity
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2023-05-09
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Polity Histories
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Der Wiener Narrenturm, eröffnet 1784, steht am Beginn der modernen Anstaltspsychiatrie. Seine Geschichte blieb bis dato jedoch größtenteils unerforscht. Dieser Band widmet sich als erstes Werk der vollständigen Geschichte des Wiener Narrenturms und erforscht dabei das...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2023-05-08
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The story of Charles Stewart Parnell, one of the greatest Irish leaders of the nineteenth century and also one of the most renowned figures of the 1880s on the international stage, and John Dillon, the most celebrated of Parnell's lieutenants. As Paul Bew shows, the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-05-04
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'A stunningly good and surely definitive biography of one of the most fascinating British engineers ever to have lived' JAMES HOLLANDBarnes Wallis is remembered for contributions to aviation that spanned most of the 20th century, from airships at its start to reusable...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2023-05-04
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Greek tragedy parades, tests, stimulates, and upends human cognition. Characters plot deception, try to fathom elusive gods, and fail to recognise loved ones. Spectators observe the characters' cognitive limitations and contemplate their own, grapple with moral...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-04
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