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Fall of Civilizations

Stories of Greatness and Decline

by Paul Cooper ...

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The Histories

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Translated by Tom Holland ...

Tom Holland's 'stirring new translation' (Telegraph) of Herodotus' Histories, one of the great books in Western history - now in paperbackThe Histories of Herodotus, completed in the second half of the 5th century BC, is generally regarded as the first work of history and the first great masterpiece of non-fiction writing. Joined here are the sheer drama of Herodotus' narrative of the Persian ... Read more

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A History of Jerusalem

One City, Three Faiths

by Karen Armstrong ...

Due to the level of detail, maps are best viewed on a tablet.‘A History of Jerusalem should be read, not only by travellers and potential travellers in Jerusalem, but by all of us.’ Stephen Tummin, Daily TelegraphJerusalem has probably cast more of a spell over the human imagination than any other city in the world.Held by believers to contain the site where Abraham offered up Isaac, the place of ... Read more

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Due to the level of detail, maps are best viewed on a tablet.‘A History of Jerusalem should be read, not only by travellers and potential travellers in Jerusalem, but by all of us.’ Stephen Tummin, Daily TelegraphJerusalem has probably cast more of a spell over the human imagination than any other city in the world.Held by believers to contain the site where Abraham offered up Isaac, the place of
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Tao Te Ching

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The bestselling, widely acclaimed translation from Stephen Mitchell"Mitchell’s rendition of the Tao Te Ching comes as close to being definitive for our time as any I can imagine. It embodies the virtues its translator credits to the Chinese original: a gemlike lucidity that is radiant with humor, grace, largeheartedness, and deep wisdom." — Huston Smith, author of The Religions of ManIn eighty-one ... Read more

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Medium Raw

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Medium Raw marks the return of the inimitable Anthony Bourdain, author of the blockbuster bestseller Kitchen Confidential and three-time Emmy Award-nominated host of No Reservations on TV’s Travel Channel. Bourdain calls his book, “A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook,” and he is at his entertaining best as he takes aim at some of the biggest names in the foodie world, ... Read more

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Medium Raw marks the return of the inimitable Anthony Bourdain, author of the blockbuster bestseller Kitchen Confidential and three-time Emmy Award-nominated host of No Reservations on TV’s Travel Channel. Bourdain calls his book, “A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook,” and he is at his entertaining best as he takes aim at some of the biggest names in the foodie world,
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Maths on the Back of an Envelope

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‘Another terrific book by Rob Eastaway’ SIMON SINGH‘A delightfully accessible guide to how to play with numbers’ HANNAH FRYHow many cats are there in the world?What's the chance of winning the lottery twice?And just how long does it take to count to a million?Learn how to tackle tricky maths problems with nothing but the back of an envelope, a pencil and some good old-fashioned brain power.Join ... Read more

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‘Another terrific book by Rob Eastaway’ SIMON SINGH‘A delightfully accessible guide to how to play with numbers’ HANNAH FRYHow many cats are there in the world?What's the chance of winning the lottery twice?And just how long does it take to count to a million?Learn how to tackle tricky maths problems with nothing but the back of an envelope, a pencil and some good old-fashioned brain power.Join
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Promiscuous Knowledge

Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History

by Kenneth Cmiel, John Durham Peters ...

"[A] lively account of the cultural and intellectual history of how Americans have lived with image and information since the mid-nineteenth century." —Peter Simonson, author of Refiguring Mass CommunicationSergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to "the mind of God." As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google's divine omniscience traffics in ... Read more

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The LGBTQ + History Book

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by DK ...

Series series DK Big Ideas
Discover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ+ people around the world - their struggles, triumphs, and cultural contributions.Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ+ history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience. This diverse, global account explores the most important moments, movements, and phenomena, from the first known lesbian ... Read more

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Discover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ+ people around the world - their struggles, triumphs, and cultural contributions.Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ+ history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience. This diverse, global account explores the most important moments, movements, and phenomena, from the first known lesbian
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Time's Monster

History, Conscience and Britain's Empire

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CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NEW STATESMAN AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'In this searing book, Priya Satia demonstrates, yet again, that she is one of our most brilliant and original historians' Sunil Amrith, author of Unruly WatersFor generations, the history of the British empire was written by its victors. British historians' accounts of conquest guided the consolidation of imperial rule in India ... Read more

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CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NEW STATESMAN AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'In this searing book, Priya Satia demonstrates, yet again, that she is one of our most brilliant and original historians' Sunil Amrith, author of Unruly WatersFor generations, the history of the British empire was written by its victors. British historians' accounts of conquest guided the consolidation of imperial rule in India
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Life in a Medieval Village

by Frances Gies, Joseph Gies ...

Series series Medieval Life
The reissue of Joseph and Frances Gies’s classic bestseller on life in medieval villages.This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies, paints a lively, convincing portrait of rural people at work and at play in the Middle Ages. Focusing on the village of Elton, in the English East Midlands, the Gieses detail the agricultural advances that made ... Read more

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The reissue of Joseph and Frances Gies’s classic bestseller on life in medieval villages.This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies, paints a lively, convincing portrait of rural people at work and at play in the Middle Ages. Focusing on the village of Elton, in the English East Midlands, the Gieses detail the agricultural advances that made
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German Influence on British Cavalry

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by Erskine Childers, Ryan Desmond ...

First published in 1911, this vintage book contains an fascinating account of how British cavalry was influenced by German practices and techniques at the turn of the twentieth century. Contents include: “Introductory”, “Sir John French on”, “The Arme Blanche”, “The British Theory of The Arme Blanche”, “Cavalry In Combat”, “Tactics Against The Various Arms”, “The Fight Of The Independent Cavalry”, ... Read more

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First published in 1911, this vintage book contains an fascinating account of how British cavalry was influenced by German practices and techniques at the turn of the twentieth century. Contents include: “Introductory”, “Sir John French on”, “The Arme Blanche”, “The British Theory of The Arme Blanche”, “Cavalry In Combat”, “Tactics Against The Various Arms”, “The Fight Of The Independent Cavalry”,
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The Book of Facts and Trivia

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Violence and Public Memory

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Violence and Public Memory assesses the relationship between these two subjects by examining their interconnections in varied case studies across the United States, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.Those responsible for the violence discussed in this volume are varied, and the political ideologies and structures range from apartheid to fascism to homophobia to military
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Writing the History of Memory

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Series series Writing History
How objective are our history books? This addition to the Writing History series examines the critical role that memory plays in the writing of history.This book includes:- Essays from an international team of historians, bringing together analysis of forms of public history such as museums, exhibitions, memorials and speeches- Coverage of the ancient world to the present, on topics such as oral ... Read more

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How objective are our history books? This addition to the Writing History series examines the critical role that memory plays in the writing of history.This book includes:- Essays from an international team of historians, bringing together analysis of forms of public history such as museums, exhibitions, memorials and speeches- Coverage of the ancient world to the present, on topics such as oral
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Approaches to History

A Symposium

by H. P. R. Finberg ...

Series series Routledge Library Editions: Historiography
The contributors to this volume, originally published in 1962, explain the raison d’être of their own specialism in history be it archaeology, political, local, economic or social history or historical geography. ... Read more

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The contributors to this volume, originally published in 1962, explain the raison d’être of their own specialism in history be it archaeology, political, local, economic or social history or historical geography.
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Olhares Negros, Negros Olhares: Lideranças da Frente Negra Pernambucana; Década 1930

by Fátima Aparecida Silva ...

Olhares negros, negros olhares: lideranças da Frente Negra Pernambucana. Dêcada 1930 aborda a fundação da Frente Negra Pernambucana, a partir de um levantamento histórico, descrevendo o processo de constituição do movimento negro e a sua transformação em Centro de Cultura Afro-Brasileiro, focalizando, para isso, o momento histórico da década de 1930. ... Read more

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Olhares negros, negros olhares: lideranças da Frente Negra Pernambucana. Dêcada 1930 aborda a fundação da Frente Negra Pernambucana, a partir de um levantamento histórico, descrevendo o processo de constituição do movimento negro e a sua transformação em Centro de Cultura Afro-Brasileiro, focalizando, para isso, o momento histórico da década de 1930.
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Kirchliche Sexgeschichte

Die sündhaften Praktiken der Kirche

by Gunter Pirntke ...

Biblische Aussagen zur Leiblichkeit des Menschen könnten es der katholischen Kirche leicht machen, eine positive Einstellung zur Sexualität zu finden. Gerade im Alten Testament sind eine Vielzahl von wertschätzenden Aussagen über Liebe und Sexualität zu finden. Im Hohelied knistert es nur so vor Erotik und Anzüglichkeiten. Dem gegenüber stehen allerdings auch Aussagen zum Besitzrecht des Mannes im ... Read more

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Biblische Aussagen zur Leiblichkeit des Menschen könnten es der katholischen Kirche leicht machen, eine positive Einstellung zur Sexualität zu finden. Gerade im Alten Testament sind eine Vielzahl von wertschätzenden Aussagen über Liebe und Sexualität zu finden. Im Hohelied knistert es nur so vor Erotik und Anzüglichkeiten. Dem gegenüber stehen allerdings auch Aussagen zum Besitzrecht des Mannes im
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The Status of Soviet Civil Science

Proceedings of the Symposium on Soviet Scientific Research, NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium, September 24–26, 1986

Edited by Craig Sinclair ...

Series series History (R0)
This volume represents one outcome of the initiatives, taken from time to time by the NATO Science Committee, to add to the work of supporting civil science within the Alliance by mounting open meetings or other projects dealing with some topical aspect of science and technology policy. Past examples have included the 20th anniversary meeting of the establish ment of the Science Committee in 1978 ... Read more

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This volume represents one outcome of the initiatives, taken from time to time by the NATO Science Committee, to add to the work of supporting civil science within the Alliance by mounting open meetings or other projects dealing with some topical aspect of science and technology policy. Past examples have included the 20th anniversary meeting of the establish ment of the Science Committee in 1978
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Italian Women's Experiences with American Consumer Culture, 1945–1975

The Italian Mrs. Consumer

by Jessica L. Harris ...

Series series History (R0)
This book analyzes the spread of American female consumer culture to Italy and its influence on Italian women in the postwar and Cold War periods, eras marked by the political, economic, social, and cultural battle between the United States and Soviet Union. Focusing on various aspects of this culture—beauty and hygiene products, refrigerators, and department stores, as well as shopping and ... Read more

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This book analyzes the spread of American female consumer culture to Italy and its influence on Italian women in the postwar and Cold War periods, eras marked by the political, economic, social, and cultural battle between the United States and Soviet Union. Focusing on various aspects of this culture—beauty and hygiene products, refrigerators, and department stores, as well as shopping and
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Revival: Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel (1915)

by Friedrich Froebel ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
Originally published in 1915, the Autobiography of Fredrich Froebel provides a detailed overview of the life of the eminent German educator Fredrich Froebel, it charts his life and looks at his significant contribution to the field of education, including his Idealist philosophy of early childhood education, and his establishment of the kindergarten, a school for four-and five-year-old children ... Read more

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Originally published in 1915, the Autobiography of Fredrich Froebel provides a detailed overview of the life of the eminent German educator Fredrich Froebel, it charts his life and looks at his significant contribution to the field of education, including his Idealist philosophy of early childhood education, and his establishment of the kindergarten, a school for four-and five-year-old children
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Debates on Stalinism

by Mark Edele, Roger Richardson ...

Series series Issues in Historiography
Debates on Stalinism introduces major debates about Stalinism during and after the Cold War. Did 'Stalinism' form a system in its own right or was it a mere stage in the overall development of Soviet society? Was it an aberration from Leninism or the logical conclusion of Marxism? Was its violence the revenge of the Russian past or the result of a revolutionary mindset? Was Stalinism the work of a ... Read more

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Debates on Stalinism introduces major debates about Stalinism during and after the Cold War. Did 'Stalinism' form a system in its own right or was it a mere stage in the overall development of Soviet society? Was it an aberration from Leninism or the logical conclusion of Marxism? Was its violence the revenge of the Russian past or the result of a revolutionary mindset? Was Stalinism the work of a
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The Atlantic Region to Confederation

A History

Edited by Phillip Buckner, John Reid ...

Series series Heritage
Nearly thirty years ago W.S. MacNutt published the first general history of the Atlantic provinces before Confederation. An outstanding scholarly achievement, that history inspired much of the enormous growth of research and writing on Atlantic Canada in the succeeding decades. Now a new effort is required, to convey the state of our knowledge in the 1990s. Many of the themes important to today's ... Read more

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Nearly thirty years ago W.S. MacNutt published the first general history of the Atlantic provinces before Confederation. An outstanding scholarly achievement, that history inspired much of the enormous growth of research and writing on Atlantic Canada in the succeeding decades. Now a new effort is required, to convey the state of our knowledge in the 1990s. Many of the themes important to today's
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Los grandes asesinatos en la historia mundial

by Jacques Chabannes ...

Series Book 2 - Sociología Politica
Rigurosa descripción cronológica y analítica de los magnicidios mas impactantes en la historia de la humanidad, desde los inicios de las civilizaciones hasta 1963 con la absurda muerte del popular presidente estadounidense John F. Kennedy. A lo largo del texto el autor describe crimenes de Estado, regicidios y asesinatos de importantes personalidades políticas acaecidos en diversas etapas de la ... Read more

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Rigurosa descripción cronológica y analítica de los magnicidios mas impactantes en la historia de la humanidad, desde los inicios de las civilizaciones hasta 1963 con la absurda muerte del popular presidente estadounidense John F. Kennedy. A lo largo del texto el autor describe crimenes de Estado, regicidios y asesinatos de importantes personalidades políticas acaecidos en diversas etapas de la
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A Short History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Trials

by M. V. B. Perley ...

The doctrine of familiar spirits was current in most ancient times. It is possible that immediately after the fall in Adam the imprisoned spirit of man began to assert its former freedom and ability. The old Scriptures depicted the witch’s character, gave warning of her blighting influence, and enacted heavy penalties against employing her agency. In Exodus, xxii. 18: “Thou shalt not suffer a ... Read more

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The doctrine of familiar spirits was current in most ancient times. It is possible that immediately after the fall in Adam the imprisoned spirit of man began to assert its former freedom and ability. The old Scriptures depicted the witch’s character, gave warning of her blighting influence, and enacted heavy penalties against employing her agency. In Exodus, xxii. 18: “Thou shalt not suffer a
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Fall of Civilizations

The Histories

A History of Jerusalem

Tao Te Ching

Medium Raw

Maths on the Back of an Envelope

Promiscuous Knowledge

The LGBTQ + History Book

Time's Monster

Life in a Medieval Village

German Influence on British Cavalry

The Book of Facts and Trivia

Violence and Public Memory

Writing the History of Memory

Approaches to History

Olhares Negros, Negros Olhares: Lideranças da Frente Negra Pernambucana; Década 1930

Kirchliche Sexgeschichte

The Status of Soviet Civil Science

Italian Women's Experiences with American Consumer Culture, 1945–1975

Revival: Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel (1915)

Debates on Stalinism

The Atlantic Region to Confederation

Los grandes asesinatos en la historia mundial

A Short History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Trials