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  • Eigensinnige Musterschüler

    Ländliche Entwicklung und internationales Expertenwissen in der Türkei (1947–1980)

    Series Book 31 - Globalgeschichte
    Seit der Gründung der türkischen Republik im Jahr 1923 spielten ausländische Experten beim Aufbau des neuen Staates eine zentrale Rolle. Anhand der Geschichte der Entwicklungspolitik in der ländlichen Türkei lassen sich gut die Erwartungshorizonte aufzeigen, die deutsche, amerikanische und türkische Akteure für das Land in der Nachkriegszeit formulierten, das in der Zeit zwischen Marshallplan, ... Read more

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  • FIVE YEARS LATER: On the Brink -- THE NEW PROLOGUE

    A Look Back Five Years Later on What Happened, Why it Did, and Could it Happen Again?

    Henry M. Paulson, former Treasury Secretary, looks back on the financial crisis on its five year anniversary, and examines what happened, why it happened, and if it could happen again. ... Read more

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  • "Cap" Cornish, Indiana Pilot

    Navigating the Century of Flight

    Clarence "Cap" Cornish was an Indiana pilot whose life spanned all but five years of the Century of Flight. Born in Canada in 1898, Cornish grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He began flying at the age of nineteen, piloting a "Jenny" aircraft during World War I, and continued to fly for the next seventy-eight years. In 1995, at the age of ninety-seven, he was recognized by Guinness World Records as ... Read more

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  • A Vietnamese Moses

    Philiphe Binh and the Geographies of Early Modern Catholicism

    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.A Vietnamese Moses is the story of Philiphê Binh, a Vietnamese Catholic priest who in 1796 traveled from Tonkin to the Portuguese court in Lisbon to persuade its ruler to appoint a bishop for his community of ex-Jesuits. Based on... ... Read more

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  • ИДЕНТИФИКАЦИЯ УКРАИНСКОЙ НАЦИИ

    Покоренные народы, а тем более рабы, не участвуют в создании нации или этноса. Украинский народ в жесточайшей борьбе с завоевателями сумел сохранить свою этничность и отстоять своё древнее имя Украина-Русь. ... Read more

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  • John Laurie and the Rum Hospital

    by Justin Cahill ...
    2016 is the bicentenary of the opening of Sydney’s ‘Rum Hospital.’ It earned its name from the partial monopoly Governor Macquarie granted to three local merchants to import rum in return for building it Prior accounts of the Hospital’s origins focus on Macquarie, the merchants and their disputes. Yet John Laurie, the contractor’s clerk of works, was also an interesting figure. Transported for ... Read more

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  • The Hoffman-Lindenmeyer Family Story: Four Centuries of History

    Researching the history of one’s family tends to become addictive because it reveals details of the lives of people from long ago. This book is packed with fascinating details of the lives of many generations of two families who came from different places in Europe and eventually joined together in Illinois. It is the second in a series of four books covering the author’s ancestry. ... Read more

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  • Pflegerische Versorgung alter Menschen

    Qualitaet – Konzepte – Rahmenbedingungen Festschrift fuer Prof. Dr. Stefan Goerres

    Series Book 6 - Pflegeforschung
    Die Pflege hat eine zentrale Rolle in der Versorgung alter Menschen. Sie trägt dazu bei, dass alte Menschen trotz Einschränkungen, z.B. in der Selbstständigkeit, ein Leben in Würde und Selbstbestimmung führen können. Renommierte Autorinnen und Autoren konkretisieren, welches genau das Ziel der Pflege von alten Menschen sein soll und wie die Qualität in der Langzeitpflege weiterentwickelt und ... Read more

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  • Boudicca Activity Book

    Series Book 1 - The Legendary Women of World History: Activity Books
    A fun and interactive collection of puzzles based on "Boudicca, Britain's Queen of the Iceni," book one of the Legendary Women of World History. Practice reading while you learn more about history. Features a challenging fill in the blank puzzle, word search puzzles, double puzzles, and a crossword puzzle certain to challenge adults and children alike. Perfect for classrooms, homeschools, and ... Read more

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  • The Houstouns of Georgia

    Series Book 11 - Georgia Open History Library
    The Houstouns of Georgia shares the history of one of the oldest families in Georgia, showcasing its influential members and reflecting on the effect of one family throughout the state's history. Established by Sir Patrick Houstoun, who accompanied James Oglethorpe and helped him lay the foundations of the colony, the Houstoun family has called Georgia home since its inception. Over two hundred ... Read more

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  • #AquiNoBrasil

    Você está disposto a pensar?

    Uma estrutura política desastrosa corrompeu a autonomia de reflexão dos brasileiros, criando uma geração de analfabetos funcionais acomodados. Esta obra vem. de forma simples, provocar sua capacidade de dúvida e dedução, além de apresentar informações não muito conhecidas. ... Read more

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  • Environing Empire

    Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa

    by Martin Kalb ...
    Series Book 23 - Environment in History: International Perspectives
    Even leaving aside the vast death and suffering that it wrought on indigenous populations, German ambitions to transform Southwest Africa in the early part of the twentieth century were futile for most. For years colonists wrestled ocean waters, desert landscapes, and widespread aridity as they tried to reach inland in their effort of turning outwardly barren lands into a profitable settler colony ... Read more

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  • The Valiant Soldier

    Series Book 43 - Poetry
    For my grandfather and all of those who, like him, served bravely in the military, giving their all to fulfill sense of duty. ... Read more

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  • Asian Anthropology

    Series series Anthropology of Asia
    Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia. Instead of assuming a universal standard or trajectory for the development of anthropology in Asia, the contributors to this volume begin with the appropriate premise that anthropologies in different Asian countries have developed ... Read more

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  • Alamannen

    Sturm auf Rom

    by Michael Haase ...
    Im Jahr 259 nach Christus ist das Römische Reich durch innere Machtkämpfe und eine korrupte, dekadente Oberschicht geschwächt. Nach dem Ende der severischen Kaiser haben sogenannte Soldatenkaiser wie Valerian und sein Sohn Gallienus die Macht übernommen und das Reich durch einige aufeinander folgende Bürgerkriege dem Zerfall preisgegeben.Der durch viele gewonnene Schlachten gestärkte Kaiser ... Read more

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  • Ukraine's Search for Justice in the Shadow of the Donbas Conflict

    Strategic Reforms or Crisis Management?

    Series Book 15 - Studies in Political Transition
    Should we punish wrongdoers? Should we take care of the ones who suffered from wrongdoings? Although we may believe answers to these questions are obvious, they become less so when similar questions are asked under exceptional circumstances, such as armed conflicts. These answers may decide about the continuation of hostilities or their end. The stakes are high, while we can hardly ignore the need ... Read more

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  • Large Bells of America

    Bells have played a significant role in US history and, in many cases are seen as national symbols. This is especially true when it comes to the Liberty Bell, cast at a foundry in England in 1752 and shipped to Philadelphia, where it was installed in the assembly house.Bells have also played a central role in this author's life. "I can still picture the 18-inch iron dinner bell that my mother used ... Read more

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  • A Normal Nigerian Anomaly

    by Matteo Figus ...
    Military coups have been for long time identified as a common feature of African politics. Nigeria has been one of the countries that better exemplified the role, effects and consequences that decades of dictatorship can bring to a young nation. Nevertheless, Nigeria also reflects the hopes, the resources and the bright future that African nations have at their horizon. A tale, from 1966 to 1999, ... Read more

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  • Manhole Manifesto: A Deeper Push

    The Shanghai Manholes franchise was started to document the forgotten remnants of infrastructure installed by the foreign powers that once called Shanghai their own.Manhole Manifesto: A Deeper Push builds in the areas Shanghai Manholes, the original book in this series, did not cover, the numbers, costs and people behind the manholes. Greater research has been carried out on the two main elements ... Read more

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  • Todesfurcht auf Malta

    Kriminalroman: Die Antiquitätenhändlerin ermittelt 2 | Mord in einer geheimnisvollen Villa

    by Lyn Hamilton ...
    Series Book 2 - Die Antiquitätenhändlerin ermittelt
    Schwebt sie in Lebensgefahr? Der fesselnde Kriminalroman »Todesfurcht auf Malta« von Lyn Hamilton jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks. Ein gefährliches Geheimnis ... Antiquitätenhändlerin Lara McClintoch freut sich über einen lukrativen Auftrag: Sie soll auf Malta die Villa eines berühmten Architekten einrichten. Doch vom ersten Moment an spürt Lara, dass hier etwas nicht mit rechten Dingen zugeht - und ... Read more

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  • Language between God and the Poets

    Ma‘na in the Eleventh Century

    by Alexander Key ...
    Series Book 2 - Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship
    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.In the Arabic eleventh-century, scholars were intensely preoccupied with the way that language generated truth and beauty. Their work in poetics, logic, theology, and lexicography defined the intellectual space between God and the ... Read more

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  • Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen

    The Colombian Condition

    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book traverses the cultural landscape of Colombia through in-depth analyses of displacement, local and global cultures, human rights abuses, and literary and media production. Through an exploration of the cultural processes that perpetuate the "darker side" of Latin America for global consumption, it investigates the "condition" that has led writers, filmmakers, and artists to embrace ... Read more

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  • Green Voices

    Defending Nature and the Environment in American Civic Discourse

    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    The written works of nature's leading advocates—from Charles Sumner and John Muir to Rachel Carson and President Jimmy Carter, to name a few—have been the subject of many texts, but their speeches remain relatively unknown or unexamined. Green Voices aims to redress this situation. After all, when it comes to the leaders, heroes, and activists of the environmental movement, their speeches formed ... Read more

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  • Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State

    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295806570Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State views modern Chinese political history from the perspective of Han officials who were tasked with governing Xinjiang. This region, inhabited by Uighurs, Kazaks, Hui, Mongols, Kirgiz, and Tajiks, is also the last significant “colony” of the former Qing empire to remain under continuous Chinese rule throughout the ... Read more

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