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  • I quotidiani modenesi a confronto

    Il caso dell’accoglienza agli extracomunitari nelle cronache di Resto del Carlino Gazzetta di Modena e Unità negli anni della prima ondata migratoria

    Gli inizi della immigrazione extracomunitaria a Modena negli anni 1987-1990. Il racconto dell'atteggiamento della Cisl e degli altri sindacati, degli enti locali, della chiesa e del volontariato nelle cronache dei quotidiani Il Resto del Carlino, La Gazzetta di Modena, L'Unità e il confronto tra le loro diverse linee editoriali. ... Read more

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  • Die Geister des Mondes: Sano Ichir?s zwölfter Fall

    Historischer Kriminalroman. Fesselnde Japan-Spannung: »Einfach meisterhaft«, sagt Publishers Weekly

    Series Book 12 - Ein Fall für Sano Ichir?
    Niemand wird seiner Rache entkommen können: Der historische Krimi »Die Geister des Mondes« von Laura Joh Rowland als eBook bei dotbooks. Japan, 1699: Die Liste seiner Feinde und Neider wächst mit jedem Tag. Bisher hat Sano Ichir?, die rechte Hand des Shoguns, jede Verleumdung und jeden Anschlag auf sich und sein Haus abwehren können - bis eines Nachts sein Sohn entführt wird! Die Spur führt nach ... Read more

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  • Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil

    The Historia Naturalis Brasiliae Reconsidered

    Series series Routledge Studies in Global Latin America
    This volume presents the first extensive census of the surviving copies of the treatise Historia Naturalis Brasiliae in libraries worldwide and examines the book from a variety of interdisciplinary viewpoints.The chapters in this volume are written by scholars from different fields of knowledge, including anthropology, botany, linguistics, literature, book history, medieval and early modern ... Read more

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  • La statistique personnelle du préfet Descorches

    200 notables drômois sous le Premier Empire

    Biographies de 192 hommes susceptibles d'influence et de 8 riches hérituères dressées par le préfet de la Drôme en 1810. ... Read more

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  • Splendors of Quanzhou, Past and Present

    This open access book explores the past and present of Quanzhou (Zayton) and the rich diversity and tolerance that kindled Quanzhou’s innovativeness and helped it prosper both commercially and culturally—values that are today being embraced by China’s global trade partners.Quanzhou (Zayton), Marco Polo’s port of departure and Columbus’ goal in China, was not only the start of the Maritime Silk ... Read more

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  • A Political Biography of Aung San Suu Kyi

    A Hybrid Politician

    Series series Politics in Asia
    This book is the first political biography of Aung San Suu Kyi covering both her years in opposition and all her years in power from 2016 onwards. It offers a new interpretation of Aung San Suu Kyi by presenting a balanced and thorough account of Suu Kyi’s policies.In the last 30 years there has not been a person in global politics who has risen so high and fallen so low – and so quickly – as Aung ... Read more

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  • The Bigod Chronicles - Book One Ilger

    The Bigod Chronicles Book One Ilger Antioch has fallen to the crusader army and for now the killing is over…but at what cost? Typhus is taking the lives of thousands and Ilger Bigod d'Ige lies dying on a soiled straw mat. Hugo de Payen witnesses the miracle of his survival and takes young Ilger under his wing. Believing Ilger was spared for a divine reason, Hugo watches helplessly as the innocent ... Read more

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  • Unjust Conditions

    Women's Work and the Hidden Cost of Cash Transfer Programs

    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.Unjust Conditions follows the lives and labors of poor mothers in rural Peru, richly documenting the ordeals they face to participate in mainstream poverty alleviation programs. Championed by behavioral economists and th... ... Read more

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  • The World of Lady Lazarus

    by Michele Lang ...
    Michele Lang is the author of the acclaimed LADY LAZARUS historical fantasy series from Tor. In this little guide, you will find a window into the historical and metaphysical context for the series – the intense, fascinating café culture of Budapest in the 1930s. A non-fiction collection of information and essays to complement the fantasy series. ... Read more

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  • We Have Had Our Last Chance

    Lessons on human nature from General Douglas MacArthur's WW2 experience in the Philippines.

    It has often been said that those who fail to learn from history are destined to repeat it. In this concise, hard-hitting booklet about General Douglas MacArthur and his experiences during World War II, lessons abound. But have we learned from those lessons?In this booklet:• Betrayal in the Pacific• Every Filipino Deceived• Fighting for Time• President Quezon Pleads• Lost World View• "I Shall ... Read more

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  • In the Land of the Eastern Queendom

    The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border

    by Tenzin Jinba ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804842The story underlying this ethnography began with the recent discovery and commercialization of the remnant of an ancient “queendom” on the Sichuan-Tibet border. Recorded in classical Chinese texts, this legendary matriarchal domain has attracted not only tourists but the vigilance of the Chinese state. Tenzin Jinba’s research examines the consequences ... Read more

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  • Der Aufstieg der Isis: Operette

    Die Operette Der Aufstieg der Isis ist eine fesselnde Aufführung einer musikalischen Operette, um alle Grenzen in der Welt zu überschreiten. Sie übermittelt die allegorische Geschichte der Proben, Leiden, Tragödie und des Triumphs der Isis als der archetypischen Göttin aller Frauen, durch Schauspielkunst, Interpretivtanz, lyrischen Tanz, Projektion und spezielle Lichteffekte, alle in einer ... Read more

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  • History from Loss

    A Global Introduction to Histories written from defeat, colonization, exile, and imprisonment

    History from Loss challenges the common thought that "history is written by the winners" and explores how history-makers in different times and places across the globe have written histories from loss, even when this has come at the threat to their own safety.A distinguished group of historians from around the globe offer an introduction to different history-makers’ lives and ideas, and important ... Read more

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  • A Citizen Owned Money Supply

    by Bob Blain ...
    This booklet explains why the money supply of nations must be based on citizenship rather than debt. It shows with "the pen of history" that debt in the United States grew to the astronomical size it is today as a direct result of the decision made in 1781 to have money originate as interest-bearing debt. It proposes that money be understood as citizen shares, not to be bought and sold to make ... Read more

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  • Sounds of War and Peace

    Soundscapes of European Cities in 1945

    Series Book 10 - Eastern European Studies in Musicology
    This book vividly evokes for the reader the sound world of a number of European cities in the last year of the Second World War. It allows the reader to «hear» elements of the soundscapes of Amsterdam, Dortmund, Lwów/Lviv, Warsaw and Breslau/Wrocław that are bound up with the traumatising experiences of violence, threats and death. Exploiting to the full methodologies and research tools developed ... Read more

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  • El Triángulo De Las Bermudas. El Encubrimiento De La Guerra Del Caribe

    by Bill Grayyn ...
    El triángulo de las Bermudas, uno de los mayores encubrimientos de la pos guerra.Un mito fabricado por el sistema de censura de EEUU ante el intento de ocultamiento de los ataques de submarinos nazis en la costa atlántica, Caribe y Golfo de México.Cientos de barcos de todo tonelaje, cientos de aviones tanto militares como civiles. Más de cien submarinos alemanes operaron en el golfo de México y ... Read more

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  • The Historical Distinctiveness of Central Europe

    A Study in the Philosophy of History

    Series Book 31 - Studies in History, Memory and Politics
    The aim of this book is to explain economic dualism in the history of modern Europe. The emergence of the manorial-serf economy in the Bohemia, Poland, and Hungary in the 16th and the 17th centuries was the result of a cumulative impact of various circumstantial factors. The weakness of cities in Central Europe disturbed the social balance – so characteristic for Western-European societies – ... Read more

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  • Alexander the Great: The History and Legacy of Alexander The Great

    by John C Martin ...
    In the first authoritative biography of Alexander the Great written for a general audience in a generation, classicist and historian John C Martin tells the remarkable life of the great conqueror. The celebrated Macedonian king has been one of the most enduring figures in history.At eighteen Alexander had conquered mainland Greece, was crowned King of Macedonia at twenty and by twenty-six he had ... Read more

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  • The Ottoman Administration of Iraq, 1890-1908

    Series series SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
    This is a study of the nature of Ottoman administration under Sultan Abdulhamid and the effects of this on the three provinces that were to form the modern state of Iraq. The author provides a general commentary on the late Ottoman provincial administration and a comprehensive picture of the nature of its interaction with provincial society. In drawing on sources of the Ottoman archives, bringing ... Read more

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  • Contextualizing Premodern Philosophy

    Explorations of the Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin Traditions

    This volume brings together contributions from distinguished scholars in the history of philosophy, focusing on points of interaction between discrete historical contexts, religions, and cultures found within the premodern period. The contributions connect thinkers from antiquity through the Middle Ages and include philosophers from the three major monotheistic faiths—Judaism, Islam, and ... Read more

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  • Das Special Film Project SFP-186 und die First Motion Picture Unit der United States Army Air Forces

    by Markus Lenz ...
    Wann immer wir im Fernsehen Filmmaterial aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg sehen, handelt es sich Farbfilmaufnahmen, die im Rahmen des sogenannten Special Film Project SFP-186 von den US-amerikanischen Streitkräften gedreht worden sind. In meinem Beitrag geht es um eine historisch korrekte Darlegung der Ursprünge dieser militärischen Filmeinheit, First Motion Picture Unit, sowie um deren filmisches Erbe. ... Read more

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  • Letters of Mother Saint Pierre Cinquin

    This book contains the letters of Mother St. Pierre Cinquin (1845-1891), co-foundress of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio. Mother St. Pierre was the leader and guide of the Congregation from 1872 to 1891, a difficult period of development and growth. Herein are included all her extant personal letters. In addition to the letters, this book contains the formula of vows of ... Read more

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  • A data da Ressurreição

    domingo, 3 de abril de 33

    Domingo, 3 de abril de 33, no calendário Gregoriano, foi o dia em que Jesus Cristo ressuscitou. Era o terceiro dia a contar da sua crucificação na sexta-feira.Depois que o livro Ano Zero – Natal Um comprovou que nosso calendário atual, Gregoriano, está correto e que Jesus nasceu em 25 de dezembro de 1AC, este livro comprova a data da ressurreição de Cristo em 3 de abril de 33DC, com pouco mais de ... Read more

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  • The Frank Jay Raven Story

    This is the true story of the American taipan atop colonial Shanghai’s real estate, financial and insurance sectors pre World War II. The man behind:The Raven Trust Company, Federal Inc., U.S.A. (普益银公司 / 普益銀公司)American-Oriental Banking Corporation (美丰银行 / 美豐銀行)American-Oriental Finance Corporation, Federal Inc., U.S.A.Asia Realty Company, Federal Inc., U.S.A. (普益地产公司 / 普益地產公司)American Asiatic ... Read more

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