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Convince you of what? Is this still necessary? I presented to my readers under this title La Préhistoire Nouvelle 15 volumes in French and English that traveled (thanks to the Internet) as much as possible the entire planet with common-sense observations based on the...
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JePublie
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2023-02-15
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Why “Similarities”? We are at the end of June 2019, after a “small” heat wave of one week (40 to 45 degrees) which puts all the Western Europe in all its states, which follows a first one in August 2003 – title of the time: 70 000 dead persons, ...
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JePublie
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01/07/2019
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This socio-historical monograph compares the two theologians Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) and Martin Rade (1857–1940) in a transatlantic juxtaposition, with a particular focus on the political and social dimensions of their thought and work. Both theologians...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-12-17
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The “Silk Road” is also known as the “Road of Lacquerware”. This book starts with the liquid called "big lacquer" that flows out of the oriental lacquer tree. Focusing on the splendid Chinese lacquerware culture, this book explores cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-12-16
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The wars between the Achaemenid Persian kings and the Greek city-states (c. 499-449 BCE)--especially Xerxes' invasion of Greece (480-479 BCE)--are often remembered as foundational events in Greek history, and therefore, we often hear about them through Greek accounts....
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Oxford University Press
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2025-11-26
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This book is a study in cultural collegiality and interchange. Over the course of a long life, Thomas Mann established working relationships with some of Hungary's cultural luminaries. On the six occasions that he visited Budapest to give public readings of his work, he...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-15
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Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides explores three of the earliest, and most influential, accounts of plague visitations in Western literature: Homer's Iliad book 1 (1-487), Sophocles' Oedipus the King (esp. 1-215), and Thucydides' History of...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-11-13
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Ziel dieses Bandes ist es, Entstehung, Entwicklung und wechselseitige Wahrnehmung nationaler Identitäten in Italien und Finnland im neuzeitlichen Europa darzustellen, zu analysieren und vergleichend...
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Springer VS
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2025-11-13
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By the early 1850s, the former slave James W.C. Pennington had become an internationally prominent African American minister, abolitionist and reformer. With its scathing analysis of the chattel system, gripping account of his escape, and inspirational story of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-11-11
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What is the academic specialty that deals with team building? This book represents the quintessence of an interdisciplinary project, in which specialists from economics, sports, psychology and acting decipher teambuilding, creating a flexible product adapted to the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-11-11
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This book examines how Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863–1938) reimagined the Renaissance as a metaphor for Italy’s national rebirth. Rather than a nostalgic revival, the Renaissance became, in his hands, a future-oriented ideological project that served as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-10
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This book examines the use of diagrams throughout history, from their Paleolithic antecedents to the present day. Drawing on theories and concepts from the cognitive sciences, the author explores the evolution of diagrammatic forms and their impact on the accumulation...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-09
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This book traces the establishment of the Arab League’s little-known first peacekeeping operation (the first non-United Nations, regionally mandated peacekeeping operation after 1945), deployed to Kuwait in 1961-1963. It follows how the Arab League, a loose...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-11-07
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The history of the Commonwealth of Nations has been subject to limited scholarly enquiry, confined to a focus on inter-governmental relations and divorced from the lively historiographies on the economics and business of the British Empire.
Seeking to fill these gaps,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-06
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LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD"One of those books that changes the way you see the world. Gripping, urgent, important." ED CONWAY "This wonderful book is as welcome as it is overdue ... shines a much-needed light on...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2025-11-06
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In recent years, supernatural beliefs systems in medieval and modern Islamicate cultures have been the subject of sustained scholarly attention. But we know very little about these concepts and practices in an Ottoman context.
Marinos Sariyannis proposes here to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-11-05
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Der Band beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie die Erinnerung von Zeitzeugen in der Grundschule vermittelt werden kann. Mit einer umfassenden Dokumentation des Projektes „Inge-Auerbacher-Tag“ zielt dieses Buch auf die nachhaltige Gestaltung der...
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Springer
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2025-11-05
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The forgotten life and complex legacies of Wakara, the mighty, once-notorious Native leader whose battles and conquests shaped the American West “A sobering reassessment of the history of the Great Basin and locates the disruptive and violent influences of...
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Basic Books
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2025-11-04
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In a humane world, cruelty should not exist, and yet it has been a feature of our societies since time immemorial. From individual acts of cruelty to systematic torture and mass murder, cruelty has been humanity’s constant companion, attesting to a darker side of human...
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Polity
Parution :
2025-11-03
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