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L'inferno è vuoto

by Rinaldo Battaglia ...

L’inferno è vuoto è il settimo libro di Rinaldo Battaglia e un ulteriore passo dell’autore sulla strada tracciata nei volumi precedenti, studiando ancora e sempre il passato per meglio capire il presente e per puntare a un futuro, per i nostri figli, con meno atrocità e più amore. Si parte dalla scelta nel nostro paese della prima amnistia, quella chiamata di Togliatti, del giugno 1946 e da quella ... Read more

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L’inferno è vuoto è il settimo libro di Rinaldo Battaglia e un ulteriore passo dell’autore sulla strada tracciata nei volumi precedenti, studiando ancora e sempre il passato per meglio capire il presente e per puntare a un futuro, per i nostri figli, con meno atrocità e più amore. Si parte dalla scelta nel nostro paese della prima amnistia, quella chiamata di Togliatti, del giugno 1946 e da quella
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Foreign Exchange

Counterculture behind the Walls of St. Hilda's School for Girls, 1929-1937

by Judith Liu ...

Foreign Exchange: Counterculture behind the Walls of St. Hilda's School for Girls, 1929-1937 is the story of Yeh Yuanshuang and Dorothea Kingsley Wakeman and their experiences at the American missionary school. Founded in 1875, the school that would become St. Hilda's School for Girls was intended to provide a strong, Christian education for its students. Daily student-teacher interactions, ... Read more

$126.99 CAD

Foreign Exchange: Counterculture behind the Walls of St. Hilda's School for Girls, 1929-1937 is the story of Yeh Yuanshuang and Dorothea Kingsley Wakeman and their experiences at the American missionary school. Founded in 1875, the school that would become St. Hilda's School for Girls was intended to provide a strong, Christian education for its students. Daily student-teacher interactions,
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Ethics and the Will

Essays

Translated by H. Kaal ...

by Friedrich Waismann, Josef Schächter, Moritz Schlick ...

Series Book 21 - Vienna Circle Collection
$179.99 CAD
Historical Dictionary of Laos

by Martin Stuart-Fox ...

Series series Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East
Laos is the smallest state in terms of population, the weakest militarily, and the least developed economically in mainland Southeast Asia. Yet a glance at the map shows how strategically it is positioned, between Thailand and Vietnam and between Cambodia and China. As in the past Laos was a crossroads for trade routes, so in the future it will be a crossroads for communications in this rapidly ... Read more

$222.99 CAD

Laos is the smallest state in terms of population, the weakest militarily, and the least developed economically in mainland Southeast Asia. Yet a glance at the map shows how strategically it is positioned, between Thailand and Vietnam and between Cambodia and China. As in the past Laos was a crossroads for trade routes, so in the future it will be a crossroads for communications in this rapidly
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Autobiographical Memory in an Aboriginal Australian Community

Culture, Place and Narrative

by A. Monchamp ...

Series series History (R0)
This book shares and analyses the stories of Opal, a senior Alyawarra woman. Through her stories the reader glimpses the harsh colonial realities which many Aboriginal Australians have faced, highlighting the cultural embeddedness of autobiographical memory from a philosophical, psychological and anthropological perspective. ... Read more

$64.99 CAD

This book shares and analyses the stories of Opal, a senior Alyawarra woman. Through her stories the reader glimpses the harsh colonial realities which many Aboriginal Australians have faced, highlighting the cultural embeddedness of autobiographical memory from a philosophical, psychological and anthropological perspective.
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AQA GCSE History: Understanding the Modern World

by David Ferriby, Dave Martin, Ben Walsh ...

Create a stimulating, well-paced teaching route through the 2016 GCSE History specification using this tailor-made series that draws on a legacy of market-leading history textbooks and the individual subject specialisms of the author team to inspire student success.- Motivate your students to deepen their subject knowledge through an engaging and thought-provoking narrative that makes historical ... Read more

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Create a stimulating, well-paced teaching route through the 2016 GCSE History specification using this tailor-made series that draws on a legacy of market-leading history textbooks and the individual subject specialisms of the author team to inspire student success.- Motivate your students to deepen their subject knowledge through an engaging and thought-provoking narrative that makes historical
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史料学研究

by 冯尔康 ...

本套书是文集。本套文集共10卷，收入著名史学家冯尔康先生的学术论文、读史札记、序跋书评、回忆文章，等等，涉及史学理论、清史、社会史、文化史、宗族史、徽学等领域。共360多篇，380多万字。内容极具学术价值。本卷汇集了作者对史料学研讨的文章，分为综论·视觉史料，传记、年谱、日记、书信、文编，方志，档案，史料解读5个栏目。研究不以清史史料研究为限，旁及中国通史史料，从史汉到当代的史书文献均有所涉猎，意在明了各种文献体裁的史料价值，尤其关注中国社会史史料和视觉史料。 ... Read more

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本套书是文集。本套文集共10卷，收入著名史学家冯尔康先生的学术论文、读史札记、序跋书评、回忆文章，等等，涉及史学理论、清史、社会史、文化史、宗族史、徽学等领域。共360多篇，380多万字。内容极具学术价值。本卷汇集了作者对史料学研讨的文章，分为综论·视觉史料，传记、年谱、日记、书信、文编，方志，档案，史料解读5个栏目。研究不以清史史料研究为限，旁及中国通史史料，从史汉到当代的史书文献均有所涉猎，意在明了各种文献体裁的史料价值，尤其关注中国社会史史料和视觉史料。
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Teaching Landscape History

Edited by Jan Woudstra, David Jacques, Robert Holden ...

Landscape history is changing in content and style to address the issues of today. Experienced teachers and authors on the history of gardens and landscapes come together in this new volume to share ideas on the future of teaching history in departments of landscape architecture, archaeology, geography and allied subjects.Design history remains important, but this volume brings to the fore the ... Read more

$85.99 CAD

Landscape history is changing in content and style to address the issues of today. Experienced teachers and authors on the history of gardens and landscapes come together in this new volume to share ideas on the future of teaching history in departments of landscape architecture, archaeology, geography and allied subjects.Design history remains important, but this volume brings to the fore the
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Ghost Trains & Ghosts on Trains

by Robert K. Lesniakiewicz, Milos Jesensky, Stanislaw Bednarz ...

The railway network covers all continents of our world - except Antarctica - and passenger and freight trains run on it. And everything would be fine, if not for the fact that all these railway lines have become a kind of folklore, an integral part of which are ghosts and specters - of people and trains. And this book is about them.But not only ghosts of people and trains pass along the railway ... Read more

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The railway network covers all continents of our world - except Antarctica - and passenger and freight trains run on it. And everything would be fine, if not for the fact that all these railway lines have become a kind of folklore, an integral part of which are ghosts and specters - of people and trains. And this book is about them.But not only ghosts of people and trains pass along the railway
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Global biographies

Lived history as method

Edited by Laura Almagor, Haakon Ikonomou, Gunvor Simonsen ...

Global biographies provides an advanced and comprehensive analytical framework for historians to use biography as a method to write global history. Moving beyond the state-of-the-art, the volumedefines and operationalises three uniquely tailored approaches to global biographies:‘time and periodisation’, ‘exceptional normal’ and ‘space and scales’. From Icelandic communists and Jewish medical ... Read more

$143.99 CAD

Global biographies provides an advanced and comprehensive analytical framework for historians to use biography as a method to write global history. Moving beyond the state-of-the-art, the volumedefines and operationalises three uniquely tailored approaches to global biographies:‘time and periodisation’, ‘exceptional normal’ and ‘space and scales’. From Icelandic communists and Jewish medical
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Embodiment, Expertise, and Ethics in Early Modern Europe

Entangling the Senses

Edited by Marlene L. Eberhart, Jacob M. Baum ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge
Embodiment, Expertise, and Ethics in Early Modern Europe highlights the agency and intentionality of individuals and groups in the making of sensory knowledge from approximately 1500 to 1700. Focused case studies show how artisans, poets, writers, and theologians responded creatively to their environments, filtering the cultural resources at their disposal through the lenses of their own more ... Read more

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Embodiment, Expertise, and Ethics in Early Modern Europe highlights the agency and intentionality of individuals and groups in the making of sensory knowledge from approximately 1500 to 1700. Focused case studies show how artisans, poets, writers, and theologians responded creatively to their environments, filtering the cultural resources at their disposal through the lenses of their own more
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Historia del mundo mapa a mapa (History of the World Map by Map)

by DK ...

Series series DK History Map by Map
Los mapas no solo nos muestran adónde ir, sino también dónde hemos estado.Si estás interesado en descubrir todos los detalles de la historia mundial con descripciones geográficas de cada época, ¡este libro es para ti!La historia sería incomprensible sin mapas. Por eso, esta impresionante obra recopila 140 mapas que plasman los acontecimientos más importantes de la historia, tal y como se ... Read more

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Los mapas no solo nos muestran adónde ir, sino también dónde hemos estado.Si estás interesado en descubrir todos los detalles de la historia mundial con descripciones geográficas de cada época, ¡este libro es para ti!La historia sería incomprensible sin mapas. Por eso, esta impresionante obra recopila 140 mapas que plasman los acontecimientos más importantes de la historia, tal y como se
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1864

Bismarcks erster Krieg

by Klaus-Jürgen Bremm ...

Die Geburtsstunde des Kaiserreichs: der deutsch-dänische Krieg neu erzähltMit dem Einmarsch der preußischen und österreichischen Truppen in Dänemark begann am 1. Februar 1864 der deutsch-dänische Krieg, der später der erste »Einigungskrieg« genannt werden sollte. Packend schildert Bestsellerautor Klaus-Jürgen Bremm die diplomatischen Verwicklungen und militärischen Ereignisse und zeigt – vor dem ... Read more

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Die Geburtsstunde des Kaiserreichs: der deutsch-dänische Krieg neu erzähltMit dem Einmarsch der preußischen und österreichischen Truppen in Dänemark begann am 1. Februar 1864 der deutsch-dänische Krieg, der später der erste »Einigungskrieg« genannt werden sollte. Packend schildert Bestsellerautor Klaus-Jürgen Bremm die diplomatischen Verwicklungen und militärischen Ereignisse und zeigt – vor dem
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Other Histories

Edited by Kirsten Hastrup ...

Series series European Association of Social Anthropologists
The historization of anthropology has entailed a radically new view upon history and the nature of history. This collection of papers from the first conference of the newly formed European Association of Social Anthropologists demonstrate how ways of thinking about history are important features of any production of history, and how cultural concepts enter as forcs of historical causation. ... Read more

$109.99 CAD

The historization of anthropology has entailed a radically new view upon history and the nature of history. This collection of papers from the first conference of the newly formed European Association of Social Anthropologists demonstrate how ways of thinking about history are important features of any production of history, and how cultural concepts enter as forcs of historical causation.
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The Routledge Companion to Management and Organizational History

Edited by Patricia Genoe McLaren, Albert J. Mills, Terrance G. Weatherbee ...

Series series Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing
The field of management and organizational history has reached a level of maturity that means an overview is long overdue.Written by a team of globally renowned scholars, this comprehensive companion analyses management and organizational history, reflecting on the most influential periods and highlighting gaps for future research. From the impact of the Cold War to Global Warming, it examines the ... Read more

$119.99 CAD

The field of management and organizational history has reached a level of maturity that means an overview is long overdue.Written by a team of globally renowned scholars, this comprehensive companion analyses management and organizational history, reflecting on the most influential periods and highlighting gaps for future research. From the impact of the Cold War to Global Warming, it examines the
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Historical Dictionary of the Philippines

by Artemio R. Guillermo ...

Series series Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East
Asia is one of the most rapidly developing regions in the world, and knowledge of the individual countries is crucial for our understanding of the area. The Republic of the Philippines, composed of a chain of islands in Southeast Asia, became a Spanish colony during the 16th century and was then ceded to the United States following the Spanish-American War. After independence in the 20th century, ... Read more

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Asia is one of the most rapidly developing regions in the world, and knowledge of the individual countries is crucial for our understanding of the area. The Republic of the Philippines, composed of a chain of islands in Southeast Asia, became a Spanish colony during the 16th century and was then ceded to the United States following the Spanish-American War. After independence in the 20th century,
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Der imperiale Traum

Die Globalgeschichte großer Reiche 1400-2000

by John Darwin ...

Translated by Michael Bayer, Norbert Juraschitz ...

Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts begannen die europäischen Seefahrernationen, die Seewege Richtung Amerika und Indien zu erschließen. Doch was geschah damals in jenem Teil der Welt, der vom Ausgreifen des Westens zunächst relativ unberührt blieb? In einer meisterhaften Geschichtserzählung schildert John Darwin, dass die asiatischen Reiche - China, Japan, das indische Mogul-Reich, das Osmanische und ... Read more

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Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts begannen die europäischen Seefahrernationen, die Seewege Richtung Amerika und Indien zu erschließen. Doch was geschah damals in jenem Teil der Welt, der vom Ausgreifen des Westens zunächst relativ unberührt blieb? In einer meisterhaften Geschichtserzählung schildert John Darwin, dass die asiatischen Reiche - China, Japan, das indische Mogul-Reich, das Osmanische und
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The Essential Guide to Old, Antique and Ancient Metal Spoons

by David Villanueva ...

This illustrated guide to spoons has been produced for finders, collectors, family historians and anyone interested in spoons from earliest times to the nineteenth century. The book is basically divided into three sections: the first covers the development of spoons, particularly silver, from earliest times; the second covers old base metal spoons and the third, some continental spoons, many of ... Read more

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This illustrated guide to spoons has been produced for finders, collectors, family historians and anyone interested in spoons from earliest times to the nineteenth century. The book is basically divided into three sections: the first covers the development of spoons, particularly silver, from earliest times; the second covers old base metal spoons and the third, some continental spoons, many of
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How They Lived

An Annotated Tour of Daily Life through History in Primary Sources [2 volumes]

by James Ciment ...

Ideal for history majors, nonhistory majors taking history courses, as well as general readers, this book provides not only the primary documents and artifacts of ordinary people in history, but also annotations that help the reader put them into context and grasp their deeper meaning.This two-volume work explores daily life across human history through primary sources, making use of this primary ... Read more

$224.99 CAD

Ideal for history majors, nonhistory majors taking history courses, as well as general readers, this book provides not only the primary documents and artifacts of ordinary people in history, but also annotations that help the reader put them into context and grasp their deeper meaning.This two-volume work explores daily life across human history through primary sources, making use of this primary
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Sources for Studying the Holocaust

A Guide

Edited by Paul R. Bartrop ...

Series series Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources
Sources for Studying the Holocaust provides a pathway for readers to engage with questions about what sources can be used to study the Holocaust.For many historians, the challenge has been how to rescue the story from oblivion when oft-used sources for other periods of history introduce even more issues around authenticity and reliability. What can be learned of what transpired in villages and ... Read more

$77.99 CAD

Sources for Studying the Holocaust provides a pathway for readers to engage with questions about what sources can be used to study the Holocaust.For many historians, the challenge has been how to rescue the story from oblivion when oft-used sources for other periods of history introduce even more issues around authenticity and reliability. What can be learned of what transpired in villages and
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Contos Catarinenses

by Emanuel Marcos Cruz E Prado ...

Este livro procura retratar algumas cidades catarinenses e suas principais características ou costumes em forma de uma história fictícia e divertida. Com isto quem conhece a região irá identificar a história e imaginar ela acontecendo. Quem não conhece irá ter uma ideia do povo e de alguns costumes do local. ... Read more

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Este livro procura retratar algumas cidades catarinenses e suas principais características ou costumes em forma de uma história fictícia e divertida. Com isto quem conhece a região irá identificar a história e imaginar ela acontecendo. Quem não conhece irá ter uma ideia do povo e de alguns costumes do local.
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The Wisdom of the Ancients

Four Ideas that Changed the World

by H. A. Drake ...

This book is about four cornerstones of modern thought that were put in place by people living in the ancient Mediterranean world. It covers approximately 2,000 years in time (from ca. 1000 BCE to 1000 CE) and spatially moves from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia (roughly, modern Iraq), through Greece and Rome, to the new Germanic states growing in what is now western Europe. The ... Read more

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This book is about four cornerstones of modern thought that were put in place by people living in the ancient Mediterranean world. It covers approximately 2,000 years in time (from ca. 1000 BCE to 1000 CE) and spatially moves from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Mesopotamia (roughly, modern Iraq), through Greece and Rome, to the new Germanic states growing in what is now western Europe. The
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História do Norte de Minas Gerais (Vol. 1)

Sociedade e Estado

by Valéria De Jesus Leite, Andrey Lopes de Souza, Aparecido Pereira Cardoso ...

Entre as ideias muito frequentes na historiografia do Norte de Minas, destaca-se uma leitura dualista, que opõe o sertão à civilização/modernidade. Haveria uma região que, desde os tempos coloniais, é explorada, invadida ou desrespeitada por agentes externos, sejam eles da Coroa portuguesa, do Estado ou da cultura iluminista. ... Read more

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Entre as ideias muito frequentes na historiografia do Norte de Minas, destaca-se uma leitura dualista, que opõe o sertão à civilização/modernidade. Haveria uma região que, desde os tempos coloniais, é explorada, invadida ou desrespeitada por agentes externos, sejam eles da Coroa portuguesa, do Estado ou da cultura iluminista.
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Michel Foucault

Edited by David Owen ...

Series series International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought
Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers whose work has unsettled and transformed the field of social philosophy and the social sciences. The essays and articles selected for this volume are written by many of the most important of Foucault’s interpreters and interlocutors and show the range of Foucault’s influence and the debates it has provoked about Foucault ... Read more

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Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers whose work has unsettled and transformed the field of social philosophy and the social sciences. The essays and articles selected for this volume are written by many of the most important of Foucault’s interpreters and interlocutors and show the range of Foucault’s influence and the debates it has provoked about Foucault
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