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A psychiatrist examines how the world's four most important mind-altering substances- alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, and opiates-have played a significant role throughout human history, and explains how these powerful drugs affect the brain and cause addiction.

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This book is a captivating and authoritative introduction to Brazil-its history, the evolution of its society and culture, and the staggering variety of peoples and landscapes within its borders.

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An acclaimed historian unravels Brazil's deft geopolitical machinations during World War II, showing how the country became a modern nation by first manipulating, then joining, the Allied powers.

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In the English-speaking world, it is generally unknown that a volunteer Brazilian Expeditionary Force (FEB) fought alongside the US Army in Italy from mid-1944 until the end of the war. This was in effect a light infantry division, consisting of three infantry regiments augmented with artillery and light armour.

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Recovers the conflicted politics around Aboriginal affairs in the first decades of the twentieth century - asking why there was such investment in Aboriginal affairs in the first half of the twentieth century, what form it took, what was at stake, and what the outcomes were.

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An expert on German military history offers the first extensive, English-language study of one of the critical campaigns of World War I.

The Eastern Front in World War I has been neglected for too long.

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Although designed and built for the US Navy, the F2A fought in only one major US engagement, the battle of Midway, in which F2A pilots managed to shoot down a number of Japanese fighters. Soon replaced by the navy, the F2A was exported to Britain, where it was nicknamed the 'Buffalo' thanks to its stubby appearance.

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This work determines the processes that strengthen hostility between opposing groups and identifies those who are willing to act in order to change these situations.

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Presents author's experience of a complex variety of people who have contributed to our political, spiritual and cultural life.

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Nicknamed 'Biff' by the pilots, the Bristol F2 Fighter enjoyed extraordinary over the Western Front in the final 18 months of the war. This book charts the development of the plane from its unpromising beginnings, to the revised model operating with a new kind of tactics.

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Offers a challenging perspective on the nature of history by analysing the character, role, functioning and wider uses of historiography. Taking British policies towards European integration since the Second World War as a case study, this book demonstrates how its interpretation and reportage over time is subject to changing trends.

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The history of British-German relations in the twentieth century has been characterized by a remarkable dichotomy of friendship and hostility. This book considers the critical aspects of this relationship: the rivalry at sea before World War I, David Lloyd George and the Weimar Republic, and the British attitude toward the new Germany post-1990.

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This book offers new insight into the end of the British Empire in the Middle East. It takes a fresh look at the relationship between Britain and the Gulf rulers at the height of the British Empire, and how its effects are still felt internationally today.

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This book offers new insight into the end of the British Empire in the Middle East. It takes a fresh look at the relationship between Britain and the Gulf rulers at the height of the British Empire, and how its effects are still felt internationally today.

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Starting with an assessment of the material, political, cultural and moral resources Britain brought to the twentieth century, the author turns to how events and the actions of Lloyd George, Churchill, Thatcher and Blair had an impact upon them, debating the nature of success, and what the future might hold for the country.

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This book recounts a little-known history of an estimated 2,000 children born to black GIs and white British women in world war 11. Stories from over 50 of these children, alongside many photographs, reveal the racism and stigma of growing up in what was then a very white country. -- .

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Isolated by much of the world for its conduct of the war in Vietnam, the United States saw British support as a key component of its efforts to sway public opinion.

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Suitable for students of British or French Political History or the origins of World War II in Europe, this book investigates the course of Anglo-French policy in Europe from 1936 to 1938, a critical period during which France was governed by a series of Popular Front coalition Ministries.

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Suitable for students of British or French Political History or the origins of World War II in Europe, this book investigates the course of Anglo-French policy in Europe from 1936 to 1938, a critical period during which France was governed by a series of Popular Front coalition Ministries.

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This book recounts a little-known history of an estimated 2,000 children born to black GIs and white British women in World War II. Stories from over 50 of these children, alongside many photographs, reveal the racism and stigma of growing up in what was then a very white country.