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This book examines the unusual circumstances of de facto states, countries which are not considered to be sovereign nations by the international community.

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This unique guide will enable students, librarians, teachers, and general readers to easily identify the best biographies and autobiographies of 500 of the most notable women in American history.

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The goal of war is to defeat the enemy's will to fight. But how this can be accomplished is a thorny issue. Nothing Less than Victory provocatively shows that aggressive, strategic military offenses can win wars and establish lasting peace, while defensive maneuvers have often led to prolonged carnage, indecision, and stalemate. Taking an ambitious

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Includes essays that intend to restore the social context of ancient Greek drama. This title considers how individual plays and groups of dramas pertained to the concerns of the body politic and how these issues were presented in the convention of the stage and as centerpieces of civic ceremonies.

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Notions of Neutralities examines the concept of neutrality at the international level over the last millennium. The contributors approach the topic from multiple disciplinary perspectives and examine neutrality in several regions and time periods. They demonstrate that neutrality is an active and essential part of the international system

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Engages with nineteenth-century visual culture in an unusually broad way, juxtaposing photography, fashion, broadside ballads, popular prints and caricature in order to re-examine Victorian society between Chartism and the Great Exhibition. -- .

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"General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name "The Manhattan Project." As the ranking military"

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Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s is a political and cultural History of Britain in the long 1980s in ten objects or moments. Neither a top down history, nor nostalgic celebration, it reframes the decade around local, national, and global politics of gender, race, age and sexuality.

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Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s is a political and cultural History of Britain in the long 1980s in ten objects or moments. Neither a top down history, nor nostalgic celebration, it reframes the decade around local, national, and global politics of gender, race, age and sexuality.

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What happened to Generation X Millenials dominate our Facebook feeds and people bang on about the baby boomers but what about us The lost generation, the middle youth, the middle child of today. Are we still cool

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This is a study of the World View of the Zapotec Indians of Mitla, Oaxaca, a state in Mexico.

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Numbers: A Cultural History provides students with a compelling interdisciplinary view of the development of mathematics and its relationship to world cultures over 4,500 years of human history.

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This book tells the story of German nurses who, directly or indirectly, participated in the Nazis' "euthanasia" measures against patients with mental and physical disabilities, measures that claimed well over 100,000 victims from 1939 to 1945.

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This study uses the Nuwaubian movement to examine Pan-Africanism and black nationalism in the post-civil rights era. The author places the movement within the context of the history, culture, and tradition of the African diaspora and argues that the movement represents contemporary efforts of African descendants to resist oppression.

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Shortlisted for the Dolman Travel Book Award

After reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, Sara Wheeler rediscovered America thirty-five years after her first Greyhound trip across the country.

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In this text, Eleonora Montuschi offers a structured analysis of the philosophy of social science across each of its main disciplines: anthropology, sociology, history, economics and geography.

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A collection of pieces by Australian historian Ken Inglis, covering the years 1959-1999. It reflects the breadth of Inglis's interests: the making and remaking of national identity, war, memory and ritual; the lives of colleagues such as Manning Clark; and religion and multiculturalism.

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