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This book reveals the eighteenth-century home as a site of emergence for science. By rejecting the limiting associations of domestic life, this book re-imagines a culture of enquiry populated by apprentices and housewives as much as Fellows of the Royal Society.

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Designed to set out the broader currents of the scholarship on daily life, and the many directions for inquiry that have opened, this book aids students and teachers who are interested in the hows and whys of the little and big things people did, thought, and felt as a matter of course throughout their lives.

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The stories of three men-an army captain, Ernie Pyle and John Huston- and one death in a bloody battle over a small Italian village

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Two uniquely well-informed informed Chinese journalists tell the sordid story behind the downfall of Politburo member Bo Xilai to illuminate its greater significance as a potentially destabilizing turning point in a cataclysmic internal power struggle between factions of the Communist Party

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This edition of a previously unpublished manuscript defence of witchcraft belief offers a unique insight into learned opinion on the subject in Elizabethan England. It includes a comprehensive analytical introduction and will appeal to scholars with an interest in witchcraft across disciplinary boundaries. -- .

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This edition of a previously unpublished manuscript defence of witchcraft belief offers a unique insight into learned opinion on the subject in Elizabethan England. It includes a comprehensive analytical introduction and will appeal to scholars with an interest in witchcraft across disciplinary boundaries. -- .

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A wonderful A-Z of the fascinating world of Victorian London, full of amazing facts and curious humour.

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In this riveting, character-driven history, one of our most respected historians traces the diseases in the public mind- the distortions of reality- that destroyed George Washington's vision of a united America and inflicted the tragedy that still divide's the nation's soul.

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This collection of essential documents bearing on the long-standing Arab-Israeli conflict begins with Leo Pinsker's pamphlet of 1882 which first proposed the establishment of a Jewish state, preferably in Palestine, and ends with the United Nations Security Council resolution of 1990.

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Here, in a single volume, are the documents (speeches, letters, tweets, Supreme Court decisions, and more) that have forged American history. This 11th edition is now updated with a new chapter on the COVID-19 pandemic, the January 6, 2021 insurrection, and the Biden presidency.

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From murder to duelling, highway robbery to mugging, this is an exploration of seven centuries of violence in England. It is the tale of the countless assaults, feuds and riots that pepper our history - and of the fascinating individuals who have made up the brutal underside of our national story from medieval times to the present day.

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Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic "A Bright Shining Lie," reveals the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history--and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort.

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This intriguing book examines Lincoln's assassination from a behavioral and medical sciences perspective, providing new insights into everything from ballistics and forensics to the medical intervention to save his life, the autopsy results, his compromised embalming, and the final odyssey of his bodily remains.

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This is the first broad study of large-scale violence and the methods of its restraint in the early modern world. Its case studies range from the early 1500s to the 1830s, taking in African slave raiders, Dutch merchants, Burmese bandits, Kurdish highwaymen, Mughal warriors, Spanish colonial soldiers and Japanese magistrates. -- .

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They kept their heads down, they kept their mouths shut and they stuck together to offer sanctuary and shelter to over 3500 Jews in their small villages in the isolated upper reaches of the Loire. This is one of the great modern stories of unknown heroism and courage.

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The little-known American Balloon Service worked in combat to help direct artillery fire more accurately and provide essential intelligence on enemy troop movements during World War I.

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Based on nearly four years of research, including original archival material, he fills an important gap in the military history of World War I.

A Grateful Heart is a detailed account of the 103rd Field Hospital Company, 26th (Yankee) Division in World War I.

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The Triple Entente of Great Britain, Russia, and France was the foreign policy prong of the Russian imperial government's reaction to the disastrous events of 1905, including the revolution and the near defeat in the Russo-Japanese War.

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Although these collections are not as complete as some original collections in Cuba itself, they do offer excellent starting points for various research projects on Cuba--pending future access to original Cuban collections.

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