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Covers the classic 'Beau Geste' period, of the French Foreign Legion when the corps was expanded during the most dynamic years of French imperial expansion. This title examines and illustrates their varied uniforms and equipments for each period and theatre. It is written by a leading expert on the French Foreign Legion.

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"French Foreign Legionnaire 1890-1914".

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Details the military achievements, tactics, backgrounds and motivations of the patriots whose assistance helped ensure the success of the D-Day landings and French liberation. This title uses photographs, coupled with first-hand accounts of capture and its consequences to create an engaging and human history of the French Resistance fighter.

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Covers the French armor of World War II. This title looks at the infantry and battle tanks that faced the onslaught of the German Blitzkrieg in 1940. It offers a background to the design and development of these tank types, and an evaluation of their performance in the Battle of France.

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A sequel to French Tanks of World War II (1), this title focuses primarily on France's cavalry armored vehicles, including the light reconnaissance tanks such as the AMR and AMC families, the famous Somua S.35 cavalry tanks and the extensive array of armored half-track and armored cars used by the French cavalry.

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One of the most important analyses of Freud's social work, available for the first time in English.

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Award-winning journalist explores how social media is transforming not only politics, media, business, but the future of democracy and ourselves.

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This updated and expanded edition of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 's groundbreaking book features a new chapter and a foreword by Angela Y. Davis.

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In blood-soaked lore handed down the centuries, the vampire is a monster of endless fascination: from Bram Stoker's "Dracula" to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", this seductive lover of blood haunts popular culture and inhabits our darkest imaginings. This book tells the history of the vampire, and reveals why the vampire myth fascinates us.

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The story of cultural contact between Dixon, Illinois, the boyhood home of President Ronald Reagan and Dickson (or Dikson), Siberia, the northernmost town in the world, a place where polar bears are a traffic hazard, and a restricted area of the then Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

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A book about the solar system that offers an appreciation of our place in the cosmos. From straightforward facts such as, How far away are stars and What did Galileo see through his telescope to broader questions such as, Is there an edge to the universe and How did the universe begin, it is suitable for various levels of interest.

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"A comprehensive overview of Chinese mythology and folk religion"--]cProvided by publisher.

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"This slim volume, published in the same series as Foucault's Language, Madness, and Desire. It brings together two lectures that Levi-Strauss gave on the French essayist Montaigne: one given in 1937 and the second in 1992"--

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A study of the migration history and experiences of migrants from the Veneto region in the north-east of Italy. As the Veneto, which includes the province of Venice, is today one of the most affluent regions in Italy, this book provides a contrast to the rather more well-known story of southern Italian migration.