A History of Emotion in Western Music
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When asked to describe what music means to them most people talk about its power to express or elicit emotions. As a melody can produce a tear tingle the spine or energize athletes music has a deep impact on how we experience and encounter the world. Because of the elusiveness of these musical…
A History of Plant Medicine: Western Herbal Medicine from the Ancient Greeks to Modern Day
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This comprehensive guide details the story of plant medicine from pre-history to modern times A detailed study of the theory and practice of herbal medicine. From the beginnings of botany through the development of Greek and Celtic medicine including the Roman invasion and settlement of…
Tiny You – A Western History of the Anti–Abortion Movement
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A History of the Jewish War: AD 66-74 – Steve Mason
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A conflict that erupted between Roman legions and some Judaeans in late AD 66 had an incalculable impact on Rome’s physical appearance and imperial governance; on ancient Jews bereft of their mother-city and temple; and on early Christian fortunes. Historical scholarship and cinema alike tend to see the conflict as the culmination of long Jewish resistance to Roman oppression. In this volume Steven Mason re-examines the war in all relevant contexts (such as the Parthian dimension and Judaea’s pl
Replay: the History of Video Games – Tristan Donovan
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A riveting account of the strange birth and remarkable evolution of the most important development in entertainment since television Replay is the ultimate history of video games. Based on extensive research and over 140 exclusive interviews with key movers and shakers from gaming’s past Replay tells the sensational story of how the creative vision of game designers gave rise to one of the world’s most popular and dynamic art forms.
Incredible History Wonders of the World
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Imagine if you could travel back in time and visit the wonders of the world. Where would you go first? Incredible History: Wonders of the World turns back time to reveal realistic reconstructions of the most incredible monuments humankind has ever constructed. You'll feel the roar of the crowd in the Roman Colosseum observe an eclipse at Chichen Itza and stride along the walls of Great Zimbabwe. Each story begins by showing you the wonder as it is today. You'll learn when and how it wa
African American History: A Captivating Guide to the People and Events that Shaped the History of the United States
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Explore Captivating Stories and Facts about African American History! The history of African Americans is a long and tragic chronicle of events. The people who dared to stand up and speak out against the systemic cruelty and oppression were often brutally killed for their efforts. This has created a rich tapestry of defiant and courageous leaders and followers who have gradually pressed for the evolution of thought within the United States of America. Discover personal stories struggles and achi
The Blackest Bird: A Novel of History and Murder – Joel Rose
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Sweltering New York City summer of 1841 the beautiful ‘Segar Girl’ Mary Rogers is brutally murdered. Popular amongst the journalistic and publishing elite the task of finding her killer falls to High Constable Jacob Hays. At the end of a long and distinguished career Old Hays’s investigation will ultimately span a decade involving gang wars grave robbing and clues hidden in the poems of the hopeless romantic and minstrel of the night Edgar Allan Poe. Superbly researched and compellingly readable
Cheek by Jowl: A History of Neighbours – Emily Cockayne
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Almost everyone has a neighbour. Neighbours can enrich or ruin our lives. They fascinate and worry us in equal measure. Soap operas watched by millions play with every lurid permutation of relationships in fictional neighbourhoods. One is even called Neighbours. Disputes over gigantic Leylandii and noise nuisance turn nasty and fill newspaper columns. These stories have a rich history – as long as men have lived in shelters they have had neighbours. In this fascinating social history Emily Cocka
Under the Juggernaut of History and religion – Nicholas Kazan
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Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia – George Makari
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Over the last few years it has been impossible to ignore the steady resurgence of xenophobia. The European migrant crisis and immigration from Central America to the United States have placed Western advocates of globalization on the defensive and a ‘New Xenophobia’ seems to have emerged out of nowhere. In this fascinating study George Makari traces the history of xenophobia from its origins to the present day. Often perceived as an ancient word for a timeless problem ‘xenophobia’ was in fact on
A Short Illustrated History of the Romanians – Ioan-Aurel Pop
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Editie in limba engleza Ioan Aurel Pop is professor and Rector of Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca the author and co-author of over fifty books treatises and textbooks and of over three hundred articles and studies Doctor Honoris Causa of universities in Alba Iulia Timisoara Oradea Cahul Galati Sibiu Targu Mures the State University of Chisinau "Ion Creanga" Pedagogical University of Chisinau. He is President of the Romanian Academy member of the European Academy of Sciences and
History of the World Map by Map
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Witness our incredible human story unfold – from the very first people in Africa to the collapse of Communism and beyond – exquisitely charted map by map. Come on a journey through global history told in more than 130 specially made maps that each offer a window on a key event. Step into the action and follow Ghengis Khan sweeping through China Napoleon conquering Europe or two world wars raging across the globe. See empires rise and fall – from the Egyptians and the Aztecs to the British Empire
The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt – Ian Shaw
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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt uniquely covers 700 000 years of ancient Egypt from the stone age to the Roman conquest. The story of the ancient Egyptians from their prehistoric origins to their conquest by the Persians Greeks and Romans makes for fascinating reading with subjects ranging from the changing nature of life and death in the Nile valley to some of the earliest masterpieces of art architecture and literature in the ancient world.An international team of experts in the field addr
The Geographical Pivot of History – Halford John Mackinder
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The ideas which go to form a nation as opposed to a mere crowd of human animals have usually been accepted under the pressure of a common tribulation and under a common necessity of resistance to external force. – Sir Halford Mackinder at the Royal Geographical Society 1904 The Geographical Pivot of History was a paper submitted by Sir Halford John Mackinder in 1904 to the Royal Geographical Society in London. Mackinder had won earlier attention with his concept of geography as a bridge between
A Short Illustrated History of Romanians – Hardcover – Ioan-Aurel Pop – Litera
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Ioan-Aurel Pop is professor and Rector of Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca the author and co-author of over fifty books treatises and textbooks and of over three hundred articles and studies …
History of Sexuality – Paperback brosat – Chiara Briganti, Rachele Dini – Macat Library
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Like Foucault’s earlier works The History of Sexuality (1976) is ground-breaking and controversial. His claim that sexuality is more a social concept than the product of biological instincts challeng…
The Story of Food: An Illustrated History of Everything We Eat – Hardcover – Giles Coren – DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
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Practical projects to combat memory loss and dementia. Combat and manage the symptoms of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease from memory loss to disorientation with this practical activity book. From ph…
Gender and the Politics of History – Paperback brosat – Etienne Stockland, Pilar Zazueta – Macat Library
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Joan Scott’s work has influenced several generations of historians and helped make the topic of gender central to the way in which the discipline is taught and studied today. At root a new way of conc…
World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History – Paperback brosat – Bryan Gibson – Macat Library
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Henry Kissinger’s 2014 book World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History not only offers a summary of thinking developed throughout a long and highly influential care…
The Lion Wakes: A Modern History of HSBC – Hardcover – David Kynaston – Profile Books Ltd
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The Lion Wakes tells the modern story of HSBC starting in the late 1970s when the bank first broke out of the Asia-Pacific region with its purchase of Marine Midland Bank in the US. It follows HSBC’…
Romanian Revolution Televised. Contributions to the Cultural History of Media – Paperback brosat – Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, Konrad Petrovszky – Idea Design
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With this volume we would like to celebrate critically the importance of the Revolution of 1989 as a problem-event that cannot be worked out in any of the subsequent answers. The Revolution is set in…
The Random History of Football
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This is the story of football as it’s never been told before. A cock-eyed compilation of match reports correspondence and reminiscences from pundits commentators pla…
The Reduced History of Football
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The story of football as it’s never been told before this is a cock-eyed compilation of match reports correspondence and reminiscences from pundits commentators pla…
ULTIMATE POWER- THE HISTORY OF MILITARY AIRCRAFT
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Since the dawn of aerial combat from the earliest days over the battlefields of World War One armed forces have competed to develop technologically superior fighter…
The drugs that changed our minds: the history of psychiatry in ten treatments
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În timp ce abordarea noastră a bolilor mintale a oscilat între biologie și psihanaliză și înapoi la fel au făcut și tratamentele noastre. Odată cu apariția psihofarmaco…
A History of Us – Joy Hakim
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A History of Us. An Age of Extremes : 1880-1917 Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. For the captains of industry men like Andrew Carnegie John D. Rockefeller J. P. Morgan and Henry Ford the Gilded Age is a time of big money. Technology boomed with the invention of trains telephones electric lights harvesters vacuum cleaners and more. But for millions of immigrant workers it is a time of big struggles with adult
Tribes and Politics in Yemen: A History of the Houthi Conflict – Marieke Brandt
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Tribes and Politics in Yemen tells the story of the Houthi conflict in Sa’dah Province Yemen as seen through the eyes of the local tribes. In the West the Houthi conflict which erupted in 2004 is often defined through the lenses of either the Iranian-Saudi proxy war or the Sunni-Shia divide. Yet as experienced by locals the Houthi conflict is much more deeply rooted in the recent history of Sa’dah Province. Its origins must be sought in the political economic social and sectarian transformations
A Brief History of the Normans: The Conquests That Changed the Face of Europe
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Istoria normanzilor a început cu mult timp înainte de 1066. Originari din „nordici” aceștia au fost unul dintre cele mai de succes triburi războinice din Evul Întunecat…
A Brief History of British Sea Power
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The British did not take to water like ducks for centuries doing little but cling to coastal waters. The Romans and Vikings knocked spots of us as seamen and the Engli…
Concise History of WWI
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In 1914 the world engaged in global conflict that was to scar human history and redefine the meaning of the word ‘war’. Known as the Great War decades of burgeoning imp…
Red : A Natural History of the Redhead BY Jacky Colliss Harvey
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A New York Times bestseller Red is the first book to explore the history of red hair and red-headedness throughout the world. With an obsessive fascination that is as c…
Pocket Essentials: A Short History of India
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The world’s largest democracy and second-most populous country 21st-century India is a dynamic nation with a thrivting economy made up of a variety of beliefs and peop…
A Brief History of The British Army
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The story of the British Army has many sides to it being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures of dogged determination and drunken disorder. It involves many …
A Brief History of Mutiny by Richard Woodman
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The notorious uprising on the Bounty has been elevated to iconic status by Hollywood yet Richard Woodman describes it here as a mere ‘pup’ among mutinies. Captain Bligh…
A History of the Rod
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This famous book was first published in 1865 at the apogée of the Victorian era. Its full title—‘A History of the Rod in All Countries from the Earliest Period to the …
The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks
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Istoria este un subiect bogat variat și fascinant astfel încât este rar să găsești totul într-o carte … până acum. The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks pu…
Short History of Robin Hood
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Robin Hood is England’s greatest folk hero. Everyone knows the story of the outlaw who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. Nick Rennison’s highly entertaining boo…
A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons
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Starting AD 400 (around the time of their invasion of England) and running through to the 1100s (the ‘Aftermath’) historian Geoffrey Hindley shows the Anglo-Saxons as f…
A History of Cannibalism
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Canibalismul este cel mai vechi subiect tabu din lume. În trecut era parte integrantă a existenței în unele societăți și privit atât ca necesar cât și social acceptabi…
SEVERED: HISTORY OF HEADS LOST AND HEADS FOUND
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The human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses encases the brain and boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the body. It is our most…
A Pocket Essential Short History of the Cathars
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Catharism was the most successful heresy of the Middle Ages. Flourishing principally in the Languedoc and Italy the Cathars taught that the world is evil and must be tr…
Troubled Geographies: A Spatial History of Religion and Society in Ireland
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Ireland’s landscape is marked by fault lines of religious ethnic and political identity that have shaped its troubled history. Troubled Geographies maps this history b…
A Brief History of the House of Windsor
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This Brief History tells the story of The House of Windsor. Starting with George V and going through Charles Prince of Wales all the way to Queen Elizabeth II. Plus it…
Tribe: Made in Britain: A Personal History of British Subculture
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From punks and teddy boys to mods and rockers the last 50 years has seen the British Isles overrun with the iconic styles and attitudes—youthful ‘tribes’ changing the w…
Shakespeare’s Local : Six Centuries of History Seen Through One Extraordinary Pub
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Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge; a cosy wood-pannelled galleried coaching house a few minutes’ walk from the Thames. Grab yourself a pint listen to the c…
A Brief History of Mathematical Thought
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Matematica este un produs al culturii umane care s-a dezvoltat odată cu încercările noastre de a înțelege lumea din jurul nostru. În O scurtă istorie a gândirii matemati…
A Brief History of Freemasons
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The history of the Freemasons has been often shrouded in mystery and suspicion. Since 1717 with the establishment of the Grand Lodge in London the Freemasons have been…
Ziggology: A Brief History of Ziggy Stardust
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Nu-i de aici el vine din spațiu… A fost cea mai ingenioasă invenție din istoria muzicii pop – regele rockului venit de pe o stea care l-a trăsnit pe David Bowie ca …
History of the World in 100 Modern Objects
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Începând cu primăvara anului 2013 Francesca Hornak a scris o rubrică extrem de populară în secțiunea de stil Sunday Times „Istoria lumii în 100 de obiecte moderne”. Pr…
You Are Here: From the Compass to GPS, the History and Future of How We Find Ourselves
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The story of the rise of modern navigation technology from radio location to GPS-and the consequent decline of privacy What does it mean to never get lost? You Are Her…
A History of American Sports in 100 Objects
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Beautifully designed and carefully curated a fascinating collection of the things that shaped the way we live and play in America What artifact best captures the sp…
Robin the Hoodie: An Asbo History of Britain
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Painstakingly mistranslated from the original sources this is a treasury of anti-social tales from history Hans Christian Asbosen is back with more wickedly wit…
A Short History of Falling
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A Short History of Falling – like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and When Breath Becomes Air – is a searingly beautiful profound and unforgettable memoir that finds…
Edexcel GCSE History A The Making of the Modern World: Unit 1 International Relations: The era of the Cold War 1943-91 SB 2013
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Edexcel GCSE History A The Making of the Modern World: Unit 2B Russia 1914-39 SB 2013
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Football Expert: The Unofficial History of World Cup: Players
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A fun fact-packed look at the best players in World Cup history
The History of Alternative Test Methods in Toxicology
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The History of Alternative Test Methods in Toxicology uses a chronological approach to demonstrate how the use of alternative methods has evolved from their conception as adjuncts to traditional animal toxicity tests to replacements for them. This volume in the History of Toxicology and…
A Natural History of Atrial Fibrillation: Understanding the Arrhythmia and Preventing the Epidemic
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The History of the World in 100 Pandemics, Plagues and Epidemics
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This revelatory book charts and explains the impact and consequences of successive pandemics plagues and epidemics on the course of world history – all through the lens of today’s ongoing global experience of COVID 19. Ranging from prehistory to the present day it first defines what constitutes…
