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\nWhy has the office of Prime Minister endured longer than any other democratic political office? Sir Anthony Seldon,…

Introduces Donizetti's most famous opera and its legacy, investigating why it has inspired so much enthusiastic interest…

Kniha 9780521768924 Complete Guide to the Herschel Objects Mark Bratton…

In the style of a travel guide, this reader shows you some of the best things to do and see in this amazing island nation.…

\nThe story of publishing in Wales is connected to the story of Wales itself. Wales, the Welsh people, and the Welsh…

\nCompanies design their products, business models, and marketing strategies to stop us from repairing the devices we own.…

\nA fundamental reassessment of how Germany lost the First World War. Using diaries, letters and memoirs of key actors and…

\nThis Element presents an account of forensic linguistics in Australia since the first expert linguistic evidence in 1959,…

\nIn this Element, the authors find that compared with other emerging capitalist economies, the Chinese bureaucracy has…

\nThis Element provides an overview of pre-modern and ancient economies of the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It…

An investigative history course directly accessible to all pupils at Key Stage 3.…

As a travel writer, Egeria had an eye for the ordinary and for the new Christian practices in the east. This Element is a…

This Element covers the history of Native North America's largest city: Cahokia, providing the archaeological history of its…

Since Japan's Takarazuka Revue has an audience consisting mostly of women, Takarazuka creates a space for queer intimacy…

Japanese firms have increasingly shifted production abroad via outward foreign direct investment. Using data on Japan's…

The Aztec world was complex, hierarchical, and multifaceted, and was in a constant state of demographic growth, recoveries…

Reflecting South Korea's religious diversity, some of the new religions have Buddhist roots, some have Christian origins,…

Two centuries of sexism obscured StaĂ«l's legacy. John Isbell here restores her reputation as historian, theorist of…

This Element argues that the territories and peoples associated with China have played vital roles in the emergence of…

\nThe Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac brings together 19 leading Kerouac scholars, who offer fresh perspectives on his…

\nIt is arguable that the most important event in the world economy in recent decades has been the rise of China. This…

The goal of scientific taxonomy is to come up with classification schemes that conform to nature's own. This Element surveys…

\nThis Element shows how joining the European Union helped Ireland energize what had been a stagnant agricultural backwater.…

\nMany people interested in Japan have no background in economic theory of contracting; many people with that economic…

\nThe first-ever print edition of the script for the 1926 Broadway adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Owen Davis, 1923 Pulitzer…

\nDublin: A Writer\'s City can be imagined as a map of one of the world\'s great literary cities, taking the reader,…

Illuminating the reasons for the immense popularity of travel to Switzerland and the proliferation of images of that country…

2023 is the 300th anniversary of Adam Smith's birth. This collection of original essays offers a chance to reappraise his…

Family was a central feature of social life in Italian cities. This wide-ranging volume explores patrimony in legal thought…

In 1405, a family left their home in the Mongolian steppe and moved to China. Winning recognition for military skill and…

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The first volume to map the interregional political, economic and cultural networks in which Egypt functioned as it was…

Exploring Eurasian connections from the perspective of mobile Afghan traders, Marsden documents how trading communities…

From Lisbon to Rome via the islands of the Gulf of Guinee and the sugar mills of Northern Brazil, this book explores the…

This is a revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers shows…

The inspiring and unknown story of how the villagers of Graignes joined in solidarity with US paratroopers following the…

\nExamining the aftermath of the Arab Spring, this book explores the Spring not as a series of failed revolutions but as…

\nThis authoritative and up-to-date single-volume history charts the history of Albania and its people, within their Balkan…

\nAn invaluable source for course instructors and students, government and industry officials, activists and journalists,…

This is the first global and comparative study of litigation in which refugees seek protection from a place of ostensible…

\nThis book examines the challenges of Brexit for the legal and political landscape in the UK and in Ireland and for the…

\nThis volume offers an interdisciplinary and geographically wide-ranging approach to understanding the emergence of towns…

\nA fundamental reassessment of how Germany lost the First World War. Using diaries, letters and memoirs of key actors and…

Pluralism is among the most vital intellectual movements of the modern era. This book provides the first history of…

China's rapid economic growth, modernization and globalization have led to astounding social changes. This book introduces…

Indicators simplify complex issues and produce numeric evidence to guide and justify decision-making. However, we know…

In Guarding the Periphery: The Australian Army in Papua New Guinea, 1951-75, Tristan Moss explores the operational, social…

This book is about US policy towards China from 1961 to 1974. It looks at how American policy-makers saw China during this…

The Southwest USA is considered a geologist's 'dream', and attracts a large number of undergraduate field classes, and…