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The definitive biography of Hu Yaobang, who, as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s, promoted…

The pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the planet into a new age-the…

A world-renowned researcher of animal behavior reveals the extraordinary orienteering skills of desert ants, offering a…

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The Pearlsong is an ancient poem that recounts the story of a Parthian prince sent on a mission to Egypt to retrieve a pearl…

Millions of innocent people were arrested in Stalin's Soviet Union during the 1930s and forced to confess to crimes they did…

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Produkt History of Spanish Painting, Volume VI: The Valencian School in the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance, Part 1 -…

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Produkt History of Spanish Painting, Volume III - Post, Chandler Rathfon zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard…

Produkt History of Spanish Painting, Volume XIII zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

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From the Alien Friends Act to the Cold War and the War on Terror, the US has used ideological exclusions and deportations to…

\nAttilio Teruzzi, Mussolini\'s commander of the Black Shirts, exemplified fascism\'s obsession with male strength. Through…

No one in the twentieth century had a greater impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. The author intends to disentangle…

\nModern Japan is not only responding to threats from North Korea and China but is also reevaluating its dependence on the…

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The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire - a millennium and a half in…

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In 221 bc the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by…

\nImagined Geographies in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and Beyond is a collaborative volume focusing on imagined…

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Produkt History of Spanish Painting, Volume IV: The Hispano-Flemish Style in North-Western Spain, Part 2 - Post, Chandler…

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Produkt Married Women's Separate Property in England, 1660-1833 - Staves, Susan zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele…

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Produkt History of Spanish Painting, Volume XII: The Catalan School in the Early Renaissance, Part 1 - Post, Chandler…

Written in the seventeenth century, The Hustynja Chronicle is the earliest systematic history of Kyivan Rus´ and Ukraine…

Produkt Sea, Volume 3: The Earth Beneath the Sea; History zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Harvard University Press.…

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An intellectual biography of Eric Hobsbawm, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Eric Hobsbawm…

Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. This title gives a…

The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. This book challenges the standard narrative of Qing…

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The Mongols are universally known as conquerors, but they were more than that: influential thinkers, politicians, engineers,…

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Islamic China traces the interlinked stories of twenty Chinese Muslims across the centuries, spanning ethnic groups, sects,…

Die erste umfassende Darstellung der Islampolitik des NS-Regimes. Zeigt die Instrumentalisierung des Islam durch die…

In 1896 a massive Ethiopian army routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's conquest of Africa to an end. In…

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Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of Athens's Golden Age. A friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich,…

From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages,…

The attempt to repress a majority of its own population backfired on the Confederate States of America as the…

This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its…

Convened at Rouen and directed by Bishop Pierre Cauchon, the trial of Joan of Arc, in 1431, culminated in Joan's public…

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\nIn 1932 Sigmund Freud and diplomat William Bullitt completed a well-informed psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson, inspired…

The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony…

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Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea from about 315 CE, was the most important writer in the age of Constantine. His history of the…

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Volume I of the Loeb Hippocrates presents an exemplary selection of works by or attributed to the "Father of Medicine” that…

Anacreon (c. 570 485 BCE) was a composer of solo song. The Anacreonta were composed over several centuries. Notable among…

Marcus Manilius, who lived in the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, is the author of the earliest treatise on astrology we…

Civil War provides a vigorous, direct, clear, third-personal, impassioned account of Caesar's campaigns during the civil war…

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Livy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC-AD 12 or 17), the great Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome's rise from the…

In this volume are three works concerning the campaigns engaged in by the great Roman statesman Julius Caesar (10044 BCE),…

This is the first part of a two-volume edition of Statius's epics Thebaid and Achilleid, with a freshly edited Latin text…

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Christina Cross decisively refutes culture-of-poverty narratives blaming family structure for persistent racial inequality.…

\nIn 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979, it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society that…

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Under Seleucid rule, time no longer restarted with each new monarch. Instead, progressively numbered years, identical to the…