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'Tony is the real deal.' Andy McNabSierra Leone, 2000.While on patrol as part of a peacekeeping mission, eleven British soldiers are kidnapped.The captors are a dangerous rebel group known as the West Side Boys. Fuelled by alcohol and drugs, the behaviour of the rebels...
Editeur : Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
Parution : 2025-09-11
Format(s) : ePub
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Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2025-09-11
Format(s) : ePub
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Pizza is the Italian food that has conquered the world: from Brussels to LA, from Beijing to Buenos Aires, pizzas and pizzerias can be found everywhere today. But what are the origins of this food and how did it rise from its humble beginnings to become the world’s...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-09-10
Format(s) : ePub
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"A fascinating family and social history and a savage indictment of the role of child slavery in the growth of the Industrial Revolution," Catherine Taylor, author of The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern TimeWe all think we know the tale. As a child, Charles Dickens was...
Editeur : The Bridge Street Press
Parution : 2025-09-04
Format(s) : ePub
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The late 17th century saw the rise of a new phenomenon that would transform Britain forever: party politics.Beginning with a furious dispute over whether to allow a Roman Catholic - James II - to become king, the division between Whig and Tory marked the chief political...
Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2025-09-04
Format(s) : ePub
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This book is about the making of intellectual property law in Vietnam across colonial and socialist space and time from 1864 to 1994. It provides a completely new, provoking narrative, disproving previously published scholarship which claimed that there was no...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-09-03
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Offers a sweeping, entertaining journey through the real power structures of world history Five Thousand Years of Monarchy challenges everything you thought you knew about political history. With wit, clarity, and a deep command of historical detail, Michael Arnheim...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2025-09-03
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book offers a holistic re-evaluation of the Spithead and Nore mutinies of 1797, which immobilised the two Royal Navy fleets responsible for Britain's defence at a time when invasion seemed likely. The mutinies represent two of the most serious manifestations of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-02
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book considers the position and historiography of the western Balkans in modern Europe. It challenges the linear narrative that the region was 'Europeanised' in the twentieth century - that is, brought into a wider fold of European countries through political,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-09-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This open-access book examines student migration in the twentieth century, focusing on the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris. Established in 1925 by the French government with support from a diverse coalition of international public and private actors, this...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-08-31
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book offers a new perspective on the parliamentary battle for British entry into the European Community (EC) – the forerunner of the EU. It provides a historical case study of how the whipping operation, overseen by the Chief Whip Francis Pym, played a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-08-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Come Pompei, circa 2000 anni prima, in un momento avanzato dell’antica età del Bronzo, il primitivo cono vulcanico del Vesuvio, l’attuale Monte Somma, si risvegliò con una forte eruzione che noi oggi chiamiamo delle “Pomici di Avellino” in relazione all’area di ricaduta...
Editeur : Publications du Centre Jean Bérard
Parution : 2025-08-29
Collection :
Collection du Centre Jean Bérard
Format(s) : PDF sans DRM
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The untold story of how women made the world rich from historian Victoria BatemanHumanity's journey from poverty to prosperity is filled with men who have become household names, but how many female entrepreneurs, merchants and industrialists can you name? You would be...
Editeur : Headline Press
Parution : 2025-08-28
Format(s) : ePub
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This Palgrave Pivot examines a key area of the Korean Wave or Hallyu, which stands for the global popularity of South Korean popular culture that started in the 1990s. While K-dramas (Korean dramas) have found many viewers throughout Asian countries and some Western...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-08-28
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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In May 1894, President Grover Cleveland gave a speech thanking those who gathered “to worship at this national shrine.” He was not referring to the battlefields at Gettysburg or Antietam, nor to Mount Vernon, but to the gravesite of Mary Ball Washington,...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-08-28
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book analyzes the inferiors in the Qing Dynasty society, offering a comprehensive examination of their place within the feudal hierarchy. In autocratic eras, the distinction between nobility and inferiors was a cornerstone of social order, and the existence of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-08-28
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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THE MOST IMPACTFUL LESSONS OF SUN TZU PAIRED WITH THOUGHTFUL ANALYSIS AND MODERN APPLICATIONS IN AN ELEGANT AND ACCESSIBLE FORMATSun Tzu's The Art of War is a timeless masterpiece of strategy and leadership, celebrated for its profound insights into preparation,...
Editeur : John Murray One
Parution : 2025-08-28
Collection :
Concise Classics
Format(s) : ePub
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This book sets forth the historical lines from primitive society, through slave society, feudal society and capitalist society, to socialist society, and from Stone Age to information era with brief words and colorful images, and also clarifies the evolution from the...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-08-27
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book reconstructs the first attempts to integrate Europe and Asia in terms of newspaper distribution, reception, and news coverage during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The East India Companies shared news via the “overland route” from Aleppo...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-08-27
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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