A History of Modern Singapore, 1819-2005, Paperback - Constance Turnbull

First published in 1977, C. M. Turnbull's one-volume history of Singapore has been an essential resource for more than forty years. Turnbull's Hist...

A History of Modern India - Ishita Banerjee-Dube

Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world, yet leisure travel is more than just economically important. It plays a vital role in defini...

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Reducere. Noboru Hirota has produced a major historical analysis of how the field of chemistry has evolved over centuries. Spanning more than eight hundred p...

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Focuses on the modern aspects of the Criminal Justice, from 1900 to the present. This book offers students the advanced in historical scholarship t...

Reducere. The Revised Edition of A Source Book of Ancient Chinese Bronze Inscriptions offers English translations and commentary on over eighty-two important...

The extraordinary story of Singapore told by the expert correspondent for the Financial TimesPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Jeevan V...

Hearing has traditionally been understood as the second sense -- less rational and modern than seeing, the master of all senses, the first sense. R...

A fully updated new edition of Ronald Hutton's classic work on the history of modern pagan witchcraft.Illustrations: Black and white images

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DescriptionThis book offers the first comprehensive survey of writing by women in Ireland from the seventeenth century to the present day. It cover...

Reducere. Recognized as the most authoritative general account of Indonesia, this revised and expanded fourth edition has been updated in light of new schola...

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Jeevan Vasagar is a superb and evocative writer, and Lion City is a compelling, illuminating and personal history that will be regarded as the defi...

DescriptionIn a radical reappraisal of Iran's modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces the country's traumatic journey from the mid-nineteenth cent...

A fully updated new edition of Ronald Hutton's classic history of modern pagan witchcraft, published to mark the twentieth anniversary of this land...

Reducere. Since the Bali bombings of 2002 and the rise of political Islam, Indonesia has frequently occupied media headlines. Nevertheless, the history of th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stephen A. MitchellAuthor: Margaret J. BlackFreud's concepts have become a part of our psychological vocabulary: unconsciou...

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Reducere. J.B. Schneewind's remarkable book is the most comprehensive study ever written of the history of moral philosophy. Its aim is to set Kant's still i...

Reducere. DescriptionHollywood, 1939: When Tinseltown begins to woo wunderkind Orson Welles, he stashes himself at the Chateau Marmont until he's ready to ma...

Reducere. DescriptionA History of Modern Italy addresses the question of how Italy's modern history--from its prolonged process of nation-building in the nin...

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Reducere. "Lucid and lyrical...a vivid history of Japan's turbocharged (and painful) modernization." --The Daily Telegraph In A History of Modern Japan, cult...

The Peace Protestors, A History of Modern-Day War Resistance covers the realities of resistance and how different movements have shaped British his...

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DescriptionEarly twentieth-century Singapore is a place where a person can disappear, and Harriet Gordon hopes to make a new life for herself there...

Publisher: SAGE Publications IncAuthor(s): David LuddenNumber of pages: 488Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 218 x 281 x 19Cover type: Paperback / ...

Reducere. DescriptionAt the dawn of 1942, the dark days of Pearl Harbor still loom over Los Angeles. America is now at war, and posters warn home-front Holly...

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Reducere. DescriptionSummer, 1936: Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell's first novel, takes the world by storm. Everyone in Hollywood knows Civil War pictu...

Reducere. What do you know about Southeast Asia? Would you like to know more?Southeast Asia has a long and complicated history. The many threads of its histo...

Reducere. What do you know about Southeast Asia? Would you like to know more?Southeast Asia has a long and complicated history. The many threads of its histo...

Reducere. A fascinating history of the practice of surgery from one of the leading figures in the field, chronicling centuries of scientific breakthroughs by...

Best known for his role in helping to establish the Singapore Armed Forces Commando Formation and as the unit's first commanding officer, Lieutenan...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert ServiceRussia had an extraordinary twentieth century, undergoing upheaval and transformation. Updating his acclaimed...

Presents US History from 1900 to 1945. This work features a historical narrative that looks at the period from the 1890s to 1945. It is a synthesis...

Twin sisters - Jill Robertson and Jan Slimming - provide an exhilarating account via their father's secret POW diary.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books L...

This collection provides a thorough introduction to and critical commentary on recent scholarship on the Reformation.Publisher: Palgrave USAAuthor(...

This comprehensive pictorial overview of Rover cars covers 1945-2005 models. It describes and illustrates all the great classic Rovers up to and in...

Reducere. Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap -- the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form, exp...

While acknowledging the ways in which persecution inevitably affects a community, this book deviates from most Jewish studies to survey the ways in...

Reducere. In this book, you will discover what the true story was and what the wrong one was in the myths of Sumer and Babylon. In the Mesopotamia region, pl...