Coffeeland: One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug, Paperback - Augustine Sedgewick

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The seldom-considered origin story of the world's most popular drug, illuminating the natural and historical factors which have coloured its journey.

Bain Attwood re-examines the historical treatment of indigenous peoples' sovereignty and property rights in Australia and New Zealand, demonstratin...

The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times - Odd Arne Westad

The first nomadic empire and the making of China has its story told with meticulous research and new archaeological evidence, weighing in on the ci...

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Reducere. Debates on reparations for slavery have emerged on national and international levels. However, much of the discourse centers on the legitimate slav...

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DescriptionWhat identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist it Algorithms are eve...

DescriptionWhat happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta? This history of drama...

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The sequel to the critically acclaimed The Hand of the Sun King. A marriage of magic and crisp prose in a truly epic world, this is perfect for fan...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gayle L. JohnsonThis expanded and updated second edition contains new stories, details, and images from behind the scenes o...

This book examines the ways in which writers' houses contribute to the making of memory. It shows that houses built or inhabited by poets and novel...

Social conflict and the making of a globalized place at Rosia Montana - Filip Alexandrescu

Reducere. Del Stephens travels the west coast ruining bank accounts and marriages one albacore tuna seminar after another. The deep-sea version of fishing cr...

The de facto book for advice on speech-making essentials, great openings, strong middles, big finishes, plus putting it all together and delivering...

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnishe...

Contributor(s): Author: William PooleMilton and the Making of Paradise Lost tells the story of John Milton's life as England's self-elected nationa...

The Citizen is an early prose work relating to Roy Fisher and his native city of Birmingham - previously thought to have been lost - which was the ...

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Bringing together international case studies, this book offers theoretical and empirical insights into the interaction between social work and soci...

An investigation of environmental politics in light of Foucault's work, drawing on and extending work done in feminist environmentalism, political ...

The Palm House at Kew has been one of Britain's most popular attractions since it opened in 1848 - this is the story of its creation and the men wh...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Mark (Professor of English, Pace University, USA, Pace University, USA) HusseyNumber of pa...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Peter PesicIllustration(s): 143 figuresNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 203 x 231 x 28Cover...

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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every coun...

Description"Magnificent."--Robert L. Tignor, Princeton University From the early nineteenth century through to the 1960s, the Greeks formed the lar...

Reducere. Shame influences more of our thoughts and actions than many other emotions. Used as a punishment for bad behavior, shame acts as an incentive for u...