Invisible Weapons. Liturgy and the Making of Crusade Ideology, Paperback - M. Cecilia Gaposchkin

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The history of science is replete with women getting little notice for their groundbreaking discoveries. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, a tireless innov...

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

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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 ...

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

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

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

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William Bennett's moral guide for children, "A Book of Virtues", was a national bestseller. Yet, many continue to associate virtue with a prudish, ...

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Long before Greeks dominated the ancient Mediterranean, Phoenicians were the lords of the sea. Setting out from their Levantine cities, they introd...

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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...

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Rozsika Parker's re-evaluation of the reciprocal relationship between women and embroidery has brought stitchery out from the private world of fema...

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Small Town Capitalism in Western India: Artisans, Merchants, and the Making of the Informal Economy, 1870–1960 - Douglas E. Haynes

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As cities from Cape Town to La Paz face acute water shortages, citizens need to know how urban water systems evolved to understand their vulnerabil...

Known internationally as a symbol of elegance and luxury, Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria is one of the world's most famous hotels. David Freeland take...

Reducere. ``There has never been an America without Muslims``--so begins Amir Hussain, one of the most important scholars and teachers of Islam in America. H...

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The idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on international politics. However, International Relations academic writings on civiliza...

Reducere. Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with...