New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and Its Alternatives, Paperback - Alex de Waal

New Pandemics, Old Politics explores how the modern world adopted a martial script to deal with epidemic disease threats, and how this has failed -...

The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa delves into the business of politics in the turbulent, war-torn countries of north-east Africa. It is a con...

The Great War set in motion all of the subsequent violence of the twentieth century. This volume offers a significant interdisciplinary contributio...

Reducere. First published in 1930 as 200 Years of Charleston Cooking, this collection of more than three hundred recipes was gathered by Blanche S. Rhett fro...

Written by an acclaimed railway expert, the first book of its kind to feature the story of Scotland's railways through maps.

For almost a century, the Blair Strip Steel Company of New Castle, Pennsylvania, has made cold-rolled specialty steel beyond a world-class standard...

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Reducere. A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivot...

'Here's the history that really matters' Financial TimesPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Duncan WeldonNumber of pages: 352Publication ...

Reducere. Many volumes have addressed the question of whether or not naturalism is a required part of scientific methodology. However, few, if any, go any fu...

"Brilliant."--Time "Admirable, rigorous. De Waal is] a wise and patient reporter."--The New York Review of Books "Never have all the twists and tur...

Reducere. Sherman Sage (ca. 1844-1943) was an unforgettable Arapaho man who witnessed profound change in his community and was one of the last to see the Pla...

The rise of Bertrand du Guesclin ranks as one of the most spectacular adventures in a fourteenth century rich in heroic tales. A poor Breton squire...

Fascism is not a thing of the past. In this era of crisis and austerity, it is growing even stronger. The question is: How do we stop it?According ...

Frankenstein lives200 years of the book, the movies and the monster in pop culture and beyondOn New Year's Day 1818, Mary Shelley's novel Frankenst...

DescriptionThe conflict that swept over France from 1337 to 1453 remains the longest military struggle in history. A bitter dynastic fight between ...

What life was like for ordinary French and English people, embroiled in a devastating century-long conflict that changed their world The Hundred Ye...

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Reducere. "The Two Hundred and Fifty -Year- Old Man" The Political and Striving Lives of the Infallibles (P.B.U.T.) in the Writings and Lectures of the Supre...

Detailed narrative combines with a deep historical understanding to create a lively and accessible account of the war. 38 b/w maps.

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DescriptionIn 1908 Mohandas Gandhi spoke to a crowd of 3, 000. Together they protested against an unjust law without guns or rioting. Peacefully th...

An investigation into three of the best-known cases tried under the Court of Chivalry reveals much about gentry military society.Publisher: Boydell...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 19Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

In the second volume of his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption examines the middle years of the fourteenth century and ...

Reducere. A History Book Club selectionAbout the Author: A former history fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, Jonathan Sumption is the author of The Hundred ...

Reducere. A succession of catastrophes in the middle years of the fourteenth century brought France to the brink of destruction. The bankruptcy of the French...

DescriptionIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Hundred Years' War, then keep reading... Knights and battles, princesses and cast...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Hundred Years' War, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: The Hundred...

A remarkable and very important unpublished chronicle written by two soldiers, covering in detail the English campaigns in France from 1415 to 1429...

Reducere. ``Kim Moody is one of the leading intellectuals of the labor movement.``--Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics and the Black...