No Star Too Beautiful: Yiddish Stories from 1382 to the Present, Paperback - Joachim Neugroschel

Reducere. First developed and written in medieval Germany, Yiddish eventually became the everyday speech of Jews all over Europe and later globally. Yiddish ...

Contributor(s): Editor: Joachim NeugroschelThe Golem, a creature made of clay and brought to life by Rabbi Leyb of Prague in the sixteenth century,...

A fundamental dimension of the Russian historical experience has been the diversity of its people and cultures, religions and languages, landscapes...

Sets out in a new and authoritative way the history of the essay; explains how the essay has come to mean what it does, surveys the widely various ...

Reducere. Treats the Pantheon from the unique perspective of its construction history, survival, and reception through history.

Publisher: Hodder EducationAuthor(s): Joanne De PenningtonIllustration(s): black and white illustrations and photosNumber of pages: 304Collection: ...

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The most comprehensive introduction to the greatest political thinkers written by a team of international experts.

In a journey spanning 2, 000 years, this book describes the ties of trade, migration and investment between India and the rest of the world, showin...

What is German history? Where did it take place? And what role did Germans living outside of Central Europe play in it? This polycentric history of...

Contributor(s): Author: James VernonThis wide-ranging introduction to the history of modern Britain extends from the eighteenth century to the pres...

An insider's look at the history of Witchcraft The evolution of Wicca is as dynamic and colorful as the Witches who helped shape it. One of the mos...

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Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - A hugely ambitious, "delightfully readable, genuinely informative" portrait (The New York Times) of the...

Reducere. Art Since 1900 introduces students to the key theoretical approaches to modern and contemporary art. A flexible year-by-year structure and extensiv...

The Twentieth-Century World, 1914 to the Present introduces students to five distinct historical themes in 20th century history - politics, economi...

Explores Jewish women's lives in what is now Eastern and Western Europe, Britain, Israel, Turkey, North Africa, and North America. The volume focus...

Women in World History brings together the most recent scholarship in women's and world history in a single volume covering the period from 1450 to...

Modern Greece is an updated and enhanced edition of a classic survey of Greek history since the beginning of the 19th century. Giving equal weighti...

Reducere. The colorful characters, poets and thinkers who populate this book range from Romania, Serbia, Greece, England, France and also include exiles from...

Northamptonshire's central position astride some of England's major routes made it the scene of decisive battles, skirmishes and sieges whose evide...

Can a long-term perspective on human adaptations to climate change inform Ireland's response to the crisis we face today?Climate and Society in Ire...

The first book on Deborah Hays, founding member of Judson Dance and a key innovator of postmodern dance in AmericaOffering fresh perspective on per...

A fully updated, authoritative and exceptionally readable history of Britain from the Romans to the present.

Bedfordshire has always been strategically important. From Iron Age hillforts to medieval sieges and battles it has seen significant military actio...

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America's Entangling Alliances challenges the belief that the US resists international alliances. By documenting thirty-four alliances--categorized...

To a large extent, the story of French filmmaking is the story of moviemaking. From the earliest flickering images of the late nineteenth century t...

Rosemary Wakeman's original survey text comprehensively explores modern European urban history from 1815 to the present day. It provides a journey ...

A riotous, technicolour account of the evolution of heavy music.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Jr MooresIllustration(s): 19 illustrationsNumbe...

This second edition of A History of Modern Germany offers a comprehensive overview of German history from its transformation as a loose patchwork o...

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A magisterial survey of the ways in which postwar Irish writers have witnessed the frustration of the promise of Irish independence.

Reducere. This two-volume reader is intended to accompany undergraduate courses in the history of Russian cinema and Russian culture through film. Each volum...

Now available in a fully-revised and updated second edition, A History of Modern Britain: 1714 to the Present provides a comprehensive survey of th...

This second edition of the leading textbook on European economic history has been updated throughout and includes new coverage of post-financial cr...

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Reducere. With the Supreme Court likely to reverse Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion decision, American debate appears fixated on clashing rights. The first...

The most interesting tensions and ambitions of twentieth-century American poetry intersect in one resonant word: voice. The term "poetic voice" emp...

A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and ...