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  • Looking from the North
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    Looking from the North

    Henry Reynolds' ground-breaking re-examination of Australian colonisation from the north down.When acclaimed historian Henry Reynolds moved from Hobart to Townsville to teach Australian history in the 1960s, he discovered the books of the period covered...
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  • The Cool War The Cool War
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    The Cool War

    Sean Maloney reveals how Vladimir Putin has aggressively leveraged nuclear signaling to manipulate NATO and deter Western intervention in Ukraine. With Cold War–level brinkmanship and modern information warfare, Russia’s tactics have reshaped...
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  • Bloodsuckers of the Commonwealth Bloodsuckers of the Commonwealth
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    Bloodsuckers of the Commonwealth

    This book examines anti-monopoly petitioning activity in England between 1590-1625. It reveals that the growth of monopolies and issuing of new charters was an integral issue triggering subjects to engage in politics. It adds a new dimension to scholarly...
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  • Shakespeare's Folly Shakespeare's Folly
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    Shakespeare's Folly

    This study contends that folly is of fundamental importance to the implicit philosophical vision of Shakespeare's drama. The discourse of folly's wordplay, jubilant ironies, and vertiginous paradoxes furnish Shakespeare with a way of understanding that...
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  • Skepticism in Philosophy Skepticism in Philosophy
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    Skepticism in Philosophy

    Henrik Lagerlund offers students, researchers, and advanced general readers the first complete history of what is perhaps the most famous of all philosophical problems: skepticism.
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  • The Past as Presence The Past as Presence
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    The Past as Presence

    This book explores South Asia's postcolonial politics through the lens of circulatory networks-of objects, people, and ideas-as the region navigated pivotal historical junctures.
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  • Hygiene in World History Hygiene in World History
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    Hygiene in World History

    This book offers a global, historical analysis of the changes and continuities in one of society's basic functions: seeking to protect itself from disease.
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  • California and the Making of Modern Sport California and the Making of Modern Sport
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    California and the Making of Modern Sport

    This book examines the importance of California - a socio-cultural, economic and political powerhouse - in the history of modern sport. It argues that California has had a profound influence, for better or worse, on the way that not only America but also...
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  • India-Afghanistan India-Afghanistan
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    India-Afghanistan

    This book is a searing history of Indo-Afghan relations. It looks at how Afghanistan was once the heartland of India but is reduced now to a troubled cousin in the contemporary era.
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  • A Social History of Housing 1815-1985 A Social History of Housing 1815-1985
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    A Social History of Housing 1815-1985

    First published in 1986, for the second edition of this text (previously only covering up to 1970) in A Social History of Housing 1815-1985, John Burnett has extended his study to take account of the next fifteen years. It remains a comprehensive and...
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  • A History of Energy in Mexico A History of Energy in Mexico
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    A History of Energy in Mexico

    This volume synthesizes energy history in Mexico from pre-Conquest times to the present. It traces human development from a low-energy, sustainable existence to fossil-fuel based non-sustainability.
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  • The Essence of History The Essence of History
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    The Essence of History

    This book brings together historical thinkers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds to offer original interpretations of the essence of history. It addresses why it is that the essence of history itself cannot be so easily thematised or...
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  • A History of Modern Shanghai Banking A History of Modern Shanghai Banking
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    A History of Modern Shanghai Banking

    A comprehensive history of Shanghai banking and capital markets from 1842 to 1952, detailing the non-financial elements that have contributed to the revolutionary social and financial changes since the 1950s, and the financial experiences that are...
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    An-My Le: Small Wars
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    An-My Le: Small Wars

    The twentieth anniversary edition of An-My Le's acclaimed first book Small Wars, reissued with five new images and an afterword by Ocean Vuong.For the past three decades, An-My Le has used photography to examine her personal history and the legacies of...
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    Pan Tadeusz, or the Last Foray in Lithuania
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    Pan Tadeusz, or the Last Foray in Lithuania

    Arguably the most authoritative English translation of Poland's great national poem.Sometimes called the "last epos in world literature," Pan Tadeusz (first published in Paris in 1834) is a classic tale of romance, mystery, war, and patriotism set in the...
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    Princess Cheyenne
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    Princess Cheyenne

    How did a debutante from LakeForest, Illinois, end up in Boston's notorious "Combat Zone" and become itsmost famous stripper? What led her to convert to Islam and get engaged to CatStevens? And how did she end up traveling and performing with Andy...
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  • The Gaza Catastrophe
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    The Gaza Catastrophe

    The destruction that has been rained on Gaza has been seen and accepted by many commentators as a vengeful overreaction to the reckless Hamas-led attack on 7 October 2023. As if the annihilation has come about, perhaps even by accident. This book argues...
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    Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodiment of the Modern Artist
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    Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodiment of the Modern Artist

    The art history public has long been both fascinated and repelled by renowned Renaissance sculptor Benvenuto Cellini. He was a murderer, thief, lover of all genders, servant and rival of popes and princes, as well as an ingenious artist. In his legendary...
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    Nabokov on the Heights Nabokov on the Heights
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    Nabokov on the Heights

    This unique volume features a baker's dozen of essays about Vladimir Nabokov by Boston College students and. The essays cover a broad thematic and intellectual terrain and showcase cutting-edge Nabokov scholarship and criticism. The collection will be of...
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    Economics and the Truman Administration

    This retrospective study brings together twenty-two key associates of President Truman's to consider the administrative operation of the presidency from 1945 to 1953. The contributors are persons who were close to Truman throughout his presidency:...
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    In the Best Interests In the Best Interests
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    In the Best Interests

    A story for anyone who's ever asked: what would I risk to do what's right?Papua New Guinea, 1980s, a fascinating and dangerous country. Idealistic, newly arrived teachers, John and Elisa Mendzela, step into a world of rich culture, eager learners-and...
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  • People's Martyr People's Martyr
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    People's Martyr

    In 1840s Rhode Island, the state's seventeenth-century colonial charter remained in force and restricted suffrage to property owners, effectively disenfranchising 60 percent of potential voters. Thomas Wilson Dorr's failed attempt to rectify that...
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    U.S. Army Special Warfare

    Special warfare was a key component of American military operations long before Afghanistan and even before the heroic deeds of the Green Berets. Alfred Paddock's revised edition of his classic study--for two decades the definitive word on the...
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  • Enter the Bull's Burrow Enter the Bull's Burrow
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    Enter the Bull's Burrow

    Unrivalled and growing stronger, the Akkadian Empire is expanding its borders to the frontiers of the known world. But the threat of the Guardians, a humiliating stain on King Sargon's otherwise unblemished war record, remains.  From a hidden...
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  • Portrait of Sarah Portrait of Sarah
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    Portrait of Sarah

    Portrait of Sarah is the story of the relationship between Jules Bastien-Lepage and Sarah Bernhardt in the four months of the creation of the famous oil painting portrait by Jules. A story underpinned by interpersonal tensions, technical difficulties and...
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  • How to Write a Fantasy Battle How to Write a Fantasy Battle
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    How to Write a Fantasy Battle

    The forces of good are arrayed against the minions of evil on a storm-swept battlefield, and someone is about to yell "Charge!"-Now what?We've all been there. Many fantasy novels end with a climactic battle scene, yet few authors have a solid...
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  • The Story of Sarah McMurray The Story of Sarah McMurray
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    The Story of Sarah McMurray

    In this biographical picture book, author and illustrator Isaac du Toit brings to life the story of his ancestor, Sarah McMurray née Silcock. Born in Nelson in 1848, in later life Sarah went on to become a skilled and prolific woodcarver and craftswoman...
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  • Secularization without End Secularization without End
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    Secularization without End

    Vincent P. Pecora discovers an alternative history of the twentieth-century Western novel that explains the resurgence of Christian theological ideas in the supposedly secularized genre.
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  • Pathways to Utopia Pathways to Utopia
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    Pathways to Utopia

    Pathways to Utopia explores how Brazil's Landless Workers Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, or MST), against all odds, has endured for forty years as one of the world's largest social movements-while transforming the way we...
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  • Cleanliness is Next to Godliness
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    Cleanliness is Next to Godliness

    For more than 30 years, archaeologists have recorded and studied the colonial past of Parramatta, the second-oldest European settlement in New South Wales. Archaeological investigations provide a wealth of information that contributes to the...
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  • War and Diplomacy in Modern Japan War and Diplomacy in Modern Japan
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    War and Diplomacy in Modern Japan

    This open access book examines the life and work of Koki Hirota, who served as Japan's foreign minister and prime minister from 1933 to 1938 - the period that saw the final Japanese diplomatic attempts at achieving a modus vivendi with China before the...
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  • No Sound The SIlence Makes No Sound The SIlence Makes
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    No Sound The SIlence Makes

    Cecily fell in love with Levi on the banks of Cherry Lake near Madison, Florida when she was still a girl. Levi was all she's ever wanted as she grew into a woman. But she cannot have him, she's not free to be with him. Standing between these star...
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  • Come Save Someone Like Me Come Save Someone Like Me
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    Come Save Someone Like Me

    Shane and Shaun, identical twins, and both in love with Sarah Cartledge, Sarah knew without doubt which brother she loved, and she happily married him. But before they could start their new life together, the brothers had to leave and fight as US...
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  • Come Love Someone Like Me Come Love Someone Like Me
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    Come Love Someone Like Me

    Allen Blackburn is forced by his father to marry Alicia, a woman that he doesn't know, a woman that he is certain is not meant for him. Angry and confused, Allen takes his new bride home and over time he finds himself falling in love with her, a feeling...
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  • Death by Séance Death by Séance
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    Death by Séance

    As the storm rages outside, Sadie leads a séance to calm her friends' superstitious workers. But when a family member is murdered, she becomes entangled in a dangerous investigation. With the killer still on the loose and time running out, will Sadie be...
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  • The Greatest Vietnam War Stories EVER The Greatest Vietnam War Stories EVER
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    The Greatest Vietnam War Stories EVER

    Continue Private Meyer's adventures going to Europe and later orders to the Vietnam War. He serves multiple tours of duty and finds new purpose again in life: A devout Catholic, a husband and father, and a writer.These short stories about Army life...
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  • Hair Goes History Hair Goes History
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    Hair Goes History

    The book Hair Goes History by J.D. Taylor explores how hair enhancement and hair systems have played a significant role in shaping history and culture. Covering everything from ancient Egyptian wigs to the political and celebrity hairstyles of modern...
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  • Beauregard Beauregard
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    Beauregard

    Meet Beauregard, a courageous Doberman whose story of bravery and loyalty brings a unique and moving perspective on the unsung heroes of war. From the streets of New Orleans to the battlefields of Vietnam, Beauregard evolves from an abandoned puppy into...
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  • All Saints' / St. James' Saga All Saints' / St. James' Saga
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    All Saints' / St. James' Saga

    In 1872, during the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant and the reign of Queen Victoria, before the invention of the telephone, electric lights, or motor vehicles, the Rev. Lemuel Wells, an Episcopal missionary and his bishop rode together through the small...
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