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In this highly researched and comprehensive book, the author argues for Coventry's Roman past, long doubted, and explores its Saxon roots as home to the monastic houses of St Osburg. He throws new light on Leofric and Godiva, including their involvement in the foundation or endowment of St Mary's Priory, and using recent excavation work he reveals the most up-to-date ideas on its appearance and its destruction. The city's later medieval past is explained...
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De deux à cinq millions de Chinois seraient présents aujourd'hui sur le territoire russe. Qui sont ces migrants? Quelles raisons les poussent à choisir la Russie comme pays d'accueil? Quelles sont leurs activités principales et comment s'insèrent-elles dans les tissus économiques locaux? Qu'en est-il de la vie associative au sein de cette population ? Quelle politique la Russie a-t-elle adoptée à l'égard de cette nouvelle population ?...
43) La gente del sancocho nacional: experiencias de la militancia barrial del M-19 en Bogotá, 1974-1990
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La historiografía sobre los movimientos armados en Colombia se ha enfocado, principalmente, en analizar las guerrillas de la segunda mitad del siglo XX desde una perspectiva macro y ofreciendo explicaciones estructurales. En este trabajo, la reducción en la escala de observación, las entrevistas, la historia oral y el análisis de trayectorias biográficas son herramientas que permiten dar cuenta de una organización guerrillera compleja, diversa,...
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Millions of us take package holidays for granted every year but did you ever wonder how it all began? Thanks to Vincent Cobb's 35 years’ experience working in the travel industry culminating in his position as Managing director of Thomson Holidays we can learn about all the tricks they had to get up to that formed the basis of the business at its outset. This fascinating book allows us to observe the industries steep learning curve from its infancy...
45) The River
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We tend to look at landscape in relation to what it can do for us. Does it move us with its beauty? Can we make a living from it? But what if we examined a landscape on its own terms, freed from our expectations and assumptions? This is what celebrated writer Helen Humphreys sets out to do in this stunning, groundbreaking examination of place. For more than a decade Humphreys has owned a small waterside property on a section of the Napanee River in...
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Covenant with God-a Biblical and Historical View at Healing Our Nation is a labor of love truly focused on returning to God as a nation and examining how our country, which was founded on God's principles and Judeo-Christian values, has gotten off track so significantly and what we need to do as a nation to get back to where God is first in every aspect of our society. Then the covenant our Founding Fathers made with God will be restored, and we can...
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Folded into Time is the compelling true story of a small housing ministry in Boston, Massachusetts challenging a doggedly literal, proposition-prone Catholic Church. This ministry, propelled by selfless and devoted laity and clergy, seeks to realize the Vatican II's love and hope through the implementation of fair housing as a moral imperative. Over decades, they hinge the divide between the immovable doctrine of the Church and the irresistible reality...
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This history spotlights Fitzrovia's enterprising twentieth-century immigrant workers. Ann Basu's family of Jewish tailors lived here before the Second World War, just where the BT Tower stands today. At that time the women's fashion trade and the new car industry were sweeping into Fitzrovia; Russian and German anarchists argued in its clubs; Indian revolutionaries practiced at its shooting range; and popular cafe´s like Lyons' transformed workers'...
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In February 1919, 20 nurses and midwives meeting in Dublin to discuss their poor working conditions took a historic decision to establish a trade union - the first of its kind in the world. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) now numbers 40,000 and is Ireland's largest nurse and midwife representative association. This book examines the heady social and economic backdrop that gave birth to the INMO, putting names and faces to the founders...
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Essays on Descartes, Schopenhauer, Marx, Bergson, Adam Smith,David Ricardo Kuhn, Hecksher-Ohlin. Topics include: certainty, ego,duration, consciousness, free-will, alienation, naturalism, scientifi crevolutions, profi ts, rents, classical and marginalist economics, foreigntrade theory.Th ese essays were written when I was a graduate student in philosophyin the late 1960s at New York University and then a decade later asa graduate student in economics...
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Tim Maltin, Britain's foremost authority on RMS Titanic, can finally reveal precisely why Titanic struck the iceberg. Through vivid images, first person testimonies and forensic investigation Maltin also reveals why the nearby ship, the Californian, failed to come to her rescue, resulting in the death of 1500 passengers. Titanic: A Very Deceiving Night finally draws to a close the world's biggest maritime mystery.
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The exciting tie-in to the major new series on Radio 4, written and presented by one of the UK's leading commentators on social and political life - Jim Naughtie.
The perfect read for anyone who wants to gauge the depth and spread of creativity and genius in the British Isles over the past sixty years. To mark the Diamond Jubilee, Radio 4 has looked back over the span of Queen Elizabeth II reign thus far in order to identify and profile the people...
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A quick look at women doctors and medicine in the Civil War for the general reader. Technologically, the American Civil War was the first "modern" war, but medically it still had its roots in the Middle Ages. In both the North and the South, thousands of women served as nurses to help wounded and suffering soldiers and civilians. A few women served as doctors, a remarkable feat in an era when sex discrimination prevented women from pursuing medical...
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The book is a splendid introduction in the world of ethno-linguistic assimilation. While it may seem like a complex and scientific subject, the Melting Pot tries to answer a very simple and common question for all persons: Who am I? In a world where multi-culturalism or race discussions are common, we would all want to understand these subjects better. Each and everyone of us identifies itself as a character in the multi-cultural story. And how can...
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"Esta obra presenta un estudio comparado de la conmemoración del bicentenario de Independencia en México y Colombia, celebraciones que tuvieron lugar durante el año 2010. Particularmente, desentraña las políticas de conmemoración que hicieron de los bicentenarios objetos de disputa entre diferentes actores sociales (Estado, sociedad civil, academia, movimientos sociales, etc.), con sus propias lecturas, apropiaciones y representaciones de la...
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Universitarios y universitarias de diversas disciplinas (salud, tecnología e ingenierías, humanidades, ciencias sociales o básicas) han fijado su mirada en determinadas referencias culturales de la ciudad para invitarnos a reflexionar sobre cómo las gentes que la habitaban en el pasado crearon elementos que han contribuido a nuestro bienestar, pero que, sobre todo, son manifestaciones del empuje personal y colectivo por mejorar sus condiciones...
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It seems that ever since mankind was kicked out of the Garden of Eden for eating the forbidden fruit, we've been trying to get back in. Or at least, we've been wondering where the Garden might have been. St. Augustine had a theory, and so did medieval monks, John Calvin, and Christopher Columbus. But when Darwin's theory of evolution permanently altered our understanding of human origins, shouldn't the search for a literal Eden have faded away? Not...
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Before Thomas Edison, light and fire were thought to be one and the same. Turns out, they were separate things altogether. This book takes a similar relationship, that of time and place, and shows how they, too, were once inseparable. Time keeping was once a local affair, when small towns set their own pace according to the rising and setting of the sun. Then, in 1883, the expanding railroads necessitated the creation of Standard Time zones, and communities...
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Barranquilla, ciudad líder del Caribe colombiano, ha sido forjadora de un gran número de empresas exitosas, muchas de las cuales han quedado inscritas en la historia nacional. Esta obra, primera de una serie sobre la historia empresarial de Barranquilla, contiene los resultados de un proyecto de investigación liderado por la Escuela de Negocios de la Universidad del Norte, cuyo propósito es contribuir al estudio del pasado empresarial de esta...
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