It illuminates the nature of Nazism and the regime it established by documenting politics and life in wartime Germany: government and party, law and terror, welfare and social planning, sex and population policy, women, youth, propoganda, morale and resistance.
Shortlisted for Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2020Poetry Book of the Month - The Telegraph May 2020Juana of Castile (commonly referred to as Juana la Loca - Joanna the Mad) was a sixteenth-century Queen of Spain, daughter of the instigators of the Inquisition.
An important collection which explores the complex interrelationships between race, gender, and sex as these are conceptualised within contemporary thought.
The Book of Marvels, a compilation of marvellous events of a grotesque, bizarre or sensational nature, was composed in the second century A.D.
The Chronicon Paschale is one of the major constituents of the Byzantine chronographic tradition covering the late antique period.
Volume 1 of this series of documents with commentary covers the period from the founding of the Nazi Party in 1919 to Hitler's assumption of the office of Fuhrer and Reich Chancellor of 1 August 1934.
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A comprehensible reference manual for palaeontologists on many aspects of their science. Topics discussed range from the esoteric, such as palaeoecology and preservation, to the practical, such as the storing of specimens and photography.
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Few critical terms coined by poets are more famous than “negative capability.” Though Keats uses the mysterious term only once, a consensus about... Læs mere
A fascinating study that analyses Isaac Nelson’s contribution to the history of antislavery, evangelical revivalism, Ulster Presbyterianism, and Irish nationalism, while keeping in mind the wider British and transatlantic context in which he operated.