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I Give You Half the Road (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Once considered the most stable country in West Africa, Ivory Coast was split by an armed rebellion in 2002 and endured a decade of instability and a violent conflict. Carol... Læs mere
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All Abroad: A Memoir of Travel and Obsession (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Presents the memoir of a man hungry for the logistics of travel: getting there, staying there, and feeling at home on any continent. Woven into Geoffrey Weill’s entertaining anecdotes is an informative account of a lost era in travel.
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We Remember, We Love, We Grieve: Mortuary and Memorial Practice in Contemporary Russia (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This is a book about death, comprehensive in its discussion of strategies for coping with loss and grief in rural... Læs mere
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Respectability and Violence: Military Values, Masculine Honor, and Italy's Road to Mass Death (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Traces the relationship between civic virtues and military values from the post-Risorgimento period through the end of World War I, when the trauma of trench warfare made it... Læs mere
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The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children's Rights (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Italian educator and physician Maria Montessori (1870-1952) is best known for the teaching method that bears her name. She was also a lifelong pacifist. In this volume,... Læs mere
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Repossessing Shanland: Myanmar, Thailand, and a Nation-State Deferred (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Based on close readings of Shan-language media and years of ethnographic research in a community of soldiers and their families, Jane Ferguson tells the story of the Shan in their... Læs mere
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Last Train to Auschwitz: The French National Railways and the Journey to Accountability (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Grounded in history and case law, Last Train to Auschwitz traces the SNCF's journey toward accountability in France and the United States, culminating in a multimillion-dollar settlement paid by the French government on behalf of the railways.
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Loving Before Loving: A Marriage in Black and White (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Braiding intellectual, personal, and political history, Joan Lester tells the story of a writer and activist fighting for love and justice before, during, and after the Supreme Court's 1967 decision striking down bans on interracial marriage in Loving v. Virginia.
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Men I've Never Been (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Recounts Michael Sadowski's odyssey as a boy who shuns his own identity - and, ultimately, his sexual orientation - in order to become who he thinks he's supposed to be. By turns... Læs mere
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Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Presents an important interdisciplinary history of Russia’s agriculture and food systems that documents far-reaching changes on farms, along with their effects on ordinary people and for successive political regimes.
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Revival and Reconciliation: The Anglican Church and the Politics of Rwanda (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Phillip A. Cantrell II takes a critical look at the Anglican Church's crucial role in many aspects of Rwanda's history,... Læs mere
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The Green Hour: A Natural History of Home (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
When Alison Townsend purchased her first house, in south-central Wisconsin, she put down roots where she never imagined settling. To understand how she came to... Læs mere
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