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Francis Of Assisi (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
After his debauchery as a young playboy, merchant and soldier - he fought at the Battle of Collestrada - he stripped naked in court, abandoned everything he owned and devoted his life... Læs mere
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Europe's Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians in Medieval Christendom (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this ground-breaking book, Professor Norman Cohn traces popular beliefs about witches to their origins. He examines the fantasies that inspired the great European witch-hunt of the 16th and 17th centuries when thousands of innocent people were tortured and burned alive.
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The Power Of Ideas (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
These essays focus on the social and political role - past, present and future - of ideas and of their progenitors. Contents include "My Intellectual Path", an autobiographical survey... Læs mere
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Lt Colonel John Paul Vann went to Vietnam in 1962, but soon became appalled by the slaughter, leaking his pessimistic assessments to the US... Læs mere
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Reading Clausewitz (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A comprehensive study of Clausewitz's "On War", first published in 1832 and regarded as a classic study of the nature and conditions of warfare. Heuser shows how to read Clausewitz as... Læs mere
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Across The Great Divide (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Starting out as a backing group for Ronnie Hawkins, before being propelled on to the world stage by Bob Dylan, The Band literally changed the course of music with their first two albums.
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Globalisation In World History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A second view holds that globalisation has a long history that can be traced back to the nineteenth century, if not earlier. First, it offers a categorisation of types and stages of globalisation that existed before the late twentieth century, No such taxonomy exists at present.
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The Washing Of The Spears: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In 1879, armed only with their spears, their rawhide shields, and their incredible courage, the Zulus challenged the might of Victorian England and, initially, inflicted on the British the worst defeat a modern army has ever suffered at the hands of men without guns.
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Charles Darwin Volume 2: The Power at Place (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This concluding volume of Janet Browne's biography covers the transformation in Darwin's life after the first unexpected announcement of the theory of evolution by natural selection and the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859.
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The Dukes (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The origins of the non-royal dukes in the British peerage divide nicely into Tudor looters, Royal bastards, opportunist generals, territorial, metropolitan or Scottish magnates.
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The Myth Of The Blitz (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Myth of the Blitz was nurtured at every level of society. Britain was not bombed into classless democracy. Angus Calder provides a compelling examination of the events of... Læs mere
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Stravinsky (Volume 2): The Second Exile: France and America, 1934 - 1971 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In 1934, Igor Stravinsky was fifty-two, a Russian expatriate living in Paris and already regarded by many as the most important composer... Læs mere
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