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The Habsburg province of Moravia straddled a complicated linguistic, cultural, and national space, where German, Slavic, and Jewish spheres overlapped, intermingled, and sometimes clashed. Situated in the heart of Central Europe, Moravia was exposed to major Jewish movements from the East and West, including Haskalah (Jewish enlightenment), Hasidism, and religious reform. Moravia's rooted and thriving rabbinic culture helped moderate these movements...
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Anne Harrington is Professor of History of Science at Harvard University. She is the author of Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain (Princeton).
By the 1920s in Central Europe, it had become a truism among intellectuals that natural science had "disenchanted" the world, and in particular had reduced humans to mere mechanisms, devoid of higher purpose. But could a new science of "wholeness" heal what the old science of the "machine" had wrought?...
16403) Historia de Taiwán: Una guía fascinante de la historia de Taiwán y su relación con la República P
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Si usted quiere descubrir la fascinante historia de Taiwán, por favor siga leyendo...La historia de Taiwán es asombrosa. Políticamente, Taiwán tenía una cultura de señores de la guerra. Los portugueses, al pasar por la isla a mediados de la década de 1540, llamaron a la isla "Ilha Formosa", que significa "Isla Hermosa".
Luego, los holandeses llegaron en la década de 1620, en busca de una base de operaciones para la Compañía holandesa de...
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#1 On March 1, 1954, a group of American scientists entered a time when a machine they had created could trigger the end of the world. The most powerful bomb in the history of the world was about to be detonated just nineteen miles away. No human being had ever before been this close to the kind of power this bomb was expected to deliver.
#2 The men on the USNS Ainsworth...
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#1 The Desert tribes were herdsmen, and their wealth was in sheep and goats. They moved often, from one sparse pasture to another, from one water hole to another. Their community was tribal, and their chief was the patriarch of the tribe, the ruler absolute, the dispenser of justice and lord of life and death.
#2 The Israelites were a collection of tribes that...
16406) The Dunsmuir Saga
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The Dunsmuir Saga brings to life three generations of the legendary Dunsmuir family of Vancouver Island. Robert Dunsmuir -- canny, acquisitive and imaginative -- became the richest man in British Columbia; his sons struggled to consolidate the family fortune; his grandchildren spent it. Award-winning author Terry Reksten brings the members of the Dunsmuir family and their colourful saga to life with her lively writing, vivid anecdotes and careful...
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El proceso de expulsión de los moriscos decretado por Felipe III (1609-1614) parecía haber acabado con la presencia secular del Islam en España, así desde luego lo ha dejado establecido toda la historiografía especializada. El presente libro demuestra que no fue así, y que a pesar de las órdenes regias miles de moriscos lograron permanecer ocultos en nuestro país, especialmente en el reino de Granada. Sorprende su enorme capacidad de recuperación...
16408) George Washington & Israel
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Dr. Lillback's insightful work researches the question, "Is it inherently American to be pro-Israel?" Yet, could the evidence from Washington's life and writings show that he knew far more about Israel than most thought possible? Many Americans are unaware that George Washington wrote to the Jewish people affirming his desire for their safety and political and civil liberty. Many do not know that when Washington prayed, he mentioned Israel by name...
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#1 Mokhtar was a man of action and purpose. He had finally saved enough money to enroll at City College of San Francisco, and he was ready to start law school in the fall. He thought about what it would be like to have a law degree, and eventually run for office.
#2 Mokhtar lost the satchel containing the three thousand dollars and his new eleven-hundred-dollar laptop...
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#1 The weekend of 12 - 14 June 1914 was a busy one at Konopischt, the hunting lodge and favorite home of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Here, he could indulge his passion for field sports and escape the stultifying conventions of the Habsburg court in Vienna.
#2 The Concert of Europe was an order that was established in 1815 to prevent major war on the continent for...
16411) La transición española
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La división estructural en libros base y monografías referidas a hechos cruciales para la interpretación de la historia de los pueblos ( conflictos, desarrollo social, cultural y tecnológico, vida cotidiana, pensamiento ) permite tanto la comprensión global de la historia de la humanidad, como la profundización sobre determinados acontecimientos o aspectos generalmente ignorados en los manuales al uso. Los estudiantes encuentran así una forma...
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#1 The French had fought a short but bloody war with the Japanese in September 1940, before the Japanese ultimatum. The French ambassador in Washington wired Catroux that his request for 120 modern fighter planes had been turned down by Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, because the United States did not believe it could enter into conflict with Japan.
#2 The French...
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Este libro de Óscar Alarcón Núñez tiene documentos que por primera vez se divulgan y que demuestran como en distintas épocas se planteó la posibilidad de que Panamá fuera capital de Colombia. Durante la Convención de Rionegro de 1863, el general Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera propuso, sin éxito, esa posibilidad y el documento respectivo se revela, tomado del original manuscrito que el autor de esta publicación logró obtener. Alarcón Núñez...
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In the late eighteen hundreds when Shirks grandmother was a young person, womens choices were limited. Frances knew she was meant to be a nurse, but, being young and unmarried, society said no. Her friend Sally, granddaughter of slaves, knew she could be a great teacher, but there was little chance for her to get training. Reading this book in a group and then having a discussion about it takes courage. Its not easy to talk about race and gender issues....
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Un estudio pormenorizado que narra el exilio de los marinos republicanos y que por su diversidad y complejidad representa una aportación de gran importancia para el conocimiento de la diáspora republicana española después de la derrota frente al franquismo. Un exilio que pasó por los campos de concentración, de trabajo i de exterminio, por la intervención en la lucha contra el nazismo junto con los aliados: en Rusia, en el maquis, en los incipientes...
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More than 700 quotations provide a running narrative by the many who lived through or died in the Civil War. The voices of the great and famous, the ordinary and the unknown, resound in these pages. Arranged chronologically and divided by specific topics and events, this well-researched volume puts a human face on history.
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#1 The story of adoptees connected to the Tennessee Children's Home Society is a very familiar one to Connie Wilson. She was one of the last babies placed by the scandal-ridden orphanage, and her adoption was held up.
#2 The end of Tann's reign of terror nears in 1950, when the state of Tennessee releases a report detailing her years of nefarious dealings in the adoption...
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The Victorian era produced many famous writers and poets, including Dickens, Thackeray, H.G. Wells and Tennyson. Magazines like The Strand launched famous creations such as Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, whose cliff-hanger stories were told in part-works to add to the excitement. The poetry was epic, Tennysons Morte dArthur and The Lady of Shalott tapped into the Pre-Raphaelite style so popular in the art of the day. Russell James has explored the...
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THE assassination of Philip of Macedon, which occurred in the year 336 B.C., was one of the most important in ancient history, not only because it terminated the glorious career of one of the most remarkable men of his times, but also because it led immediately to the accession of Alexander, one of the supremely great men of history,-an event which would very likely not have taken place at all if Philip had continued to live for a number of years...
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Another entertaining and surprising food history by the scholar who has come to define the discipline, this volume draws readers into the far-flung story of how regional cuisine came to shape a collective Italian identity. From the Romans' encounters with barbarian tribes to the revival and reinvention of local Italian cooking in the twentieth century, Massimo Montanari shows how regional food practices flavored the nation's political and cultural...
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