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A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, drive around the British Isles in a clapped-out forty-year old hearse in search of famous - and not so famous - tombs, graves and burial sites.

The closing months of 2008 saw the world's nations united in financial uncertainty.

The vast land empire that Alexander the Great left to his successors was without parallel in Greek history.

Im Zeichen des Koru erzählt eine epische Geschichte, die sich über mehrere Generationen erstreckt und das Erbe der Maori mit Themen wie Liebe, Verlust und der unerschütterlichen Kraft des menschlichen Geistes verbindet.

A book to put the Midlands back on the map.

Bestselling author Rosemary Ellen Guiley's easy-to-use, practical guide for opening to angelic guidance and wisdom, focusing on how to communicate with angels and how you know when you've got an answer.

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a "e;suspenseful"e; (WSJ) and "e;adrenaline-fueled"e; (Outside) entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time, when three expeditions simultaneously raced to the top, bottom, and heights of the world.

'It is unlikely that a clearer, more stimulating account of the Russians' extraordinary period of imperial history will be written.

A Practical Guide to developing your own extraordinary powers.

In this authoritative look at the roots of modern terrorism, Yossef Bodansky, one of the most respectedand best-informedexperts on radical Islamism in the world today, pinpoints the troubled region of Chechnya as a dangerous and little-understood crucible of terror in the struggle between East and West.

In 1930 a sixteen-year-old boy left England to become one of the last of the 'gentlemen adventurers' - the fur traders of the Hudson's Bay Company.

The stunning debut of a talented young travel writer.

Please note that this edition does not include illustrations.

One small East African country embodies the battered history of the continent: patronised by colonialists, riven by civil war, confused by Cold War manoeuvring, proud, colorful, with Africa's best espresso and worst rail service.

Research indicates that, on average, Americans change their religious affiliation at least once during their lives.

Dieses eBook: "Die Herren der Erde" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

The literature on the fall of communism contains numerous interpretations of the changes that took place in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989, while debates about how best to characterize the fall of the communist regimes have raged for many years.

Seit den ersten christlichen Missionen im mittelalterlichen Kiew bis zur entscheidenden Abgrenzung zwischen Ost und West steht die ruthenische Kirche an einer einzigartigen Schnittstelle der Religionsgeschichte.

How succession in authoritarian regimes was less a competition of visions for the future and more a settling of scores "e;Joseph Torigian's stellar research and personal interviews have produced a brilliant, meticulous study.

A unique work of fiction from the troubled streets of Ukraine, giving invaluable testimony to the new history unfolding in the nation’s post-independence years "One of the most astounding novels to come out of modern Ukraine.

How the fur trade changed the North and created the modern Arctic: "e;The history is fascinating.

Yorkshire is 'a continent unto itself', a region where mountain, plain, coast, downs, fen and heath lie close.

A pesar de su presencia constante en medios de comunicación y redes sociales, ¿sabemos qué es Rusia hoy?

What was the role of historians and historical societies in the public life of imperial Russia?

Seeking to rebuild the Russian film industry after its post-Soviet collapse, directors and producers sparked a revival of nationalist and patriotic sentiment by applying Hollywood techniques to themes drawn from Russian history.

This book illuminates a little-known but tremendously significant twentieth-century crisis in the Soviet Union.

Sure to be controversial and spur debate, this book presents a powerful analysis of rural change to marketization and globalization.

In this ground-breaking collection, a team of leading experts offer a detailed examination of under-researched aspects of Soviet political repression in the 1930s.

This work offers a major new interpretation of the Stalin's role in the gestation of the Cold War.

Women in Russian Culture and Society, 1700-1825 is a collection of essays by leading researchers shedding new light on women as writers, actresses, nuns and missionaries.

In the early 1930s Soviet authorities launched a campaign to create "e;socialist"e; retailing and also endorsed Soviet consumerism.

This collection of essays examines women in the Khrushchev era, using both newly-accessible archival material and a re-reading of published sources.

This book brings together for the first time a collection of essays by western scholars about women in the Stalin era (1928-53).

This is the first attempt to systematically study the nature of the political leadership system under Stalin.

The first book to analyze the distinct leader cults that flourished in the era of 'High Stalinism' as an integral part of the system of dictatorial rule in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

The first major territorial struggle in the late Soviet period involved Nagorno-Karabagh, an Armenian inhabited territory that had been assigned to the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.

In 1883, the Russian police established the Foreign Agentura in Paris.

Pavel Pestel (1793-1826) was the key figure in the Decembrist's Southern Society and author of Russian Justice , Russia's first republican manifesto.

This book explores the role played by families in the Russian revolutionary movement and the first decades of the Soviet regime.

Stalinism in a Russian Province reexamines the agrarian policy pillars of Stalin's 'revolution from above' initiated in 1929-30, and is the first major study of its kind since the opening of Soviet archives.

This book examines changes in official Soviet policy towards the labour protection of women workers, 1917-41.

This is the first western book on the subject of wartime Soviet schooling.

The collapse of the imperial regime excited Russian intellectuals of all political persuasions.

This is the first comprehensive study in English of Soviet women who fought against the genocidal, misogynist, Nazi enemy on the Eastern Front during the Second World War.

The Australian Study of Politics provides the first comprehensive reference book on the history of the study of politics in Australia, whether described as political studies or political science.

The displacement of population during and after the Second World War took place on a global scale and formed part of a longer historical process of violence, territorial reconfiguration and state 'development'.

This book brings together fascinating testimonies from thirty inhabitants of the 'Kommunalka,' the communal apartments that were the norm in housing in the cities of Russia during the whole history of the Soviet Union.

Covering topics such as the Soviet monopoly over information and communication, violence in the gulags, and gender relations after World War II, this festschrift volume highlights the work and legacy of Sheila Fitzpatrick offers a cross-section of some of the best work being done on a critical period of Russia and the Soviet Union.

This book is the first interdisciplinary treatment of the cultural significance of the Decembrists' mythic image in Russian literature, history, film and opera in a survey of its deployment as cultural trope since the original 1825 rebellion and through the present day.

This book presents theoretical and empirical investigation of the impact of human capital on economic growth in Ukraine during the period of 1989-2009.