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Breakfast: A History - Heather Arndt Anderson - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=5LghYCqDJw8C&pg=PA52#v=onepage
From corn flakes to pancakes, Breakfast: A History explores this “most important meal of the day” as a social and gastronomic phenomenon. It explains how and why the meal emerged, what is eaten commonly in this meal across the globe, why certain foods are…
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Vintage Games: An Insider Look at the History of Grand Theft Auto, Super ... - Bill Loguidice, Matt Barton - Google Books
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Vintage Games explores the most influential videogames of all time, including Super Mario Bros., Grand Theft Auto III, Doom, The Sims and many more. Drawing on interviews as well as the authors' own lifelong experience with videogames, the book discusses…
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The Legitimate Use of Military Force: The Just War Tradition and the ... - Google Books
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Throughout human history, scholars, statesmen and military leaders have attempted to define what constitutes the legitimate use of armed force by one community against another, and if force is to be used, what guidelines should govern the conduct of…
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Transnational Intellectual Networks: Forms of Academic Knowledge and the ... - Christophe Charle, Jürgen Schriewer - Google Books
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The university system, both in America and abroad, has always claimed a universal significance for its research and educational models. At the same time, many universities, particularly in Europe, have also claimed another role—as custodians of national…
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A Concise History of Hong Kong - John Mark Carroll - Google Books
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When the British occupied the tiny island of Hong Kong during the First Opium War, the Chinese empire was well into its decline, while Great Britain was already in the second decade of its legendary "Imperial Century." From this collision of empires arose…
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Histories of Tourism: Representation, Identity and Conflict - Google Books
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This collection of essays presents develops the historical dimension to tourism studies through thematic case studies. The editor's introduction argues for the importance of a closer relationship between history and tourism studies, and an…
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Generation in Jeopardy: Children in Central and Eastern Europe and the ... - UNICEF., United Nations Children's Fund, Unicef Staff - Google Books
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Children in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union explores the dire impact that political and economic transition has had on the lives of millions of children in this troubled region. Generation in Jeopardy brings together the research and…
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Maori Music - Mervyn McLean - Google Books
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Maori music records and analyses ancient Maori musical tradition and knowledge, and explores the impact of European music on this tradition. Mervyn McLean draws on diverse written and oral sources gathered over more than 30 years of scholarship and field…
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Breakfast: A History - Heather Arndt Anderson - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=5LghYCqDJw8C&pg=PA69#v=onepage
From corn flakes to pancakes, Breakfast: A History explores this “most important meal of the day” as a social and gastronomic phenomenon. It explains how and why the meal emerged, what is eaten commonly in this meal across the globe, why certain foods are…
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Gender, Religion and Spirituality - Google Books
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This collection of articles explores the complex links between social and economic development and religious and spiritual belief and assesses the cost to development of ignoring these links. Writers of many faiths, and of none, explore the scope for…