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Northumbria, 500-1100: Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom - David Rollason - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=4mSogG6ZqN4C&pg=PA191&dq=Ealhfrith&hl=de&sa=X&ei=VmD0TpeJBY7ktQaPy_n7Dw&ved=0CDIQ6AEwADg8#v=onep
This book traces the rise and fall of the kingdom of Northumbria, in a broader European context. It examines the ethnic, political, social and religious changes that (after the end of the Roman Empire) transformed the large and disparate area between the…
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A History of Education in the British Leeward Islands, 1838-1945 - Howard A. Fergus - Google Books
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Examines the social and economic forces that have shaped and constrained the development of education in the British Leeward Islands following emancipation. It offers a critique on British colonial education and highlights significant achievements in this…
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Gazprom: An Energy Giant and Its Challenges in Europe - Google Books
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This detailed case study of Gazprom explores motivation behind the company's foreign policies, it's strategies and tactics. It examines the challenges Gazprom faces in the European market and emphasizes the role of politics in Russsia's gas trade.
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Political Ideologies: A Comparative Approach - Mostafa Rejai - Google Books
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Designed for classroom use, this book develops a framework for the comparative analysis of political ideologies and examines the most prominent political ideologies of modern time. This revised edition has been enlarged to include feminism and…
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Football, Europe and the Press - Liz Crolley, David Hand - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=YeONAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA79&dq=%22Andre+Delelis%22#v=onepage
This book examines the construction of national, regional, and group identities in the football journalism of five European countries: England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Notions of the respective national stereotypes are explored in each of the…
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The Nuclear Weapons Complex: Management for Health, Safety, and the Environment - Google Books
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In this volume, the National Research Council examines problems arising throughout government-owned, contractor-operated facilities in the United States engaged in activities to build nuclear weapons. The book draws conclusions about and makes…
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Performing Magic on the Western Stage: From the Eighteenth Century to the ... - Google Books
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Performing Magic on the Western Stage examines magic as a performing art and as a meaningful social practice, linking magic to cultural arenas such as religion, finance, gender, and nationality and profiling magicians from Robert-Houdin to Pen& Teller.
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Birth of a National Icon: The Literary Avant-Garde and the Origins of the ... - Venita Datta - Google Books
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Birth of a National Icon examines the emergence of the intellectual in fin-de-siècle France, setting this important phenomenon against the backdrop of an emerging mass democracy and concentrating on the key role played by the avant-garde.
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Gender and the Mexican Revolution: Yucatán Women & the Realities of Patriarchy - Stephanie J. Smith - Google Books
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The state of Yucatan is commonly considered to have been a hotbed of radical feminism during the Mexican Revolution. Challenging this romanticized view, Stephanie Smith examines the revolutionary reforms designed to break women's ties to tradition and rel
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The Last Resort: Success and Failure in Campaigns for Casinos - John Dombrink, William Norman Thompson - Google Books
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This thoughtful book examines the ten major campaigns to legalize casino gambling in America that were waged between 1976 and 1986 and proposes an explanation for why legalization of casino gaming lags behind legalization of other forms of gambling.