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The Music of James Bond - Jon Burlingame - Google Books
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The story of the music that accompanies the adventures of Ian Fleming's intrepid Agent 007 is one of surprising real-life drama. In The Music of James Bond, author Jon Burlingame throws open studio and courtroom doors alike to reveal the full and…
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Deathly Deception: The Real Story of Operation Mincemeat - Denis Smyth - Google Books
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Operation Mincemeat retells the story of the classic World War Two intelligence plan to pass misleading strategic information to Hitler and his Generals that was immortalized in the 1956 Hollywood film The Man Who Never Was. Drawing on a wealth of recently…
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The Changing Character of War - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=yGtjeBABMKkC&pg=PA151
Over the last decade (and indeed ever since the Cold War), the rise of insurgents and non-state actors in war, and their readiness to use terror and other irregular methods of fighting, have led commentators to speak of 'new wars'. They have assumed that…
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Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews - Peter Longerich - Google Books
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In 1998, Peter Longerich published Politik der Vernichtung (Politics of Destruction), a stunning re-examination of the Holocaust. The book received universal acclaim, and is now generally recognized by historians as the standard account of this horrific…
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The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law - Google Books
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The field of comparative constitutional law has grown immensely over the past couple of decades. Once a minor and obscure adjunct to the field of domestic constitutional law, comparative constitutional law has now moved front and centre. Driven by the…
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The Oxford Guide to Etymology - Philip Durkin - Google Books
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This practical introduction to word history investigates every aspect of where words come from and how they change. Philip Durkin, chief etymologist of the Oxford English Dictionary, shows how different types of evidence can shed light on the myriad ways…
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Realizing Utopia: The Future of International Law - Google Books
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Realizing Utopia is a collection of essays by a group of innovative international jurists. Its contributors reflect on some of the major legal problems facing the international community and analyse the inconsistencies or inadequacies of current law. They…
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Goodbye to All That?: The Story of Europe Since 1945 - Dan Stone - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=bcnRAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA143
In the decade after 1945, as the Cold War freeze set in, a new Europe slowly began to emerge from the ruins of the Second World War, based on a broad rejection of the fascist past that had so scarred the continent's recent history. In the East, this new…
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Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs - Google Books
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This unique and authoritative dictionary contains over 1,100 of the most widely used proverbs in English, utilizing the latest research from Oxford Dictionaries to source them. This edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, broadening the cultural…
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Lebanon: A History, 600-2011 - William Harris, William W. Harris - Google Books
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For most Americans, the civil war in Beirut is their sole point of connection with Lebanon. But Lebanon, a crossroads of major religious communities, has held a central place in the geopolitical significance of the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East…