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The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency, it fulfilled its every aim: it w...

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A Telegraph, Sunday Times, Economist and TLS Book of the Year 'One of the best history books you will read this decade' History Today An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European history, from the acclaimed a...

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Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, Christopher Clark's Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947 is a compelling account of a country that played a pivotal role in Europe's fortunes and fundamentally shaped our world. Pr...

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From the author of the national bestseller The Sleepwalkers, a book about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of time This groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by different noti...

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One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearThe Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 is historian Christopher Clark's riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I.Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers...

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"As history, the uprisings of 1848 have long been overshadowed by the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian revolutions of the early twentieth century. And yet in 1848 nearly all of Europe was aflame with conflict. Parallel political tumu...

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An intellectual tour de force: the major essays of the esteemed author of international bestseller The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers has become one of the most influential history books of our century: a remarkable rethink...

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Christopher Clark's Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power is a short, fascinating and accessible biography of one of the 20th century's most important figures. King of Prussia, German Emperor, war leader and defeated exile, Kaiser Wilhelm I...

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Das neue, epochale Werk von Bestsellerautor Christopher Clark: Der beliebte Historiker erklärt uns wie kein anderer, wie wir wurden, wer wir heute sind, welche Werte wir vertreten, wofür wir kämpfen In der Geschichte Europas gibt es keinen Moment,...

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'One of the best history books you will read this decade' History Today 'Fascinating, suspenseful, revelatory, alive' The Times There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848. ...

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Here are the letters between Nelly Sachs (1891-1970), recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the great German-speaking poet Paul Celan (1920-1970). Their correspondence lasted from 1954 until Celan's death by suicide. Sachs die...

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A monumental new volume. . . . Revelatory, even revolutionary. . . . Clark has done a masterful job explaining the inexplicable. Boston GlobeOne of The New York Times Book Reviews 10 Best Books of the Year Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Priz...

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The tenth volume in the "Best of Long Range Planning Series" focuses on the role of shareholder value as a key tool to evaluating strategic options. Within limits, the concept has an essential part to play in strategic management. Howeve...

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'Of the "e;Great Powers"e; that dominated Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Prussia is the only one to have vanished Iron Kingdom is not just good: it is everything a history book ought to be The nemesis of Prussia has...

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King of Prussia, German Emperor, war leader and defeated exile, Kaiser Wilhelm II was one of the most important - and most controversial - figures in the history of twentieth-century Europe. But how much power did he really have?The acclaimed hist...

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Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME is one of the greates...

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An intellectual tour de force: the major essays of the esteemed author of international bestseller The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark''s The Sleepwalkers has become one of the most influential history books of our century: a remarkable rethinking ...

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This book examines the causes and consequences of black representation in state legislatures. African Americans have a troubled history when it comes to wielding political power. This reality makes it important to consider the factors that increas...

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Scholars studying the causes and consequences of political representation, particularly in terms of gender and race, often turn to a concept called descriptive representation. Descriptive representation tells us the degree to which elected officia...

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Scholars studying the causes and consequences of political representation, particularly in terms of gender and race, often turn to a concept called descriptive representation. Descriptive representation tells us the degree to which elected officia...

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The Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott is one of the most famous dictionaries in the world, and for the past century-and-a-half has been a constant and indispensable presence in teaching, learning, and research on ancient Greek throughout ...

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The Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott is one of the most famous dictionaries in the world, and for the past century-and-a-half has been a constant and indispensable presence in teaching, learning, and research on ancient Greek throughout ...

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This Christmas anthology contains a wide range of poems -- and poets -- along with traditional verses and carols. Among the old favorites, you'll find some that are less familiar. All are festively trimmed with the illustrations of many well-known...

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This is a collection of poems for the millennium on the theme of time. The book takes a wide-ranging look at time, including the beginning of the world; the present and the future; being born; having birthdays; and growing old.

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An anthology of poems about Christmas for young children. The poets include Charles Causley, Eleanor Farjeon, e.e. cummings, Michael Rosen, and many others.

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This anthology is a companion to "The Oxford Treasury of Children's Poems". Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark provide their usual combination of traditional poems and modern authors in an often surprising collection.

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A collection of Christmas poems for young children. The poems cover the journey to Bethlehem, the birth of Jesus and all aspects of the traditional Christmas story. Alongside, there are poems about children's experiences of Christmas today, of pre...

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Presents a collection of poems on the theme of time. This book takes a look at Time, including the beginning of the world, the present, and the future; being born, having birthdays, and growing old. The poets include Ted Hughes, Michael Rosen, and...

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Starting with the Advent season in the cold of winter, this work travels through the joys and mysteries of Christmas. It moves from cards to carols, bells to angels, holly to stars, and trees to Santa Claus until it reaches the birth of Jesus in t...

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