Christopher Clark - Böcker

Presents a collection of stories from around the world. This book features funny stories and clever stories, sad stories and strange stories, each one reflecting the country from which it comes. It begins with Anansi the spider, tricking his frien...

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Missionaries are people who operate on the border between their own community and another. The confessional frontier between the Christian and the Jewish communities in Prussia offers a vantage-point from which to analyze the relationship between ...

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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 TodayAn exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most dramatic years in European history, from the acclaimed author of The...

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Brought to you by Penguin.'People embraced each other, shook hands, joy radiated from every eye, there was no limit to the celebrations . . .'There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848. Almost...

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The Black Chicago Renaissance emerged from a foundational stage that stretched from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to the start of the Great Depression. During this time, African American innovators working across the landscape of the arts ...

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Tissue stem cells and their medical applications have become a major focus of research over the past decade. With 16 full-color illustrations, this reference provides a thorough and up-to-date overview of the current and emerging technologies for ...

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Vocational education and training (VET) have a key role to play in raising skill levels and improving a societys productivity. In this important new book, a team of international experts argue that too often national VET policy has been formulated...

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Vocational education and training (VET) have a key role to play in raising skill levels and improving a societys productivity. In this important new book, a team of international experts argue that too often national VET policy has been formulated...

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For the free movement of labour across the European Union, establishing transparency and comparability of qualifications across member states is vital. This book examines how qualifications, knowledge, skills and competences are understood in diff...

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For the free movement of labour across the European Union, establishing transparency and comparability of qualifications across member states is vital. This book examines how qualifications, knowledge, skills and competences are understood in diff...

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Chest X-rays for Medical Students is a unique teaching and learning resource that offers students, junior doctors, trainee radiologists, nurses, physiotherapists and nurse practitioners a basic understanding of the principles of chest radiology. *...

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This book offers a practical guide to the most pressing ethical issues faced by those working in food manufacturing and associated industries. Early chapters look at the fundamentals of ethical thinking and how lessons of medical ethics might be a...

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Across nineteenth-century Europe, the emergence of constitutional and democratic nation-states was accompanied by intense conflict between Catholics and anticlerical forces. At its peak, this conflict touched virtually every sphere of social life:...

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Across nineteenth-century Europe, the emergence of constitutional and democratic nation-states was accompanied by intense conflict between Catholics and anticlerical forces. At its peak, this conflict touched virtually every sphere of social life:...

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Across nineteenth-century Europe, the emergence of constitutional and democratic nation-states was accompanied by intense conflict between Catholics and anticlerical forces. At its peak, this conflict touched virtually every sphere of social life:...

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New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled them forward "Refreshingly original . . . ...

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Cecil Clarke's adaptation for television has been used as the basis for the current revised version. While retaining all the well-known musical numbers, it allows a more fluid production, no longer dependent on major scene changes, and, by omittin...

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Kaiser Wilhelm II is one of the key figures in the history of twentieth-century Europe: King of Prussia and German Emperor from 1888 to the collapse of Germany in 1918 and a crucial player in the events that led to the outbreak of World War I...

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In the aftermath of World War II and in the Allies eagerness to erase all traces of the Third Reich from the earth, Prussia ceased to exist as a country. But as Clark reveals in this pioneering, gripping history, Prussia enjoyed a fascinating, inf...

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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 timeThis groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise of power is shaped by different notio...

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From the bestselling author of 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 notions of time....

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The Genesis 3:5 Project/Rise of the New Gods, traces Satan's "godhood lie" from the Garden of Eden to our current generation and beyond. This book will show how this very same lie has influenced the human race throughout the ages. Since ...

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The pacy, sensitive and formidably argued history of the causes of the First World War, from acclaimed historian and author Christopher Clark SUNDAY TIMES and INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012 The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forw...

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Between the late colonial period and the Civil War, the countryside of the American northeast was largely transformed. Rural New England changed from a society of independent farmers relatively isolated from international markets into a capitalist...

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What do teachers learn from talking to one another about their practice? This set of stories focuses on this important question and presents a case for how the ordinary talk among teachers is a potent medium for teacher training and professional d...

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Tissue stem cells and their medical applications have become a major focus of research over the past decade. With 16 full-color illustrations, this reference provides a thorough and up-to-date overview of the current and emerging technologies for ...

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Over the past decade, especially, U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) intelligence has had to tailor its organization to meet the evolving demands of the operational environment. This has resulted in a number of ad hoc arrangements, practices, and organizati...

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A RAND team conducted a Delphi expert elicitation exercise to assess the security situation in Mexico using assessment scorecards developed in prior RAND research on urban instability and unrest, historical insurgencies, and defense-sector reform.

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