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Blood royal: Dynastic politics in medieval Europe by Robert BartlettFeaturing the family politics of royal and imperial dynasties in Latin Christendom and Byzantium in the period 500-1500 - the competition and cooperation within the ruling family, shaped at every point by the birth, marriage and death, and also by ideas of what a dynasty was.
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Unmasked: The politics of pandemics by Bill BowtellIn 2020, COVID-19 emerged into a world where many governments had failed to heed the lessons of the past, and therefore were unprepared and unable to stop its global spread. Some countries had learned the lessons of HIV/AIDS, and had contained SARS1, Ebola, Zika and MERS. When coronavirus hit, they knew what to do to save their people from avoidable infections and deaths. Bill Bowtell examines why some countries got it right with coronavirus while others collapsed into chaos.
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Queenship in medieval Europe by Theresa EarenfightThis is an introduction to the study of queenship and documents the lives and works of queens and empresses across Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages.
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Orcadia: Land, sea and stone in Neolithic Orkney by Mark Edmonds Mark Edmonds traces the development of the Orcadian Neolithic from its beginning in the early fourth millennium BC through to the end of the period nearly two thousand years later. He uses artefacts, architecture and the wider landscapes to recreate the lives of Neolithic communities across the region.
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Valkyrie: The women of the Viking world by Jóhanna Katrín Friŗiksdóttir Fridriksdóttir presents the dramatic and fascinating texts recorded in medieval Iceland describing a culture able to imagine women in all kinds of powerful roles in this world and also in the other-world. Drawing on the latest historical and archaeological evidence, this book uncovers the reality behind the myths and legends to reveal the lives of Viking women.
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Under Beijing's shadow: Southeast Asia's China challenge by Murray HiebertChina's rise and increased involvement in Southeast Asia has prompted a blend of anticipation and unease among its smaller neighbours. Southeast Asians security began to slip after the Trump administration launched a trade war with China. This book looks at ten countries in Southeast Asia, their diverse experiences with China and how this impacts their perceptions of Beijing's actions and its long-term political, economic, military goals in the region.
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Klein reveals how America's political system is polarizing. In examining the structural and psychological forces behind America's descent into division and dysfunction, he shows that everyone engaged in American politics is engaged, at some level, in identity politics. Racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities have such weight behind them that it is tearing the country apart.
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The crown in crisis: Countdown to the abdication by Alexander LarmanAn in-depth account of the Abdication Crisis of 1936. As well as focusing on King Edward and Mrs. Simpson, Larman looks closely at the roles played by those that stood against him: Prime minister Stanley Baldwin, his private secretary Alec Hardinge, and the Archbishop of Canterbury Cosmo Lang. Larman also looks at those who supported him: the great politician Winston Churchill, Machiavellian newspaper owner Lord Beaverbrook, and the brilliant lawyer Walter Monckton.
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Plowshares into swords: From Zionism to Israel by Arno MayerArno J. Mayer traces the thinkers, leaders and shifting geopolitical contexts that shaped the founding and onward development of the Israeli state and explores Israeli's indefinite deferral of the 'Arab Question', the strategic thinking behind its settlement building and border walls, and the endurance of Palestinian resistance.
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Talking until nightfall: Remembering Jewish Salonica 1941-44 by Isaac MatarassoIn the city of Salonica (Thessaloniki), almost 50,000 Jews were sent to Nazi concentration camps during the war, and only 2,000 returned. Isaac Matarasso, a Jewish doctor, and his son escaped Nazi imprisonment and torture and joined the resistance. After the city's liberation they returned to rebuild Salonica along with the other survivors, and needed to come to terms with the near-total destruction of their community.
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| The riddle of the labyrinth: The quest to crack an ancient code by Margalit FoxMargalit Fox writes on the decades-long quest to decipher Linear B, a long-lost Mycenean (c.1400 BCE) script that resurfaced in 1900 Crete. Though British architect Michael Ventris deciphered Linear B in 1952, his efforts were aided by the work of American scholar Alice Kober, who painstakingly constructed syllabic grids at her kitchen table in the 1940s but died before she was able to solve the mystery. |
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