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The author of Armchair Nation and On Roads examines shyness in a"sparkling cultural history rang[ing]from Jane Austen to Silicon Valley" ( The Guardian ). Shyness is a pervasive human trait: even most extroverts know what it is like to stand tongue-tied at the fringe of an unfamiliar group or flush with embarrassment at being the unwelcome center of attention. And yet the cultural history of shyness has remained largely unwritten -- until now. With...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. "Everything belonging to the Highlands of Scotland has of late become peculiarly interesting. It is not much above half a century since it was otherwise."-Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott placed the Scottish Highlands on the map of popular tourist destinations. This timeworn work-consisting of the 1816 essay "Manners, Customs and History of the Highlanders of Scotland"...
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Cutting through the myths about the white trade, this is the story of cocaine as it's never been told before.
Cocaine is big business and getting bigger. Governments spend millions on a losing war against it, yet it's still the drug of choice in the West.
In Cocaine Nation, Tom Feiling travels the trade routes from Colombia via Miami, Kingston, and Tijuana to London and New York. Cutting through the myths about the white trade, this is the story...
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Do you remember collecting shrapnel and listening to Children's Hour? Carrying gas masks or sharing your school with evacuees from the city? The 1940s was a time of great challenge for everyone who lived through it. From the hardships and fear of a World War, with Britain's towns and cities were being bombed on an almost nightly basis, to the trauma of being parted from one's parents and sent away to the country to live with complete strangers. For...
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From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between Conflict and Abuse, Schulman directly addresses our contemporary culture of scapegoating. This deep, brave, and bold work reveals how punishment replaces personal and collective self-criticism, and shows why difference is so often used to justify cruelty and shunning....
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A Light Revealing: The Methodist Episcopal Church in Early America is a study in the transformation of John Wesley's theology into a living church, uniquely suited to its own growth and that of a nation. The two evolved in a period of change without parallel. From the Revolutionary War to the question of slavery and the Civil War, the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) and the young nation grew in stature.
This study traces the history from John Wesley's...
7) 1964
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Step back in time to 1964, a year of cultural upheaval and political transformation. From the rise of the Civil Rights movement in the United States to the global phenomenon of Beatlemania, this was the year that gave us bold fashion, unforgettable music and social change that continues to shape society across the world today.
While Britain's new Labour government promised the 'white heat of technology', on the world stage 1964 saw the escalation...
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Ms Eve Bates worked at the Bone's Jax Fishing Pier from 1972 to 1983 and encountered many colorful characters, some of whom were celebrities, in a variety of unusual happenings. There were robberies, a murderer, the capture of a world-record hammerhead shark, and constant contentions between the fishermen and the surfers. Also included are some of the tackle shop recipes for apple fritters, fishcakes, and quick fish soups.
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Some periods in history are best illuminated by the stories of the people who lived through them. This is one such story ? the bizarre but true account of Peter Hui, a man involved with scandal, corruption, drugs, pirates, triads and colonial high society; who collaborated with the Japanese, spied on the Communists and fought with American servicemen on R&R; who really did, for a short time, own all the opium in Hong Kong.
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Al juliol de 2010, un grup d'historiadors d'Europa i Estats Units, es van reunir en la Universitat d'East Anglia (Norwich) per a presentar i exposar noves perspectives, mirades i vies de recerca, vinculades a la història social. Allí van realitzar una reflexió que s'uneix a la renovació historiogràfica duta a terme en els últims quaranta anys per James Casey des del seu laboratori d'observació de la Universitat d'East Anglia. James Casey és...
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Mirtha Rivero analiza en este libro el segundo mandato de Carlos Andrés Pérez y los hechos y procesos que determinaron su renuncia, al tiempo que va develando episodios, pistas y motivaciones que ponen en entredicho verdades asumidas cómda o irreflexivamente como tales -consolidadas a lo largo del tiempo como verdades oficiales- y nos ofrece herramientas suficientes como para echar una segunda mirada, escuchar otras versiones, encajar piezas perdidas...
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El carlismo es un movimiento que ha sido muy estudiado pero sobre el que hay también grandes lagunas, como el tradicionalismo valenciano o la organización y funcionamiento de las fuerzas carlistas. Se sabe bastante poco sobre cómo vivieron la guerra los soldados carlistas y los que se hallaban en el territorio dominado por ellos, al menos en lo que hace referencia a Valencia y Aragón. Este libro pretende cubrir esta carencia y recoge los resultados...
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Historia Cultural: Apuntes desde México, es un libro que considera una posición de pensamiento desde México, no solamente abordando el lugar de estudio, sino también los factores culturales que nos limitan y nos enriquecen epistémicamente. Aunque, si queremos ser más especícos, la mayoría nos ubicamos en Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco. En este sentido, desde el trabajo de investigación de las y los integrantes del posgrado en Historia Cultural...
14) Imagining Eden
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If you want a concise, understandable account of The Panacea Society, written in a conversational style - this is it. Here is everything you ever wanted to know about The Panacea Society, a fascinating ornament of twentieth-century England. It is also a biography of Etholle, a fictional character who gets involved in the strange goings-on of the group. An occasional participant in Panacea life, she sees the Northern Lights, meets the Daughter of God,...
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In this highly researched and comprehensive book, the author argues for Coventry's Roman past, long doubted, and explores its Saxon roots as home to the monastic houses of St Osburg. He throws new light on Leofric and Godiva, including their involvement in the foundation or endowment of St Mary's Priory, and using recent excavation work he reveals the most up-to-date ideas on its appearance and its destruction. The city's later medieval past is explained...
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De deux à cinq millions de Chinois seraient présents aujourd'hui sur le territoire russe. Qui sont ces migrants? Quelles raisons les poussent à choisir la Russie comme pays d'accueil? Quelles sont leurs activités principales et comment s'insèrent-elles dans les tissus économiques locaux? Qu'en est-il de la vie associative au sein de cette population ? Quelle politique la Russie a-t-elle adoptée à l'égard de cette nouvelle population ?...
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Un libro de indispensable lectura. El surgimiento de la ingeniería en Bolivia: formación y ejercicio de la profesión, 1900-1964 teje historias de Bolivia y su capital humano en un lienzo latinoamericano y global. Al lado de una impresionante investigación, pionera en su campo en muchos sentidos, reúne un racimo de ideas nuevas para pensar cómo estudiar a los ingenieros y las ingenierías en América Latina, del pasado a la actualidad. Investigadores,...
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This book uniquely explores the rare event of poor people who become nationally or internationally famous. This book describe how poverty is a severe disability that stunts areas of growth and opportunity among children. Nevertheless, using a sample of 27 people including Charlie Chaplin, Billie Holiday, Marilyn Monroe, Richard Pryor, Babe Ruth, Oprah Winfrey, and Malcolm X, the book shows how these figures both coped, but faced life-long challenges...
19) Shades of Privilege: Two African American Families that Transformed the Carolinas, and the Nation
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In 1951, George Simkins, Jr., of Greensboro, and Anna Oleona Atkins of Winston-Salem were married. Their elegant wedding not only brought together the black elite of North Carolina's Piedmont Triad, but more significantly, it merged two families who, arguably, did more to advance civil rights in the Carolinas than any other.
George C. Simkins, Jr. hailed from an old line of South Carolina high achievers-the descendant of men who founded and settled...
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The Stones of Paris in History and Letters is a two-volume study on the city of Paris written by Benjamin Ellis Martin and Charlotte M. Martin. Through the numerous chapters regarding some of the most famous French authors and artists the Martins portray the painting of the French capital going deeper in its soul and showing something more than a city of shows or a huge bazaar.
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Three Time-worn Staircases
The Scholars'...
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