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En 1917, Alemania era un país derrotado, que afrontaba las duras compensaciones de guerra impuestas por el Tratado de Versalles, la crisis económica mundial y la propia depresión de sus ciudadanos.
Weitz relata, en forma de paseo por el Berlín de entreguerras, estos altibajos políticos y económicos en un ambiente de efervescencia cultural: arquitectos como Gropius, escritores como Brecht o filósofos como Heidegger crearon durante esta época...
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Life in late Victorian and Edwardian England on a Birmingham farm—this is the story of the family who inhabited Pinfold Farm in Yardley, a now long-vanished agricultural holding except for the farmhouse itself, a Grade Two Listed Building now called Pinfold House.
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During the Cold War, American labour organizations were at the centre of the battle for the hearts and minds of working people. At a time when trade unions were a substantial force in both American and European politics, the fiercely anti-communist American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), set a strong example for labour organizations overseas. The AFL-CIO cooperated closely with the US government on foreign policy...
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Based on in-depth oral interviews with local residents, and rich archival sources, We Lived A Life and Then Some relates the common person's struggle to overcome harsh working conditions and government neglect. The unique culture of the hard-rock mining town of Cobalt is exposed through the eyes of retired miners, young welfare mothers, and grade-school children. Angus and Griffin reveal why, in spite of great adversity, Cobalt remains a distinctive...
85) When Our Homes Had Porches: A Historical Review of the Times When Our Communities Were Different
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Written by a father and his two young sons, When Our Home Had Porches is a historical review of the times when our communities were very different. It was an era when there were two parents and/ or extended family members in practically every home. A time when there were no drugs, no gangs (as we know them today), no drive-by-shootings and no security officers and metal detectors in our schools. It was a time when it was illegal to buy beer or wine...
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Few people hunting today are fully aware of the history of their sport. Accounts of the subject can be somewhat dry and academic. So, in an easy and entertaining manner, here is a concise summary of how this much-misunderstood sport has survived and flourished through centuries of change, to the benefit of the fox and its environment.
• Concise chapters gallop through the history of hunting from 1066 to the present day,
interspersed with snippets...
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¿Qué es el Trabajo Social Clínico? ¿El Trabajo Social puede hacer terapia? ¿Quién reconoce y legitima estas funciones y competencias? En este libro encontrarás las respuestas a estas preguntas y muchas otras.
El Trabajo Social Clínico se encuentra en plena fase de desarrollo y expansión en España. El notable desarrollo en la última década está generando reacciones tanto dentro como fuera de la profesión, en su mayoría muy positivas...
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Los proyectos editoriales de Germán Arciniegas y de Arturo Zapata contribuyeron a la modernización de la industria editorial colombiana, al proponer nuevos autores y temas, así como nuevas formas de acercamiento a los ya conocidos, legitimando la figura del editor al mismo tiempo como hombre de letras y de negocios. Igualmente, contribuyeron a desarrollar la edición como un espacio relativamente diferenciado de la creación literaria, la impresión...
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Resistir a la violencia es un libro en el que se cuenta la historia de una comunidad, de más de 250 familias que desde su fe cristiana deciden enfrentarse a un enemigo muy poderoso que buscaba desplazarlos de sus tierras e, incluso, exterminarlas. Es la historia de un proceso que aún no termina, pero que ha librado ya muchas batallas exitosas, que es singular y representativo a la vez, y que se ha constituido en un ejemplo para otras comunidades...
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We have long thought of the Renaissance as a luminous era that marked a decisive break with the past, but the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct period arose only during the nineteenth century. Though the view of the Middle Ages as a dark age of unreason has softened somewhat, we still locate the advent of modern rationality in the Italian thought and culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Jacques Le Goff pleads for a strikingly different...
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There have been large magazines with tiny circulations and there have been diminutive sheets which have reached thousands of readers. But all 'little magazines' have been small in one or another of these ways, and usually in both... And yet most of them have had arrestingly large-scale ambitions...' From Ian Hamilton (1938-2001), himself the founder of the Review and New Review, comes this matchless survey (first published in 1976) of the literary...
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A century on from the construction of an Edwardian street in inner Manchester, this contemporary portrait of the street tells the stories of today's residents. Born in sixteen countries from four continents, the stories told by the residents themselves narrate their journeys from nomadic herding in Somalia to conscientious objection in post-war Germany and the UK, and from arranged marriages in South Asia to arriving penniless from rural Ireland....
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El origen de Andorra, provincia de Teruel, hay que buscarlo en las poblaciones ibéricas de sus inmediaciones. Sin embargo no se puede hablar de "Historia de Andorra" hasta el siglo XII cuando aparece documentada por primera vez en la Carta Puebla de Alcañiz de 1157.
El presente volumen abarca desde la reconquista por los aragoneses a los musulmanes en 1140 hasta la demarcación de sus términos territoriales en 1291.
95) The River
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We tend to look at landscape in relation to what it can do for us. Does it move us with its beauty? Can we make a living from it? But what if we examined a landscape on its own terms, freed from our expectations and assumptions? This is what celebrated writer Helen Humphreys sets out to do in this stunning, groundbreaking examination of place. For more than a decade Humphreys has owned a small waterside property on a section of the Napanee River in...
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Summary of White Trash by Nancy Isenberg | Includes Analysis Preview: White Trash by historian Nancy Isenberg is a riveting chronicle of class in America as explored through the role and the plight of the white underclass from the days of colonial settlers to the present. Despite the founders' declaration that all men are created equal," the reality of life in America has continuously told a different story. With careful research, Isenberg reviews...
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As time passes, we often forget or in many situations, we never know the history of us as a nation and as a people. This book contains both positive and negative accounts of us as a nation of immigrants of whom many found success. It also tells the story of those who although worked hard found it as an unfriendly all too often a place of isolation and brokenness. There is, however, a hope that for what seems to have taken centuries to arrive-a hope...
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As famous during his lifetime as after his death, Rembrandt (1606-1669) was one of the greatest masters of the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century. His portraits not only transport us back to that fascinating time, but also represent, above all, a human adventure, beneath every dab of paint the spirit of the model seems to stir. Yet these portraits are only the tip of the Rembrandt iceberg, which consists of over 300 canvasses, 350 engravings, and...
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A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS Part II is a cartoon rendition of the Northern Mariana Islands from the Japanese invasion in 1914 to their capture by the Americans in 1944. It is the sequel to Part I, which covered their history from island formation to the Japanese invasion in 1914.
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Many stories of fishermen meeting Great White and other sharks. No one gets eaten. Many are reticent about going out on or diving into the ocean for quite a while after meeting man-eating sharks face to face. Stories of fishermen having other problems. Interesting tales of truck driving during WW2. Arguments with feisty farm animals who usually win. Opal Mining at Coober Pedy. Plenty of thieves present. Some accidently fall down unused 90 foot shafts,...
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