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  • Intellectual Collaboration with the Third Reich

    Treason or Reason?

    Edited by Maria Björkman, Patrik Lundell, Sven Widmalm ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Second World War History
    The book investigates the rather neglected "intellectual" collaboration between National Socialist Germany and other countries, including views on knowledge and politics among "pro-German" intellectuals, using a comparative approach. These moves were shaped by the Nazi system, which viewed scientific and cultural exchange as part and parcel of their cultural propaganda and policy. Positive views ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

  • Neutrality in Twentieth-Century Europe

    Intersections of Science, Culture, and Politics after the First World War

    Edited by Rebecka Lettevall, Geert Somsen, Sven Widmalm ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    Whether in science or in international politics, neutrality has sometimes been promoted, not only as a viable political alternative but as a lofty ideal – in politics by nations proclaiming their peacefulness, in science as an underpinning of epistemology, in journalism and other intellectual pursuits as a foundation of a professional ethos. Time and again scientists and other intellectuals have ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Communicating the history of medicine

    Perspectives on audiences and impact

    Edited by Solveig Jülich, Sven Widmalm ...
    Series Book 31 - Social Histories of Medicine
    Communicating the History of Medicine critically assesses the idea of audience and communication in medical history. This collection offers a range of case studies on academic outreach from historical and current perspectives. It questions the kind of linear thinking often found in policy or research assessment, instead offering a more nuanced picture of both the promises and pitfalls of engaging ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

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    In AD 793 Norse warriors struck the English isle of Lindisfarne and laid waste to it. Wave after wave of Norse ‘sea-wolves’ followed in search of plunder, land, or a glorious death in battle. Much of the British Isles fell before their swords, and the continental capitals of Paris and Aachen were sacked in turn. Turning east, they swept down the uncharted rivers of central Europe, captured Kiev ... Read more

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  • The Hammer and the Cross

    A New History of the Vikings

    by Robert Ferguson ...
    For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne. The attack on Lindisfarne was a characteristically violent harbinger of what was in store for Britain and much of Europe from the Vikings for the next 300 years, until the final destruction of the heathen temple to the Norse gods at Uppsala around 1090.Robert Ferguson is a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Heimskringla and the Prose Edda of Snorri Sturluson

    by Snorri Sturluson ...
    Series series Civitas Library Classics
    THE HEIMSKRINGLA (Old Norse, 'the Circle of the World') is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas, recounting the lives of famous Scandinavian kings. First written about 1230 by Icelandic scholar and poet Snorri Sturluson (c. 1179-1241), the HEIMSKRINGLA contains the sagas of 16 Norse kings, beginning with the legendary Swedish dynasty of the Ynglings, followed Norwegian rulers from Harald ... Read more

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  • Rome 1960

    The Olympics That Changed the World

    by David Maraniss ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Clemente and When Pride Still Mattered, the blockbuster story of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, seventeen days that helped define the modern world.Legendary athletes and stirring events are interwoven into a suspenseful narrative of sports and politics at the Rome games, where Cold War propaganda and spies, drugs and sex, money and television, civil ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Enemies and Neighbors

    Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017

    by Ian Black ...
    "Comprehensive and compelling…a landmark study" of the Arab-Zionist conflict, told from both sides, by the author of Israel's Secret Wars (Sunday Times, UK).Setting the scene at the end of the nineteenth century, when the first Zionist settlers arrived in the Ottoman-ruled Holy Land, Black draws on a wide range of sources—from declassified documents to oral testimonies to his own vivid-on-the ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The 60s, A Very Peculiar History

    by David Arscott ...
    Series Book 32 - A Very Peculiar History
    The 60s, A Very Peculiar History' is a nostalgic celebration of those gloriously giddy years. Filled with fascinating trivia and quirky facts about the Swinging Sixties, David Arscott uniquely explores what made the sixties so different and how the decade has influenced the world today. From a timeline of pivotal historical world events to examining London, 'a city steeped in tradition, seized by ... Read more

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  • The American Way of War

    How Bush's Wars Became Obama's

    by Tom Engelhardt ...
    Series series TomDispatch Books
    The creator of TomDispatch.com "tackles our military fetish . . . He takes on our war-possessed world with clear-eyed, penetrating precision" ( Mother Jones).Tom Engelhardt, creator of the website TomDispatch.com, takes a scalpel to the American urge to dominate the globe. Tracing developments from 9/11 to present day, this is an unforgettable anatomy of a disaster that is yet to end.Since 2001, ... Read more

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  • City in the Sky

    The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center

    by James Glanz, Eric Lipton ...
    The definitive biography of the iconic skyscrapers and the ambitions that shaped them--from their dizzying rise to their unforgettable fallMore than a year after the nation began mourning the lives lost in the attacks on the World Trade Center, it became clear that something else was being mourned: the towers themselves. They were the biggest and brashest icons that New York, and possibly America, ... Read more

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  • Secret Science

    A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments

    by Ulf Schmidt ...
    From the early 1990s, allegations that servicemen had been duped into taking part in trials with toxic agents at top-secret Allied research facilities throughout the twentieth century featured with ever greater frequency in the media. In Britain, a whole army of over 21,000 soldiers had participated in secret experiments between 1939 and 1989. Some remembered their stay as harmless, but there were ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD