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The golden age of Jewish humour flourished in the second half of the twentieth century, enjoyed by Jews and non-Jews alike, but its twilight years are now in sight. Telling jokes has the potential to reaffirm community once religion, political loyalties and...
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Polity
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2025-06-09
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Offers a groundbreaking perspective on the future of urban studies Urbanism in the Digital Age provides an essential, paradigm-shifting framework for understanding contemporary urban life. Author Mark Gottdiener redefines the study of urbanism by shifting the focus from...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2025-05-28
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History loves a villain.Across the entire span of human civilisation, certain people and groups have been identified as being responsible for the ills of the world, and have remained hated for it. In his continuing desire to separate out the facts from the fiction of...
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Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
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2025-05-22
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A surprising and compelling journey into the business of paranormal investigation, and the state of scientific literacy in America. In 2010, a sleepy small-town business plaza in rural New Hampshire rented space to an unusual tenant: a ghost laboratory. The Kitt...
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PublicAffairs
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2025-05-20
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Step into the hidden world of London's private members' clubs with London Clubland: A Companion for the Curious. This guide, by the leading historian on the subject, offers a fascinating insight into these legendary institutions. Culture, history and traditions are all...
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Robinson
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2025-05-15
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Willkommen in der Welt der Freimaurer Geheime Bruderschaften, undurchsichtige Rituale und rätselhafte Symbole – da findet sich reichlich Stoff für Spekulationen und Verschwörungstheorien. »Freimaurer für Dummies« schafft Klarheit. Das Buch beschreibt, wann und warum die...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2025-05-15
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Für Dummies
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This book challenges the myths and misrepresentations that justify the existence of prisons. It traces the history and failure of prison reform over two centuries, addresses a number of key, contemporary issues and argues for the abolition of prisons.
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2025-05-15
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Editeur :
Monoray
Parution :
2025-05-15
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Human societies have always been deeply interconnected with our ecosystems, but today those relationships are witnessing greater frictions, tensions, and harms than ever before. These dynamics mirror those experienced by marginalized communities across the planet, but...
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Polity
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2025-05-14
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A “captivating and compelling” (Keisha N. Blain, coeditor of the #1 New York Times–bestseller Four Hundred Souls) narrative history of 1963, the pivotal moment in America’s long civil rights movement—the year of the March on Washington,...
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Basic Books
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2025-05-13
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Are we still asking for it because of our outfits? Our routes home? Our profile picture? Our social media posts? Or can we finally admit that there might be something wrong with... men and masculinity? No One Wants to See Your D*ck is a vital handbook for women in a...
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Headline Press
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2025-05-08
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Step into the sinister world of history's most notorious villains and explore the twisted motivations of evil men from around the worldEver wondered what has driven some men to commit the most heinous acts in history? The World's Most Evil Men journeys through the...
Editeur :
Summersdale
Parution :
2025-05-08
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Monoray
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2025-05-08
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'Poetic and fierce, this volume is a compelling modern-day journey into past histories of impressive African queens and leaders' Olivette Otele, author of African Europeans'A rich, sumptuous and beautifully written tapestry of the past that makes my heart soar and ache...
Editeur :
Trapeze
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2025-05-08
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From Wall Street Journal columnist and Manhattan Institute senior fellow Jason L. Riley, a "clear, concise, and humane account" (Christina Hoff Sommers) of how racial preferences have done more harm than good for black Americans After the...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2025-05-06
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This book examines how the Covid-19 pandemic can be described as a biopolitical crisis, taking into account a fact often overlooked by commentators: Covid-19 is a zoonosis, a disease transmissible between animal species. The Sars-Cov2 virus causing this respiratory...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-05-06
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Lebanon is often described as “the most successful failed state of the 21st century”. This ironic phrase perfectly sums up the reality of a country that has a wealth of life forces and remarkable economic and cultural potential, but which has suffered extreme and...
Editeur :
Max Milo Editions
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2025-05-06
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Written by the creator of the She's A Beast newsletter, this mash-up of memoir and science writing is the rare story of a woman finding joy in a body that, for so long, she considered her enemy. After an abusive relationship, the death of her father, and a...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2025-05-06
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