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"[This book] is a cultural, legal, and global history of the idea that intangible things can be owned, and makes a case for seeing copyright as an engine of inequality in the twenty-first century. Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial...
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"In Michael Cook's words, this book is "about a substantial slice of human history delimited by a particular cultural characteristic: adherance to Islam in some form or other. [...] A commitment to Islam makes a difference. Wherever a society and its rulers have come to be Muslim, this has meant a major discontinuity with its pre-Islamic past and a significant expansion of its relations with the wider Muslim world." Starting in the pre-Islamic Middle...
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Money is so vital to us it is almost impossible to imagine a way of life that doesn't include it, yet for most of human history there was no such thing as money and even when it appeared, it rarely crossed the paths of ordinary people. Bartering surpluses can only get a society so far; if it is to become complex, productive and diverse it needs to take the next step and choose an item - perhaps fish-hooks, perhaps flint - to use as a 'medium of exchange'...
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El servicio público de radiodifusión es un deber del Estado en naciones democráticas desde el siglo XX. Sin embargo, hasta la primera década del siglo XXI, México no se había preocupado por desarrollar la radiodifusión como un servicio público y para el público. Había creado emisoras estatales y culturales, pero con la ausencia de una política de Estado hacia la radiodifusión. Específicamente en el marco neoliberal, el sistema político...
5) Gladiator
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"When everyone had had plenty to eat and drink they called for the gladiators. The moment anyone's throat was cut, they clapped their hands in pleasure. And it sometimes even turned out that someone had specified in their will that the most beautiful women he had purchased were to fight each other…." – Athenaeus, The Learned Banqueters With their origins as blood rites staged at the funerals of rich aristocrats, gladiatorial combat is one of the...
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Founded by Angles in the sixth century and recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, Great Haywood, with its manor that included the adjacent estate of Shugborough and the ancient Forest of Cank, became an important political, religious and commercial centre in the Middle Ages. It was involved in the tumultuous events surrounding the overthrow of Richard II in the 14th century, the Wars of the Roses of the 15th century, Tudor intrigues in the 16th century,...
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The only certainty in life is death. Even the most powerful leaders throughout history were unable to cheat the Grim Reaper. World leaders, whether revered or reviled, are rarely allowed to exit gracefully from life but instead receive a state funeral, a major international event incorporating splendid symbols and messages, religious faith, and tradition.
The body of Tsar Alexander III was carried across half of Russia before finally being buried...
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In this gripping account, M. L. Jordan unveils the raw truths of the Civil War era. Beyond polished tales, dive into a world filled with desire, mystery, and chaos. Personal letters shed light on passionate love, deep betrayals, and unwavering faith. Experience America's pivotal moment through the eyes of those on the battlegrounds and in whispered secrets. This isn't just history: it's the heart and soul of a nation at war.
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I am not a love guru. I am the guy love gurushave been trying to figure out.'Gayton McKenzie knows a thing or two about women.But what he could never quite understand was how reluctant so many women seem to be to face up to the uncomfortable realities about men, themselves and their relationships.Not knowing and accepting these 'truths' can get women into deep trouble, cause heartache and result in even greater damage. Because a woman who accepts...
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About the Book THE GREEN BOOK, VOL. 1: The Intertwined Musical and Historical Journey by People of Color in America provides a comprehensive exploration of the music that occurred alongside some of American history's biggest events. This impressive and extensive guide spans from 1380 until 1959. This book's purpose is to share, illuminate, and stick to the positive achievements of the people who've helped to spread the message of music. That will...
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Two great mysteries of English history – who was the real Robin Hood and who killed William II, 'Rufus', in the New Forest, in 1100? ROBIN unHOODed presents new evidence in solving these unanswered questions of our history. Perhaps the most in-depth, innovative study of these mysteries for decades, Peter Staveley's ground breaking book provides totally fresh and startling hypotheses - once the hood is off. The search for Robin's true identity has...
12) Discovery
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Discovery is a work of historical fiction examining the collapse of French colonialism in the Western Hemisphere, and the frenzy of the French Revolution as the fledgling United States of America begins to aspire toward its Manifest Destiny. A forward thinking Thomas Jefferson recognizes the importance of the great Mississippi River drainage and tasks his most trusted man, Meriwether Lewis, to explore its most important tributary, the mighty Missouri...
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is a collection of the very best stories about soldiers, brought together by the award-winning, bestselling historian Max Hastings. In his almost sixty years of military study and his work in the midst of modern conflicts as a foreign correspondent, these are the stories that left a mark. In these pages you will find heroes and cowards, triumphs, tragedies and comedies. It illustrates, mostly through people's own words, what it's been like to fight...
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Beyond 1619 brings an Atlantic and hemispheric perspective to the year 1619 as a marker of American slavery's origins and the beginnings of the Black experience in what would become the United States by situating the roots of racial slavery in a broader, comparative context.
In recent years, an extensive public dialogue regarding the long shadow of racism in the United States has pushed Americans to confront the insidious history of race-based slavery...
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The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants.
Edda L. Fields-Black shows how Tubman commanded a ring of spies, scouts, and pilots and participated in military expeditions behind Confederate lines. On June 2, 1863, Tubman and her crew piloted two regiments of Black US Army soldiers, the Second South Carolina Volunteers,...
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American households are awash in expensive credit card debt. But where did all this debt come from? In this history of the rise of postwar American finance, Sean H. Vanatta shows how bankers created our credit card economy and, with it, the indebted nation we know today.
America's consumer debt machine was not inevitable. In the years after World War II, state and federal regulations ensured that many Americans enjoyed safe banks and inexpensive...
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Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, “Out of One, Many” is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and witty exploration of the thought, culture, society, and history of the Greeks, Jennifer Roberts traces not only the common values that united them across the seas and the centuries,...
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“My Brother's Keeper” tells the behind-the-scenes story of how the American president and the Israeli prime minister clashed about peace, war, and the future of the region.
Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu viewed the world, and especially the Middle East, differently. The US president wanted to end what he saw as America's perpetual war against the Muslim and Arab worlds, use diplomacy to bring about a Palestinian state coexisting peacefully...
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In 1941, Lenin's body was moved from his tomb on Red Square and taken to Siberia. By 1945, a victorious Stalin had turned a poor country into a victorious superpower. Over the course of those four years, Stalin, at Churchill's insistence, accepted an Anglo-American press corps in Moscow to cover the Eastern Front. Stalin imposed the most draconian controls-unbending censorship, no visits to the battlefront, and a ban on contact with ordinary citizens.
“The...
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The gripping true story of the bold and determined museum curators who saved the priceless treasures of China's Forbidden City in the years leading up to World War II and beyond.
Spring 1933: The silent courtyards and palaces of Peking's Forbidden City, for centuries the home of Chinese emperors, are tense with fear and expectation. Japan's aircrafts drone overhead, its troops and tanks are only hours away. All-out war between China and Japan is...
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