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81) 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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The core of what we call St James's dates from the late seventeenth century, when large estates were leased by the Crown to the landed gentry after the Restoration in 1660. St James's clubs, coffee houses and institutions have been shaped by enterprise, political conflict, and Britain's emerging role as an Imperial power. This is the historic heart of London's Clubland.
Over 300 years, Clubland has extended its reach to encompass Piccadilly, Mayfair,...
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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 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.
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Que serait la communauté française de Barcelone sans la multitude d'acteurs institutionnels et associatifs qui l'ont forgée et qui continue encore à la faire vivre?
En presque 600 ans de présence, celle-ci n'a cessé d'évoluer.
C'est à travers son Histoire que nous voulons vous faire voyager et mieux connaître son périple avec la Catalogne.
Ce livre est illustré de plus de 100 photos et documents historiques.
Cet ouvrage est placé sous...
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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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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...
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The Queen of the Coast. The World's Playground. The Casino Capital of the East. They can only describe Atlantic City, New Jersey. Beloved, maligned, always-hustling since its 1854 founding, the seaside resort has seen it all: first class hotels, popular amusements on the world famous Boardwalk and its piers, Prohibition, gangsters, speakeasies, conventioneers, celebrities, urban pride, urban decay, a casino revival, a casino collapse-and it hasn't...
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LAST CHANCE FOR JUSTICE Inside the History of the United States Supreme Court Presented in a popular and accessible style, this story of the powerful United States Supreme Court highlights the Court's political and social impact on American life. It emphasizes the Court's historical role in the areas of civil rights, minority relations, freedom of speech and religion on everyday Americans. The cruel, and sometimes heartless decisions, and occasional...
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100 Years of Excellence: A History of Delta Omega Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® 1921-2021
This edition chronicles and places the history of the 4th oldest chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority in historical and cultural context, amid a backdrop of changes occuring in the African American community. Viewed by decade, this book details the intersection of the chapter's history with the National and International viewpoints of...
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The first St. John's taxi stand started up in the early-20th Century and greatly expanded prior to the Second World War. There are now almost four hundred taxis operating within the city limits. The Other Side of Midnight: Taxi Cab Stories is not a traditional history of taxi cabs in St. John's. It describes the commonly shared experiences of an underwritten portion of Newfoundland's working class while presenting St. John's from the front seat of...
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The exciting tie-in to the major new series on Radio 4, written and presented by one of the UK's leading commentators on social and political life - Jim Naughtie.
The perfect read for anyone who wants to gauge the depth and spread of creativity and genius in the British Isles over the past sixty years. To mark the Diamond Jubilee, Radio 4 has looked back over the span of Queen Elizabeth II reign thus far in order to identify and profile the people...
94) 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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It's a cool, foggy morning in early April 1941. Miners gather at Crummies Creek to organize the day's picket… standard picketing routine. But this morning's different, and it doesn't take long to find that out. "We was just a-millin' about, a-talkin' about how we was gonna set up our picket line. All of a sudden, it sounded to me like we was in a war! Bullets was flyin' all around us. Miners was a-callin' out to take cover and took to runnin'…"...
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The ethic of a people determines how they act in life situations, requiring right and wrong behavior. It can be seen in their daily activities, by the words they say-whether spoken or written, and by the things they do, both publicly and privately. The English are no exception to this means of understanding why a people act the way they do, whether at home or abroad, in their own company or in the company of strangers.
A now-retired Bishop of London...
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Durante buena parte de los siglos XIX y XX, Caño de Loro (Bolívar), Contratación (Santander) y Agua de Dios (Cundinamarca) constituyeron lazaretos nacionales para la separación y el aislamiento de las personas afectadas por la lepra en Colombia. Sin embargo, estas instituciones fracasaron en su propósito profiláctico, ya que la segregación nunca fue absoluta, pues los enfermos llegaron a convivir en "completa promiscuidad" con sus familiares...
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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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In this interlocking prose web of first-person testimony, novelist, poet, and playwright Ariel Dorfman relates the struggles of fifty human rights activists hailing from more than forty countries. Manifesto for Another World features the words and struggles of internationally celebrated activists including Vaclav Havel, Baltasar Garzón, Helen Prejean, and Marian Wright Edelman; and Nobel Prize Laureates the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel,...
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The dominant culture of industrial civilization is highly materialistic, holding up Western-style, consumer lifestyles as the path to happiness and fulfilment. But consumer lifestyles are failing to satisfy the human craving for meaning, and they are degrading our planet in ways that are grossly unsustainable and unjust. We desperately need to explore or rediscover less materialistic, 'simpler' ways of living. 'Simple living' refers to ways of life...
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