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Yuval Noah Harari
In his third book, Yuval Noah Harari turns his attention to the present. What does the spread of disinformation mean for our collective judg... (AI-generated book description)
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Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder explains the Holocaust not from German antisemitism alone but from the destruction of states: where no state remained, no pro... (AI-generated book description)
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Oliver Janz
Oliver Janz tells the First World War as a global event rather than a western front, taking in the colonies, eastern Europe, the Middle East... (AI-generated book description)
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Toni Pierenkemper
Toni Pierenkemper's updated economic history textbook: from agrarian to industrial to service society, growth, labor markets, capital, and e... (AI-generated book description)
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Urs Leu
A collected volume on the Zurich physician and polymath Conrad Gessner, who founded modern zoology. Contributions cover his work in botany, ... (AI-generated book description)
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Annette Kehnel
An academic collected volume on the relationship between writing-bearing artifacts and cultural practices. Contributions examine how the mat... (AI-generated book description)
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Toni Pierenkemper
A history of the Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI) from its founding to the present, embedded in German econom... (AI-generated book description)
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Bernhard Maier
Bernhard Maier sums up what research knows about the Celts, and what is merely asserted. (AI-generated book description)
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Rolf-Ulrich Kunze
A historical study of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, founded in 1925 as Germany's first institution for gifted student support, f... (AI-generated book description)
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Tanja Klemm
Tanja Klemm examines the relationship between image, perception, and viewing bodies in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, with studies on... (AI-generated book description)
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Toni Pierenkemper
Toni Pierenkemper describes the German industrialization process from the late eighteenth to the twentieth century: production, markets, inf... (AI-generated book description)
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Kurt Bangert
Kurt Bangert examines the sources on the life of Muhammad and asks what can be established historically. (AI-generated book description)
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Norbert Frei
Norbert Frei on 1968 as a global event, from Berkeley through Paris and Prague to Tokyo, and not only as a German story. (AI-generated book description)
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Rudolf Simek
Rudolf Simek on the monsters of the Middle Ages: where they came from, what they were for, and why no one thought them invented. (AI-generated book description)
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Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker shows that violence has declined over the centuries. (AI-generated book description)
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Stefan Schmidt
A historical study on the largely neglected question of French foreign policy during the July Crisis of 1914. Drawing on new sources, Stefan... (AI-generated book description)
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Rainer Berndt S.J.
Conference proceedings from the 1998 congress marking the 900th anniversary of Hildegard von Bingen's birth. Contributions examine the theol... (AI-generated book description)
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Joachim Friedrich Quack
An interdisciplinary collected volume that examines sacred scriptures not by their content but as material objects. Contributions from vario... (AI-generated book description)
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Joachim Conrad
Joachim Conrad traces the life of Richard Gölz: from Württemberg church music director to an Orthodox priest who emigrated to Milwaukee. A b... (AI-generated book description)
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Gerd Unverfehrt
Catalogue of an exhibition of master drawings in Koblenz, Göttingen, and Oldenburg. (AI-generated book description)
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Gabriele Metzler
Conference report from the 48th German Historikertag in Berlin, 2010. (AI-generated book description)
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Toni Pierenkemper
An economic history study on the relationship between agriculture and industrial development. By Toni Pierenkemper. (AI-generated book description)
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Toni Pierenkemper
Toni Pierenkemper discusses the theoretical foundations of business history and presents the development of modern companies in the nineteen... (AI-generated book description)
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Jan Assmann
Jan Assmann on the difference between religions that allow other gods and those that do not. (AI-generated book description)
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Franz Alt
Franz Alt on BSE, antibiotics and dioxin, and on why the turn in agriculture is overdue. (AI-generated book description)
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Harald Haarmann
Harald Haarmann on the Indo-Europeans: a language family from Ireland to India and the people behind it. (AI-generated book description)
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Norbert Frei
Norbert Frei on the longing for a conservative revolution in the Federal Republic. (AI-generated book description)
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Philipp Scheidemann
The second volume of the memoirs of Philipp Scheidemann, who proclaimed the republic in 1918. (AI-generated book description)
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Jürgen W. Falter
Juergen W. Falter on the ten million Nazi party members: who they were, when they joined, and why. (AI-generated book description)
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Andreas Platthaus
Autumn 1813: all Europe looks to Leipzig and four days of battle. Andreas Platthaus. (AI-generated book description)
