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Regions of memory" are a scale of social and cultural memory that reaches above the national, yet remains narrower than the global or universal. The chapters of this volume analyze transnational constellations of memory across and between several geographical areas, exploring historical, political and cultural interactions between societies. Such a perspective enables a more diverse field of possible comparisons in memory studies, studying a v...

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In this easy-to-read book, Simon Lewis explores why some digital products are so hard to use, and offers three straightforward but powerful ways to make interacting with them much easier. Written for software engineers, project and product managers, designers, marketers, CEOs and entrepreneurs, Taming the Turing Machine shows why the machine that can do anything has become the machine that does everything. And the machine that does everythi...

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¿Regions of memory¿ are a scale of social and cultural memory that reaches above the national, yet remains narrower than the global or universal. The chapters of this volume analyze transnational constellations of memory across and between several geographical areas, exploring historical, political and cultural interactions between societies. Such a perspective enables a more diverse field of possible comparisons in memory studies, studying a ...

The hotly anticipated sequel to Bad Traffic, nominated for the French SNCF Prize and the LA Times Book of the Year.

This series presents exciting real-life accounts of bravery and daring when people push themselves to the limits. Readers are invited to think how they might have coped if faced with similar challenges and problems.

History has thrown up few events as dramatic and decisive as the four-day campaign that culminated in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. In 1970, Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis spent $25 million to re-stage Napoleon's tumultuous encounter with Wellington, portrayed by Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer. It was directed by Sergei Bondarchuk who deployed almost 20, 000 Soviet soldiers in a noble attempt to tell the story "faithfully." Author ...

History has thrown up few events as dramatic and decisive as the four-day campaign that culminated in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. In 1970, Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis spent $25 million to re-stage Napoleon's tumultuous encounter with Wellington, portrayed by Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer. It was directed by Sergei Bondarchuk who deployed almost 20, 000 Soviet soldiers in a noble attempt to tell the story "faithfully." Author ...

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Eighteenth-century Methodism was a divisive phenomenon which attracted a torrent of printed opposition, especially from Anglican clergymen. Yet, most of these opponents have been virtually forgotten. Anti-Methodism and Theological Controversy in Eighteenth-Century England is the first large-scale examination of the theological ideas of early anti-Methodist authors.

A remarkable exploration of the science, history, and politics of the Anthropocene from two renowned experts, with a new Preface for this edition

In this GREASED-LIGHTNING crime debut (Kirkus Reviews), Simon Lewis has created two unforgettable characters and a critically acclaimed novel that will stay with you long after the final page is turned. Inspector Jian is a corrupt Chinese cop who thinks he's seen it all. But his search for his missing daughter takes him to the meanest streets he's ever faced--in rural England. Migrant worker Ding Ming is distressed--his gang master is making d...

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Meteoriti, metano, megavulcani e oggi gli esseri umani, alle vecchie forze naturali che trasformarono la Terra molti milioni di anni fa se ne è aggiunta un'altra: noi. Le nostre azioni hanno portato la Terra in una nuova epoca geologica, l'Antropocene. Per la prima volta nei quattro miliardi e mezzo di storia del nostro pianeta, una specie ne sta determinando il futuro. Per alcuni, l'Antropocene simboleggia un futuro di controllo superlativo d...

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A remarkable exploration of the science, history, and politics of the Anthropocene, one of the most important scientific ideas of our time, from two world-renowned experts

Simon L. Lewis is Professor of Global Change Science at University College London and the University of Leeds. An award-winning scientist, he has been described as having 'one of the world's most influential scientific minds'. He has written for the Guardian and Foreign Policy magazine.Mark A. Maslin is Professor of Climatology at University College London, a Royal Society Industrial Fellow, and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Scholar. ...

Bored of the 'mango smoothie' trail and keen to spice up their Facebook albums, and perhaps also their sex lives, Jake and Will take a tour into China's jungle borderland with Burma. Their guide, however, has his own agenda and gradually the two gap-year students slip into a nightmarish spiral of murder and moral decay, their chance of survival determined by a game of hide and seek played out with deadly crossbows.A fast paced, adrenaline ride...