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Handbook on the History and Culture of the Black Sea Region

Author: Ninja Bumann, Kerstin S. Jobst, Stefan Rohdewald, Stefan Troebst Publish Year: 2024
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Following the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in spring 2014 – 160 years after the Crimean War – and the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Black Sea region has again become the focus of world history. In this handbook, international scholars from various histori...

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Weather Almanac 2025: The perfect gift for nature lovers and weather watchers

Author: Storm Dunlop, Zoë Johnson, Collins Books Publish Year: 2024
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The perfect gift for nature lovers and weather watchers. A fascinating month-by-month collection of facts, figures and explanations related to UK weather. Discover historical facts, notable weather events, amazing statistics and stories that will keep you informed all year round.

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Split Scream Volume Six

Author: David Corse, Ryan T. Jenkins Publish Year: 2024
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SPLIT SCREAM goes to its darkest corners yet with these twin odes to horrible parents! COME TO DADDY by Ryan T. Jenkins A damaged man endeavors to put the pieces back together after a lifetime of destruction; to reckon with his wife and son leaving him; to attend to the dreams of his dead mother’s...

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Post-Christian Religion in Popular Culture

Author: Andrew D. Thrasher Publish Year: 2024
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Post-Christian Religion in Popular Culture: Theology through Exegesis analyzes several theological exegeses of contemporary popular culture as post-Christian scripture. It includes analyses of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Lion King, and Cloud Atlas, the television shows Lucifer and Shameless, ...

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Tenerife Travel Guide 2025

Author: Haf?za Deniz Ça?lar Publish Year: 2024
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Are you dreaming of golden beaches, majestic mountains, and a getaway that blends adventure, culture, and relaxation? Introducing Tenerife, the precious stone in the crown of the Canary Islands, a place full of colorful festivals, beautiful scenery, and family-friendly attractions. However, organizi...

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The Movement

Author: Clara Bingham Publish Year: 2024
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A comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes—from former Newsweek reporter and author of the “powerful and moving” (New York Times) Witness to the Revolution. For lovers of both Barbie and G...

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Doing Digital Film History

Author: Sarah-Mai Dang, Tim van der Heijden, Christian Gosvig Olesen Publish Year: 2024
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How has the digital turn shaped the practices of film historical research and teaching? While computational approaches have been used by film historians since the 1960s and 1970s, the arrival and use of digital tools and methods in recent decades has fundamentally changed the ways we search, analyze...

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Malika Andrews

Author: Tammy Gagne Publish Year: 2024
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Malika Andrews grew up watching basketball and discussing it with her family in great detail. An avid sports fan, she also took part in a wide range of athletic activities during her school years. When young Malika wasn’t watching a Golden State Warriors game, she was reading or writing. After joi...

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Rag Fair

Author: Ole Münch Publish Year: 2024
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In the early Victorian age, the streets of East London were home to migrants from different regions and religions. In the midst of this area lay the famous Rag Fair street market, sustained by trade routes stretching across the globe. The market’s history demonstrates that it was not only a place ...

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K-Pop

Author: Trudy Becker Publish Year: 2024
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This engaging book describes K-pop music's key characteristics, history, and place in popular music today. It also feature an "Artist Spotlight" special feature, informative sidebars, a table of contents, a reading comprehension quiz, a glossary, additional resources, and an index.

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Excalibur

Author: Peter Gibbons Publish Year: 2024
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The sword has the power of Britain in its steel, men will follow and fight for whoever wields it... Dark Age Britain. A legendary hero rises to unite a divided and threatened land... A country left in ruins after the fall of the Roman Empire is plundered and broken. Saxon hordes have invaded and con...

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Medieval Spaces in Comics

Author: Elizabeth Allyn Woock Publish Year: 2024
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This book proposes a conceptual framework for analyzing and discussing narrative space in comics. Building on Mieke Bal’s phenomenological approach to cultural analysis (2002), Gaston Bachelard’s Poetics of Space (1996), and Geraint D’Arcy’s use of the mise en scène to describe space in the...

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States of Play

Author: Miguel Delaney Publish Year: 2024
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER & WINNER OF THE FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR AN IRISH INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Important, perfectly timed and hugely necessary.' The Guardian 'A monumental piece of inves...

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BTS

Author: Leslie Holleran Publish Year: 2024
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BTS is one of the biggest boy groups in South Korea. They have seven members: Jin, SUGA, j-hope, RM, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook. From practicing in a small studio in Seoul, South Korea, to performing in sold-out stadiums across the world, BTS isn’t just turning K-pop on its head, but the entire music...

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Turning to Stone

Author: Marcia Bjornerud Publish Year: 2024
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Winner of the 2025 John Burroughs Medal for Natural History Writing “A beautiful book—at once intimate and sweeping, informative and moving.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White Sky Earth is vibrantly alive and full of wisdom for those who learn to listen. Earth has been reinventing ...

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Ketanji Brown Jackson

Author: Jennifer Marino Walters Publish Year: 2024
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Born in Washington, DC, in 1970, and raised in Miami, Florida, Ketanji Brown Jackson developed an interest in law at an early age. While in grade school, she sat with her father and watched him complete his law school assignments. And though some people, including a school guidance counselor, discou...

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House of Glass

Author: Sarah Pekkanen Publish Year: 2024
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“Wow, I loved this one so much! I didn’t want it to be over because I was enjoying it so much, but I couldn’t stop turning pages! House of Glass is a gripping thriller that was packed with surprises and compelling characters.” -- Freida McFadden The next thrilling novel from #1 New York Time...

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Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction

Author: Hsu-Ming Teo, Paloma Fresno-Calleja Publish Year: 2024
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This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revise, repurpose and challenge the past in their novels, exposing the extent to which past societies were damaging to women by instead imagining alternative histories. The novelists d...

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Smoky Lake

Author: Jennifer Bernard Publish Year: 2024
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Will they be able to escape with their lives...and their hearts? Firelight Ridge has always felt like another world to Doctor Ani Devi—but now things are getting even stranger. Military members have suddenly appeared in town and she was just questioned about a man she treated at the airport. Sure,...

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Sell Us the Rope

Author: Stephen May Publish Year: 2024
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'When it's time to hang the capitalists, they will sell us the rope.' May 1907. Young Stalin – poet, bank-robber, spy – is in London for the 5th Congress of the Russian Communist Party. As he builds his powerbase in the party, Stalin manipulates alliances with Lenin, Trotsky, and Rosa Luxemburg ...