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Familien Netanyahu - en beretning om en liten og i siste instans til og med ubetydelig episode i …
Russland har aldri tatt et oppgjør med sin imperialistiske fortid. I stedet har Kreml fokusert på å skape fiendebilder, og …
Russland har aldri tatt et oppgjør med sin imperialistiske fortid. I stedet har Kreml fokusert på å skape fiendebilder, og …
Consider Phlebas, first published in 1987, is a space opera novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks. It is the …
In this illuminating book, readers will "discover how these marvels of nature enrich (and sometimes threaten) our lives."(Peter Wohlleben, New …
@ejnro Leste den etter en hype for noen år sida og likte den veldig godt. Gikk omtrent rett videre til å lese Augustus av samme forfatter som jeg likte minst like godt :)
Every great city has a soul. A human avatar that embodies their city's heart and wields its magic. New York? …
Every great city has a soul. A human avatar that embodies their city's heart and wields its magic. New York? …
Russland har aldri tatt et oppgjør med sin imperialistiske fortid. I stedet har Kreml fokusert på å skape fiendebilder, og …
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Familien Netanyahu - en beretning om en liten og i siste instans til og med ubetydelig episode i …
In this groundbreaking new history, Caroline Dodds Pennock recovers the long-marginalised stories of the Indigenous Americans who - as enslaved …
In this groundbreaking new history, Caroline Dodds Pennock recovers the long-marginalised stories of the Indigenous Americans who - as enslaved …
In this groundbreaking new history, Caroline Dodds Pennock recovers the long-marginalised stories of the Indigenous …
Among the ‘chiefest Rarities’ of the collection held in the Public Theatre and Anatomie Hall of the University of Leiden were: ‘a Norway house built of beams without mortar or stone; shoes and sandals from Russia, Siam and Egypt; the skin of a man dressed as parchment; a drinking cup made out of the skull of a Moor killed in the beleaguering of Haarlem; warlike arms used in China; Chinese gongs, paper and books; Egyptian mummies and idols; a petrified toadstool; and a mallet or hammer that the savages in New York kill with’. These collections or ‘wunderkammer’ (usually translated as ‘cabinet of curiosities’, but literally a ‘wonder chamber’) would, to a modern observer used to the order of museums and galleries, seem like an incoherent jumble, but in the early modern mind they formed a coherent whole.
In this groundbreaking new history, Caroline Dodds Pennock recovers the long-marginalised stories of the Indigenous …
This revulsion at the inequality of European society was a common response among Indigenous travellers whose voices emerge in later years, particularly those from outside the major urban centres of Mexico and Peru. What little evidence we have suggests that earlier voyagers would have shared this response, seeing the contrast between the endemic poverty of the cities and the luxury of the royal court. A Wyandot youth named Savignon, brought to France by the navigator Samuel de Champlain in 1610, was shocked that some people had to beg for charity in Europe just to eat, as well as by the violence meted out in the name of justice and parenting.
En februarkveld blir landets statsminister skutt og drept på åpen gate. Politisjef Rolf Utterström tar kommandoen over etterforskningen, men ingen …
