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Blitzkrieg: From the Ground Up

Casemate, 2017

An examination of the German Blitzkrieg operations from Poland to Operation Barbarossa, as experienced by junior commanders and enlisted men, exploring why they were so successful.

The successes of the German Blitzkrieg in 1939–41 were as surprising as they were swift. Allied...

Cracking Codes with Python: An Introduction to Building and Breaking Ciphers

No Starch Press, 2018

Learn how to program in Python while making and breaking ciphers—algorithms used to create and send secret messages!

After a crash course in Python programming basics, you’ll learn to make, test, and hack programs that encrypt text with classical ciphers like the transposition cipher and Vigenère...

Permanent Revolution: The Reformation and the Illiberal Roots of Liberalism

Harvard University Press, 2019

How did the Reformation, which initially promoted decidedly illiberal positions, end up laying the groundwork for Western liberalism?

The English Reformation began as an evangelical movement driven by an unyielding belief in predestination, intolerance, stringent literalism, political quietism, and...

Destination China: Immigration to China in the Post-Reform Era

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book is a compelling account of China’s response to the increasing numbers of ‘foreigners’ in its midst, revealing a contradictory picture of welcoming civility, security anxiety and policy confusion. Over the last forty years, China’s position within the global migration order has been undergoing a remarkable shift....

Games, Rhymes, and Wordplay of London Children

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book presents a unique annotated collection of some 2000 playground games, rhymes, and wordplay of London children. It charts continuity and development in childlore at a time of major social and cultural change and offers a detailed snapshot of changes in the traditions and language of young people. Topics include: starting a game;...

Teaching Business Discourse (Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book presents research in business discourse and offers pedagogical approaches to teaching business discourse in both classroom and consultancy contexts that address the key issues of dealing with different types of learners, developing teaching materials and evaluation. Drawing on the authors’ extensive experience of researching...

Culpeper's Complete Herbal: Illustrated and Annotated Edition

Sterling, 2019

A revised and refreshed edition of Culpeper’s classic book on herbal remedies.

“[An] updated and beautifully designed guide . . . ” —Booklist

For more than 360 years, Nicholas Culpeper’s historic guide to herbal remedies has been THE definitive...

Chinese Business Law (The Palgrave Series on Chinese Law)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book offers the first definitive English-language resource on Chinese business law. Written by an authoritative source, the book accurately describes what the business law is and explains legislative intentions underlying the myriad of law, rules, and regulations. Moreover, it provides the most up-to-date information on law, rules, and...

Civil Law Reforms in Post-Colonial Asia: Beyond Western Capitalism (Kobe University Monograph Series in Social Science Research)

Springer, 2019

This book focuses on the legal systems of the late-developing countries of ASEAN (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam, often referred to as the CLMV countries). These nations are apt to be placed in an economically disadvantageous situation within the opportunity of communalization of legal systems being advanced by the ASEAN...

Law and Division of Power in the Crimean Khanate (1532-1774) (Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage) (English and Ottoman Turkish Edition)

Brill Academic Publishers, 2018

The Crimean Khanate was often treated as a semi-nomadic, watered-down version of the Golden Horde, or yet another vassal state of the Ottoman Empire. This book revises these views by exploring the Khanate's political and legal systems, which combined well organized and well developed institutions, which were rooted in different traditions...

Faith and Reason in Continental and Japanese Philosophy: Reading Tanabe Hajime and William Desmond

Bloomsbury Reference, 2019

This book brings together the work of two significant figures in contemporary philosophy. By considering the work of Tanabe Hajime, the Japanese philosopher of the Kyoto School, and William Desmond, the contemporary Irish philosopher, Takeshi Morisato offers a clear presentation of contemporary comparative solutions to the problems...

Sensory Linguistics: Language, perception and metaphor (Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research)

John Benjamins Publishing, 2019

One of the most fundamental capacities of language is the ability to express what speakers see, hear, feel, taste, and smell. Sensory Linguistics is the interdisciplinary study of how language relates to the senses. This book deals with such foundational questions as: Which semiotic strategies do speakers use to express sensory...

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