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    Six Months in the Life of a Detector Physicist

    by L. Poley ...
    Series series Discovering Physics
    This book aims to make the everyday life of a particle physicist working on one small part of one of the biggest experiments in the world – CERN’s Large Hadron Collider - accessible to the general public: how does it work, why is it so difficult, and how do they manage to make it work anyway?Chapters count down over a six-month period during which the author joined a new institute and was put in ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Migrations in the German Lands, 1500-2000

    Edited by Jason Coy, Jared Poley, Alexander Schunka ...
    Series Book 13 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    Migration to, from, and within German-speaking lands has been a dynamic force in Central European history for centuries. Exemplifying some of the most exciting recent research on historical mobility, the essays collected here reconstruct the experiences of vagrants, laborers, religious exiles, refugees, and other migrants during the last five hundred years of German history. With diverse ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    Best classic fairy tales for kids

    by Abel Studios ...
    Narrated by Grace Miller, Dereyn Oliver, Tom Candia, Hugh Weller-Poley, Cyril Blake ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Abel Classics

    Unabridged

    1 hour 1 min

    Each story, carefully curated and produced by Abel Studios in this collection, is in English to ensure that the charm and magic of these tales can be enjoyed by kids and parents! In this season, you will find: Winnie the Pooh, The Three Little Pigs, Androcles and the Lion, Little Riding Hood, Henny Penny, How the Rhinoceros got his Skin, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Princess and the Pea, ... Read more

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  • Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany

    Edited by David M. Luebke, Jared Poley, Daniel C. Ryan, David Warren Sabean ...
    Series Book 3 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    The Protestant and Catholic Reformations thrust the nature of conversion into the center of debate and politicking over religion as authorities and subjects imbued religious confession with novel meanings during the early modern era. The volume offers insights into the historicity of the very concept of “conversion.” One widely accepted modern notion of the phenomenon simply expresses ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Healing and Harm

    Essays in Honor of Mary Lindemann

    Edited by Stephen A. Lazer, Benjamin Marschke, Jared Poley, Erica Heinsen-Roach ...
    Series Book 29 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    Professor Mary Lindemann inspired several generations of historical researchers in early modern history and culture. She has served as president of the German Studies Association and the American Historical Association and is the author of pathbreaking scholarly work in the history of medicine, urban space, diplomacy, and of women. In honor of her scholarship, service, and dedication, Healing and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Money in the German-speaking Lands

    Edited by Mary Lindemann, Jared Poley ...
    Series Book 17 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    Money is more than just a medium of financial exchange: across time and place, it has performed all sorts of cultural, political, and social functions. This volume traces money in German-speaking Europe from the late Renaissance until the close of the twentieth century, exploring how people have used it and endowed it with multiple meanings. The fascinating studies gathered here collectively ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Luck, Leisure, and the Casino in Nineteenth-Century Europe

    A Cultural History of Gambling

    by Jared Poley ...
    Series series New Studies in European History
    Gambling was central to the cultural, social, and intellectual history of nineteenth-century Europe. By tracing the evolution of gambling and investigating the spatial qualities of the casino, this book reveals how Europeans used gambling to understand their changing world. The development of resorts and the architectural qualities of casinos demonstrate how new leisure practices, combined with ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The Devil's Riches

    A Modern History of Greed

    by Jared Poley ...
    Series Book 11 - Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association
    A seeming constant in the history of capitalism, greed has nonetheless undergone considerable transformations over the last five hundred years. This multilayered account offers a fresh take on an old topic, arguing that greed was experienced as a moral phenomenon and deployed to make sense of an unjust world. Focusing specifically on the interrelated themes of religion, economics, and health—each ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    Starting From Scratch: A Biographical Story written by Richard Andersone BCA

    by Richard Andersone ...
    Narrated by Hugh Weller-Poley ...

    Unabridged

    54 min

    A detailed description of the memoirs of Richard Andersone BCA. This book explores how he went from being an underprivileged young child to becoming a successful social entrepreneur helping over 10’000 active students in over 109 countries.Andersone details how he became a Breakfast Show presenter, a non executive director, was unanimously voted to be a co-chair for a government board and was ... Read more

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    The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church

    by James Chappel ...
    In 1900 the Catholic Church stood staunchly against human rights, religious freedom, and the secular state. According to the Catholic view, modern concepts like these, unleashed by the French Revolution, had been a disaster. Yet by the 1960s, those positions were reversed. How did this happen? Why, and when, did the world’s largest religious organization become modern?James Chappel finds an answer ... Read more

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  • Reformation and Early Modern Europe

    A Guide to Research

    Edited by David M. Whitford ...
    Series series Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies
    Continuing the tradition of historiographic studies, this volume provides an update on research in Reformation and early modern Europe. Written by expert scholars in the field, these eighteen essays explore the fundamental points of Reformation and early modern history in religious studies, European regional studies, and social and cultural studies. Authors review the present state of research in ... Read more

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  • Crime, Enlightenment, and Punishment

    Bureaucratic and Scientific Change in Habsburg Austria, 1750s–1820s

    by Stephan Sander-Faes ...
    This book studies the social consequences of bureaucratic and scientific change during the transition to modern states and societies in the Age of Enlightenment, as it explores how the Habsburg Empire deployed new ways and means to integrate existing structures into supra-regional systems of order.Exemplarily focused on Lower Austria, the book ties together the bustling imperial capital of Vienna ... Read more

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