The World Book Encyclopedia


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An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.




The World Book Encyclopedia


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An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and high school students.







Global biographies


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Global biographies provides an advanced and comprehensive analytical framework for historians to use biography as a method to write global history. Moving beyond the state-of-the-art, the volume defines and operationalises three uniquely tailored approaches to global biographies: ‘time and periodisation’, ‘exceptional normal’ and ‘space and scales’. From Icelandic communists and Jewish medical students, via Zambian Third Worldism and Albanian nationalism, to the Black/White Atlantic and Australian internationalists, the volume tests the prospects and pitfalls of the approaches it launches.




Michelangelo


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An illustrated biography of Michelangelo, the Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor.




Global Biographies


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Global biographies offers a thorough historiographical intervention, a new set of biographical approaches to global history - 'time and periodization', 'exceptional normal' and 'space and scales' - and a broad and critically reflective set of case-studies spanning the globe.




Joan of Arc


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A look at the life, death, and continuing influence of Joan of Arc.




Marie Curie


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Describes the life of the first woman to study physics at the University College of Paris, who went on to receive two Nobel Prizes for her work in radioactivity.




Biographies in the Global South


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Lange hat sich die soziologische Biografieforschung ganz überwiegend auf Menschen konzentriert, die im "globalen Norden" leben. Dieser Band ist ein Beitrag zu den jüngeren Bemühungen, diese viel zu enge Perspektive aufzuheben. Er zielt auf die Lebensgeschichten und Lebensverläufe von Menschen aus Afrika und dem Nahen Osten. Dabei stehen die biografischen und sozio-geschichtlichen Verflechtungen mit anderen Menschen und anderen gesellschaftlichen Gruppierungen im Mittelpunkt.




Galileo


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