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Talisman
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Graham Hancock |
A roller coaster intellectual journey through the back streets and rat runs of history to uncover the traces in architecture and monuments of a secret religion that has shaped the world.
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Memorialization in Germany since 1945
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Bill Niven |
"Memorialization in Germany since 1945 provides a wide-ranging discussion of contemporary Germany's rich memorial landscape. It discusses the many memorials to German losses during the Second World W… |
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The submission
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Amy Waldman |
When Mohammad Khan, an American Muslim, is selected as the designer of a memorial for the victims of a terrorist attack on Manhattan, Claire Burwell, a woman widowed by the attack, becomes his fierce… |
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Memory culture and the contemporary city
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Uta Staiger,Henriette Steiner,Andrew Webber |
"These essays by leading figures from academia, architecture and the arts consider how cultures of memory are constructed for and in contemporary cities. They take Berlin as a key case of a historica… |
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Malabar
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John Cantwell Roberts |
A transcription of all memorials in Christian churches and of burials in Christian cemeteries throughout the Malabar District 1723 - 1990 including the English settlements at Kannur & Thalaserry and … |
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Memories of war
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Thomas A. Chambers |
"Charts the development of the public memory and historical understanding of the wars of the colonial and early national periods through the practice of battlefield tourism in the early American repu… |
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El archivo del duelo
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Cristina Sánchez Carretero |
Los atentados del 11 de marzo tuvieron una respuesta ciudadana en los espacios públicos que pone de manifiesto la necesidad de entender las prácticas rituales de la sociedad en la que vivimos. Las ca… |
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50 states, 5,000 ideas
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Joseph R. Yogerst |
"Organized state-by-state then province-by-province, 50 States, 5,000 Ideas showcases the best travel experiences in every state and province, from the obvious to the unexpected. Sights include natio… |
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Quiet defiance
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Jeffrey Deaver |
"John Tanaka was about to graduate as valedictorian of his class when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. After he and 52 Japanese Americans were taken by Army transport from Juneau, Alask… |
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Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin
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Simon Ward |
As sites of turbulence and transformation, cities are machines for forgetting. And yet archiving and exhibiting the presence of the past remains a key cultural, political and economic activity in man… |
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A year after Henry
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Cathie Pelletier |
Bixley, Maine. One year after Henry Munroe's fatal heart attack at age forty-one, his doting parents, prudish wife, rebellious son, and wayward brother are still reeling. So is Evie Cooper, a bartend… |
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Balkan Memories
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Tanja Zimmermann |
270 pages : 23 cm |
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November
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Kent Gramm |
"It begins with the search for hallowed ground, the exact place from which Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. In bleak November, Kent Gramm makes a pilgrimage to the most famous battle… |
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Aftermath
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Angela Gaffney |
x, 194p., [16] p. of plates : 22cm |
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One Thousand Paper Cranes
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Takayuki Ishii |
Ten years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Sadako Sasaki died as a result of the Atomic Bomb disease. Sadako's determination to fold one thousand paper cranes, symbolizing her hope for… |
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