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  • The Saga of Sherlock Holmes
    Allan Mitchell
    Many have been the retellings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s intriguing accounts of the greatest of all sleuths, the world’s first and, in his day, only consulting detective, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, but occasionally there comes along a new rendering of the man’s adventures and his moments of insightful brilliance.The Saga of Sherlock Holmes is one such a retelling, though so differen...
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  • Sherlock Holmes and the Ghoul of Glastonbury
    Allan Mitchell
    Emotion-filled memories come cascading from the mind of Britain’s foremost investigator as a troubled Glastonbury sends its emissaries to beg help in solving a series of poisonings besetting a region Holmes had experienced and explored as a young lad.Somerset, battleground of successive invaders over the centuries, has a secret which forms a bond between all those born under th...
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    20,57 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and The Ley Line Murders
    Allan Mitchell
    The mists of Britain’s insula antiquity have drifted into the modernity of the nineteenth century bringing with them echoes of the savage rituals of its ancient peoples. The Press has fuelled the Public’s fear over dismembered victims discovered at the intersection of ancient ley-lines, points on the landscape where logic is defied and science is rendered impotent as ancient fo...
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    20,59 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Menacing Monk
    Allan Mitchell
    Sherlock Holmes looks on idle and infuriated from the sidelines while evil has Whitechapel in the grip of fear, evil which bears the infamous name of – Jack the Ripper – a name set to raise the hackles on people’s necks for generations to come. A fearful officialdom has declared Sherlock ‘persona non grata’ but is suffering the wrath of public opinion for its failure to bring t...
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    13,53 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Menacing Melbournian
    Allan Mitchell
    Burgeoning, brash and bold, a new Metropolis has burst forth from the golden soil of Terra Australis, proclaiming its virtues but harbouring many of the evils of old which have been attracted by fortunes won from the Earth itself. Shadowy figures menacingly emerge from distant wars to deprive the unwitting of that which has been earned by honest toil. One such figure wends its...
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    13,45 €

  • Revolution in Bavaria, 1918-1919
    Allan Mitchell
    The tangled affairs in Bavaria at the close of World War I constitute a unique and important part of the early Weimar Republic. This study of the 1918 revolution, based on archival sources such as cabinet protocols and bureaucratic records, traces in detail the overthrow of the Wittelsbach dynasty and the foundation of the Bavarian Republic under Kurt Eisner. It also broadens a...
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    215,09 €

  • Unrepentant Patriot
    Allan Mitchell
    Carl Zuckmayer’s illustrious career as one of Central Europe’s most prolific and popular playwrights during the years of the Weimar Republic after 1918 was cut short by the Nazi seizure of power in Germany in 1933. His plays were banned during the following twelve years, and he was forced to flee into exile, first in Austria and then in the United States. His return to Germany ...
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    26,85 €

  • Unrepentant Patriot
    Allan Mitchell
    Carl Zuckmayer’s illustrious career as one of Central Europe’s most prolific and popular playwrights during the years of the Weimar Republic after 1918 was cut short by the Nazi seizure of power in Germany in 1933. His plays were banned during the following twelve years, and he was forced to flee into exile, first in Austria and then in the United States. His return to Germany ...
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    16,06 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Menacing Metropolis
    Allan Mitchell
    More Menacing than the Menacing Moors, the Great Metropolis harbours evil and deviltry far more sinister than Dartmoor could offer - it is not for nothing that Watson describes London as the great cesspool draining the Empire of its dregs. Its evil stems from the hearts of the most heartless of men, evil against which a group of stalwart Londoners is determined to act. Knowled...
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    14,11 €

  • Revolution in Bavaria, 1918-1919
    Allan Mitchell
    The tangled affairs in Bavaria at the close of World War I constitute a unique and important part of the early Weimar Republic. This study of the 1918 revolution, based on archival sources such as cabinet protocols and bureaucratic records, traces in detail the overthrow of the Wittelsbach dynasty and the foundation of the Bavarian Republic under Kurt Eisner. It also broadens a...
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    74,31 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and The Menacing Moors
    Allan Mitchell
    A call from an old comrade has Holmes chasing a reported agent of Satan between the towering tors and bottomless bogs of Dartmoor only to find the limits of his own confidence and his Public’s esteem. Only Watson stands his friend but even his patience is stretched. Sherlock’s retreat to the bees of Sussex serves only to show him that his skills are unique and are desperately...
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    11,12 €

  • Dynamics of Innovation
    François Caron / Franois Caron / Allan Mitchell
    BEST KNOWN AS THE LEADING HISTORIAN OF FRENCH RAILWAYS, François Caron has also conducted significant research on other aspects of economic development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as electricity, water and steam power, the theory of innovation, and the structure of enterprise. In this volume, he brings together different facets of his expertise to present a ...
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    184,16 €

  • The Thirteenth Disciple
    Allan Mitchell
    In Bethlehem Mary has identical twins: Jesus and Jesse. The boys grow up together, but their education and interests diverge. Whereas the upbringing of Jesus is centered on the synagogue, Jesse attends Roman schools and becomes devoted to the integration of the Hebrew nation into the Roman Empire. Accordingly, while Jesus becomes an itinerant preacher in Galilee and Judea, Jess...
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    22,94 €

  • The Thirteenth Disciple
    Allan Mitchell
    In Bethlehem Mary has identical twins: Jesus and Jesse. The boys grow up together, but their education and interests diverge. Whereas the upbringing of Jesus is centered on the synagogue, Jesse attends Roman schools and becomes devoted to the integration of the Hebrew nation into the Roman Empire. Accordingly, while Jesus becomes an itinerant preacher in Galilee and Judea, Jess...
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    14,53 €

  • Socialism and the Emergence of the Welfare State
    Allan Mitchell
    To counter allegations that the United States is being led down a socialist path to a European-style welfare state, this concise account reviews the varieties of European socialism and the benefits of welfare reform that have characterized Germany, France, Britain, and Sweden. Which future is in store for America is left an open question. ...
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    21,89 €

  • Socialism and the Emergence of the Welfare State
    Allan Mitchell
    To counter allegations that the United States is being led down a socialist path to a European-style welfare state, this concise account reviews the varieties of European socialism and the benefits of welfare reform that have characterized Germany, France, Britain, and Sweden. Which future is in store for America is left an open question. ...
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    13,18 €

  • The Devil’s Captain
    Allan Mitchell
    Author of Nazi Paris, a Choice Academic Book of the Year, Allan Mitchell has researched a companion volume concerning the acclaimed and controversial German author Ernst Jünger who, if not the greatest German writer of the twentieth century, certainly was the most controversial. His service as a military officer during the occupation of Paris, where his principal duty was to mi...
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    184,79 €

  • Fleeing Nazi Germany
    Allan Mitchell
    Thousands of European intellectuals fled from fascism to America in the days leading up to World War II. They had tremendous obstacles, but many of them found success and made meaningful contributions. Historian Allan Mitchell knew five notable scholars of history who escaped, and he recounts in vivid detail their early careers and their successes as historians of Europe. He p...
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    13,24 €

  • Fleeing Nazi Germany
    Allan Mitchell
    Thousands of European intellectuals fled from fascism to America in the days leading up to World War II. They had tremendous obstacles, but many of them found success and made meaningful contributions. Historian Allan Mitchell knew five notable scholars of history who escaped, and he recounts in vivid detail their early careers and their successes as historians of Europe. He p...
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    22,93 €

  • Victors and Vanquished
    Allan Mitchell
    Mitchell focuses on two important national institutions - the French republican army and the Roman Catholic church - who were attempting to reconsolidate their prerogatives within the still fragile framework of the newly formed Third Republic. Influenced by German models, French reformers advocated universal military conscription and compulsory primary education, which the mili...
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    50,72 €

  • Witnessing Postwar Europe
    Allan Mitchell
    American born and bred, author Allan Mitchell found his identity transformed and molded by the discovery of Europe. This autobiographical account follows the private life and professional career of Mitchell, emphasizing his experience as a student and scholar in France and Germany.Witnessing Postwar Europe follows Mitchell as he grows up under the guidance of his Scottish immig...
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    14,72 €

  • Witnessing Postwar Europe
    Allan Mitchell
    American born and bred, author Allan Mitchell found his identity transformed and molded by the discovery of Europe. This autobiographical account follows the private life and professional career of Mitchell, emphasizing his experience as a student and scholar in France and Germany.Witnessing Postwar Europe follows Mitchell as he grows up under the guidance of his Scottish immig...
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    26,04 €

  • The Divided Path
    Allan Mitchell
    With The Divided Path, Allan Mitchell completes his superb trilogy on the German influence in France between the wars of 1870 and 1914. Mitchell’s focus here is on the French response to the pathbreaking social legislation passed during the 1880s in imperial Germany under Otto von Bismarck. Operating under a liberal republican regime, France tended to reject the interventioni...
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    76,67 €

  • Nazi Paris
    Allan Mitchell
    CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE 2009'...an essential book. It provides precise facts and figures for many issues that have heretofore been presented in impressionistic terms.' · The International History ReviewBasing his extensive research into hitherto unexploited archival documentation on both sides of the Rhine, Allan Mitchell has uncovered the inner workings of the Germ...
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    37,94 €

  • Resonance Radiation and Excited Atoms
    Allan C. G. Mitchell / Allan CGMitchell / Mark W. Zemansky / Mark WZemansky
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    66,22 €

  • Nazi Paris
    Allan Mitchell
    Basing his extensive research into hitherto unexploited archival documentation on both sides of the Rhine, Allan Mitchell has uncovered the inner workings of the German military regime from the Wehrmacht’s triumphal entry into Paris in June 1940 to its ignominious withdrawal in August 1944. Although mindful of the French experience and the fundamental issue of collaboration, th...
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    184,19 €

  • Ethics and Exemplary Narrative in Chaucer and Gower
    J. Allan Mitchell
    Why do medieval writers routinely make use of exemplary rhetoric? How does it work, and what are its ethical and poetical values? And if Chaucer and Gower must be seen as vigorously subverting it, then why do they persist in using it? Borrowing from recent developments in ethical criticism and theory, this book addresses such questions by reconstructing a late medieval rationa...
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    108,58 €

  • Real-World SQL-DMO for SQL Server
    Allan Mitchell / Mark Allison
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    66,35 €

  • The Great Train Race
    Allan Mitchell
    'The breadth of [this] comparative study of French and German railroad development - the largest and most important railway systems on the continent - is a signal achievement... A brief sketch of the book’s trajectory does justice neither to the wealth of detail nor to the arresting insights that future historians will draw on for years to come.' · Central European History'.....
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    183,78 €

  • The German Influence in France after 1870
    Allan Mitchell
    Mitchell believes that the history of the French Third Republic remains incomplete until one understands the German impact on France after the Franco-Prossian War. As the French groped unsteadily toward a redefinition of their national identity, they were constantly under the influence of the victorious German reich, indicating that the creation of a republican mentality cannot...
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    64,14 €