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The Russian edition of a warm story about poverty and survival. The shoemaker lives in a small cottage with his large family. One day the shoemaker and Aron spot a beautiful oil lamp at the market!

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Aftermath: Genocide, Memory and History examines how genocide is remembered and represented in both popular and scholarly memory, integrating scholarship on the Holocaust with the study of other genocides through a comparative framework. Scholars from a range of disciplines re-evaluate narratives of past conflict to explore how memory of genocide is mobilised in the aftermath, tracing the development and evolution of memory through the lenses of national identities, colonialism, legal history, film studies, gender, the press, and literary studies.

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The Russian edition of a warm story about poverty and survival. The shoemaker lives in a small cottage with his large family. One day the shoemaker and Aron spot a beautiful oil lamp at the market!

The newest way to think about the universe becomes engaging and personal in Big History, Small World by Cynthia Stokes Brown. Her clear introduction to big history, divided into eight thresholds of time, is the perfect starting point for any reader intrigued by this rich blend of history and science.