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Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans The British Occupation of Germany, 1945-49 [Audiobook]


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English | ISBN: 9781800243538 | 2023 | 12 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 367 MB
Author: Daniel Cowling
Narrator: Mark Elstob

The untold history of the British occupation of Germany, told through the eyes of the people who were there. Following the end of the Second World War, between 1945 and 1949, British forces occupied the northern part of what would become West Germany. Here, Daniel Cowling presents a political and military history of this occupation, but also explores the experiences of the thousands of British men and women who were tasked with building a democracy out of the ruins of Hitler’s Germany. From reconstructing bridges and schools in the British Zone to tracking down fugitives, their job was to leave no stone unturned in the fight to eradicate Nazism.

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Beastly The 40,000-Year Story of Animals and Us [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0C9S24HCS | 2023 | 16 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 482 MB
Author: Keggie Carew
Narrator: Pippa Haywood

Animals have shaped our minds, our lives, our land, and our civilization. Humanity would not have gotten very far without them-making use of their labor for transportation, agriculture, and pollination; their protection from predators; and their bodies for food and to make clothing, music, and art. And over the last two centuries, humans have made unprecedented advances in science, technology, behavior, and beliefs. Yet how is it that we continue to destroy the animal world and lump its magnificence under the sterile concept of biodiversity?

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Beastly Modernisms The Figure of the Animal in Modernist Literature and Culture Ed 123


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English | ISBN: 1474498027 | 2023 | 320 pages | PDF | 7 MB
The intersection of modernist studies and critical animal studies is a new, progressive field that raises crucial questions about what it means to live with animals in modernity. Beastly Modernisms gathers essays from leading figures in the field alongside emerging scholars who, together, revisit canonical figures and decentre the canons and geographies of modernism. Grounded in interdisciplinary approaches, the contributions work with cultural history and theoretical frameworks to unearth the multispecies dynamics of twentieth-century literature and culture.

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Beastly A New History of Animals and Us


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English | 6 April 2023 | ISBN: 1786896907 | True EPUB | 384 pages | 10.5 MB
In a Polish forest a young woman befriends a boar. An Englishman sets up home with two beavers in Saskatchewan. A zoologist watches a fish make a conscious decision. Darwin finds the evidence for evolution in the backyards of pigeon fanciers. The entire population of Croatia anxiously awaits the arrival of a single stork.

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