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Marc David Baer is an historian and professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Life Baer was born in Columbia, South Carolina. He celebrated his Bar Mitzvah in Germany. Baer received his Bachelor's Degree [BA] from Northwestern University and his PhD from the University of Chicago. He is a scholar of Middle Eastern and European History, who conducts research utilising Arabic, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Ottoman Turkish, Persian and Turkish. He is the author of six books. In addition, he has published works on Turks in Germany including “Mistaken for Jews: Turkish PhD Students in Nazi Germany” (German Studies Review) and “Turk and Jew in Berlin: The First Turkish Migration to Berlin and the Shoah” (Comparative Studies in Society & History) as well as German-Jewish converts to Islam including “Protestant Islam in Weimar Germany: Hugo Marcus and ‘The Message of the Holy Prophet Muhammad to Europe.’” (New German Critique) and “Muslim Encounters with Nazism and the Holocaust: The Ahmadi of Berlin and German-Jewish Convert to Islam Hugo Marcus" (The American Historical Review). Publications Books Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008. • Winner, Albert Hourani Prize, Middle East Studies Association, Best Book in Middle East Studies, (2008). (Turkish translation, IV. Mehmet Döneminde Osmanlı Avrupasında İhtida ve Fetih, Hil, 2010) The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks. Stanford University Press, California, USA, 2010. (Turkish translation, Selânikli Dönmeler: Musevilikten Dönenler, Müslüman Devrimciler, ve Laik Türkler, Doğan, 2011) At Meydanı'nda Ölüm: 17. Yüzyıl İstanbul'unda Toplumsal Cinsiyet, Hoşgörü ve İhtida (Death on the Hippodrome: Gender, Tolerance, and Conversion in 17th century Istanbul) (Istanbul: Koç Yayınları, 2016) Sultanic Saviors and Tolerant Turks: Writing Ottoman Jewish History, Denying the Armenian Genocide (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2020). Winner, 2021 Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prize for Excellence in Armenian Studies (for a book published in 2020), National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020) The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs (New York: Basic Books, 2021), short-listed for the Wolfson History Prize, 2022 References . Discover the Marc David popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Marc David books.
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Fifty Fashion Looks that Changed the 1970s
DESIGN MUSEUM ENTERPRISE LTD & Paula ReedThe Design Museum and fashion guru Paula Reed present Fifty Fashion Looks that Changed the 1970s. The most exciting, influential and definitive looks of one of the most significant...
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The London Boys
Marc BurrowsRock 'n' Roll fanatics, mods, beat group wannabes, underground hippies, glam rock icons: David Bowie and Marc Bolan spent the first part of their careers following remarkably simil...
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How to Invest
David M. RubensteinNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA master class on investing featuring conversations with the biggest names in finance, from the legendary cofounder of The Carlyle Group, David M. Rubenste...
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The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
Julia Bishop & Steve RoudOne of the Spectator's Books of the Year 2012'Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladiesFarewell and adieu to you ladies of SpainFor we've received orders for to sail for old En...
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Operation Schneewolf
Glenn Meade & Wolfgang Thon1953. Die Siegermächte befinden sich mitten im Kalten Krieg. Die USRegierung befürchtet, die Sowjetunion könnte nukleare Waffen entwickeln und einsetzen. Um das zu verhindern, setz...
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The 4 Greatest Fat Loss Secrets in History
Marc DavidIf you don't know these 4 critical puzzle pieces, that is what makes it a secret. I do hope you know them (seems counterintuitive to having you read this book but if you don't, I'd...
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Starlust
Fred VermorelStarlust es un extraordinario ensayo que se adentra por primera vez en los pensamientos y deseos desgarradores, explícitamente eróticos o profundamente tristes y desesperados de al...
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The Journals Of A White Sea Wolf
Mariusz Wilk & Danusia StokIn 1991 Mariusz Wilk, a Polish journalist long fascinated by the mysteries of the Russian soul, decided to take up residence in the Solovki islands, a lonely archipelago lost amid ...
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Shot Caller
Sara DriscollIn Jen J. Danna’s gripping suspense series, NYPD detective Gemma Capello is called to Rikers Island, where a prison riot threatens to become a bloodbath . . . On Rikers Isla...
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Sir Francis Drake
Dr John SugdenHow well do you know the life of one of Britain’s great maritime heroes? Discover the truth behind a man who remains a legendary figure of history more than four hundred years afte...
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Once More to the Sky
Scott Raab & Joe WoolheadThe powerful story of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, featuring dozens of neverbeforeseen color photos by the official site photographer.In late 2014, One World Trade Cen...
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The Story of England
Michael WoodA VILLAGE AND ITS PEOPLE THROUGH THE WHOLE OF ENGLISH HISTORYThe village of Kibworth in Leicestershire lies at the very centre of England. It has a church, some pubs, the Grand Uni...
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Hey Mom
Louie AndersonWith wry wit and touching humor, Louie Anderson, New York Times bestselling author and Emmy Award–winning comedian currently starring in Zach Galifianakis’s Baskets, shares his jou...
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19 Secrets To Build 5 Pounds Of Muscle In 28 Days Or Less
Marc DavidIn this short ebook, you will learn that a secret is simply defined as something that you may not already know. You put many of these fundamentals or secrets together and suddenly ...
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Waiting for the Punch
Marc Maron"Public figures as you rarely if ever hear them: strikingly personal, surprisingly open, and profoundly emotional." Entertainment Weekly"I’m British, so I’m medically dead inside, ...
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The Riders Come Out at Night
Ali Winston & Darwin Bond-GrahamNEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICEFrom the Polk Award–winning investigative duo comes a critical look at the systematic corruption and brutality within the Oakland Police Department, a...
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Sergei Eisenstein
Ronald BerganNow back in print, this acclaimed biography reassesses a titan of early cinema based on new material released after the fall of the Soviet Union. Sergei Eisenstein: A Life in Confl...
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History of William the Conqueror
Jacob AbbottJacob Abbott was one of the most prolific American writers of history in the nineteenth century, writing many biographies on the world’s most influential leaders in a clear and exc...