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  • ’Abdu’l-Bahá in New York
    Hillary Chapman / Hussein Ahdieh
    Of all the historical, religious and cultural events in the history of the United States, the arrival of ’Abdu’l-Bahá in 1912 was the most important one of all. Many people-from all facets of society-had the honor to meet Him, attend His talks, benefit from His wisdom and witness His benevolence and humility. Their encounter with ’Abdu’l-Bahá was life-altering: He touched the d...
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    10,96 €

  • The History of Silver Lake
    Kathleen Webb / Scott Webb
    The History Of Silver Lake is a captivating book that takes you on a journey through time. With over 135 photos and 20 eclectic chapters, this book will transport you to eras worth reliving. Whether you’re reading for your own pleasure or sharing the book with loved ones, this is a treasure to be cherished for generations to come.Searching through old county archives, the autho...
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    27,33 €

  • Um Boato Assentou Praça No Rossio
    Jorge Artur Dos Santos
    Um boato ronda há século e meio o monumento erigido no centro do Rossio, em Lisboa. Conta-se que a estátua que encima a coluna para homenagear d. Pedro IV - o d. Pedro I brasileiro - representava originalmente Maximiliano da Áustria, fugaz imperador do México. Boato falso, porém resiliente, é ouvido ainda hoje ao pé do monumento. Este texto, resultado de pesquisa em arquivos e ...
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    15,25 €

  • The Confederate Navy Medical Corps
    Guy R. Hasegawa
    The Confederate Navy’s medical service is usually overlooked in histories of the Civil War, yet it was vital in maintaining the fighting strength of the South’s navy and marine corps. Confederate medical officers not only manned war vessels, they staffed navy yards and land-based hospitals, gathered supplies, participated in raids, examined recruits, and even served at defensiv...
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    57,38 €

  • Oceanside History of Alaska
    Mike Coppock
    A history of Alaska’s seaports settled by fisherman, gold seekers, Scandinavians, Native peoples and Russin trappers. It is a time a violent history as these diverse people carved their own isolated world from forests, cliff faces and raging seas. This is a tale of wild men and intrepid women looking for a home from the world they rejected.It is the story of empire builders lik...
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    16,30 €

  • Hollywood’s Imperial Wars
    Armando José Prats
    When the Vietnam War punctured the myth of American military invincibility, Hollywood needed a new kind of war movie. The familiar triumphal narrative was relegated to history and, with it, the heroic legacy that had passed from one generation to the next for more than two hundred years.How Hollywood helped create and instill the American myth of heroic continuity, and how film...
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    63,04 €

  • Essential Lewis and Clark, The
    Landon Y. Jones
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    13,88 €

  • A History of Argentina
    Ezequiel Adamovsky
    In A History of Argentina, originally published in Spanish in 2020, Ezequiel Adamovsky presents over five hundred years of Argentine economic, political, social, and cultural history. Adamovsky highlights the experiences of women, Indigenous communities, and other groups that have traditionally been left out of the historical archive. He focuses on harmful aspects of Spanish co...
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    140,64 €

  • A History of Argentina
    Ezequiel Adamovsky
    In A History of Argentina, originally published in Spanish in 2020, Ezequiel Adamovsky presents over five hundred years of Argentine economic, political, social, and cultural history. Adamovsky highlights the experiences of women, Indigenous communities, and other groups that have traditionally been left out of the historical archive. He focuses on harmful aspects of Spanish co...
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    37,47 €

  • The Prestes Column
    Jacob Blanc
    In The Prestes Column, Jacob Blanc offers a new interpretation of the legendary rebellion, in which a band of rebel officers and soldiers marched fifteen thousand miles through the vast interior regions of Brazil between 1924 and 1927. Blanc’s analysis of the Prestes Column is a showcase of what he calls 'interior history.' At a pivotal moment in national politics, the long mar...
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    138,47 €

  • The Prestes Column
    Jacob Blanc
    In The Prestes Column, Jacob Blanc offers a new interpretation of the legendary rebellion, in which a band of rebel officers and soldiers marched fifteen thousand miles through the vast interior regions of Brazil between 1924 and 1927. Blanc’s analysis of the Prestes Column is a showcase of what he calls 'interior history.' At a pivotal moment in national politics, the long mar...
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    36,61 €

  • Annabellas Story
    Mary Jo Schell
    Annabella, Bella to her family and friends, was sixteen years old when the US Civil War started. Now two years into the war, her Uncle Edwin and cousin Marie are dead, most of the four hundred slaves have run away, and she is responsible--responsible for the one-thousand-acre Johnson Plantation just outside Vicksburg, Mississippi, and the care and safety of her mother and three...
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    12,94 €

  • Treasure and Empire in the Civil War
    Neil P. Chatelain
    Across North America’s periphery, unknown and overlooked Civil War campaigns were waged over whether the United States or Confederacy would dominate lands, mines, and seaborne transportation networks of North America’s mineral wealth. The U.S. needed this wealth to stabilize their wartime economy while the Confederacy sought to expand their own treasury. Confederate armies adva...
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    73,35 €

  • Charles A. Willoughby and the Anti-Communist Crusade
    John W. Lemza
    ''Beware the Red Peril!'' was the clarion call of General Charles A. Willoughby at the close of World War II. The refrain echoed from Capitol Hill into American living rooms. For three decades after the war, the Old Right crusaded against global communist expansion, sniffing out internal and external threats to the American way of life. These paleo-conservatives faced resista...
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    72,05 €

  • Abstracts from the Old North State, Pasquotank County, North Carolina, 1849-1850.
    Fouts
    By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 1996, reprinted 2024, 164 pages, 8 1/2' x 11' soft cover, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-207-1. Pasquotank County was created in 1739 with the county seat being named Elizabeth City. It lies in the extreme northeast corner of the state located on the Albemarle Sound. Many of her early settlers were from Virginia. This newspaper was published out of Eliz...
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    41,60 €

  • Abstracts from the Edenton Gazette and Farmer’s Palladium, Chowan County, North Carolina, 1830-1831
    Raymond Parker Fouts
    By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 2006, reprinted 2024, 166 pages, 8 1/2' x 11' soft cover, Index, ISBN #978-163914-208-8. Chowan County was created in 1739 with a county seat named Edenton. It lies in the northeastern corner of the state along the Albemarle Sound. These abstracts not only pertain to persons of Chowan County but surrounding counties of: Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Her...
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    41,63 €

  • An Aide to Custer
    Edward Granger / Sandy Barnard / Thomas Singelyn
    In August 1862, nineteen-year-old Edward G. Granger joined the 5th Michigan Cavalry Regiment as a second lieutenant. On August 20, 1863, the newly promoted Brig. Gen. George Armstrong Custer appointed Granger as one of his aides, a position Granger would hold until his death in August 1864. Many of the forty-four letters the young lieutenant wrote home during those two years, i...
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    42,48 €

  • Bacon’s Rebellion, 1676-1677
    Paul Otto / Verdis LeVar Robinson
    In the early seventeenth century, Virginia’s Chesapeake region saw the emergence of a multiracial society centered around the profitable tobacco industry. While Native Americans, free and enslaved Africans, and Europeans coexisted and interacted, a hierarchical order formed with a small elite planting class, led by Governor William Berkeley, wielding power over land, labor, and...
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    39,05 €

  • The Russian Army and the Japanese War, Volume. 1; Being Historical and Critical Comments on the Military Policy and Power of Russia and on the Campaign in the Far East
    A. N. Kuropatkin
    The Russian Army and the Japanese War, Volume. 1; Being Historical and Critical Comments on the Military Policy and Power of Russia and on the Campaign in the Far East, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishin...
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    25,07 €

  • The Russian Army and the Japanese War, Volume. 2; Being Historical and Critical Comments on the Military Policy and Power of Russia and on the Campaign in the Far East
    A. N. Kuropatkin
    The Russian Army and the Japanese War, Volume. 2; Being Historical and Critical Comments on the Military Policy and Power of Russia and on the Campaign in the Far East, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishin...
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    25,46 €

  • Taipan Snake Pit
    Michael Guard
    TAIPAN SNAKE PIT discloses the tribulations of the Vietnam helicopter war, and provides deeply moving insight into the lives of those crewman who routinely flew combat assault missions. Written in narrative non-fiction, the book reveals the rarely told account of air to ground combat exposed for the first time to their mortality. In 1969 sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll dominated mo...
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    20,72 €

  • The Silk Road
    Billy Wellman
    Journey on the Silk Road, and discover trade, cultures, and adventures from the ancient world!Step onto the fabled Silk Road, an epic network of ancient trade routes that spanned thousands of miles and linked the East and West for centuries. In The Silk Road, embark on a captivating voyage through time and terrain, where cultures converged, goods flowed, and history unfolded.Th...
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    21,03 €

  • Troublemakers
    Rebekah Brewster
    Sometimes the only way to do right is to do wrong. Sometimes the only way to change the rules is to break them. Sometimes the only way to save lives is to disrupt them. These are true stories of people who broke the rules to protect the ones they loved. ...
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    11,85 €

  • The Vote Collectors, Second Edition
    Michael Graff / Nick Ochsner
    In November 2018, Baptist preacher Mark Harris beat the odds, narrowly fending off a blue wave in the sprawling Ninth District of North Carolina. But word soon got around that something fishy was going on in rural Bladen County. At the center of the mess was a local political operative named McCrae Dowless. Dowless had learned the ins and outs of the absentee ballot system from...
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    28,88 €

  • 逍遙聖人--熊競超Blog
    Xiong Jingchao / 熊競超
    本書是輯錄作者熊競超開始籌備《大同世界文化中心》以來所寫的文章，從2022年六月開始，他開始在舊金山唐人街活動，發覺人們並不知道什麼是大同。故此，他決定寫點文章，以修身、齊家、治國平天下的方式，先籌建舊金山灣區家園，注冊為機構，出書加以解釋。幾個月後，《舊金山灣區家園》出版，同時英文版以AUTOMATED ERA的名稱，增添了一些內容，在美國出版此書。為了推廣大同世界的價值觀與管理架構，他寫信及傳真游說美國各級議會的議員立法，但是沒有效果。他還與台灣的一些政黨溝通，卻無法建立聯繫。為此他決定自己競選加州的州參議員，以推動大同家園的成長。《逍遙聖人--熊競超Blog》記錄著壹年來，他的思想變化，圍繞著介紹大同世界文化的內容，他還把消失兩千多年的百越民族構建出來，規劃東亞家園聯盟以和平演變共產主義造成的災難。讀了他的文章，可以了解一下聖賢的成長過程，見證...
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    33,24 €

  • Honoring Native Warriors
    Gary Robinson
    This exhaustive examination of American Indian service in the United States military includes a history of that service from the Revolutionary War to modern times and an in-depth look at Native America 'Code Talkers' in WWI and WWII. It also includes links to documentary films produced by the author that can be viewed on the Internet. ...
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    30,12 €

  • Convict Australia
    Jennifer Twemlow
    Where is the missing fortune that James Dingle and his convict crew stole in a huge bank heist in 1828 that equates to about 20 million dollars by today’s standards? How did a small group of convicts manage to steal a leaky ship and sail halfway across the world? How did Joseph Samuels become the man they couldn’t hang? From astonishing escapes to tragic shipwrecks, piratical s...
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    20,27 €

  • Li Dazhao
    Patrick Fuliang Shan
    Biography of a major figure in modern Chinese history. ...
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    126,71 €

  • The Origins of Chinese Literary Hermeneutics
    Martin Svensson Ekström
    Explores how China’s oldest poetry collection was interpreted in a Confucian exegetical text-the Mao Commentary-in the mid-second century BCE. ...
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    125,96 €

  • Tragedy and Triumph
    Christopher Feldt
    These mountains have their stories. All deal with the relationship between man, his relationship to the earth, and his cohabitation with others. Thousands of years before the Europeans found their way to the New World, pre-tribal Indians hunted the backbones of nascent mountains, using the atlatl and other weapons to harvest food. Thousands of years later still, their tribal ...
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    22,16 €


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