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  • Coming Around
    Richard Rose
    While researching family history for his semibiographical opera Monte and Pinky, Richmond-based poet and songwriter Richard Rose came face to face with the fact of his ancestors’ involvement in the local slave trade. As a social and environmental activist, Rose became determined to explore and come to terms with the many consequences of the injustices in which his family took p...
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    11,32 €

  • AL-FARD
    Ali Mahdi Muhammad
    The Al-Fard, or the The Dawn, has captured the early rays of Our history. This history is essential if we are to be brought face to face with the One true and living God of the universe. The purpose of this writing is to bring the reader step by step, one degree at a time to the reality of God in person. The teachings of Our Father elevates the believer to the level of Godhood ...
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    23,17 €

  • Traveling to a New America
    James Hilgendorf
    Author, speaker, poet, and filmmaker James Hilgendorf draws upon his own books, poems, blogs, and articles, to create a pastiche of a new America - one that even now, amid all the division, anger, and loss of hope we are experiencing in our country, is struggling to be born.A song of immense new beginnings, of a deep seismic shift in the way we view our own individual identity ...
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    13,54 €

  • Pan Kapitan of Jordanow
    William Leibner
    Yeshayahu Drucker devoted a good part of his life to rescuing Jewish children from non-Jewish homes. Many parents had given their children to Polish neighbors for safekeeping during the war. Unfortunately most of the parents did not survive the Shoah. At the end of the war, there was no one to claim the children and they remained with the “adopted” Polish families. Following hi...
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    28,35 €

  • The Uniqueness of Israel
    Lance Lambert
    Woven into the fabric of Jewish existence there is an undeniable uniqueness. There is bitter controversy over the subject of Israel, but time itself will establish the truth about this nation's place in God's plan. For Lance Lambert, the Lord Jesus is the key that unlocks Jewish history He is the key not only to their fall, but also to their restoration. For in spite of...
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    15,18 €

  • Tea
    Velina Hasu Houston
    It’s 1968.  Himiko Hamilton struggles in a graceless marriage in a country that is not her own.  Having come from Japan at the end of World War II and landed in a small Kansas town because of her marriage to an American soldier, she is at odds with the culture that she left behind and the one in which she is trying to survive. In the midst of this turmoil is her beautiful mixed...
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    31,79 €

  • Girlhood in America
    Suzanne Sherman
    Collected stories from fifty-six women and young girls around the country reveal the times and tensions of a wider world, from a first ride in a Model T in 1911 to leading a school campaign against bullying in 2011.Girls' lives change in expected—and surprising—ways when indoor plumbing and electricity come into homes in the 1920s. Antibiotics replace mustard plasters, Worl...
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    12,78 €

  • Arizal
    Raphael Afilalo
    The Ari overflowed with Torah. He was expert in Scripture, Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash, Maaseh Bereishit and Maaseh Merkavah. About all the different levels of prophecy, their details and from which level the prophets had their revelations.  He understood the whistling of the trees, the grass and stones, the language of the birds and other animals, the conversations of angels, the...
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    20,44 €

  • Rose-tinted Memory
    Michael S Fryer
    “Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it”.  ~ Primo Levi, Holocaust survivor and author Seventy years after the mass murder of the Jews of Europe, Holocaust denial and Holocaust revisionism are creeping into our overall perception of what actually happened.Christendom has not ‘denied’ Holocaust, but it has attempted to create a memory of Holocaust which suggests th...
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    8,84 €

  • Deep Denial
    David Billings
    Deep Denial explains why race is still with us, and what the Civil Rights Movement can tell us about today.Part I takes a broad historical view, from seventeenth century Virginia through World War II., examining the origins of white supremacy as a structural feature of US society and describing its evolution over time.Part II features the Civil Rights Movement, how it emerged i...
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    20,70 €

  • The Worst Country in the World
    Patsy Trench
    “Set against the backdrop of the Australian migrant experience, 'The Worst Country in the World' is not only a great read but a thought-provoking one too, especially for those with links to Australia, which reinvented itself from a convict colony to one of the ’luckiest’ countries in the world.” Karen Clare, Family Tree magazine.In 1801 Mary Pitt, a 53-year-old widow an...
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    14,92 €

  • Suburban Bravery
    Andrew R Duckworth
    In suburban Western Australia at the turn of last century, the threat of fire was both menacing and real. Lives and public infrastructure were destroyed. The need for fire brigades both in Western Australia and across the globe had never been greater.Join the men of the North Perth Fire Brigade as they form their fledgling brigade of 20 men and grow into a respected institution...
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    34,78 €

  • Wild Things. Nature and the Social Imagination
    HISTORIES OF HUMAN CONSTRUCTIONS OF NATUREWild Things: Nature and the Social Imagination assembles eleven substantive and original essays on the cultural and social dimensions of environmental history. They address a global cornucopia of social and ecological systems, from Africa to Europe, North America and the Caribbean, and their temporal range extends from the 1830s into th...
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    112,73 €

  • Holy Dissent
    Glenn Dynner
    BThe religious communities of early modern Eastern Europe—particularly those with a mystical bent—are typically studied in isolation. Yet the heavy Slavic imprint on Jewish popular mysticism and pervasive Judaizing tendencies among Christian dissenters call into question the presumed binary quality of Jewish-Christian interactions. In Holy Dissent: Jewish and Christian Mystics ...
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    62,96 €

  • 50 Afrikans You Must Know, Vol. 2
    Nikala Asante / Samori Camara
    This is Volume 2 of Kamali Academy's Bestselling Reading Comprehension book. This book will grow comprehension skills and knowledge about some of our Greatest Warriors.This Book is for Middle to High School Warrior Scholars 3 ...
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    14,52 €

  • Through the Eyes of Rebel Women
    Iris Morales
    THROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 iTHROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 is the first account of women members — a 'story within a story' told from the inside out. The Young Lords Organization emerged in the late sixties to fight poverty, racial and gender inequality, and the colonial status of Puerto Rico. Women joined to build a...
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    31,39 €

  • Schizophrenic America
    Anni Damgaard
    Schizophrenic America explores a fundamental conflict in the United States between what we believe to be our inalienable rights and what we experience in every-day-life. This conflict induces a schism in our minds, leading to a 'cultural schizophrenia' in America. This book facilitates the process of reflection. It is a layman’s guide to cultural awareness, written for young a...
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    17,00 €

  • Jews in Service to the Tsar
    Lev Berdnikov / Nora Favorov
    Benjamin Disraeli advised, “Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.” With Jews in Service to the Tsar, Lev Berdnikov offers us 28 biographies spanning five centuries of Russian Jewish history, and each portrait opens a new window onto the history of Eastern Europe’s Jews, illuminating dark corners and challenging widely-held conceptions about th...
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    22,05 €

  • Out of his mind
    Amy Milne-Smith
    Out of His Mind interrogates how Victorians made sense of the madman as both a social reality and a cultural representation. Even at the height of enthusiasm for the curative powers of nineteenth-century psychiatry, to be certified as a lunatic meant a loss of one’s freedom and in many ways one’s identify. Because men had the most power and authority in Victorian Britain, this ...
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    43,95 €

  • Ancient Echoes, Voices and Visions from Past Civilizations
    Ph.D. James Michael
    Ever wonder about the untold stories hidden within the folds of time? Are you captivated by the mysteries of our collective past, yearning to uncover the wisdom and tales that echo through the ages? Do you often ponder: How can I connect with the voices of our ancestors and understand the rich tapestry of human history?What secrets lie dormant in the ancient whispers that can i...
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    22,32 €

  • A Man for the Ages
    Irving Bacheller
    'A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy' is a historical novel written by Irving Bacheller. The book was first published in 1919 and is set against the backdrop of the American Civil War. Irving Bacheller was an American journalist and novelist, and he gained fame for his works that often celebrated American ideals and historical events. The novel follows the ...
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    21,22 €

  • Historia de Olmeda de la Cuesta
    Antonio Checa Sainz
    En el año 2010 Olmeda de la Cuesta saltó a la fama: era el pueblo con población más envejecida de España. ¿Cómo es posible que se hubiera llegado a esa situación en un municipio que tuvo cerca de 600 habitantes y conoció épocas de prosperidad? No fue la única vez que los medios se han acercado allí ya que sus proyectos culturales y de lucha contra la despoblación y el abandono ...
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    26,00 €

  • Norma, Ley y conflicto en sociedades premodernas
    Eleonora Dell’Elicine / Paola Miceli
    Ante la ley, el clásico cuento de Kafka, muestra la potencia simbólica que la ley detenta en nuestra sociedad monista contemporánea: aun estando abierta la puerta de La Ley, el campesino no se anima a atravesarla. Si bien esta imagen es de una enorme potencia para el análisis de las sociedades que se constituyen a partir del siglo XIX, en las que existe una fuerte preponderanci...
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    15,60 €

  • ORURO: IV Siglos En La Eternidad 1606-2006
    Freddy Sanjinés Montán
    Oruro: IV SIGLOS EN LA ETERNIDAD. Breve visión multifacética de un departamento de Bolivia enclavado en el altiplano de los Andes. Además de valorar los aportes civilizatorios y culturales de la prístina cultura milenaria en Sudamérica, incide en su historia de los últimos cuatrocientos años, en su vida colonial y republicana, desde su fundación como Villa (1606), hasta el naci...
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    54,09 €

  • Storming Bedlam
    Sasha Warren
    Mental health care and its radical possibilities reimagined in the context of its global development under capitalism.The contemporary world is oversaturated with psychiatric programs, methods, and reforms promising to address any number of 'crises' in mental health care. When these fail, alternatives to the alternatives simply pile up and seem to lead nowhere. In an original a...
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    26,35 €

  • Tourist Experiences
    Chris Ryan / Xiaoyu (Nancy) Zhang
    This book explores the application of psychological theories to tourist behaviour and experience. It offers new insights and provides final year and postgraduate students with an understanding of core psychological perspectives and an accessible resource within one volume for those researching tourist behaviour and consumer experiences. ...
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    60,11 €

  • Tourist Experiences
    Chris Ryan / Xiaoyu (Nancy) Zhang
    This book explores the application of psychological theories to tourist behaviour and experience. It offers new insights and provides final year and postgraduate students with an understanding of core psychological perspectives and an accessible resource within one volume for those researching tourist behaviour and consumer experiences. ...
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    181,72 €

  • El coleccionismo numismático en mujeres
    Luciana G. Aldana
    Barreras sociales, culturales y económicas han influido históricamente para que el acceso de la mujer al coleccionismo numismático sea restringido. Hay mayor presencia de mujeres en la investigación numismática y quizás hasta en el comercio numismático, pero coleccionistas, pocas.Así es como en mayo de 2023, la psicóloga y numismática argentina Luciana Aldana, comienza una inve...
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    19,24 €

  • Serving Victoria
    Kate Hubbard
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    14,80 €

  • Memorial book of Drohobycz, Borysław and Surroundings
    The discovery of rich oil and mineral wax deposits in the Drohobycz-Borysław area in the 1850s turned it into an industrial and economic powerhouse-'the California of Galicia.' Jewish-owned industries started up: refineries, mining, spinning, weaving, and factories producing candles and soap. Bythe early 1900s, Drohobycz alone had two synagogues, four study houses, two banks, a...
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    47,51 €


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