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  • Wake Up Black America, You Are About To Become Extinct.The True Intentions of The Republican Party For Black Americans
    Carlos El bolígrafo
    21st Century Racism in America is alive and thriving through the republican party. Republicans are currently running a platform of open racism, calling it "woke." The fact that republicans are openly racist, spreading conspiracy theories, and changing America’s Democratic system to Autocracy is alarming for Americans, but for Black America it means extinction. The Black America...
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    22,46 €

  • Ben-Hur
    Lew Wallace
    In first-century Judea, Jewish prince Judah Ben-Hur’s family is wrongly accused and convicted of treason during the time of Christ. Ben-Hur fights to clear his family’s name and is ultimately inspired by the rise of Jesus Christ and his message.  His fortunes are reversed when he saves the captain’s life and he returns, determined to seek his revenge against those who have brou...
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    39,54 €

  • Ephraim Fox
    Jr. James Royal Fox
    Ephraim Fox was born in Barboursville, Knox County, Kentucky, to Nicholas and Sara Fox. Ephraim’s grandfather Benjamin had been adopted into the well-known Virginia Fox family who populated much of Kentucky and Tennessee. Whether it was the adoption of Benjamin or another reason that has been forgotten centuries ago, his eldest son Nicholas was not close to his immense extended...
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    34,54 €

  • EMPIRE OF LIES
    Paul Craig Roberts
    The Empire of Lies elucidates the major deceptions that have played a central role in shaping history in the 21st century. Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, the former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury, draws upon his experience as a Washington insider to reveal the truth about the manipulation of the gold market, 9/11, COVID-19, the war in Ukraine, and several other mass deceptions...
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    26,25 €

  • El Instituto Tavistock de Relaciones Humanas
    John Coleman
    El Instituto Tavistock de Relaciones Humanas ha tenido un profundo efecto en las políticas morales, espirituales, culturales, políticas y económicas de los Estados Unidos de América y Gran Bretaña. Estuvo al frente del ataque a la Constitución estadounidense. La caída de las dinastías católicas, la revolución bolchevique, la primera y la segunda guerras mundiales que vieron la ...
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    31,94 €

  • Stavisht
    Ida Cohen Selavan
    What I Remember About StavishtThe name of the town was spelled Stavisht. In Russian that means ponds, because the town was surrounded by ponds on three sides. More accurately, we should call them lakes, large wide lakes which teemed with delicious fish. There were carp, perch, and other kinds of fish which provided tasty meals for the holy Sabbath feasts. I shall never forget t...
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    37,54 €

  • The Last Years of Polish Jewry
    Yankev Leshchinsky / Eli Jany / Robert Brym
    Ukrainian-born Yankev Leshchinsky (1876-1966) was the leading scholarly and journalistic analyst of Eastern European Jewish socioeconomic and political life from the 1920s to the 1950s. Known as 'the dean of Jewish sociologists' and 'the father of Jewish demography,' Leshchinsky published a series of insightful and moving essays in Yiddish on Polish Jewry between 1927 and 1937...
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    52,86 €

  • The Book of Sirach (or Ecclesiasticus)
    Anonymous
    The Book of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus ; abbreviated Ecclus.) is a Jewish work, originally in Hebrew, of ethical teachings, from approximately 200 to 175 BCE, written by the Judahite scribe Ben Sira of Jerusalem, on the inspiration of his father Joshua son of Sirach, sometimes called Jesus son of Sirach or Yeshua ben Eliezer ben Sira.In Egypt, it was translated into Greek by the au...
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    16,39 €

  • The Book of Sirach (or Ecclesiasticus)
    Anonymous
    The Book of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus ; abbreviated Ecclus.) is a Jewish work, originally in Hebrew, of ethical teachings, from approximately 200 to 175 BCE, written by the Judahite scribe Ben Sira of Jerusalem, on the inspiration of his father Joshua son of Sirach, sometimes called Jesus son of Sirach or Yeshua ben Eliezer ben Sira.In Egypt, it was translated into Greek by the au...
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    28,33 €

  • Maker of Pedigrees
    Markus Friedrich
    A history of genealogical knowledge-making strategies in the early modern world.In The Maker of Pedigrees, Markus Friedrich explores the complex and fascinating world of central European genealogy practices during the Baroque era. Drawing on archival material from a dozen European institutions, Friedrich reconstructs how knowledge about noble families was created, authenticated...
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    73,42 €

  • Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean
    Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean interrogates the complex relationship between two island archipelagos at the peak of the slave economy. Employing a broad range of islands, sources, sites, and methods creates a transnational, trans-imperial and interdisciplinary history of Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean. ...
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    172,27 €

  • Pompeji
    Fergus Mason
    Pompeji war eine der fortschrittlichsten Städte ihrer Zeit; sie verfügte über ein komplexes Wassersystem, eine Sporthalle und ein Amphitheater. Trotz ihrer Fortschritte war sie auf eine Sache nicht vorbereitet: Der Vesuv - der Vulkan, der zum endgültigen Untergang der Stadt führte.Der Ausbruch des Vesuvs 79 n. Chr. war eine der schlimmsten Katastrophen in der europäischen Gesch...
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    22,31 €

  • Jewish Women and the Defense of Palestine
    Meir Chazan
    Examines the struggle of Jewish women to join defense and military activities during the decades leading up to the Israeli War of Independence. ...
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    41,87 €

  • Ayodhya
    Madhav Bhandari
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    48,45 €

  • Women Rescuers of WWII
    Elise Baker
    What bright secrets transpired during the world’s darkest hours? Light shone in an era marked by tyranny and mass destruction. Kindness resurfaced when the lines between friends and foes were blurred. Hope prevailed when staying hidden and quiet was a civilian’s best chance of survival. Behold, the Second World War-a ruthless period of oppression and torment that Jews and other...
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    9,66 €

  • Nightingales, Bluebirds and Angels of Mercy
    Elise Baker
    The World Wars of the 20th century caused massive upheavals all over the world. Millions of men from every corner of the globe enlisted in the armed forces to fight, while women took the places of men in the workforce at home. Eighty years later, we still see photographs of Rosie the Riveter and women welding bombers for the Air Force. What history often overlooks, however, are...
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    9,70 €

  • Women Code Breakers
    Elise Baker
    Embedded within military intelligence and communications, wartime cryptography was a man’s world filled with engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, military tacticians, political scientists, and linguists. But women did much more during World War II than resupply coffee and shuffle papers. Women working top-secret desk jobs played an integral role in supporting the Allied ef...
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    9,74 €

  • Oldest Restaurants in the USA and Europe
    Dr. Diane Holloway Cheney
    Eating with others is a restorative activity. When dining in an historic restaurant, the setting, cuisine, and relics of the past take us back in time. We come to understand a people’s history through the restaurant, those who founded it, how it stayed afloat, special dishes, and past famous guests. Recipes featuring local foods prepared by distinctive chefs leave diners with a...
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    16,84 €

  • Ordered Day
    James Ker
    Traces how the day has served as a key organizing concept in Roman culture--and beyond.How did ancient Romans keep track of time? What constituted a day in ancient Rome was not the same twenty-four hours we know today. In The Ordered Day, James Ker traces how the day served as a key organizing concept, both in antiquity and in modern receptions of ancient Rome. Romans used the...
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    72,70 €

  • Black Health in the South
    Steven S Coughlin
    A collection of important essays on the health and well-being of African Americans in the southern United States.For African Americans in the southern United States, the social determinants of health are influenced by a unique history that encompasses hundreds of years of slavery, injustices during the Jim Crow era, the Great Migration, the civil rights era, and contemporary ex...
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    79,31 €

  • GRAM’S GIFT
    Joyce M. Mosley
    Gram’s gift tells the story of an African-American family with African, European, and Native American roots that trace to the arrival of European settlers in the 1600s. It is important to Gram that her grandchildren know the contributions their ancestors made to the history of this country. So, she gathers her grandchildren in the living room for a family history lesson. Her ...
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    11,56 €

  • Systemic Evolutions
    Chris Handrahan
    As a history, human reality is choiceless mimic to nature’s reality by its placement, inventiveness, creativity, and the compression of its localized space and time within a much broader system of existence.This collection of essays creatively elaborates topics such as evolution, environmental diversity, the nature of time, the finite and infinite worlds, instinctive awareness,...
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    15,22 €

  • The Maid and The Socialite
    Lynda Drews
    A GREEN BAY HISTORICAL TRUE CRIME STORYAt the turn of the 20th century, cities around the world were rife with syphilis, yet no blood test could prove it. Two women in Green Bay, Wisconsin found their lives destroyed by that simple fact. Mary, an illiterate maid, and Mollie, a college-educated socialite, fell victim to the physical violence and mental abuse of celebrated surgeo...
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    14,00 €

  • Midnight Murders on Rock Cut Road
    Bruce Krell
    A detailed history of the murders of Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman. FBI documents, participant confessions, newspaper articles, and FBI photos are used to construct the history. A complete forensic analysis is performed based on the original autopsy and the FBI Lab Report. A visual reconstruction with photos taken by the author is used to show events on that day. ·        Biogr...
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    60,40 €

  • The History of the Communist Party of the United States
    William Z Foster
    This is William Z. Foster’s definitive history of the Communist Party of the United States. In it he relates the history of a party of the American working class and the story and analysis of the origin, growth, and development of that party. It is the record of a Party which through its entire existence has loyally fought for the best interests of the American working class an...
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    32,15 €

  • The World of Wu Zhao
    N Harry Rothschild / N. Harry Rothschild
    The World of Wu Zhao is an annotated translation of Zhang Zhuo’s collection of miscellany, Court and Country, that offers a lively, folksy and novel perspective of the empire of Wu Zhao, China’s first and only female emperor, that will amuse and shock readers, prompting them to recalibrate everything they think they know about medieval China. ...
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    158,03 €

  • Politics, performance and popular culture
    Working with the concept that politics is performative and performance is political, this book brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base. ...
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    44,11 €

  • Class, work and whiteness
    Nicola Ginsburgh
    This book explores the class experiences of white workers in Southern Rhodesia. In examining the roles of lower class whites in the production of race, gender and nationalism under minority rule, this research contributes to understandings of social identities, power and structural inequality in the settler colonial context. ...
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    44,13 €

  • Eternal light and earthly concerns
    Paul Fouracre
    This book investigates how the practice of keeping a light burning in churches was established in the early Middle Ages. It asks what the material consequences of implementing the practice were and why it ceased at the end of the Middle Ages. ...
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    35,72 €

  • Distant sisters
    James Keating
    The book tells a regional and international history of the Australian suffrage campaigns between 1880-1914, uncovering the networks of suffragists built to win the vote and sell its merits abroad. Situated at the nexus of feminist and imperial history, it examines the limits of cross border connection in turn-of-the-century social reform movements. ...
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    44,22 €


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