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  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
    Agnès Garcia-Ventura
    A collection of essays that encompass the two principal approaches to the history of ancient Near Eastern studies: descriptive historiography and intellectual history ...
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    58,97 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • The History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Vol. 5
    Philip Foner
    This volume explores labor and Progressivism and traces the origins before this period. The concentration is on an era of great labor militancy, an era which produced 'a great transformation of workers’ consciousness in America.' The focus of this volume is not on inchoate dissatisfaction but on organized resistance, on workers who belonged to trade unions, and on their commitm...
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    27,63 €

  • The History of Ancient Israel
    Ahava Lilburn
    The History of Ancient Israel series was compiled by Ahava Lilburn and produced by Minister 2 Others. This ten-volume set synchronizes the entire manuscripts of Enoch, Jasher, and Jubilees into the Bible, making one complete story-line. The books are interwoven using the first six books of the Bible as the backbone, and the extra-biblical texts as the fleshing out of that backb...
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    16,15 €

  • Eurasian Universism
    Xantio Ansprandi
    The cosmic map of the 21st century exhibits imbalance and disorder. On one end of the Eurasian continent, Europe faces a deep civilizational, philosophical, and spiritual crisis, its Logos rapidly dissipating in the whirl of Chaos alongside the breakdown of the modern Western world order. At the same time, on the other end of the continent, China is on an historic rise, posing ...
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    32,58 €

  • Tales of Their Lives
    Daphne Field
    The family biographies I have written are the stories of my ancestors, our ancestors: How they lived; how they struggled, being surrounded by their families, their social history, and geography until their eventual death. Some died prematurely while others lived long, long lives. The stories are wrapped around photographs and pictures which bring the text to life. Names, dates,...
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    63,62 €

  • Tales of Their Lives
    Daphne Field
    The family biographies I have written are the stories of my ancestors, our ancestors: How they lived; how they struggled, being surrounded by their families, their social history, and geography until their eventual death. Some died prematurely while others lived long, long lives. The stories are wrapped around photographs and pictures which bring the text to life. Names, dates,...
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    73,95 €

  • The History of Ancient Israel
    Ahava Lilburn
    The History of Ancient Israel series was compiled by Ahava Lilburn and produced by Minister 2 Others. This ten-volume set synchronizes the entire manuscripts of Enoch, Jasher, and Jubilees into the Bible, making one complete story-line. The books are interwoven using the first six books of the Bible as the backbone, and the extra-biblical texts as the fleshing out of that backb...
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    15,97 €

  • Writings
    Jack Engelhard
    Legendary American novelist Jack Engelhard is equally regarded for his high standard of journalism, which for many years appeared as Op-ed columns in the Philadelphia Inquirer, and also in such publications as The New York Times. Today he enjoys a large worldwide following for his columns that appear on the popular Israeli news/opinion website Arutz Sheva/Israelnationalnews, En...
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    24,87 €

  • Mansfield Park (Large Print, Annotated)
    Jane Austen
    Read one of the classic Jane Austen masterpieces A definitive editionLarge Print 16-point font for easy readingFeatures an uplifting extended biography of the life and experiences of Jane AustenProfessionally remastered and typeset for premium quality print and easy readingMansfield Park tells readers the story of Fanny Price who, when adopted by her uncle Sr. Thomas Bertram, i...
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    30,99 €

  • Julia Wedgwood, The Unexpected Victorian
    Sue Brown
    The first biography of Julia Wedgwood, the leading Victorian female intellect and writer, niece of Charles Darwin, intimate friend of Robert Browning and mentor of E. M. Forster. The book draws on a mass of unpublished family correspondence offering critical consideration of her ambitious range of non-fiction books, articles and novels. ...
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    52,44 €

  • Patriarchs and Prophets
    Ellen G White
    Discover the inspiring stories of the Bible’s greatest heroes and their struggles for faith in ’Patriarchs and Prophets’ by Christian author Ellen G. White. Uncover the journeys of Adam and Eve, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and Moses as they face trials and tribulations in their quest for righteousness.Through her insightful writing and unique perspective, Mrs. White brings t...
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    36,47 €

  • The Unapologetic Hippie
    Phil Polizatto
    'If you really want to understand peace and love, read this book! Admittedly hilarious, sexy, and outrageous, The Unapologetic Hippie is a 'how-to' book for getting us back to the garden. And we have to get ourselves back to the garden!' - Larry Brinkin, Senior Manager, Human Rights Commission, City of San FranciscoGIACCO GIORDANO IS INSANE! He has organic brain damage from too...
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    33,78 €

  • Bitter Harvest
    Lisi Krall
    Explores the duality between humans and Earth through a focus on the economic system changes that began with grain agriculture and has now reached its apogee in global capitalism. ...
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    41,01 €

  • The Religion of the Ancient Celts
    J. A. MacCulloch
    'The Religion of the Ancient Celts' is a enormous paintings authored via J. A. MacCulloch, a outstanding student and folklorist of the early twentieth century. This seminal book offers a complete exploration of the spiritual beliefs, rituals, and practices of the ancient Celtic human beings. MacCulloch’s studies delves into the religious global of the Celts, examining their pol...
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    18,12 €


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