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  • 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 €

  • Serving Victoria
    Kate Hubbard
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    14,80 €

  • The Dutch Moment
    Wim Klooster
    In the seventeenth century, the Dutch built an Atlantic empire that stretched from the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast and from present-day New York to Brazil. This empire was forged on the battlefields and the high seas, as Dutch armies and fleets extended the decades-old independence war against Spain across the ocean. Dutch transatlantic fleets, armies, and colonies incl...
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    61,34 €

  • 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 €

  • Chapters On Jewish Literature
    Israel Abrahams
    'Chapters on Jewish Literature' is a book written by Israel Abrahams, a distinguished Jewish scholar and historian who lived from 1858 to 1925. The book was first published in 1899 and has been well-regarded for its exploration of various aspects of Jewish literature. The work is a collection of essays that delve into different periods of Jewish literary history, spanning from ...
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    12,04 €

  • Tracy
    Cyclone Tracy demolished Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory when it struck during the night of Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning, 1974. Over almost ten hours the small, intense, but slow-moving weather system left a swathe of destruction across the entire town. Few buildings escaped.Sixty-six people died, many of them on vessels which put to sea, while many hundreds we...
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    27,26 €

  • Nineteenth-Century Women’s Movements and the Bible
    Nineteenth-Century Women’s Movements and the Bible examines politically motivated women’s movements in the nineteenth century, including the legal, cultural, and ecclesiastical contexts of women. Focusing on the period beginning with the French Revolution in 1789 through the end of World War I in 1918, contributors explore the many ways that women’s lives were limited in both t...
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    67,14 €

  • Nineteenth-Century Women’s Movements and the Bible
    Nineteenth-Century Women’s Movements and the Bible examines politically motivated women’s movements in the nineteenth century, including the legal, cultural, and ecclesiastical contexts of women. Focusing on the period beginning with the French Revolution in 1789 through the end of World War I in 1918, contributors explore the many ways that women’s lives were limited in both t...
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    85,77 €

  • The American Empire
    Scott Nearing
    The American Empire is a book written by Scott Nearing, an American economist and social activist, that explores the growth and impact of American capitalism.In this book, Nearing argues that the American Empire, characterized by its expansive economic and military power, has been built through the exploitation of labor and natural resources both domestically and abroad. He exa...
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    17,76 €

  • The material body
    This book combines the approaches of historians and archaeologists to explore past individuals as embodied subjects by examining the material and experiencing body in England, 1700-1850. It explores precisely how the biological, physical, environmental, cultural and social interacted in the production of the embodied experiences. ...
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    42,91 €

  • Holy Enemies of Freedom
    A.J. Deus
    Holy Enemies of Freedom lays bare how anti-Semitism finds its roots in deep-seated cultural trauma.The German Martin Luther was the founder of the Protestant Church. He wanted nothing more than to see the Jewish population exiled or terminated. In his time, the interactions between leaders of Jews, Christians, and Muslims fueled a march toward a world war. Their promise was to ...
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    38,22 €

  • Holy Enemies of Freedom
    A.J. Deus
    Holy Enemies of Freedom lays bare how anti-Semitism finds its roots in deep-seated cultural trauma.The German Martin Luther was the founder of the Protestant Church. He wanted nothing more than to see the Jewish population exiled or terminated. In his time, the interactions between leaders of Jews, Christians, and Muslims fueled a march toward a world war. Their promise was to...
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    31,12 €

  • The First 100 Years 1907-2007
    Toni Barber
    The First 100 Years tells the story from 1907 to 2007 of the First Baptist Church of Passtown and the African American Community of Hayti in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. The church members and residents tell their stories in words and pictures during the milestone 100th Anniversary of the First Baptist Church of Passtown in 2007.There are many historical Hayti communities through...
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    190,98 €

  • The Mirror of the Graces - Containing General Instructions for Combining Elegance, Simplicity, and Economy with Fashion in Dress; Hints on Female Accomplishments and Manners; and Directions for the Pr
    Unknown
    The body is as much a part of the human creature as the mind; by its outward expression, we convey to others a sense of our opinions, hopes,fears, and affections-we communicate love, and we excite it. We enjoy, not only the pleasures of the senses, but the delights which shoot from mind to mind, in the pressure of a hand, the glance of an eye, and the whisper of the heart. Shal...
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    12,24 €

  • A Veritable Hell
    Gavin Scrimgeour
    During the Battle of Fromelles on one terrible night in July 1916, the 32nd Battalion from South Australia and Western Australia lost over 85% of its fighting strength.Using the words of those from the 32nd Battalion who survived, the course of the battle in their sector during that night is reconstructed, and the tragic experiences of brave men thrust into an impossible situat...
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    15,94 €

  • Th e Old Faith and the Russian Land
    Douglas Rogers
    The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over three centuries. The town of Sepych was settled in the late seventeenth century by religious dissenters who fled to the forests of the Urals to escape a world they believed to be in the clutches of the Antichrist. Factions of Old Believe...
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    61,93 €

  • Death Smiles at All of Us
    Kayden Abley
    What happens when a child dies? How does society treat parents after they have lost a child?Was death any different in the Victorian era than in today’s world? This thoughtful analysis examines child death in Victorian Scotland.Questions around money, child safety, class prejudices, and societal shortcomings are examined here in depth, focusing on wide-ranging historical and li...
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    18,01 €

  • From Slavery to the Stars
    Andreea Kindryd
    This story is a tapestry woven with threads of resilience, love, and adventure. It’s about more than working on the original Star Trek or her slave ancestor’s love story; it’s a journey through history, loss, and triumph.Andreea has walked alongside giants, and mourned the loss of friends like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. She has navigated the complexities of love and fac...
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    41,97 €

  • República e civilização: um olhar brasileiro
    Gabriel Cohn
    São as exigências e dificuldades da vida civilizada e republicana em contexto como o brasileiro que formam o núcleo dos artigos aqui recolhidos, escritos em diferentes momentos. Isso se aplica desde o mais abrangente deles, sobre civilização, cidadania e barbárie, até o mais específico sobre o fascismo em sua possível versão brasileira, passando por uma mescla de reflexão mais ...
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    12,48 €

  • The First 100 Years 1907-2007
    Toni Barber
    The First 100 Years tells the story from 1907 to 2007 of the First Baptist Church of Passtown and the African American Community of Hayti in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. The church members and residents tell their stories in words and pictures during the milestone 100th Anniversary of the First Baptist Church of Passtown in 2007.There are many historical Hayti communities through...
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    133,87 €

  • Responsa in a Historical Context
    Debby Koren
    This book contains a collection of eight annotated translations of responsa, alongside the original Hebrew texts, focusing on the post-expulsion Spanish-Portuguese communities of the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. Topics include excommunication in Amsterdam, ʻagunot, inheritance rights of a converso son, obligatory contracts and breach of agreement, heresy and humanist sch...
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    42,60 €

  • El Libro de Marielle Franco
    Marielle Franco
    El libro Marielle Franco - A Photobiography es un documento esencial no sólo para comprender las principales cuestiones sociales de actualidad en Brasil, sino también la amplia lucha por los derechos humanos, para la población negra y para las personas LGBTQIAP+. Marielle Franco (1979-2018) fue una de las políticas brasileñas contemporáneas más importantes. Nacida en el Complex...
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    33,28 €

  • Black Firsts in Los Angeles
    Randal Henry
    Black Firsts in Los Angeles shines a spotlight on more than 200 extraordinary achievements by Black Angelenos.Black Firsts highlights the oft unheralded accomplishments of Black Angelenos which-despite their importance-are generally not included in school books or taught in classrooms. Organized into 83 areas of accomplishment alphabetically and chronologically, Black Firsts re...
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    44,19 €

  • Motherhood confined
    Rachel E. Bennett
    The book is the first extensive historical examination of motherhood in English prisons. It addresses the challenges mothers and babies have historically posed to prison systems not designed with their containment and the management of their health in mind. ...
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    43,12 €

  • Celebrating Love Across Borders
    Blaze X. Maverick
    Embark on a captivating journey through the intricate tapestry of love as we unravel the pages of 'Celebrating Love Across Borders: Controversies and Criticisms Worldwide.' This thought-provoking exploration transcends cultural boundaries, delving into the universal complexities of love’s global tapestry. Prepare to be swept away as we navigate through diverse customs, time-hon...
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    12,68 €

  • Shackled Again?
    Tony Watkins
    Tony Watkins, in his second book, brings us these powerful women who are in this incredible collection of first-hand accounts. Each have a unique fingerprint within the Civil Rights Movement. Their contributions to this country are impeccable, and it is time that we all learn who they are. In this historically accurate work, Tony, through interviews, recordings, and transcripti...
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    30,61 €

  • With Many Miracles
    Israel Cappell
    On April 27, 1944, Polish-born Israel Cappell was awakened by the dreadful knock on the door that he and his family had feared since they began to hide from the Nazis in their adopted city of Brussels two years earlier. Israel’s sister Fanny managed to flee, one of many consequential miracles that shape this riveting memoir of Holocaust survival.Israel takes the reader on a fut...
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    15,19 €

  • Tarnopol Volume (Ternopil, Ukraine)
    Moshe Kutten
    Tarnopol is a city in western Ukraine roughly 80 miles east of Lviv. During its history, it changed hands several times. It was annexed to Austria in 1772 as part of Galicia and remained under Austrian rule until 1918 when the empire collapsed. During World War I the city passed from German and Austrian forces to Russia several times. For a brief time at the end of 1918, it was...
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    49,33 €

  • Resistance Girl Renée
    Ruth Uzrad
    She will do anything to bring her family back together.Berlin, 1939. When her beloved hometown of Berlin falls under Nazi rule, 14-year-old Ruth takes her younger sisters by the hand and boards a train bound for Belgium. Courageous and resourceful, she vows to do all she can to keep the three of them safe and together.But as the war progresses swiftly through Europe, even Belgi...
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    22,59 €

  • The Pack Sweeps on Together
    John E. Turner
    Blackheath Harriers (now Blackheath & Bromley Harriers AC) was founded in 1869, making it one of the oldest running clubs in the world. It’s Club magazine, the Gazette, was first produced in 1898. Following the success of his first book, ’Hurrah for the Squares Entwinéd’, piecing together extracts from the first 50 years (1898-1948), and his second book, ’The Badge we all hold ...
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    16,95 €


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