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  • The Social Record of Christianity
    Joseph McCabe
    Throughout history, the Christian Church has put up a bitter and persistent opposition to astronomy, geology, biology, paleontology and evolution and has banned or prevented the investigation or practice of medicine, life insurance, agriculture, the census, printing, and the use of steam and electricity. This social history of repression is explored in McCabe’s well-documented ...
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    14,39 €

  • The Near East
    Lynda A. Salem / Sema'an I. Salem / Sema’an I. Salem
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    25,28 €

  • Complicating Categories
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    46,34 €

  • English Society, 1660 1832
    Clark J. C. D. / Clark JCD. / J. C. D. Clark / JCDClark / Jonathan Clark
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    107,31 €

  • English Society, 1660 1832
    J. C. D. Clark / JCDClark / Jonathan Clark
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    47,24 €

  • Evil and Exile
    Elie Wiesel / Michaël de Saint Cheron
    A six-day series of interviews between Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel and French journalist Philippe de Saint-Cheron, Evil and Exile probes some of the most crucial and pressing issues facing humankind today. Having survived the unspeakable evil of the Holocaust, Wiesel remained silent for ten years before dedicating his life to the memory of this tragedy, witnessing ti...
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    41,28 €

  • A Spiritual Life
    Merle Feld
    Explores the complex facets of a Jewish woman’s spiritual coming-of-age, capturing the emotional and spiritual reality of contemporary Jews as well as religious seekers of all types. ...
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    41,97 €

  • The Making of 2001
    Stephanie Schwam
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    16,52 €

  • The Art of the Moving Picture
    Vachel Lindsay
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    14,06 €

  • Jewish Communities in Exotic Places
    Ken Blady
    Jewish Communities in Exotic Places examines seventeen Jewish groups that are referred to in Hebrew as edot ha-mizrach, Eastern or Oriental Jewish communities. These groups, situated in remote places on the Asian and African Jewish geographical periphery, became isolated from the major centers of Jewish civilization over the centuries and embraced some interesting practices and...
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    106,12 €

  • Shadows of the Shoah
    Victor Jeleniewski Seidler
    "How can we make sense of being born and growing up in the shadows of the Shoah without being able to speak about the unspeakable terror that killed so many in our families? As the second generation we were rarely to hear stories of love and loss or to participate in the mourning of so many who had been brutally murdered. Rather we were to grow up ’normally’, and to learn to tu...
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    57,90 €

  • Shadows of the Shoah
    Victor Jeleniewski Seidler
    How can we make sense of being born and growing up in the shadows of the Shoah without being able to speak about the unspeakable terror that killed so many in our families? As the second generation we were rarely to hear stories of love and loss or to participate in the mourning of so many who had been brutally murdered. Rather we were to grow up ’normally’, and to learn to tur...
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    193,78 €

  • Arabia Felix From The Time Of The Queen Of Sheba
    Jean-Francois Breton
    Sheba, or Saba, is a region of high mountains and vast deserts situated in the southwest of the Arabian peninsula, in what is known today as Yemen. The mysteries and riches of Sheba and its people enticed the likes of Alexander the Great, the Emperor Augustus, and the kings of Ethiopia and Byzantium. From the 8th century to the 1st century BC, the kingdom of Sheba dominated oth...
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    20,96 €

  • Social Unrest and Popular Protest in England, 1780-1840
    John E. Archer / John EArcher
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    25,67 €

  • Social Unrest and Popular Protest in England, 1780-1840
    John E. Archer / John EArcher
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    85,73 €

  • Ten Years of German Unification
    Charlotte Kahn
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    121,53 €

  • Hollywood Beyond the Screen
    Anne Massey
    Hollywood has exerted a profound influence on British style and design. From its earliest days, Hollywood glamour in the form of make-up, hairstyles, and fashion was mimicked by women throughout Britain. But the influence of Hollywood was more than skin-deep. Nearly every form of British material culture in the twentieth century has been influenced to some extent by American...
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    57,76 €

  • Secret Societies and Subversive Movements
    Nesta H. Webster / Nesta HWebster
    Webster lays out, in historical perspective, how secret societies and subversive movements have operated and controlled revolutions from behind the scenes. Webster writes that while many groups have been started to promote high values and seek knowledge, some become perverted by power-hungry individuals who see ways to exploit the world for their own benefit. ...
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    23,58 €

  • The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age
    Richard Rudgley
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    19,82 €

  • The Mis-Education of the Negro
    Carter Godwin Woodson
    The Mis-Education of the Negro is a book originally published in 1933 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson. The thesis of Dr. Woodson's book is that blacks of his day were being culturally indoctrinated, rather than taught, in American schools. This conditioning, he claims, causes blacks to become dependent and to seek out inferior places in the greater society of which they are a part...
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    6,53 €

  • The History of the Negro Church
    Carter Godwin Woodson
    This book is the non-illustrated version.  An illustrated version, which includes images of some of the people mentioned in the book, is available via ISBN 9781680920666.The importance of the church in the life of the Negro justifies the publication of this brief account of the development of the institution. For many years the various denominations have been writing treatises ...
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    7,42 €

  • Islam and Gender
    Ziba Mir-Hosseini
    Following the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the re-introduction of Sharica law relating to gender and the family, women’s rights in Iran suffered a major setback. However, as the implementers of the law have faced the social realities of women’s lives and aspirations, positive changes have gradually come about. Here Ziba Mir-Hosseini takes us to the heart of the growing debate...
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    62,32 €

  • Atlas of American Religion
    Peter L Halvorson / Peter L. Halvorson / Peter LHalvorson / William M Newman / William M. Newman / William MNewman
    Methodists to Congregationalists, Mormons to Jews, Church of God to the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel-the story of religion in the United States is in large part the story of its paradoxical religious organizations. Through both words and maps, The Atlas of American Religion brings coherence to the shifting picture of 200 years of American religious history. Fro...
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    129,23 €

  • Economic Change in China, C.1800 1950
    P. J. Richardson / Philip Richardson / PJRichardson
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    42,59 €

  • Integral Outsiders
    William Jr Schell / William Jr. Schell / William JrSchell
    In this original and compelling book, William Schell, Jr., examines the largest foreign colony in Mexico during the reign of Porfirio Diaz, 1876D1911. Expatriate Americans constituted the greatest number of technicians, technocrats, consultants, engineers, agronomists, mining specialists, railroad experts, and venture capitalists in Mexico. The influence of these ’integral outs...
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    159,53 €

  • A Short and Remarkable History of New York City
    Angela Wigan / Jane Mushabac
    NOW in its fifth Printing which includes the events of September 11, 2001.Selected by the American Association of University Presses as one of 'The Best of the Best from the University Presses.' (2000)New Yorkers love to watch the building of a new skyscraper-particularly the digging of a foundation-through small holes cut into a wooden construction fence. It’s one of the grea...
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    42,83 €

  • The Americanization of Religious Minorities
    Eric Michael Mazur
    We are converting this hardcover book to paperback. The date above is for the hardcover book since I am unable to put in a 'future' date. ...
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    35,70 €

  • There Once Was a World
    Yaffa Eliach
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    74,82 €

  • The Ancient Mesopotamian City
    Marc Van De Mieroop
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    113,69 €

  • Maya Conquistador
    Matthew Restall
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    19,64 €