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  • Days of Fear
    Jane A. McNeil / Jon Wilson
    Days of Fear exposes the shocking story of a gruesome 1914 murder in St. Petersburg, Florida and the calculated lynching of the Black man accused. Who killed Frank Sherman with a shotgun blast inches from his head? What in the restless photographer’s life led to his bloody end? And whydid powerful men decide John Evans had to die for the crime? This book explores true-crime eve...
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    14,53 €

  • Play the Game
    Nkozia X
    Play the Game: Hierarchical Assimilation’ explores how structures, systems, institutions, and governments, converge to manipulate the masses. The devastating results are the loss of autonomy, rights, and authority. This enlightening compendium discusses the weaponization of racism and class within the fabric of American institutions which perpetuates the legalized genocide of c...
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    86,81 €

  • The Beatles in Perspective
    The Beatles’ lives and work continue to delight fans and influence musicians half a century since their heyday. Yet their contribution to contemporary culture and their relationship to social change remain controversial topics in need of reappraisal. This collection brings together fourteen leading scholars of The Beatles to examine their origins, output and legacy. Interdiscip...
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    44,04 €

  • The Truth About Opium Smoking
    Benjamin Broomhall
    This book is an in-depth study of opium smoking, including its manufacture and use in China and the impact it had on both individuals and society as a whole. It includes illustrations that help to explain the process of opium cultivation, preparation, and consumption, making it an important resource for anyone interested in the history of opium use.This work has been selected b...
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    33,70 €

  • The Laws of Contrast and Colour and Their Application to the Arts of Painting, Decoration of Buildings, Mosaic Work ...
    John Spanton / M. E. (Michel Eugène) 1786- Chevreul
    This comprehensive guide to color theory explores the principles of contrast and harmony and their practical application to various forms of art, including painting, decoration, and mosaic work. With detailed explanations and examples, this book is an essential resource for artists and designers alike.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is...
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    37,39 €

  • Descendants of Mordecai Cooke of 'Mordecai’s Mount', Gloucester Co., Va., 1650, and Thomas Booth, of Ware Neck, Gloucester Co., Va., 1685 / by William Carter Stubbs and Elizabeth Saunders Blair Stubbs
    William Carter 1846-1924. Stubbs
    This book offers a comprehensive record of the descendants of Mordecai Cooke and Thomas Booth, two prominent figures in Virginia history in the 17th century. Through meticulous research and documentation, William Carter Stubbs and Elizabeth Saunders Blair Stubbs provide a fascinating glimpse into the lives and legacies of these two families and their impact on the development o...
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    33,82 €

  • Caleb J. Baker, Manufacturer of Tents and Awnings
    C.J. Baker
    In this book, Caleb J. Baker provides a comprehensive guide to his business, which specializes in the manufacture of tents, awnings, and other canvas goods. Drawing on his years of experience in the industry, Baker offers practical advice on everything from materials to construction techniques.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of...
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    33,82 €

  • Deadly Adulteration and Slow Poisoning Unmasked; or, Disease and Death in the pot and the Bottle; in Which the Blood-empoisoning and Life-destroying Adulterations of Wines, Spirits, Beer, Bread, Flour
    Anonymous
    First published in 1857, this expose of the adulteration of food and drink was a crucial factor in the push for food safety laws. Covers poisons added to bread, beer, wine, tea, sugar and spices, as well as descriptions of groundbreaking forensic work that uncovered the truth about life-destroying additives. A fascinating historical document, this book shows that the fight for ...
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    35,64 €

  • Histoire Du Luxe Privé Et Public Depuis L’antiquité Jusqu’à Nos Jours; Volume 2
    Henri Joseph Léon Baudrillart
    Dans cette étude, Henri Joseph Léon Baudrillart examine l’histoire du luxe privé et public depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’à son époque. Il analyse les caractéristiques de la consommation de luxe à travers les époques, ainsi que les attitudes sociales et la réglementation de la consommation de luxe dans différentes cultures. Cette étude est une contribution importante à la compréhensi...
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    42,27 €

  • The Traffic in Babies
    George Walker / Maryland. Vice Commission
    This book is a shocking exposé of the trafficking of infants and children in early 20th century America. It details the conditions and practices discovered by a government investigation in 1914 and provides valuable insights into the history of child welfare and social reform in the United States.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part...
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    34,74 €

  • Le Mécanisme De La Vie Moderne; Volume 3
    Georges Avenel
    Ce livre examine les facteurs qui contribuent à la vie moderne, en explorant les développements technologiques et sociaux qui ont façonné notre société. Il s’intéresse à l’évolution de l’industrie, à la croissance des villes et à l’impact sur la vie quotidienne. Avenel propose également des réflexions sur les conséquences de ces changements pour l’avenir de notre société. This ...
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    39,58 €

  • Chronicles of Fashion
    Elizabeth Stone
    This book provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of fashion and cultural practices from the time of Elizabeth to the early part of the nineteenth century. It covers a wide range of topics including manners, amusements, banquets, and costumes, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of fashion and culture.This work has been selected by scholars as being cu...
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    42,56 €

  • Esclaves, Serfs Et Mainmortables
    Paul Allard
    Ce livre retrace l’histoire de l’esclavage et du servage en Europe, en se concentrant sur le système de mainmorte qui a permis aux seigneurs de conserver le contrôle sur leurs possessions même après leur mort. L’auteur explore les différentes formes de travail servile et le mouvement d’émancipation qui a finalement conduit à leur abolition.This work has been selected by scholar...
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    36,44 €

  • Do good unto all
    This volume explores the ideas, institutions, and experiences that shaped Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist charity in early modern Europe. ...
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    169,57 €

  • Haunted Britain
    Kyle Falcon
    Haunted Britain offers a new emotional and cultural history of the Great War as told through the spiritualist and psychical research movements between 1914 and 1939. ...
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    156,97 €

  • Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey [Volumes I & II in One Volume]
    Marcus Garvey
    Wisdom and Inspiration from the Great Pan-African Leader and ThinkerIn the long road African-Americans have tread-and are still walking-from emancipation toward the complete realization of true racial equality, Marcus Garvey stands out in his early and unequivocal declaration of black rights and pride. In the early 1900s he offered a novel approach: full separation and independ...
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    27,20 €

  • Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey [Volumes I & II in One Volume]
    Marcus Garvey
    Wisdom and Inspiration from the Great Pan-African Leader and ThinkerIn the long road African-Americans have tread-and are still walking-from emancipation toward the complete realization of true racial equality, Marcus Garvey stands out in his early and unequivocal declaration of black rights and pride. In the early 1900s he offered a novel approach: full separation and independ...
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    36,22 €

  • Tennis
    Heiner Gillmeister
    This is the second edition of the highly acclaimed and bestselling comprehensive history of tennis which was the first truly scholarly history of any individual sport. Supported by a startling wealth of linguistic and documentary research, Gillmeister charts the global evolution of tennis from its origins in 12th century France, where it emerged as a more peaceful variety of ri...
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    87,08 €

  • Sin Against the Blood
    Artur Dinter / Mildred Grau
    While recovering from his injuries in World War One in 1916, a 38-year-old German scholar named Artur Dinter wrote a novel that would become highly influential-not the least, through a young political activist named Adolf Hitler.  Dinter was concerned about the growing, pernicious influence of Jews in Germany. It was long known that Jews had dominated certain key sectors of the...
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    24,09 €

  • Around Wolstanton and May Bank
    Gladys Dinnacombe
    Some history of houses and people living around Wolstanton and May Bank, North Staffordshire ...
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    10,37 €

  • The Demb Family Journey - from Mlynov to Baltimore
    Howard I Schwartz
    In this deeply personal investigation, a trained historian unearths the journey of his father’s familyfrom a tiny shtetl in what was western Russia (then Poland and now Ukraine), to the thriving port ofBaltimore. With little knowledge at the start, the author reaches back to the lives of his great-greatgrandparents in the 1860s and traces what became of each of their six childr...
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    43,06 €

  • Kahane - The Militant Rabbi
    Leah Miller
    Rabbi Meir Kahane was arrested approximately 70 times throughout his lifetime. In Israel alone, around 60 times, and the rest in the United States. Most arrests happened in the 1970’s. He spent around 5 years of his life in jail. During that time, he continued to write and study.Rabbi Meir KahaneNovember 4, 1990...died....age 58My task, I considered, to report a great historica...
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    23,58 €

  • Do Jewish Lives Matter?
    Leah Miller
    The play, 'Do Jewish Lives Matter', arose out of the Crown Heights Riot in Brooklyn, a Pogrom where a Black boy was accidentally killed by a Hasidic driver with devastating results. James Baldwin, the famous Negro writer, as far back as 1948 wrote, Georgia has the Negro as a target of hatred. Harlem has the Jew. In 1973 Rabbi Kahane wrote, 'In no way should we refuse to see the...
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    15,18 €

  • AMERICAN HER-STORY
    Eric Leif Davin
    This book is meant as a general introduction, a short guide, for everyone, to the work of significant women’s historians concerning some of the major questions in the field. Thus, this is not a book for specialists. Rather, it is a book for the non-specialist who simply wants to understand what women’s history is all about. ...
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    17,68 €

  • He Who is Made Lord
    Muhammad Suhail bin Mohamed Yazid
    In June 1959, the British established the office of Yang di-Pertuan Negara (He Who is Made Lord) to replace the colonial governorship and represent Queen Elizabeth II in Singapore. Muhammad Suhail explores the divergent attempts to invest meaning in the Yang di-Pertuan Negara. In doing so, he weaves a rich story about the contesting ideas of sovereignty during the global age of...
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    49,30 €

  • Warnings
    John K. Roth / Leonard Grob
    Old friends--one a Jew, the other a Christian--Leonard (Lenny) Grob and John K. Roth are philosophers who have long studied the Holocaust. That experience makes us anxious about democracy, because we are also Americans living in perilous times. The 2020s remind us of the 1930s when Nazis destroyed democracy in Germany. Carnage followed. In the 2020s, Donald Trump and his follow...
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    23,56 €

  • Warnings
    John K. Roth / Leonard Grob
    Old friends--one a Jew, the other a Christian--Leonard (Lenny) Grob and John K. Roth are philosophers who have long studied the Holocaust. That experience makes us anxious about democracy, because we are also Americans living in perilous times. The 2020s remind us of the 1930s when Nazis destroyed democracy in Germany. Carnage followed. In the 2020s, Donald Trump and his follow...
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    37,33 €

  • Talking About Autism
    Manuel F. Casanova
    Embark on an enlightening journey through the intricate and often misunderstood history of autism with the first installment of the captivating Talking About Autism Series.Down the Rabbit Hole of Historical Controversies - the debut book in this thought-provoking series, and takes readers on a profound exploration of the origins and evolution of autism.Written by Manuel Casanov...
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    10,43 €

  • Tobacco on the Periphery
    Jean Stubbs
    This is the story of Cuban tobacco, whose agricultural and industrial development was fashioned as deftly as a Havana cigar around overseas trading interests. It traces the nineteenth-century growth of a strong tobacco oligarchy, peasant grower class and urban salaried work force, alongside slave and indentured labour, and examines how a prestigious manufacturing country was tr...
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    24,67 €

  • Tobacco on the Periphery
    Jean Stubbs
    This is the story of Cuban tobacco, whose agricultural and industrial development was fashioned as deftly as a Havana cigar around overseas trading interests. It traces the nineteenth-century growth of a strong tobacco oligarchy, peasant grower class and urban salaried work force, alongside slave and indentured labour, and examines how a prestigious manufacturing country was tr...
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    36,16 €


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