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  • Bayocean
    Jerry Sutherland
    Like Plato’s fictional island kingdom, most of Bayocean sank below the sea long ago. The rest lies buried beneath the shore pine, salal, and beach grass covering the four-mile-long spit that protects Tillamook Bay from the Pacific Ocean. This book chronicles the half-century this Oregon resort town existed, tells the stories of people who lived there, and explains its demise.  ...
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    20,63 €

  • Letters From Wankie
    Patricia Friedberg
    'Letters from Wankie' is a unique true story based on the collection of some 500 air letters the author, British-born Patricia Friedberg, wrote home to England in the mid-1950s, during the first two years of her marriage to her South African physician husband. Together the newlyweds moved to the remote mining town of Wankie in the far northwest corner of Southern Rhodesia (now ...
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    16,67 €

  • War and Modernization
    Charles Ynfante
    War is devastation and destruction. But war also contributes to modernizing a region, state or country. Actual war and the post-war experience forces the advancement of necessary improvements in social life, industry, technology, and other areas to counter the threat of war’s destruction. World War 2 in the 1940s and its influence in the American Southwest is an example of this...
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    34,59 €

  • Maria and the Stars of Nazca
    Anita Jepson-Gilbert
    Imagine a secret so large, no one could see it-even if it was lying out in broad daylight! Such was the secret hidden in the Nazca desert of Peru. Here, ancient line drawings were so large that people couldn’t see them from the ground. It was not until airplanes began to fly over that region that the great lines and figures could be viewed plainly. One of the first people to di...
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    16,75 €

  • The Place to Stay
    Steve Porter
    Hotel Victory was a beacon of luxury and grandeur along the shores of Put-in-Bay, Ohio. Attracting crowds especially for the short three-month tourist season, the allure of its sumptuous accommodations surrounded by sun and water promised an unforgettable memory. The truth is that unfortunately not every story culminates in a jubilant ending; however, the life lessons we are ab...
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    21,37 €

  • Benandanti Battaglie mitico-rituali tra le Alpi e il Caucaso
    IPPOLITO MARMAI
    I BENANDANTI FRIULANI: NUOVA INTERPRETAZIONE, DATI INEDITI, RISCOPERTO L’INTROVABILE PRATO ROTONDO DI MALISANA, NUOVI DOCUMENTI DELL’INQUISIZIONE, ARCHIVI E VARIANTI DIALETTALI DEL NOME 'BENANDANTI', SOLTANTO UNO SU 80.000 NEONATI NELL’AMNIO o 'CAMICIA'.Le battaglie rituali dei Benandanti friulani - sepolte per secoli negli archivi dell’Inquisizione medioevale - sono state ripo...
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    27,20 €

  • Chinese Geography 1
    Sam Karthik
    China is located in the east of Asia and the west coast of the Pacific Ocean. China’s land area is about 9.6 million square kilometers. It ranks third in the world after Russia and Canada, and is almost the same area as Europe. In fact, Chinese territory has a longitude of more than 60 degrees from east to west, spanning 5 time zones, and a distance of about 5,200 kilometers fr...
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    37,25 €

  • Glimpses Into Sutton’s Past
    Stephen Roberts
    This book tells the story of Sutton Coldfield between 1800 and 1914.  With a focus on the struggles to bring to an end the self-appointed corporation, the arrival of the railway, shops, schools, law and order and leisure, it is a work of social history.  During the period that this book covers, Sutton was transformed beyond any origins asa mere suburb of Birmingham.  It could f...
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    16,37 €

  • Imperial Inequalities
    This volume examines the unequal politics of economic governance across European empires and the ongoing legacies of such histories. It focuses on processes of colonial taxation and, primarily, national welfare to examine the ways in which today’s global inequalities are the result of such connected histories. ...
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    169,18 €

  • How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself
    Emily D. Johnson / Izabella Zaharyaeva
    How St. Petersburg Learned to Study Itself: The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie considers the origins and evolutions of kraevedenie, looking specifically at the role that movements and institutions that emerged in early twentieth-century St. Petersburg played in the formation of this discipline. Based on extensive work in archives in St. Petersburg, it looks at the historical prese...
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    40,60 €

  • Exploring World History through Geography
    Julie Dunbar
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    141,04 €

  • The Measure of the Cosmos
    Petur Haldorson
    PéturHalldórsson baseshisresearchonthework of theIcelandic scholarEinar Pálsson,who discovered this ancient structure of thought.The principal reference points of the measure involved were themotions of the celestialbodiesand the cardinal directions. In fact thecosmogram wasa projection of the Zodiac, anchored to prominentlandmarks on the ground and the Sun’sannual path around ...
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    61,10 €

  • Global biographies
    Global biographies offers a thorough historiographical intervention, a new set of biographical approaches to global history - ’time and periodization’, ’exceptional normal’ and ’space and scales’ - and a broad and critically reflective set of case-studies spanning the globe. ...
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    157,20 €

  • The Letchworth State Park Atlas
    Stephen J. Tulowiecki
    A visitor’s companion to New York’s Letchworth State Park, richly illustrated with ninety maps and thirty-five photographs. ...
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    37,01 €

  • The Commerce And Navigation Of The Erythraean Sea
    Anonymous / John Watson McCrindle
    NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERSThe Commerce And Navigation Of The Erythraean Sea: Being A Translation Of The Periplus Maris Erythræi, By An Anonymous Writer, And Of Arrian’s Account Of The Voyage Of Nearkhos, From The Mouth Of The Indus To The Head Of The Persian Gulf. With Introductions, Commentary, Notes, And Index. By J. W...
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    15,60 €

  • Democratic Ideals and Reality
    Halford John Mackinder
    2022 Reprint of the 1919 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Studying the prerequisites for a stable peace settlement during World War I, the author developed a thesis in political geography that he had first outlined in a paper read to the Royal Geographical Society in 1904, 'The Geographical Pivot of History.'...
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    18,65 €

  • Colonia
    Lorenzo Mariluz Sandoval
    Este libro se escribió entre 1988 y 1990, tras un hecho doloroso que le permitió a Lorenzo Mariluz Sandoval evidenciar la fragilidad de la memoria histórica de una población en el contexto de violencia en la serranía de Lima e intromisión de grupos terroristas en su pueblo. Un domingo de 1988, apacible como todos los días en Colonia Pampas, una columna senderista incursionó en ...
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    24,96 €

  • Humanitarianism, empire and transnationalism, 1760-1995
    Leading experts in Anglophone humanitarianism across some three hundred examine the relationship between humanitarianism, empire, postcolonialism, transnational and global human rights in and beyond the British World. ...
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    169,10 €

  • St. John the Divine, Arva
    Wendy Mencel
    The writings contained herein are the result of a coordinated group effort by members of the congregation of St. John the Divine, Arva, in acknowledgement of the faith and dedication of those who established and built this beautiful and historic church. Although primarily based upon an earlier publication written by Margaret A. Banks to mark the 175-year anniversary, this docum...
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    9,15 €

  • St. John the Divine, Arva
    Wendy Mencel
    The writings contained herein are the result of a coordinated group effort by members of the congregation of St. John the Divine, Arva, in acknowledgement of the faith and dedication of those who established and built this beautiful and historic church. Although primarily based upon an earlier publication written by Margaret A. Banks to mark the 175-year anniversary, this docum...
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    18,04 €

  • Do we agree or disagree?
    W J Foster
    These are the opinions of an ordinary older British man. I have written these, hoping it would bring my blood pressure down, my wife says it will. (So who am I to argue). I have covered the topics (and some people) because they are the ones that have truly annoyed me. I am patriotic, I think this is still the best country in the world, and I don’t like what some individuals and...
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    11,29 €

  • Climate Change in Human History
    Benjamin Lieberman / Elizabeth Gordon
    Climate Change and Human History provides a concise introduction to the relationship between human beings and climate change throughout history. Starting hundreds of thousands of years ago and going up to the present day, this book illustrates how natural climate variability affected early human societies and how human activity is now leading to drastic changes to our climate. ...
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    114,70 €

  • A Child’s Geography of the World
    V. M. Hillyer / VMHillyer
    A Child’s Geography of the World is a general course in geography for juveniles. Hillyer was headmaster at the famed Calvert School and wrote a series of books as part of the curriculum for his students. This title was the result of many years of teaching the subject to young children and of several more years in authoring it. The books is now considered in a classic in home sc...
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    30,48 €

  • A Child’s Geography of the World
    V. M. Hillyer
    A Child’s Geography of the World is a general course in geography for juveniles. Hillyer was headmaster at the famed Calvert School and wrote a series of books as part of the curriculum for his students. This title was the result of many years of teaching the subject to young children and of several more years in authoring it. The books is now considered in a classic in home sc...
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    19,16 €

  • The Legend of the Sleeping Princess
    Terri Ragsdale
    The Legend of the Sleeping Princess is a historical, fictional, spellbinding, and intriguing anecdote of the Colorado National Monument--a mesmerizing story about the Sleeping Princess who spiritually protects and rules the mountainous area and lays carved on the mountainous range.In 1493, two novice Spanish explorers on their first undertaking received expedition orders. They ...
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    14,32 €

  • The Man from Golddust
    Joe McCormick
    A fictional story about true events that happened in 1937 in a rural area of West TN, when flood waters wreaked havoc on the people of the area. ...
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    17,10 €

  • As Above, So Below
    Gina Konstantopoulos
    A collection of essays addressing the nexus of religion and geography in the ancient Near East, presenting several case studies that cover a range of time periods and areas to illuminate the diverse phenomena that occur when religion is viewed through the lenses of space and place. ...
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    161,22 €

  • A toda vela. El viaje científico de los Estados Unidos
    Mary Anne Junqueira / Marisa Montrucchio
    A toda vela se refiere a la primera y grandiosa expedición científica estadounidense que dio la vuelta al mundo: la U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838-1842). Se trata de una notable contribución para la Historia de los Estados Unidos de inicios del siglo XIX, para el universo de los viajes y los viajantes y para los estudios sobre Globalización. Mary Anne Junqueira se dedicó a inv...
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    46,81 €

  • Almost There
    DP Turner
    'Do you want to hike the Appalachian Trail again?' he asked. Although DP Turner had hiked 1,500 miles of that trail during his adolescent years, that question from an unlikable classmate in high school led to a return forty years later. Thinking he was a hiking expert, Turner would find that a return would be quite different. Turner presents a trek fraught with hardships,...
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    15,57 €

  • VEGLIE VISTA DA UN CITTADINO ITALOSVIZZERO
    Yvan Rettore
    Quest’opera consiste in un’analisi della situazione di Veglie ed in particolare nell’identificazione delle cause del suo declino. Non intende essere soltanto un’opera critica ma anche propositiva e stimolante per tentare di arginare questa tendenza. ...
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    10,28 €


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