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  • Border Aesthetics
    Few concepts are as central to understanding the modern world as borders, and the now-thriving field of border studies has already produced a substantial literature analyzing their legal, ideological, geographical, and historical aspects. Such studies have hardly exhausted the subject's conceptual fertility, however, as this pioneering collection on the aesthetics of border...
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    38,31 €

  • Sarimanok
    Bob Hobman / Robert James Hobman
    Sarimanok is the thrilling story of an attempt to cross the Indian Ocean in a 20-metre-long dugout canoe to demonstrate how the Austronesian-speaking people of Madagascar may have colonised their island some 1,500 years before Christ. Characters on the way include cuthroat rebels and pirates, sea gypsies, mystical way-finders, primitive ship builders, people who hunt whales wit...
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    20,30 €

  • Sarimanok
    Bob Hobman / Robert James Hobman
    Sarimanok is the thrilling story of an attempt to cross the Indian Ocean in a 20-metre-long dugout canoe to demonstrate how the Austronesian-speaking people of Madagascar may have colonised their island some 1,500 years before Christ. Characters on the way include cuthroat rebels and pirates, sea gypsies, mystical way-finders, primitive ship builders, people who hunt whales wit...
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    15,58 €

  • Geological History of Earth
    Janelle Pounds
    The geological history of Earth follows the major events in Earth's past based on the geologic time scale, a system of chronological measurement based on the study of the planet's rock layers (stratigraphy). Earth formed about 4.54 billion years ago by accretion from the solar nebula, a disk-shaped mass of dust and gas left over from the formation of the Sun, which also...
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    19,65 €

  • Price of Permanence
    William D Bryan
    Using the lens of environmental history, William D. Bryan provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the post-Civil War South by framing the New South as a struggle over environmental stewardship. For more than six decades, scholars have caricatured southerners as so desperate for economic growth that they rapaciously consumed the region's abundant natural resources. Yet busin...
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    69,46 €

  • Strabo The Geography in Two Volumes
    Strabo / Horace Leonard Jones
    Second volume of two, with notes and six maps. Containing Books IX ch. 3 - XVII. Second volume of two, with notes and six maps. Containing Books IX ch. 3 - XVII. Second volume of two, with notes and six maps. Containing Books IX ch. 3 - XVII. ...
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    30,18 €

  • 38 Hours to Montreal
    Dan Buchanan
    Governor General Charles Poulett Thomson is in a hurry. In response to the Rebellion of 1837-38, he has been urgently tasked by his masters in England to modernize and improve the governments in the Canadian colonies. In just three months in Toronto, the governor general has managed to pass all the legislation he wants, but with politics heating up in Quebec and his bosses in E...
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    39,58 €

  • 38 Hours to Montreal
    Dan Buchanan
    Governor General Charles Poulett Thomson is in a hurry. In response to the Rebellion of 1837-38, he has been urgently tasked by his masters in England to modernize and improve the governments in the Canadian colonies. In just three months in Toronto, the governor general has managed to pass all the legislation he wants, but with politics heating up in Quebec and his bosses in E...
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    31,55 €

  • Strabo The Geography in Two Volumes
    Strabo / Horace Leonard Jones
    First of two volumes. Strabo's Geography complete in two volumes in English. Volume I, Books I - IX ch. 2. Jones, Sterrett translation, notes, 9 maps & 5 figs.  First of two volumes. Strabo's Geography complete in two volumes in English. Volume I, Books I - IX ch. 2. Jones, Sterrett translation, notes, 9 maps & 5 figs.  3 ...
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    27,37 €

  • The Great Deception
    Messenger
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    9,30 €

  • Amazing Africa
    Dr. Diana Prince
    For most people, Africa remains a mystery continent. Many do not realize that there are fifty-four different countries that make up the African continent. The spectacular animals that inhabit the grasslands and African savannas are only part of Africas story.Africa has amazing mountains, jungles, deserts and rugged coastlines. It has small tribal villages and modern cosmopolita...
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    47,15 €

  • Amazing Africa
    Dr. Diana Prince
    For most people, Africa remains a mystery continent. Many do not realize that there are fifty-four different countries that make up the African continent. The spectacular animals that inhabit the grasslands and African savannas are only part of Africas story.Africa has amazing mountains, jungles, deserts and rugged coastlines. It has small tribal villages and modern cosmopolita...
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    37,10 €

  • Speaking Rivers
    Vipul Singh
    The question of water and human dependence on river systems has become a major public concern of the twenty-first century. Based on a long term historical study of a flood country in the mid-Ganga basin, Speaking Rivers: Environmental History of a Mid-Ganga Flood Country, 1540–1885 looks at the changing perception of the people from a useful to a problematic river.  Based on en...
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    64,40 €

  • The Great Fires
    Bob Zybach
    This study was designed to examine the relationship between land management practices of Indian communities prior to contact with Europeans and the nature or character of subsequent catastrophic forest fires in the Oregon Coast Range. The research focused on spatial and temporal patterns of Indian burning across the landscape from 1491 until 1848, and corresponding patterns of ...
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    75,03 €

  • Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies
    Paul Sutter
    Providence Canyon State Park, also known as Georgia's 'Little Grand Canyon,' preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. It is a park that protects the scenic results of an environmental disaster. While little known today, Providence Canyon enjoyed a modicum of fame in the 1930s. During that decade...
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    34,10 €

  • One Friday in Jerusalem
    Moubarak Andre
    The Via Dolorosa—Latin for “Way of Grief,” “Way of Sorrows,” or “Painful Way”—is a street in the Old City of Jerusalem, held to be the route that Jesus walked on the way to his crucifixion. It is a distance of about six hundred meters (two thousand feet) but a one-hour walk with prayers and devotions.I know the Via Dolorosa because I grew up on the Via Dolorosa. As a boy, I pla...
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    18,83 €

  • Pickin’ Up Paw Paws
    Juanita Burgess Lyons
    Pickin’ Up Paw Paws records the genealogy of Colonel William Burgess, a notable South River colonist who immigrated to America in 1650 and settled in the Chesapeake Bay area of Maryland. The book includes local history of the area and the time frame of the family’s migration from Maryland to the Ozarks of Missouri and Arkansas. Interviews with elder members of the author’s fami...
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    27,07 €

  • Description of the Aegean and Other Islands
    Cristoforo Buondelmonti
    One of the treasures in the James Ford Bell collection at the University of Minnesota is Henricus Martellus Germanus’ copy of Cristoforo Buondelmonti’s Description of the Archipelago, the Cyclades, and the Other Islands.The work was written in Latin in 1420, and Henricus’s copy dates from c.1475. Cristoforo Buondelmonti’s original book was an account of the Greek islands, illus...
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    127,41 €

  • You’ll Know It When You See It! Uniquely Geeky Things - Geography Books for Kids | Children’s Geography & Culture Books
    Baby Professor
    You can see the world in a few minutes if you read this geography book for kids. This book highlights the landmarks that are known worldwide. You can still see these landmarks today as they have been made to withstand the tests of time. Learn about geography with one landmark at a time. Go ahead and secure a copy today! ...
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    18,19 €

  • Timo Lest, East Timor
    Mark Burton
    Timo Lest, East Timor. Administration and Governance. Our ancestors lived in harmony with the environment using it sustainably to support our families. The Government will draw on the strong bond between the Timorese people and the natural environment to ensure that the economy grows in harmony with the natural environment, which will entail traditional practises like "taraband...
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    25,54 €

  • the BETHLEHEM STAR and THE ADVENTUIRES OF A WISE MAN
    Victor Ammann
    When we think about the birth of Christ, many things come, to mind but one of those many things is the wise men. These men were Persians. What motivated them to cross hundreds of miles of desert and follow a star that was leading them west to Israel, a Jewish nation under Roman rule? The star was unlike any to the stars in the heavens that they studied. They knew it was a speci...
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    16,31 €

  • Evolution of Town Planning in Pakistan
    Anis Ur Rahmaan
    The book describes the world’s oldest human settlements during the rather long and diversified sets of civilizations and cultural epochs in the regions, which are now situated within the territorial limits of Pakistan, and highlights three historical periods, namely (i) the age of neolithic settlements, (ii) the Indus Valley civilization, and (iii) the period of precolonial emp...
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    18,50 €

  • Evolution of Town Planning in Pakistan
    Anis Ur Rahmaan
    The book describes the world’s oldest human settlements during the rather long and diversified sets of civilizations and cultural epochs in the regions, which are now situated within the territorial limits of Pakistan, and highlights three historical periods, namely (i) the age of neolithic settlements, (ii) the Indus Valley civilization, and (iii) the period of precolonial emp...
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    24,07 €

  • A Guide to the Notorious Bars of Alaska
    Doug Vandegraft
    The Lower 48 have created myths and legends about things Alaskan: Things in Alaska are bigger, colder, wilder, fiercer, more independent, more rugged, more resourceful, to name just a few of the qualities that surround the Alaska myth. However, the one that says Alaskan bars stand head and shoulders above bars anywhere else just might be true. When author Doug Vandegraft moved ...
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    15,53 €

  • Where in the World? Famous Buildings and Landmarks Then and Now - Geography Book for Kids | Children’s Explore the World Books
    Baby Professor
    If you can identify all these landmarks, then half of the job is already done. The other half is in locating where in the world these landmarks are found. You will need to know your geography to do that. It’s okay if you don’t know much now. This book will help you refine your knowledge in the subject. Good luck! ...
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    18,19 €

  • Rapid Transit Comes to the Bronx
    Gregory J. Christiano
    After the merger of New York City and lower Westchester in 1874, there was a heightened interest in extending rapid transit lines across the Harlem River into this new section of the city. The newly acquired land was a mixture of hamlets, towns, villages, and farms on the fringes of urban development. There was great potential for economic growth. But it wasn’t until 1882 when ...
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    16,27 €

  • The Historical Geography of the Holy Land
    George Adam Smith
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    69,63 €

  • The Road Less Traveled
    Dr. Diana Prince / DrDiana Prince
    The Road Less Traveled is a book about rarely seen, exotic places. Experience the mysterious Old Shanghai side by side with the skyscrapers of the new city. Visit the legendary Skeleton Coast of Namibia, which has been a graveyard of ships for over a thousand years.Experience the tranquil beauty of the Ganges River in India and the exotic deserts of the Gobi and the Sahara. Enc...
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    44,34 €

  • The Road Less Traveled
    Dr. Diana Prince / DrDiana Prince
    The Road Less Traveled is a book about rarely seen, exotic places. Experience the mysterious Old Shanghai side by side with the skyscrapers of the new city. Visit the legendary Skeleton Coast of Namibia, which has been a graveyard of ships for over a thousand years.Experience the tranquil beauty of the Ganges River in India and the exotic deserts of the Gobi and the Sahara. Enc...
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    57,00 €

  • Talks with Mussolini
    Emil Ludwig
    The following conversations took place in the Palazzo di Venezia at Rome, being held almost daily for an hour at a time between March 23 and April 4, 1932, boti dates inclusive, We talked Italian, and each conversation was recorded by me in German as soon as it was finished. Only a few sentences from earlier conversations have been introduced into this book. The German manuscri...
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    13,38 €


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