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  • Black Neighbors
    Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
    Professing a policy of cultural and social integration, the American settlement house movement made early progress in helping immigrants adjust to life in American cities. However, when African Americans migrating from the rural South in the early twentieth century began to replace white immigrants in settlement environs, most houses failed to redirect their efforts toward thei...
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    61,12 €

  • The Jewish Time Line Encyclopedia
    Mattis Kantor
    Beginning with the creation of the universe in the Jewish year (3760 B.C.E.) and ending with the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon in 5745 (1985). This volume employs chronologies and time lines to convey Jewish history’s people and events. Kantor writes from the perspective of a traditional Jew, covering events such as the Flood, giving of the Torah, and the fall of the Tower of...
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    70,36 €

  • Cornish Studies Volume 1
    The first volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation. ...
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    27,65 €

  • Secret Doctrine in Israel a Study of the Zohar and its Connections
    Arthur Edward Waite
    The Secret Doctrine in Israel: A Study of the Zohar and its Connections is a book written by Arthur Edward Waite. This book is a comprehensive study of the Zohar, a mystical text of Jewish tradition, and its connections to other mystical traditions. The author explores the history, symbolism, and interpretation of the Zohar and its impact on Jewish mysticism. He also delves int...
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    39,76 €

  • A Pilgrim’s Path
    John J. Robinson / John JRobinson
    It’s a masterpiece...if you’re interested in American Masonry and its impact on our country, this book is for you.-Brent Morris, The Scottish Rite Journal ...
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    13,94 €

  • Bassically Speaking
    Benny Carter / David Chevan / Edward Berger
    Duvivier’s reflections on growing up in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s, the evolution of the bass, life in the commercial studios, and his memories of close associates. With discography/solography and previously unpublished photographs. ...
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    156,72 €

  • Eat and Be Satisfied
    John Cooper
    Eat and Be Satisfied is the first comprehensive and critical history of Jewish food from biblical times until the present. John Cooper explores the traditional foods-the everyday diets as well as the specialties for the Sabbath and festivals-of both the Ashkenazic and Sephardic cuisines. He discusses the often debated question of what makes certain foods 'Jewish' and details th...
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    76,19 €

  • The Jews of Kurdistan
    Eric Brauer
    Following World War II, members of the sizable Jewish community in what had been Kurdistan, now part of Iraq, left their homeland and resettled in Palestine where they were quickly assimilated with the dominant Israeli-Jewish culture.The Jews of Kurdistan is a unique historical document in that it presents a picture of Kurdish Jewish life and culture prior to World War II. It i...
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    74,52 €

  • The Death of an American Jewish Community
    Hillel Levine / Lawrence Harmon
    ’The Death Of An American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions, ’ with much of its concentration on the policies of banks and real estate interests on ethnic communities in the 1960s, should help fill in the time line and develop an focus on ethnic relations and urban affairs more in the social structural direction. ...
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    22,37 €

  • The Industrial Revolution and British Society
    O'Brien Quinault / O’Brien Quinault
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    39,36 €

  • American Indian Children at School, 1850-1930
    Michael C. Coleman
    From more than a hundred autobiographical accounts written by American Indians recalling their schooling in government and missionary institutions this book recovers a perspective that was almost lost. In a system of pedagogy that was alien to their culture these and hundreds of others were wrested as youngsters from their tribal life and regimented to become American citizens....
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    50,09 €

  • Masonic Baptism
    Albert Pike
    Masonic Baptism: Reception of a Louveteau and Adoption is a book written by Albert Pike, a prominent figure in the history of Freemasonry. The book explores the ritual of Masonic baptism, specifically the reception of a Louveteau, which refers to a new member who is being initiated into the Masonic order. Pike delves into the symbolism and significance of the Masonic baptism ri...
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    31,22 €

  • Children of the Dream
    Audrey Edwards / Craig K. Polite / Craig KPolite
    Edwards and Polite focus on African American baby-boomers who have grown up possessing something no generation of African Americans has ever before experienced--entitlement. Surprising and often controversial, this groundbreaking book stands as vivid testimony to the increasingly complex world in which African Americans strive to succeed. ...
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    17,76 €

  • Slow Death for Slavery
    Jan S. Hogendorn / Jan SHogendorn / Paul E. Lovejoy / Paul ELovejoy
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    102,87 €

  • Revolutionary Soldier
    C. Keith Wilbur / CKeith Wilbur
    Has 85 full-page plates of hand-lettered text and meticulously detailed drawings that bring to life the day-to-day pleasures and privations of the Revolutionary soldier. ...
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    15,14 €

  • The Jewish Family in Antiquity
    Shaye J. D. Cohen / Shaye JDCohen
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    20,02 €

  • Diasporas in Antiquity
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    16,45 €

  • Place-Name Changes, 1900-1991
    Adrian Room
    Contains over 4,500 name changes worldwide, ranging from small villages to entire countries. ...
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    92,77 €

  • Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol 19
    A. Day
    The Ordnance Survey Memoirs are a uniquely detailed source for the history of the northern half of Ireland immediately before the Great Famine. They were written in the 1830s to accompany the Ordnance Survey maps, but were not published at the time.In these new editions they act as a 19th century Domesday book and are essential to the understanding of the cultural heritage of t...
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    23,52 €

  • For Good and Evil
    Charles Adams / Lorenz Books
    The very word Taxes sends shivers up spines. Yet, very few realize the tremendous impact that taxation has had on civilization. The author changes that in this fascinating history. ...
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    27,28 €

  • Archeology of Mississippi
    Calvin S. Brown
    Archeology of Mississippi by Calvin S. BrownIntroduction by Janet FordCalvin S. Brown’s classic study of the archeological sites and artifacts of the prehistoric Indians who inhabited the lands that are now the state of MississippiThis reprinting makes available again the only book of its kind to be focused upon the prehistoric Indians of Mississippi. Although written expressly...
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    49,28 €

  • The Jews
    Howard Fast
    A classic of popular history, Howard Fast’s masterwork on the 4,000-year history of a people is now available in trade paperback. ...
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    17,28 €

  • Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity
    Ian Morris / Morris Ian
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    64,03 €

  • The Hidden and Manifest God
    Peter Schaefer
    This book represents the first wide-scale presentation and interpretation of pre-kabbalistic, Jewish mysticism. This is the Hekhalot or Merkavah mysticism. The emphasis is on the conceptions of God, the angels, and man that the texts provide and that are the framework of the Judaic world view in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages.This interpretation is based on the maj...
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    40,92 €

  • Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective
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    218,50 €

  • People of the Body
    Howard Eilberg-Schwartz
    By shifting attention from the image of Jews as a textual community to the ways Jews understand and manage their bodies - for example, to their concerns with reproduction and sexuality, menstruation and childbirth- this volume contributes to a revisioning of what Jews and Judaism are and have been. The project of re-membering the Jewish body has both historical and constructiv...
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    42,76 €

  • Slavery and Abolition in Early Republican Peru (Latin American Silhouettes)
    Peter Blanchard
    In this work, Professor Blanchard examines why slavery managed to survive for more than three decades after Peru declared its independence despite anti-slavery legislation passed by the liberators at that time. The book focuses on the economics of Peruvian slavery, slave life and the abolition movement. Slavery and Abolition aims to offer an alternative example of a slavery sys...
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    55,65 €

  • Social Darwinism in American Thought
    Richard Hofstadter
    Are society’s disadvantaged doomed to get “selected out” of the economic pool? Is America’s social landscape a battleground for “survival of the fittest, where only the strong endure? Once again, biology is being used to explain human development, and right-wing ideologues claim reluctance to intervene in the “natural” workings of the economy. Richard Hofstadter’s now-classi...
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    25,25 €

  • Joseph Conrad
    Brian Spittles / Jonathan Parker
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    66,92 €

  • Chutzpah
    Alan M. Dershowitz / Alan MDershowitz
    The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller, written by a brilliant legal mind, on what it means to be a Jew in America today. Dershowitz discusses the changes they’ve witnessed, changes they’ve created, and the changes that must still take place. He examines anti-Semitism, the Holocaust, assimilation, Zionism, civil rights, changes in eastern Europe, and turmoil in the Middle E...
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    21,43 €


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