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  • Epic Fails in Ancient History
    Ahoy Publications
    Take an epic journey through the hilarious mistakes and baffling blunders that shaped civilizations.Are you looking to learn unique and surprising facts about human history?Do you want to read about the quirks and fumbles that defined ancient eras?Did you know that some of the biggest discoveries in history were born out of missteps?More than simple errors, this book about epic...
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    14,67 €

  • Reading Character After Calvin
    David Mark Diamond
    How Calvinist theology helps us read characters in the early British novel, shedding new light on the origins of modern secularism The strangeness of fictional characters in the eighteenth-century novel has been well documented. They are two-dimensional yet complex; they suggest unstable correspondences between the external and the internal. In Reading Character after Calvin, ...
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    172,80 €

  • Reading Character After Calvin
    David Mark Diamond
    How Calvinist theology helps us read characters in the early British novel, shedding new light on the origins of modern secularism The strangeness of fictional characters in the eighteenth-century novel has been well documented. They are two-dimensional yet complex; they suggest unstable correspondences between the external and the internal. In Reading Character after Calvin, ...
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    46,39 €

  • Paths of Stones
    Cynthia Dickstein
    Cynthia Dickstein has led a rich life of drama, world travel, and adventure, as she proves over and over again in her memoir, Paths of Stones. The story she tells begins in a shtetl in Russia, where oppression and tragedy drove her family to emigrate to the United States. Cynthia’s life brought the story full circle as she organized and led numerous professional exchange groups...
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    77,40 €

  • World’s End
    V T SREEKUMAR
    'World’s End: Unravelling the Mysteries of Apocalypse Theories' delves into the fascinating and often chilling realm of apocalyptic theories that have captured human imagination for centuries. From ancient prophecies to modern scientific hypotheses, this book explores the diverse beliefs and predictions surrounding the end of the world.Through meticulous research and engaging s...
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    35,78 €

  • Cold War Deceptions
    David H. Price
    Investigates how the CIA tried to influence scholars and governmentsDuring the early Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency created dozens of funding fronts to support work that aligned with CIA goals, from clandestine operations and research to liberal anticommunist programs. While investigative journalists and congressional inquiries exposed many of these fronts, little is...
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    134,43 €

  • Cold War Deceptions
    David H. Price
    Investigates how the CIA tried to influence scholars and governmentsDuring the early Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency created dozens of funding fronts to support work that aligned with CIA goals, from clandestine operations and research to liberal anticommunist programs. While investigative journalists and congressional inquiries exposed many of these fronts, little is...
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    40,40 €

  • The Holy Warrior
    Reagan Fancher
    Fought between 1979 and 1989, the Soviet-Afghan War provided vital combat experience for Osama bin Laden and his senior lieutenants in al-Qaeda, allowing them to hone their newly acquired skills in guerrilla warfare to later support Islamist insurgencies worldwide. Yet the ruthless al-Qaeda chief’s success depended on the Soviet leadership’s reluctant prolonging of its military...
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    54,00 €

  • World War 1 Heroes
    Ahoy Publications
    Live through the experiences of the most memorable World War 1 heroes!Explore the unforgettable tales of resilience, courage, and selflessness that marked the most prominent heroes of World War I.Are you a history buff looking to venture beyond the confines of common history facts regarding World War I?Do you want to explore the lives and personal narratives of the individual p...
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    13,88 €

  • World War 1 Heroes
    Ahoy Publications
    Live through the experiences of the most memorable World War 1 heroes!Explore the unforgettable tales of resilience, courage, and selflessness that marked the most prominent heroes of World War I.Are you a history buff looking to venture beyond the confines of common history facts regarding World War I?Do you want to explore the lives and personal narratives of the individual p...
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    22,70 €

  • Oceanside History of Alaska
    Mike Coppock
    A history of Alaska’s seaports settled by fisherman, gold seekers, Scandinavians, Native peoples and Russin trappers. It is a time a violent history as these diverse people carved their own isolated world from forests, cliff faces and raging seas. This is a tale of wild men and intrepid women looking for a home from the world they rejected.It is the story of empire builders lik...
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    16,30 €

  • Revolution and the Global Struggle for Modernity
    Frank Jacob
    The present book provides a comparative ten-step model for revolutions and will show that these must be considered a global phenomenon of modernity. ...
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    158,15 €

  • Essential Lewis and Clark, The
    Landon Y. Jones
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    13,88 €

  • Discoverers and Explorers
    Edward R. Shaw
    The practice of beginning the study of geography with the locality in which the pupil lives, in order that his first ideas of geographical conceptions may be gained from observation directed upon the real conditions existing about him, has been steadily gaining adherence during the past few years as a rational method of entering upon the study of geography.After the pupil has f...
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    11,08 €

  • Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic since 1917
    This volume explores the life histories of a wide range of radical figures whose political activity in relation to the black liberation struggle was catalysed or profoundly shaped by the global impact and legacy of the Russian Revolution of 1917, including C.L.R. James, Paul Robeson, Walter Rodney and Grace P. Campbell. ...
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    35,31 €

  • Before and Beyond D-Day
    D.M. McDonald
    This book will take you through the second world war and it will tell a story of the real consequences of war. This is a unique way of getting through the battles and the main characters involved at the time. I guarantee you will not find another book like this one, it is unique. It was my personal ambition to publish something to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day in 20...
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    9,87 €

  • Convict Australia
    Jennifer Twemlow
    Where is the missing fortune that James Dingle and his convict crew stole in a huge bank heist in 1828 that equates to about 20 million dollars by today’s standards? How did a small group of convicts manage to steal a leaky ship and sail halfway across the world? How did Joseph Samuels become the man they couldn’t hang? From astonishing escapes to tragic shipwrecks, piratical s...
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    20,27 €

  • Tracking Capital
    Michael Niblett / Sharae Deckard / Stephen Shapiro
    Offers new ways to read the relationship between culture, ecology, and capitalism. ...
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    127,25 €

  • Las siete maravillas del mundo moderno
    Captivating History
    ¿Sabía que Sha Jahan planeó una vez construir otro Taj Mahal en su imperio?El Taj Mahal es famoso por su excepcional arquitectura, en la que se mezclan elementos de diversas influencias de todo el mundo, como la magnificencia de los estilos arquitectónicos mogol, persa e islámico.Sha Jahan, emperador reinante del Imperio mogol, estaba sumido en la tristeza tras la muerte de su ...
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    20,06 €

  • Inventing the modern region
    Talitha Ilacqua
    This book explores the process by which the French Basque country acquired a folkloric regional identity in the long nineteenth century. It argues that, despite originating in pre-’modern’ customs, such stereotypical identity was invented in the long nineteenth century as part of France’s process of nation-building. ...
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    157,26 €

  • The Year of Maximum Danger 1983
    Ret.) Humpert (USAF
    'You don’t know how close war is.'Radomir Bogdanov, Deputy Director, Institute of the USA and Canada, 1983'It was a matter of rather--I would say-greater danger than almost any other period in the Cold War, if only because the most-shall we say extreme-or hardline elements in the Soviet intelligence and military leadership might have at some point either misconstrued some devel...
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    69,63 €

  • 1000 People in 1000 Places
    Douglas James Mecham
    Doug Mecham at age 27 had completed university and was tired of work already. So he purchased a round-the-world air ticket, packed a small backpack, sold his 1955 Thunderbird, and left his familiar life behind; it was 1967. His mission was to see different lands and experience different cultures, opening his mind to others and sharing ideas with them. This story of his 15-month...
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    114,09 €

  • The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain - Nineteenth Century Europe
    J. A. Cramb
    The following pages are a reprint of a course of lectures delivered in May, June, and July, 1900.When the book first appeared, Mr. Cramb wrote that he 'had been induced to publish these reflections by the belief or the hope that at the present grave crisis they might not be without service to his country.' In the same hope his lectures are now reprinted. ...
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    14,41 €

  • Animales que cuentan (en) la historia
    Alma Leonor López Pilar / Javier Ramos
    Son los grandes olvidados de la historia: los animales, a pesar de que no se podría escribir la crónica de la humanidad sin tener en cuenta nuestra relación con ellos. Este libro pretende saldar esa deuda pendiente mostrando que animales como chimpancés, perros, pinzones, elefantes, caballos, palomas, leones, toros, ovejas, serpientes, abejas, ratones son capaces de contar LA H...
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    18,72 €

  • Letters to Dead People (Dyslexia-friendly Edition, Volume 2)
    Henry Nash / Ivor Share
    Ever wondered what drove the Great and the Good in History? What questions would you ask them if you got the chance?What’s the connection between Boudica and JK Rowling? Where did Walt Disney get some of his insights from? Who was Nettie Honeyball? Many of the answers are here in this book, which is a collection of entertaining letters written to more than a hundred of the icon...
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    14,10 €

  • Letters to Dead People (Dyslexia-friendly Edition, Volume 1)
    Henry Nash / Ivor Share
    Ever wondered what drove the Great and the Good in History? What questions would you ask them if you got the chance?What’s the connection between Boudica and JK Rowling? Where did Walt Disney get some of his insights from? Who was Nettie Honeyball? Many of the answers are here in this book, which is a collection of entertaining letters written to more than fifty of the icons of...
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    14,12 €

  • The World of Your Ancestors Dates Supplement to Dates Volumes One to Six
    Carol A. Wirth
    This is a supplement to the first six volumes of THE WORLD OF YOUR ANCESTORS - DATES series. Once again, readers can step into the past to get a bigger picture of a particular month or year. There is additional background information on previously mentioned items. Readers will find more new data including books, deaths, explorers, famous people, inventions, movies, music, n...
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    35,19 €

  • Decolonizing images
    Ronnie Close
    Decolonizing images focuses on Egypt’s local visual heritage and continues the urgent process of decolonizing the canon of photography. It presents a new account of the visual cultures produced and exhibited in Egypt by interpreting the camera’s ability to conceal as much as it reveals in a complex vision of decolonial difference. ...
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    158,22 €

  • Understanding Nazi Ideology
    Carl Müller Frøland / John Irons
    Nazism was deeply rooted in German culture. From the fertile soil of German Romanticism sprang ideas of great significance for the genesis of the Third Reich ideology-notions of the individual as a mere part of the national collective, and of life as a ceaseless struggle between opposing forces.This book traces the origins of the 'political religion' of Nazism. Ultranationalism...
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    45,00 €

  • Sacred Mysteries Among the Mayas and the Quiches, 11 500 Years Ago
    Augustus Le Plongeon
    The forests of Yucatan and Central America are to-day, for the majority of the people of the United States, even those who call themselves scientific and well informed, as much a terra incognita, as America was to the inhabitants of Europe before its discovery by Cristobal Colon in 1498, when for the first time he came in sight of the northern coast of South America, and naviga...
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    11,64 €


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