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  • Manifesto of the Communist Party
    Karl Marx
    The Communist Manifesto was first published on February 21, and it is one of the world’s most influential political tracts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it laid out the League’s purposes and program. The Manifesto suggested a course of action for a proletarian (working class) revolution to overthrow the ...
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    18,06 €

  • My Family History
    Brian Duncan
    The results of family history research carried out by Brian Duncan. This is the second volume in the series, and is about the McKennie branch of the family. The first volume was about The Duncans, and future volumes will be about Dinwiddies, Frends, Brackens & Hirsts, Farringtons and Macleods. ...
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    17,30 €

  • Through the Eyes of Rebel Women
    Iris Morales
    THROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 iTHROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 is the first account of women members — a 'story within a story' told from the inside out. The Young Lords Organization emerged in the late sixties to fight poverty, racial and gender inequality, and the colonial status of Puerto Rico. Women joined to build a...
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    31,39 €

  • Schizophrenic America
    Anni Damgaard
    Schizophrenic America explores a fundamental conflict in the United States between what we believe to be our inalienable rights and what we experience in every-day-life. This conflict induces a schism in our minds, leading to a 'cultural schizophrenia' in America. This book facilitates the process of reflection. It is a layman’s guide to cultural awareness, written for young a...
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    17,00 €

  • Los Bratschi en el Rio de la Plata
    Marice Ettlin Caro
    SEGUNDA EDICION....El siglo XIX trajo cambios provocados por la Revolución Industrial, muchos europeos se encontraron con la necesidad de emigrar a las Américas buscando un mejor porvenir y nuevas aventuras comerciales. Entre ellos dos suizos del cantón de Berna, Carlos Augusto Cunier y David Salomón Bratschi. Los dos llegaron juntos en 1858 a lo que fue la futura colonia suiza...
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    27,53 €

  • MY FOLK
    James Timothy Connelly
    This is the story of the coming together of families of British and Irish stock, translated from the Old World to the New. The Hazards of ancient English lineage, conjoined with the Tooths of similar English background, joined in the new land of Australia with the Connellys from Ireland. Here, subsequent generations flourished. How much do they owe to their European forebears? ...
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    12,72 €

  • The Adventures of Thomas Pellow
    Thomas Pellow
    In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow was captured at sea by Barbary pirates and sold into human bondage to the despotic sultan of Morocco. This riveting memoir of a slave narrative is a story of pluck, and endurance in the face of barbaric splendour and suffering. A remarkable testament to the strength of the human spirit and to all those snatched from...
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    18,25 €

  • Retracing Our Roots
    Ashley L. McClellan / Ashley LMcClellan
    Retracing Our Roots gives an in-depth look at family lineage and family relations through extensive research of the Jackson, Mathes and Shade families. It reveals ancestors and introduces descendants through biographical pages, family trees and photographs. ...
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    129,25 €

  • Jews in Service to the Tsar
    Lev Berdnikov / Nora Favorov
    Benjamin Disraeli advised, “Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.” With Jews in Service to the Tsar, Lev Berdnikov offers us 28 biographies spanning five centuries of Russian Jewish history, and each portrait opens a new window onto the history of Eastern Europe’s Jews, illuminating dark corners and challenging widely-held conceptions about th...
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    22,05 €

  • Celebrities, heroes and champions
    Simon James Morgan
    Celebrities, heroes and champions examines the popular politician in British and Irish society from the Napoleonic Wars to the Second Reform Act. Covering a range of political movements, it offers a unique perspective on contemporary political culture including the connections between popular politics and an evolving culture of celebrity. ...
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    43,96 €

  • United We Stand Divided We Fall
    Wallace Walker III
    For those of you that have raised the same questions and picked up this book looking for an answer. This isn’t it. ’United We Stand, Divided We Fall’, is a complex rough correlation of historical events with a modern day vantage point of American and World History. In a raw and uncut lens, the negative, and the positive. As Where’s Waldo of an effort the latter may be to find a...
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    25,86 €

  • The Nordic Minuet
    Anne Fiskvik / Egil Bakka / Petri Hoppu
    This major new anthology of the minuet in the Nordic countries comprehensively explores the dance as a historical, social and cultural phenomenon. One of the most significant dances in Europe, with a strong symbolic significance in western dance culture and dance scholarship, the minuet has evolved a distinctive pathway in this region, which these rigorous and pioneering essays...
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    84,91 €

  • Stories My Father Told Me
    Dvora Treisman
    These are stories from far off places, in far off and very different times, stories of everyday people doing everyday things. With his brilliant memory and attention to detail, Rafał Feliks Buszejkin explained what he and the other children did in Russia in the 1910s to entertain themselves in the winter. He never attended cheder, but with a tutor, he memorized his speech for h...
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    17,48 €

  • Ancient Echoes, Voices and Visions from Past Civilizations
    Ph.D. James Michael
    Ever wonder about the untold stories hidden within the folds of time? Are you captivated by the mysteries of our collective past, yearning to uncover the wisdom and tales that echo through the ages? Do you often ponder: How can I connect with the voices of our ancestors and understand the rich tapestry of human history?What secrets lie dormant in the ancient whispers that can i...
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    22,32 €

  • A Man for the Ages
    Irving Bacheller
    'A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy' is a historical novel written by Irving Bacheller. The book was first published in 1919 and is set against the backdrop of the American Civil War. Irving Bacheller was an American journalist and novelist, and he gained fame for his works that often celebrated American ideals and historical events. The novel follows the ...
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    21,22 €

  • JOURNEY TO THE JONES ACT
    Charlie Papavizas
    The 'Jones Act' is the most newsworthy U.S. maritime policy law.Most of the attention is focused on the preservation of U.S. domestic maritime trade. Some is focused on the law as a means for mariners to recover for injuries.But this attention is too narrow. The 'Jones Act' was originally understood to mean the whole of the 1920 Merchant Marine Act, which deals with far more th...
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    21,91 €

  • The Search for King SOLOMON’S TREASURE
    Anna Zamoranos / Timothy Schwab
    You are about to embark on the most monumental journey of all archaeological discoveries. The mother lode that would make the likes of Indiana Jones salivate. The true land of gold in all of history which leads to the location of the Garden of Eden and Land of Creation identifying the Rivers from Eden en route. Why is this important? You will never understand geography, history...
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    23,83 €

  • Ang Paghahanap Sa KAYAMANAN ni Haring SOLOMON
    Anna Zamoranos / Timothy Schwab
    Ikaw ay papasok na sa pinakamahalagang paglalakbay sa lahat ng archaeological na pagtuklas. Ang mother lode na magpapalaway sa mga tulad ng Indiana Jones. Ang tunay na lupain ng ginto sa buong kasaysayan na humahantong sa lokasyon ng Halamanan ng Eden at Lupain ng Paglikha na nagpapakilala sa mga Ilog mula sa Eden sa ruta. Bakit ito mahalaga? Hindi mo kailanman mauunawaan ang h...
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    26,02 €

  • The Carceral City
    John Bardes
    Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders only ever inflicted violence directly or through overseers. Mustering tens of thousands of previously overlooked arrest and prison records, John K. Bardes demonstrates the opposite: in parts of the South, enslaved and free people were jailed at astronomical rates. Slaveholders...
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    126,29 €

  • The Carceral City
    John Bardes
    Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders only ever inflicted violence directly or through overseers. Mustering tens of thousands of previously overlooked arrest and prison records, John K. Bardes demonstrates the opposite: in parts of the South, enslaved and free people were jailed at astronomical rates. Slaveholders...
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    43,96 €

  • Historia de Olmeda de la Cuesta
    Antonio Checa Sainz
    En el año 2010 Olmeda de la Cuesta saltó a la fama: era el pueblo con población más envejecida de España. ¿Cómo es posible que se hubiera llegado a esa situación en un municipio que tuvo cerca de 600 habitantes y conoció épocas de prosperidad? No fue la única vez que los medios se han acercado allí ya que sus proyectos culturales y de lucha contra la despoblación y el abandono ...
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    26,00 €

  • No Life Without You
    Franklin Felsenstein
    The letters and journals of Ernst Moritz (’Mope’) and Vera Hirsch Felsenstein, two German Jewish refugees experiencing the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War, form the core of this book. Abridged in an English translation from the original German, this vast correspondence and diaries has been expertly compiled and annotated by their son, Franklin Felsenstein, w...
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    60,94 €

  • ORURO: IV Siglos En La Eternidad 1606-2006
    Freddy Sanjinés Montán
    Oruro: IV SIGLOS EN LA ETERNIDAD. Breve visión multifacética de un departamento de Bolivia enclavado en el altiplano de los Andes. Además de valorar los aportes civilizatorios y culturales de la prístina cultura milenaria en Sudamérica, incide en su historia de los últimos cuatrocientos años, en su vida colonial y republicana, desde su fundación como Villa (1606), hasta el naci...
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    54,09 €

  • Storming Bedlam
    Sasha Warren
    Mental health care and its radical possibilities reimagined in the context of its global development under capitalism.The contemporary world is oversaturated with psychiatric programs, methods, and reforms promising to address any number of 'crises' in mental health care. When these fail, alternatives to the alternatives simply pile up and seem to lead nowhere. In an original a...
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    26,35 €

  • Starstruck in the Promised Land
    Shalom Goldman
    From the days of steamship travel to Palestine to today’s evangelical Christian tours of Jesus’s birthplace, the relationship between the United States and the Holy Land has become one of the world’s most consequential international alliances. While the political side of U.S.-Israeli relations has long played out on the world stage, the relationship, as Shalom Goldman shows in ...
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    38,15 €

  • 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 €

  • Tourist Experiences
    Chris Ryan / Xiaoyu (Nancy) Zhang
    This book explores the application of psychological theories to tourist behaviour and experience. It offers new insights and provides final year and postgraduate students with an understanding of core psychological perspectives and an accessible resource within one volume for those researching tourist behaviour and consumer experiences. ...
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    60,11 €

  • Tourist Experiences
    Chris Ryan / Xiaoyu (Nancy) Zhang
    This book explores the application of psychological theories to tourist behaviour and experience. It offers new insights and provides final year and postgraduate students with an understanding of core psychological perspectives and an accessible resource within one volume for those researching tourist behaviour and consumer experiences. ...
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    181,72 €

  • Serving Victoria
    Kate Hubbard
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    14,80 €

  • A Bridge To Peradeniya
    Anand Krishnaswamy
    Blurb of  A Bridge to PeradeniyaA dog that wins everyone’s affection by barking and laughing madly through her ailment. A stud bull that conveys the melancholy in his soul through his eyes. A kiosk owner whose sunny personality bounces off the tree stump where he leaves food for the neighbourhood strays. A chic lady with a rescued street dog and a penchant for profanity.These a...
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    19,72 €


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