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  • The Dutch Moment
    Wim Klooster
    In the seventeenth century, the Dutch built an Atlantic empire that stretched from the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast and from present-day New York to Brazil. This empire was forged on the battlefields and the high seas, as Dutch armies and fleets extended the decades-old independence war against Spain across the ocean. Dutch transatlantic fleets, armies, and colonies incl...
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    61,34 €

  • 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 €

  • A Representação do Último Duque de Aveiro
    Gonçalo Portocarrero de Almada
    «Já se conhecem, por via de livros e artigos publicados, assim como do uso da palavra, as assinaláveis capacidades de investigação e argumentação, de clareza de raciocínio e de expressão do Doutor Gonçalo Portocarrero de Almada, em obras de conteúdo teológico, filosófico e de intervenção social. Ficamos agora a saber, se dúvidas existissem, que estamos diante de um notável inve...
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    15,55 €

  • Himalayan Dreams
    Kirsty Nancarrow
    A Hero’s Legacy: Som Tamang’s incredible journey is not just a tale of survival; it’s a mission to protect girls in Nepal from trafficking and child marriage. His courage and benevolence shine through, inspiring us all to pursue our dreams and make a positive impact on the world.HOW ONE MAN’S DETERMINATION CHANGED THE FUTURE FOR CHILDREN IN RURAL NEPAL.Discover the life of Som ...
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    21,81 €

  • Memorial book of Drohobycz, Borysław and Surroundings
    The discovery of rich oil and mineral wax deposits in the Drohobycz-Borysław area in the 1850s turned it into an industrial and economic powerhouse-'the California of Galicia.' Jewish-owned industries started up: refineries, mining, spinning, weaving, and factories producing candles and soap. Bythe early 1900s, Drohobycz alone had two synagogues, four study houses, two banks, a...
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    47,51 €

  • Chapters On Jewish Literature
    Israel Abrahams
    'Chapters on Jewish Literature' is a book written by Israel Abrahams, a distinguished Jewish scholar and historian who lived from 1858 to 1925. The book was first published in 1899 and has been well-regarded for its exploration of various aspects of Jewish literature. The work is a collection of essays that delve into different periods of Jewish literary history, spanning from ...
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    12,04 €

  • Tracy
    Cyclone Tracy demolished Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory when it struck during the night of Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning, 1974. Over almost ten hours the small, intense, but slow-moving weather system left a swathe of destruction across the entire town. Few buildings escaped.Sixty-six people died, many of them on vessels which put to sea, while many hundreds we...
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    27,26 €

  • American history The Pilgrims
    History Encounters
    History Encounters unearths the greatest stories with the major events from The Berlin Wall to expand reader horizons for readers to be best informed. The Berlin Wall was the concrete manifestation of the Iron Curtain, which signified the profound ideological difference between the capitalist, democratic Western powers and the socialist, communist Soviet Union. After WWII ended...
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    9,96 €

  • Nineteenth-Century Women’s Movements and the Bible
    Nineteenth-Century Women’s Movements and the Bible examines politically motivated women’s movements in the nineteenth century, including the legal, cultural, and ecclesiastical contexts of women. Focusing on the period beginning with the French Revolution in 1789 through the end of World War I in 1918, contributors explore the many ways that women’s lives were limited in both t...
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    67,14 €

  • Nineteenth-Century Women’s Movements and the Bible
    Nineteenth-Century Women’s Movements and the Bible examines politically motivated women’s movements in the nineteenth century, including the legal, cultural, and ecclesiastical contexts of women. Focusing on the period beginning with the French Revolution in 1789 through the end of World War I in 1918, contributors explore the many ways that women’s lives were limited in both t...
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    85,77 €

  • The American Empire
    Scott Nearing
    The American Empire is a book written by Scott Nearing, an American economist and social activist, that explores the growth and impact of American capitalism.In this book, Nearing argues that the American Empire, characterized by its expansive economic and military power, has been built through the exploitation of labor and natural resources both domestically and abroad. He exa...
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    17,76 €

  • Terranova. La Odisea Ballenera
    Sabino Laucirica
    Cuando tuve en mis manos el testamento de Domingo de Luça, aquel que se escribió en la cubierta de la nao María del Juncal por la mano experta del escribano Juan de Blancafor, en el verano del año 1563 y leí las palabras del moribundo que mi cuerpo sea sepultado en este puerto de Plazencia a un lugar donde los que mueren se suelen enterrar comprendí que el camino emprendido era...
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    25,00 €

  • The material body
    This book combines the approaches of historians and archaeologists to explore past individuals as embodied subjects by examining the material and experiencing body in England, 1700-1850. It explores precisely how the biological, physical, environmental, cultural and social interacted in the production of the embodied experiences. ...
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    42,91 €

  • Holy Enemies of Freedom
    A.J. Deus
    Holy Enemies of Freedom lays bare how anti-Semitism finds its roots in deep-seated cultural trauma.The German Martin Luther was the founder of the Protestant Church. He wanted nothing more than to see the Jewish population exiled or terminated. In his time, the interactions between leaders of Jews, Christians, and Muslims fueled a march toward a world war. Their promise was to ...
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    38,22 €

  • Holy Enemies of Freedom
    A.J. Deus
    Holy Enemies of Freedom lays bare how anti-Semitism finds its roots in deep-seated cultural trauma.The German Martin Luther was the founder of the Protestant Church. He wanted nothing more than to see the Jewish population exiled or terminated. In his time, the interactions between leaders of Jews, Christians, and Muslims fueled a march toward a world war. Their promise was to...
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    31,12 €

  • The First 100 Years 1907-2007
    Toni Barber
    The First 100 Years tells the story from 1907 to 2007 of the First Baptist Church of Passtown and the African American Community of Hayti in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. The church members and residents tell their stories in words and pictures during the milestone 100th Anniversary of the First Baptist Church of Passtown in 2007.There are many historical Hayti communities through...
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    190,98 €

  • The Rhetorical Journey of Alcohol in Ancient Tales
    Ethan Andrews
    This dissertation focuses on how the Greek and Germanic cultures dealt with the krataphonic symbol of alcohol. It examines the literature to understand how the alcohol of each culture (wine, mead or ale) was handled. These two cultures were chosen because both exhibit a standard literary record as well as being relatively equivalent regarding technology and cultural influences ...
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    25,98 €

  • The Mirror of the Graces - Containing General Instructions for Combining Elegance, Simplicity, and Economy with Fashion in Dress; Hints on Female Accomplishments and Manners; and Directions for the Pr
    Unknown
    The body is as much a part of the human creature as the mind; by its outward expression, we convey to others a sense of our opinions, hopes,fears, and affections-we communicate love, and we excite it. We enjoy, not only the pleasures of the senses, but the delights which shoot from mind to mind, in the pressure of a hand, the glance of an eye, and the whisper of the heart. Shal...
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    12,24 €

  • Enslavers of the Maritimes
    Brenda J Thompson
    A painstaking and unflinching catalogue of settlers in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI who enslaved humans, some even after the practice became illegal.The reader will find here the names of many of the most prominent families of Atlantic Canada. Illustrated with images of ’runaway slave’ advertisements, letters from the powerful to each other about their dealings in the po...
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    13,25 €

  • A Veritable Hell
    Gavin Scrimgeour
    During the Battle of Fromelles on one terrible night in July 1916, the 32nd Battalion from South Australia and Western Australia lost over 85% of its fighting strength.Using the words of those from the 32nd Battalion who survived, the course of the battle in their sector during that night is reconstructed, and the tragic experiences of brave men thrust into an impossible situat...
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    15,94 €

  • Th e Old Faith and the Russian Land
    Douglas Rogers
    The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over three centuries. The town of Sepych was settled in the late seventeenth century by religious dissenters who fled to the forests of the Urals to escape a world they believed to be in the clutches of the Antichrist. Factions of Old Believe...
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    61,93 €

  • Death Smiles at All of Us
    Kayden Abley
    What happens when a child dies? How does society treat parents after they have lost a child?Was death any different in the Victorian era than in today’s world? This thoughtful analysis examines child death in Victorian Scotland.Questions around money, child safety, class prejudices, and societal shortcomings are examined here in depth, focusing on wide-ranging historical and li...
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    18,01 €

  • Belfast Flashbacks
    Bill Meulemans
    Bill Meulemans is an American author with no ties to Ireland. He lived and worked with working-class folks on both sides of the sectarian walls of Belfast during some of the darkest days of the conflict, building extensive personal friendships with both Catholics and Protestants. Meulemans did not waste a minute of his 14 years in Belfast. He was out on the street every day t...
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    16,32 €

  • From Slavery to the Stars
    Andreea Kindryd
    This story is a tapestry woven with threads of resilience, love, and adventure. It’s about more than working on the original Star Trek or her slave ancestor’s love story; it’s a journey through history, loss, and triumph.Andreea has walked alongside giants, and mourned the loss of friends like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. She has navigated the complexities of love and fac...
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    41,97 €

  • Embracing Your Past to Empower Your Future
    Abby Wallace / Lori Ann LaRocco
    In Embracing Your Past to Empower Your Future, descendants of four prominent Black families whose ancestors were enslaved, tell readers what life was like for those ancestors, and how their experiences shaped and influenced future generations. The authors worked with family historians, gathered volumes of historical documents, and worked with historians from Montpelier, Mount V...
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    21,77 €

  • República e civilização: um olhar brasileiro
    Gabriel Cohn
    São as exigências e dificuldades da vida civilizada e republicana em contexto como o brasileiro que formam o núcleo dos artigos aqui recolhidos, escritos em diferentes momentos. Isso se aplica desde o mais abrangente deles, sobre civilização, cidadania e barbárie, até o mais específico sobre o fascismo em sua possível versão brasileira, passando por uma mescla de reflexão mais ...
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    12,48 €

  • The First 100 Years 1907-2007
    Toni Barber
    The First 100 Years tells the story from 1907 to 2007 of the First Baptist Church of Passtown and the African American Community of Hayti in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. The church members and residents tell their stories in words and pictures during the milestone 100th Anniversary of the First Baptist Church of Passtown in 2007.There are many historical Hayti communities through...
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    133,87 €

  • Responsa in a Historical Context
    Debby Koren
    This book contains a collection of eight annotated translations of responsa, alongside the original Hebrew texts, focusing on the post-expulsion Spanish-Portuguese communities of the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. Topics include excommunication in Amsterdam, ʻagunot, inheritance rights of a converso son, obligatory contracts and breach of agreement, heresy and humanist sch...
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    42,60 €

  • Discovering My Southern Legacy
    Deirdre Foreman
    What was the cultural legacy of enslaved Africans in the American South, and how has that legacy been handed through generations?For author Deirdre Foreman, this question is a very personal one: in this book, she explores the cultural legacy of enslaved Africans in the American South through an ethno-autobiographical reflection on her own African-American identity and family he...
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    24,29 €

  • El Libro de Marielle Franco
    Marielle Franco
    El libro Marielle Franco - A Photobiography es un documento esencial no sólo para comprender las principales cuestiones sociales de actualidad en Brasil, sino también la amplia lucha por los derechos humanos, para la población negra y para las personas LGBTQIAP+. Marielle Franco (1979-2018) fue una de las políticas brasileñas contemporáneas más importantes. Nacida en el Complex...
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    33,28 €


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