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  • Quaderni dalla Terra piatta (Vol. 3)
    Albino Galuppini
    Con la prefazione di Eddie Alencar. Ecco il terzo volume della nota serie bibliografica di Albino Galuppini. L’illusione del globo cade senza scampo assieme alla Storia con le sue truffe. > Qual è il nome di Dio? > L’epopea dei giganti > Enoc, I Vigilanti: esegesi comparata > Alla crocifissione del Messia > Letteratura predittiva > Le radici del Male > Il Titanic e le sue gemel...
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    25,58 €

  • Royals on tour
    Travel by European and ’native’ monarchs and other royals between Europe, Asia and Africa developed as a new form of personal and international politics in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The pageantry and politics of royal tours during the age of empire provides great insight into modern monarchy, colonialism and transnational cultural encounters. ...
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    35,48 €

  • The Stolen Whistle and Flute
    George Major
    George Major’s story is a remarkable testament of resilience and determination. Abandoned by his mother in the 1940s, he embarked on a relentless quest to find her, fuelled by his deep connection to the vibrant pearly king tradition, which he knew was rooted in her family. Despite facing an abusive father and the chilling presence of his maiden Auntie Hilda, young George was se...
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    35,32 €

  • FROM THE ALPS TO THE CASCADES
    Wendy Negley
    The story of a family living for hundreds of years in a small village in the Italian Alps then journeying to the New World To live in a small town in the Washington Cascades. The use of Family memoirs and interviews brings the people to life. This is as American a story as the Mayflower. ...
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    27,20 €

  • Masculinity, Autocracy and the Russian University, 1804-1863
    Friedman Rebecca / Protsenko Nikolay
    ENGThis is the first book-length study of masculinity in Imperial Russia. By looking at official and unofficial life at universities across the Russian empire, this project offers a picture of the complex processes through which gender ideologies were forged and negotiated in the Nineteenth Century. Masculinity, Autocracy and the Russian University, 1804-1863 demonstrates how g...
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    41,25 €

  • White Man’s Work
    Joseph O. Jewell
    In the financial chaos of the last few decades, increasing wealth inequality has shaken people’s expectations about middle-class stability. At the same time, demographers have predicted the 'browning' of the nation’s middle class—once considered a de facto 'white' category—over the next twenty years as the country becomes increasingly racially diverse. In this book, Joseph O. J...
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    127,19 €

  • White Man’s Work
    Joseph O. Jewell
    In the financial chaos of the last few decades, increasing wealth inequality has shaken people’s expectations about middle-class stability. At the same time, demographers have predicted the 'browning' of the nation’s middle class—once considered a de facto 'white' category—over the next twenty years as the country becomes increasingly racially diverse. In this book, Joseph O. J...
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    38,33 €

  • The common writer in modern history
    Martyn Lyons
    This edited collection focusses on the writing of ordinary, semi-literate people in history, emphasising the agency and voices of the subordinate classes and contesting conventional histories that treat them as passive or silent. It analyses ’ordinary writings’ across a range of geographical areas, historical periods and scholarly disciplines. ...
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    169,60 €

  • The Evolution Of Religion An Anthropological Study
    Farnell L. R.
    'The Evolution of Religion' is a substantial work with the aid of the British classical student, Lewis Richard Farnell (L. R. Farnell), This pioneering book explores the development and evolution of religious ideals and practices across specific civilizations and time intervals. Farnell’s complete look at delves into the origins of spiritual concept, rituals, and establishments...
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    12,17 €

  • The East Coasters
    Lois Nyman
    The major standard history of the first wave of settlers who arrived in Tasmania’s East Coast between 1821 and 1831 and who developed the wide area.First published in 1990 but long unavailable, it follows with humour and historical authenticity the pioneering struggles of the first settlers, their interaction with each other, their encounters with Aborigines and bushrangers, an...
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    40,66 €

  • The East Coasters
    Lois Nyman
    The major standard history of the first wave of settlers who arrived in Tasmania’s East Coast between 1821 and 1831 and who developed the wide area.First published in 1990 but long unavailable, it follows with humour and historical authenticity the pioneering struggles of the first settlers, their interaction with each other, their encounters with Aborigines and bushrangers, an...
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    71,58 €

  • The Beginnings of Anti-Jewish Legislation
    Mária M. Kovács
    The Nazi 1933 Civil Service Law and the 1935 Nuremberg Laws are often considered the first anti-Jewish decrees in interwar Europe. Mária M. Kovács convincingly argues that Hungary’s numerus clausus law of 1920, which introduced a Jewish quota at Hungary’s institutions of higher learning, was, in fact, interwar Europe’s first antisemitic law. By defining-and discriminating again...
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    82,37 €

  • The Trouble with Kenya
    Lawi Sultan Njeremani
    The McKenzian Blueprint.Some lines are short; some lines are long. All lines are variable. Some appear parallel but connect in latency. Some appear linear. When held against the light they reveal dependence or independence; Freedom or constraints; Empowerment or strife; Subjugation or Justice.The Trouble with Kenya is a microcosm of any given country’s social and justice pillar...
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    21,48 €

  • 18
    Nora Gold
    This anthology contains 18 splendid Jewish stories, each translated into English from a different language. These compelling, humorous, and moving stories, written by eminent authors that include Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Isaac Babel, and Lili Berger, reflect both the diversities and the commonalities within Jewish culture, and will make you laugh, cry, and think and are enjoyable fo...
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    186,31 €

  • AN EXTRAORDINARY HISTORICAL EVENT
    Bryan Mitchell
    THIS BOOK LOOKS AT AN EXTRAORDINARY TIME IN ISRAEL’S HISTORY. THE MAJORITY OF ITS PEOPLE WERE LOCATED IN PERSIA, NOT IN THEIR HOMELAND. GOD HAD USED HIS POWER OVER BABYLONIAN RULERS TO CAUSE THEM TO EXPAND THEIR EMPIRE. MANY JEWS WERE BROUGHT TO BABYLON AS CAPTIVES. IN A SHORT TIME THE PERSIAN EMPIRE EXPANDED TO INCLUDE THE BABYLONIAN, THUS THIS EPISODE OF JEWISH HISTORY. ...
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    20,62 €

  • Borders
    R Srinivasan
    Borders, borderlands and frontiers emerged as critical academic discourse yet again at the beginning of 21st century. In earlier times, they invited scholarly examination within the broader fields of political geography and political science. However, the effects of globalization and the manifestation of global politics appear to have prompted the formulation of theories and po...
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    53,07 €

  • Ancient Huntress
    Sara L. Weston
    The conventional portrayal of prehistoric gender roles has long depicted men as hunters and women as gatherers, perpetuating the notion that women played a passive role in early human societies. However, recent research and archaeological findings have challenged this narrative, revealing a more complex and nuanced understanding of prehistoric gender roles, women played an acti...
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    14,50 €

  • L’ EPOPEA DELLO SQUADRISMO
    Asvero Gravelli / Italo Balbo
    Un testo fondamentale per ricostruire la pagina più sconosciuta e demonizzata della storia d’ Italia : ' L’ epopea dello Squadrismo' è la prima riedizione integrale del dopoguerra del numero speciale del 1938 di Antieuropa, periodico diretto da Asvero Gravelli e dedicato, appunto, allo Squadrismo, il fenomeno rivoluzionario delle 'Camicie Nere' di Benito Mussolini: una irruzion...
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    34,79 €

  • Born in 1944? What else happened?
    Ron Williams
    ABOUT THIS SERIES ....But after that, I realised that I knew very little about these parents of mine. They had been born about the start of the Twentieth Century, and they died in 1970 and 1980. For their last 50 years, I was old enough to speak with a bit of sense.I could have talked to them a lot about their lives. I could have found out about the times they lived in. But I d...
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    16,03 €

  • Making of the World
    Mahbub H. Khan
    This book is 'a strong summary of world history and social evolution' (Timothy Earle, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University, USA).Humanity was once divided into thousands of small nomadic groups, hardly knowing each other. Each lived inside its bubble of myths and beliefs. The notion of one single global community, related by a common origin and similar as...
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    22,13 €

  • Up from Slavery
    Booker T. Washington
    'Up from Slavery' is an autobiography written by Booker T. Washington, an African American educator, author, and advisor to presidents of the United States. The book was first published in 1901 and provides a firsthand account of Washington’s life, from his childhood in slavery to his rise as a prominent and influential figure in American history. One of the key themes of 'Up f...
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    14,61 €

  • Emet le-Ya’akov
    Emet le-Ya‘akov comprises a collection of essays celebrating the achievements of Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter. These articles, like the honoree, engage with the importance of both history and memory and are divided into three categories: Textual Traditions, Memory and Making of Meaning, and (Re)Creating a Usable Past. ...
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    220,00 €

  • Emet le-Ya’akov
    Emet le-Ya‘akov comprises a collection of essays celebrating the achievements of Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter. These articles, like the honoree, engage with the importance of both history and memory and are divided into three categories: Textual Traditions, Memory and Making of Meaning, and (Re)Creating a Usable Past. ...
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    53,44 €

  • Shaping the Jewish Enlightenment
    Zuzanna Krzemień
    Krzemień’s book delves into the life of Solomon Dubno (1738–1813), a devout Polish Jew who was pivotal to Moses Mendelssohn’s project of translating the Bible into German. It explores Dubno’s role, his library’s influence, and his poetic endeavors to showcase the beauty of Hebrew. The work offers a nuanced image of the early Haskalah movement. ...
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    200,50 €

  • Those Who Will Forge the Way Into the Future Today
    Jelena
    Take an exciting trip into the unknown worlds of new ideas with 'Those Who Will Forge the Way Into the Future Today.' In this fascinating look at how creative people can be, Jelena takes you on a journey through history and into the minds of people who have changed the course of our world.Learn about the minds and traits that made these historical figures unique by reading abou...
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    16,78 €

  • Protocols of the Elders of Zion
    Thomas Dalton
    No study of the Jewish Question is complete without a detailed look at the document known as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. As mysterious as it is notorious, it has been called the most influential piece of anti-Semitic literature in history-perhaps comparable in importance only to Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Nothing like it has ever been produced, before or since. Here we find ...
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    41,35 €

  • Unearthing Geomorphological Clues
    Dutch Marie
    A combination of archaeological and geomorphic techniques was used to study erosionhazard at Aboriginal shell midden sites in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia.In the absence of artifactual material, biological and taphonomic analyses were undertaken todetermine the likelihood a deposit was anthropogenic in origin. These analyses were also used togain an ...
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    27,80 €

  • Collected Studies (Volume 1)
    Joseph Shatzmiller
    In Collected Studies (Volume 1): The Jews of Provence, Joseph Shatzmiller, the foremost expert on Provençal Judaism, offers a comprehensive overview of the medieval history of the Jews in Provence. Through an analysis of community regulations, tax distribution, rabbinic leadership, and everyday life, Shatzmiller provides a rich and powerful mosaic of Jewish society in Provence....
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    121,09 €

  • Collected Studies (Volume 2)
    Joseph Shatzmiller
    In Collected Studies (Volume 2): Christian Majority—Jewish Minority, Joseph Shatzmiller, the preeminent scholar of the Jews in Provence, examines the complex relationship between Christians and Jews during the Middle Ages. Through a careful analysis of historical documents and primary sources, Shatzmiller sheds light on the diverse experiences of the Jewish minority in Provence...
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    121,72 €

  • How Dehumanization Leads to Murder and Genocide
    Stewart Gabel
    This book discusses psychological aspects of dehumanization and of the human tendency to dominate, control and potentially murder those considered 'less than', or dangerous to the dominant group. It explores how increasingly severe dehumanization resulted in the genocide of six million Jews in the second World War. ...
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    171,51 €


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