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  • Migration of Symbols
    Count Goblet D'Alviella / Count Goblet D’Alviella / Goblet d'Alviella
    The Migration of Symbols by Count Goblet d’Alviella is a seminal work in the field of comparative religion and anthropology. Originally published in 1894, this book explores the origins and evolution of religious symbols and their migration across different cultures and civilizations. The author argues that symbols are not static but are constantly changing and adapting to new ...
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    37,33 €

  • Gringo Justice
    Alfredo Mirandé
    Gringo Justice is a comprehensive analysis and interpretation of the experiences of the Chicano people with the legal and judicial system in the United States. Beginning in 1848 and working to the present, a theory of Gringo justice is developed and applied to specific areas-displacement from the land, vigilantes and social bandits, the border, the police, gangs, and prisons. A...
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    41,09 €

  • Elie Wiesel
    Robert McAfee Brown
    Upon presenting the 1986 Nobel Prize for Peace to Elie Wiesel, Egil Aarvick, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee, hailed him as 'a messenger to mankind--not with a message of hate and revenge but with one of brotherhood and atonement.' Elie Wiesel: Messenger to All Humanity, first published in 1983, echoes this theme and still affirms that message, a call to both C...
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    41,26 €

  • The Masterless
    Wilfred M. McClay / Wilfred MMcClay
    In this provocative book, Wilfred McClay considers the long-standing tension between individualism and social cohesion in conceptions of American culture. Exploring ideas of unity and diversity as they have evolved since the Civil War, he illuminates the historical background to our ongoing search for social connectedness and sources of authority in a society increasingly domin...
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    70,34 €

  • Feminine Ingenuity
    Anne L. MacDonald / Anne LMacDonald
    'What useful things have American women conceived of and developed that have contributed to the progress of technology, science, and engineering?' Raise that question, even among educated feminists of the 1990s, and you are likely to be met with a fumbling for names. Raise it among the skeptics of women’s creative talents and they will reply 'Where, after all, is the historical...
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    22,81 €

  • African-American Voices in Young Adult Literature
    Karen Patricia Smith
    Now in paperback! A collection of fourteen essays that address major issues related to significant works of African-American young adult literature. ...
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    128,26 €

  • Lay My Burden Down
    Jerrold I. Hirsch
    This collection of nearly 300 narratives tells the real story of life under slavery, as told by those who actually lived it. 'Every historian, every teacher, every citizen who is concerned about the problem of intercultural education and understanding will want to read this book'.--Christian Science Monitor. 16 pages of photos. ...
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    17,52 €

  • On the Edge of Destruction
    Celia S. Heller
    On the Edge of Destruction, focusing on the Jews of Poland between the two World Wars, illuminates a critical time in the recent Jewish past that has received surprisingly little attention. The Holocaust virtually destroyed the Jews of Poland, once a community of more than three million, constituting ten percent of the population, and the oldest continuous Jewish community in a...
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    34,65 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €


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