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  • An American Engineer in Afghanistan
    Marjorie Bell
    An American Engineer in Afghanistan was first published in 1948.The legend of Afghanistan as 'The Forbidden Country' grew chiefly from a warning of the British Indian Government which once guarded the Afghan frontier north of the Khyber Pass -- 'It is absolutely forbidden to cross this border into Afghanistan.' A glance at the endsheet map in this book will recall its strategic...
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    85,99 €

  • Hermon Carey Bumpus, Yankee Naturalist
    Jr. Hermon C. Bumpus / JrHermon CBumpus
    Hermon Carey Bumpus, Yankee Naturalist was first published in 1947. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.In this small volume, Dr. Bumpus’ son has outlined the personal history and professional career of his distinguished fathe...
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    57,70 €

  • General George Crook
    George Crook / Martin F. Schmitt
    General Crook spent his entire military career, with the exception of the Civil War years, on the frontier. Fighting the Indians, he earned the distinction of being the lowest-ranking West Point cadet ever to rise to the rank of major general.Crook’s autobiography covers the period from his graduation from West Point in 1852 to June 18, 1876, the day after the famous Battle of ...
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    30,59 €

  • The Lives of the Prophets
    Charles Cutler Torrey
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    11,85 €

  • Strange Scriptures That Perplex the Western Mind
    Barbara M. Bowen
    Because the Bible describes a culture very different from that of Western countries today, what it says is sometimes puzzling to modern readers. In many cases, however, the ways in which Near Eastern merchants and farmers carry on their daily work have hardly changed over the intervening centuries since the inspired authors wrote. The aim of this interesting volume is to clarif...
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    15,03 €

  • Land Hunger
    Carl Coke Rister
    The restless land hunger that drew thousands of men into the Boomer Movement to open the 'Oklahoma' district of Indian Territory to settlement is a phenomon of power and human determination. The movement was best expressed in the character of David L. Payne, an Oklahoma Boomer and border adventurer in the mold of Sam Houston or Buffalo Bill Cody. Payne was not content to settle...
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    28,40 €

  • Will Rogers
    Betty Rogers
    Of the many books written about Will Rogers, none can have the immediacy, firsthand knowledge, and personal perspective of this account by his wife, Betty Blake Rogers. Her story is of Will Rogers, from wayward youth to international celebrity.Will was born in 1879 in the Cherokee nation of Indian Territory, near what is now Oologah, and died in 1935 with Wiley Post in an airpl...
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    30,71 €

  • ANTHEM
    Ayn Rand
    Unabridged value reproduction of ANTHEM by Ayn Rand.  The story set in the dark ages where technology is planned and individuality is not allowed. Rand developed the concept while living in Russia.  This work was rejected by Rand’s American publisher as, “the author does not understand…”  Read the book and decide for yourself. ...
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    16,56 €

  • Think And Grow Rich Original 1937 Edition
    Napoleon Hill
    Complete 1937 original edition of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill is the worldwide best seller for over 80 years focused on wealth building. In fifteen chapters, Hill describes how each of us shapes the events around us, creating much of the positive riches in our own lives.Think and Grow Rich lessons include the “Faith,” “Persistence,” and “Imagination.”Hill teaches, for ...
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    8,54 €

  • Think And Grow Rich Original 1937 Edition
    Napoleon Hill
    Complete 1937 original edition of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill is the worldwide best seller for over 80 years focused on wealth building. In fifteen chapters, Hill describes how each of us shapes the events around us, creating much of the positive riches in our own lives.Think and Grow Rich lessons include the “Faith,” “Persistence,” and “Imagination.”Hill teaches, for ...
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    17,64 €

  • Something of Myself
    Rudyard Kipling
    This unfinished autobiography by Rudyard Kipling offers a glimpse into the author’s early life, and some of the periods he spent working on his most famous books and poems.Little of this autobiography refers to the private life of the author, his purpose instead being to shed light on the creative inspirations which he saw and which inspired Kipling’s celebrated literary works....
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    12,49 €

  • Contemporaries of Marco Polo
    Manuel Komroff
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    20,56 €

  • The Mis-Education of the Negro
    Carter Godwin Woodson
    Complete and unabridged text in the direct voice of Carter Godwin Woodson.  Anyone studying influence, persuasion, or social controls would do well to study this book.“When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it.” ...
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    17,70 €

  • Magic and Mystery in Tibet
    Alexandra David-Neel
    Alexandra David-Neel was among the first Westerners to extensively explore Tibet. In these memoirs she tells of her encounters there; the people and their culture, and fervently Buddhist society.The author’s early years, wherein her enthusiasm for travel and curiosity of faraway cultures grew, are excluded from these pages. Rather we begin with David-Neel’s first trip to Tibet,...
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    14,87 €

  • My Life as an Explorer
    Roald Amundsen
    Roald Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer whose team were the first to reach the South Pole – this is his astonishing story, in his own words.Amundsen begins by explaining that he was not born with an urge to explorer the farthest, uncharted regions of the world. At fifteen he received as a gift the memoirs of Sir John Franklin, a famous British explorer, which roused an immediat...
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    12,55 €

  • Liberalism
    L. T. Hobhouse / LTHobhouse
    Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse was a British liberal political theorist and sociologist, who has been considered one of the leading and earliest proponents of social liberalism. His works, culminating in his famous book Liberalism (1911), occupy a seminal position within the canon of New Liberalism. He worked both as an academic and a journalist, and played a key role in the establi...
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    16,55 €

  • Liberalism
    L. T. Hobhouse
    Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse was a British liberal political theorist and sociologist, who has been considered one of the leading and earliest proponents of social liberalism. His works, culminating in his famous book Liberalism (1911), occupy a seminal position within the canon of New Liberalism. He worked both as an academic and a journalist, and played a key role in the establi...
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    6,06 €

  • A Daughter of the Samurai
    Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
    'The customs of all countries are strange to untrained eyes, and one of the most interesting mysteries of my life here is my own gradual but inevitable mental evolution.'-Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, A Daughter of the Samurai (1926)A Daughter of the Samurai (1926) by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto is the insightful account of the author’s drastic change of culture from feudal Japan to an arra...
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    56,02 €

  • A Daughter of the Samurai
    Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
    'The customs of all countries are strange to untrained eyes, and one of the most interesting mysteries of my life here is my own gradual but inevitable mental evolution.'-Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, A Daughter of the Samurai (1926)A Daughter of the Samurai (1926) by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto is the insightful account of the author’s drastic change of culture from feudal Japan to an arra...
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    25,39 €

  • The Pirates’ Who’s Who
    Philip Gosse
     Surely pirates, taking them in their broadest sense, are as much entitled to a biographical dictionary of their own as are clergymen, race-horses, or artists in ferro-concrete, who all, I am assured, have their own "Who's Who"? Have not the medical men their Directory, the lawyers their List, the peers their Peerage? There are books which record the names and the particula...
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    28,29 €

  • Mark Twain’s Autobiography
    Mark Twain
    'Start (an autobiography) at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale, and turn your talk upon the new and more interesting thing that has intruded itself into your mind meantime.'-Mark Twain Mark Twain’s Autobiography published ...
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    38,45 €

  • Andreae and the Formula of Concord
    Robert Kolb
    The only English translation of a series of sermons by Lutheran theologian, Jacob Andreae, that proved to be critical in the development of the Lutheran Confessions, particularly the Formula of Concord. Jackob Andreae worked tirelessly to unite Lutherans after the death of Martin Luther in 1546. Dr. Robert Kolb offers the historical background for these sermons, the offers an E...
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    27,33 €

  • Power And Authority
    Annie Browne
    Through the first person, Browne enters the lives of each main character - working through individual issues, challenges, and the changes that are coming in society. The consequences are both horrific and heartbreaking - and build towards the conclusion...Can the twentieth-century woman subtly shift the power system within marriage?Through following the lives of these Victorian...
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    22,62 €

  • My Life and Work
    Henry Ford
    My Life and Work is a classic autobiography of the great American business mogul, Henry Ford.Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Although Ford did not invent the automobile or the assembly line, he developed and manufactu...
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    15,70 €

  • Father William Doyle
    Alfred O'Rahilly / Alfred O’Rahilly
    Father William Doyle was an exceptional Jesuit priest, whose scholarly writings and promise were tragically cut short by his death while serving in World War One.Born in Melrose at Dalkey, County Dublin, Doyle expressed an interest in religious service and soldiering from a young age. Born in modest circumstances to a large family, William was the youngest of seven children. Fr...
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    15,91 €

  • From Immigrant to Inventor
    Michael Idvorsky Pupin
    Michael Idvorsky Pupin was a scientist and inventor whose important contributions include the long-distance telephone line, and advances in X-ray radiation.Pupin’s route to renown was unconventional; born in the small village of Idvor in Serbia, he managed to emigrate to the United States at a young age. Nearly penniless upon arrival at Castle Garden in New York City, he spent ...
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    14,75 €

  • The Kebra Nagast
    E. A. Wallis Budge / EAWallis Budge
    The Kebra Nagast is an ancient text, detailing the relationship between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba; this work examines these legends, and how they correspond with Ethiopian folklore and the Holy Bible.Written by Ethiopian scholar Is'haq Neburä -Id in the 14th century, the Kebra Nagast is a complete narration of the meeting and relationship between the ancient King ...
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    14,83 €

  • Father William Doyle
    Alfred O’Rahilly
    Father William Doyle was an exceptional Jesuit priest, whose scholarly writings and promise were tragically cut short by his death while serving in World War One.Born in Melrose at Dalkey, County Dublin, Doyle expressed an interest in religious service and soldiering from a young age. Born in modest circumstances to a large family, William was the youngest of seven children. Fr...
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    23,71 €

  • A Life of George Westinghouse
    Henry G. Prout / Henry GProut
    The story of businessman and engineer George Westinghouse is fascinating; his inventions revolutionized rail transport, and his pioneering distribution of electrical power changed life for Americans forever.Brought up in the small town of Central Bridge in upstate New York, Westinghouse showed talent from a young age, learning much of his father’s mechanical knowhow. Filing his...
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    14,77 €

  • The History of the Negro Church
    Carter Godwin Woodson
    This is the illustrated version, which includes images of some of the people mentioned in the book. A non-illustrated paperback version is available via ISBN 9781680921922.The importance of the church in the life of the Negro justifies the publication of this brief account of the development of the institution. For many years the various denominations have been writing treatise...
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    19,41 €


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