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  • The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Five to his Death
    Horace Waller
    This book (first published in 1874) contains extracts from last journals written by David Livingstone, together with an account of his last moments and sufferings. This fantastic volume is recommended for those with an interest in the life and work of the famous explorer, and is not to be missed by collectors of antiquarian literature of this ilk. Horace Waller (1833-1896) was ...
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    39,45 €

  • STOLEN LEGACY
    GEORGE G. M. JAMES / George GMJames
    For centuries the world has been misled about the original source of the Arts and Sciences; for centuries Socrates, Plato and Aristotle have been falsely idolized as models of intellectual greatness; and for centuries the African continent has been called the Dark Continent, because Europe coveted the honor of transmitting to the world, the Arts and Sciences. It is indeed surpr...
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    12,54 €

  • Songs of Freedom
    Eileen Nora Mitson
    Eileen Mitson has collected thirteen authentic accounts of people whose lives have been utterly transformed by an encounter with Christ. As every Christian leader recognises, the simple step of becoming a Christian doesn’t solve the problems. Eileen Mitson has collected thirteen authentic, first-hand accounts of people whose lives have been utterly turned around by a deep encou...
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    11,03 €

  • The Origins of Black Humanism in America
    J. Floyd-Thomas
    By examining the minister who helped inspire the founding of the Harlem Unitarian Church Reverend Ethelred Brown, Floyd-Thomas offers a provocative examination of the religious and intellectual roots of Black humanist thought. ...
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    66,33 €

  • The Little Light Shines Bright
    Juliette Goodrich
    The Little Light Shines Bright celebrates the world’s longest burning lightbulb at a fire station in Livermore, California. The hand-blown lightbulb has been burning since 1901 and is declared the oldest known working lightbulb by the Guinness Book of World Records. The little light’s journey started more than 100 years ago before the start of airplanes, automobiles and rad...
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    22,05 €

  • Racial Impact. . . At the Crossroads
    Dr. George J. Foxx / DrGeorge JFoxx
    Have you ever been raped or robbed? How about cheated out of something special and expensive? What about discriminated against, threaten, and violated until you were helpless and hopeless, and when you went for lawful help, the Justice Department which is supposed to protect people, instead protects the culprits. It’s like living a nightmare, day after day, year after year for ...
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    29,55 €

  • Edge Effects
    Robert D. Temple / Robert DTemple
    There’s something fascinating about border towns. Who hasn’t crossed the line into another state to buy fireworks, gamble, or even to get married? Here are border towns with names as unique as the places themselves, names that bridge the boundaries. Robert D. Temple brings you a quirky, fascinating, and wholly entertaining look at more than eighty North American border towns in...
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    36,80 €

  • For Love of the Land
    Lois Christiansen Eagleton
    Mildred Kanipe was a strong-willed woman with set ideas. Nobody told her what to do or how to do it. When they tried, she just smiled and said, 'That’s interesting,' and went ahead and did it her way. Mildred carried a pistol-except when she was at home on the ranch. There she carried a .30-30 rifle. She never married, and except for an occasional hired hand she ran her almost ...
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    15,10 €

  • The Holy Life of Christianity
    Henry M. Piironen / Henry MPiironen
    The Holy Life of Christianity: Demystifying the Christian Ethics of the Holy Life in the New Testament - The Book of Your Faith introduces effective methods on how to correlate with the values of the Holy Life and how to interpret and measure the truth-values of the interpretations. As introducing over nine hundred teachings concerning the Holy Life of Christianity, after compl...
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    35,68 €

  • The Trials of Henry Flipper, First Black Graduate of West Point
    Don Cusic
    Born in 1856 in Thomasville, Georgia, Henry Ossian Flipper was nine at the end of the Civil War. His parents, part of a privileged upper class of slaves, were allowed to operate an independent business under the protection of their owner. This placed Henry in an excellent position to take advantage of new educational opportunities opening up to African Americans and he gradu...
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    42,89 €

  • Jury, State, and Society in Medieval England
    J. Masschaele
    This book portrays the great variety of work that medieval English juries carried out while highlighting the dramatic increase in demands for jury service that occurred during this period. ...
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    66,53 €

  • Railways and the Western European Capitals
    M. Nilsen
    This book looks at the effect of railways on London, Paris, Brussels, and Berlin, focusing on each city as a case study for one aspect of implantation. ...
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    66,32 €

  • Love, Lust, and License in Early Modern England
    Johanna Rickman
    Focusing on cases of extramarital sex, Johanna Rickman investigates fornication, adultery and bastard bearing among the English nobility from about 1560 to 1630. She analyzes cases of illicit sex from a gendered perspective, illuminating the place of women in aristocratic culture, both as individual historical subjects and as a social group. Her sources include collections of f...
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    254,52 €

  • Violence to Eternity
    Grace M. Jantzen
    In this volume Grace M. Jantzen continues her groundbreaking analysis of death and beauty in western thought by examining the religious roots of death and violence in the Jewish and Christian tradition, which underlie contemporary values. ...
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    78,60 €

  • The Modern Historiography Reader
    Adam Budd
    In The Modern Historiography Reader, Adam Budd guides readers through European and North American developments in history-writing since the eighteenth century. Starting with Enlightenment history and moving through subjects such as moral history, national history, the emergence of history as a profession, and the impact of scientific principles on history, he then looks at some...
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    83,95 €

  • Journeys by Heart
    Rita Nakashima Brock
    Winner of the 1988 Crossroad Women’s Studies Award ...
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    20,55 €

  • Hindu, Sufi, or Sikh
    S. Ramey
    By analyzing concrete examples of the creation of a heritage in the context of migration, this multi-sited ethnography considers the implications of representations of religions and diaspora for Sindhi Hindus and other similar communities. ...
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    134,17 €

  • Soft Borders
    J. Mostov
    While sovereignty is increasingly contested within academic circles, most recent military conflicts have been over issues of sovereignty in some form. Focusing on Yugoslavia in the 1990s, this book explores the issues surrounding ’sovereignty’ and calls for a radical rethinking of the notion and the institutions and practices that it grounds. ...
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    66,60 €

  • Anglo-American Diplomacy And The Reopening Of The Guyana-Venezuela Boundary Controversy, 1961-1966
    Cedric L Joseph
    This book is about Anglo-American involvement in the reopening of the border controversy between Guyana, formerly British Guiana, and Venezuela. The dispute over the border commenced in the mid-nineteenth century when Venezuela asserted a claim to some two-thirds of the territory of the British colony.Great Britain’s refusal to refer the delimitation of the border to arbitrati...
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    37,11 €

  • The Vrooms of the Foothills, Volume 2
    Bessie Vroom Ellis
    Cowboys & Homesteaders is the second volume in the series THE VROOMS OF THE FOOTHILLS by Bessie Vroom Ellis. This social history tells the fascinating story of the 1885-1914 era when cowboys, settlers and homesteaders poured into western Canada. Illustrated with over 220 photographs and 7 original maps, the stories resonate with the memories of immigrants who came to southwes...
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    19,02 €

  • The Nazi Hydra in America
    Glen Yeadon
    Provocative and highly controversial, The Nazi Hydra In America presents an overview of the fascist influence in America. While Eisenhower’s troops defeated The Third Reich on the battlefields of Europe, the war against fascism was lost on the home front, to the same cadre of American elitists who built Hitler’s war machine. At the center of this small confederacy two firms sta...
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    38,30 €

  • The Secret Wireless War
    Geoffrey Pidgeon
    Possibly the most important UK wireless traffic in World War II was handled by a unit formed in 1938 by Brigadier Richard Gambier-Parry head of MI6 Section VIII - the communications division of SIS.This book tells of its formation and includes diary entries by one of the ’founding fathers’ recording the secret meetings that took place, and the assembly of its talented staff.It ...
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    30,35 €

  • The Origin and Religious Contents of The Psalter
    T. K. Cheyne / TKCheyne
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    40,76 €

  • The Indwelling of the Trinity
    Francis L. B. O. P. Cunningham / Francis L. B. OP Cunningham / Francis LBOPCunningham
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    35,80 €

  • The Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke
    Rupert Brooke
    This volume contains the complete poetical works of Rupert Brooke.Brooke’s beautifully haunting poetry will appeal to all keen poetry lovers, but will be of special value to those with an interest in war poetry, and specifically poetry relating to the First World War.This wonderful volume makes for a worthy addition to any bookshelf, and is not to be missed by collectors of Bro...
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    49,81 €

  • Witchcraft and the Black Art - A Book Dealing with the Psychology and Folklore of the Witches
    J.W. Wickwar / J.WWickwar
    The old craft of the witches was a close order. Its members were sworn to secrecy. Although some records were kept, very few of these still exist today. In early ecclesiastic and in mediaeval literature, however, references to witchcraft are numerous. This book endeavours to set out in an interesting manner the story of the craft from earliest times. The book’s three hundred an...
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    48,07 €

  • The Tarot of the Bohemians - The Most Ancient Book in the World for the Use of Initiates
    'Papus'
    An in-depth study of tarot cards and tradition, The Tarot of the Bohemians is a must-read textbook for students of the subject.Written by Gérard Encausse under his occult alias, Papus, this volume gives a history of tarot and details the Marseilles pack’s symbolism alongside an exploration of Jewish Kabbalah mysticism. Gérard Encausse was a French hypnotist, physician, and occu...
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    61,59 €

  • Telepathy and Clairvoyance
    Rudolf Tischner
    Originally published in London 1925. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork The chief aim of this comprehensive work is to prove to some who still ...
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    53,02 €

  • The Golden Bough
    J.GFrazer / James George Frazer
    Originally published in 1913. Author: J.G.Frazer,D.C.L., Ll.D.,Litt.D. Language: English Keywords: Religion / Magic / Folklore / Mythology Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using t...
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    58,98 €

  • Collected Fruits of Occult Teaching
    A.P. Sinnett / A.PSinnett
    Collected Fruits of Occult Teaching By A. P.Sinnett. Contents Include Preface This world’s place in the universe Future life-and lives Religion under repair Religion under repair: A reply to Professor Lindsay The occultism in Tennyson’s poetry creeds more or less credible Imprisoned in the five senses Our visits to this world The masters and their methods of instruction Expande...
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    45,80 €


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