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  • Decryption of the Lipstick Killer Wall Code
    Loren L Swearingen
    DECRYPTION OF THE LIPSTICK KILLER WALL MESSAGE - The most important clue in the infamous murder of Chicago's Frances Brown is the lipstick writing on the living room wall of Miss Brown's apartment, which read: 'For heavens [sic] sake catch me before I kill more I cannot control myself'. This book will show that this message is encrypted. It will be decrypted and analyzed. The...
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    62,71 €

  • Waterloo Betrayed
    Stephen M. Beckett / Stephen MBeckett
    THIS BOOK HAS BEEN SUPERCEDEDSee Operations of the Armée du Nord : 1815, The Analysis for the definitive guide of French operations in 1815.   Discover why Napoleon really lost the Waterloo Campaign Napoleon was betrayed during 1815 There is no doubt of this. The Traitors admitted as much, and the Allied powers documented their acts. In the immediate aftermath of Napoleon's...
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    38,86 €

  • A Study of Prehistoric Soapstone Vessels of the Middle Atlantic Region of the United States
    Gary D. Shaffer / Gary DShaffer
    This study began with an intensive search to identify all prehistoric sites with soapstone artifacts in Maryland and the District of Columbia. A review of published and unpublished records and interviews with avocational archaeologists found that the number of (precisely and imprecisely mapped) is at least 340. Avocational archaeologists had collected most of the reported soaps...
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    97,59 €

  • The Price They Paid
    Michael Putzel
    The Price They Paid is the stunning and dramatic true story of a legendary helicopter commander in Vietnam and the flight crews that followed him into the most intensive helicopter warfare ever-and how that brutal experience has changed their lives in the forty years since the war ended. ...
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    11,07 €

  • Life and Death in the Korean Bronze Age (c. 1500-400 BC)
    Sunwoo Kim
    This research focuses on the Bronze Age in selected areas of Korea; Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi province. Two forms of evidence - settlements and monuments - are taken into account to identify their relationship with landscape and the social changes occurring between ca. 1500 to 400 cal BC. Life and death in the Bronze Age in Korea has not been synthetically investigated befor...
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    108,34 €

  • Publicola
    John Quincy Adams
    The letters of Publicola, a fascinating window into the debate that occurred in the early days of the French Revolution, before significant blood had been shed in France, before the French people had beheaded their king and queen, before the Reign of Terror, before Napoleon was a name of any significance, and before all of Europe became engulfed in war, written anonymously by J...
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    9,60 €

  • Gringo Lessons
    Bill Whaley
    Gringo Lessons: Twenty Years of Terror in Taos is a tale of modern adventure about a young man, who experienced the local culture from 1966 to 1987. There he met the community: skiers, La Gente, los vato locos, Chicano activists and their Spanish contemporaries, the artists, drug dealers, fellow soldiers, tempting sirens, the occasional movie star, and a host of con artists. Fi...
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    20,16 €

  • The System
    Lincoln Steffens
    The 'muckraker' Lincoln Steffens dug deep into business criminality and political corruption in a powerful series of articles written for McClure's magazine. Establishment newspapers and 'System' politicians dismissed his work as just another example of the decrepit modern journalism that could never pass for genuine writing. But Steffens' dogged quest for truth and justice set...
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    23,66 €

  • Not by Love Alone
    Margaret Mehl
    Suzuki Shin'ichi, the Tokyo String Quartet, Midori - How did Japanese violinists manage to revolutionize violin teaching, win international competitions, conquer Western concert stages, study at world-famous conservatoires and take up positions in leading orchestras and prestigious music faculties? What enabled the Japanese to master Western classical music within a few decades...
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    29,32 €

  • A Damn Close-Run Thing (Large Print)
    Russell Phillips
    In 1982, the average Briton didn't know the Falkland Islands existed, let alone their status as a disputed British territory just off the coast of Argentina. That changed when the Argentinians invaded the islands and overwhelmed the small defending force. Both nations claimed the islands were theirs, but now Argentina thought the British would give them up without a fight.T...
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    16,43 €

  • The Vineyard We Knew
    Kevin J. Parham
    A poignant memoir about the life of an African-American boy from the city summering on Martha's Vineyard during the rustic 1950s and turbulent 1960s. It's a coming of age story that is very personal, yet universal. It opens up to a reader a world that many will not know, but one they will still recognize. The Vineyard We Knew is almost elegiac in nature in that it creates a se...
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    15,68 €

  • Fearful Majesty
    Benson Bobrick
    Ivan the Terrible - the name evokes the legend of a cruel and dangerously insane tyrant. Fearful Majesty explores that legend and exposes the man, his nature, and his time.This acclaimed biography of one of Russia’s most important and tyrannical rulers is not only a rich, readable biography, it is also surprisingly timely, revealing how many of the issues Russia faces today hav...
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    21,18 €

  • Ojibwe Sky Star Map - Constellation Guidebook
    Annette Sharon Lee / Carl Gawboy / William Peter Wilson
    A constellation guidebook focusing on Ojibwe Star Knowledge. Greek constellations and astronomical objects of interest are included along with the Ojibwe constellations organized by the four seasons and north circumpolar stars. Written by four native authors: Annette Lee, William Wilson, Jeff Tibbetts, Carl Gawboy. Accompanies the 'Ojibwe Giizhig Anung Masinaaigan' - Ojibwe...
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    16,74 €

  • Eco-History. an Introduction to Biodiversity and Conservation.
    D. Rotherham Ian / DRotherham Ian / Ian D. Rotherham / Ian DRotherham
    AN ACCESSIBLE INTRODUCTION TO BIODIVERSITY, CONSERVATION AND THE ECO-CULTURAL NATURE OF LANDSCAPESKey issues are addressed in short, focused chapters, supported by a detailed thousand-year timeline based on the British Isles.Rotherham is convinced that to conserve wildlife or ecology, and to heal the wounds of human impacts, we must understand our own history and how, over coun...
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    50,84 €

  • A Diachronic Study of Sus and Bos Exploitation in Britain from the Early Mesolithic to the Late Neolithic
    Sarah Viner-Daniels
    This study explores the changing relationship between humans and two important animals, pigs and cattle, during the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods in Britain. Faunal remains from prehistoric sites in southern Britain were studied in order to understand changes in the size and shape of animals, changes in population structure and other information useful for understanding chan...
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    96,52 €

  • Animals
    Sarah Johnson
    The fourth volume in the reader series, ’Themes in Environmental History’.Comprising essays selected from Environment and History and Environmental Values, these inexpensive paperbacks address important aspects of environmental history through theoretical essays and case studies. The readers are attracting increasing interest from course-organisers. Animals examines human relat...
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    38,85 €

  • Tula the Revolt
    Jeroen Leinders / Brian Doyle-Du Breuil
    An inspiring historical novel based on the true story of the Great Slave Revolt on Curacao in 1795.***Now a major motion picture staring Danny Glover and Jeroen Krabbé***Tula, a slave in Curacao, is convinced that God made all human beings equal. Stirred by news from abroad - that the French have abolished slavery on neighbouring Haiti and that the New Dutch Republic is now und...
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    16,55 €

  • The Third Dimension
    Jon Mathieu / Katherine Brun
    A pioneering examination of the three-dimensionality of the earth from the perspective of history and thehumanities.This book considers the variegated world of mountains and their development during the last 500 years. It takes as its starting point the United Nations environmental conference of 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, where the mountains were officially recognised as a topic o...
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    52,68 €

  • Desert Boats
    Francis Lankester
    The aim of this study is to explore the rock-art of the Central Eastern Desert and has three objectives: to outline the petroglyphs’ distribution, to date them, and to explain who created them and for what purpose. It focuses in detail on the animal, human and boat images within the geographical and chronological context in which they were created; the landscape of what is now ...
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    79,56 €

  • Wild Things. Nature and the Social Imagination
    HISTORIES OF HUMAN CONSTRUCTIONS OF NATUREWild Things: Nature and the Social Imagination assembles eleven substantive and original essays on the cultural and social dimensions of environmental history. They address a global cornucopia of social and ecological systems, from Africa to Europe, North America and the Caribbean, and their temporal range extends from the 1830s into th...
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    112,73 €

  • Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee
    Earl J. Hess / Earl JHess
    Earl J.Hess’s study of armies and fortifications turns to the 1864 Overland Campaign to cover battles from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor. Drawing on meticulous research in primary sources and careful examination of battlefields at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Bermuda Hundred, and Cold Harbor, , Hess analyzes Union and Confederate movements and tactics and the new w...
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    50,89 €

  • Qumran Revisited
    David Stacey / Gregory Doudna
    The discovery by Bedouin of ancient scrolls in caves near the Dead Sea in 1947 led to scholastic and popular excitement that continues to the present day. This volume will assist text scholars and archaeologists alike, as well as readers from other disciplines, and the interested public, in approaching a better understanding of the ancient texts of Qumran and the site where the...
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    79,56 €

  • Conservation Song
    Wapulumuka Oliver Mulwafu
    Conservation Song explores ways in which colonial relations shaped meanings and conflicts over environmental control and management in Malawi. By focusing on soil conservation, which required an integrated approach to the use and management of such natural resources as land, water and forestry, it examines the origins and effects of policies and their legacies in the post-colon...
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    50,75 €

  • Zeus in Early Greek Mythology and Religion
    Olga A. Zolotnikova / Olga AZolotnikova
    This monograph examines the religious and mythological concepts of Zeus from prehistoric times until the Early Archaic period. The research was performed as an interdisciplinary study involving the evidence of the Homeric poems, archaeology, linguistics,as well as comparative Indo-European material. It is argued that Greek Zeus, as a god with certainly established Indo-European...
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    102,44 €

  • The Quotable Alexander H. Stephens
    Lochlainn Seabrook
    Was Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens really a 'racist' Dixiecrat who believed that slavery was the 'cornerstone' of the Confederacy, as pro-North writers assert? Was he actually guilty of 'treason' against the U.S., an 'anarchist' who should have been hanged for leading the secession of the Southern states? Of course not. And The Quotable Alexander H. Stephens: ...
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    40,87 €

  • Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era
    William J Cooper Jr.
    In his masterpiece, Jefferson Davis, American, William J. Cooper, Jr., crafted a sweeping, definitive biography and established himself as the foremost scholar on the intriguing Confederate president. Cooper narrows his focus considerably in Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era, training his expert eye specifically on Davis's participation in and influence on events centra...
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    22,67 €

  • The Taíno Settlement at Guayguata
    Kit W. Wesler / Kit WWesler / Philip Allsworth-Jones
    In 1998 the authors of this report initiated a Jamaican Taíno archaeological project as a joint program of the Department of History, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, and Murray State University, Kentucky, USA. The objectives were to conduct a systematic archaeological investigation of a Taíno community (c. 1000-1700 AD), towards understanding its chronology, subsi...
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    71,52 €

  • Pursuit of Unity
    Michael Perman
    In Pursuit of Unity, Michael Perman presents a comprehensive analysis of the South’s political history. In the 1800s, the region endured almost continuous political crisis--nullification, secession, Reconstruction, the Populist revolt, and disfranchisement. For most of the twentieth century, the region was dominated by a one-party system, the 'Solid South,' that ensured both po...
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    47,39 €

  • Symbolism in the Representation of Royal Children during the New Kingdom
    Georgia Xekalaki
    The subject of this work is the way that symbolism operates in official representations of the pharaohs' sons and daughters, during the historical period widely known as the New Kingdom (1550-1069 BC). The use of symbols in different expressions of Egyptian culture has been widely mentioned, and has been discussed from many different angles. Scholars have also analysed the ...
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    181,95 €

  • From Illahun to Djeme
    A collection of papers in honour of Eyptologist Ulrich Luft.                                       ...
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    184,75 €


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