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  • Indians' New South
    James Axtell
    In this concise but sweeping study, James Axtell depicts the complete range of transformations in southeastern Indian cultures as a result of contact, and often conflict, with European explorers and settlers in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Stressing the dynamism and constant change in native cultures while showing no loss of Indian identity, Axtell effe...
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    24,01 €

  • The Greatest Test of Courage
    Ronda Hassig
    Edward Mack had everything: a wife, a newborn son, and his dream job. But as a West Point graduate stationed in the Philippines, his life changed forever on December 7, 1941. Not long after, he would survive the Bataan Death March, Camps O’Donnell and Cabanatuan. At Cabanatuan, he headed an underground operation to get food and medicine for his fellow prisoners. His final desti...
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    11,87 €

  • Canadians and War Volume 1
    Alexander Fitzgerald-Blac / Maryanne Lewell / W. A. Leavey
    Canadians and War Volume 1 brings together four diverse works of research from four Canadian scholars. Canada’s military history is a living, breathing thing, with endless perspectives and accounts to be heard, and this collection seeks to bring some of those little-known stories to light. See the effects of Canada’s proud military history throughout the world and the century. ...
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    13,41 €

  • Guide to Kemetic Relationships
    Muata Ashby
    According to statistics more than half of marriages fail.Why is there strife between friends, between family members,between parent and child, between communities, betweenneighborhoods, and between countries?This volume is perhaps the most important book Kemetic (Ancient Egyptian) philosophy on the subject or human relationships and the source of strife in human relating. It pr...
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    46,83 €

  • Name Construction in Mediæval Japan
    Solveig Throndardottir
    Name Construction in Mediæval Japan examines Japanese names from earliest records to the close of the medieval period in 1600. Like ancient Greek or Latin names or Arabic names, ancient and medieval Japanese names express the social role of the individual in Japanese society. The main text and accompanying notes provide a guide to the origin and social role of formal names, com...
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    47,55 €

  • 50 Afrikans You Must Know, Vol. 2
    Nikala Asante / Samori Camara
    This is Volume 2 of Kamali Academy's Bestselling Reading Comprehension book. This book will grow comprehension skills and knowledge about some of our Greatest Warriors.This Book is for Middle to High School Warrior Scholars 3 ...
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    14,52 €

  • Secrets of Catoctin Mountain
    James Rada Jr.
    Catoctin Mountain runs from northern Frederick County, Md., to northern Loudoun County, Va., crossing the Potomac River as it does. Its natural history dates back to prehistoric times. Its history during the era of man is more recent and more fascinating filled with crimes, secrets, monsters, and drama. Hunt the snallygaster and dwayyo, legendary monsters that roam the mount...
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    14,62 €

  • Ardent Spirit
    J. K. Royce
    Magdelaine Marcotte La Framboise was inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame in 1984. Two centuries after her birth, she was recognized for her achievements in business. She is a role model, an inspiration and a woman who earned her rightful place in history.Born Magdelaine Marcotte in 1780, she was the daughter of a French fur trader and granddaughter of powerful Odawa...
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    20,26 €

  • New Bern History 101
    Edward Barnes Ellis Jr
    'Entertaining, funny, highly readable' The Essential Facts for the Native, Newcomer or Visitor to the Colonial Capital of North Carolina. Here's what you'll discover in New Bern History 101: -Why New Bern bears stick out their tongues. -Once and for all, what a Palatine is. -Where all the local Indians went. -The Richard Dobbs Spaight autopsy.  -How New Bern and sidebur...
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    13,03 €

  • Descendants of John Flora, Sr. and Sarah Harter, of Flora, Indiana 1802-2016
    Eric E. Flora
    John and Sarah (Harter) Flora moved from Preble County, Ohio to Carroll County, Indiana in 1829. The German-speaking couple bought land, befriended the Indians, raised eight children and had a town named after them. John and Sarah were members of the German Baptist Church (Dunkards). John and Sarah, their children and grandchildren were “builders.” Some physically built homes a...
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    55,18 €

  • Quilombo dos Palmares
    Glenn Alan Cheney
    A comprehensive history of the 17th century maroon nation, Brazil's Quilombo dos Palmares. An additional chapter discusses the myths and values emanating from Palmares. Another chapter explores the history and current problems of Conceição das Crioulas, Pernambuco, a present-day quilombo. ...
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    29,59 €

  • The Shadow Tiger
    Barbara L Evenson / William C. McDonald III
    Born to Fly China’s wide-open skies were perfect… if you didn’t mind typhoons, sand storms,  blizzards, uncharted mountains and  Japanese Zeros hunting you. Billy McDonald of Birmingham, Alabama, had an adventurous and dangerous career as a pilot in the Golden Age of Flight, and into World War II.  He jumped from military cadet to wingman in Chennault’s famed aerobatic flyin...
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    34,81 €

  • The Raffle Gods
    Dan Holliday
    When Beastly nearly kills a friend, he knows it is time to take a rest from his job, as a Kings Cross night club bouncer, and get out of town for a while. Travel with Beastly as he heads out bush to find his sense of self again. In a sense, a 'coming of age' story, with a difference, set in Australia in the 70s or 80s, you will find yourself drawn in from the first page...
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    20,12 €

  • Dearest Umeno
    Nancy Tamura Shikashio / Rose Tsunekawa
    Born January 8, 1895, and the third son of Katsusada and Yoshiko Ishii Tamura, Katsuchika was born into a samurai family whose ancestors were vassals of the Kujo family, Imperial court nobles. He traveled to the United States in 1920 to study. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a BA in English Literature. This book details his life and times,which i...
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    24,79 €

  • The Dirty Thirties
    Brinkley Howard / HistoryCaps
    The Dust Bowl was the largest ecological disaster in United States history, coinciding with the nation’s worst economic crisis, the Great Depression of the 1930s. Massive dust storms, combined with nearly a decade of drought, wreaked havoc on parts of Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and Arkansas. The storms were a relentless threat to the environment an...
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    6,64 €

  • Latinos of Boulder County, Colorado, 1900-1980
    Marjorie Keniston McIntosh
    The two volumes in this set present stories of struggle, survival, and joy in the Latino community of one Colorado county between 1900 and 1980. It is impossible to read this study without being struck by the parallels with recent events in the U.S, especially as anti-immigrant political rhetoric escalates. The history of Hispanics in Boulder County refutes that rhetoric by dem...
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    12,32 €

  • State Facts for Fun! Florida
    Wyatt Michaels
    State Facts for Fun! Florida is an educational and entertaining experience for the whole family. Kids will love the humor and pictures that are contained within this book; while parents will love that their children are learning (and enjoying every minute of it). Kids will learn fascinating facts from subjects like history and geography, and will remember them well because of t...
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    7,62 €

  • Presidential Facts for Fun! Taylor to Cleveland
    Wyatt Michaels
    In Presidential Facts for Fun! Taylor to Cleveland, you'll find a veritable library of information about numerous American presidents, all of which is presented in a fun, game-like format. The book contains numerous facts, both well-known and lesser known, and is sure to not only provide a fun way to spend time, but a great way to learn and brush up on your knowledge of preside...
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    7,59 €

  • Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of Arkansas
    W.C. Jameson / W.CJameson
    Arkansas has long been a land rich in history and lore, and few of the events associated with The Natural State are more compelling and provocative than those associated with lost mines and buried treasures. Within these pages, award-winning author W.C. Jameson has captured and interpreted the most complete collection of these rich and varied stories of lost treasure. ...
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    16,65 €

  • The Moon Year - A Record of Chinese Customs and Festivals
    Igor Mitrophanow / Juliet Bredon
    The Moon Year is a facinating recording the mysterious and somewhat elusive traditions of the Chinese. Juliet Bredon and Igor Mitrophanow trace their way through the intimate life of Chinese religion, superstitions, philosophies, customs, and society. Only after a year’s residence in China are the authors able to gather an intimate perspective on this age-old civilization that ...
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    22,63 €

  • Mountain Environments in Prehistoric Europe
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    88,08 €

  • The Ancient Egyptian Buddha
    Muata Ashby
    This book is a compilation of several sections of a larger work, a book by the name of African Origins of Civilization, Religion, Yoga Mysticism and Ethics Philosophy. It also contains some new previously unpublished additional evidences not contained in the larger work that demonstrate the correlation between Ancient Egyptian Religion and Buddhism. This present volume, The Anc...
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    16,03 €

  • Mesolithic/Neolithic Interactions in the Balkans and in the Middle Danube Basin
    9 papers from the session on Mesolithic/Neolithic Interactions in the Balkans and in the Middle Danube Basin held at the 15th UISPP Congress in Lisbon in September 2006.        ...
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    61,10 €

  • Women in Pre-Islamic Arabia
    Hatoon Ajwad al-Fassi
    In addition to feminist studies, this work uses epigraphy, archaeology and classical sources, as well as recent developments in historiography, to understand Nabataean society and Nabataean women in particular. The author has highlighted to main study areas. The first is to investigate whether Nabataean women enjoyed a high status that was particular to their society and histor...
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    66,85 €

  • Debating Late Antiquity in Britain AD300-700
    The conference ‘Debating Late Antiquity in Britain AD300-700’ (held at the University of York in June 2003) had three principal areas of interest – What was the fate of Roman Britain? To what extent did Anglo-Saxon material, so well known in the cemeteries of eastern England, reflect a ?violent immigration from the continent on a large scale? What was the fate of the ‘British’ ...
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    69,22 €

  • The South-Eastern Aegean in the Mycenaean Period
    Mercourios Georgiadis
    Mycenaean culture has been thoroughly studied and is well understood as it relates to the Greek mainland. However, for the Aegean islands, and in terms of this study the South-eastern Aegean, the situation is not so clear. The islands, due to their geographic peculiarities, have a special character and it is essential to appreciate the extent to which their environment affected...
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    179,58 €

  • The Oresteia
    Aeschylus Aeschylus
    Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides. He is often described as the father of tragedy: our knowledge of the genre begins with his work and our understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays. Only seven of his estimated seventy ...
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    20,33 €

  • The Awakening of Europe
    M. B. Synge / MBSynge
    The Awakening of Europe covers the reformation in Germany, the Netherlands, France, and England, as well as the settlement of colonies in America. The rise of England and the Netherlands as sea powers, and the corresponding fall of Spain, as well as the rise of Russia, Austria, and the German states are also presented. ...
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    20,29 €

  • Manifesto of the Communist Party
    Karl Marx
    The Communist Manifesto was first published on February 21, and it is one of the world’s most influential political tracts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it laid out the League’s purposes and program. The Manifesto suggested a course of action for a proletarian (working class) revolution to overthrow the ...
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    18,06 €

  • Renatus' Kayak
    Rozanne Enerson Junker
    Woody Belsheim had one question when he gave his niece, Rozanne Enerson Junker, a miniature sealskin kayak made for him in 1944 by Inuit hunter Renatus Tuglavina: Would it be possible for you to find out what happened to Renatus...and to his daughter, Harriot?Woody had seldom spoken about his World War II service when he and six other G.I.s manned a secret American weather stat...
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    14,59 €


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