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  • Guarding the Frontier
    Edgar Bruce Wesley
    Guarding the Frontier was first published in 1935. 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.'For almost a century the defense of the frontier was the chief consideration in the military policy of the United States,' Dr. Wesley obse...
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    71,96 €

  • Vermont
    Federal Writers' Project (FWP) / Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) / Works Project Administration (WPA)
    During the Great Depression of the 1930s thousands of writers were hired by the Works Project Administration to create hundreds of guidebooks on all of the states in the U.S.  These volumes that were produced became known as the American Guide Series.  This series has been described as the biggest, fastest and most original research job in the history of the world. No library c...
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    81,99 €

  • New Sources of Indian History 1850-1891
    Stanley Vestal
    More than a century has passed since that winter morning in 1890 when the Indian police killed Sitting Bull and destroyed the power of his great Sioux Nation. Yet only recently were the facts about Sitting Bull and the Sioux being sifted from the fables that have grown up in the interim. In New Sources of Indian History, Stanley Vestal traced scores of historical threads, obtai...
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    34,84 €

  • 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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    6,58 €

  • A History of Brazil
    João Pandía Calogeras
    Calogeras’s book occupies a unique place among the histories of Brazil. Comprising the story of Brazil from its discovery in 1498 up to 1926, it describes events, institutions, literature, personalities, the colonial epoch, the era of independence, and the nationalistic period. Martin’s translation is an easily readable volume that gives an excellent idea of the evolution of th...
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    76,79 €

  • Old Province of Quebec
    Alfred Leroy Burt
    Old Province of Quebec was first published in 1933. 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. ...
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    84,93 €

  • Populist Revolt
    John D. Hicks / John DHicks
    Populist Revolt was first published in 1931. 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.When The Populist Revolt was originally published, the New York Times critic called it 'far and away the best account of populism that we have-an...
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    85,35 €

  • By Guess and By God
    William Guy Carr
    A record of the activities and exploits of British submarines during the First World War, together with something about the men who commanded them. Starting with action of the E-14 and E-11 in the Sea of Marmora to the end of WWI. ...
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    18,25 €

  • Amulets and Superstitions
    E. A. Wallis Budge
    In this illustrated study, renowned Egyptologist E. A. Wallis Budge investigates amulets of ancient civilizations, revealing their cultural and religious significance.A stunning and thorough investigation, Amulets and Superstitions seeks to demystify the jewelry worn or displayed by ancient peoples. Some were everyday charms worn widely, while others are exquisite crafts made o...
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    19,77 €

  • America in the Forties
    Gunnar Malmin
    America in the Forties: Letters of Ole Munch Ræder was first published in 1929. 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.These lively, well-informed letters with their shrewd comment on the American scene are an important addition ...
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    71,77 €

  • English Constitutional Conflicts of the Seventeenth Century
    J. R. Tanner / JRTanner
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    47,88 €

  • Death Comes for the Archbishop
    Willa Cather
      Death Comes for the Archbishop is the story, not of death, but of life, for Miss Cather’s Archbishop Latour died of having lived. She is concerned, not with any climactic moment in a career, but with the whole broad view of the career. There is no climax, short of the gentle end.  One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary Bishop from America were d...
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    14,19 €

  • Death Comes for the Archbishop
    Willa Cather
      Death Comes for the Archbishop is the story, not of death, but of life, for Miss Cather’s Archbishop Latour died of having lived. She is concerned, not with any climactic moment in a career, but with the whole broad view of the career. There is no climax, short of the gentle end.  One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary Bishop from America were d...
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    21,74 €

  • The Book of the Cave of Treasures
    E. A. Wallis Budge / EAWallis Budge
    The Book of the Cave of Treasures is a translation of a history in the Syriac language, stretching from the dawn of the Creation to the birth and crucifixion of Jesus Christ.Some five and a half thousand years of human history span the narrative, with various ancient monarchs of human history depicted together with the Great Flood. The final portions narrate the arrival of Jesu...
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    13,79 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    24,26 €

  • The Kabbalah
    Adolphe Franck / I. Sossnitz / ISossnitz
    The Kabbalah’s history and esoteric qualities are demystified and explained by Adolph Franck, a philosopher and scholar of ancient Jewish texts.With origins dating back thousands of years, the Kabbalistic texts are a cornerstone of Judaist tradition. They explain the relationship between God, humanity, the Earth, and the very Creation itself. For many centuries, Kabbalist schol...
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    14,84 €

  • California
    Federal Writers' Project (FWP) / Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) / Works Project Administration (WPA)
    During the Great Depression of the 1930s thousands of writers were hired by the Works Project Administration to create hundreds of guidebooks on all of the states in the U.S.  These volumes that were produced became known as the American Guide Series.  This series has been described as the biggest, fastest and most original research job in the history of the world. No library c...
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    83,09 €

  • One of My Oldest Friends
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'He hated you, you know. He used to wish you’d die. I told him that if he ever said so to me again I’d never see him any more.' -Marion, One of My Oldest Friends, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)One of My Oldest Friends (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the many short stories the author published in magazines of the time period. The story, which debuted in Woman’s Home Comp...
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    7,44 €

  • The Great Gatsby
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.' -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)The Great Gatsby (1925) stands as the quintessential literary achievement of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s career and is often referred to as a Great American Novel. The plot focuses on wealthy yet tragic Jay Gatsby and his pursuit of soci...
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    14,84 €

  • Gretchen’s Forty Winks
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    '’Forty days,’ she sighed. ’It seems such a long time-when everybody else is always having fun. If I could only sleep for forty days.’' - Gretchen, Gretchen’s Forty Winks, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, (1924) Gretchen’s Forty Winks (1924) is a short story that was originally published in The Saturday Evening Post. The story is regarded as one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s many works loose...
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    7,56 €

  • Hot and Cold Blood
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    '...she went on brokenly, ’I need you. I need your strength and your health and your arms around me. And if you-if you just give it to every one, it’s spread so thin when it reaches me-’' - Jacqueline Mathers, Hot & Cold Blood, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, (1926) Hot & Cold Blood (1926) was originally published in a collection of short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald entitled All th...
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    7,44 €

  • The Vegetable
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'Jerry Frost is thirty-five. He is a clerk for the railroad at $3,000 a year. He possesses no eyebrows, but nevertheless he constantly tries to knit them.'-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Vegetable (1923)The Vegetable; or, From President to Postman (1923) is the only play F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote and when produced was regarded by many as a disaster. The title is derived from a quote ...
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    19,05 €

  • Dice, Brassknuckles and Guitar
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    'Some girls with metal knuckles were furiously insulting two punching bags on each of which was painted the leering, winking face of a ’masher.’' -F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar (1923)Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar (1923) is a short story that was originally published in Hearst’s International and resonates with some of the same themes as The Great Gatsby (1925...
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    7,59 €

  • My Struggle
    Adolf Hitler / James Murphy / Kamphf English Kampt Mein Kampf
    Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”) is a political manifesto written by Adolf Hitler. It was his only complete book and became the bible of National Socialism in the German Third Reich. It was published in two volumes, which dated 1925 and 1927. By 1939 it had sold 5,200,000 copies and had been translated into 11 different languages. The first volume, entitled Die Abrechnung (“The Settl...
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    23,67 €

  • Mein Kampf
    Adolf Hitler / James Vincent Murphy
    Complete reprint of the unexpurgated edition of “Mein Kampf” (“My Struggle”) written by Adolf Hitler (1925 and 1927). Volume I: A Reckoning and Volume II: The National Socialist Movement (Two Volumes in One). Translated by James Vincent Murphy (1880–1946).  ...
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    20,68 €

  • My Struggle
    Adolf Hitler
    Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”) is a political manifesto written by Adolf Hitler. It was his only complete book and became the bible of National Socialism in the German Third Reich. It was published in two volumes, which dated 1925 and 1927. By 1939 it had sold 5,200,000 copies and had been translated into 11 different languages. The first volume, entitled Die Abrechnung (“The Settl...
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    32,07 €

  • Triumphant Plutocracy
    Richard Franklin Pettigrew
    Richard Pettigrew was a United States Senator during the Gilded Age; a time when the captains of industry gained unprecedented power. His recollections of public service span decades.Running on an anti-corruption platform and representing South Dakota, Pettigrew was appalled as the wealthy owners of the trusts exerted unhealthy influence on the burgeoning economy of the USA. Wi...
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    14,65 €

  • The Spirit of the Chinese People
    Ku Hung-Ming
    Author and traditionalist Ku Hung-Ming discusses the history, morals, values and personal traits of the Chinese people.As a young man Ku Hung-Ming discovered he had a gift with languages; he went on to attain an excellent command of English, French, German and other European tongues. He used this ability to promote understanding between Western cultures and his native land of C...
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    14,42 €

  • Peace and Bread in Time of War
    Jane Addams
    Jane Addams was deeply opposed to World War One and its immense costs - social, moral, and financial. In this book she discusses her philosophy of pacifism, and her ideas for reform in the United States.Published in 1922, this book describes the author’s feelings about the outbreak of war in Europe, and observing how the situation deteriorated as the terrible conflict wore on. ...
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    12,63 €


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