Catálogo de libros: Historia

194651 Catálogo de libros: Historia

  • The Western Way of War
    Peter Prof. Roberts
    Peter asks the question: 'What does the Western Way of War mean to you?' The answers were as surprising as they were illuminating. ...
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    34,30 €

  • Juz Amma Dari Kitab Suci Al-Quran (القرآن الكريم) Edisi Bahasa Inggris Berwarna Hardcover Version
    Jannah An-Nur Foundation
    Terjemahan Juz Amma Dari Kitab Suci Al-Quran (القرآن الكريم) Dalam Bahasa Inggris Edisi Berwarna Versi Hardcover.The main division of the Qur’an is into chapter (surah) and verse (ayat). The Quran is additionally divided into 30 equal sections, called juz’ (plural: ajiza). The divisions of juz’ do not fall evenly along chapter lines. These divisions make it easier to pace the r...
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    35,54 €

  • The Taming of Red Butte Western (Esprios Classics)
    Francis Lynde
    Francis Lynde (1856-1930) was an American author. Three of his books were adapted to film. He was born in Lewiston, New York, and wrote adventure novels set in the American West in the early 20th century. The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library has a collection of his papers. His novels were set in the mountains of Colorado, Nevada, and Utah. Railroading and mining...
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    25,15 €

  • Barriers Burned Away (Esprios Classics)
    E. P. Roe / EPRoe
    Edward Payson Roe (March 7, 1838 - July 19, 1888) was an American novelist, Presbyterian minister, horticulturist and historian. His novels were very popular in their day, especially with middle class readers in England and America, and were translated into several European languages. Their strong moral and religious purpose, did much to break down a Puritan prejudice in Americ...
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    30,48 €

  • Conflicts of the Forth
    Jim Roche / Murray Cook
    Explore the tumultuous battlegrounds of Stirlingshire and Scotland’s Forth Valley in 'Conflicts of the Forth', a gripping journey through centuries of historic warfare. Archaeologist Dr Murray Cook and military history enthusiast Jim Roche bring to life the epic clashes that shaped the destiny of a nation. From William Wallace’s heroic stand at Stirling Bridge to the strategic ...
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    20,52 €

  • Joseph Byrne
    Georgina Phelan
    Joseph Byrne was born in Victoria at the height of the Victorian gold rush and his short and turbulent life would see him become one of the most notorious outlaws in the history of Australia. A talented wordsmith, expert horseman and ruthlessly pragmatic, Byrne would be remembered as Ned Kelly’s right-hand man. Through meticulous research Georgina Phelan brings Byrne out of Ned...
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    39,93 €

  • 1790 Census of South Carolina, Heads of Families at the First Census of the U.S.
    Census
    By: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Orig. Pub. 1908, Reprinted 2024, 152 pages, Soft Cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-459-X. Heads of families at the first census of the U.S. taken in the year 1790. The index lists the names of more than 27,000 household heads, with information concerning their place of residence, the size of their families, and the approximate ages of the male family me...
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    41,48 €

  • 1790 Census of Virginia, Heads of Families at the First Census of the U.S. taken in the year 1790.
    U.S. Bureau of the Census
    By: U.S. Bureau of Census, Pub. 1908, Reprinted 2024, 192 pages, Soft Cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-614-2. Since the original returns for the state were destroyed in the War of 1812, taxpayers’ lists were reconstructed by the Bureau of the Census. ...
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    44,46 €

  • Temporal Revolution
    Robert Cruise
    Temporal Revolution - Historical Fiction NovelTemporal RevolutionTemporal Revolution is an epic historical fiction novel set against the backdrop of the French Revolution. Written by Robert Cruise, this gripping tale immerses readers in the turbulent streets of 18th-century Paris, where the fight for liberty, equality, and fraternity defines the era.The Moreau FamilyThe story f...
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    15,27 €

  • Temporal Revolution
    Robert Cruise
    Temporal Revolution - Historical Fiction NovelTemporal RevolutionTemporal Revolution is an epic historical fiction novel set against the backdrop of the French Revolution. Written by Robert Cruise, this gripping tale immerses readers in the turbulent streets of 18th-century Paris, where the fight for liberty, equality, and fraternity defines the era.The Moreau FamilyThe story f...
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    25,75 €

  • Evil Necessity
    Denver Brunsman
    A fundamental component of Britain’s early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat―it helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed seamen were second only to enslaved Africans as the largest group of forced laborers in the eighteenth century.In The Evil Necessity, Denver Brunsman describes in vivid detail the experience of impressment for Atlanti...
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    41,60 €

  • Changed Men
    Erin Lee Mock
    Postwar culture and anxiety over the reintegration of veterans into American society Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were rapidly reintegrated into civilian life, told to put the war behind them with cheer and confidence. Many veterans struggled, openly ...
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    165,45 €

  • Changed Men
    Erin Lee Mock
    Postwar culture and anxiety over the reintegration of veterans into American society Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were rapidly reintegrated into civilian life, told to put the war behind them with cheer and confidence. Many veterans struggled, openly ...
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    56,59 €

  • Using Android apps to teach History
    Dariel de Carvalho / João Otávio Tomazini Fardin
    This work is based on two assumptions. The first, quite common in academic circles, is that the school as an institution is disconnected from the rest of society. This is because, while still strongly linked to a past in which it was the exclusive holder of knowledge, today it is faced with a highly digital society, in which knowledge has gone beyond the school walls. The secon...
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    48,51 €

  • The rupture between past and future in Hannah Arendt’s thought
    Rai Souza Costa
    The aim of this book is to make it possible to investigate the author’s historical theoretical perspective, starting from her critical analyses of the concept of ancient history, corroborated by Herodotus in classical antiquity, up to the basic concept of linearity based on Hegel, which reaches the 19th century, where the rupture of historical linearity occurs, as seen in her v...
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    54,90 €

  • Privileged Descendants
    Gernot Hucek
    The narrative and storyline of Privileged Descendants have admirable qualities and are judged to be fast-paced and written in an authentic style, encompassing intriguing characters and resulting in a captivating international story. The OnLineBookClub review recommends picking up a copy of this masterpiece. ...
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    54,08 €

  • Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection
    E.A. Wallis Budge
    2924 Hardcover Reprint of 1911 Edition Originally Published in Two Volumes and Now Bound into One. New introduction by Jane Harrison. Two volumes bound in one. In this book E. A. Wallis Budge, one of the world’s foremost Egyptologists, focuses on Osiris as the single most important Egyptian deity. In Ancient Egyptian mythology, Osiris was the god of the beyond whose death and r...
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    60,28 €

  • Hidden Histories of Major Cities
    Shah Rukh
    'Hidden Histories of Major Cities' unveils the untold stories and forgotten legacies of renowned cities across the globe. Each chapter delves into a different city’s rich historical tapestry, revealing the fascinating and often overlooked events that have shaped its unique identity. From ancient ruins to modern metropolises, this book takes readers on a captivating journey thro...
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    21,96 €

  • Surviving War, Oceans Apart
    Yanek Mieczkowski
    This work takes readers to two countries ravaged by World War II, Poland and Japan, recounting the wartime experiences of teenagers Bogdan and Seiko. Bogdan’s family abandoned its home in Bydgoszcz, Poland, and fled to Warsaw, where Bogdan fought for the Polish Home Army in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. During this brutal conflict, as Poles tried to oust occupying Germans, Bogda...
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    57,46 €

  • Alba, a disputed city 1944-1945
    Paolo Crippa
    The town of Alba was the backdrop to the clashes between partisans and Axis troops between 1944 and 1945 and was even occupied by Resistance forces in October 1944, who, however, only maintained control for a few days, the famous ’23 days of Alba’, described by Beppe Fenoglio in his book of the same name. The town was again attacked by partisans on 15 April 1945, in a clash tha...
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    24,98 €

  • The Battle Ground (Esprios Classics)
    Ellen Glasgow
    Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 - November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942. A lifelong Virginian who published 20 books including seven novels which sold well (five reaching best-seller lists) as well as gained critical acclaim, Glasgow portrayed the changing world of the contemporary South, differing from the i...
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    29,66 €

  • Against Heresies (Books I-III)
    Irenaeus of Lyons
    St. Irenaeus, the bishop of Lyon, France wrote Against Heresies in 180 AD. It is a collected work made up of 5 books, in which Irenaeus examines the many schools of Gnostic thought of his day, in addition to various heretical Christian sects. He contrasts these with the orthodoxy of Christianity. This version of the work contains the first three books, which, before the discove...
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    17,43 €

  • Carry On (Esprios Classics)
    Coningsby Dawson
    Coningsby Dawson (1883 -1959) was an Anglo-American novelist and soldier, Canadian Field Artillery, born at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. Dawson attended Merton College, Oxford, matriculating in 1902 and taking a second class degree in Modern History in 1905. He spent a year taking a theological course at Union Seminary but decided on a career as a writer. In the same...
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    19,86 €

  • The Land of Deepening Shadow
    D. Thomas Curtin / DThomas Curtin
    'Early in November, 1915, I sailed from New York to Rotterdam. I spent nearly a month in Holland completing my preparations, and at length one grey winter morning I took the step that I dreaded. I had left Germany six months before with a feeling that to enter it again and get safely out was hopeless, foolish, dangerous, impossible. But at any rate I was going to try.' ...
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    24,42 €

  • On the Making of Man
    St. Gregory of Nyssa / StGregory of Nyssa
    St. Gregory of Nyssa (335 - 395 AD), the great theologian and bishop Nyssa, turned his considerable skill to finishing the work that his brother St. Basil the Great had started on the creation of the world (the Hexaemeron). The result is this work which examines how humans are formed as a 'mean between the divine, and brute beasts.'This work is a modern translation with America...
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    7,33 €

  • On the Soul and the Resurrection
    St. Gregory of Nyssa / StGregory of Nyssa
    The resurrection from death is a strong component of the Christian faith, which the Nicene Creed, affirms stating: 'We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.'The early Christian writers Irenaeus and Justin Martyr, in the second century, wrote against the wide-spread idea of their time that only the soul survived. In like manner we have this la...
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    13,22 €

  • The Refugees (Esprios Classics)
    Edith Wharton
    Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider’s knowledge of the upper class New York 'aristocracy' to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the Nation...
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    17,27 €

  • The Cauliflower (Esprios Classics)
    A. A. Crozier / AACrozier
    'On the sea-coasts of Great Britain and other countries of western Europe, from Norway around to the northern shores of the Mediterranean (where it is chiefly at home) grows a small biennial plant, looking somewhat like a mustard or half-grown cabbage. This is the wild cabbage, Brassica oleracea, from which our cultivated cabbages originated. It is entirely destitute of a head,...
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    21,37 €

  • The Paths of Inland Commerce (Esprios Classics)
    Archer B. Hulbert / Archer BHulbert
    Archer Butler Hulbert, FRGS (1873 -1933), historical geographer, writer, and professor of American history, son of Rev. Calvin Butler Hulbert and Mary Elizabeth Woodward, was born in Bennington, Vermont. His father later became President of Middlebury College. Hulbert was married twice. On September 10, 1901 he married Mary Elizabeth Stacy, who died in 1920. On June 16, 1923 he...
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    19,87 €

  • Grain and Chaff from an English Manor (Esprios Classics)
    Arthur H. Savory / Arthur HSavory
    'In recalling my earliest impressions of the village of Aldington, near Evesham, Worcestershire, the first picture that presents itself is of two chestnut-trees in full bloom in front of the Manor House which became my home, and their welcome was so gracious on that sunny May morning that it inclined me to take a hopeful view of the inspection of the house and land which was th...
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    25,14 €