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  • DARE to Say No
    Max Felker-Kantor
    With its signature 'DARE to keep kids off drugs' slogan and iconic t-shirts, DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was the most popular drug education program of the 1980s and 1990s. But behind the cultural phenomenon is the story of how DARE and other antidrug education programs brought the War on Drugs into schools and ensured that the velvet glove of antidrug education woul...
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    126,87 €

  • The Carceral City
    John Bardes
    Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders only ever inflicted violence directly or through overseers. Mustering tens of thousands of previously overlooked arrest and prison records, John K. Bardes demonstrates the opposite: in parts of the South, enslaved and free people were jailed at astronomical rates. Slaveholders...
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    126,29 €

  • The Carceral City
    John Bardes
    Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders only ever inflicted violence directly or through overseers. Mustering tens of thousands of previously overlooked arrest and prison records, John K. Bardes demonstrates the opposite: in parts of the South, enslaved and free people were jailed at astronomical rates. Slaveholders...
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    43,96 €

  • Cold War Country
    Joseph M. Thompson
    Country music maintains a special, decades-long relationship to American military life, but these ties didn’t just happen. This readable history reveals how country music’s Nashville-based business leaders on Music Row created partnerships with the Pentagon to sell their audiences on military service while selling the music to servicemembers. Beginning in the 1950s, the militar...
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    126,64 €

  • Thomas Jefferson~From Boy to Man
    Jayne D’Alessandro-Cox
    Dive into the Early Life of Thomas Jefferson: Uncover the Childhood, Influences, and Journey to Adulthood of America’s Founding Father.Experience a unique journey into the early life of Thomas Jefferson, the man behind the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson~From Boy to Man illuminates the lesser-known years of this iconic American figure, providing a ...
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    27,18 €

  • Before Ishi
    Steve Schoonover
    This book is an attempt to reconstruct the history of the Yahi Indians of Northern California, a history the author feels was mangled by a common infatuation with the myths surrounding Ishi, the last survivor of the tribe. The focus on Ishi has allowed the Yahi’s remarkable adaptation to a hostile environment to be ignored. And the facts of the destruction of the tribe have be...
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    31,87 €

  • Narrative Devices in the Shiji
    Lei Yang
    Provides a new model for reading the Shiji and other early Chinese historical texts. ...
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    127,23 €

  • Progressive New York
    Bruce W. Dearstyne
    The exciting story of New York in the progressive era told by the reformers and visionaries who shaped its history, ...
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    126,52 €

  • Utopian Imaginings
    Victoria V. Wolcott
    Challenges readers to use utopian thinking and practice to counter the conditions of the present and create an alternative future. ...
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    44,56 €

  • Utopian Imaginings
    Victoria V. Wolcott
    'Sometimes that’s all it takes to save a world, you see. A new vision. A new way of thinking, appearing at just the right time.' These words were spoken by a fictional character in N. K. Jemisin’s 2019 utopian novella Emergency Skin. But the idea of saving the world through utopian imaginings has a deep and profound history. At this moment of rupture—with the related crises of ...
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    126,89 €

  • Legend & Lore of the Lost Adams
    John LeMay
    For years, the tale of a group of miners who found a hidden canyon of gold only to be massacred by the Apache was legend across the Old West. Initially spread in saloons by the lone survivor known only as Adams, Texas folklorist J. Frank Dobie later immortalized it for a new generation in his writings. However, Dobie’s tale was a pastiche constructed of the myriad of conflictin...
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    16,07 €

  • Mexican History
    Billy Wellman
    Dive into the heart of Mexico’s vibrant history with Mexican History!This book is your passport to understanding the forces that have shaped the fascinating nation of Mexico. From the dawn of civilizations to the challenges of the modern era, this compelling and comprehensive book has you covered.Here’s a glimpse of what awaits inside:���� Explore Ancient FoundationsOlmec Origi...
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    21,75 €

  • House of War
    James Carroll
    'A masterful achievement...[Carroll’s] prose is elegant, his viewpoint bold.' --Howard Zinn, author of The People’s History of the United States'One cannot understand the impact of the Pentagon on US foreign policy. . . without reading James Carroll’s House of War.' --Lawrence Korb, former Undersecretary of Defence under Ronald ReaganFrom the National Book Award-winning author ...
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    17,50 €

  • The Popol Vhu
    Steven Selby
    Set in a new world recently created by the Plumed Serpent and Hurikan the Mayan Gods of Creation, the Popol Vuh is the story of how the first humans were created. It is an epic story of the struggle of good over evil set in the oasis of this new world. From the only four remaining Mayan codices, scholars believe that the original Popol Vuh was a collection of intricate calcul...
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    18,90 €

  • The Confederate Navy Medical Corps
    Guy R. Hasegawa
    The Confederate Navy’s medical service is usually overlooked in histories of the Civil War, yet it was vital in maintaining the fighting strength of the South’s navy and marine corps. Confederate medical officers not only manned war vessels, they staffed navy yards and land-based hospitals, gathered supplies, participated in raids, examined recruits, and even served at defen...
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    57,38 €

  • A savage song
    Margarita Aragon
    This book examines key moments of violent social unrest in the twentieth-century United States. Investigating the centrality of constructions of gender to American racism, it asks how African and Mexican American men responded to the violence of racism, and how their resistance was understood by law enforcement, politicians, and press. ...
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    34,64 €

  • Knox County, Tennessee Minutes of the County Court, 1792-1795
    Works Projects Administration
    By: WPA, Pub. 1941, reprinted 2024, 296 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-642-8.  These court minutes begin with the creation of the county in 1792. Knox County was created out of Greene & Hawkins and was one of the many Eastern Tennessee counties that saw a great influx of settlers migrating West. In these minutes of pleas & quarters sessions you will find appointments o...
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    45,85 €

  • Treasure and Empire in the Civil War
    Neil P. Chatelain
    Across North America’s periphery, unknown and overlooked Civil War campaigns were waged over whether the United States or Confederacy would dominate lands, mines, and seaborne transportation networks of North America’s mineral wealth. The U.S. needed this wealth to stabilize their wartime economy while the Confederacy sought to expand their own treasury. Confederate armies a...
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    73,35 €

  • A Mountain Boyhood
    Joe Mills
    A Mountain Boyhood, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books are not ...
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    23,67 €

  • Mountain life in Algeria
    Edgar Barclay
    Mountain life in Algeria, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books ar...
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    21,92 €

  • Charles A. Willoughby and the Anti-Communist Crusade
    John W. Lemza
    'Beware the Red Peril!' was the clarion call of General Charles A. Willoughby at the close of World War II. The refrain echoed from Capitol Hill into American living rooms. For three decades after the war, the Old Right crusaded against global communist expansion, sniffing out internal and external threats to the American way of life. These paleo-conservatives faced resist...
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    72,05 €

  • An American Planter
    Martha Jane Brazy
    Extraordinarily wealthy and influential, Stephen Duncan (1787-1867) was a landowner, slaveholder, and financier with a remarkable array of social, economic, and political contacts in pre-Civil War America. In this, the first biography of Duncan, Martha Jane Brazy offers a compelling new portrait of antebellum life through exploration of Duncan’s multifaceted personal networks i...
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    38,23 €

  • The new politics of Russia
    Andrew Monaghan
    This book offers a crash course in contemporary Russian politics. An updated version of the bestselling 2016 edition, it explores the decline in western relations since the early 2000s, from the disagreements over European security and the war in Syria right up to the invasion of Ukraine. ...
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    25,99 €

  • The new politics of Russia
    Andrew Monaghan
    This book offers a crash course in contemporary Russian politics. An updated version of the bestselling 2016 edition, it explores the decline in western relations since the early 2000s, from the disagreements over European security and the war in Syria right up to the invasion of Ukraine. ...
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    157,50 €

  • The War That Made America
    This collection of original essays reveals the richness and dynamism of contemporary scholarship on the Civil War era. Inspired by the lines of inquiry that animated the writings of the influential historian Gary W. Gallagher, this volume includes nine essays by leading scholars in the field who explore a broad range of themes and participants in the nation’s greatest conflict,...
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    126,90 €

  • Taiwan Lives
    Niki J. P. Alsford
    Stories of migration, displacement, democratization, and transformationFrom a cradle of Austronesian expansion to the dynamic economic powerhouse and successful democracy it is today, Taiwan is layered in colonial histories. In Taiwan Lives, Niki J. P. Alsford presents a comprehensive examination of the island nation’s rich and complex past, told through the life stories of tho...
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    134,65 €

  • Taiwan Lives
    Niki J. P. Alsford
    Stories of migration, displacement, democratization, and transformationFrom a cradle of Austronesian expansion to the dynamic economic powerhouse and successful democracy it is today, Taiwan is layered in colonial histories. In Taiwan Lives, Niki J. P. Alsford presents a comprehensive examination of the island nation’s rich and complex past, told through the life stories of tho...
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    40,62 €

  • Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea
    Yong-Chool Ha
    Examines how primary social ties fueled economic growthSouth Korea’s rapid industrialization occurred with the rise of powerful chaebǒl (family-owned business conglomerates) that controlled vast swaths of the nation’s economy. Leader Park Chung Hee’s sense of backwardness and urgency led him to rely on familial, school, and regional ties to expedite the economic transformation....
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    134,50 €

  • ’Abdu’l-Bahá in New York
    Hillary Chapman / Hussein Ahdieh
    Of all the historical, religious and cultural events in the history of the United States, the arrival of ’Abdu’l-Bahá in 1912 was the most important one of all. Many people-from all facets of society-had the honor to meet Him, attend His talks, benefit from His wisdom and witness His benevolence and humility. Their encounter with ’Abdu’l-Bahá was life-altering: He touched the d...
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    10,96 €

  • Tell The Truth
    Henry Edward Goodloe
    Embark on a Journey of Resilience and Reflection: Discover Stories of Courage and Wisdom That Illuminate the Path to Overcoming Life’s Greatest Challenges.In the pages of Tell the Truth, Henry Edward Goodloe presents a stirring and insightful collection of narratives that resonate with the heart of anyone seeking hope amidst life’s trials. This book is a beacon for those naviga...
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    10,31 €


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