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  • Native American History Trivia
    Ahoy Publications
    Get over 200 fun, informative, and unique trivia questions about Native Americans!Are you a trivia buff? Do you love to learn new things? Have you always wanted to know more about Native American culture?If so, then this is the book for you!You can match your skills against challenging trivia questions about topics like Native American leaders, major battles, artwork, religions...
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    13,86 €

  • While In Darkness There Is Light
    Howard Dean / Louella Bryant
    For many young men, it is not until they strip away everything they’ve known that they can begin to live according to the morals and values they believe are truly their own. Some fall victim to poor judgment and an ingenuous trust in human nature that leads them to suffer deadly consequences. In 1970 a group of young American ex-pats from wealthy families dropped out of college...
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    22,21 €

  • China Demise of a Civilization
    Peter Thalheim
    Read the demise of what was once the leading civilization in the world into a base rule-of-man dictatorship, where the government fears her own people. How strong can she be if she lies to her own people; cheats on her international agreements; and, steals the technology and intellectual property of the rest of the world? Shouldn’t a great civilization be a fount of creation in...
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    13,78 €

  • Mysterious Japan
    Julian Street
    Mysterious Japan, a classical book, 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 designed. These books are not made of scanned copies ...
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    20,02 €

  • OBSCULTA LISTEN CAREFULLY
    Hildegard Mary Ryan
    This book is a study of one monastery of Benedictine nuns, who came from England to the Colony of New South Wales in 1848-49. Their story revolves on the first word of their Rule: Obsculta (listen). Their lived obsculta embraced the Benedictine values of: prayer (lectio Divina and the Liturgy of the Hours), work, peace and justice, zeal for the gospel of Christ, and preference ...
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    47,27 €

  • Where Angels Fear To Tread
    Sylvia Rapley-Anderson
    In 1973, a small group of parents and health professionals set out to overturn the inhumane and rigid treatment children received in hospitals around the country. To do this, they formed the Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital (AWCH), and their vision was to put the welfare of child at the centre of every decision that was made about them. AWCH’s goals of parent...
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    13,73 €

  • Amara’s Adventures
    Nola D Oracle
     Amara’s Adventures: A Trip to the African American Museums in Jacksonville, Florida was inspired by the award-winning film 'African Diasporans: Hidden Kulture.' In this book, Amara, an eleven-year-old girl full of bravery and curiosity, invites readers to join her on an extraordinary journey. 'Amara’s Adventures' promises to spark the spirit of discovery and curiosity in young...
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    8,72 €

  • The Fight of Their Lives
    Andy Kutler
    'An ideal introduction to that awful yet important page in our history, as well as a vivid and fast-paced refresher for those better acquainted with the past.' -Gregory J.W. Urwin, Professor of History at Temple University and author of Facing Fearful Odds: The Siege of Wake IslandSeptember 1939. To fuel his hate-filled quest for global supremacy and an eternal Third Reich, Ger...
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    30,83 €

  • Central Asian Cultures, Arts, and Architecture
    Ardi Kia
    This book documents the prehistoric and ancient cultural accomplishments influencing the Golden Ages of Inner Eurasia in the medieval era. ...
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    54,66 €

  • Making Never-Never Land
    Mónica A. Jiménez
    Puerto Rico has been an 'unincorporated territory' of the United States for over a century. For much of that time, the archipelago has been mostly invisible to US residents and neglected by the government. However, a series of crises in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, from outsized debt to climate fueled disasters, have led to massive protests and brought Pue...
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    31,87 €

  • Making Never-Never Land
    Mónica A. Jiménez
    Puerto Rico has been an 'unincorporated territory' of the United States for over a century. For much of that time, the archipelago has been mostly invisible to US residents and neglected by the government. However, a series of crises in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, from outsized debt to climate fueled disasters, have led to massive protests and brought Pue...
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    127,25 €

  • Northern New Spain, New Mexico Historical Review Essays (Hardcover)`
    John L. Kessell
    Readers of this volume of the collected articles of John L. Kessell in the New Mexico Historical Review who are familiar with his work will be reminded of a truly unique voice among historians of the American Southwest. Those who are new to John’s writing will be informed and enriched by the encounter. By looking at the twenty articles in chronological order, one can see a good...
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    34,46 €

  • Myth and reality of the missionary family
    Isobel Esther Reid
    Isobel Reid offers a concise account of the origins, establishment, and some internal dynamics of the Livingstonia Mission, in particular those impacting missionary families as seen through the eyes of a young missionary couple at its Bandawe station. This study not only demonstrates a general awareness of the role and initiative of the people of Northern Malawi, among whom and...
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    36,08 €

  • Female Bootleggers
    Sara L. Weston
    Have you ever been intrigued by the gutsy women who thrived during the Prohibition era, brewing illegal moonshine right under the authorities’ noses? Female Bootleggers: The women Who Made And Sold Moonshine is your essential guide to diving deep into the untold stories of these audacious female bootleggers who defied the law, brewed illicit spirits, and lived life on the edge....
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    14,56 €

  • Confucian Iconoclasm
    Philippe Major
    Confucian Iconoclasm proposes a novel account of the emergence of modern Confucian philosophy in Republican China (1912-1949), challenging the historiographical paradigm that modern (or New) Confucianism sought to preserve traditions against the iconoclasm of the May Fourth Movement. Through close textual analyses of Liang Shuming’s Eastern and Western Cultures and Their Philos...
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    44,52 €

  • The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya
    Steven E. Lindquist
    A literary and historical investigation into an ancient Indian religious thinker, tracing his rise in importance in the Hindu tradition. ...
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    44,29 €

  • Myth and the Making of History
    Sheds new light on the relationship between myth and history in ancient China and the central role they have played in shaping early Chinese thought. ...
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    126,81 €

  • Transatlantic Bondage
    Lissette Acosta Corniel
    A deeply researched, pathbreaking collection of original and newly translated essays on slavery in Spain, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico. ...
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    126,81 €

  • Mao’s Hijacked Generation
    Mao’s Hijacked Generation. Sarasota, FL: New Knowledge Press, 2024According to Ai Weiwei, the renowned Chinese artist and human rights activist, '[t]his rare book is a true record of the dark history...of the Zhiqing Movement in China that destroyed rationality, severed people’s historical memory and rational thinking, and deeply affected the way Chinese people think and behave...
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    19,12 €

  • Russian Historiography from 1880 to 1905
    Thomas M. Bohn
    In Russian historiography, the Moscow School’s paradigm shift from political and legal history to social and economic history was markedly driven by Pavel Miliukov (1859-1943), the late leader of the Constitutional Democrats and foreign minister of the Provisional Government. Russian Historiography from 1880 to 1905 develops a narrative of historical sociology’s advancement thr...
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    244,17 €

  • Madness and Marvels
    Stella Budrikis
    The lives of C. Y. O’Connor and Henry Calvert Barnett crossed in Fremantle during the heady days of the Coolgardie-Kalgoorlie gold rush. One, the engineer O’Connor, built a world-class harbour at Fremantle, defying the doubters who said it couldn’t be done. The other, Dr Barnett, did his best to run an asylum that was constantly underfunded and stretched to its limits.As the ob...
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    19,62 €

  • Listening for Change
    M. B. Lang
    Listening for Change challenges those who wish to lead in healing and reconciliation with Native American communities, showing the need to be quiet and listen. Even before the civil rights era and the accompanying American Indian Movement, indigenous Americans have insisted that White America is not listening. Scholars since Vine Deloria Jr. have called out academics for their ...
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    36,51 €

  • Africa
    Matthew Theodore Momon
    This book is designed to assist the advanced mathematics and science students through the maze of the Ancient World/Hellenistic World/ Classical World and its flow into the Modern World. This book will not only put critical events in perspective but also in their true chronological order. This book will give the reader knowledge of the history of the Mediterranean World from th...
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    16,35 €

  • Africa
    Matthew Theodore Momon
    This book is designed to assist the advanced mathematics and science students through the maze of the Ancient World/Hellenistic World/ Classical World and its flow into the Modern World. This book will not only put critical events in perspective but also in their true chronological order. This book will give the reader knowledge of the history of the Mediterranean World from th...
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    9,26 €

  • HUMAN PROGRESS
    Brent Wahlquist
    Today, we live like no one before us has ever lived. Most of us in the United States have far better living conditions, much more free time, options in how to spend that free time, and resources to spend as we chose among those options, than ever before in human history. We have far more options in travel, communications, entertainment, education, careers, what to wear, what to...
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    21,32 €

  • HUMAN PROGRESS
    Brent Wahlquist
    Today, we live like no one before us has ever lived. Most of us in the United States have far better living conditions, much more free time, options in how to spend that free time, and resources to spend as we chose among those options, than ever before in human history. We have far more options in travel, communications, entertainment, education, careers, what to wear, what to...
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    27,65 €

  • Zoetic Solace
    Jennifer Toelle
    A Swedish teen fostered by her aunt and uncle travels alone to America to be with her mother, her fate had other plans.In the vast expanse of the American West, where dreams stretch as far as the endless sky, a young girl from Sweden steps off the train in Helena, Montana. Her heart thrums with anticipation as she strides onto the platform, her eyes scanning the bustling depot ...
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    22,96 €

  • The Way of the Samurai
    Inazo Nitobe
    'The Way of the Samurai: Unveiling the Heart of Ancient Warriors'When you hear the word 'samurai,' you might imagine fierce fighters wearing masks and wielding long swords. But there’s more to samurai culture than just battles. Inazo Nitobe’s classic text reveals that samurai were not only warriors but also part of an aristocratic class. They balanced their martial skills with ...
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    8,02 €

  • Mexico and Her People of To-day
    Nevin Otto Winter
    'Many books have been written about Mexico, but several of the best works were written a quarter of a century ago and are now out of print. This fact and the developments of the past few years leads the author to believe that there is a field for another book on that most interesting country; a book that should present in readable form reliable information concerning the custom...
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    19,78 €

  • Northern New Spain (Softcover)
    John L. Kessell
    Readers of this volume of the collected articles of John L. Kessell in the New Mexico Historical Review who are familiar with his work will be reminded of a truly unique voice among historians of the American Southwest. Those who are new to John’s writing will be informed and enriched by the encounter. By looking at the twenty articles in chronological order, one can see a good...
    Disponible

    27,05 €


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