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  • Downstate New York Rock Walks
    C. Russell Dunn
    An explorer’s walking guide to downstate New York’s awesome boulders and rock formations. ...
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    25,10 €

  • Chronicling a Crisis
    A primary source collection of the local impact of the COVID pandemic on a college community which both records and reflects upon the nature of daily life during a crisis. ...
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    126,36 €

  • Damned Agitator
    Michael Gold
    The most comprehensive collection of writings by an important twentieth-century radical writer. ...
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    126,61 €

  • Chronicling a Crisis
    A primary source collection of the local impact of the COVID pandemic on a college community which both records and reflects upon the nature of daily life during a crisis. ...
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    28,50 €

  • Rising Wolf, the White Blackfoot
    James Willard Schultz
    Rising Wolf, the White Blackfoot, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, 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 m...
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    22,01 €

  • The ritual and significance of the Winnebago medicine dance
    Paul Radin
    The ritual and significance of the Winnebago medicine dance, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, 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 desi...
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    20,00 €

  • The Rising Son; or, the Antecedents and Advancement of the Colored Race
    Elijah W. Smith / William Wells Moore
    The Rising Son; or, the Antecedents and Advancement of the Colored Race, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, 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, rety...
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    31,18 €

  • The Birds of Dog
    Ann B. Parson
    The Birds of Dog opens in the early days of the Boston Society of Natural History and simmers with remarkable lost stories about America’s emerging fields of science and its first scientists. Catharine Pickering, a curator’s assistant, finds herself increasingly drawn to Nature’s treasures, especially birds, and more and more opposed to the 'kill-and-collect' methods of hunters...
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    17,90 €

  • The Early Life and Times of David Crockett in East Tennessee
    Joe Swann
    David Crockett was one of America’s first national celebrities. He carved out a name for himself from the Western frontier lands of East Tennessee to the halls of Congress in Washington, D.C. He did this not only by prowess with a rifle but through humility, integrity, humor, and a personal character of undeniable authenticity. That character was forged through hardship and sel...
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    13,41 €

  • La Barbarie Represiva de la Narcodictadura de Nicolás Maduro
    Rodulfo Gonzalez
    Para la narcodictadura, todas las manifestaciones opositoras y de la sociedad social, aunque sean pacíficas, se convierten por la presencia de los colectivos que forman parte del PSUV, en violentas, ya que infiltra elementos armados de esa organización parapolicial para así justificar la acción criminal de los cuerpos de exterminio, vale decir, la Guardia Nacional, el SEBIN y o...
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    21,07 €

  • Gotham’s War within a War
    Emily Brooks
    A surprising history unfolded in New Deal– and World War II–era New York City under Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, members of the NYPD had worked to enforce partisan political power rather than focus on crime. That changed when La Guardia took office in 1934 and shifted the city’s priorities toward liberal reform. La Gua...
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    126,97 €

  • Gotham’s War within a War
    Emily Brooks
    A surprising history unfolded in New Deal– and World War II–era New York City under Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, members of the NYPD had worked to enforce partisan political power rather than focus on crime. That changed when La Guardia took office in 1934 and shifted the city’s priorities toward liberal reform. La Gua...
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    38,13 €

  • Benjamin Franklin’s Religion
    Stephen J. Vicchio
    This book is about the religious views of the greatest statesman in the history of the United States-Benjamin Franklin. The text covers Franklin’s views from the adoption of his parents Congregationalist and Presbyterian perspectives, followed by a period of religious doubt, his comments about religion as a diplomat in Britain and France, and ironically, a return at the end of ...
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    17,18 €

  • Plague Year New York City 2020
    T.Remington
    When I wrote and published these essays starting right before and during the first months of the pandemic shut down in New York City I suspected that we weren’t going back to anything we’d come to accept as 'normal' but I sure did not expect what we wound up with. From the vantage point of three years later it’s interesting to see what I got right and what I was way off base ab...
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    16,69 €

  • Almost - The Road to the Grande
    Tom McAuliffe
    They Came.They Jammed.They Conquered at the corner of Grand River Ave. and Beverly Court! A scene that rose from School Dances and Teen Clubs from 1965 to 1972, The Grande Ballroom became the epicenter of Rock-n-Roll not only for Detroit but the world. A who’s who of the greatest bands on the planet played ’The Grande’, which was built in 1926; Led Zeppelin, The Who, Cream, CCR...
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    22,18 €

  • The Streckfus Riverboat Dynasty
    Arthur L. Smith
    In 1880 John Streckfus began a commercial packet business serving the Rock Island community that evolved to become the largest excursion riverboat operation serving the Mississippi from St. Paul to New Orleans and the Ohio from Pittsburg to St. Louis. Streckfus built the sternwheeler J.S., the first purposed sightseeing and music/dance riverboat in 1900. When the J.S. suffered ...
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    68,36 €

  • ?'Information Age?' or is it the 'Dis-Information Age?'
    F. Cerny
    This book will give evidence that thousands of black race riots and hundreds of thousands of race riot Fires have been Deleted out-of-Time, out of America’s history, so as to, ’Protect’ the legitimacy of those Wildly Popular, but Race Riot Imposed, Civil Rights Laws.  ...
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    16,96 €

  • A Ilusão Americana / Fastos Da Ditadura Militar No Brasil
    Eduardo Prado
    A ILUSÃO AMERICANA:Nascido e criado num mundo de riqueza, elegância e cultura, o monarquista Eduardo Prado combateu a república instalada em 1889. Seu livro, publicado quatro anos depois, foi o primeiro a ser apreendido pela política republicana em São Paulo. Prado apontava as diferenças abissais entre o Brasil e os Estados Unidos e achava que a república tinha copiado o exempl...
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    16,96 €

  • The Other Side of the Scopes Monkey Trial
    Jerry Bergman
    The enormous amount of literature on the Scopes Trial focuses on the religious elements of the trial. It almost totally ignored the importance of racism as taught in the text that Scopes used to teach biology. Bryan was not concerned about evolution in general, but specifically human evolution. He believed that Darwin’s theory, as applied to humans, encouraged the oppression of...
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    24,39 €

  • The West Virginia Coal Wars
    Captivating History
    Did you know the coal fields of West Virginia were the scene of violence and strife between coal miners and coal company management in the early 20th century?The West Virginia Coal Wars are often overlooked in US history. It is time that changed.Several lessons can be learned from what happened during the West Virginia Coal Wars. These confrontations led to developments in labo...
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    18,46 €

  • The Other Side of the Scopes Monkey Trial
    Jerry Bergman
    The enormous amount of literature on the Scopes Trial focuses on the religious elements of the trial. It almost totally ignored the importance of racism as taught in the text that Scopes used to teach biology. Bryan was not concerned about evolution in general, but specifically human evolution. He believed that Darwin’s theory, as applied to humans, encouraged the oppression of...
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    38,20 €

  • Seasons of the Journey
    Dr. Zelma lloyd Frank
    This is a compelling biography about the trailblazer, leader, and legend in Higher Education and Intercollegiate Athletics who was the only African American and first college president to become president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), only alumnus to become President of Lincoln University in Missouri, first full-time commissioner of the Southwestern At...
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    25,73 €

  • Paradise in Ruins
    Antwyn Price
    Paradise in Ruins offers readers a look at the Pacific Theater of World War Two by introducing them to military and naval leaders from both sides of the conflict, as well as local populations of the Pacific islands whose lives were suddenly disrupted by the brutal events that exploded eastward from Japan in 1941. Perhaps you had family members among the many thousands of young ...
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    25,90 €

  • Amish Women and the Great Depression
    Katherine Jellison / Steven D Reschly
    A detailed look at how Amish women sustained family farming during the Great Depression.At the end of the Great Depression, the US Bureau of Agricultural Economics (BAE) designated the Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the most economically and culturally stable agricultural community in the nation. In Amish Women and the Great Depression, Katherine Jellison an...
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    60,75 €

  • Another Day
    Jenean Hall
    'Error in history is like a flock of sheep jumping over a bridge; if one goes, the rest all follow.'(Charles Campbell, cited by Jennings Cropper Wise in Ye Kingdom of Accawmacke)In Another Day, Jenean Hall sets her hand to some of the errors told about colonial Virginia’s Eastern Shore history. For example, some historians are still saying that Sir George Yeardley was in cahoot...
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    13,59 €

  • Graveyard Harbor
    Robert Graysmith
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Zodiac, Auto Focus, and Black Fire.SO CLOSE TO SHORE, SO FAR FROM FORTUNE.WITH THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD, THEY CAME. San Francisco, 1849. Some arrived by land, but most came by sea. From packet to clipper, the first steamers, and even a stolen paddlewheeler, ships of every kind poured in through the Golden Gate. Packed to the gills with...
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    33,92 €

  • Hidden in Plain Sight
    Cush Dey
    Unearth the hidden tapestry of Moorish history in the Americas with Bro. Cush Dey’s inaugural masterpiece, 'Hidden in Plain Sight: The Parable of the Moorish Sardine.' As the ancient saying goes, 'Come, let us cut them off from being a nation,' this book unravels the deliberate concealment of Moorish legacy. It boldly asserts that the path out of the fire is through it, offerin...
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    25,25 €

  • Pistol Creek, Idaho
    Anton P. Sohn
    Pistol Creek Ranch History commemorates one hundred and thirty-one years of settlers at Pistol Creek Ranch on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River. The first homesteader came to the area in 1892, but a cabin wasn’t built until sometime around 1910. It is difficult to establish the exact date due to lack of records in Valley County where Pistol Creek Ranch is located.The county w...
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    38,36 €

  • HORSES OF WAR BATTLE-READY & BROKEN
    Anna B. Joachim
    Discover how these magnificent beasts served in the most prominent battles of the latest centuries... Have you ever reflected on the fact that horses have actively played a vital role in the success of an army at war? Do you ever ask yourself if horses can feel our emotions? How often do you think about how war has shaped our civilizations, beliefs, and the foundations of socie...
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    32,41 €

  • This Country Of Ours
    H. E. Marshall
    'This Country of Ours' is a historical children’s book authored by H. E. Marshall and first published in 1917. The book offers an accessible overview of American history, covering topics such as Christopher Columbus’s discovery of America, early exploration and colonization, the American Revolution, the formation of the United States, and significant events and figures in the n...
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    29,17 €


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