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  • The Awakening of Europe
    M. B. Synge / MBSynge
    The Awakening of Europe covers the reformation in Germany, the Netherlands, France, and England, as well as the settlement of colonies in America. The rise of England and the Netherlands as sea powers, and the corresponding fall of Spain, as well as the rise of Russia, Austria, and the German states are also presented. ...
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    20,29 €

  • La obra de la revolución cubana
    Manuel Castro Formento
    Este estudio tiene como propósito valorar la trayectoria de la Obra de la Revolución que se inicia con la fecunda epopeya del Moncada, la insurrección armada, la victoria del 1º de Enero de 1959; y continua con el análisis de la experiencia de la construcción socialista en Cuba hasta el 2016, con sus aciertos y desacierto, su aporte indiscutibles a la difusión de las ideas para...
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    22,12 €

  • Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States
    Samuel FB Morse
    The Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, employed the Vatican, Austrian Prince Metternich and his St. Leopold Foundation to infiltrate the United States of America.  Samuel F.B. Morse spent several years in Europe, mostly near Rome, studying the actions and behaviors of the Jesuits, and conferring with dignitaries and others who had intimate knowledge of the Jesuits and their intri...
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    25,55 €

  • The Autobiography of RosaMae Woodward Sterling
    RosaMae Woodward Sterling
    RosaMae Woodward Sterling, b. 1910, tells the story of her life lived in Washington State.  Photographs of farm life in Eastern Washington in the early 1900's, and of relatives of the Pittman, Woodward, and Sterling families, are included. 3 ...
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    41,04 €

  • Raised in the Shadow of the Bomb
    Deborah Leah Steinberg
    This story began before I was born, when my father, Ellis P. Steinberg, and uncle Bernard Abraham worked on the secret undertaking that developed the first atomic bombs. These later were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was not only my extended nuclear family that experienced and was affected by growing up at this time in history, but a whole generation of other children...
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    13,46 €

  • José Martí - de kie kreskas la palmo
    Maritza Gutiérrez
    Maritza Gutiérrez prezentas tiun homon, kiun la kubanoj konsideras sia „nacia heroo” kaj ĉe tio citas ankaŭ plurajn liajn tekstojn, interalie poemojn, kiujn ŝi mem tradukis. Unu el la ĉapitroj pritraktas la rilaton inter naciaj kaj internaciaj interesoj, kiuj esprimiĝas - en Kubo kiel aliloke - en la rilato inter „patrujo” kaj „homaro”. Ĝuste en tiu punkto la arda kuba patriot...
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    8,41 €

  • An Early History of Red Lodge, Montana
    Bruce H Blevins
    An Early History of Red Lodge, Montana is a concise history of this intriguing town. It starts at the beginning with the geological prehistory, goes through ice age humans, Plains Indians, the fur trade era, the founding of the city, the mining boom, and through to modern times. This second and revised edition includes editing updates, improved explanations and additional illus...
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    4,93 €

  • El conquistador aleman Pedro Lisperguer Wittemberg
    Daniel Piedrabuena Ruiz-Tagle
    Cuando Pedro Lísperguer Wittemberg llegaba a América lo hacía con feudo imperial: 'no embargante que es alemán y cualquier provisión que haya en contrario', siguiendo las propias palabras del emperador Carlos V. Comenzaba así un poderoso linaje, especialmente en Chile y Perú, que tuvo notable protagonismo en los siglos XVI y XVII, enlazándose con varios títulos nobiliarios. De ...
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    24,87 €

  • When Concord was King!
    Jim Warren
    The beginnings of a wine industry in Eastern Canada are rooted in mystery. Why did imported European vinifera grapes, not indigenous here, prove impossible to grow for more than 300 years? What were our original winemaking grapes and where and when did they originate? Who were our first winemakers and what kinds of wines did they produce? What inspired them to start their winer...
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    14,37 €

  • How the Other Half Lives
    Jacob A. Riis / Jacob ARiis
    During the 1890s many people in upper- and middle-class society were unaware of the dangerous conditions in the slums among poor immigrants. Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant who himself could not originally find much work, hoped to expose the squalor of the 19th-century Lower East Side of Manhattan. After a successful career as a police reporter, he decided to publish a photojour...
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    37,06 €

  • The Table of Truth
    Jacob M Carter
    The Kennedy assassination is a vital part of our national history, but for those who study it, it becomes something more, something…personal. That personalization of history creates a healthy passion that drives research forward. But it also carries the risk of becoming dangerous if researchers lose sight of the original goal for studying this pivitol event—the truth. ere are ...
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    10,86 €

  • The Face of Crazy Horse
    Cesare Marino / Pietro Abiuso
    First published in J.W. Vaughn's classic, With Crook at the Rosebud more than sixty years ago, the'Crazy Horse' tintype has long been the subject of controversy. Most Indians and non-Indians have denied the existence of any possible photographic portrait of the Lakota mystic warrior, including the tintype. With an open-minded approach, The Face of Crazy Horse looks at the p...
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    19,18 €

  • Did Beatniks Kill John F. Kennedy?
    Rob Johnson
    For forty years, George 'Bongo Joe' Coleman beat his oil barrel drums and improvised songs to the delight of sidewalk audiences in Houston, Galveston, Fort Worth, and San Antonio.  On the morning of November 22, 1963, he was playing at the infamous beatnik nightclub 'The Cellar' in Fort Worth, and his music became part of the soundtrack of the Kennedy assassination.  Rob Johnso...
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    11,87 €

  • Solamente en San Miguel
    Judith Gille
    Solamente en San Miguel: A Literary Celebration Volume III offers a dazzling array of short stories, poetry and personal essays by fifty authors. From tales of a secret tunnel beneath San Miguel, a calamitous train ride through northern Mexico or a humorous nine-year quest to gain Mexican citizenship to poetry and essays about learning to cook Mexican-style, exploring Mexican-A...
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    20,86 €

  • Penny Savannah
    Jim Jordan
    The War Between the States changed everything for Southerners—mostly for the worse. James McBain of Savannah, owner of the prosperous Heritage plantation that made Savannah Grey bricks, was already despondent by the time his son Joseph departed for the battlefields of Virginia in May 1861. His daughter Amy had recently moved to New York with her husband, as had Joseph’s wife wi...
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    15,75 €

  • The 1980 Eruption of Mt. St. Helens
    Don J Easterbrook
    On March 27, 1980 St. Helens suddenly began to erupt steam and ash. These eruptions continued sporadically for the next seven weeks and Dr. Easterbrook made frequent flights to the mountain to observe the eruptive activity. On May 18, 1980, he flew to St Helens at 5:30 a.m. and flew in tight circles a few hundred feet above the summit crater for 2-1/2 hours, photographing the s...
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    17,46 €

  • Dying to Tell
    Anne Butler / C. Murray Henderson
    In fascinating detail, Dying to Tell gives us an in-depth look at different kinds of criminal deaths: …the absolutely senseless slaying of a young correctional officer under the guise of racial retribution in a tragic situation unthinkably manipulated for personal gain … three deaths in the prison homosexual protection dormitory underscoring just how far lonely inmates will g...
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    15,60 €

  • State Facts for Fun! Texas
    Wyatt Michaels
    Far from boring, State Facts for Fun! Texas is an educational and entertaining experience for the whole family. Kids will love the humor and pictures that are contained within; while parents will love that their children are learning (and enjoying every minute of it). Kids will learn fascinating facts from subjects like history and geography, and will remember them well because...
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    7,71 €

  • Grand Old Unraveling
    John Kenneth White
    It didn’t begin with Donald Trump. The unraveling of the Grand Old Party has been decades in the making. Since the time of FDR, the Republican Party has been home to conspiracy thinking, including a belief that lost elections were rigged. And when Republicans later won the White House, the party elevated their presidents to heroic status--a predisposition that eventually posed ...
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    38,03 €

  • Oshkosh Remembered
    Mike Hert / Ron La Point
    The book, I believe, helps us to understand and appreciate our city’s past. The first and perhaps most important of the 24 stories is of the wood and lumber industry located along the Fox River, Lake Winnebago and nearby waterways. This industry would become the primary force for the growth and development of our city.Also featured is our German heritage, Prohibition, racial se...
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    14,30 €

  • Mexico
    Charles Reginald Enock
    'The purpose of this work is to treat of Mexico as a topographical and political entity, based upon a study of the country from travel and observation; a method such as has found favour in my book upon Peru. The method of viewing a country as a whole, with its people, topography, and general conditions in natural relation to each other, is one which commands growing acceptance ...
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    18,77 €

  • History of Mexico
    Billy Wellman
    Discover the Story of Mexico, From Ancient Secrets to Modern TimesTwo manuscripts in one book:Mexican History: An Enthralling Guide to the History of Mexico, from Its Ancient Civilizations, the Spanish Conquest, and War of Independence to the PresentHistory of Ancient Mexico: An Enthralling Guide to Pre-Columbian Mexico and Its Civilizations, Such as the Olmecs, Maya, Zapotecs,...
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    24,40 €

  • The Loyalists of Pennsylvania
    Wilbur H. Siebert
    By: Wilbur H. Siebert, Pub. 1920, reprinted 2024, 118 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-230-9. The author discusses the Loyalists through chapters on: the Loyalists of the Upper Ohio, the Loyalists of Northeastern Pennsylvania, the repression of Loyalists and Neutrals in Southeastern Pennsylvania, the British invasion of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Whig reprisals upon...
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    27,00 €

  • Life in the Backwoods
    Susanna Moodie
    'Life in the Backwoods' is a book written by Susanna Moodie, a British-born Canadian author, and early settler. The full title of the book is often cited as 'Life in the Clearings versus the Bush.' The work was first published in 1853. Susanna Moodie and her husband, J.W. Dunbar Moodie, were among the many British immigrants who settled in Canada in the 19th century. 'Life in t...
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    13,43 €

  • We Called Him Jeb
    Lochlainn Seabrook
    During the War for the Constitution (1861-1865) the Southern armies could boast of dozens of dazzling and accomplished cavalry leaders, all of them both adored by their faithful troopers and the envy of the Yankee high command. One of those who was on everyone’s list of favorites was celebrated Confederate General James Ewell Brown Stuart (better known by his initials, Jeb), a ...
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    25,18 €

  • We Called Him Jeb
    Lochlainn Seabrook
    During the War for the Constitution (1861-1865) the Southern armies could boast of dozens of dazzling and accomplished cavalry leaders, all of them both adored by their faithful troopers and the envy of the Yankee high command. One of those who was on everyone’s list of favorites was celebrated Confederate General James Ewell Brown Stuart (better known by his initials, Jeb), a ...
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    43,43 €

  • Matter of Honor, A
    Anthony Summers / Robbyn Swan
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    18,48 €

  • JOURNEY TO THE JONES ACT
    Charlie Papavizas
    The 'Jones Act' is the most newsworthy U.S. maritime policy law.Most of the attention is focused on the preservation of U.S. domestic maritime trade. Some is focused on the law as a means for mariners to recover for injuries.But this attention is too narrow. The 'Jones Act' was originally understood to mean the whole of the 1920 Merchant Marine Act, which deals with far more th...
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    21,91 €

  • The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the other side of the American Revolution
    Wilbur H. H. Siebert
    By: James H. Stark, Pub. 1910, reprinted 2024, 606 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-231-6.  This book begins with the documenting of the trials of Loyalists at various levels of Massachusetts society, such as those of native-born Governor Thomas Hutchinson and John Singleton Copley, both of whom abandoned Massachusetts to live out the balance of their years in exile ...
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    64,18 €

  • Paramus, Bergen County, New Jersey, Reformed Dutch Church Baptisms, 1740-1850
    Howard Randolph / Russell Rankin
    By: Howard Randolph & Russell Rankin, Pub. 1935, reprinted 2024, 232 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-232-3. The reformed Dutch church of Paramus is located in Bergen County. Bergen County was formed in 1683. It is located in the extreme northeastern corner of the state on the Hudson River just across from New York. This area of the state was claimed by the Dutch jus...
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    35,66 €


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