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  • The Flag Revelation
    Christopher Maddish
    Unlock the hidden secrets of America’s soul inside the 50 American state flagsSome people may look at all 50 American state flags and see an amazing collection of US history woven in. But have you ever wondered if there’s more to America’s state flags than meets the eye? Beyond the colorful designs, a hidden realm awaits, where flags hold the keys to stories you never knew exis...
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    30,19 €

  • From Dubuque to Selma and Beyond
    Dave Markward
    Journey from the Heartland to the Heart of Racial Understanding: A True Story of Insight and Transformation. Embark on a transformative journey with Dave Markward as he transitions from an upbringing in an almost exclusively white community to a life enriched by diversity in From Dubuque to Selma and Beyond: My Journey to Understand Racism in America.Intertwining Dave’s persona...
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    24,24 €

  • Korean War
    Robert Wood
    The heart of Mig-Alley during the Korean War Learn the heartbreaking truth of the communist prison camp gulags, the cruelty of the North Korean enemy, and the propaganda attacks from friend and foe. Marvin King joined the US Air Force in peacetime but soon found him in the midst of jet age aerial combat, captured and taken into China, and later subjected to the abject horror of...
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    16,03 €

  • A Moral History of Western Society - Volume One
    Miles H Hodges
    What is it exactly that made for the greatness of Western Civilization? Why did it have its ups and downs ... and where do things seem headed today? Ultimately, this two-volume series is as much a political-moral teaching as it is a presentation of the details of the West’s wonderful (and sometimes tragic) historical record. It narrates the good and the bad choices that our lea...
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    19,80 €

  • A Moral History of Western Society - Volume One
    Miles H Hodges
    What is it exactly that made for the greatness of Western Civilization? Why did it have its ups and downs ... and where do things seem headed today? Ultimately, this two-volume series is as much a political-moral teaching as it is a presentation of the details of the West’s wonderful (and sometimes tragic) historical record. It narrates the good and the bad choices that our lea...
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    24,37 €

  • A Moral History of Western Society - Volume Two
    Miles H Hodges
    This second volume begins with the picture of the 'glory' of this new dynastic- tribal alliance of European monarchs and their fired-up nationalist people ... armed with massive industrial might enabling them to take over massive portions of the rest of the world (Asia and Africa). But this energy turns Europeans on each other when finally there are no more overseas lands to ca...
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    19,71 €

  • UPROOTED... From Africa to America to Bring Forth Fruit ...In Education, and with 'Witty Inventions' Volume II
    Zaire Feronz
    UPROOTED... from Africa to America to Bring Forth Fruit, by Zaire Feronz, was written upon request to help middle-to-high school students have a more in-depth knowledge of Black History. The content of this textbook covers 250 years, spans two continents, and highlights nearly 400 African American inventors-with more than 1,000 inventions; educators, journalists, political figu...
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    36,21 €

  • America in 2040 New Edition
    David Walker
    This book provides a 'Wake-up Call' regarding what the international and domestic situation could look like for America in 2040 absent a change in course. It includes an overview of the significant adverse implications of COVID-19 related activities, lessons learned from past great powers, and key concepts from our nation’s founding and past history. It summarizes a broad range...
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    23,54 €

  • Amazonian Indigenous Cultures in Art and Anthropological Exhibitions
    Cinthya Lana
    The book discusses the representation of Amazonian indigenous cultures in exhibitions from a postcolonial perspective through the analysis of several temporary exhibitions taking place in both art and anthropological institutions from the 1980s onwards. ...
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    71,91 €

  • Pure Laine
    Marc Seguin
    Pure Laine... or, perhaps, not so pure? Over the course of the past 400 years, people from France, England, Switzerland, Belgium and Germany, in addition to several Indigenous North American nations; among them, Catholics, Puritans, Calvinists and pagans - all have contributed to the bloodline of two families that came together in Canada in the 20th Century. In 1926, Theodore S...
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    111,40 €

  • Sketches of Curious Events and Practices in the Lives of the Intriguing People Who Inhabited Early America
    Frank E Kuron
    Few stories can compare to the true tales that have written themselves through the lives of real people. As the title states, this book focuses on some of the intriguing events and practices of the souls who left their mark on North American lands before our present era.If you enjoy thinking about what life may have been like had you been born in the seventeen or eighteen hundr...
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    21,24 €

  • C for Cristero
    Johnathon Vermaelen
    The Cristero War was a dark period of Mexican history. It was essentially a Catholic Holocaust that occurred in 1920s Mexico. Due to the actions of various people and organizations, Mexico went from a socialist country based on a code of atheism to a country where a vast majority of its citizens are Catholic. ...
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    26,74 €

  • From Slavery to the Stars
    Andreea Kindryd
    This story is a tapestry woven with threads of resilience, love, and adventure. It’s about more than working on the original Star Trek or her slave ancestor’s love story; it’s a journey through history, loss, and triumph.Andreea has walked alongside giants, and mourned the loss of friends like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. She has navigated the complexities of love and fac...
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    41,97 €

  • The Bond of Two Worlds
    James Battles
    Many of us have heard of the Last of the Mohegans, but few have heard of the First of the Mohegans. The Bond of Two Worlds: Captain James Avery and Uncas First of the Mohegans is the story of two influential figures who worked together to defend early colonial Connecticut. While Avery was an English colonist and military leader, Uncas was a Native American chief who played a ...
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    17,53 €

  • Colombian Peasants in the Neoliberal Age
    Nazih F. Richani
    Presents a timely discussion of the core problems faced by peasant communities under neo-liberal economics. ...
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    46,96 €

  • Vestry Minutes of St. Paul’s Parish, Chowan County, North Carolina, 1701-1776 (2nd Edition)
    Fouts / Raymond Parker Fouts
    By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 1983, reprinted 2024, 144 pages, (2nd Edition) 8 1/2' x 11' soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-176-0. Chowan County was form as a Precinct in 1670. It sits the northeastern portion of the state while be surrounded by the Albemarle Sound and the counties of: Bertie, Hertford, Gates and Perquimans. St. Paul’s Parish adjoined the Upper Parish of Nansemond...
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    41,38 €

  • Sacred Mysteries Among the Mayas and the Quiches, 11 500 Years Ago
    Augustus Le Plongeon
    The forests of Yucatan and Central America are to-day, for the majority of the people of the United States, even those who call themselves scientific and well informed, as much a terra incognita, as America was to the inhabitants of Europe before its discovery by Cristobal Colon in 1498, when for the first time he came in sight of the northern coast of South America, and naviga...
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    11,64 €

  • A Face Illumined
    Edward Payson Roe
    'A Face Illumined' is an ancient romance story book written by Edward Payson Roe. It’s basically an affair and redemption tale with an exam of social conventions and expectancies. The narrative worries Maurice Wynne, a younger guy disappointed through the shallowness of his affluent society. When he meets the alive Faith Gilbert, he will become attracted to her true kindness an...
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    19,50 €

  • Catholics across Borders
    Mark Paul Richard
    Illuminates the cross-border migration and settlement of Catholics from Canada to northern New York. ...
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    126,37 €

  • The Great Murdering-Heir Case
    William B. Meyer
    Uncovers the facts behind the celebrated 1889 case of Riggs v. Palmer and shows how they transform our understanding of the decision. ...
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    127,10 €

  • The Birth Certificate
    Susan J. Pearson
    For many Americans, the birth certificate is a mundane piece of paper, unearthed from deep storage when applying for a driver’s license, verifying information for new employers, or claiming state and federal benefits. Yet as Donald Trump and his fellow 'birthers' reminded us when they claimed that Barack Obama wasn’t an American citizen, it plays a central role in determining i...
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    34,99 €

  • The Punitive Turn in American Life
    Michael S. Sherry
    In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson insisted that 'the policeman is the frontline soldier in our war against crime,' and police forces, arms makers, policy makers, and crime experts heeded this call to arms, bringing weapons and practices from the arena of war back home. The Punitive Turn in American Life offers a political and cultural history of the ways in which punishment and...
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    37,90 €

  • Beatriz Allende
    Tanya Harmer
    This biography of Beatriz Allende (1942–1977)—revolutionary doctor and daughter of Chile’s socialist president, Salvador Allende—portrays what it means to live, love, and fight for change. Inspired by the Cuban Revolution, Beatriz and her generation drove political campaigns, university reform, public health programs, internationalist guerrilla insurgencies, and government stra...
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    37,63 €

  • Arguing until Doomsday
    Michael E. Woods
    As the sectional crisis gripped the United States, the rancor increasingly spread to the halls of Congress. Preston Brooks’s frenzied assault on Charles Sumner was perhaps the most notorious evidence of the dangerous divide between proslavery Democrats and the new antislavery Republican Party. But as disunion loomed, rifts within the majority Democratic Party were every bit as ...
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    37,76 €

  • Writing Kit Carson
    Susan Lee Johnson
    In this critical biography, Susan Lee Johnson braids together lives over time and space, telling tales of two white women who, in the 1960s, wrote books about the fabled frontiersman Christopher 'Kit' Carson: Quantrille McClung, a Denver librarian who compiled the Carson-Bent-Boggs Genealogy, and Kansas-born but Washington, D.C.- and Chicago-based Bernice Blackwelder, a singer ...
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    40,38 €

  • Inventing Disaster
    Cynthia A. Kierner
    When hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and other disasters strike, we count our losses, search for causes, commiserate with victims, and initiate relief efforts. Amply illustrated and expansively researched, Inventing Disaster explains the origins and development of this predictable, even ritualized, culture of calamity over three centuries, exploring its roots in the revolut...
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    35,34 €

  • Emerging from the Shadows
    Richard M. Yon
    First-of-its-kind study offering a model for understanding vice-presidential influence in the modern era. ...
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    126,35 €

  • Did The Catholic Church Order Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination?
    James Battell
    Dive into the riveting world of historical intrigue with 'Did The Catholic Church Order Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination?' as it unravels a compelling narrative that challenges conventional wisdom. In this thought-provoking exploration, the author delves into the shadowy corridors of history, meticulously examining the conspiracies and controversies surrounding one of America’s ...
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    10,84 €

  • República e civilização: um olhar brasileiro
    Gabriel Cohn
    São as exigências e dificuldades da vida civilizada e republicana em contexto como o brasileiro que formam o núcleo dos artigos aqui recolhidos, escritos em diferentes momentos. Isso se aplica desde o mais abrangente deles, sobre civilização, cidadania e barbárie, até o mais específico sobre o fascismo em sua possível versão brasileira, passando por uma mescla de reflexão mais ...
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    12,48 €

  • The Story of the 1881 Cumberland Valley Cook and General Recipe Book
    Thomas Kelchner
    In 1875, J.B. Morrow, editor of the Newville Pennsylvania Star and Enterprise, got the idea for a cookbook. He would solicit readers of his newspaper for their recipes and give a free copy of the proposed Newville Cook and General Recipe Book to the contributors. He got swamped. Readers sent him over 700 recipes!Half a year into the effort Morrow realized it wasn’t going to be ...
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    11,98 €


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