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  • 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 €

  • Historia de Olmeda de la Cuesta
    Antonio Checa Sainz
    En el año 2010 Olmeda de la Cuesta saltó a la fama: era el pueblo con población más envejecida de España. ¿Cómo es posible que se hubiera llegado a esa situación en un municipio que tuvo cerca de 600 habitantes y conoció épocas de prosperidad? No fue la única vez que los medios se han acercado allí ya que sus proyectos culturales y de lucha contra la despoblación y el abandono ...
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    26,00 €

  • No Life Without You
    Franklin Felsenstein
    The letters and journals of Ernst Moritz (’Mope’) and Vera Hirsch Felsenstein, two German Jewish refugees experiencing the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War, form the core of this book. Abridged in an English translation from the original German, this vast correspondence and diaries has been expertly compiled and annotated by their son, Franklin Felsenstein, w...
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    60,94 €

  • ORURO: IV Siglos En La Eternidad 1606-2006
    Freddy Sanjinés Montán
    Oruro: IV SIGLOS EN LA ETERNIDAD. Breve visión multifacética de un departamento de Bolivia enclavado en el altiplano de los Andes. Además de valorar los aportes civilizatorios y culturales de la prístina cultura milenaria en Sudamérica, incide en su historia de los últimos cuatrocientos años, en su vida colonial y republicana, desde su fundación como Villa (1606), hasta el naci...
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    54,09 €

  • Storming Bedlam
    Sasha Warren
    Mental health care and its radical possibilities reimagined in the context of its global development under capitalism.The contemporary world is oversaturated with psychiatric programs, methods, and reforms promising to address any number of 'crises' in mental health care. When these fail, alternatives to the alternatives simply pile up and seem to lead nowhere. In an original a...
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    26,35 €

  • Starstruck in the Promised Land
    Shalom Goldman
    From the days of steamship travel to Palestine to today’s evangelical Christian tours of Jesus’s birthplace, the relationship between the United States and the Holy Land has become one of the world’s most consequential international alliances. While the political side of U.S.-Israeli relations has long played out on the world stage, the relationship, as Shalom Goldman shows in ...
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    38,15 €

  • Revolution and the Global Struggle for Modernity
    Frank Jacob
    The present book provides a comparative ten-step model for revolutions and will show that these must be considered a global phenomenon of modernity. ...
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    158,15 €

  • Tourist Experiences
    Chris Ryan / Xiaoyu (Nancy) Zhang
    This book explores the application of psychological theories to tourist behaviour and experience. It offers new insights and provides final year and postgraduate students with an understanding of core psychological perspectives and an accessible resource within one volume for those researching tourist behaviour and consumer experiences. ...
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    60,11 €

  • Tourist Experiences
    Chris Ryan / Xiaoyu (Nancy) Zhang
    This book explores the application of psychological theories to tourist behaviour and experience. It offers new insights and provides final year and postgraduate students with an understanding of core psychological perspectives and an accessible resource within one volume for those researching tourist behaviour and consumer experiences. ...
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    181,72 €

  • Agents of European overseas empires
    Agents of European overseas empires examines networks of trade and communication on a global scale whose activities enabled early modern European overseas empires. ...
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    169,53 €

  • Serving Victoria
    Kate Hubbard
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    14,80 €

  • A Bridge To Peradeniya
    Anand Krishnaswamy
    Blurb of  A Bridge to PeradeniyaA dog that wins everyone’s affection by barking and laughing madly through her ailment. A stud bull that conveys the melancholy in his soul through his eyes. A kiosk owner whose sunny personality bounces off the tree stump where he leaves food for the neighbourhood strays. A chic lady with a rescued street dog and a penchant for profanity.These a...
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    19,72 €

  • Discoverers and Explorers
    Edward R. Shaw
    The practice of beginning the study of geography with the locality in which the pupil lives, in order that his first ideas of geographical conceptions may be gained from observation directed upon the real conditions existing about him, has been steadily gaining adherence during the past few years as a rational method of entering upon the study of geography.After the pupil has f...
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    11,08 €

  • A Representação do Último Duque de Aveiro
    Gonçalo Portocarrero de Almada
    «Já se conhecem, por via de livros e artigos publicados, assim como do uso da palavra, as assinaláveis capacidades de investigação e argumentação, de clareza de raciocínio e de expressão do Doutor Gonçalo Portocarrero de Almada, em obras de conteúdo teológico, filosófico e de intervenção social. Ficamos agora a saber, se dúvidas existissem, que estamos diante de um notável inve...
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    15,55 €

  • The Kahans of Baku - A Family Saga
    Dohrn Verena / Verena Dorn / Koreneva M.
    ENGThe book is a family saga, presenting an insight into the history of Jews in Russia’s oil industry. It leads to forced migration in the turbulent 20th century endured and mastered by a cohesive family over four generations in Russia, Germany, Denmark, France, Palestine, and the United States of America.RUSКнига Верены Дорн - это сага о российской еврейской семье. Ее история ...
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    61,56 €

  • The Old Faith and the Russian Land
    Douglas Rogers / Rogers Douglas / Shubina Polina
    ENGThe Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town over three centuries. The town of Sepych was settled in the late seventeenth century by religious dissenters who fled to the forests of the Urals to escape a world they believed to be in the clutches of the Antichrist. Factions of Old Beli...
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    61,93 €

  • Himalayan Dreams
    Kirsty Nancarrow
    A Hero’s Legacy: Som Tamang’s incredible journey is not just a tale of survival; it’s a mission to protect girls in Nepal from trafficking and child marriage. His courage and benevolence shine through, inspiring us all to pursue our dreams and make a positive impact on the world.HOW ONE MAN’S DETERMINATION CHANGED THE FUTURE FOR CHILDREN IN RURAL NEPAL.Discover the life of Som ...
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    21,81 €

  • Memorial book of Drohobycz, Borysław and Surroundings
    The discovery of rich oil and mineral wax deposits in the Drohobycz-Borysław area in the 1850s turned it into an industrial and economic powerhouse-'the California of Galicia.' Jewish-owned industries started up: refineries, mining, spinning, weaving, and factories producing candles and soap. Bythe early 1900s, Drohobycz alone had two synagogues, four study houses, two banks, a...
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    47,51 €

  • Chapters On Jewish Literature
    Israel Abrahams
    'Chapters on Jewish Literature' is a book written by Israel Abrahams, a distinguished Jewish scholar and historian who lived from 1858 to 1925. The book was first published in 1899 and has been well-regarded for its exploration of various aspects of Jewish literature. The work is a collection of essays that delve into different periods of Jewish literary history, spanning from ...
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    12,04 €

  • Claim No Easy Victories
    On the centennial of Amíiacute;lcar Cabral’s birth, and fifty years after his passing, Claim No Easy Victories brings to life the resonance of his thought for today’s freedom movements.'Never has it been more certain that our victory depends principally on our own actions. Tell no lies, claim no easy victories . . .' -Amílcar CabralWorld-renowned revolutionary, poet, liberation...
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    28,16 €

  • Tracy
    Cyclone Tracy demolished Darwin, capital of the Northern Territory when it struck during the night of Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning, 1974. Over almost ten hours the small, intense, but slow-moving weather system left a swathe of destruction across the entire town. Few buildings escaped.Sixty-six people died, many of them on vessels which put to sea, while many hundreds we...
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    27,26 €

  • American history The Pilgrims
    History Encounters
    History Encounters unearths the greatest stories with the major events from The Berlin Wall to expand reader horizons for readers to be best informed. The Berlin Wall was the concrete manifestation of the Iron Curtain, which signified the profound ideological difference between the capitalist, democratic Western powers and the socialist, communist Soviet Union. After WWII ended...
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    9,96 €

  • Nineteenth-Century Women’s Movements and the Bible
    Nineteenth-Century Women’s Movements and the Bible examines politically motivated women’s movements in the nineteenth century, including the legal, cultural, and ecclesiastical contexts of women. Focusing on the period beginning with the French Revolution in 1789 through the end of World War I in 1918, contributors explore the many ways that women’s lives were limited in both t...
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    67,14 €

  • Nineteenth-Century Women’s Movements and the Bible
    Nineteenth-Century Women’s Movements and the Bible examines politically motivated women’s movements in the nineteenth century, including the legal, cultural, and ecclesiastical contexts of women. Focusing on the period beginning with the French Revolution in 1789 through the end of World War I in 1918, contributors explore the many ways that women’s lives were limited in both t...
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    85,77 €

  • The American Empire
    Scott Nearing
    The American Empire is a book written by Scott Nearing, an American economist and social activist, that explores the growth and impact of American capitalism.In this book, Nearing argues that the American Empire, characterized by its expansive economic and military power, has been built through the exploitation of labor and natural resources both domestically and abroad. He exa...
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    17,76 €

  • Terranova. La Odisea Ballenera
    Sabino Laucirica
    Cuando tuve en mis manos el testamento de Domingo de Luça, aquel que se escribió en la cubierta de la nao María del Juncal por la mano experta del escribano Juan de Blancafor, en el verano del año 1563 y leí las palabras del moribundo que mi cuerpo sea sepultado en este puerto de Plazencia a un lugar donde los que mueren se suelen enterrar comprendí que el camino emprendido era...
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    25,00 €

  • The material body
    This book combines the approaches of historians and archaeologists to explore past individuals as embodied subjects by examining the material and experiencing body in England, 1700-1850. It explores precisely how the biological, physical, environmental, cultural and social interacted in the production of the embodied experiences. ...
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    42,91 €

  • The First 100 Years 1907-2007
    Toni Barber
    The First 100 Years tells the story from 1907 to 2007 of the First Baptist Church of Passtown and the African American Community of Hayti in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. The church members and residents tell their stories in words and pictures during the milestone 100th Anniversary of the First Baptist Church of Passtown in 2007.There are many historical Hayti communities through...
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    190,98 €

  • Holy Enemies of Freedom
    A.J. Deus
    Holy Enemies of Freedom lays bare how anti-Semitism finds its roots in deep-seated cultural trauma.The German Martin Luther was the founder of the Protestant Church. He wanted nothing more than to see the Jewish population exiled or terminated. In his time, the interactions between leaders of Jews, Christians, and Muslims fueled a march toward a world war. Their promise was to ...
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    38,22 €


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