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  • Letters to Dead People (Dyslexia-friendly Edition, Volume 1)
    Henry Nash / Ivor Share
    Ever wondered what drove the Great and the Good in History? What questions would you ask them if you got the chance?What’s the connection between Boudica and JK Rowling? Where did Walt Disney get some of his insights from? Who was Nettie Honeyball? Many of the answers are here in this book, which is a collection of entertaining letters written to more than fifty of the icons of...
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    14,12 €

  • The World of Your Ancestors Dates Supplement to Dates Volumes One to Six
    Carol A. Wirth
    This is a supplement to the first six volumes of THE WORLD OF YOUR ANCESTORS - DATES series. Once again, readers can step into the past to get a bigger picture of a particular month or year. There is additional background information on previously mentioned items. Readers will find more new data including books, deaths, explorers, famous people, inventions, movies, music, n...
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    35,19 €

  • Decolonizing images
    Ronnie Close
    Decolonizing images focuses on Egypt’s local visual heritage and continues the urgent process of decolonizing the canon of photography. It presents a new account of the visual cultures produced and exhibited in Egypt by interpreting the camera’s ability to conceal as much as it reveals in a complex vision of decolonial difference. ...
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    158,22 €

  • Understanding Nazi Ideology
    Carl Müller Frøland / John Irons
    Nazism was deeply rooted in German culture. From the fertile soil of German Romanticism sprang ideas of great significance for the genesis of the Third Reich ideology-notions of the individual as a mere part of the national collective, and of life as a ceaseless struggle between opposing forces.This book traces the origins of the 'political religion' of Nazism. Ultranationalism...
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    45,00 €

  • The French in the Heart of America
    John H. Finley
    'The French in the Heart of America' is an ancient Historical Exploration story book written by John H. Finley. 'The French in the Heart of America' gives an in-depth examination of a relatively unknown area of American past. French-born humans performed vital components in the formation of america of America. Finley examines the jobs they played, considerably in geographical ...
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    16,71 €

  • Arise Africa, Roar China
    Yunxiang Gao
    This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes, and their little-known Chinese allies during World War II and the Cold War—journalist, musician, and Christian activist Liu Liangmo, and Sino-Caribbean dancer-choreographer Sylvia Si-lan Chen. Charting a new path i...
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    37,53 €

  • Historia Vikinga
    Ahoy Publications
    ¡Descubra la historia vikinga a través de estos quinientos hechos fascinantes!Este libro es su puerta de entrada a la exploración de una de las sociedades más apasionantes de la historia. Descubrirá historias, mitos y hechos sobre los vikingos. Descubra su cultura, religión, sistema de escritura, travesías y ¡mucho más! Sumérjase en detalles sobre sus batallas y tácticas y vea ...
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    22,18 €

  • JASHTËTOKËSORËT MË ÇUAN NË PLANETIN E TYRE
    Maitreya Rael
    Në moshën 27-vjeçare, një gazetar i ri francez, Claude Vorilhon, ishte një shofer garash dhe redaktor i një prej revistave më të rëndësishme franceze të sportit motorik. Por më 13 dhjetor 1973, jeta e tij u kthye përmbys kur në kraterin e një vullkani të zhdukur, pranë Clermond-Ferrand, ai pa të shfaqej një 'disk fluturues' me diametër 7 metra, absolutisht i heshtur dhe i bërë ...
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    11,26 €

  • Resistance As Idea And Action
    GEW Reports and Analyses Team
    'Resistance As Idea And Action: The Epic Struggle Against Oppression and Tyranny Throughout History' is a profound exploration of the relentless human spirit in the face of oppression and occupation. This meticulously researched book delves into the myriad forms of resistance throughout history, from individual acts of defiance to large-scale revolts. A serious and thought-prov...
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    15,36 €

  • Americans Recaptured
    Molly K. Varley
    It was on the frontier, where 'civilized' men and women confronted the 'wilderness,' that Europeans first became Americans-or so authorities from Frederick Jackson Turner to Theodore Roosevelt claimed. But as the frontier disappeared, Americans believed they needed a new mechanism for fixing their collective identity; and they found it, historian Molly K. Varley suggests, in ta...
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    42,80 €

  • Movin’ On
    Jeremy Paul Ämick
    Coming of age during the British Invasion of the early 1960s, Ron West was inspired to pursue a career in music. His interest in bands like the Beatles influenced the formation of the Chesmann and Chesmann Square-popular Kansas City area bands that survived for a decade and included his two younger brothers, Steve and Gary. Then, in 1977, West formed a new band, Missouri, which...
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    14,07 €

  • The Book of Facts and Trivia
    Terri Schlichenmeyer
    More than 100 stories that include hundreds of American history factsAmerican history is made accessible with fascinating questions, richly illustrated text, colorful personality studies, and little-known facts.Written for and aimed at general audiencesWonderful for learning historyIdeal as a fun bathroom reader for interesting-and helpful-history factsLogical organization make...
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    55,16 €

  • Early Voices of Conscious Evolution
    Matthew Shapiro
    Early Voices of Conscious Evolution is a unique anthology that brings to light a lesser-recognized yet critical dimension of human cultural and social history, opening a perspective that helps put today’s dynamics into a broader and more empowering context. The period spanning the late 19th and early 20th century was a time of unprecedented change driven by the Industrial Revol...
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    15,46 €

  • Little Masterpieces of Science
    Various
    'The love of adventure, the expectation of the unexpected, have ever prompted men stout of heart, and ready of resource, to brave the perils of wilderness and sea that they might set their feet where man never trod before. The world owes much to the explorers who have faced hostile savages, stood in jeopardy from the cobra and the lion, the foes as deadly which lurk in the broo...
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    12,48 €

  • Catastrophic Diplomacy
    Julia F. Irwin
    Catastrophic Diplomacy offers a sweeping history of US foreign disaster assistance, highlighting its centrality to twentieth-century US foreign relations. Spanning over seventy years, from the dawn of the twentieth century to the mid-1970s, it examines how the US government, US military, and their partners in the American voluntary sector responded to major catastrophes around ...
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    126,50 €

  • LIBRI QË TREGON TË VËRTETËN
    Maitreya Rael
    Në moshën 27-vjeçare, një gazetar i ri francez, Claude Vorilhon, ishte një shofer garash dhe redaktor i një prej revistave më të rëndësishme franceze të sportit motorik. Por më 13 dhjetor 1973, jeta e tij u kthye përmbys kur në kraterin e një vullkani të zhdukur, pranë Clermond-Ferrand, ai pa të shfaqej një 'disk fluturues' me diametër 7 metra, absolutisht i heshtur dhe i bërë ...
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    14,24 €

  • 罗马的敌人:撼动帝国的蛮族
    [英]斯蒂芬·P. 克肖
    内容简介本书从罗马人眼中蛮族的视角出发,重新审视罗马的历史。从亚平宁半岛上的难民小村庄,到横跨欧亚非的帝国,再到5世纪西罗马的崩溃,罗马在崛起、强盛和衰落的过程中,始终面对来自蛮族的威胁,无论是周边民族对征服的抵抗,还是内部奴隶对统治的反叛,都像是罗马挥之不去的梦魇。从这个层面看,罗马的历史甚至可以看作一部与蛮族对抗的历史。然而,蛮族真的都是不开化的野蛮人吗?他们对罗马的影响都是负面的吗?如果没有他们,罗马会变成什么样子?本书分为24章,每章都介绍了一名领导部族反抗罗马的蛮族领袖,从洗劫罗马域的高卢人布伦努斯,到令共和国恨之入骨的汉尼;从伊比利亚的牧羊人维里亚图斯,到致力于解放阿非利加的朱古达;从奴隶领袖斯巴达克斯,到埃及艳后克娄巴特拉;从'罗马洗劫者'阿拉里克,到'上帝之鞭'阿提拉......作者借助史料和考古证据,带领读者了解他们的个性、命运、成...
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    40,53 €

  • Letters to the Homeland
    Andrea Emily Stumpf
    After growing up in Zanzibar as part of the ruling Omani Sultanate, Sayyida Salme, the daughter of the Sultan and his surie concubine Djilfidan, took a fateful step that shaped the rest of her life. She could not have imagined what challenges lay ahead. When she chose to follow her love and became Emily Ruete, she found herself on a path to self-exile, as she moved from East to...
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    17,62 €

  • Empires through Time
    Nino Virga
    From the cradle of civilization to the modern geopolitical stage, 'Empires Through Time' masterfully covers history’s most influential empires, examining the foundations of their power, the peaks of their dominance, and the echoes of their declines.Time travel to Mesopotamia, delve into the tapestries of Ancient Egypt, Persia, and China, and stand in awe of the legacies left by...
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    30,60 €

  • Ten Days That Shook the World
    John Reed
    Embark on a journey through the tumultuous days of the Russian Revolution with John Reed’s ’Ten Days That Shook the World’-a book recommended by Lenin himself. Renowned journalist and eyewitness, Reed brings unparalleled authenticity to his work as a key figure who not only reported on the Russian Revolution but actively participated in and documented its revolutionary fervor. ...
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    24,54 €

  • A Short History of the World
    H. G. Wells
    A Short History of the World, is a classical and a rare book, that 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 redesigned. These book...
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    32,09 €

  • Fleeting Moments
    Michelle da Silva Richmond
    Step aboard a timeless journey across continents and decades in Michelle da Silva Richmond’s captivating memoir, Fleeting Moments.Travel back to the Golden Age of air travel with Fleeting Moments, a compelling memoir from Michelle da Silva Richmond. Experience the world through the eyes of a Pan Am stewardess during the thrilling launch of the Boeing 747, as this iconic aircraf...
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    17,85 €

  • Theory & History of Historiography
    Benedetto Croce
    Theory & History of Historiography, is a classical and a rare book, that 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 redesigned. Thes...
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    25,55 €

  • Women Warriors in History
    Mary Ellen Snodgrass
    History paints war out to be a man’s business, but there is an army of women warriors who stand between the lines of history books, waiting to be seen. This biographical dictionary tells the story of the females who armed themselves against threats to self, family, home and country. Spanning 17 periods of world history, it compiles the daring deeds of 1,622 female fighters, fro...
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    139,91 €

  • Souvenirs de Charles-Henri Baron de Gleichen
    baron de Gleichen
    Souvenirs de Charles-Henri Baron de Gleichen, est un livre classique et rare, qui a été considéré comme important tout au long de l’histoire de l’humanité, et pour que cet ouvrage ne soit jamais oublié, chez Alpha Editions, nous avons fait des efforts pour sa préservation en rééditant ce livre dans un format moderne pour les générations présentes et futures. . Tout ce livre a é...
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    23,12 €

  • Royal Romances of To-day
    Kellogg Durland
    Royal Romances of To-day, is a classical and a rare book, that 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 redesigned. These books ar...
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    24,52 €

  • A short account of the extraordinary life and travels of H. L. L.
    H. L. L.
    A short account of the extraordinary life and travels of H. L. L., is a classical and a rare book, that 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 reformatte...
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    19,41 €

  • Royalty in All Ages; The Amusements, Eccentricities, Accomplishments, Superstitions and Frolics of the Kings and Queens of Europe
    T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
    Royalty in All Ages; The Amusements, Eccentricities, Accomplishments, Superstitions and Frolics of the Kings and Queens of Europe, is a classical and a rare book, that 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 pre...
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    27,87 €

  • Blackbeard
    History Nerds
    Delve into the gripping tale of Blackbeard, the notorious pirate who sailed the high seas, in this concise and compelling book. Uncover the mysteries behind his fearsome reputation, ruthless tactics, and the legends that shroud his adventurous life. From his formidable presence to his dramatic encounters, this book offers a thrilling journey through the captivating world of one...
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    12,71 €

  • Verujem u Boga i u Srpstvo
    Jovan Ducic
    U vremenu pred smrt, pogodjen razvojem situacije u Jugoslaviji i stradanjem srpskog naroda, Ducic pise politicke tekstove i novinske clanke, otvoreno osudjujuci genocid nad Srbima koji je sprovodila hrvatska ustaska vlada. Iz tog perioda poticu i njegovi politicko-istorijski eseji objedinjeni u knjizi „Verujem u Boga i u Srpstvo'. ...
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    11,69 €