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  • 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 €

  • Dalton's Gold
    Peter D Matthews
    Renowned historian, philosopher and author, Dr Peter Matthews, has illuminated the events of the Eureka Stockade like never before. This book is the culmination of three years research after his Grandfather, Francis Dalton, shared this amazing story just before he passed away in 1995. John Thomas Dalton was swindled out of the find of the century by the very forces sent to pro...
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    23,70 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • One Hundred Years of Women Police in Australia
    Tim Prenzler
    In 2015 Australia celebrates the centenary of the country’s first appointment of women police. This fascinating book presents for the first time the story of 100 years of Australian women police. A vital contribution to Australian history as well as modern policing and policy, the book concludes with a simple recipe for eliminating discrimination and optimising the contributio...
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    45,38 €

  • Jews in Service to the Tsar
    Lev Berdnikov / Nora Favorov
    Benjamin Disraeli advised, “Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.” With Jews in Service to the Tsar, Lev Berdnikov offers us 28 biographies spanning five centuries of Russian Jewish history, and each portrait opens a new window onto the history of Eastern Europe’s Jews, illuminating dark corners and challenging widely-held conceptions about th...
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    22,05 €

  • Where Angels Fear To Tread
    Sylvia Rapley-Anderson
    In 1973, a small group of parents and health professionals set out to overturn the inhumane and rigid treatment children received in hospitals around the country. To do this, they formed the Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital (AWCH), and their vision was to put the welfare of child at the centre of every decision that was made about them. AWCH’s goals of parent...
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    13,73 €

  • Confucian Iconoclasm
    Philippe Major
    Confucian Iconoclasm proposes a novel account of the emergence of modern Confucian philosophy in Republican China (1912-1949), challenging the historiographical paradigm that modern (or New) Confucianism sought to preserve traditions against the iconoclasm of the May Fourth Movement. Through close textual analyses of Liang Shuming’s Eastern and Western Cultures and Their Philos...
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    44,52 €

  • The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya
    Steven E. Lindquist
    A literary and historical investigation into an ancient Indian religious thinker, tracing his rise in importance in the Hindu tradition. ...
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    44,29 €

  • Myth and the Making of History
    Sheds new light on the relationship between myth and history in ancient China and the central role they have played in shaping early Chinese thought. ...
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    126,81 €

  • Mao’s Hijacked Generation
    Mao’s Hijacked Generation. Sarasota, FL: New Knowledge Press, 2024According to Ai Weiwei, the renowned Chinese artist and human rights activist, '[t]his rare book is a true record of the dark history...of the Zhiqing Movement in China that destroyed rationality, severed people’s historical memory and rational thinking, and deeply affected the way Chinese people think and behave...
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    19,12 €

  • The Way of the Samurai
    Inazo Nitobe
    'The Way of the Samurai: Unveiling the Heart of Ancient Warriors'When you hear the word 'samurai,' you might imagine fierce fighters wearing masks and wielding long swords. But there’s more to samurai culture than just battles. Inazo Nitobe’s classic text reveals that samurai were not only warriors but also part of an aristocratic class. They balanced their martial skills with ...
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    8,02 €

  • Mexico and Her People of To-day
    Nevin Otto Winter
    'Many books have been written about Mexico, but several of the best works were written a quarter of a century ago and are now out of print. This fact and the developments of the past few years leads the author to believe that there is a field for another book on that most interesting country; a book that should present in readable form reliable information concerning the custom...
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    19,78 €

  • Geopolitics of AfCFTA
    Jean Djaha Narcisse
    AfCFTA is of crucial significance to the African Union Agenda 2063 and the African continent, and yet, it is being largely misunderstood. Indeed, the forces that surround international trade are the real political and economic powers in every nation across the globe. Trade and geopolitics are deeply linked. It is no surprise that the implementation of the African Continental Fr...
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    30,42 €

  • Poeira Branca
    Dener Dias
    Em 2008, cursando o último ano de jornalismo na Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso do Sul, me preparava para otemívelTrabalho de Conclusão de Curso. Só sabia que abordaria algum assunto ligado ao Pantanal do MS. O destino tratou de me apresentar ao livro-reportagemO Gosto da Guerra , de José Hamilton Ribeiro. Na obra o repórter descreve todos os detalhes do episódio em que, tr...
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    10,80 €

  • The Mortal God
    Milinda Banerjee
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    144,10 €

  • EL PACTO DE PUNTOFIJO
    Esta obra colectiva coordinada por los profesores Allan R. Brewer-Carías y Gabriel Ruan Santos, tiene por objeto estudiar el Pacto de Puntofijo, suscrito entre los líderes de los principales partidos políticos en Venezuela, a la caída de la dictadura de Marcos Pérez Jiménez en 1958, mediante el cual se sentaron las bases para la instauración del sistema democrático en el país. ...
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    34,44 €

  • Orest Monfor Zigzags of the Fate
    Alexander Demontfort
    Дворянин благородного происхождения, медалист классической гимназии, студент императорского университета, штабс-капитан царской армии, полковник Генштаба РККА, военрук московского университета, узник концлагеря, негласный сотрудник ОГПУ, вольнонаемный экономист ГУЛАГа, уполномоченный НКВД, строитель канала Москва - Волга, стукач на своего товарища, товаровед пивзавода, инспекто...
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    17,27 €

  • A Southern Woman’s Story
    Phoebe Yates Pember
    A Southern Woman’s Story, a classical book, 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 designed. These books are not made of scanned...
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    15,70 €


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