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  • Masculinity, Autocracy and the Russian University, 1804-1863
    Friedman Rebecca / Protsenko Nikolay
    ENGThis is the first book-length study of masculinity in Imperial Russia. By looking at official and unofficial life at universities across the Russian empire, this project offers a picture of the complex processes through which gender ideologies were forged and negotiated in the Nineteenth Century. Masculinity, Autocracy and the Russian University, 1804-1863 demonstrates how g...
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    41,25 €

  • Únics
    Alba Olcina / Carolina Vives
    conèixer la discapacitat intel.lectual a través d’una bonica història real, d’uns personatges entranyables amb valors incalculables. Ells són els protagonistes d’una aventura plena d’emocions. Et faran somriure i t’atraparan per la seva capacitat de lluita i de superació. ...
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    13,47 €

  • Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust
    Tom Navon
    An intellectual-political biography of Otto Heller, the most prominent and prolific communist theoretician of the Jewish question. ...
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    126,57 €

  • Poisoning the Wells
    In the United States, antisemitism has once again risen, and is spread in all our major institutions and political and cultural venues.  In a series of essays by leading scholars, this work provides a detailed analysis of contemporary antisemitism and examines its origins, development, and alarming implications for the future. ...
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    91,98 €

  • The Heartbeat of an Intentional Community
    Rhoda Walter
    This memoir describes the underlying spirit of the small intentional community that collectively participated in writing the New York Times best-selling manual for living a low-consumption, high-fulfillment lifestyle, Your Money or Your Life. It describes this close-knit group, known as the New Road Map Foundation, through the eyes of one of its members. It is the story of the ...
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    9,31 €

  • The New Normal
    Cassandra Thomas-Clark
    As COVID-19 gripped the world, Cassandra Thomas-Clark found herself in an unparalleled vantage point: a packaging buyer for a global food firm. The New Normal: Madness in the Making is her chronicle of a world in chaos.At first, it was a tale of unity and perseverance, but soon the narrative twisted into one of crises, governmental decisions, and the human psyche’s desperate re...
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    15,37 €

  • Growing Up Kingsborough
    Carrol Arnold
    Growing up Kingsborough (KB) is a non-fictional work that chronicles the lives of group of former residents who grew up in a Brooklyn, New York Public Housing Project - The Kingsborough Houses. Told from a first-person perspective of the author and friends, the work focuses on two decades - the mid-1960s and 1970s - and the impact the two decades had on our lives. Beginning wit...
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    18,99 €

  • The Stolen Whistle and Flute
    George Major
    George Major’s story is a remarkable testament of resilience and determination. Abandoned by his mother in the 1940s, he embarked on a relentless quest to find her, fuelled by his deep connection to the vibrant pearly king tradition, which he knew was rooted in her family. Despite facing an abusive father and the chilling presence of his maiden Auntie Hilda, young George was se...
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    39,19 €

  • The Power Matrix
    Peter Hetherington
    America seems divided as never before, segregated into political tribes with antithetical beliefs. But are these sides really that different? Does virtue lie at just one political extreme? On what are our political opinions and affiliations based? Is one side correct and the other wrong? Is the divide really a conflict between socialism and capitalism, and if so, what do these ...
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    25,36 €

  • The Stolen Whistle and Flute
    George Major
    George Major’s story is a remarkable testament of resilience and determination. Abandoned by his mother in the 1940s, he embarked on a relentless quest to find her, fuelled by his deep connection to the vibrant pearly king tradition, which he knew was rooted in her family. Despite facing an abusive father and the chilling presence of his maiden Auntie Hilda, young George was se...
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    35,32 €

  • Resisting Redemption at the Georgia Polls
    Richard Hogan
    After the Civil War, as Black freedmen prepared to exercise their new voting rights in Georgia, white supremacist groups rose to restrict their ability. Georgians faced a new prospect for brokering a class-based electoral coalition of white yeomen and Black freedmen. The failure of Reconstruction echoes today as Georgia remains a voting rights battleground. This book details ...
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    109,66 €

  • The Antropocene and the Humanities
    Merchant Carolyn / Gavrilov Pavel
    ENGA wide-ranging and original introduction to the Anthropocene (the Age of Humanity) that offers fresh, theoretical insights bridging the sciences and the humanities. Using history, art, literature, religion, philosophy, ethics, and justice as the focal points, Merchant traces key figures and developments in the humanities throughout the Anthropocene era and explores how these...
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    41,49 €

  • White Man’s Work
    Joseph O. Jewell
    In the financial chaos of the last few decades, increasing wealth inequality has shaken people’s expectations about middle-class stability. At the same time, demographers have predicted the 'browning' of the nation’s middle class—once considered a de facto 'white' category—over the next twenty years as the country becomes increasingly racially diverse. In this book, Joseph O. J...
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    127,19 €

  • White Man’s Work
    Joseph O. Jewell
    In the financial chaos of the last few decades, increasing wealth inequality has shaken people’s expectations about middle-class stability. At the same time, demographers have predicted the 'browning' of the nation’s middle class—once considered a de facto 'white' category—over the next twenty years as the country becomes increasingly racially diverse. In this book, Joseph O. J...
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    38,33 €

  • The common writer in modern history
    Martyn Lyons
    This edited collection focusses on the writing of ordinary, semi-literate people in history, emphasising the agency and voices of the subordinate classes and contesting conventional histories that treat them as passive or silent. It analyses ’ordinary writings’ across a range of geographical areas, historical periods and scholarly disciplines. ...
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    169,60 €

  • The Evolution Of Religion An Anthropological Study
    Farnell L. R.
    'The Evolution of Religion' is a substantial work with the aid of the British classical student, Lewis Richard Farnell (L. R. Farnell), This pioneering book explores the development and evolution of religious ideals and practices across specific civilizations and time intervals. Farnell’s complete look at delves into the origins of spiritual concept, rituals, and establishments...
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    12,17 €

  • A Black Thang
    Donald Powell
    From the clothes they wear - to the way they lay their hair, with a little color, hot sauce, soul, and extra, Black folks have had the most profound effect and influence on the look, sound, flavor, and attitude of world culture and society than any other race - period!Intended to help relate, reminisce, and hoodicate - this collection of over 200 illustrations from Afros to doo...
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    55,50 €

  • The East Coasters
    Lois Nyman
    The major standard history of the first wave of settlers who arrived in Tasmania’s East Coast between 1821 and 1831 and who developed the wide area.First published in 1990 but long unavailable, it follows with humour and historical authenticity the pioneering struggles of the first settlers, their interaction with each other, their encounters with Aborigines and bushrangers, an...
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    40,66 €

  • The East Coasters
    Lois Nyman
    The major standard history of the first wave of settlers who arrived in Tasmania’s East Coast between 1821 and 1831 and who developed the wide area.First published in 1990 but long unavailable, it follows with humour and historical authenticity the pioneering struggles of the first settlers, their interaction with each other, their encounters with Aborigines and bushrangers, an...
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    71,58 €

  • The Beginnings of Anti-Jewish Legislation
    Mária M. Kovács / Mark Baczoni
    The Nazi 1933 Civil Service Law and the 1935 Nuremberg Laws are often considered the first anti-Jewish decrees in interwar Europe. Mária M. Kovács convincingly argues that Hungary’s numerus clausus law of 1920, which introduced a Jewish quota at Hungary’s institutions of higher learning, was, in fact, interwar Europe’s first antisemitic law. By defining-and discriminating again...
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    82,37 €

  • The Trouble with Kenya
    Lawi Sultan Njeremani
    The McKenzian Blueprint.Some lines are short; some lines are long. All lines are variable. Some appear parallel but connect in latency. Some appear linear. When held against the light they reveal dependence or independence; Freedom or constraints; Empowerment or strife; Subjugation or Justice.The Trouble with Kenya is a microcosm of any given country’s social and justice pillar...
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    21,48 €

  • 18
    Nora Gold
    This anthology contains 18 splendid Jewish stories, each translated into English from a different language. These compelling, humorous, and moving stories, written by eminent authors that include Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Isaac Babel, and Lili Berger, reflect both the diversities and the commonalities within Jewish culture, and will make you laugh, cry, and think and are enjoyable fo...
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    186,31 €

  • AN EXTRAORDINARY HISTORICAL EVENT
    Bryan Mitchell
    THIS BOOK LOOKS AT AN EXTRAORDINARY TIME IN ISRAEL’S HISTORY. THE MAJORITY OF ITS PEOPLE WERE LOCATED IN PERSIA, NOT IN THEIR HOMELAND. GOD HAD USED HIS POWER OVER BABYLONIAN RULERS TO CAUSE THEM TO EXPAND THEIR EMPIRE. MANY JEWS WERE BROUGHT TO BABYLON AS CAPTIVES. IN A SHORT TIME THE PERSIAN EMPIRE EXPANDED TO INCLUDE THE BABYLONIAN, THUS THIS EPISODE OF JEWISH HISTORY. ...
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    20,62 €

  • Ancient Huntress
    Sara L. Weston
    The conventional portrayal of prehistoric gender roles has long depicted men as hunters and women as gatherers, perpetuating the notion that women played a passive role in early human societies. However, recent research and archaeological findings have challenged this narrative, revealing a more complex and nuanced understanding of prehistoric gender roles, women played an acti...
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    14,50 €

  • Born in 1944? What else happened? 2025 Edition
    Ron Williams / TBD
    ABOUT THIS SERIES ....But after that, I realised that I knew very little about these parents of mine. They had been born about the start of the Twentieth Century, and they died in 1970 and 1980. For their last 50 years, I was old enough to speak with a bit of sense.I could have talked to them a lot about their lives. I could have found out about the times they lived in. But I d...
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    16,03 €

  • Making of the World
    Mahbub H. Khan
    This book is 'a strong summary of world history and social evolution' (Timothy Earle, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University, USA).Humanity was once divided into thousands of small nomadic groups, hardly knowing each other. Each lived inside its bubble of myths and beliefs. The notion of one single global community, related by a common origin and similar as...
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    22,13 €

  • Up from Slavery
    Booker T. Washington
    'Up from Slavery' is an autobiography written by Booker T. Washington, an African American educator, author, and advisor to presidents of the United States. The book was first published in 1901 and provides a firsthand account of Washington’s life, from his childhood in slavery to his rise as a prominent and influential figure in American history. One of the key themes of 'Up f...
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    14,61 €

  • Emet le-Ya’akov
    Emet le-Ya‘akov comprises a collection of essays celebrating the achievements of Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter. These articles, like the honoree, engage with the importance of both history and memory and are divided into three categories: Textual Traditions, Memory and Making of Meaning, and (Re)Creating a Usable Past. ...
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    220,00 €

  • Emet le-Ya’akov
    Emet le-Ya‘akov comprises a collection of essays celebrating the achievements of Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter. These articles, like the honoree, engage with the importance of both history and memory and are divided into three categories: Textual Traditions, Memory and Making of Meaning, and (Re)Creating a Usable Past. ...
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    53,44 €

  • Shaping the Jewish Enlightenment
    Zuzanna Krzemień
    Krzemień’s book delves into the life of Solomon Dubno (1738-1813), a devout Polish Jew who was pivotal to Moses Mendelssohn’s project of translating the Bible into German. It explores Dubno’s role, his library’s influence, and his poetic endeavors to showcase the beauty of Hebrew. The work offers a nuanced image of the early Haskalah movement. ...
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    200,50 €


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