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  • '...and the Mille Lacs who have no reservation...'
    Clarence Ralph Fitz
    The book chronologically explains the bungling of the federal government as they attempted to be fair to the Indians while at the same time moving them out of the way of settlement. It also delves into the interaction between the Sioux and the Chippewa, including the joint attempt in 1862 to kill all the white people in Minnesota, and how the results of that interaction affecte...
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    30,86 €

  • Bio-Invaders
    Sarah Johnson
    We are pleased to announce a new series ofenvironmental history readers, suitable for students.Comprising essays selected from our journals,Environment and History and Environmental Values,each inexpensive paperback volume will address animportant theme in environmental history, combiningunderlying theory and specific case-studies. The firstvolume, Bio-invaders, investigates th...
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    39,21 €

  • Mountain Environments in Prehistoric Europe
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    88,08 €

  • 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 €

  • Those Who Will Forge the Way Into the Future Today
    Jelena
    Take an exciting trip into the unknown worlds of new ideas with 'Those Who Will Forge the Way Into the Future Today.' In this fascinating look at how creative people can be, Jelena takes you on a journey through history and into the minds of people who have changed the course of our world.Learn about the minds and traits that made these historical figures unique by reading abou...
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    16,78 €

  • Unearthing Geomorphological Clues
    Dutch Marie
    A combination of archaeological and geomorphic techniques was used to study erosionhazard at Aboriginal shell midden sites in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia.In the absence of artifactual material, biological and taphonomic analyses were undertaken todetermine the likelihood a deposit was anthropogenic in origin. These analyses were also used togain an ...
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    27,80 €

  • The spatiality and temporality of urban violence
    This interdisciplinary edited volume studies practices and representations of urban violence from a spatiotemporal perspective. It discusses how the spatial and temporal characteristics of the urban can produce and shape violence, and how practices as well as memories of violence transform spatialities and temporalities of cities. ...
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    169,41 €

  • Chinese Global Exploration in the Pre-Columbian Era
    Sheng-Wei Wang
    How early did the Chinese explore the world? Did the Treasure Fleets, led by Admiral Zheng He, discover many parts of the world before Christopher Columbus? While it is known that Christopher Columbus discovered America and Europe ushered in the Age of Discovery, there is an ongoing debate on the 'unknown' areas depicted in Western maps from the period and earlier. There is agr...
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    211,43 €

  • Pakistan History
    Azhar ul Haque Sario
    Pakistan History: Past to Present is a comprehensive unsnarling of Pakistan’s provocative history. Beginning from its prehistoric settlements and stretching to its relentless confrontation with modern-day challenges, the book unpacks Pakistan’s trajectory through time allowing readers to see how past actions and choices have played out to shape the modern multistories narrative...
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    13,19 €

  • Fictions of British Decolonization
    Alexis Fabrizio
    'In Between Places' is a study in literary geography at the end of empire. It begins from the premise that decolonization itself is a question of place and the relationship of people to places From this premise, the dissertation explores the narrative techniques that emerge from this moment of historical transformation, in which decolonization was inevitable but not yet fully a...
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    39,43 €

  • If These Walls Could Talk
    Shirley R Hawkins
    If These Walls Could Talk is a fascinating journey into the world of the blind and vision impaired. It is the story of 508 St. James Street in the historical Jackson Ward district in Richmond, Virginia. ...
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    21,72 €

  • The British Empire through buildings
    John M MacKenzie / John M. MacKenzie
    Imperialism is strikingly represented in its buildings. This work illuminates the dispersal of colonial culture and religious forms, social classes, and racial divisions over two centuries, from the establishment of colonial rule to a post-colonial world. It will be a vital reading for all students of imperial history and global material culture. ...
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    54,86 €

  • Saying Goodbye Around the World
    D. V. Lang / Stacy Hummel
    The friendly gang from the Around the World series are back. Saying Goodbye Around the World is book two of the series. As with the first book―Saying Hello Around the World, readers will not only see the words for goodbye in the various languages, but they’ll also have enunciations for the words that represent goodbye in each language.We all know that these days we live in a gl...
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    22,00 €

  • Géographie physique
    Jacques Babinet
    Pour étudier le développement des lois de la nature dans le monde entier, les observateurs ont parcouru les diverses régions, et ensuite les théoriciens, en rassemblant les faits analogues, ont pu en conclure les principes généraux qui forment le beau domaine de la géographie physique. Il semble néanmoins que, pour saisir les mille détails dont se compose tout ce qui se rappor...
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    9,87 €

  • Travels to the West of Qiu Changchun
    Li Chi Ch’ang / E. Bretschneider
    The Travels to the West of Qiu Changchun was a record of the journey embarked on by the Taoist monk Qiu Chuji who traveled from Shandong through Central Asia to present himself before Genghis Khan.In 1220, on the invitation of Genghis Khan with a golden tablet, Qiu Chuji left his hometown in Shandong with nineteen disciples and traveled through Beijing and traveled north. In Ju...
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    8,02 €

  • NARCISSISTIC ABUSE RECOVERY
    Kyrie Cook
    Narcissistic Abuse Recovery is a transformative process of healing and self-discovery for individuals who have experienced the devastating effects of narcissistic abuse. Narcissistic abuse occurs when someone with narcissistic traits manipulates, controls, and undermines the well-being and self-esteem of their victims, leaving deep emotional scars.This empowering journey toward...
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    88,36 €

  • Essential Chinese Geography - Introduction- A Beginner’s Guide to Self-Learn Mandarin Chinese, Must-Know Vocabulary, Easy Sentences, Reading Practice, HSK All Levels (English, Pinyin, Simplified Chara
    Qing Qing Jiang
    Welcome to Chinese Geography series. In this book, we will discover basic and must-know facts about the Chinese geography (中国地理的常识).  The books in Chinese Geography series contain numerous lessons in Mandarin Chinese. We start with a brief introduction of the book in the preface (前言) in Chinese and pinyin, a bit detailed introduction of the main theme (in English), and continue...
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    50,58 €

  • China’s Five Great Mountains- Geography, Beginner’s Guide to Self-Learn Mandarin Chinese, Must-Know Vocabulary, Easy Sentences, Reading Practice, HSK All Levels, English, Pinyin, Simplified Characters
    Qing Qing Jiang
    Welcome to Chinese Geography series. In this book, we will discover China’s Five Great Mountains (五岳).  The books in Chinese Geography series contain numerous lessons in Mandarin Chinese. We start with a brief introduction of the book in the preface (前言) in Chinese and pinyin, a bit detailed introduction of the main theme (in English), and continue to dig the geography in diffe...
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    51,72 €

  • Chinese Ethnic Groups - A Beginner’s Guide to Self-Learn Mandarin Chinese, Geography, Must-Know Vocabulary, Easy Sentences, Reading Practice, HSK All Levels (English, Pinyin, Simplified Characters)
    Qing Qing Jiang
    Welcome to Chinese Geography series. In this book, we will discover numerous Ethnic Groups in China (中国民族).  The books in Chinese Geography series contain numerous lessons in Mandarin Chinese. We start with a brief introduction of the book in the preface (前言) in Chinese and pinyin, a bit detailed introduction of the main theme (in English), and continue to dig the geography in ...
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    50,58 €

  • Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, ambassador, author and conjurer
    Robert-Houdin
    Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, ambassador, author and conjurer, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these b...
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    29,83 €

  • The Coronation of King Charles III
    Fulton Titus
    Prepare to meet the man of the hour, King Charles III, who is set to ascend the throne after the passing of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. The introductory section of this book delves into both the historical significance of the United Kingdom and an in-depth exploration of the new king based on deep research of his history, to gain valuable insight into how he will transform ...
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    22,19 €

  • Man and Nature
    George P. Marsh
    After being appointed the United States Minister Resident to the Ottoman Empire in 1849, George P. Marsh had the opportunity to travel the world and visit the sites of ancient civilizations. Troubled by what he saw, Marsh came to the conclusion that these societies were victims of self-destruction and that the same fate could be in store for the nations of today. Moved to actio...
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    20,52 €

  • Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean
    Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean interrogates the complex relationship between two island archipelagos at the peak of the slave economy. Employing a broad range of islands, sources, sites, and methods creates a transnational, trans-imperial and interdisciplinary history of Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean. ...
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    172,27 €

  • Chanakya a Warrior
    Abhishek Patel
    I am India, today I tell you my own story, when 300 years ago, Alexander the King of Macedonia had set out to conquer India, this was the time when Alexander the King of Macedonia was defeating every king of India. With the dream of the world in his heart, Alexander was moving from one country to another, the fear of such a dangerous king was knocking on my borders, and I was w...
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    5,89 €

  • Bayocean
    Jerry Sutherland
    Like Plato’s fictional island kingdom, most of Bayocean sank below the sea long ago. The rest lies buried beneath the shore pine, salal, and beach grass covering the four-mile-long spit that protects Tillamook Bay from the Pacific Ocean. This book chronicles the half-century this Oregon resort town existed, tells the stories of people who lived there, and explains its demise.  ...
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    20,63 €

  • Letters From Wankie
    Patricia Friedberg
    'Letters from Wankie' is a unique true story based on the collection of some 500 air letters the author, British-born Patricia Friedberg, wrote home to England in the mid-1950s, during the first two years of her marriage to her South African physician husband. Together the newlyweds moved to the remote mining town of Wankie in the far northwest corner of Southern Rhodesia (now ...
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    16,67 €

  • War and Modernization
    Charles Ynfante
    War is devastation and destruction. But war also contributes to modernizing a region, state or country. Actual war and the post-war experience forces the advancement of necessary improvements in social life, industry, technology, and other areas to counter the threat of war’s destruction. World War 2 in the 1940s and its influence in the American Southwest is an example of this...
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    34,59 €

  • Maria and the Stars of Nazca
    Anita Jepson-Gilbert
    Imagine a secret so large, no one could see it-even if it was lying out in broad daylight! Such was the secret hidden in the Nazca desert of Peru. Here, ancient line drawings were so large that people couldn’t see them from the ground. It was not until airplanes began to fly over that region that the great lines and figures could be viewed plainly. One of the first people to di...
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    16,75 €

  • The Place to Stay
    Steve Porter
    Hotel Victory was a beacon of luxury and grandeur along the shores of Put-in-Bay, Ohio. Attracting crowds especially for the short three-month tourist season, the allure of its sumptuous accommodations surrounded by sun and water promised an unforgettable memory. The truth is that unfortunately not every story culminates in a jubilant ending; however, the life lessons we are ab...
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    21,37 €

  • Glimpses Into Sutton’s Past
    Stephen Roberts
    This book tells the story of Sutton Coldfield between 1800 and 1914.  With a focus on the struggles to bring to an end the self-appointed corporation, the arrival of the railway, shops, schools, law and order and leisure, it is a work of social history.  During the period that this book covers, Sutton was transformed beyond any origins asa mere suburb of Birmingham.  It could f...
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    16,37 €


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