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  • Le mura di Bergamo e l’esercito veneto fra 500 e 600
    Luca Stefano Cristini
    Correva l'Anno del Signore 1590. Così scriveva un soddisfatto e pago Alvise Grimani, l'allora comandante veneto della piazza di Bergamo, al termine dei lavori di realizzazione degli oltre cinque chilometri di mura porte e bastioni : 'La città è tutta serrata con baluardi e i suoi membri quasi tutti terrapienati, compite le piazze, i parapetti e le traverse per coprirsi ...
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    36,31 €

  • Psychology of Revolution
    Gustave Lebon
    The present age is not merely an epoch of discovery; it is also a period of revision of the various elements of knowledge. Having recognised that there are no phenomena of which the first cause is still accessible, science has resumed the examination of her ancient certitudes, and has proved their fragility. To-day she sees her ancient principles vanishing one by one. ...
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    27,92 €

  • Growing Up in Beloit
    Robert Burdick
    Robert Burdick’s Growing Up in Beloit, serves as both an homage to coming of age in a gentler era, and as a poignant love letter to his beloved Midwestern hometown.  In a lively narrative, Burdick brings to life the universal exuberance and industry of youth, from comic adventures, pranks, and pratfalls, to the more serious business of navigating academics at school and experie...
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    26,63 €

  • Uniforms of Russian Army during the years 1825-1855. Vol. 3
    Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov / Mark Conrad
    This volume is related to the Russian Army during the zar Nicolas Ist era, and are about the uniforms cavalry in use from 1825 to 1855. Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniform...
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    52,04 €

  • The life of Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1608 - 1666
    H C Fanshawe
    Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-1666), was a diplomat, poet and linguist. As Ambassador to Spain and Portugal he negotiated the marriage of Charles II and Catherine of Braganza. He was also acclaimed for his poetry and his translations of Latin and European works such as the Lusiads by Luis de Camoes and Il Pastor Fido (the Faithful Shepherd) by Giovanni Battista Guarini. Sir Richar...
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    17,51 €

  • The J. Abrams Book
    Jacob Abrams / Ruth Murphy
    Selections from articles and memoirs by and about Jacob Abrams, who in 1918 with four friends was charged and convicted of inciting resistance to the war effort, sentenced to 20 years in prison, and ultimately deported to Russia after losing an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Originally published as J. Abrams-Buch, edited by El Centro Cultural Israelita de México and...
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    14,38 €

  • Decryption of the Lipstick Killer Wall Code
    Loren L Swearingen
    DECRYPTION OF THE LIPSTICK KILLER WALL MESSAGE - The most important clue in the infamous murder of Chicago's Frances Brown is the lipstick writing on the living room wall of Miss Brown's apartment, which read: 'For heavens [sic] sake catch me before I kill more I cannot control myself'. This book will show that this message is encrypted. It will be decrypted and analyzed. The...
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    62,71 €

  • Gringo Lessons
    Bill Whaley
    Gringo Lessons: Twenty Years of Terror in Taos is a tale of modern adventure about a young man, who experienced the local culture from 1966 to 1987. There he met the community: skiers, La Gente, los vato locos, Chicano activists and their Spanish contemporaries, the artists, drug dealers, fellow soldiers, tempting sirens, the occasional movie star, and a host of con artists. Fi...
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    20,16 €

  • Luoghi e Architetture della Transizione
    Maria Antonietta Breda
    I sistemi difensivi di confine e la protezione antiaerea nelle città. Storia conservazione riuso / Border defense system and air raid protection in the cities. History conservation reuseThis book collects the papers presented at the Second International Congress on Conoscenza e valorizzazione delle opere militari moderne - Knowledge and development of modern military structures...
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    139,91 €

  • A Damn Close-Run Thing (Large Print)
    Russell Phillips
    In 1982, the average Briton didn't know the Falkland Islands existed, let alone their status as a disputed British territory just off the coast of Argentina. That changed when the Argentinians invaded the islands and overwhelmed the small defending force. Both nations claimed the islands were theirs, but now Argentina thought the British would give them up without a fight.T...
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    16,43 €

  • The Third Dimension
    Jon Mathieu / Katherine Brun
    A pioneering examination of the three-dimensionality of the earth from the perspective of history and thehumanities.This book considers the variegated world of mountains and their development during the last 500 years. It takes as its starting point the United Nations environmental conference of 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, where the mountains were officially recognised as a topic o...
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    52,68 €

  • Archaeology and Entomology in the Eastern Mediterranean
    Eva Panagiotakopulu
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    74,97 €

  • Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of Arkansas
    W.C. Jameson
    Arkansas has long been a land rich in history and lore, and few of the events associated with The Natural State are more compelling and provocative than those associated with lost mines and buried treasures. Within these pages, award-winning author W.C. Jameson has captured and interpreted the most complete collection of these rich and varied stories of lost treasure. ...
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    15,26 €

  • Operation Barbarossa
    Nigel Askey
    In June 1941 the German Wehrmacht launched Operation Barbarossa: the attack on the USSR and the largest land invasion in recorded history. The titanic battles that followed led to the greatest loss of life ever experienced in a military campaign. Since the end of WWII there has been intense discourse about the key operational and strategic decisions made by the German and Sovie...
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    40,02 €

  • March Forward with the Word!
    Andrew V. Ste. Marie / Andrew VSteMarie / Mike Atnip
    In the midst of tall castles, warring pikemen, dreadful plagues, church decay, and the superstition and darkness of sixteenth-century Europe, the Anabaptist revival burst into flames. One of the first leaders was a partying university dropout who met Christ and was transformed into a fiery preacher, confronting and challenging the greatest reformers of the day. He became co-fou...
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    11,80 €

  • The Great Exhibition in Colour
    Heritage Hunter
    This book brings together more than 75 colour illustrations of the Great Exhibition of 1851, produced by several contemporary Victorian artists, for the first time in one volume. The images are reproduced in full colour, making this the most complete visual account of the exhibition available.Originally published across three different volumes, the images in this book give mode...
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    38,96 €

  • 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 €

  • Crossing the Borders of Time
    Leslie Maitland
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    27,87 €

  • Sacred Mysteries Among the Mayas and the Quiches, 11 500 Years Ago
    Augustus Le Plongeon
    The forests of Yucatan and Central America are to-day, for the majority of the people of the United States, even those who call themselves scientific and well informed, as much a terra incognita, as America was to the inhabitants of Europe before its discovery by Cristobal Colon in 1498, when for the first time he came in sight of the northern coast of South America, and naviga...
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    11,64 €

  • 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 €

  • The Threads of Time
    Anika Malhotra
    Time is the thread that weaves the complex tapestry of history, a tapestry that captures the deep patterns of human experience and not just a collection of facts and dates. This allegory encourages us to view history as a complex web, where many 'threads' stand for different people or events and come together to provide a full and fascinating picture of the past.The metaphor of...
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    26,86 €

  • 失落的世界：新兴国家发展的陷阱与教训
    郭建龙
    编辑推荐●充满传奇的探险之旅郭建龙，一个把传奇活成现实的理想主义者，十年行走，亲身经历，深度观察，写成这本《失落的世界》。作品披露了他在亚非地区游历的一些惊险遭遇，目睹了这些地区的战争与和平，发展与落后。书中有作者在阿富汗遇袭的经过，有与喀布尔鸡街札希尔老人的交流，有乌兹别克斯坦海关检查的详细记录，有对埃塞俄比亚梅克勒一个女孩的牵挂......更有这些游历之后对世界秩序和发展的深度观察和思考。●观察世界的别样视角有别于向欧美发达国家学习的惯有思维，作者另辟蹊径，以独特的眼光、敏锐的洞察力，讲解阿富汗、伊朗、埃塞俄比亚、索马里、伊拉克等被欧美遗弃的世界，从这些在现代化进程中遭遇困难的新兴国家身上寻找发展的经验教训，获得对发展、现代化以及整个世界的更全面更深刻的认知。●丰富的人文历史记录作者以大量史料和游历故事，详细介绍了亚非世界，涵盖南亚、西亚、北非等...
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    40,64 €

  • A Short History of the World
    H. G. Wells
    In 'A Short History of the World,' the renowned historian takes readers on an exhilarating journey through time, unraveling the complex tapestry of human civilization. With clarity and depth, the author skillfully condenses thousands of years of history into a captivating narrative that highlights key events, influential figures, and pivotal moments that have shaped our world.F...
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    15,96 €

  • A Historical Perspective on Crime and Injustice in India
    Elio Endless
    OverviewDiscover the compelling narrative of India’s battle against corruption and injustice in 'A Historical Perspective on Crime and Injustice in India, 1947-2010.' This meticulously researched and thought-provoking book offers an in-depth exploration of the pervasive issue of corruption in India, spanning over six decades. Delve into the intricate web of bribery, bureaucracy...
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    28,84 €

  • The Republican Hero
    Michael Lusztig
    Explores the question of whether heroes matter in the modern republic. ...
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    126,87 €

  • The River-Names of Europe
    Robert Ferguson
    The River-Names of Europe, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, 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 ...
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    22,74 €

  • A progressive education?
    Laura Tisdall
    A Progressive Education? argues that the period after WWII witnessed a fundamental transformation in concepts of childhood and adolescence in England and Wales. ...
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    44,11 €

  • Pitiless Bronze
    Ruth J Heflin
    Archeologists, historians, anthropologists, literary analysts, and others tend to assume that, if a man was leading an ancient culture, it must already have been a patriarchy.However, we now know that most cultures began as gynocentric cultures, valuing women above men in spiritual and social structures because of women’s natural ties to the cosmos through menstruation and chil...
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    23,76 €

  • A Curious Childhood?
    Fran Levy
    Born of one 'off the wall' parent and the other not, how would you have grappled with the first 10 years of childhood, growing up in the late 1940s and ’50s?My mother, having a narcissistic personality, was able to plunge herself, together with her three young girls, into a life under canvas in order to escape her unhappy marriage.I did survive, surprisingly well (I think, thou...
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    15,34 €

  • Jerusalem in the Seleukid Empire
    Ariam Yemane
    Step back in time to the complex era of the Seleukid Empire, and explore the enigmatic power structure of the Jerusalem Temple prior to the Maccabean revolt. 'Jerusalem in the Seleukid Empire' is a compelling investigation that unravels the temple’s significance within the region of Judea and its role in the vast Seleukid Empire.To piece together a comprehensive picture of this...
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    22,20 €


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