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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 €

  • Figuras de al-Ándalus
    Hassan Ahmed
    ¿Quién fue el hombre que conquistó España y del que hoy no se conoce tumba? ¿Cómo una esclava cautiva llegó a nombrar -y después perder- al hombre más poderoso de Córdoba? ¿Por qué Europa estudió durante siglos a un filósofo cordobés al que su propio califa desterró?'Figuras de al-Ándalus' reúne las biografías de treinta y seis hombres y mujeres -árabes, bereberes, judíos, visi...
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    42,10 €

  • THE DIVIDED ASIA HOW EMPIRE REDREW A CONTINENT
    BURHAN BIN USMAN
    The Divided AsiaHow Empire Redrew a ContinentAsia was never simply a collection of borders on a map. Long before modern states existed, its peoples, kingdoms, cities, and trading networks were connected across vast distances. Then empire arrived-and the map began to change.The Divided Asia: How Empire Redrew a Continent takes readers through the forces that transformed one of t...
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    43,72 €

  • Te Mekameka o te Pā Maunga
    Liam Koka’ua
    An in-depth guide to the maunga (mountains) of Rarotonga, their cultural and historical significance to Māori, and how the mountainous interior of the island has provided for its inhabitants over hundreds of years.Te Mekameka o te Pā Maunga preserves oral histories, ancestral knowledge, and people’s connection to their mountains. The maunga of Rarotonga feature heavily in cosmo...
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    48,20 €

  • TUTUNAKU
    Cristina Lobo / Manuel Rodsua
    TUTUNAKU: La Arquitectura Sagrada de los Tres Corazones y la Ontología del PoderExiste una tendencia en la historia a medir el esplendor de las civilizaciones antiguas por la voracidad de sus conquistas o el tamaño de sus monumentos de dominación. Sin embargo, en las tierras brumosas del Golfo de México, la civilización Tutunaku trazó una respuesta ontológica radicalmente disti...
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    30,80 €

  • La Alta Edad Media
    Agustin V. Startari
    Este estudio analiza la transformación de la escritura histórica en el Occidente latino entre los siglos V y XI. Su objeto no son los acontecimientos del período, sino las operaciones mediante las cuales autores y comunidades seleccionaron, ordenaron y explicaron el pasado. La investigación sostiene que la historiografía cristiana altomedieval no constituyó una degradación de l...
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    19,16 €

  • Christus Solus
    Agustin V. Startari
    ¿Qué le ocurre al lenguaje cuando un Nombre no puede ser sustituido?Christus Solus no es un libro sobre la creencia. Es un estudio de cómo un Nombre altera la gramática de toda oración que se atreve a contenerlo. Del griego koiné al latín eclesiástico, de los credos a las confesiones, de los verbos a los artículos, el Nombre Christus no se comporta como ningún otro sustantivo. ...
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    19,83 €

  • The London of Sherlock Holmes
    Michael White
    Step into the London of Sherlock Holmes.The streets of Victorian London were the perfect hunting ground for the world’s greatest detective. Behind respectable front doors lay dark secrets. Fog drifted through gas-lit streets. Hansom cabs rattled across the cobbles while criminals, policemen, politicians and ordinary Londoners crossed paths in the busiest city on Earth.This book...
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    14,49 €

  • The Haunted History of Britain
    Michael White
    The Haunted History of BritainGhosts, Legends and the Places That Refuse to ForgetAcross ancient roads, ruined abbeys, battlefields, castles, mines, railway stations and ordinary homes, generations have reported footsteps without bodies, phantom processions, spectral animals, warning apparitions and the restless dead. Some ghosts return to reveal murder or injustice. Others gua...
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    15,55 €

  • Dickens’s London
    Tom Wiltshire
    Dickens’s London: The City Behind the NovelsStep beyond the pages of Dickens’s greatest novels and discover the extraordinary city that inspired them.Victorian London was a place of dazzling wealth and crushing poverty, glittering theatres and dangerous alleyways, bustling markets and overcrowded slums. It was a city of fog, crime, ambition, hardship and hope, a city that Charl...
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    15,55 €

  • The Strait of Hormuz
    Ramesh Mofleh Hussaini
    The Strait of Hormuz is not geography. It is a pulse.A thirty-nine-kilometer throat that, if squeezed, makes civilization choke.Through this throat run the veins of the global economy. Seventeen million barrels of oil a day. One-third of the world’s liquefied natural gas. Trillions of dollars in trade.This strait decides the price of the bread on your table.This strait hangs th...
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    18,70 €

  • After the Cannon Smoke
    Eileen Morris
    Gettysburg is both one of the best-documented battles of the American Civil War and one of the world’s most famous haunted landscapes. After the Cannon Smoke reconstructs the three days of fighting, the wounded left behind, burials, photography, monuments and veterans’ memory before examining apparitions at Devil’s Den, Little Round Top, Sachs Bridge and other sites. Phantom re...
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    18,44 €

  • Things of Brasil
    Brasil Editorial
    Brazil is often reduced to a handful of familiar images: carnival, football, beaches, music, and the Amazon. Yet behind those symbols lies a country far more complex, intimate, contradictory, and human than any postcard can contain.In Things of Brazil: Seven Journeys into the Heart of a Country, Daniele Fumachi guides the reader through the landscapes, peoples, food, music, fa...
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    19,92 €

  • Has This World Ever Known Peace?
    Winston Phillips
    Historians estimate that in the last 3,400 years of recorded history, humanity has known only 268 years withoutwar - roughly 8 percent of the time. Has This World Ever Known Peace? takes that staggering statistic andturns it into a question worth sitting with: is conflict simply what we are, or is it something we have chosen,again and again, when better paths were available?Thi...
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    20,28 €

  • Urban Borderlands
    Isabela Seong Leong Quintana
    Los Angeles in the late nineteenth century was bustling with the rise of industrialization, but the growing labor force that propelled it, mostly consisting of Mexican and Chinese men, was met with exclusion policies and deportation campaigns. Nevertheless, Chinese and Mexican women, children, and men built vibrant residential and business districts—until they were all but erad...
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    38,33 €

  • Il Popolo Che Non Somiglia a Nessuno
    KARMEN-ITA
    La scienza lo dice chiaramente: i Sardi sono unici. Geneticamente distinti dal resto d’Europa, con una lingua che la linguistica riconosce come la più antica delle lingue romanze, e una cultura che l’antropologia studia come caso straordinario di continuità identitaria.Questo libro esplora quella unicità attraverso la genetica, la linguistica e l’antropologia - con rigore scien...
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    28,56 €

  • A BOOK OF DISCOVERY
    M. B. (Margaret Bertha) Synge
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of A BOOK OF DISCOVERY pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Embark on a captivating journey through the annals of exploration with M. B. Synge’s 'A Book of Discovery: The History of the World’s Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole.'...
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    34,60 €

  • Stories of the Scottish Border (Cram Edition)
    Morris Meredith Williams / William Mrs. Platt / William Platt
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Stories of the Scottish Border pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Explore the tumultuous history of the 'Scottish Border' through captivating narratives compiled by Mr. and Mrs. William Platt. Delve into the era of the border reivers and relentless border warf...
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    23,10 €

  • Touring in 1600
    E. S. (Ernest Stuart) Bates
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Touring in 1600 pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'Touring in 1600: A Study in the Development of Travel as a Means of Education' by Ernest Stuart Bates offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of 17th-century European travel. Explore the history of travel...
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    26,94 €

  • A History of Lancashire (Cram Edition)
    Henry Fishwick
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of A History of Lancashire pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Delve into the rich tapestry of Lancashire’s past with 'A History of Lancashire' by Henry Fishwick. This meticulously prepared history explores the story of Lancashire, England, from its earliest days ...
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    27,99 €

  • The Historical Geography of Europe
    Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Historical Geography of Europe pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Explore the intricate relationship between geography and history in Edward A. Freeman’s 'The Historical Geography of Europe,' Volume 1: Text. This meticulously prepared republication offers ...
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    41,54 €

  • The Story of Geographical Discovery
    Joseph Jacobs
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Story of Geographical Discovery pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known' recounts the thrilling history of exploration and geographical discovery. Authored by Joseph Jacobs, this meticulously prep...
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    23,13 €

  • Biocultural Empire
    Human species supremacy is one of the most persistent fictions at work in the field of modern British imperial history today. This open access collection challenges that assumption, and investigates what histories of empire look like if reimagined as the effect of biocultural, chemical and cultural processes, rather than the result of effects byhumans that have been visited upo...
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    51,13 €

  • 百年较量--美国能否击败共产主义？
    锺闻 Zhongwen
    本书是从1919年苏联建立后的第三年开始忆述，当时美国总统威尔逊对巴黎公社谴责，并公开他反俄共的立场。他坦述：'共产主义毒素已经渗透到自由人民的血管里，对美国否定。'1929年胡佛总统上台，他更直接说：'俄国布尔什维克是一伙杀人犯，共产主义是一个深渊'。1961年艾森豪总统当政，竞选口号是：美国最终目标是为世界和平与人类福利、消除共产主义威胁。1962年，肯尼迪总统更说'要与共产主义蔓延斗争！'到了1983年雷根总统执政，更明指：'苏联是邪恶帝国，多年来一直蓄意谋杀，虐待人民。数以百万计的人遭到屠杀，共产主义是人类历史一个悲惨而诡异的篇章。这一章已临近终结。苏联共产政权必将崩溃。'从上面几名美国总统的言论可知，反共是美国政治传统，也是美国的责任。锺闻先生这样写：'美国与马克思共产主义斗争，经历漫长的过程'。这句话否定了共产党人对美国诬陷。因为他们经常...
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    24,30 €

  • The Rivers That Remembered
    Dandy Ahuruonye
    The Rivers That Remembered is a sweeping, poetic encyclopaedia of twenty‑two great rivers-an ambitious work that listens to the waterways of the world as if they were living witnesses to the human condition. It is a study of history, ecology, culture, and conscience, written with the moral clarity of a chronicler and the lyricism of a poet.Across continents and centuries, river...
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    19,24 €

  • Honey Creek Ranch Adventures
    Gwen Stockbridge
    Honey Creek Adventures includes a wide variety of stories and adventures, mostly set in the Texas Hill Country. These stories take you back to a time when children stayed out after dark and no one worried, but you still felt the love of family and friends. Neighbors knew their neighbors and would help in times of need, whether it was sheepshearing, a barn raising, or making a q...
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    10,71 €

  • The Strange History of the World Map
    Bill O’Neill
    What if the borders you thought you understood were hiding some of the strangest, most fascinating stories on Earth?Across the globe, borders aren’t just political-they’re packed with legends, oddities, and astonishing historical twists.The Strange History of the World Map uncovers these hidden tales and brings them together in one captivating journey.Inside, you’ll discover th...
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    15,37 €

  • CEOE 118 World History Geography Exam
    AJR Ross
    The CEOE 118 World History Geography Exam book is a comprehensive resource designed to help candidates prepare effectively for the exam. It includes 400 wide-ranging CEOE 118 World History Geography Exam practice questions that closely mirror the current test format, along with detailed explanations to strengthen understanding of key concepts. The CEOE 118 World History Geograp...
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    163,26 €


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