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  • Soils and Societies
    Described in Nature as ’a delight for the soil aficionado’, this multi-authored collection examines the complex interrelations between societies in different parts of the world and the soils they relied on from the perspectives of geomorphology, archaeology, pedology and history. The geographical spread includes Mesoamerica, Africa, Europe, Australia, India and Easter Island. F...
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    50,36 €

  • A Connecting Sea
    Stašo Forenbaher
    This book includes papers stemming from a session at the EAA conference held in Zadar in September 2007.                          ...
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    79,97 €

  • SNIPER ONE
    DAN MILLS
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    18,71 €

  • In the Beginning
    Michael Lienesch
    The current controversy over teaching evolution in the public schools has grabbed front-page headlines and topped news broadcasts all across the United States. In the Beginning investigates the movement that has ignited debate in state legislatures and at school board meetings. Reaching back to the origins of antievolutionism in the 1920s, and continuing to the promotion of int...
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    47,60 €

  • Scapegoats of the Empire
    George Witton
    According to persistent rumours, the Australian government suppressed the book because its untold story of a slice of colonial history was an embarrassment to the British Empire.  Opens a window on the Boer War, politics of the empire, and the life of enlisted soldiers of the time. George Witton’s Scapegoats of the Empire was published in 1907; however, only seven copies of th...
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    23,91 €

  • SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE
    ALVIN TOWNLEY
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    27,00 €

  • Race and Liberty in the New Nation
    Eva Sheppard Wolf
    By examining how ordinary Virginia citizens grappled with the vexing problem of slavery in a society dedicated to universal liberty, Eva Sheppard Wolf broadens our understanding of such concepts as freedom, slavery, emancipation, and race in the early years of the American republic. She frames her study around the moment between slavery and liberty -- emancipation -- shedding n...
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    50,85 €

  • Bucket-Shaped Pots
    Asbjørn Engevik jr
    A study of bucket-shaped pots from 986 Norwegian graves. These graves include altogether 1179 bucket-shaped pots or fragments of pots. Bucket-shaped pots represent a ceramic category that is special to Norway. Other than in Norway, only a few pots have been recorded in Sweden, and only a single find comes from Denmark. The premise of this study is the consideration that a thoro...
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    125,55 €

  • A Terrible Revenge
    Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
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    24,93 €

  • Iron Age Societies in the Severn-Cotswolds
    Tom Moore
    The central theme of this study is an examination of the processes of change in Iron Age social organisation and identity on a regional scale using the Severn-Cotswolds area in England as a case study. It aims to provide a coherent narrative of the period in the region based on the wealth of current data now available, providing a basic storyboard against which future studies c...
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    144,57 €

  • North Carolina Women of the Confederacy
    Lucy London Anderson
    Long out of print, this volume of recollections, stories, and verse provides a glimpse of women's lives on the home front-and sometimes in the thick of battle-during the War between the States. Nearly fifty years after the American Civil War, Lucy Worth London Anderson (Mrs. John Huske Anderson) of Fayetteville, N.C., compiled one of the first memorial collections honoring the...
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    17,20 €

  • Germanien an der Zeitenwende
    Thomas Völling
    Written by Thomas Völling. Edited by Holger Baitinger, Alexandru Popa und Gabriele Rasbach.The present study concentrates on the question whether the time around the birth of Christ was a period of change for ancient Germania. In order to approach this question the extensive find material (including fibulae forms) was structured chronologically by means of selected cemeteries a...
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    230,58 €

  • A Walk Through the Past - People and Places of Florence and Lauderdale County Alabama
    William Lindsey McDonald
    Descended from early pioneers of Florence and Lauderdale County, Alabama, the author, William Lindsey McDonald began collecting historical information about the Muscle Shoals more than a half century ago. This research has involved personal interviews with Civil War veterans,former slaves, and descendants of both Native Americans and families of the frontier who were among the ...
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    33,34 €

  • Remembering Sweetwater - The Mansions, the Mills, the People
    William L. McDonald
    Remembering Sweetwater gives an historical account of the Sweetwater area of Florence, Alabama in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mr. McDonald gives detailed accounts of such notable people from the area such as Governor Robert Miller Patton, teacher and writer Maud Lindsay, Judge William B. Woods, as well as many others. He also covers the major industries and business...
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    23,86 €

  • The Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic Periods in the Southern Levant
    Jaimie L. Lovell / Jaimie LLovell
    Teleilat Ghassul (a few kilometres north east of the Dead Sea) is important in the archaeology of the southern Levant, offering as it does a possibility to draw together data from a number of sites that provide primary evidence for the Late Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods (c. 5000 – c. 3500 BC). The Australian excavations at the site in 1967-77 (J.B. Hennessy) and 1994-97 fo...
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    131,04 €

  • The Roman Pottery Production Site at Wickham Barn, Chiltington, East Sussex
    Chris Butler / Malcolm Lyne
    The excavations undertaken at Chiltington in East Sussex revealed two Roman pottery kilns, as well as remains from prehistory and from medieval period.The kilns are well documented, and all the finds were examined and catalogued. Three phases were identified. The pottery produced on the site indicate a strong New Forest influence. ...
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    55,62 €

  • Kurgans, Ritual Sites, and Settlements
    Edited by: Jeannine Davis-Kimball, Eileen M. Murphy, Ludmila Koryakova and Leonid T. YablonskyThis richly illustrated volume adds immensely to the small but growing corpus of Eurasian Archaeology published in the English language. Comprised of thirty articles, the authors have focused on the Bronze Age, continuing to include the first millennium BC Early Iron Age, with a termin...
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    158,26 €

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

  • Exchange, Status and Mobility
    George Nash
    This book is an attempt to reconstruct a Mesolithic framework around a little-known artefacts that express probable social complexity within a so-called functional hunter/gatherer system. Artistic representation in the form of decorated bone, antler and amber portrays a society that not only hunted, fished and gathered, but also believed in totemics. ...
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    101,61 €

  • Migrations and Invasions in Archaeological Explanation
    The contributors to this volume seek to understand migrations and invasion on their own terms, the strengths and weaknesses of migration and invasion models as explanatory models of cultural change. Papers are written by David Anthony, John Chapman, Sally Crawford, Helena Hamerow, James Milroy and Lesley Milroy. ...
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    54,88 €

  • Evidence for Christianity in Roman Southern Pannonia (Northern Croatia)
    Branka Migotti
    This study aims to correct the popular impression that the territory of Southern Pannonia between the fourth and sixth centuries presented an 'archaeological desert'. With a catalogue of over 120 objects and sites found on the territory of Northern Croatia, the author argues that the area was very much incorporated into the newly-emerging world of early Christianity. ...
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    63,74 €

  • Indians’ New South
    James Axtell
    In this concise but sweeping study, James Axtell depicts the complete range of transformations in southeastern Indian cultures as a result of contact, and often conflict, with European explorers and settlers in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Stressing the dynamism and constant change in native cultures while showing no loss of Indian identity, Axtell effe...
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    32,15 €

  • Mary Boykin Chesnut
    Elisabeth Muhlenfeld
    "In her admirable biography of Mary Chesnut, Elisabeth Muhlenfeld has American literature as well as American history in her debt." -- C. Vann WoodwardMary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823--1886) is known today for her excellent firsthand account of life in the Confederate States of America. A Diary from Dixie (republished in 1981 as Mary Chesnut's Civil War)is far more than a s...
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    30,93 €

  • Marble Man
    Thomas Lawrence Connelly
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    30,99 €

  • The Greatest Test of Courage
    Ronda Hassig
    Edward Mack had everything: a wife, a newborn son, and his dream job. But as a West Point graduate stationed in the Philippines, his life changed forever on December 7, 1941. Not long after, he would survive the Bataan Death March, Camps O’Donnell and Cabanatuan. At Cabanatuan, he headed an underground operation to get food and medicine for his fellow prisoners. His final desti...
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    11,87 €

  • La Révolution bilingue
    Fabrice Jaumont
    Conçu comme un guide pratique et accessible, la Révolution bilingue raconte l'histoire d'un mouvement visant à développer l’éducation bilingue dans les écoles publiques, raconté par des parents et des éducateurs qui ont fondé leurs propres filières. Ces mères, ces pères, ces enseignants et ces directeurs d’écoles sont des visionnaires qui partagent une même conviction :...
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    15,92 €

  • Canadians and War Volume 1
    Alexander Fitzgerald-Blac / Maryanne Lewell / W. A. Leavey
    Canadians and War Volume 1 brings together four diverse works of research from four Canadian scholars. Canada’s military history is a living, breathing thing, with endless perspectives and accounts to be heard, and this collection seeks to bring some of those little-known stories to light. See the effects of Canada’s proud military history throughout the world and the century. ...
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    13,41 €

  • Guide to Kemetic Relationships
    Muata Ashby
    'Guide to Kemetic Relationships: Ancient Egyptian Maat Wisdom of Relationships' by Dr. Muata Ashby is a comprehensive exploration of the ancient Egyptian principles of Maat as they apply to personal relationships. Dr. Ashby, a renowned scholar with a doctorate in religion and philosophy, brings his extensive knowledge of African history, religion, and ethics to this profound wo...
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    46,83 €

  • Похождения бравого солдата Швейка
    Карел Ванек / Ярослав Гашек
    Перед вами эпический роман Ярослава Гашека – «Похождения бравого солдата Швейка» – настоящее сокровище мировой литературы. Действие романа разворачивается во время Первой мировой войны, на территории доживающей последние годы Австро-Венгерской империи. Произведение описывает события происходящие с Йозефом Швейком – отставным солдатом, с началом войны вновь призванного на службу...
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    24,72 €

  • Name Construction in Mediæval Japan
    Solveig Throndardottir
    Name Construction in Mediæval Japan examines Japanese names from earliest records to the close of the medieval period in 1600. Like ancient Greek or Latin names or Arabic names, ancient and medieval Japanese names express the social role of the individual in Japanese society. The main text and accompanying notes provide a guide to the origin and social role of formal names, com...
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    47,55 €


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