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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 / W.CJameson
    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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    16,65 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 中国古代异闻录3
    呼延云
    编辑推荐抖音、快手、小红书、Bilibili等网站浏览量过亿席卷各短视频平台，众多达人都在推荐第一册3个月加印5次，销售近5万册第二册延续前作荣光，好评如潮第三册隆重上市，再现古代怪谈之历史传奇内容简介古代笔记中为何有那么多'人变虎'的故事？地安门古寺杀人事件背后的真相究竟是什么？人们谈之色变的'黄大仙'为何会致人'中邪？''最是阴惨'里的虎伥，究竟是个什么东西？元顺帝年间的'枯井杀人事件'有着怎样的实情？1644年蝗灾，蝗虫竟然'环抱人而蚕食之'？清末，摄影术是如何变成所谓'招魂术'的？诡非鬼，机巧万端终有解；谜莫迷，阅尽千帆道寻常。我国汗牛充栋的古代笔记中，记载着大量神秘莫测的怪谈。但囿于古代科学不昌，古人常常以'鬼神灵异'作解。从2015年开始，《北京晚报》和'澎湃新闻'相继开辟《叙诡笔记》专栏，由著名学者呼延云执笔，用现代科学结合史料考据，对...
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    32,79 €

  • Becoming a mother
    Carla Pascoe Leahy
    This book charts the history of first-time Australian motherhood across the last 75 years, drawing upon oral history interviews with a diverse group of mothers. Through thematic chapters covering pregnancy, birth, childrearing, relationships, work and identity, the book analyses change and continuity in experiences of becoming a mother since 1945. ...
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    44,09 €

  • Conquering the maharajas
    Harrison Akins
    Conquering the maharajas demonstrates that the political and military clashes between the Indian and Pakistani governments and the princely states, a legacy of the layered sovereignty of British indirect rule in India, was a product of the competing ideas of state sovereignty leading up to and following the transfer of power in 1947. ...
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    44,16 €

  • Taking travel home
    Emma Gleadhill
    This book provides a new cultural history of the travel souvenir. It uncovers how eighteenth-century British women enlisted the objects they collected during their European travels to realise their ambitions in the arenas of connoisseurship, science and friendship, and to stake their claims to agency and authority as travelling subjects. ...
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    46,63 €

  • The Derby philosophers
    Paul A. Elliott
    This book focuses upon the activities of a group of Midland intellectuals who strove to promote social, political and urban improvements which had national and international consequences. It examines a turbulent period of British history, an age of political and industrial revolution in which the Derby philosophers were closely involved. ...
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    47,74 €

  • Transnational solidarity
    This book excavates forgotten histories of solidarity which were vital to radical political imagination during the long sixties. It decentres the conventional Western loci of this critical historical moment by instead foregrounding transnational solidarity with, and across, anticolonial and anti-imperialist liberation struggles. ...
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    43,59 €

  • Private property and the fear of social chaos
    Aidan Beatty
    What do people imagine it means to live in a world where private property is dominant and what are their fears about living in a future world where it has disappeared? This book studies the recurring nightmare that various lumpen mobs could demolish private property. That threatened social chaos is the central unifying story of this book. ...
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    43,86 €

  • The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
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    195,84 €

  • Women’s Zionism Worldwide, 1897-1948
    Mira Katzburg-Yungman
    Offering the first comprehensive historiographic exploration of women’s roles in the Zionist movement worldwide, this geographically wide-ranging study explores the ideologies, goals, strategies, activities, accomplishments and failures of women’s organizations and individuals in Europe, the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, and North Africa. Covering the period fr...
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    204,06 €

  • Planning for the Planet
    Simone Schleper
    During the 1960s and 1970s, rapidly growing environmental awareness and concern created unprecedented demand for ecological expertise and novel challenges for ecological advocacy groups such as the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). This book reveals how, despite their vast scientific knowledge and their attempts to incorporate socially...
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    47,22 €

  • Tracks of Empire
    Luca Carrera
    Motorsport may seem like a pastime born of engineering passion and sporting thrill, but its global expansion rode the same railways, steamships, and colonial routes that powered the great empires. Tracks of Empire: How Racing Spread Across the World uncovers the hidden history of speed as a tool of imperial ambition and postcolonial reinvention.From British hill climbs in the t...
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    25,08 €


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