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  • The Soldier That Wagged Her Tail
    Dolores N Morris
    World War II sits in our collective memory as the 'Good War': the one where the sides were clear and the sacrifices great. Literature and film have produced very few images of a certain group of heroic soldiers who died on foreign beaches, fields and jungles. The African American soldier, in segregated units, fought and died on those battlefields, and for the most part, their...
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    10,86 €

  • Crossing the Borders of Time
    Leslie Maitland
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    26,14 €

  • Jews in Service to the Tsar
    Lev Berdnikov / Nora Favorov
    Benjamin Disraeli advised, “Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.” With Jews in Service to the Tsar, Lev Berdnikov offers us 28 biographies spanning five centuries of Russian Jewish history, and each portrait opens a new window onto the history of Eastern Europe’s Jews, illuminating dark corners and challenging widely-held conceptions about th...
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    22,05 €

  • War Memory and Popular Culture
    This collection of essays investigates such diverse vehicles for war commemoration as poems, battlefield tours, souvenirs, books, films, architectural structures, comics, websites, and video games. Drawing on essayists from Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Israel and the United States, this work explores the evolution from traditional to contemporary forms of war commemoration...
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    42,91 €

  • The Role of Foreigners in Ancient Egypt
    Charlotte Booth
    To determine the role that foreign immigrants held in Egyptian society, the author looks in this study at what it meant to be Egyptian and how foreign immigrants differed. Her analysis covers a discussion on ethnicity, nationalism and citizenship, particularly in relation to Asiatics, Syrians, Libyans, Nubians, Minoans, and Indians. Selected catalogues of finds and other materi...
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    49,22 €

  • Great Epochs in American History, Volume I - Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations
    Francis W. Halsey
    Schoolboys have been taught from their earliest years that Columbus discovered America. Few events in prehistoric times seem more probable now than that Columbus was not the first to discover it. The importance of his achievement over that of others lay in his own faith in his success, in his definiteness of purpose, and in the fact that he awakened in Europe an interest in the...
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    15,40 €

  • History of American Abolitionism - From 1787 to 1861
    F. G. De Fontaine
    'The following pages originally appeared in the NEW YORK HERALD, of February 2d, 1861. By request, they have been reproduced in their present shape, with the view of preserving, in a form more compact than that of a newspaper, the valuable facts embraced. Without an extensive range of research it is almost impossible to acquire the information which is thus compiled, and, at th...
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    12,08 €

  • Steady As She Goes
    Emmaline Severn
    Eighteen-year-old Ted joined the Royal Navy in 1943 as a medic; he wanted to preserve life. WWII had been raging for four years but for Ted, it was a journey into the unknown, with the threat of death a constant companion. Yet, he didn’t dwell on the dark side of life, enjoying himself as much as he could before the D-Day landings of 1944, and the liberation of Europe began. To...
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    4,61 €

  • The Dhofar War
    Stephen Quick
    Between 1965 and 1975, Britain discreetly supported the Sultanate of Oman in achieving a historic Cold War-era counterinsurgency win in its remote Dhofar Province. This book posits that UK military and non-martial assistance to Oman was the primary war-winning factor. ...
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    162,43 €

  • De la démonialité des animaux incubes et succubes
    Ludovico Maria Sinistrari / Isidore Liseux
    De la démonialité des animaux incubes et succubes, un livre classique, a été considéré comme important tout au long de l’histoire de l’humanité, et pour que cet ouvrage ne soit jamais oublié, chez Alpha Editions, nous avons fait des efforts pour sa préservation en rééditant ce livre dans un format moderne pour les générations présentes et futures. Tout ce livre a été reformaté,...
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    17,14 €

  • South Sea Foam
    A. Safroni-Middleton
    South Sea Foam, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and 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 scanned copies of...
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    20,25 €

  • Unsung Heroes
    Mary E Naples
    Who were the unsung heroes? Seldom seen and rarely heard, in the hyper patriarchal ancient world, the only women written about were those who were maligned. This anthology of twenty-five articles finally places ancient women front and center. The essays range from historical to mythological--although in the ancient world the boundaries between fact and fiction were not always c...
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    47,25 €

  • Out of his mind
    Amy Milne-Smith
    In a society that defined manhood as a mastery of self-control, the madman stood as a horrifying example of what could go wrong. Out of His Mind is a socio-cultural study of the madman in Victorian society; through in-depth case studies and broad surveys of emergent trends it explores popular anxieties about health, gender, and modern life. ...
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    43,95 €

  • Democratic passions
    Matthew Roberts
    This book takes a fresh look at British radicalism in the first-half of the nineteenth century from the new perspective of the history of emotions. It changes the way in which we look not only at popular radicalism but also at the affective qualities of politics itself in modern Britain and beyond. ...
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    36,89 €

  • Haint Blues
    Toby Sells
    Take a road trip through the haunted backroads, bays, and bayous, of the American South on the search for the Lizard Man, a psychic horse, conjure doctors, ghosts, monsters, and ragged tales aplenty. Let’s set sail with a ghost pirate crew doomed to forever float the Florida Everglades. Let’s hunt the Bell Witch with Andrew Jackson. Let’s find Bigfoot in newspaper archives, wel...
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    16,84 €

  • Research on the Restoration and Conservation of Chinese Grotto Murals
    Huang Jun / Zang Zhicheng
    The murals of Dunhuang serve as a paradigmatic illustration of the remarkable grotto mural art in China. International recognition and widespread interest in 'Dunhuang Studies' have elevated the significance placed on the murals of Dunhuang beyond their mere aesthetic merit. At present, they possess a multidisciplinary, multifaceted, and multidimensional worth, which facilitate...
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    146,06 €

  • Natürliche und geografische Bedingungen von Zmiev
    Yu. A. Kolovrat-Butenko
    Das Buch ist dem Studium der natürlichen und geographischen Bedingungen der Stadt Zmiev gewidmet: Relief und Geomorphologie, Klima, Wasserressourcen, Böden, Flora und Fauna, Mineralien sowie die natürlichen Verkehrswege - Sewerskij Donez und Murawskij Schlach. Auf der Grundlage von archivierten und veröffentlichten Quellen, Materialien aus Manuskripten und Expeditionen sowie wi...
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    104,86 €

  • Condições naturais e geográficas de Zmiev
    Yu. A. Kolovrat-Butenko
    O livro é dedicado ao estudo das condições naturais e geográficas da cidade de Zmiev: relevo e geomorfologia, clima, recursos hídricos, solos, flora e fauna, minerais, bem como vias naturais de comunicação - Seversky Donets e Muravsky shlach.Com base em fontes de arquivo e publicadas, em materiais de manuscritos e expedições, bem como em trabalhos científicos de cientistas de r...
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    104,89 €

  • Mexico and Her People of To-day
    Nevin Otto Winter
    'Many books have been written about Mexico, but several of the best works were written a quarter of a century ago and are now out of print. This fact and the developments of the past few years leads the author to believe that there is a field for another book on that most interesting country; a book that should present in readable form reliable information concerning the custom...
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    19,78 €

  • Condizioni naturali e geografiche di Zmiev
    Yu. A. Kolowrat-Butenko
    Il libro è dedicato allo studio delle condizioni naturali e geografiche della città di Zmiev: rilievo e geomorfologia, clima, risorse idriche, suoli, flora e fauna, minerali, nonché le vie di comunicazione naturali - Seversky Donets e Muravsky shlach. Sulla base di fonti d’archivio e pubblicate, di materiali di manoscritti e spedizioni, nonché di lavori scientifici di important...
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    104,88 €

  • Natural and geographical conditions of Zmiev
    Yu. A. Kolovrat-Butenko
    The book is devoted to the study of natural and geographical conditions of the city of Zmiev: relief and geomorphology, climate, water resources, soils, flora and fauna, minerals, as well as natural routes of communication - Seversky Donets and Muravsky shlach. On the basis of archival and published sources, materials of manuscripts and expeditions, as well as scientific works ...
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    104,90 €

  • Diásporas decolonizadoras
    Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez
    En el principio fue la relación. Tal parecería constituir la clave principal de Diásporas decolonizadoras, un profundo y exquisito trabajo de investigación, lectura cuidadosa y reflexión que se publica ahora en traducción al castellano. Este libro se suma a las más enriquecedoras obras de Afrocaribeñes planteando rumbos de pensamiento fuera de y en oposición al imaginario hispa...
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    37,16 €

  • Robin Unhooded
    Peter Staveley
    Two great mysteries of English history - who was the real Robin Hood and who killed William II, ’Rufus’, in the New Forest, in 1100? ROBIN unHOODed presents new evidence in solving these unanswered questions of our history. Perhaps the most in-depth, innovative study of these mysteries for decades, Peter Staveley’s ground breaking book provides totally fresh and startling hypot...
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    23,73 €

  • Robin Unhooded
    Peter Staveley
    Two great mysteries of English history - who was the real Robin Hood and who killed William II, ’Rufus’, in the New Forest, in 1100? ROBIN unHOODed presents new evidence in solving these unanswered questions of our history. Perhaps the most in-depth, innovative study of these mysteries for decades, Peter Staveley’s ground breaking book provides totally fresh and startling hypot...
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    35,06 €

  • Great Haywood, Past and Present, People and Places
    David Robbie
    Founded by Angles in the sixth century and recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, Great Haywood, with its manor that included the adjacent estate of Shugborough and the ancient Forest of Cank, became an important political, religious and commercial centre in the Middle Ages. It was involved in the tumultuous events surrounding the overthrow of Richard II in the 14th century, th...
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    36,51 €

  • Great Haywood, Past and Present, People and Places
    David Robbie
    Founded by Angles in the sixth century and recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, Great Haywood, with its manor that included the adjacent estate of Shugborough and the ancient Forest of Cank, became an important political, religious and commercial centre in the Middle Ages. It was involved in the tumultuous events surrounding the overthrow of Richard II in the 14th century, th...
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    25,19 €

  • Borinquen Field
    Marta Aponte Alsina
    En este país se arrasa con tal saña la historia viva, que hoy el mandato de 'sol y playa' y el frenesí de impúdicos barons posmodernos 'desplazándonos' de nuestras costas parecen novedades. Pero la desposesión, expropiación y saqueo son mucho más antiguos que la piscina en Rincón y la erosión en Ocean Park. De Humacao a Arecibo, de Culebra a Ceiba y de Vieques a Aguadilla, el i...
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    17,96 €

  • The Chaplin River Letters
    M. L. Jordan
    In this gripping account, M. L. Jordan unveils the raw truths of the Civil War era. Beyond polished tales, dive into a world filled with desire, mystery, and chaos. Personal letters shed light on passionate love, deep betrayals, and unwavering faith. Experience America’s pivotal moment through the eyes of those on the battlegrounds and in whispered secrets. This isn’t just hist...
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    18,24 €

  • The Chaplin River Letters
    M. L. Jordan
    In this gripping account, M. L. Jordan unveils the raw truths of the Civil War era. Beyond polished tales, dive into a world filled with desire, mystery, and chaos. Personal letters shed light on passionate love, deep betrayals, and unwavering faith. Experience America’s pivotal moment through the eyes of those on the battlegrounds and in whispered secrets. This isn’t just hist...
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    6,62 €

  • I’m History...but do I repeat myself?
    Lee Knapp
    In her entertaining memoir, I’m History...but do I repeat myself?, recently retired public school teacher Lee Knapp recounts the effects that an entirely new population on her old familiar high school campus had on her life. As a metaphor of America itself, her once nearly all-white alma mater-outside the former capital of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia, no less-now boaste...
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    13,95 €


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