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  • The History of Lesbian Hair
    Mary Dugger
    In The History of Lesbian Hair, Mary Dugger delivers an unrelentingly hilarious view of the modern world. The redoubtable Ms. D. offers an uproarious array of illustrated essays, diagrams, and short takes, subdivided into Life ('The Downside to Lesbian Chic', how to 'Build Your Own Lesbian', 'So You Want to Be a Straight Girl', and the ultimate definition of children - 'pets wi...
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    14,52 €

  • South
    B. C. Hall / BCHall / C. T. Wood / CTWood
    An anecdotal, rollicking tour through America’s most colorful region. From the Tidewater through Appalachia, down the Blue Ridge country and into the sunbelt, B.C. Hall and C.T. Wood take us through the American South, inviting us to listen to its music -- blues, country, gospel, and rock -- and to the voices that have shaped its extraordinary, distinctive literature. Interweav...
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    22,35 €

  • Producing a Quality Family History
    Patricia Law Hatcher
    For anyone looking to create a useful, lasting history of your family: This is a book that should adorn the library or bookshelves of all genealogists! Whether you’re an amateur or professional, chances are the ultimate goal of your research is to produce a quality family history. Producing A Quality Family History, by Patricia Law Hatcher, guides you through the steps required...
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    26,07 €

  • Producing a Quality Family History
    Patricia Law Hatcher
    For anyone looking to create a useful, lasting history of your family: This is a book that should adorn the library or bookshelves of all genealogists! Whether you’re an amateur or professional, chances are the ultimate goal of your research is to produce a quality family history. Producing A Quality Family History, by Patricia Law Hatcher, guides you through the steps required...
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    19,13 €

  • A History of Jewish Life from Eastern Europe to America
    Milton Meltzer
    Tens of thousands of Jews were injured or killed in the pogroms of the early 1880s and those of the early 1900s. Ninety-five percent of the Jewish population was restricted to a life of poverty and starvation in the ghetto and barred from schools and universities. Ultimately, four million Jews left Eastern Europe between 1880 and 1924, three million of whom settled in America. ...
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    150,80 €

  • Slavery and freedom in Delaware, 1639-1865
    William H. Williams / William HWilliams
    William H. Williams fills a gap in the literature on slavery in America. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the ’peculiar institution’ in the First State. An excellent text for courses in colonial and antebellum history, Slavery and Freedom in Delaware provides valuable insight into this unfortunate, unforgettable period in the nation’s history. ...
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    162,13 €

  • A Dictionary of Jewish Names and Their History
    Benzion C. Kaganoff / Benzion CKaganoff
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    62,58 €

  • Guardians of the Lights
    Elinor De Wire
    In a charming blend of history and human interest, this book paints a colorful portrait of the lives of a vanished breed—the lighthouse keepers—from the year 1716, when the first lighthouse was established in America, to the early 1980s when automation replaced the last human 'guardian of the light.' A wealth of material from the archives of the 19th and 20th centuries—primaril...
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    18,72 €

  • Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine
    Peter Garnsey
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    61,58 €

  • Germans to America, Dec. 1884-June 1885
    Ira AGlazier
    Germans to America provides both genealogists and researchers of family history with the first extensive, indexed source of German-surname immigrants who came to all ports in the United States between 1850 and 1893. This period witnessed one of the highest rates of German emigration in the nineteenth century. The series reproduces information from the original ship manifest sch...
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    246,26 €

  • The Jews of Hungary
    Raphael Patai
    The Jews of Hungary is the first comprehensive history in any language of the unique Jewish community that has lived in the Carpathian Basin for eighteen centuries, from Roman times to the present. Noted historian and anthropologist Raphael Patai, himself a native of Hungary, tells in this pioneering study the fascinating story of the struggles, achievements, and setbacks that ...
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    84,82 €

  • Marc Bloch, Sociology and Geography
    Susan W. Friedman / Susan WFriedman
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    206,60 €

  • Maimonides on the 'Decline of the Generations' and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority
    Menachem Kellner
    Shows to what extent and in what fashion Jews are bound to accept the opinions and the pronouncements of religious authorities. ...
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    41,19 €

  • The Net of Dreams
    Julie Salamon
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    17,58 €

  • The Non-Jewish Origins of the Sephardic Jews
    Paul Wexler
    The author uses linguistic, ethnographic, and historical evidence to support his theory that the origins of Sephardic Jews are predominantly Berber and Arab. ...
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    43,01 €

  • Reading Ruth
    Judith Kates
    In Reading Ruth, thirty contemporary Jewish novelists, essayists, poets, rabbis, psychologists, and scholars - including Cynthia Ozick, Marge Piercy, Francine Klagsbrun, and Nessa Rapoport - explore this biblical work and reclaim it for women on their own terms. In lively essays, poetry, fiction, and personal narrative, a breathtaking gamut of women’s experience in the modern w...
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    19,99 €

  • The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated
    Florentino García Martínez
    One of the world's foremost experts on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Qumran community that produced them provides an authoritative new English translation of the two hundred longest and most important nonbiblical Dead Sea Scrolls found at Qumran, along with an introduction to the history of the discovery and publication of each manuscript and the background necessary for pla...
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    55,87 €

  • From Deliverance To Destruction
    Mark Prof. Stoyle / Mark Stoyle
    This is a study of the city of Exeter during the Great Civil War of 1642-46; it offers a lively, immediate account of how one English city slid, inexorably, into the chaos of civil war. The main text is accompanied by a generous collection of transcripts from original seventeenth-century documents. ...
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    30,84 €

  • Loyalty And Locality
    Mark Prof. Stoyle / Mark Stoyle
    This volume is a study of popular behaviour during the English Civil War, in particular the way in which regions and cities allied themselves with either side and the social and cultural roots of this choice. ...
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    36,48 €

  • Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland
    The Memoirs are a uniquely detailed source for the history of the northern half of Ireland immediately before the Great Famine. They were written in the 1830s to accompany the 6' Ordnance Survey maps, but with one exception were not published at the time. In this new edition they act as a nineteenth-century Domesday book and are essential to the understanding of the cultural ...
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    16,09 €

  • Missouri Genealogical Records & Abstracts
    Sherida K Eddlemon
    This series contains a wide variety of information on specific Missouri counties, and the state as a whole: marriage records, Spanish censuses, tax lists, estrays, letters at the post office, wills and bonds, jury lists, indictments, Indian trade records, cemetery listings, petitioners, animal marks and brands, slave bills of sale, French and Spanish land grants, military recor...
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    31,51 €

  • Missouri Genealogical Records & Abstracts
    Sherida K Eddlemon
    Volume two of Missouri Genealogical Records and Abstracts was compiled by the author in her search for her elusive French ancestor—Achille Godin (or Gaudin); it collectively spans 1752–1839, a time period which is often puzzling to the Missouri/Arkansas researcher because the region changed ownership from France to Spain, then back to France, and finally to the United States in...
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    33,97 €

  • The Place of Judaism in Philo's Thought
    Ellen Birnbaum
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    28,29 €

  • Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland, Vol 28
    A. Day
    The Ordnance Survey Memoirs are a uniquely detailed source for the history of the northern half of Ireland immediately before the Great Famine. They were written in the 1830s to accompany the 6' Ordnance Survey maps, but with one exception were not published at the time. In this new edition they act as a nineteenth-century Domesday book and are essential to the understanding of...
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    21,26 €

  • Cornish Studies Volume 3
    The third volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation. ...
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    27,26 €

  • The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells
    Ida B. Wells / Ida B. Wells-Barnett / Ida BWells / Ida BWells-Barnett
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    18,78 €

  • U.S. Catholic Sources
    Virginia Humling
    Now you can more easily locate records of religious events such as baptisms and marriages, as well as other ecclesiastical documents related to Catholic churches throughout America. Such documents are primary resources for valuable genealogical data. While the parish is the most fundamental unit for researching Roman Catholic records, diocesan archives are often the key to loca...
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    24,32 €

  • Living in the Shadow of Death
    Sheila M. Rothman
    For more than 150 years, until well into the twentieth century, tuberculosis was the dreaded scourge that AIDS is for us today. Based on the diaries and letters of hundreds of individuals over five generations, Living in the Shadow of Death is the first book to present an intimate and evocative portrait of what it was like for patients as well as families and communities to str...
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    44,42 €

  • U.S. Catholic Sources
    Virginia Humling
    Now you can more easily locate records of religious events such as baptisms and marriages, as well as other ecclesiastical documents related to Catholic churches throughout America. Such documents are primary resources for valuable genealogical data. While the parish is the most fundamental unit for researching Roman Catholic records, diocesan archives are often the key to loca...
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    13,63 €

  • Isaac Leeser and the Making of American Judaism
    Lance J. Sussman
    More than any other person of his time, Isaac Leeser 0806-1868) envisioned the development of a major center of Jewish culture and religious activity in the United States. He single-handedly provided American Jews with many of the basic religious texts, institutions, and conceptual tools they needed to construct the cultural foundation of what would later emerge as the largest ...
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    34,21 €


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