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  • Imperial Designs, Postimperial Extremes
    Anchored in the Russian Empire, but not limited to it, the eight studies in this volume explore the nineteenth-century imperial responses to the challenge of modernity, the dramatic disruptions of World War I, the radical scenarios of the interwar period and post-communist endgames at the different edges of Eurasia. The book continues and amplifies the historiographic momentum ...
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    108,37 €

  • The Not So Great America
    Gemechu Birehanu Bekana
    In ’The Not So Great America,’ Gemechu takes readers on a side-splitting journey through the United States without ever setting foot on its soil. Through the lens of stories, books, gossips, news, movies, social media, and personal encounters, Gemechu humorously unravels the myths and realities of the USA. From the amazing 90s to post-9/11 era to the Obama years, to the thrilli...
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    10,96 €

  • Medicalising borders
    Foci and vectors of communicable diseases are testing the efficacy of medical control at state borders. By drawing on the interdisciplinary expertise of a network of researchers the book demonstrates that current border security regimes of Western states exhibit a high share of bio-political power techniques that originate in European modernity. ...
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    43,87 €

  • London presbyterians and the British revolutions, 1638-64
    Elliot Vernon
    London presbyterians and the British revolutions is a case study in the politics of metropolitan religion and presbyterianism in the middle decades of the seventeenth-century. ...
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    43,87 €

  • Ancient Huntress
    Sara L. Weston
    The conventional portrayal of prehistoric gender roles has long depicted men as hunters and women as gatherers, perpetuating the notion that women played a passive role in early human societies. However, recent research and archaeological findings have challenged this narrative, revealing a more complex and nuanced understanding of prehistoric gender roles, women played an acti...
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    14,50 €

  • Disappearng New Mexico
    Mac Read / Manfred Laendle
    This book brings New Mexico’s rich history of ghost towns forward into the twenty-first century. Over a eleven-year period, the authors traveled to and photographed all of these towns. Since then, some have already changed or have become completely inaccessible. If you wish to visit them, go now.Ghost towns are not necessarily deserted. However, all have lost the main economic ...
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    17,52 €

  • Izor’s Journey
    Laurent Rejto
    Izor Rejtő, a young office clerk and a new father living in Budapest, Hungary, was conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian army following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914. During the course of the war, he embarked on a journey spanning 25,000 miles, where he bore witness to a spectrum of experiences, ranging from humor, horror, hope, to being a part ...
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    10,05 €

  • Forged in Spain
    Richard Baxell
    Between 1936 and 1939 several thousand men and women from Britain chose to leave the safety of their homes and involve themselves in another country’s civil war. The country was Spain, where a military uprising had been launched against the country’s Republican government. Most of the British who went to Spain were volunteers for the legendary International Brigades, though oth...
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    24,21 €

  • The History of Turkey
    Maurus Reinkowski / William J. Walsh
    A comprehensive, readable history of the Republic of Turkey that gives equal weight to all periods in the first century of the Republic of Turkey.The republican order of Turkey seems not to have changed much since its foundation in 1923, but there were dramatic transformations: From Atatüuuml;rk’s modernization dictatorship in the 1920s and 1930s, over the massive migration int...
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    25,23 €

  • The History of Turkey
    Maurus Reinkowski / William J. Walsh
    A comprehensive, readable history of the Republic of Turkey that gives equal weight to all periods in the first century of the Republic of Turkey.The republican order of Turkey seems not to have changed much since its foundation in 1923, but there were dramatic transformations: From Atatüuuml;rk’s modernization dictatorship in the 1920s and 1930s, over the massive migration int...
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    200,14 €

  • The Threads of Time
    Anika Malhotra
    Time is the thread that weaves the complex tapestry of history, a tapestry that captures the deep patterns of human experience and not just a collection of facts and dates. This allegory encourages us to view history as a complex web, where many 'threads' stand for different people or events and come together to provide a full and fascinating picture of the past.The metaphor of...
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    26,86 €

  • 失落的世界:新兴国家发展的陷阱与教训
    郭建龙
    编辑推荐●充满传奇的探险之旅郭建龙,一个把传奇活成现实的理想主义者,十年行走,亲身经历,深度观察,写成这本《失落的世界》。作品披露了他在亚非地区游历的一些惊险遭遇,目睹了这些地区的战争与和平,发展与落后。书中有作者在阿富汗遇袭的经过,有与喀布尔鸡街札希尔老人的交流,有乌兹别克斯坦海关检查的详细记录,有对埃塞俄比亚梅克勒一个女孩的牵挂......更有这些游历之后对世界秩序和发展的深度观察和思考。●观察世界的别样视角有别于向欧美发达国家学习的惯有思维,作者另辟蹊径,以独特的眼光、敏锐的洞察力,讲解阿富汗、伊朗、埃塞俄比亚、索马里、伊拉克等被欧美遗弃的世界,从这些在现代化进程中遭遇困难的新兴国家身上寻找发展的经验教训,获得对发展、现代化以及整个世界的更全面更深刻的认知。●丰富的人文历史记录作者以大量史料和游历故事,详细介绍了亚非世界,涵盖南亚、西亚、北非等...
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    40,64 €

  • The Republican Hero
    Michael Lusztig
    Explores the question of whether heroes matter in the modern republic. ...
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    126,87 €

  • The River-Names of Europe
    Robert Ferguson
    The River-Names of Europe, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, 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 ...
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    22,74 €

  • A progressive education?
    Laura Tisdall
    A Progressive Education? argues that the period after WWII witnessed a fundamental transformation in concepts of childhood and adolescence in England and Wales. ...
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    44,11 €

  • The Archived Web
    Niels Brügger
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    29,23 €

  • Pitiless Bronze
    Ruth J Heflin
    Archeologists, historians, anthropologists, literary analysts, and others tend to assume that, if a man was leading an ancient culture, it must already have been a patriarchy.However, we now know that most cultures began as gynocentric cultures, valuing women above men in spiritual and social structures because of women’s natural ties to the cosmos through menstruation and chil...
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    23,76 €

  • A Curious Childhood?
    Fran Levy
    Born of one 'off the wall' parent and the other not, how would you have grappled with the first 10 years of childhood, growing up in the late 1940s and ’50s?My mother, having a narcissistic personality, was able to plunge herself, together with her three young girls, into a life under canvas in order to escape her unhappy marriage.I did survive, surprisingly well (I think, thou...
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    15,34 €

  • The Luckiest Thirteen
    Brian W Lavery / Brian W. Lavery
    A relentless nautical drama that would define, or end, men’s lives.The English port city of Hull was home to ‘three day millionaires’ - trawlermen on brief shore leave. They were spilling cash from record catches. With months out working fierce seas, who knew if the next trip would be their last?The St Finbarr was set to change all that.She was built as the perfect trawler, no ...
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    16,15 €

  • Winning Numbers
    Jeff Copetas
    What would you do if you won the lottery?In 1998, James Hayes won $19 million. Why did he end up in prison twenty years later? A winner in Massachusetts receives $1 million a year for life. Why does he still have a flip phone and live in the same small house? AR Platinum spends six figures every year on the lottery ... and constantly loses. How does his losing make him a comfor...
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    9,93 €

  • Memoirs of a Russian Yesteryear - Volume II
    Anna Viroubova / Catherine Radziwill / Lili Dehn
    First Edition: 6.14' x 9.21' Paperback, Black & White, Cream paper, Matt cover. 635 pages.Within these covers there are three great Public Domain works: Book 1) Paul Vassili was a pseudonym of Princess Catherine Radziwill, the aristocratic wife of a Prussian officer. She experienced the European courts and wrote extensively about them, whilst secretly maintaining her true ide...
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    19,34 €

  • Religious Enlightenment in the eighteenth-century Nordic countries
    This book explores the theme of religious Enlightenment in the Nordic countries during the long eighteenth century. The volume’s fourteen chapters investigate how Lutheran confessional culture became intertwined with Enlightenment ideas and practices. ...
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    42,01 €

  • Канте При
    Адриана Сол Ферретти
    Канте При - результат работы с 10-летними учениками в классе общественных наук школы № 48 'Америка Латина' в городе Трес-Арройос. Вопрос, положивший начало исследовательской работе, был задан одним из учеников после беседы с Альберто Селлерино, бывшим участником войны на Мальвинских островах. С тех пор люди и события обозначили путь, который мы до сих пор не знаем, куда он нас ...
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    26,17 €

  • Cante Pri
    Adriana Soledad Ferretti
    Cante Pri ist das Ergebnis der Arbeit mit 10-jährigen Schülern in einem sozialwissenschaftlichen Klassenzimmer der Schule Nr. 48 'América Latina' in der Stadt Tres Arroyos. Die Frage, die den Anstoß für die Forschungsarbeit gab, wurde von einem Schüler gestellt, nachdem er ein Gespräch mit Alberto Cellerino, einem ehemaligen Kämpfer im Malvinas-Krieg, geführt hatte. Von da an b...
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    53,60 €

  • Cante Pri
    Adriana Soledad Ferretti
    Cante Pri est le résultat d’un travail effectué avec des élèves de 10 ans dans une classe de sciences sociales de l’école n° 48 'América Latina', dans la ville de Tres Arroyos. La question à l’origine du travail de recherche a été posée par un élève après une conversation avec Alberto Cellerino, un ancien combattant local de la guerre des Malouines. Dès lors, des personnes et d...
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    53,60 €

  • Cante Pri
    Adriana Soledad Ferretti
    Cante Pri, is the result of the work with 10 year old students in a Social Sciences classroom at School No. 48 'América Latina' in the city of Tres Arroyos. The question that initiates the research work, comes from a student after sharing a talk with Alberto Cellerino, former local combatant of the Malvinas War. From that moment on, people and facts marked the path that still t...
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    53,60 €

  • Cante Pri
    Adriana Soledad Ferretti
    Cante Pri è il risultato di un lavoro svolto con studenti di 10 anni in una classe di Scienze Sociali della Scuola n. 48 'América Latina' della città di Tres Arroyos. La domanda che ha dato il via al lavoro di ricerca è stata posta da un alunno dopo aver condiviso una conversazione con Alberto Cellerino, un ex combattente locale della guerra delle Malvinas. Da quel momento in p...
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    53,60 €

  • Cante Pri
    Adriana Soledad Ferretti
    Cante Pri é o resultado de um trabalho com alunos de 10 anos de idade numa sala de Ciências Sociais da Escola nº 48 'América Latina' na cidade de Tres Arroyos. A questão que deu início ao trabalho de investigação foi colocada por um aluno após uma conversa com Alberto Cellerino, um ex-combatente local da Guerra das Malvinas. A partir daí, pessoas e acontecimentos marcaram o cam...
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    53,60 €

  • The Great Deep
    Shirley E Andersen
    Have you ever wondered about the circle inscribed on the face of the deep mentioned in the book of Proverbs? Or questioned the biblical account of creation and how it aligns with science as we know it today? The Great Deep explores all of these things and exposes secrets about human history in light of God’s Word--the filter for all wisdom and knowledge. This seminal book will ...
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    22,08 €

  • Chinese Global Exploration in the Pre-Columbian Era
    Sheng-Wei Wang
    How early did the Chinese explore the world? Did the Treasure Fleets, led by Admiral Zheng He, discover many parts of the world before Christopher Columbus? While it is known that Christopher Columbus discovered America and Europe ushered in the Age of Discovery, there is an ongoing debate on the 'unknown' areas depicted in Western maps from the period and earlier. There is agr...
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    211,50 €