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  • Tennis
    Heiner Gillmeister
    This is the second edition of the highly acclaimed and bestselling comprehensive history of tennis which was the first truly scholarly history of any individual sport. Supported by a startling wealth of linguistic and documentary research, Gillmeister charts the global evolution of tennis from its origins in 12th century France, where it emerged as a more peaceful variety of ri...
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    87,08 €

  • Sin Against the Blood
    Artur Dinter / Mildred Grau
    While recovering from his injuries in World War One in 1916, a 38-year-old German scholar named Artur Dinter wrote a novel that would become highly influential-not the least, through a young political activist named Adolf Hitler.  Dinter was concerned about the growing, pernicious influence of Jews in Germany. It was long known that Jews had dominated certain key sectors of the...
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    24,09 €

  • Around Wolstanton and May Bank
    Gladys Dinnacombe
    Some history of houses and people living around Wolstanton and May Bank, North Staffordshire ...
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    10,37 €

  • Kahane - The Militant Rabbi
    Leah Miller
    Rabbi Meir Kahane was arrested approximately 70 times throughout his lifetime. In Israel alone, around 60 times, and the rest in the United States. Most arrests happened in the 1970’s. He spent around 5 years of his life in jail. During that time, he continued to write and study.Rabbi Meir KahaneNovember 4, 1990...died....age 58My task, I considered, to report a great historica...
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    23,58 €

  • Do Jewish Lives Matter?
    Leah Miller
    The play, 'Do Jewish Lives Matter', arose out of the Crown Heights Riot in Brooklyn, a Pogrom where a Black boy was accidentally killed by a Hasidic driver with devastating results. James Baldwin, the famous Negro writer, as far back as 1948 wrote, Georgia has the Negro as a target of hatred. Harlem has the Jew. In 1973 Rabbi Kahane wrote, 'In no way should we refuse to see the...
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    15,18 €

  • The Demb Family Journey - from Mlynov to Baltimore
    Howard I Schwartz
    In this deeply personal investigation, a trained historian unearths the journey of his father’s familyfrom a tiny shtetl in what was western Russia (then Poland and now Ukraine), to the thriving port ofBaltimore. With little knowledge at the start, the author reaches back to the lives of his great-greatgrandparents in the 1860s and traces what became of each of their six childr...
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    43,06 €

  • AMERICAN HER-STORY
    Eric Leif Davin
    This book is meant as a general introduction, a short guide, for everyone, to the work of significant women’s historians concerning some of the major questions in the field. Thus, this is not a book for specialists. Rather, it is a book for the non-specialist who simply wants to understand what women’s history is all about. ...
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    17,68 €

  • He Who is Made Lord
    Muhammad Suhail bin Mohamed Yazid
    In June 1959, the British established the office of Yang di-Pertuan Negara (He Who is Made Lord) to replace the colonial governorship and represent Queen Elizabeth II in Singapore. Muhammad Suhail explores the divergent attempts to invest meaning in the Yang di-Pertuan Negara. In doing so, he weaves a rich story about the contesting ideas of sovereignty during the global age of...
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    49,30 €

  • Warnings
    John K. Roth / Leonard Grob
    Old friends--one a Jew, the other a Christian--Leonard (Lenny) Grob and John K. Roth are philosophers who have long studied the Holocaust. That experience makes us anxious about democracy, because we are also Americans living in perilous times. The 2020s remind us of the 1930s when Nazis destroyed democracy in Germany. Carnage followed. In the 2020s, Donald Trump and his follow...
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    23,56 €

  • Warnings
    John K. Roth / Leonard Grob
    Old friends--one a Jew, the other a Christian--Leonard (Lenny) Grob and John K. Roth are philosophers who have long studied the Holocaust. That experience makes us anxious about democracy, because we are also Americans living in perilous times. The 2020s remind us of the 1930s when Nazis destroyed democracy in Germany. Carnage followed. In the 2020s, Donald Trump and his follow...
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    37,33 €

  • Talking About Autism
    Manuel F. Casanova
    Embark on an enlightening journey through the intricate and often misunderstood history of autism with the first installment of the captivating Talking About Autism Series.Down the Rabbit Hole of Historical Controversies - the debut book in this thought-provoking series, and takes readers on a profound exploration of the origins and evolution of autism.Written by Manuel Casanov...
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    10,43 €

  • Tobacco on the Periphery
    Jean Stubbs
    This is the story of Cuban tobacco, whose agricultural and industrial development was fashioned as deftly as a Havana cigar around overseas trading interests. It traces the nineteenth-century growth of a strong tobacco oligarchy, peasant grower class and urban salaried work force, alongside slave and indentured labour, and examines how a prestigious manufacturing country was tr...
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    24,67 €

  • Tobacco on the Periphery
    Jean Stubbs
    This is the story of Cuban tobacco, whose agricultural and industrial development was fashioned as deftly as a Havana cigar around overseas trading interests. It traces the nineteenth-century growth of a strong tobacco oligarchy, peasant grower class and urban salaried work force, alongside slave and indentured labour, and examines how a prestigious manufacturing country was tr...
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    36,16 €

  • Tobaco en la periferia
    Jean Stubbs / Pedro Pérez Sarduy
    Esta es la historia del tabaco cubano, cuyo desarollo agrícola e industrial se torció tan habilmente como un Habano en torno a los intereses comerciales extranjeros. Traza el crecimiento decimonónico de una fuerte oligarquía tabacalera, clase campesina, y fuerza obrera urbana asalariada, al lado de una mano de obra esclava y bajo contrata, y examina cómo un prestigioso país man...
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    36,16 €

  • Five Men of Frankfort
    Marcus Eli Ravage
    A penetrating account of the founding family members of the famous Rothschild banking dynasty, written by one of America’s top Jewish writers who spins an enthralling story explaining the exact origin and operation of the family business which became known as the 'financier of nations.'Starting with their humble origins in the medieval town center of Frankfort, this book follow...
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    25,88 €

  • From Doodlebugs to Devon
    Sarah O Shaw
    June 1944. Housewife Yvonne Shaw’s life on the Home Front is shattered when Hitler’s terror weapon, the ’doodlebugs’ or flying bombs, bombard south London. After several fearful weeks she escapes to Devon, but even there her troubles are not over.  In letters written to her husband, an army officer in Scotland, she describes her experiences which, in turn, raise questions: Was ...
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    15,22 €

  • Tobaco en la periferia
    Jean Stubbs / Pedro Pérez Sarduy
    Esta es la historia del tabaco cubano, cuyo desarollo agrícola e industrial se torció tan habilmente como un Habano en torno a los intereses comerciales extranjeros. Traza el crecimiento decimonónico de una fuerte oligarquía tabacalera, clase campesina, y fuerza obrera urbana asalariada, al lado de una mano de obra esclava y bajo contrata, y examina cómo un prestigioso país man...
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    24,67 €

  • What the Trees Saw
    Thomas R Miller
    What the Trees Saw, An Intimate, Irreverent Look at Human Evolution is a no-holds barred critique of the history of the human race from the Neanderthals of the Pleistocene Age to the Neanderthals of the 21st Century.Mr. Miller uses his sharp wit to separate the fanciful, idealized biographies of famous and infamous people from the unblemished, naked, and sometimes shocking trut...
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    38,10 €

  • Policing Henley-on-Thames
    Andrew W. King
    Policing Henley-on-Thames from Parish Constables to the formation of the Oxfordshire Constabulary in 1857 shows the progression from the hue and cry system required from every eligible citizen through to the duties of the parish constables selected annually from the population by the town Mayor, regardless of their wishes, to a more professional police in the small market town ...
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    11,01 €

  • The Lords of the Manor 2023 (3rd Edition)
    MSoEW
    The Manorial Society of England and Wales is a voluntary organisation, originally founded in 1998, who endeavour to maintain a register of those holding feudal titles.This book is the third edition of The Register published in 2023, holding all known title holders of Lordships of the Manor in England and Walesmsoew.co.uk ...
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    73,58 €

  • Since Dorchester
    Judith Kirwan Kelley
    Judith Kirwan Kelley is the author of Dorchester Girl (SDP Publishing, 2021). In her second book, Since Dorchester, Kirwan Kelley continues her journey, only persuaded to 'get in the car or we’re moving without you!' by extreme familial pressure to leave her beloved Dorchester birthplace behind when her family moved to Boston’s South Shore in 1968. This is a memoir-but one infu...
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    15,01 €

  • War Angel
    Mike Weedall
    On a pleasant New Hampshire summer day in 1950, an inexperienced US Army Reserve Surgical Nurse nestles at home with a newborn infant recently abandoned by her alcoholic sister-in-law. Just weeks earlier, North Korean troops streamed across the 38th Parallel of the Korean Peninsula, sending the South Korean and American Armies reeling. Unable to receive an exemption because of ...
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    16,45 €

  • Marxism and America
    If the United States has been so hostile to Marxism, what accounts for Marxism’s recurrent attractiveness to certain Americans? Marxism and America: New appraisals sheds new light on that question in essays that engage sexuality, gender, race, nationalism, class, memory, and much more. ...
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    43,96 €

  • Cold, hard steel
    Agnes Arnold-Forster
    Cold, hard steel anatomises the surgical stereotype in modern and contemporary Britain. It offers a new social, cultural and emotional history of this specialty, explores the development of its professional identity and foregrounds experiences of surgeons at work. ...
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    42,93 €

  • Technology in Southeast Asian History
    Suzanne Moon
    Explores the role of technology in the larger political and economic fabric of Southeast Asia.In Technology in Southeast Asian History, Suzanne Moon explores the profound entanglement of technology with Southeast Asian politics, social life, economics, and culture over its long history. Moon offers a unique framework for understanding the place of technology in this region and ...
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    51,40 €

  • Beekeeping With Woven Hives In Greece Through The Ages
    Georgios Mavrofridis
    The present book is an original study on beekeeping which, apart of course for the existing modern literature, is based on four pillars:1. the study of the relevant ancient Roman and Byzantine literature; 2. the study of the works by foreign travelers who visited Greece from the 17th to the 19th centuries to gather information on beekeeping and wicker hives;3. the study of arch...
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    36,25 €

  • For Palestine
    Ian Parker
    'I am not afraid to look.' - Tom Hurndall, 2003.On the eve of the invasion of Iraq in February 2003, Tom Hurndall, a photography student at Manchester Metropolitan University, travelled from Manchester to the Middle East to witness the horrors in Iraq and then later in Palestine. Tom was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier on 11 April 2003 whilst attempting to rescue two chi...
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    55,89 €

  • Abbeys and Priories of Lincolnshire
    Roland W Morant
    Roland Morant’s book on the medieval monastic buildings of Lincolnshire fills a significant gap in books about the surviving monastic buildings in Lincolnshire and includes information relating to all parts of the county in a single volume. It is illustrated with numerous photographs, illustrations, maps and site-plans together with a glossary of architectural terms.Abbeys and ...
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    34,36 €

  • Why Women Deserve Better
    Daria Galek / Daria Gałek
    'Why Women Deserve More' is an inspiring book that emphasizes the importance of gender equality and explains why it is not just a matter of justice but also a driving force for a better society. In a accessible manner, the author presents arguments and evidence for why women deserve better conditions and treatment in all aspects of life. Weaving together thorough analysis with ...
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    12,04 €

  • Civilization begins in East Asia
    Yong Wan Choi
    Before the birth of China, Baekje’s ancestors began the Yellow River civilization, the Indus civilization, the Mesopotamian Sumer civilization, and the Aztec and Mayan civilizations in Central America. East Asian cultures and civilizations have spread to every continent of the world. The Chinese people were absorbed into the Korean. A mixture of Korean and Chinese people appear...
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    12,43 €


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