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Illustrated with stunning color photographs by the world's leading nature photographers, Sea Turtles will inform and inspire readers of all ages everywhere.
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Sea Turtles – A Complete Guide to Their Biology, Behavior and Conservation
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How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual people alongside a darker…
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Homosexuality and Civilization
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"ANZAC Infantryman, 1914-15: From New Guinea to Gallipoli". This title explores the recruitment, training, and combat experiences of the famous ANZAC infantry in the opening years of World War I…
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ANZAC Infantryman 1914–15
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Settlers
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Marsilion Ficino's Platonic evangelising was eminently successful and widely influential, and his Platonic Theology, translated into English in this edition, is one of the keys to understanding the art, thought,…
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Platonic Theology, Volume 2 – Books V–VIII (S)
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Aristophanes of Athens (c 446-386 BC) is considered one of the world's greatest comic dramatists. He wrote 40 plays, 11 of which have survived complete. Jeffrey Henderson presents an edited…
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Clouds. Wasps. Peace (Greek)
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Completing the six-volume Loeb Classical Library of Euripides plays, this volume presents a faithful translation of "Bacchae", "Iphigenia at Aulis", and "Rhesus".
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Bacchae. Iphigenia at Aulis. Rhesus L495 (Trans. Kovacs)(Greek)
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Parttravelwriting,partlovestory,thisbooktakesthereaderonajourneytoSiberiaandthefairytalesofRussia.
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Journey into the Mind’s Eye
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The Venture of Islam V 3 (Paper) The Venture of Islam V 3 (Paper) la super preț online: Livrarea Produselor În mod curent Books Express livrează cărțile în cel mai…
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The Venture of Islam V 3 (Paper)
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Second-hand Time is the latest work from Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. In this book she creates a singular, polyphonic literary form by bringing together…
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Second-hand Time
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These original essays explore the relationship between culture and the military in Chinese society from early China to the Qing empire, with contributions by eminent scholars aiming to reexamine the…
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Military Culture in Imperial China
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The Vietnam War is an outstanding collection of primary documents related to America s conflict in Vietnam which includes a balance of original American and Vietnamese perspectives, providing a uniquely…
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The Vietnam War
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From the first rumblings of dissent in 2011, No Turning Back shows the unravelling of a nation: peaceful protests in Damascus collapsing into violence, families on both sides shattered by nighttime shellings, and…
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No Turning Back
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Companeras
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Berkhoff addresses one of the most neglected questions facing historians of the Second World War: how did the Soviet leadership sell the campaign against the Germans to people on the…
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Motherland in Danger – Soviet Propaganda During World War II
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While many nations flocked to the side of the Allies, others joined forces with Germany as part of the Axis. This volume is the guide to the armies of Italy,…
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Bolt Action: Armies of Italy and the Axis
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This text analyzes the operations and tactics that defined the conduct of World War II in Europe and the Pacific. It avoids a celebratory view but preserves a respect for…
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A War To Be Won – Fighting the Second World War
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The Old English poems in this volume are among the first retellings of scriptural texts in a European vernacular. More than simple translations, they recast the familiar plots in daringly…
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Old Testament Narratives
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In 1945, John Randall was the first Allied officer to enter Bergen-Belsen - the concentration camp that would reveal the horrors of the Holocaust to the world. Randall was one…
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The Last Gentleman of the SAS
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Between 1650 and 1750, four Catholic churches were the best solar observatories in the world. This book tells how these observatories came to be, how they worked, and what they…
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The Sun in the Church – Cathedrals as Solar Observatories
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David Silverman argues against the notion that Indians prized flintlock muskets more for their pyrotechnics than for their efficiency as tools of war. Native peoples fully recognized the potential of…
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Thundersticks – Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America
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Veteran investigative journalist Sherry Sontag and award-winning New York Times reporter Christopher Drew finally reveal the exciting, epic story of adventure, ingenuity, courage and disaster beneath the sea.
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Blind Mans Bluff
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The first alternate history campaign book for Bolt Action, giving players all of the information that they need to fight battles during the German invasion of Britain."
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Bolt Action: Campaign: Sea Lion
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Between AD 69 and 161 the composition of the Roman legions was transformed. Italians were almost entirely replaced by provincial recruits, men for whom Latin was at best a second…
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Roman Legionary AD 69–161
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It tells of terrible journeys, of men masked against the sun (riding through ethereal regions with their feet frozen), of welcoming fog-girt monasteries lit by butter lamps at the journey's…
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The Way Of The White Clouds
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Genesis & Development of a Scientific Fact Genesis & Development of a Scientific Fact la super preț online: Livrarea Produselor În mod curent Books Express livrează cărțile în cel mai…
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Genesis & Development of a Scientific Fact
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Edgar Hoover held great power in the United States. Edgar Hoover, draws on more than 800 interviews to explode the myths, exposing the dark secrets that remained hidden throughout Hoover's…
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Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J Edgar Hoover
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The author continues his quest to reach the historical kernal lying at the heart of some of the greatest unsolved problems and mysteries of Old World history and archaeology. This…
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Legend
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Tells the story of the secret war on Crete from the perspective of these amateur soldiers who found themselves serving because, as one of them put it, they had made…
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The Ariadne Objective
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A challenge to the whole basis of thinking on the subject of classical civilization. The author argues that it has its roots in Afroasiatic cultures, and that these influences have…
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Black Athena
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The biography of Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp - a classic and utterly compelling study of evilOnly four men commanded Nazi extermination (as opposed to concentration) camps.…
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Into That Darkness
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For over 160 years, Dundee sent ships to the Arctic to hunt the whales. It was a brutal, dangerous business but one which was vital to the economy of the…
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Ancestors in the Artic: A Photographic History of Dundee Whaling
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In Keeper of Genesis, Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock present a tour de force of historical and scientific detective work and answer the following questions:When and where did history begin?
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Keeper Of Genesis
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He then visits three pivotal cities: Liverpool, developed on the back of the slave trade, Elmina, on the west coast of Ghana, site of the most important slave fort in…
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The Atlantic Sound
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In 1735 a team of French scientists set out on a daring expedition into the South American wilderness to resolve one of the great scientific challenges of the time: the…
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The Mapmaker’s Wife
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When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626 he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby Oyster Island, renamed Ellis Island in 1770. In…
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The Big Oyster
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Life at Full Throttle. This is the story of Richard 'Deadeye' Hayes, a 56-year-old, one-eyed, tattooed-up-both-arms Buddhist biker, member of the Los Valientes Motorcycle Club in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He's…
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Outlaw Biker
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Our perception of Victoria the Queen is coloured by portraits of her older, widowed self - her dour expression embodying the repressive morality propagated in her time. After her lauded…
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Becoming Queen
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Here, in their own words and for the first time, are the young veterans of Herrick 4. Controversial, fascinating and occasionally downright terrifying, A Million Bullets analyses the sorry slide…
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A Million Bullets
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El Sicario, a fugitive in the US with a $250,000 price tag on his head. He has executed hundreds of people, is an expert in torture, spent years working for…
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El Sicario
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With their elaborate armour, fierce swordsmanship and code of honour, the samurai have become iconic figures whose influence can still be felt today . From Kurosawa's epic Seven Samurai to…
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Samurai
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It takes on the myths and morals of Plato, the occult obsessions of the Middle Ages, the trickeries and illusions of stage magic, the auras and ethers of Victorian physics,…
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Invisible
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Written by former member of the IRA and police informant, this book tells the story of revolutionary James Connolly, his role in the 1916 Easter Rising, and his subsequent influence…
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James Connolly
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Fishers of Men Fishers of Men la super preț online: Livrarea Produselor În mod curent Books Express livrează cărțile în cel mai scurt timp posibil. Dacă aveți mai mult timp…
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Fishers of Men
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We get to know the trumpeter John Grano who wined and dined with the prison governor and continued to compose music whilst other prisoners were tortured and starved to death.…
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Mansions of Misery
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For 22 years, Dr Zhisui Li was Mao Tse-tung's personal physician, confidant and companion. In this biography Li provides insights into social and political events in China, and details of…
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Private Life Of Chairman Mao
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Everyone knows what William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings in 1066, but in recent years is has become customary to assume that the victory was virtually inevitable, given…
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1066
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The analysis of Nazism explores the emotionally powerful combination of tribalism and belief which enabled people to commit acts otherwise unimaginable.Drawing on accounts of participants, victims and observers, Jonathan Glover…
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Humanity
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This volume illustrates the evolving patterns issued to the Waffen-SS, from the first "plane-tree" pattern to the rare 1945 "Leibermeister", including several "mystery" patterns. It contains rare original uniforms, from…
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Waffen-SS Camouflage Uniforms and Post-war Derivatives
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Stanley undertook his quest with gusto, filing reports that captivated readers and dominated the front page of the New York Herald for months. INTO AFRICA traces the journeys of Livingstone…
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Into Africa
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This superb portrait of one of the world's most desolate, sun-scorched lands, inhabited by fiercely independent tribesmen, is Rageh Omer's favorite book on his native land. A grueling description of…
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Warriors
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Studies the relationship between the environment and human history. This book examines world civilizations from Sumeria to ancient Egypt, from Easter Island to the Roman Empire and it argues that…
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A New Green History Of The World
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As he portrays the Comanche lifestyle, Fehrenbach re-creates their doomed battle against European encroachment. While they destroyed the Spanish dream of colonizing North America and blocked the French advance into…
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Comanches
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6,000 life-size figures of warriors and horses were interred in the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of China - each is individually carved, and they are thought to represent real…
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The Terracotta Army
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In 1980, at the age of ten, Loung Ung escaped a devastated Cambodia and flew to the US as a refugee. She and her eldest brother, with whom she escaped,…
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After They Killed Our Father
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Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. For more than forty years, from 1906 to 1948, Gandhi and Churchill were locked in a…
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Gandhi and Churchill
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An odyssey through 2,000 years of filth and fury, where men were men, the nights were black, the world was your outside toilet and everything tasted faintly of leeks.
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I Believe In Yesterday
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Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this masterful portrait of the world's most controversial superpower looks backwards and forwards to understand why now, more than…
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The American Future
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Operation Kronstadt not only reveals the early days of Britain's intelligence services but uncovers a truly dramatic story from the Russian Revolution involving a daring rescue attempt and a 'mission…
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Operation Kronstadt
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Elizabeth I is often portrayed as a ruthless 'man's woman', who derided her own sex - and loved to flirt with the young men at her court. Yet she was…
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Elizabeth’s Women
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A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least satisfactory-the situations where there is a common interest as…
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The Strategy of Conflict – With a New Preface by the Author
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The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam la super preț online: Livrarea Produselor În mod curent Books…
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Follows the spread of Chinese tobacco use from the sixteenth century, when it was introduced to China from the New World, through the development of commercialized tobacco cultivation, and to…
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Golden–Silk Smoke – A History of Tobacco in China, 1550–2010
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For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has by no means lost its significance today. Few episodes in the development of scientific theory…
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The Copernican Revolution – Planetary Astronomy in Develop of Western Thought
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God’s War
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Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine – An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine – An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice la super preț online: Livrarea Produselor…
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Reformation
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Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world. They were the most destructive and lethal…
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The Dictators
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The Third Reich in Power, 1933 – 1939
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Nixonland
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Between 1917 and 1921, Jewish intellectuals and writers across the Russian empire pursued a "Jewish renaissance." Here is a revisionist argument about the nature of cultural nationalism, the relationship between…
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Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution
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After Union forces captured New Orleans in 1862, Rose Herera's owners fled to Havana, taking her three children with them. Adam Rothman tells the story of Herera's quest to rescue…
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Beyond Freedom′s Reach – A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery
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The Inheritance of Rome
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Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue – From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue – From the Art of…
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Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue – From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason
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Compiles 70 of the key terms most frequently used or discussed by authors of the Romantic period and most often deliberated by critics and literary historians of the era.
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Romanticism
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Designed as an 'ideal city' and emblem of the nation, Canberra has long been a source of ambivalence for many Australians. In this charming and concise book, Nicholas Brown challenges…
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A History of Canberra
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The entertaining story of British cuisine and the hidden role it plays in all our lives.
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Scoff
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Takes us to the vibrant Dutch Republic and its book trade to explore the work that sowed the radical idea that religions could be considered on equal terms. This title…
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The Book That Changed Europe – Picart and Bernards Bernard′s Religious Ceremonies of the World
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This volume describes the content and discusses the history and origins of the three core commitments of Darwinism, examines the three critiques that challenge this Darwinian edifice and proposes a…
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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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For many of the 200,000 black soldiers sent to Europe with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, encounters with French civilians and colonial African troops led them to…
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Freedom Struggles – African Americans and World War I
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Sea Turtles – A Complete Guide to Their Biology, Behavior and Conservation

Homosexuality and Civilization

ANZAC Infantryman 1914–15

Settlers

Platonic Theology, Volume 2 – Books V–VIII (S)

Clouds. Wasps. Peace (Greek)

Bacchae. Iphigenia at Aulis. Rhesus L495 (Trans. Kovacs)(Greek)

Journey into the Mind’s Eye

The Venture of Islam V 3 (Paper)

Second-hand Time

Military Culture in Imperial China

The Vietnam War

No Turning Back

Companeras

Motherland in Danger – Soviet Propaganda During World War II

Bolt Action: Armies of Italy and the Axis

A War To Be Won – Fighting the Second World War

Old Testament Narratives

The Last Gentleman of the SAS

The Sun in the Church – Cathedrals as Solar Observatories

Thundersticks – Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America

Blind Mans Bluff

Bolt Action: Campaign: Sea Lion

Roman Legionary AD 69–161

The Way Of The White Clouds

Genesis & Development of a Scientific Fact

Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J Edgar Hoover

Legend

The Ariadne Objective

Black Athena

Into That Darkness

Ancestors in the Artic: A Photographic History of Dundee Whaling

Keeper Of Genesis

The Atlantic Sound

The Mapmaker’s Wife

The Big Oyster

Outlaw Biker

Becoming Queen

A Million Bullets

El Sicario

Samurai

Invisible

James Connolly

Fishers of Men

Mansions of Misery

Private Life Of Chairman Mao

1066

Humanity

Waffen-SS Camouflage Uniforms and Post-war Derivatives

Into Africa

Warriors

A New Green History Of The World

Comanches

The Terracotta Army

After They Killed Our Father

Gandhi and Churchill

I Believe In Yesterday

The American Future

Operation Kronstadt

Elizabeth’s Women

The Strategy of Conflict – With a New Preface by the Author

The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam

Golden–Silk Smoke – A History of Tobacco in China, 1550–2010

The Copernican Revolution – Planetary Astronomy in Develop of Western Thought

God’s War

Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine – An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice

Reformation

The Dictators

The Third Reich in Power, 1933 – 1939

Nixonland

Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution

Beyond Freedom′s Reach – A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery

The Inheritance of Rome

Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue – From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason

Romanticism

A History of Canberra

Scoff

The Book That Changed Europe – Picart and Bernards Bernard′s Religious Ceremonies of the World

The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

Freedom Struggles – African Americans and World War I