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The Third Reconstruction. America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century, Hardback - Peniel E Joseph

119,99 RON

One of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked nothing less than America's Third Reconstructio...

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Infinite Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm, Paperback - F. David Peat

120,99 RON 129,99 RON

Reducere. Infinite Potential is the first biography of David Bohm--brilliant physicist, explorer of consciousness, student of Oppenheimer, friend to Einstein...

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Diary of a Baby: What Your Child Sees, Feels, and Experiences, Paperback - M. D. Daniel N. Stern

121,99 RON 130,99 RON

Reducere. Every new parent desperately wants to know what goes on in the mind of a baby. Now a noted authority on infant development and psychiatry brings us...

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What We Talk about When We Talk about Books: The History and Future of Reading, Hardcover - Leah Price

121,99 RON

DescriptionReports of the death of reading are greatly exaggeratedDo you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, y...

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Too Scared to Cry: Psychic Trauma in Childhood, Paperback - Lenore Terr

122,99 RON 131,99 RON

Reducere. In 1976 twenty-six California children were kidnapped from their school bus and buried alive for motives never explained. All the children survived...

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The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush, Paperback - Pierre Berton

122,99 RON 131,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Pierre BertonIn 1897 a grimy steamer docked in Seattle and set into epic motion the incredible succession of events that Pi...

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What It's Like to Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience, Paperback - Gregory Berns

123,99 RON

"Dog lovers and neuroscientists should both read this important book." --Dr. Temple GrandinWhat is it like to be a dog? A bat? Or a dolphin? To fin...

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From Black Land to Fifth Sun: The Science of Sacred Sites, Paperback - Brian M. Fagan

123,99 RON 132,99 RON

Reducere. Until recently, archaeology was concerned mainly with piecing together the material lives of our ancestors. In this groundbreaking book, master sto...

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The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul, Paperback - Yoram Hazony

123,99 RON 132,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn what may be the most controversial book on Zionism and Israel published in the last twenty years, Yoram Hazony graphically portrays t...

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Prelude to Terror: The Rogue CIA and the Legacy of America's Private Intelligence Network, Paperback - Joseph J. Trento

123,99 RON 132,99 RON

Reducere. After decades of writing and research about American intelligence, Joseph Trento has written the most authoritative indictment of CIA splinter grou...

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Ecocide in the USSR: Health and Nature Under Siege, Paperback - Murray Feshbach

123,99 RON 132,99 RON

Reducere. A dissection of the Soviet Union's legacy of health and environmental disaster, this book examines a former country of 103 cities - home to 70 mill...

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In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World, Hardcover - Lauren E. Oakes

125,99 RON

DescriptionThe surprisingly hopeful story of one woman's search for resiliency in a warming world Several years ago, ecologist Lauren E. Oakes set ...

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Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience, Paperback - Sally Satel

125,99 RON

What can't neuroscience tell us about ourselves? Since fMRI--functional magnetic resonance imaging--was introduced in the early 1990s, brain scans ...

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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Paperback - Douglas R. Hofstadter

125,99 RON

Douglas Hofstadter's book is concerned directly with the nature of "maps" or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the fo...

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Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre: Basic Writings of Existentialism by Kaufmann, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Heidegger, and Others, Paperb

125,99 RON

This volume provides basic writings of Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rilke, Kafka, Ortega, Jaspers, Heidegger, Sartre, and Camus, including s...

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A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, Paperback - Samantha Power

125,99 RON 134,99 RON

Reducere. From the Armenian Genocide to the ethnic cleansings of Kosovo and Darfur, modern history is haunted by acts of brutal violence. Yet American leader...

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Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons, Paperback - Jr. Edward J. Renehan

125,99 RON 134,99 RON

Reducere. Though reviled for more than a century as Wall Street's greatest villain, Jay Gould was in fact its most original creative genius. Gould was the ro...

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The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives, Paperback (2nd Ed.) - Zbigniew Brzezinski

125,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Zbigniew BrzezinskiBestselling author and eminent foreign policy scholar Zbigniew Brzezinski's classic book on American's s...

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Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism, Paperback - Derrick Bell

125,99 RON

DescriptionThe classic work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice, now with a new foreword by Michelle Alexander In Faces at the B...

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Coming to Our Senses: A Boy Who Learned to See, a Girl Who Learned to Hear, and How We All Discover the World, Hardcover - Susan R. Barry

125,99 RON

A neurobiologist reexamines the personal nature of perception in this groundbreaking guide to a new model for our senses. We think of perception as...

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Your Life Depends on It: What You Can Do to Make Better Choices about Your Health, Hardcover - Talya Miron-Shatz

125,99 RON

"With a fine combination of humor, compassion and vast knowledge, Talya Miron-Shatz offers clear and useful guidance for the hardest decisions of l...

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Revolution in Zanzibar, Paperback - Don Petterson

126,99 RON

DescriptionThe Cold War exploded in Zanzibar in 1964 when African rebels slaughtered one of every ten Arabs. Led by a strange, messianic Ugandan, C...

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Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, Paperback - George Chauncey

126,99 RON 135,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century Gay New York brilliantly shatter...

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The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need, Paperback - Ellen Karsh

127,99 RON 136,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionFrom top experts in the field, the definitive guide to grant-writing Written by two expert authors who have won millions of dollars in g...

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America, Empire of Liberty: A New History of the United States, Paperback - David Reynolds

127,99 RON 136,99 RON

Reducere. The best one-volume history of the United States ever written (Joseph J. Ellis), now updated to cover the Obama and Trump presidenciesIn America, E...

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City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris, Hardcover - Rupert Christiansen

128,99 RON 138,99 RON

Reducere. A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French emperor Louis ...

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Anatomy of the Voice: An Illustrated Guide for Singers, Vocal Coaches, and Speech Therapists, Paperback - Theodore Dimon

128,99 RON

The first comprehensive, fully-illustrated approach to the voice that explains the anatomy and mechanics in detailed yet down-to-earth terms, for v...

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The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility, Paperback - Stewart Brand

128,99 RON 138,99 RON

Reducere. Using the designing and building of the Clock of the Long Now as a framework, this is a book about the practical use of long time perspective: how ...

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The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God, Paperback - George Weigel

129,99 RON 139,99 RON

Reducere. Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently? Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy in the ...

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Basic Wing Chun Training: Wing Chun Street Fight Training and Techniques, Paperback - Sam Fury

129,99 RON 139,99 RON

Reducere. Teach Yourself Wing Chun Adapted for the Streets!This is Wing Chun martial arts training as modern self-defense.It starts with Wing Chun techniques...

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Real Magic: An Introductory Treatise on the Basic Principles of Yellow Light, Paperback - Isaac Bonewits

130,99 RON 140,99 RON

Reducere. Examines every category of occult phenomena from ESP to Eastern ritual and explores the basic laws of magic, relating them to the natural laws of t...

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Psychoanalysis and Feminism a Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis, Paperback - Juliet Mitchell

131,99 RON 141,99 RON

Reducere. In 1974, at the height of the women's movement, Juliet Mitchell shocked her fellow feminists by challenging the entrenched belief that Freud was th...

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Dog-Eared: Poems about Humanity's Best Friend, Hardcover - Duncan Wu

131,99 RON 141,99 RON

Reducere. From Homer to Wordsworth to Gwendolyn Brooks, learn about history's greatest writers and the furry best friends that inspired them.Dogs are at once...

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Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World, Paperback - Kevin Kelly

133,99 RON 143,99 RON

Reducere. Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be ind...

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Basic Glass Fusing: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started, Paperback - Lynn Haunstein

133,99 RON 143,99 RON

Reducere. The latest title in Stackpole's bestselling Basics series, this book presents a fun, growing trend in glass craftsWhat type of glass to use and how...

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Nazi Science: Myth, Truth, and the German Atomic Bomb, Paperback - Mark Walker

133,99 RON 143,99 RON

Reducere. In this book, Mark Walker - a historical scholar of Nazi science - brings to light the overwhelming impact of Hitler's regime on science and, ultim...

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Venus Revealed: A New Look Below the Clouds of Our Mysterious Twin Planet, Paperback - David Grinspoon

133,99 RON 143,99 RON

Reducere. Until very recently, all we really knew about Venus, our nearest planetary neighbor, was that it was roughly the same size and mass as the earth an...

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Coding for Kids C: Basic Guide for Kids to Learn Commands and How to Write a Program, Hardcover - Goldink Books

133,99 RON 143,99 RON

Reducere. Do you want to learn C? and grab expertise in this languageHave you investigated and desired to learn C advance coding?Do you want to offer your yo...

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Spymaster: My Thirty-Two Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West, Paperback - Oleg Kalugin

134,99 RON 144,99 RON

Reducere. Oleg Kalugin oversaw the work of American spies, matched wits with the CIA, and became one of the youngest generals in KGB history. Even so, he gre...

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Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire, Hardcover - Bettany Hughes

134,99 RON 144,99 RON

Reducere. A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian.Aphrodite was said to have been born from ...

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Polymer Clay 101: Master Basic Skills and Techniques Easily Through Step-By-Step Instruction, Paperback - Angela Mabray

134,99 RON 144,99 RON

Reducere. Polymer Clay 101 teaches all the basics for crafting with polymer clay. With hundreds of detailed photos, it covers tools and supplies, all types o...

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Girls on the Edge: Why So Many Girls Are Anxious, Wired, and Obsessed--And What Parents Can Do, Paperback - Leonard Sax

135,99 RON

A parenting expert reveals the four biggest threats to girls' psychological growth and explains how parents can help their daughters develop a heal...

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The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self, Paperback - Thomas Metzinger

135,99 RON

We're used to thinking about the self as an independent entity, something that we either have or are. In The Ego Tunnel, philosopher Thomas Metzing...

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Exodus and Revolution, Paperback - Michael Walzer

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. A noted political philosopher offers a moving meditation on the political meanings of the biblical story of Exodus -- from oppression to deliveranc...

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The Art of Biblical Poetry, Paperback - Robert Alter

135,99 RON

Three decades ago, renowned literary expert Robert Alter radically expanded the horizons of biblical scholarship by recasting the Bible as not only...

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The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions, Paperback - David Berlinski

135,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: David BerlinskiBestselling author David Berlinski's wise and witty assault on the pretensions of the scientific atheistsMil...

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Are We Alone PB - Paul Davies

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. Scientists and governments are actively searching for signs of life in the universe. Will their efforts meet with success? Award-winning author Pau...

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The Choice, Paperback - Zbigniew Brzezinski

135,99 RON

DescriptionAmerican power and a pervasive globalization are the central realities of today's world, and the source of its thorniest dilemmas. Yet w...

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A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market, Paperback - John Allen Paulos

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. In A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market best-selling author John Allen Paulos demonstrates what the tools of mathematics can tell us about the va...

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Nature's Numbers, Paperback - Ian Stewart

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. "It appears to us that the universe is structured in a deeply mathematical way. Falling bodies fall with predictable accelerations. Eclipses can be...

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Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey Into Seeing in Three Dimensions, Paperback - Susan R. Barry

135,99 RON

A revelatory account of the brain's capacity for change When neuroscientist Susan Barry was fifty years old, she experienced the sense of immersion...

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Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum, Paperback - Leonard Susskind

136,99 RON

First he taught you classical mechanics. Now, physicist Leonard Susskind has teamed up with data engineer Art Friedman to present the theory and as...

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Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect That Shaped the American Frontier, Paperback - Jeffrey A. Lockwood

136,99 RON

In 1876, the U.S. Congress declared the locust "the single greatest impediment to the settlement of the country between Mississippi and the Rocky M...

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A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism - Adam Gopnik

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time Not since the early twe...

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Field Guide to a Happy Life. 53 Brief Lessons for Living, Hardback - Massimo Pigliucci

136,99 RON

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The Russian Revolution: A New History, Paperback - Sean McMeekin

136,99 RON

From an award-winning scholar comes this definitive, single-volume history that illuminates the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolut...

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To Make Men Free. A History of the Republican Party, Paperback - Heather Richardson

136,99 RON

A superstar historian offers "the most comprehensive account of the GOP and its competing impulses, " (Los Angeles Times) - now updated to cover Do...

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Snoop: What Your Stuff Says about You, Paperback - Sam Gosling

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

Reducere. Do the things on your desk betray the thoughts on your mind? Does your dining room d cor carry clues to your character? Award-winning psychologist ...

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Basic Practices of the Universal Healing Tao: An Illustrated Guide to Levels 1 Through 6, Paperback - Mantak Chia

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

Reducere. A comprehensive reference guide to the foundational Taoist practices taught by Master Mantak Chia - Organized by level and chi kung system for quic...

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Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose: 1983-2005, Paperback - Margaret Atwood

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

Reducere. From one of the world's most passionately engaged and acclaimed literary citizens comes Writing with Intent, the largest collection to date of Marg...

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Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land - Victor K. McElheny

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

Reducere. If a single life exemplifies the inner drive that fires a great inventor, it is the life of Edwin Land. The major innovations that he was able to a...

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Letters to a Young Conservative, Paperback - Dinesh D'Souza

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

Reducere. Dinesh D'Souza rose to national prominence as one of the founders of the Dartmouth Review, a leading voice in the rebirth of conservative politics ...

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The Last Giant of Beringia: The Mystery of the Bering Land Bridge, Paperback - Dan O'Neill

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe intriguing theory of a land bridge linking Siberia and Alaska during the coldest pulsations of the Ice Ages had been much debated si...

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A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dre, Hardcover - Y

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionA leading conservative intellectual argues that to renew America we must recommit to our institutionsAmericans are living through a soci...

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Male on Male Rape: The Hidden Toll of Stigma and Shame, Paperback - Michael Scarce

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

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The Recollections of Eugene P Wigner, Paperback - Eugene P. Wigner

139,99 RON 149,99 RON

Reducere. One of the greatest physicists of the 20th century recounts his journey from Hungary and the Nazi invasion to the creation of the first atomic bomb...

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The Essential Difference: Male and Female Brains and the Truth about Autism, Paperback - Simon Baron-Cohen

139,99 RON 149,99 RON

Reducere. We all know the opposite sex can be a baffling, even infuriating, species. Why do most men use the phone to exchange information rather than have a...

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The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work, Paperback - W. Daniel Hillis

140,99 RON 150,99 RON

Reducere. Most people are baffled by how computers work and assume that they will never understand them. What they don't realize--and what Daniel Hillis's sh...

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The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays from a Witness to the Twentieth Century, Paperback - Raymond Aron

142,99 RON 152,99 RON

Reducere. In this collection of newly translated essays, philosopher and sociologist Raymond Aron chronicles the twentieth century with the authority of an a...

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In Defense of Flogging, Paperback - Peter Moskos

142,99 RON 152,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionPrisons impose tremendous costs, yet they're easily ignored. Criminals-- even low-level nonviolent offenders-- enter our dysfunctional c...

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