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The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt, Revised and Updated, Paperback - Brian Fagan

192,99 RON 206,99 RON

Reducere. The scandalous rape of Ancient Egypt is a historical vignette of greed, vanity, and dedicated archaeological research. It is a tale vividly told by...

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The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age, Hardcover - Andrew Whitby

242,99 RON

This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of bi...

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The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force, Paperback - Eliot A. Cohen

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. "A must-read for anyone interested in military might--and how it can help us maintain the edge we need in this treacherous age." --Walter Russell M...

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Reading 200 Flash Cards English - Portuguese Language Vocabulary Builder For Kids: Practice Basic Sight Words list activities books to improve reading

58,00 RON

DescriptionAll parents and teachers want their children to be good readers. With so many different approaches to reading instruction choosing strat...

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The Big Stick: The Limits of Soft Power and the Necessity of Military Force, Hardcover - Eliot A. Cohen

259,99 RON 278,99 RON

Reducere. "Speak softly and carry a big stick" Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the rig...

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Death on a Friday Afternoon Meditations on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross, Paperback - Richard John Neuhaus

91,99 RON 98,99 RON

Reducere. Christianity Today Book AwardNumerous writers and composers have been captivated by the suggestiveness of Jesus' Seven Last Words. But Richard John...

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The Way We Eat Now: How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World, Hardcover - Bee Wilson

162,99 RON 174,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionAn award-winning food writer takes us on a global tour of what the world eats--and shows us how we can change it for the betterFood is o...

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The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones-Confronting a New Age of Threat, Hardcover - Benjamin Wittes

300,99 RON 322,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionTwo legal scholars explore the security and political implications of revolutionary new technologies from drones to 3-D printers, and ex...

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Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind 10th Anniversary Edition, Paperback - Mary Field Belenky

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. Despite the progress of the women's movement, many women still feel silenced in their families and schools. This moving and insightful bestseller, ...

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Not Out of Africa: How "afrocentrism" Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History, Paperback - Mary Lefkowitz

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. Not Out of Africa has sparked widespread debate over the teaching of revisionist history in schools and colleges. Was Socrates black? Did Aristotle...

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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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Political Junkies. From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy, Hardback - Claire Bond Potter

218,99 RON

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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

188,99 RON 202,99 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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The End of Trauma: How the New Science of Resilience Is Changing How We Think about Ptsd, Hardcover - George A. Bonanno

157,99 RON

A top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is and fail to recognize how resilient people really are After 9/11...

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Applied Kinesiology, Revised Edition: A Training Manual and Reference Book of Basic Principles and Practices, Paperback - Robert Frost

173,99 RON

The revised edition of the best-selling book on Applied Kinesiology, Applied Kinesiology, Revised Edition introduces a diagnostic method that uses ...

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Anatomy of the Moving Body, Second Edition: A Basic Course in Bones, Muscles, and Joints, Paperback - Theodore Dimon

113,99 RON

Learning anatomy requires more than pictures and labels; it requires a way "into" the subject, a means of making sense of what is being shown. Anat...

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EMT Book Exam Prep: NREMT Study Guide and Practice Test Questions for the EMT Basic Exam (Emergency Medical Technician) [3rd Edition] - ***

102,99 RON 110,99 RON

Reducere. Test Prep Books' EMT Book Exam Prep: NREMT Study Guide and Practice Test Questions for the EMT Basic Exam (Emergency Medical Technician) 3rd Editio...

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Korean Language Learning English Books for Beginners Kids: Easy and Fun Practice Reading, Tracing and Writing Basic Vocabulary Words Workbook for Chil

69,99 RON 74,99 RON

Reducere. Fun Big Flashcards basic words for children to learn to read, trace and write the Korean-English language with a cute picture for coloring. Whether...

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Reading 200 Flash Cards English - Hindi Language Vocabulary Builder For Kids: Practice Basic Sight Words list activities books to improve reading skil

63,00 RON

All parents and teachers want their children to be good readers. With so many different approaches to reading instruction choosing strategies and a...

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Flytying for beginners. Learn all the basic tying skills via 12 popular international fly patterns, Hardback - Barry Ord Clarke

94,99 RON

Publisher: Merlin Unwin BooksAuthor(s): Barry Ord ClarkeIllustration(s): 3 Halftones, black and white; 383 Halftones, colorNumber of pages: 128Publ...

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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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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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Getting (More Of) What You Want: How the Secrets of Economics and Psychology Can Help You Negotiate Anything, in Business and in Life, Hardcover - Mar

184,99 RON 197,99 RON

Reducere. Almost every interaction involves negotiation, yet we often miss the cues that would allow us to make the most of these exchanges. In Getting (More...

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Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson--A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic, Paperback - Peter C. Mancall

168,99 RON 180,99 RON

Reducere. The English explorer Henry Hudson devoted his life to the search for a water route through America, becoming the first European to navigate the Hud...

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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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Reading 200 Flash Cards English - French Language Vocabulary Builder For Kids: Practice Basic Sight Words list activities books to improve reading ski

69,99 RON 74,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionAll parents and teachers want their children to be good readers. With so many different approaches to reading instruction choosing strat...

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A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca: The Extraordinary Tale of a Shipwrecked Spaniard Who Walked Across America in the, Paperback -

95,99 RON 102,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Andres ResendezThe extraordinary tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth centuryIn 1527, ...

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The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy, Paperback - Peter Huber

153,99 RON 164,99 RON

Reducere. The sheer volume of talk about energy, energy prices, and energy policy on both sides of the political aisle suggests that we must know something a...

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Manga Drawing Books How to Draw Manga Basic Characters Book 2: Learn Japanese Manga Eyes And Pretty Manga Face, Paperback - Gala Publication

35,99 RON 38,99 RON

Reducere. Learn how to draw Manga Characters anyone who can hold a pencil can start drawing great manga right away. Using his signature step by step style, T...

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Hacking: this book includes 4 Books in 1- Hacking for Beginners, Hacker Basic Security, Networking Hacking, Kali Linux for Hack - Erickson Karnel

209,99 RON 224,99 RON

Reducere. 4 Manuscripts in 1 Book Have you always been interested and fascinated by the world of hacking Do you wish to learn more about networking?Do you wa...

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A Voice in the Wilderness. A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems, Hardback - Joseph L Graves Jr

149,99 RON

Why understanding evolution-the most reviled branch of science-can help us all, from fighting pandemics to undoing racism? ?Publisher: Basic BooksA...

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The Irony of Modern Catholic History: How the Church Rediscovered Itself and Challenged the Modern World to Reform, Hardcover - George Weigel

152,99 RON

DescriptionA powerful new interpretation of Catholicism's dramatic encounter with modernity, by one of America's leading intellectualsThroughout mu...

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Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, Paperback - David Pietrusza

206,99 RON 221,99 RON

Reducere. History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld genius. The real-life model for The Great Gatsby's Mey...

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The Last Time Around Cape Horn: The Historic 1949 Voyage of the Windjammer Pamir, Paperback - William F. Stark

98,99 RON 105,99 RON

Reducere. A memorable tale of adventure on the turbulent seas of the Great Southern and Atlantic oceans--on one of the most historic voyages of our time--fin...

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Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, Paperback - Catherine Orenstein

190,99 RON 204,99 RON

Reducere. In Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked Catherine Orenstein reveals for the first time the intricate sexual politics, moral ambiguities, and philosophi...

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Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: A Season at a Hard Luck Horse Track, Paperback - Edward Jr. Regis

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. Enter the gray area between overheated imagination and overheated reality, and meet a network of scientists bent on creating artificial life forms,...

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The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New Yor, Paperbac

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. On August 26, 1835, a fledgling newspaper called the Sun brought to New York the first accounts of remarkable lunar discoveries. A series of six ar...

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You Bet Your Life: From Blood Transfusions to Mass Vaccination, the Long and Risky History of Medical Innovation - Paul A. Offit

149,99 RON 160,99 RON

Reducere. One of America's top physicians traces the history of risk in medicine--with powerful lessons for today Every medical decision--whether to have che...

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The Truth about Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife, Paperback - Lucy Cooke

90,99 RON 97,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionMary Roach meets Bill Bryson in this uproarious tour of the basest instincts and biggest mysteries of the animal world Whether we're see...

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How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics, and the War on Sex, Paperback - Cristina Page

94,99 RON 101,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionA young activist reveals that the Pro-Life Movement's real agenda is a war on contraception, family planning, and sexual freedom.About t...

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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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Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life, Paperback - Peter

88,99 RON

In Free to Learn, developmental psychologist Peter Gray argues that in order to foster children who will thrive in today's constantly changing worl...

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The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers, Paperback - Henry Louis Gates

147,99 RON 158,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Henry Louis GatesIn 1773, the slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom. The first person of African descen...

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My Big Book Basic Words: High frequency words flash cards activity kids books. Learning to read ABC, Sight Word, Fruit, Number, Shape, Toys gam, Paper

69,99 RON 74,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThese Big Book Basic Words are designed to help kids build confidence with early literacy skills. A high level of picture support is pro...

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Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution: Lessons for the Computer Age, Paperback - Kirkpatrick Sale

143,99 RON 154,99 RON

Reducere. Kirkpatrick Sale is at the tumultuous center of a technology backlash, actively challenging Bill Gates on the one hand and the Unabomber on the oth...

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The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia, Paperback - James Palmer

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. In the history of the modern world, there have been few characters more sinister, sadistic, and deeply demented than Baron Ungern-Sternberg. An ant...

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How to See the World: An Introduction to Images, from Self-Portraits to Selfies, Maps to Movies, and More, Hardcover - Nicholas Mirzoeff

273,99 RON 293,99 RON

Reducere. Every two minutes, Americans alone take more photographs than were printed in the entire nineteenth century; every minute, people from around the w...

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A Geography of Time: The Temporal Misadventures of a Social Psychologist, or How Every Culture Keeps Time Just a Little Bit Differently - Robert N. Le

162,99 RON 174,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn this engaging and spirited book, eminent social psychologist Robert Levine asks us to explore a dimension of our experience that we t...

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Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life, Paperback - Richard Florida

94,99 RON

In the age of globalization, some claim that where you live doesn't matter: Alaska, Idaho, and Alabama are interchangeable. The world is, after all...

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Rounding the Horn: Being the Story of Williwaws and Windjammers, Drake, Darwin, Murdered Missionaries and Naked Natives--A Deck's-Eye Vie, Paperback -

173,99 RON 186,99 RON

Reducere. Fifty-five degrees 59 minutes South by 67 degrees 16 minutes West: Cape Horn--a buttressed pyramid of crumbly rock situated at the very bottom of S...

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Lords of the Desert: The Battle Between the United States and Great Britain for Supremacy in the Modern Middle East, Hardcover - James Barr

239,99 RON

A path-breaking history of how the United States superseded Great Britain as the preeminent power in the Middle East, with urgent lessons for the p...

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The Seeds of Life: From Aristotle to Da Vinci, from Sharks' Teeth to Frogs' Pants, the Long and Strange Quest to Discover Where Babies Co, Hardcover -

260,99 RON 279,99 RON

Reducere. Why cracking the code of human conception took centuries of wild theories, misogynist blunders, and ludicrous mistakes Throughout most of human his...

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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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The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn't What It Used to Be, Paperback - Moises Naim

149,99 RON 160,99 RON

Reducere. Mark Zuckerberg's inaugural pick for his "Year of Books" challenge, The End of Power updates the very notion of power for the 21st century. Power, ...

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