Half a War

A House in Sicily, Paperback - Daphne Phelps

99,99 RON 106,99 RON

Reducere. The captivating memoir of a resourceful woman who started life anew in the "most beautiful house in Sicily" For fifty years, at Casa Cuseni in the ...

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Papal Bull: Print, Politics, and Propaganda in Renaissance Rome, Hardcover - Margaret Meserve

365,99 RON

Printing thrived after it came to Rome in the 1460s. Renaissance scholars, poets, and pilgrims in the Eternal City formed a ready market for mass-p...

johns hopkins university press, carti, carte straina, economics

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U.S.-Japan Relations in a Changing World, Paperback - Steven Vogel

204,99 RON 219,99 RON

Reducere. September 2001 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco Treaty, formally ending the Second World War. In signing this tr...

brookings institution press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life, Paperback - Caroline Moorehead

143,99 RON 154,99 RON

Reducere. The first major biography of legendary war correspondent Martha Gellhorn casts "a vivid spotlight on one of the most undercelebrated women of the 2...

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Biddle, Jackson, and a Nation in Turmoil: The Infamous Bank War, Paperback - Cordelia Frances Biddle

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. The first half of the 19th century was an era of upheaval. The United States nearly lost the War of 1812. Partisanship became endemic during violen...

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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, Paperback - Erich Auerbach

132,99 RON 142,99 RON

Reducere. More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant disp...

princeton university press, carti, carte straina, biography

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My Grandfather's Gallery: A Family Memoir of Art and War, Paperback - Anne Sinclair

88,99 RON 95,99 RON

Reducere. "My Grandfather's Gallery tells Paul Rosenberg's story in bits and pieces that construct a life and a legend through association . . . A detailed a...

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Beautiful Hero: How We Survived the Khmer Rouge, Paperback - Jennifer H. Lau

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jennifer H. LauWith only half a canteen of water and one baby bottle, a family of eight fought for their lives in the killi...

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Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Paperback - V. I. Lenin

222,99 RON

In Lenin's now classic work Imperialism, he accounts for the increasing importance of the world market in the twentieth century. The concept of imp...

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The Canoe and the Saddle, Paperback - Theodore Winthrop

82,99 RON 88,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1853, with money in his pocket and elegant clothes in his saddlebags, a twenty-four-year-old New Englander of aristocratic Yankee sto...

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The Rider's Reign, Hardcover - Jessica Day George

94,99 RON 101,99 RON

Reducere. The breath-taking conclusion to bestselling author Jessica Day George's heartfelt fantasy series about a girl using her ability to communicate with...

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American Boys: The True Story of the Lost 74 of the Vietnam War, Paperback - Louise Esola

180,99 RON 193,99 RON

Reducere. IndieFab awardsIn the middle of a dark night off the coast of Vietnam on June 3, 1969, the USS Frank E. Evans is rammed by a ship ten times her siz...

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Homer: A Tornado Wrapped in Barbed Wire: A Tornado Wrapped in Barbed, Paperback - Scott Eubanks

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. Homer A Tornado Wrapped in Barbed Wire takes us into the life of an unsung hero and the hardships Homer and too many others faced during the first ...

stephen f. austin university press, carti, carte straina, biography

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Rusty Brown, Hardcover - Chris Ware

241,99 RON

DescriptionA major graphic novel event more than 16 years in progress: part one of the ongoing bifurcated masterwork from the brilliant and beloved...

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In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic, Paperback - David Wessel

88,99 RON

"Whatever it takes" That was Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's vow as the worst financial panic in more than fifty years gripped the world an...

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Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn Since 1876, Hardcover - Jerome A. Greene

235,99 RON

Award NameSpur AwardsAward categoryNonfiction-ContemporaryThe Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument is the site of one of America's most fam...

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Appalachia: A History, Paperback - John Alexander Williams

276,99 RON 296,99 RON

Reducere. Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the A...

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Science, the Endless Frontier, Hardcover - Vannevar Bush

70,99 RON 75,99 RON

Reducere. The classic case for why government must support science--with a new essay by physicist and former congressman Rush Holt on what democracy needs fr...

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The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850 1896, Paperback - Sven Beckert

189,99 RON 203,99 RON

Reducere. Tracing the shifting fortunes and changing character of New York City's economic elite over half a century, Sven Beckert brings to light a neglecte...

cambridge university press, carti, carte straina, economics

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The Second Sino-Japanese War: The History and Legacy of the Deadly Conflict That Lasted Through the End of World War II, Paperback - Charles River Edi

56,99 RON

Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Though both nations...

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Best of Enemies: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War, Paperback - Gus Russo

95,99 RON

The thrilling story of two Cold War spies, CIA case officer Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko -- improbable friends at a time when they sh...

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The Last Great Senator: Robert C. Byrd's Encounters with Eleven U.S. Presidents, Hardcover - David A. Corbin

171,00 RON

No person involved in so much history received so little attention as the late Robert C. Byrd, the longest-serving U.S. senator. In The Last Great ...

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East Liverpool, Hardcover - Cathy Hester Seckman

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. Once known as the "Pottery Capital of the World, " East Liverpool boasted some 300 potteries in its heyday, along with many ancillary industries. W...

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Savannah in the Old South, Paperback - Walter J. Fraser

231,99 RON 248,99 RON

Reducere. This flowing, instantly engaging narrative tells the story of Savannah from the hopeful arrival of its first permanent English settlers in 1733 to ...

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Competing with the Soviets: Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America, Paperback - Audra J. Wolfe

199,99 RON 213,99 RON

Reducere. For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way ima...

johns hopkins university press, carti, carte straina, mathematics & science

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Italian Wines 2019, Paperback - Gambero Rosso

171,99 RON

Italian Wines is the English-language version of Gambero Rosso's Vini d'Italia, the world's best-selling guide to Italian wine, now in its 32nd edi...

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Happiness, Paperback - Jack Underwood

69,99 RON

Happiness is the long-anticipated debut collection from Jack Underwood. These bright, beguiling poems worry at the world, surreally exploring the '...

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Mass Awakening, Paperback - Shoshi Herscu

102,99 RON 110,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe Truth has been hidden from us while a global policy of mass depopulation and exploitation has been carried out behind the scenes for...

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Race to Marathon, Hardcover - Jay Greenwood

190,99 RON

DescriptionThe vast Persian Empire already dominates nearly half of the earth's entire population, but Persia's Great King now has his sights on Gr...

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Monet Paints a Day, Hardcover - Julie Danneberg

94,99 RON

Awards🏆Finalist (2013) - Colorado Book Award - (Children's Literature)Highly Commended (2013) - Charlotte Zolotow Award - (Picture Book Text)Contri...

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Dash Diet for Dummies, Paperback - Sarah Samaan

107,99 RON

Get on track to lower your blood pressure in just two weeks Almost half of all adults in the United States have high blood pressure--but many of us...

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Carrollian Notes, Paperback - George Englebretsen

121,99 RON 130,99 RON

Reducere. For more than a century now Lewis Carroll has been read and celebrated as the author of Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and The Hun...

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The People of Ostrich Mountain, Paperback - Ndirangu Githaiga

99,99 RON 106,99 RON

Reducere. As the 1950s Mau Mau war breaks out in the foothills of Mt. Kenya, Wambũi, a fourteen-year-old girl leaves her besieged village to join a prestigio...

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Witches and Warlocks of Massachusetts: Legends, Victims, and Sinister Spellcasters, Paperback - Peter Muise

102,99 RON 110,99 RON

Reducere. Witches and Warlocks of Massachusetts is a collection of legends and historical accounts about witches and warlocks from the Bay State. Organized b...

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Better Davis and Other Stories, Paperback - Philip Dean Walker

80,99 RON 86,99 RON

Reducere. "Scathingly funny, downright nasty, unnervingly haunting, and ultimately heartbreaking, the stories in Better Davis and Other Stories take a very s...

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Thunder on Bataan: The First American Tank Battles of World War II, Hardcover - Donald L. Caldwell

157,99 RON

DescriptionThe American Provisional Tank Group had been in the Philippines only three weeks when the Japanese attacked the islands hours after the ...

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The Croatian War of Independence: Serbia's War of Conquest Against Croatia and the Defeat of Serbian Imperialism 1991-1995, Paperback - Ante Nazor

86,99 RON 93,99 RON

Reducere. The Croatian War of Independence: Serbia's War of Conquest Against Croatia and the Defeat of Serbian Imperialism 1991-1995 tells the compelling sto...

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A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice, Paperback - Jack Holland

62,99 RON

DescriptionIn this compelling, powerful book, highly respected writer and commentator Jack Holland sets out to answer a daunting question: how do y...

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Lives in the Shadow with J. Krishnamurti, Paperback - Radha Rajagopal Sloss

141,99 RON 151,99 RON

Reducere. For nearly half a century the charismatic, strikingly handsome spiritual teacher J. Krishnamurti gathered an enormous following throughout Europe, ...

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Mosley - The Facts, Hardcover - Oswald Mosley

256,99 RON 274,99 RON

Reducere. "Mosley - The Facts" offers an eclectic overview of Oswald Mosley's contribution to political thought as expressed through his speeches and writing...

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Starman, Paperback - Sara Douglass

158,99 RON 170,99 RON

Reducere. Starman is the third title in Sara Douglass's epic fantasy Wayfarer Redemption series. A sprawling tale of love and magic, enormous battles and tru...

tor books, carti, carte straina, children's

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Mitch Epstein: Sunshine Hotel, Hardcover - Mitch Epstein

377,99 RON

The promise and pathology of America in the photographs of Epstein, more than half of which are previously unpublishedAmerica, as a place and an id...

steidl, carti, carte straina, the arts

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Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War: July 1937-May 1942 - Richard B. Frank

108,00 RON 120,00 RON

Reducere. In 1937 the swath of the globe from India to Japan contained half the world's population but only two nations with real sovereignty (Japan and Thai...

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The War of the Worlds, Paperback - H. G. Wells

46,99 RON 50,99 RON

Reducere. H.G. Wells's science fiction classic, the first novel to explore the possibilities of intelligent life from other planets, it still startling and v...

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Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation, Paperback - John Sedgwick

129,99 RON

DescriptionAn astonishing untold story from the nineteenth century--a "riveting...engrossing...'American Epic'" (The Wall Street Journal) and neces...

simon & schuster, carti, carte straina, earth sciences

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Lost in Vietnam, Hardcover - Chuck Forsman

188,99 RON

DescriptionVietnam is an ancient and beautiful land, with a deep history of occupational conflict that remains an enigma in Americans' collective m...

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The Balkans 1940-41 (1): Mussolini's Fatal Blunder in the Greco-Italian War, Paperback - Pier Paolo Battistelli

100,99 RON

The first of two volumes on the Axis campaigns in the Balkans, exploring Mussolini's fateful decision to move against Greece in October 1940. The G...

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The Lady and the Orc: A Monster Fantasy Romance, Paperback - Finley Fenn

117,99 RON 126,99 RON

Reducere. He's the most feared monster in the realm. And she's what he needs to win his war... In a world of warring orcs and men, Lady Norr is condemned to ...

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Terribilita, Paperback - Ben Wyckoff Shore

95,99 RON 102,99 RON

Reducere. Shore's debut historical fiction novel, Terribilita, is a can't-put-'er-down-'er with just the right amount of adrenaline coursing through its page...

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Modern African Wars (5): The Nigerian-Biafran War 1967-70, Paperback - Philip Jowett

75,99 RON

DescriptionWith decades of research to draw from, Philip Jowett explores this extraordinary David-and-Goliath conflict, where the rag-tag Igbo trib...

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At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War, Hardcover - Monica Popescu

782,99 RON 837,99 RON

Reducere. In At Penpoint Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwin...

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Revolutionaries for the Right: Anticommunist Internationalism and Paramilitary Warfare in the Cold War, Paperback - Kyle Burke

236,99 RON 253,99 RON

Reducere. Freedom fighters. Guerrilla warriors. Soldiers of fortune. The many civil wars and rebellions against communist governments drew heavily from this ...

university of north carolina press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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The Last Great Senator, 18: Robert C. Byrd's Encounters with Eleven U.S. Presidents, Paperback - David Corbin

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. No person involved in so much history received so little attention as the late Robert C. Byrd, the longest-serving U.S. senator. In "The Last Great...

west virginia university press, carti, carte straina, biography

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The Truth in Small Doses: Why We're Losing the War on Cancer - And How to Win It, Paperback - Clifton Leaf

103,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Clifton LeafA "brilliant" (Fortune), eye-opening history of the war on cancer, The Truth in Small Doses asks why we are los...

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Flower of Iowa, Hardcover - Lance Ringel

207,99 RON 222,99 RON

Reducere. Lance Ringel's Flower of Iowa is a sprawling tale of battle and romance during the First World War, the four years that tore Europe in half and has...

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Fort Robinson and the American Century, 1900-1948, Paperback - Thomas R. Buecker

172,99 RON 185,99 RON

Reducere. Most fort histories end when the military lowers the flag for the last time and the soldiers march out. In contrast, Fort Robinson--occupied and us...

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Key Biscayne, Hardcover - James a. Kushlan

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. Key Biscayne is an island paradise umbilically connected to Miami by a three-and-a-half-mile-long causeway. Its recorded history is one of the long...

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The Long Road to Baghdad: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from the 1970s to the Present - Lloyd C. Gardner

105,99 RON 113,99 RON

Reducere. A sweeping and authoritative narrative, The Long Road to Baghdad places the Iraq War in the context of U.S. foreign policy since Vietnam, casting t...

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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam, Paperback - General Ha Moore

50,99 RON 54,99 RON

Reducere. Each year, the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps selects one book that he believes is both relevant and timeless for reading by all Marines. The ...

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From Day to Day: One Man's Diary of Survival in Nazi Concentration Camps, Hardcover - Odd Nansen

240,99 RON 257,99 RON

Reducere. In 1942 Norwegian Odd Nansen was arrested by the Nazis, and he spent the remainder of World War II in concentration camps--Grini in Oslo, Veidal ab...

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Operation Albion: The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands, Hardcover - Michael B. Barrett

217,99 RON 233,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn October 1917, an invasion force of some 25, 000 German soldiers, accompanied by a flotilla of 10 dreadnoughts, 350 other vessels, a h...

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In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century, Paperback - Geert Mak

134,99 RON

From the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-cen...

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Marinship, Paperback - Eric J. Torney

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionMarinship was a World War II shipyard built by the W.A. Bechtel Company to fulfill an urgent need for cargo ships to support soldiers al...

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The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution, Hardcover - Kevin J. Weddle

198,99 RON 212,99 RON

Reducere. In the late summer and fall of 1777, after two years of indecisive fighting on both sides, the outcome of the American War of Independence hung in ...

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Beasts of a Little Land, Hardcover - Juhea Kim

152,99 RON 163,99 RON

Reducere. An epic story of love, war, and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement, following the intertwined fates of a young...

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The Bakersfield Sound: How a Generation of Displaced Okies Revolutionized American Music, Paperback - Robert E. Price

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. The aesthetic known as the Bakersfield Sound transformed country music, its hard edge a stark contrast to Nashville's stringed orchestras. It turne...

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Unburnable, Paperback - Marie-Elena John

92,99 RON 99,99 RON

Reducere. Haunted by scandal and secrets, Lillian Baptiste fled Dominica when she was fourteen after discovering she was the daughter of Iris, the half-crazy...

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Beasts of a Little Land, Paperback - Juhea Kim

153,99 RON

A spectacular debut filled with great characters and heart." --Lisa See, author of Snow Flower and the Secret FanAn epic story of love, war, and re...

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The Best Of Us, Paperback - Karen Traviss

139,99 RON 149,99 RON

Reducere. Half the world is a wasteland: the other half is on borrowed time.The West has been devastated by epidemics, bioterrorism, war, and famine. Asia ha...

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The Night Diary, Paperback - Veera Hiranandani

85,99 RON 92,99 RON

Reducere. Description"A 2019 NEWBERY HONOR BOOK *A Walter Dean Myers Honor Winner *An ALA Notable Book *A Malka Penn Award Recipient *A New York Times Editor...

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