Reducere. Before Bob Marley brought reggae to the world, before Jimmy Cliff and Peter Tosh, before thousands of musicians played a Jamaican rhythm, there wer...
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Reducere. San Francisco was booming in the mid-nineteenth century, and along with adventurers seeking their fortunes came sacks of green coffee beans. The ol...
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Reducere. Harvard professor Dawson (1889-1970) was a major Catholic historian. His 1958 tome has fallen out of favor among historians at least partly because...
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Reducere. A unique history of Nebraska is presented in these pages, drawing on fifty-eight short topical chapters and a rich gallery of illustrations. Profes...
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Reducere. Hilary Putnam deals in this book with some of the most fundamental persistent problems in philosophy: the nature of truth, knowledge and rationalit...
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Reducere. The classic explanation of the craft of history and the vital worth of historians to civilization In this volume, English historian Richard Evans o...
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Reducere. "The ordinary tortilla was an extraordinary bond between the human and divine. . . . From birthdays to religious ceremonies, the people of Mesoamer...
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Reducere. ``Surprising. Impressive. Cannibalism restores my faith in humanity.`` --Sy Montgomery, The New York Times Book Review For centuries scientists hav...
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Reducere. One of the chief difficulties in studying the history of Christianity is the lack of prior exposure to the subject that students often bring with t...
Reducere. The tiny Sun studio at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, may not have looked like much from the outside, but inside musical miracles were bei...
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Reducere. The inspiration for the Jedi knights of Star Wars and the films of Akira Kurosawa, the legendary Japanese samurai have captured modern imaginations...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Milton MeltzerSlavery is not and has never been a "peculiar institution, " but one that is deeply rooted in the history and...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard M. Hannula"RADIANT: Fifty Remarkable Women in Church History" RADIANT records the triumph of the gospel as Christia...
Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Laurent DuBoisA New York Times Notable Book of the Year Even before the devastating 2010 earthquake, Haiti was known as a b...
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Reducere. Vibrant and volatile, the punk scene left an extraordinary legacy of music and cultural change, and this work talks to those who cultivated the mov...
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Reducere. DescriptionSnakes, particularly venomous snakes and exceptionally large constricting snakes, have haunted the human brain for a millennium. They ap...
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Reducere. Today, there are over two million members of Alcoholics Anonymous. It's a life-saving fellowship. But who started it, and when? Most people know ab...
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Reducere. DescriptionIn America and the American Record Business, Don Cusic weaves the history of the music, the business and the technology that has created...
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Reducere. The first look at the history behind Stephenie Meyer's bestselling Twilight series, timed to release with the third movie, EclipseThe characters of...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ilan StavansIllustrator: Lalo AlcarazCultural critic and acclaimed author Ilan Stavans captures the joys, nuances, and mult...
Reducere. A runaway airman slaughters a family of three as they sleep in their beds.A single mother murders her two young sons and hides their dismembered bo...
Reducere. In this extraordinary memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the m...
Reducere. Let's tell it like it was: By the late 1970s, the Peavey Electronics Corporation was already respected among working musicians for its well-made, r...
Reducere. The largest financial fraud in history wasn't Enron's colossal accounting crimes, Bernie Madoff's record-setting Ponzi scheme or the Libor scandal,...
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Reducere. These great men deserve your admiration for the wonderful things they did to mold the present. You may have read about them in history books, but t...
Reducere. One of the great themes in the history of Eastern Asia is the transformation of Chinese culture by Buddhism. This process can be traced across near...
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Reducere. Recipient of the 2002 Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Historical Writing. In this "stunning collection of documents" (Washington Pos...
Reducere. DescriptionOver the past century, some of the world's largest wildland fires have occurred in Oregon. Accidentally set by a disgruntled cook on an ...
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Reducere. In The Theft of History Jack Goody builds on his own previous work to extend further his highly influential critique of what he sees as the pervasi...
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Reducere. "One of the best tribal histories . . . the product of decades of study by a layman archeologist-historian. With a rich blend of archeology, anthro...
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Reducere. Born in Galatia in the 360s, Palladius enrolled as a monk on the Mount of Olives in his early twenties. As a monk, he traveled to Alexandria, the d...
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