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The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, 7-Volume Set, Paperback - Meriwether Lewis

940,99 RON

Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson shared this dream....

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Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1920-1970: Volume 2, Hardcover - Raphael Dalleo

823,99 RON

The years between the 1920s and 1970s are key for the development of Caribbean literature, producing the founding canonical literary texts of the A...

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Open Veins of Latin America, Hardcover - Eduardo Galeano

704,99 RON 754,99 RON

Reducere. Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an o...

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Native North American Art, Paperback - Janet Catherine Berlo

645,99 RON 691,99 RON

Reducere. This lively introductory survey of indigenous North American arts from ancient times to the present explores both the shared themes and imagery fou...

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The History of Central Asia, Volume 3: The Age of Islam and the Mongols, Hardcover - Cristoph Baumer

638,99 RON

Between the 9th and the 15th centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. In the first half ...

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The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia: History, Conquest, and Memory in the Native Northeast, Hardcover - Chad L. Anderson

489,99 RON 524,99 RON

Reducere. The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia explores the creation, destruction, appropriation, and enduring legacy of one of early America's most important p...

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Imagining Asia(s): Networks, Actors, Sites, Paperback - Andrea Acri

451,99 RON

As a continent lying to the east of Europe, Asia has been malleable to different spatial and temporal imaginations and politics. Recent scholarship...

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Creole Drama. Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans, Paperback - Juliane Braun

405,99 RON

Moving from France to the Caribbean to the American continent, Creole Drama follows the people that created and sustained French theatre culture in...

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Democratization, Paperback - Christian Haerpfer

364,99 RON

DescriptionDemocratization is the most comprehensive volume on this critical field of contemporary politics, with insightful coverage of the key th...

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Spooky Archaeology: Myth and the Science of the Past, Paperback - Jeb J. Card

342,99 RON 366,99 RON

Reducere. Outside of scientific journals, archaeologists are depicted as searching for lost cities and mystical artifacts in news reports, television, video ...

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Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism, Paperback - Reginald Horsman

327,99 RON 350,99 RON

Reducere. American myths about national character tend to overshadow the historical realities. Mr. Horsman's book is the first study to examine the origins o...

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Phillis Wheatley Chooses Freedom: History, Poetry, and the Ideals of the American Revolution, Hardcover - G. J. Barker-Benfield

316,99 RON 339,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe dramatic story of Phillis Wheatley, a free, black poet who resisted the pressures of arranged marriage, truly embodying the ideals o...

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Farmers at the Frontier: A Pan European Perspective on Neolithisation, Hardcover - Kurt J. Gron

316,99 RON

All farming in prehistoric Europe ultimately came from elsewhere in one way or another, unlike the growing numbers of primary centers of domesticat...

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Human Canvas, Hardcover - Art Wolfe

314,99 RON

DescriptionHuman Canvas combines Wolfe's world-famous photography with his exquisite painting to create a groundbreaking collection of body art. Wh...

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The People: The Missing Piece of John Wesley Powell's Expeditions, Hardcover - Carol Ormond

312,99 RON 334,99 RON

Reducere. It took over 1000 pounds of photographic equipment hauled halfway across the continent by horse, boat, and sweat for John Wesley Powell's 1872 Expe...

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Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture, Paperback - Dennis J. Stanford

305,99 RON 327,99 RON

Reducere. Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12, 000 years ag...

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Angelica Kauffman, Hardcover - Bettina Baumgärtel

297,99 RON 318,99 RON

Reducere. One of the outstanding artistic personalities of the Classical Age of art in London and Rome, Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) is regarded as the firs...

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Coast-To-Coast Empire: Manifest Destiny and the New Mexico Borderlands, Hardcover - William S. Kiser

283,99 RON 303,99 RON

Reducere. Following Zebulon Pike's expeditions in the early nineteenth century, U.S. expansionists focused their gaze on the Southwest. Explorers, traders, s...

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The Van Buskirks of Indiana: Western Migration from New Netherlands, 11 Generations- 1654-2017, Hardcover - Edmund Michael Van Buskirk

282,99 RON 302,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe genealogical narrative, Van Buskirks of Indiana - Western Migration from New Netherlands, 11 Generations -1654-2017 delves behind th...

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Empire's Nursery: Children's Literature and the Origins of the American Century, Hardcover - Brian Rouleau

280,99 RON 300,99 RON

Reducere. How children and children's literature helped build America's empire America's empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twent...

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Horatio Grennough and the Form Majestic. The Biography of the Nation's First Washington Monument, Hardback - Harry Rand

279,99 RON

DescriptionArt, history, and political drama all meld together in this one dramatic story about one dramatic sculpture. The nation's first federall...

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Introduction to African Politics, Paperback - Alex Thomson

277,99 RON

The fourth edition of An Introduction to African Politics is an ideal textbook for those new to the study of this fascinating continent. It gets to...

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After the Pink Tide: Corporate State Formation and New Egalitarianisms in Latin America, Paperback - Marina Gold

277,99 RON 297,99 RON

Reducere. The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems now to be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across th...

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Explorer's Guide to Wildemount (D&d Campaign Setting and Adventure Book) (Dungeons & Dragons), Hardcover - Wizards RPG Team

276,99 RON 296,99 RON

Reducere. HOW DO YOU WANT TO DO THIS? A war brews on a continent that has withstood more than its fair share of conflict. The Dwendalian Empire and the Kryn ...

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African Art, Hardcover - Ezio Bassani

274,99 RON

DescriptionAn illustrated study of traditional and figurative art of Africa that reflects the continent's rich artistic and cultural heritage. Afri...

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Boy-Wives and Female Husbands, Paperback - Will Roscoe

274,99 RON 294,99 RON

Reducere. Among the many myths created about Africa, the claim that homosexuality and gender diversity are absent or incidental is one of the oldest and most...

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The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest, Paperback - Francis Jennings

272,99 RON 292,99 RON

Reducere. In this iconoclastic book, Francis Jennings recasts the story of American colonization as a territorial invasion. The traditional history of early ...

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Contours of a People: Metis Family, Mobility, and History, Paperback - Nicole St-Onge

268,99 RON 287,99 RON

Reducere. What does it mean to be Metis? How do the Metis understand their world, and how do family, community, and location shape their consciousness? Such ...

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Windows Into the Earth: The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, Paperback - Robert B. Smith

258,99 RON 277,99 RON

Reducere. Millions of years ago, the North American continent was dragged over the world's largest continental hotspot, a huge column of hot and molten rock ...

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Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union, Hardcover - Stella Ghervas

255,99 RON

A bold new look at war and diplomacy in Europe that traces the idea of a unified continent in attempts since the eighteenth century to engineer las...

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Two-Headed Serpent: A Pulp Cthulhu Campaign for Call of Cthulhu, Hardcover - Paul Fricker

248,99 RON 266,99 RON

Reducere. The Two-Headed Serpent is an action-packed, globe-spanning, and high-octane campaign set in the 1930s for Pulp Cthulhu. The heroes face the siniste...

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Foundations of Eurasianism: Volume I, Hardcover - Jafe Arnold

244,99 RON 262,99 RON

Reducere. A century ago, between the uneasy aftermath of the First World War and the chaos of the Russian Revolution, an elite group of Russian intellectuals...

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Before Penn: An Illustrated History of The Delaware River Colonies 1609 - 1682, Hardcover - Hal Taylor

242,99 RON 259,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionBefore Penn provides the little known but fascinating history of the European settlement of the Delaware River Valley prior to the found...

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Battles in Germany 1631-1704: Decisive Conflicts of the Thirty Years War & War of Spanish Succession to Blenheim, Hardcover - George Bruce Malleson

237,99 RON

The battlefield of 17th Century Europe On land, the Thirty Years War was fought primarily in Germany. It was one of the most destructive conflicts ...

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The Company of Death, Hardcover - Elisa Hansen

235,99 RON 252,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe zombie apocalypse was just the beginning of vampire hunter Emily's problems. Now she must team up with Death himself in this thrilli...

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Songs Upon the Rivers: The Buried History of the French-Speaking Canadiens and M tis from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Across to the P, Paperba

225,99 RON 241,99 RON

Reducere. Before the Davie Crockets, the Daniel Boones and Jim Bridgers, the French had pushed far west and north establishing trade and kin networks across ...

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Lulu the Sheepadoodle: The World Traveling Positive Attribute Fairy, Hardcover - ***

221,99 RON 237,99 RON

Reducere. Have fun exploring the continents with the magic of Lulu the Sheepadoodle; the World Traveling Positive Attribute Fairy. Lulu the Sheepadoodle is a...

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Cape Cod Modern: Midcentury Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape, Hardcover - Kenneth Frampton

220,99 RON

In the summer of 1937, Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus and a professor at Harvard's new Graduate School of Design, rented a house on Plantin...

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Antarctic Atlas. New Maps and Graphics That Tell the Story of A Continent, Hardback - Peter Fretwell

220,99 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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The Adventurous Foodie: 700 Foods You Should Try from Around the World, Hardcover - Alexandre Stern

220,99 RON

This eminently browsable, dip-in/dip-out book is an indispensable guide to the most interesting, iconic, and unique foods from 155 different countr...

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Gum: The Story of Eucalypts & Their Champions, Paperback - Ashley Hay

216,99 RON 232,99 RON

Reducere. No matter where you look in Australia, you're more than likely to see a eucalyptus tree. Scrawny or majestic, smooth as pearl or rough as guts, the...

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Thirty Years in a White Haze, Paperback - Dan Egan

215,99 RON 231,99 RON

Reducere. Sheltered in a snow cave on Mount Elbrus, Dan Egan stares into the mouth of a storm on the tallest mountain on the European continent, a merciless ...

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The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa: A Quest for Inter-Religious Dialogue, Paperback - John Alembillah Azumah

213,99 RON

Thoughtful and challenging, this book argues for a reassessment of the role historically played by Islam in Africa, and offers new hope for in crea...

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Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture, Paperback - Bernard Rudofsky

212,99 RON 227,99 RON

Reducere. In this book, Bernard Rudofsky steps outside the narrowly defined discipline that has governed our sense of architectural history and discusses the...

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The Empire's Ghost, Hardcover - Isabelle Steiger

212,99 RON 227,99 RON

Reducere. Isabelle Steiger has crafted a powerful and masterful debut with The Empire's Ghost, the first book in a haunting new epic fantasy series.The empir...

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The Books of Jacob, Hardcover - Olga Tokarczuk

211,99 RON 226,99 RON

Reducere. The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious l...

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Fatimah Tuggar: Home's Horizons, Hardcover - Amanda Gilvin

207,99 RON

DescriptionBorn in Nigeria in 1967, multimedia artist Fatimah Tuggar interrogates the systems underlying human interactions with both high-tech gad...

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States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control - Second Edition, Paperback - Jeffrey Herbst

206,99 RON 221,99 RON

Reducere. Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the inte...

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African Peacekeeping, Paperback - Nina (Lunds Universitet, Sweden) Wilen

206,99 RON

An accessible and comprehensive look at the story of Africa's contemporary history and politics through the lens of peacekeeping, which draws on ex...

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The Bucket List: 1000 Adventures Big & Small, Hardcover - Kath Stathers

203,99 RON 218,99 RON

Reducere. With 1, 000 adventures for all ages, it's never too soon or too late to begin the things you've only dreamed of doing. We all have things we'd like...

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European Armies of the French Revolution, 1789-1802, Paperback - Frederick C. Schneid

203,99 RON

Upon France's defeat of the vaunted Prussian army at the Battle of Valmy in 1792, German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe remarked, "From this pla...

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Global HR Competencies: Mastering Competitive Value from the Outside-In, Hardcover - Dave Ulrich

201,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Dave UlrichAuthor: Wayne BrockbankAuthor: Jon YoungerHR thought leader Dave Ulrich -- bestselling author of HR Champions, T...

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Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present, Paperback - Frederick Cooper

200,99 RON

DescriptionAfrica since 1940 is the flagship textbook in Cambridge University Press' New Approaches to African History series. Now revised to inclu...

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The African Union: Autocracy, Diplomacy and Peacebuilding in Africa, Paperback - Tim Murithi

200,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Tim MurithiAuthor: Tony KarboThe African Union has been a major factor in establishing peace, security, and development in ...

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End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals, Hardcover - Ross D. E. MacPhee

199,99 RON

DescriptionUntil a few thousand years ago, creatures that could have been from a sci-fi thriller--including gorilla-sized lemurs, 500-pound birds, ...

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The Return of Martin Guerre, Paperback - Natalie Zemon Davis

199,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Natalie Zemon DavisThe clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse w...

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The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of North America, Ca. A.D. 1000-1500, Paperback - Kirsten A. Seaver

199,99 RON 213,99 RON

Reducere. It is now generally accepted the Leif Eriksson sailed from Greenland across the Davis Strait and made landfalls on the North American continent alm...

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Earthopolis. A Biography of Our Urban Planet, Hardback - ***

199,99 RON

This is a biography of Earthopolis, the only Urban Planet we know of. Carl Nightingale takes readers on a six-continent, six-millennia tour of the ...

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A Drowned Kingdom, Hardcover - P. L. Stuart

199,00 RON

Once Second Prince of the mightiest kingdom in the known world, Othrun now leads the last survivors of his exiled people into an uncertain future f...

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White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa, Hardcover - Susan Williams

198,99 RON 212,99 RON

Reducere. A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US. In 1958 in ...

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First Peoples in a New World: Colonizing Ice Age America, Paperback - David J. Meltzer

197,99 RON 211,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David J. MeltzerMore than 12, 000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America,...

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Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, Hardcover - Eric Metaxas

194,99 RON 208,99 RON

Reducere. The runaway New York Times bestseller, revised and with a new introduction from the author.Who better to face the greatest evil of the 20th-century...

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The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing, Paperback - Jeanne-Marie Jackson

193,99 RON

An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries The African Novel of I...

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Africa Arrives: The Savvy Entrepreneur's Guide to the World's Hottest Market, Paperback - Mark Byron

193,99 RON

DescriptionFinally, there's a book that shows Africa for what it really is--Your Best Bet Gold-Mine Global Market For The Next 50 Years Mark Byron ...

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Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of the Algonquian Literatures of North America, Paperback - Brian Swann

193,99 RON 207,99 RON

Reducere. When Europeans first arrived on this continent, Algonquian languages were spoken from the northeastern seaboard through the Great Lakes region, acr...

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Truth-Telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement, Paperback - Henry Reynolds

193,99 RON 207,99 RON

Reducere. If we are to take seriously the need for telling the truth about our history, we must start at first principles. What if the sovereignty of the Fir...

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First Footprints: The Epic Story of the First Australians, Paperback - Scott Cane

192,99 RON 206,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Scott CaneThe epic story of Australia's Aboriginal people, as told through astonishing archaeological discoveries, ancient ...

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Speculum of the Other Woman: New Edition, Paperback - Luce Irigaray

191,99 RON

Speculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray is incontestably one of the most important works in feminist theory to have been published in this gen...

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How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, Paperback - Jorge Caniz

190,99 RON 204,99 RON

Reducere. In the mid-eighteenth century, the French naturalist Buffon contended that the New World was in fact geologically new--that it had recently emerged...

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Jews and Judaism in African History, Paperback - Richard Hull

189,99 RON 203,99 RON

Reducere. This timely book is the first to cover the history of Jews from the times of Alexander the Great and Caesar to Idi Amin and Nelson Mandela. Jews ha...

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