The American Future: A History, Paperback

The American Future: A History, Paperback - Simon Schama

95,99 RON

``With eloquence, wit, passion, and irony, The American Future traces the history of an idea: that of our national destiny....A book of beautiful w...

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We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism--American Style, Paperback - Kate Aronoff

118,99 RON

DescriptionA stunningly original and timely collection that makes the case for "socialism, American style"It's a strange day when a New York Times ...

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A Daily Walk with God: A 365-Day Devotional for Teachers, Paperback - Richard P. Holland

153,99 RON 164,99 RON

Reducere. The work of our teachers has often paralleled the history of our nation. Our teachers have helped our country meet its historical challenges and re...

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Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood, Paperback - Peter S. Onuf

293,99 RON 314,99 RON

Reducere. Thomas Jefferson believed that the American revolution was a transformative moment in the history of political civilization. He hoped that his own ...

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Liberty in America, Past, Present and Future: A Prescription for America, Paperback - Bill Choby

67,99 RON 72,99 RON

Reducere. In Liberty in America: Past, Present, and Future, renowned dentist and healthy policy expert, Dr. Bill Choby, presents how America, as the empire o...

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Movements and Parties, Paperback - Sidney Tarrow

220,99 RON 236,99 RON

Reducere. How do social movements intersect with the agendas of mainstream political parties? When they are integrated with parties, are they coopted? Or are...

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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, Paperback - Kenneth T. Jackson

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how -the good life- in America came to be equated with the a home ...

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Labor in America: A History, Paperback - Melvyn Dubofsky

362,99 RON 388,99 RON

Reducere. This book, designed to give a survey history of American labor from colonial times to the present, is uniquely well suited to speak to the concerns...

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The republic of Texas; a brief history of Texas from the first American colonies in 1821 to annexation in 1846, Paperback - Clarence Wharton

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

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Betsy Ross and the Making of America, Paperback - Marla R. Miller

162,99 RON 174,99 RON

Reducere. Beyond the legend of the creation of the American flag, we know very little about the facts of Betsy Ross' life. Perhaps with one snip of her sciss...

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African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision, Paperback - Tamara L. Brown

252,99 RON 270,99 RON

Reducere. African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision explores the rich past and bright future of the nine Black Greek-Letter org...

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Power of the People Won't Stop: Legacy of the TWLF at UC Berkeley, Paperback - Harvey Dong

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. This anthology includes essays, photographs, and reflections from individuals who participated in or were inspired by the Third World Liberation Fr...

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The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920, Paperback - Andrew C. Isenberg

129,99 RON 139,99 RON

Reducere. For the last twenty years, The Destruction of the Bison has been an essential work in environmental history. Andrew C. Isenberg offers a concise an...

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The American Prison: Imagining a Different Future, Paperback - Francis T. Cullen

343,99 RON 368,99 RON

Reducere. For the first time in four decades, prison populations are declining and politicians have reached the consensus that mass imprisonment is no longer...

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Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States, Paperback - Michael Lind

127,99 RON 136,99 RON

Reducere. A sweeping and original work of economic history by Michael Lind, one of America's leading intellectuals, Land of Promise recounts the epic story o...

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Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare, Paperback - Frances Fox Piven

116,99 RON 125,99 RON

Reducere. Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion duri...

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The American standard of perfection, illustrated. A complete description of all recognized varieties of fowls, Paperback - American Poultry Associatio

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

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Mad Scenes and Exit Arias: The Death of the New York City Opera and the Future of Opera in America, Paperback - Heidi Waleson

112,99 RON 120,99 RON

Reducere. From the Wall Street Journal's opera critic, a wide-ranging narrative history of how and why the New York City Opera went bankrupt--and what it mea...

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American Faith, Paperback - Maya C. Popa

77,99 RON 83,99 RON

Reducere. The ultimate subject of Maya C. Popa's stunning debut collection is violence. American Faith begins with its manifestation in our country: a destru...

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First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role, Paperback - Jeanne E. Abr

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionHow the three inaugural First Ladies defined the role for future generations, and carved a space for women in AmericaAmerica's first Fir...

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The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century, Paperback - Helena Rosenblatt

116,99 RON

The changing face of the liberal creed from the ancient world to todayThe Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a ...

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The Most Wonderful Wonder: True and Tragic Tales From the Back Roads of American History, Paperback - Holly Samson Hall

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. Buy a ticket and take a dark joyride through American history. See bizarre spectacles of calamity and disaster. Behold true stories of lives cut sh...

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Cultural Resource Management in the Great Basin 1986-2016, Paperback - Don D. Fowler

543,99 RON

Revealing both successes and shortcomings, it considers how Cultural Resource Management can face the challenges of the future. Chapters offer a va...

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Power and Willpower in the American Future: Why the United States Is Not Destined to Decline, Paperback - Robert J. Lieber

181,99 RON 194,99 RON

Reducere. To argue against the widely proclaimed idea of American decline, as this book does, might seem a lonely task. After all, the problems are real and ...

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A History of Modern American Criminal Justice, Paperback - David B. Wolcott

430,99 RON

Focuses on the modern aspects of the Criminal Justice, from 1900 to the present. This book offers students the advanced in historical scholarship t...

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Abrams: A History of the American Main Battle Tank, Vol. 2, Paperback - R. P. Hunnicutt

348,99 RON

This installment in R. P. Hunnicutt's ambitious 10-volume series on the history of American tanks covers the development of the American main battl...

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U.S. Military History for Dummies, Paperback - John C. McManus

155,00 RON

Want to know more about American military history? U.S. Military History For Dummies presents concise and revealing accounts of all of the nation's...

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The Gove book; history and genealogy of the American family of Gove, and notes of European Goves, Paperback - William Henry Gove

220,99 RON 236,99 RON

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

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Time Shards - Tempus Fury, Paperback - Dana Fredsti

56,99 RON

Time shatters into shards of the past, present, and future. A group of survivors dodges threats from across history to locate the source and repair...

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John Wayne: American, Paperback - Randy Roberts

215,99 RON 231,99 RON

Reducere. "John Wayne remains a constant in American popular culture. Middle America grew up with him in the late 1920s and 1930s, went to war with him in th...

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Last Days of American Crime (New Edition), Paperback - Rick Remender

100,99 RON

With one week until the end of all crime in the United States, can the last heist in American history be pulled off? In the not-too-distant future ...

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The Red Dragon & the West Wind: The Winning Guide to Official Chinese & American Mah-Jongg, Paperback - Tom Sloper

103,99 RON 111,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tom SloperThe Red Dragon & The West Wind is the perfect introduction to this ancient game of strategy and subterfuge, cover...

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The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, Paperback - Nicholas Lemann

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. The widely acclaimed study of what's gone wrong in American higher education.What do we know about the history, origin, design, and purpose of the ...

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The National Pastime, 2021, Paperback - ***

81,99 RON 87,99 RON

Reducere. Since its inception, The National Pastime has featured excellent research and essays about baseball history. This year, though, we asked our contri...

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Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism, Paperback - Alex Zamalin

155,99 RON

DescriptionWithin the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted...

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A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes, Paperback - Eric Jay Dolin

102,99 RON 110,99 RON

Reducere. Weaving together tales of tragedy and folly, of heroism and scientific progress, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin shows how hurricanes have time ...

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The Minutemen and Their World, Paperback - Robert A. Gross

89,99 RON 96,99 RON

Reducere. Winner of the Bancroft Prize The Minutemen and Their World, first published in 1976, is reissued now in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition with a n...

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Star Trek and History, Paperback - Nancy R. Reagin

97,99 RON 104,99 RON

Reducere. A guide to the history that informs the world of Star Trek--just in time for the next JJ Abrams Star Trek movieFor a series set in our future, Star...

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The Big Picture: Who Killed Hollywood? and Other Essays, Paperback - William Goldman

100,99 RON 108,99 RON

Reducere. William Goldman, who holds two Academy Awards for his screenwriting (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men), and is author...

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Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life (Updated), Paperback - Tom Lewis

118,99 RON 127,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tom LewisIn Divided Highways, Tom Lewis offers an encompassing account of highway development in the United States. In the ...

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Dead Presidents: An American Adventure Into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nations Leaders, Paperback - Brady Carlson

98,99 RON 105,99 RON

Reducere. To public radio host and reporter Brady Carlson, the weighty responsibilities of being president never end. As Carlson sees it, the dead presidents...

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Reminiscences of My Life in Camp, Paperback - Susie King Taylor

51,99 RON

DescriptionThis edition has been expanded and annotated with updated information. Suzie King Taylor made a remarkable journey from slavery to freed...

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The Bitter & the Sweet: The Saga of a Black Family in America, Paperback - Curtis L. Estes

84,99 RON 90,99 RON

Reducere. The Bitter and the Sweet is a personal story of five generations of an American family intertwined with the history of race relations in America. C...

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On the Freedom Side. How Five Decades of Youth Activists Have Remixed American History, Paperback - Wesley C. Hogan

219,99 RON 235,99 RON

Reducere. As Wesley Hogan sees it, the future of democracy belongs to young people. While today's generation of leaders confronts a daunting array of existen...

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Buffalo at the Crossroads: The Past, Present, and Future of American Urbanism, Paperback - Peter H. Christensen

255,99 RON 273,99 RON

Reducere. Buffalo at the Crossroads is a diverse set of cutting-edge essays. Twelve authors highlight the outsized importance of Buffalo, New York, within th...

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Four Spirits, Paperback - Sena Jeter Naslund

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. Weaving together the lives of blacks and whites, racists and civil rights advocates, and the events of peaceful protest and violent repression, Sen...

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Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989, Paperback - Michael R. Beschloss

131,99 RON 141,99 RON

Reducere. Presidential Courage is a brilliantly readable and inspiring saga about crucial times in American history when a courageous President dramatically ...

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The Roots of Racism. The Politics of White Supremacy in the US and Europe, Paperback - ***

228,99 RON

This important book examines the past, present, and future of racist ideas and politics, showing how policies have developed over a long history of...

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Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists, Paperback - Anton

81,99 RON

"Sutton comes to conclusions that are uncomfortable for many businessmen and economists. For this reason, his work tends to be either dismissed out...

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A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest, Paperback - William DeBuys

108,99 RON 116,99 RON

Reducere. With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering po...

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Our Lady of Guadalupe: Mother of the Civilization of Love, Paperback - Carl Anderson

83,99 RON 89,99 RON

Reducere. Nearly a decade after Spain's conquest of Mexico, the future of Christianity on the American continent was very much in doubt. Confronted with a ho...

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The River Where America Began: A Journey Along the James, Paperback - Bob Deans

102,99 RON 110,99 RON

Reducere. From the establishment of the first permanent English colony at Jamestown in 1607 to the fall of Richmond in 1865, the James River has been instrum...

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The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy, Paperback - T. Lothrop Stoddard

154,99 RON 165,99 RON

Reducere. A reprint of a 1920 classic surveying the world racial situation after World War I and warning of the coming non-White population explosion. "The w...

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Collected Fiction Volume 3: Tall Tales and Satirical Sketches; Political Fantasies and Future Histories, Paperback - Ambrose Bierce

140,00 RON

Ambrose Bierce's satirical flair is most prevalent in his tall tales and similar sketches, where all manner of human foibles are lampooned: the exc...

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Cleveland: 1930-2000, Paperback - Thea Gallo Becker

112,99 RON

DescriptionCleveland: 1930 2000 is the second of two volumes commemorating the history of the heart and pride of northeast Ohio, the city of Clevel...

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Real Things In Nature: A Reading Book Of Science For American Boys And Girls, Paperback - Edward S. Holden

161,99 RON 173,99 RON

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The Olds (Old, Ould) Family In England And America: American Genealogy, Paperback - Edson B. Olds

105,99 RON

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

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The 101 Ranch, Paperback - Ellsworth Collings

117,99 RON 126,99 RON

Reducere. In the first third of the twentieth century, the 101 Real Wild West Show was known halfway round the world. It featured such headliners as Bill Pic...

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The Seeds of Disaster: The Development of French Army Doctrine, 1919-39, Paperback - Robert a. Doughty

158,99 RON 170,99 RON

Reducere. An examination of the military doctrine that animated the French defense against the German invasion in 1940.- Argues that the French learned the w...

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The Book of Errors, Paperback - Annie Coggan

91,99 RON 98,99 RON

Reducere. A collection of three illustrated essays looking at the preservation of three historic houses--and the layered, messy process of reconstructing our...

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Frontier History Along Idaho's Clearwater River: Pioneers, Miners & Lumberjacks, Paperback - John Bradbury

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. The Clearwater River runs deep through northern Idaho's history. The Nez Perce tribe made its home along the river. Lewis and Clark's journey west ...

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The Legal Universe: Observations of the Foundations of American Law, Paperback - Vine Deloria Jr

163,99 RON 175,99 RON

Reducere. According to Deloria and Wilkins, "Whenever American minorities have raised voices of protest, they have been admonished to work within the legal s...

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The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory, Paperback - Andrew Bacevich

86,99 RON 93,99 RON

Reducere. A thought-provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump from the bestsell...

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Election Day: Decades: A Journey of African-American Romance 1970s, Paperback - Keith Thomas Walker

66,99 RON

DescriptionDespite legal efforts to integrate schools, black students continue to struggle with separate and unequal environments in 1970. Leo Sull...

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The Songbird and the Spy, Paperback - J'Nell Ciesielski

87,99 RON 94,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionAs shells explode over Nazi-occupied France, American music student Claire Baudin is trapped behind enemy lines, struggling to protect h...

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Faith Through the Storm: Memoirs of Major James Capers, Jr., Paperback - Jr. Major James Capers

143,99 RON 154,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis is a book about war. A war against America's enemies, against racism, against the loss of fellow warriors in battle, and against th...

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An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation, Paperback - Nyasha Junior

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. An Introduction to Womanist Biblical Interpretation provides a much-needed introduction to womanist approaches to biblical interpretation. It argue...

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Martin Van Buren: A Captivating Guide to the Man Who Served as the Eighth President of the United States, Paperback - Captivating History

84,99 RON 90,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionExplore the Captivating Life of Martin Van Buren History chiefly remembers Martin Van Buren as the eighth president of the United States...

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To the African American Hair and Beauty Industry: Where Do We Go from "hair"?, Paperback - Haroon Rashid

145,99 RON

wrote this book to in order to provide the history and some leadership to an industry in the African American community that was once a pillar of e...

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The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version, Paperback - Ida M. Tarbell

90,99 RON 97,99 RON

Reducere. Muckrakers a term coined in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt referred to American journalists, novelists and critics who, in the early 20th cen...

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