The English and their History

Ancient Israel: Its Life and Instructions, Paperback - Roland De Vaux

285,99 RON 306,99 RON

Reducere. Considered by many to be a modern classic, Ancient Israel offers a fascinating, full-scale reconstruction of the social and religious life of Israe...

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The Quran with Christian Commentary: A Guide to Understanding the Scripture of Islam, Hardcover - Gordon D. Nickel

283,99 RON

The Quran with Christian Commentary offers a unique introduction to the primary religious text of Islam. Alongside an easy-to-read modern English t...

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Romantics and Classics: Style in the English Country House, Hardcover - Jeremy Musson

283,99 RON

Living today in the houses of the English countryside, owners blend contemporary style with the old, good bones of manor houses and country seats, ...

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Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-World, 1783-1939, Paperback - James Belich

282,99 RON

Why are we speaking English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a 'settler revolution' that took place from the...

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Death and Rebirth in a Southern City: Richmond's Historic Cemeteries, Paperback - Ryan K. Smith

280,99 RON 300,99 RON

Reducere. Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy, holds one of the most dramatic landscapes of death in the nation. Its burial grounds sho...

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Reading, Wanting, and Broken Economics: A Twenty-First-Century Study of Readers and Bookshops in Southampton Around 1900 - Simon R. Frost

279,99 RON 299,99 RON

Reducere. Combining historical study, theorization, and experimental fiction, this book takes commodity culture and book retail around 1900 as the prime exam...

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Qubec Confronts Canada, Paperback - Edward M. Corbett

275,99 RON

Originally published in 1967. The nationalistic sentiment of French Canada was starkly dramatized by the Montreal terrorist bombings in the spring ...

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The Novel: A Biography, Hardcover - Michael Schmidt

273,99 RON

The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great...

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The History of Spanish: A Student's Introduction, Paperback - Diana L. Ranson

273,99 RON

DescriptionThis concise textbook provides students with an engaging and thorough overview of the history of Spanish and its development from Latin....

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Assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943, Hardcover - Katarzyna Person

270,99 RON 289,99 RON

Reducere. Jews in Nazi-occupied Warsaw during the 1940s were under increasing threat as they were stripped of their rights and forced to live in a guarded gh...

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The Royal Touch (Routledge Revivals). Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France, Paperback - Marc Bloch

269,99 RON

First published in English in 1973, The Royal Touch explores the supernatural character that was long attributed to royal power. Throughout history...

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Mother Goose Refigured: A Critical Translation of Charles Perrault's Fairy Tales, Paperback - Christine a. Jones

268,99 RON 287,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionCharles Perrault published Histoires ou Contes du temps pass ("Stories or Tales of the Past") in France in 1697 during what scholars cal...

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A History of Belarus, Hardcover - Lubov Bazan

267,99 RON 286,99 RON

Reducere. Rare materials on Belarus are a potential treasure trove for the English language reader. A blank spot on the map for many, Belarus is an undiscove...

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Memorial Book of Kobylnik (Narach, Belarus): Translation of Sefer Kobylnik, Hardcover - Yitzhak Siegelman

267,99 RON

This is the Memorial Book of the destroyed Jewish community of Kobylnik Belarus, also known as Narach. It contains the history of the community, fi...

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Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA, Paperback - Richard English

266,99 RON 285,99 RON

Reducere. The IRA has been a much richer, more complexly layered, and more protean organization than is frequently recognized. It is also more open to balanc...

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Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Scotland's National Poet - the Bard of Ayrshire (Hardcover), Hardcover - Robert Burns

265,00 RON

This anthology contains a complete compendium of all poems and songs written by Scotland's national poet - Robert Burns. Arranged according to the ...

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Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation, Paperback (4th Ed.) - Mary R. Lefkowitz

264,99 RON 283,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mary R. LefkowitzAuthor: Maureen B. FantNow in its fourth edition, this highly acclaimed sourcebook examines the public and...

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An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art, Paperback - Annie Ridley Crane Finch

263,99 RON 282,99 RON

Reducere. At once handbook, reader, and guide to the literary tastes and wisdom of poets, An Exaltation of Forms is an indispensable resource certain to find...

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Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America, Hardcover - Claire Priest

263,99 RON

How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on credit Even before the United States became a country, ...

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On the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Hardcover - St Robert Bellarmine

262,99 RON 281,99 RON

Reducere. St. Robert Bellarmine was one of the best known of the Counter-Reformation theologians by both friend and foe. His apologetic writings were the mos...

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Memorial Book: The Ritavas Community: A Tribute to the Memory of Our Town (Rietavas, Lithuania), Hardcover - Alter Levite

261,99 RON 280,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis is a reprint of and English translation of the Memorial Book of the destroyed Jewish Community of Riteve, Lithuania, also called by...

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Viandier of Taillevent: An Edition of All Extant Manuscripts, Hardcover - Terrence Scully

259,99 RON 278,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis volume is the first to present all four extant manuscripts of the Viandier de Taillevent. The texts of the 220 recipes are in their...

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A Most Remarkable Family: A History of the Lyon Family from 1066 to 2014, Hardcover - Michael Hewitt

258,99 RON

On a cold day on the thirtieth of January 1649 in London, an anonymous executioner severed the head of King Charles I of England. The watching crow...

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A Victorian's Inheritance, Hardcover - Helen Parker-Drabble

257,99 RON 276,99 RON

Reducere. Anxiety. Addiction. Depression.We associate these words with the challenges of modern life. Rarely do we consider how these conditions shaped past ...

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City of Islands: Caribbean Intellectuals in New York, Paperback - Tammy L. Brown

256,99 RON 274,99 RON

Reducere. Tammy L. Brown uses the life stories of Caribbean intellectuals as ``windows`` into the dynamic history of immigration to New York and the long bat...

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Detestable and Wicked Arts: New England and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Atlantic World, Paperback - Paul B. Moyer

256,99 RON 274,99 RON

Reducere. In Detestable and Wicked Arts, Paul B. Moyer places early New England's battle against black magic in a transatlantic perspective. Moyer provides a...

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Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation, Paperback - Nancy F. Cott

256,99 RON 274,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWe commonly think of marriage as a private matter between two people, a personal expression of love and commitment. In this pioneering h...

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Ne Waza (English), Paperback - ***

256,99 RON 274,99 RON

Reducere. One of the most important objectives of classical Jujutsu was undoubtedly training in all distances and positions to kill, subdue or capture an ene...

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Amharic English, English Amharic Dictionary: A Modern Dictionary of the Amharic Language, Paperback (2nd Ed.) - Endale Zenawi

255,99 RON 273,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Endale ZenawiDictionaries can be something of a personal matter; people become very attached to their favorite. In the abov...

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The Friend, Paperback - Alan Bray

255,99 RON

In the chapel of Christ's College, Cambridge, some twenty years ago, historian Alan Bray made an astonishing discovery: a tomb shared by two men, J...

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Fragmentary Jewish Historians and Biblical History, Paperback - Erich S. Gruen

255,99 RON

English summary: In his contribution to the fragmentary Jewish historians of Hellenistic times and their treatment of the biblical tradition Erich ...

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Kandinsky, Paperback - Kenneth C. Lindsay

253,99 RON 271,99 RON

Reducere. The importance of Kandinsky's art and thought in the history of modern art combined with the completeness, careful scholarship, and crisp design of...

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Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country, Paperback - Tiya Miles

248,99 RON 266,99 RON

Reducere. Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds explores the critically neglected intersection of Native and African American cultures. This interdisciplinary col...

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Old English Legal Writings, Hardcover - ***

247,99 RON

Archbishop Wulfstan of York (d. 1023) was a powerful clergyman and the most influential political thinker of pre-Conquest England. An advocate for ...

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Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and Community, Paperback - Amy D. Clark

246,99 RON 264,99 RON

Reducere. Tradition, community, and pride are fundamental aspects of the history of Appalachia, and the language of the region is a living testament to its r...

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Historical Legacies of Communism: Modern Politics, Society, and Economic Development, Paperback - Alexander Libman

246,99 RON

Libman and Obydenkova reveal how legacies of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) have survived in the politics, economic development, cu...

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History of the United States: To Which Is Prefixed a Brief Historical Account of Our [english] Ancestors, from the Dispersion at Babel, to Their Mig -

238,99 RON 255,99 RON

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

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The Wooden Plane: Its History, Form & Function, Hardcover - John M. Whelen

237,99 RON 254,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionA comprehensive reference that has been called "a work of clarity and imagination so influential it virtually defines its subject, " thi...

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Mexican Cartoner a: Paper, Paste, and Fiesta / Papel, Engrudo Y Fiesta, Hardcover - Marta Turok

237,99 RON

DescriptionMexico's love of celebration is well known, and cartoner a, a kind of papier-m ch art, produces the objects that are essential to Mexica...

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Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic, Paperback - Audrey Horning

237,99 RON 254,99 RON

Reducere. In the late sixteenth century, the English started expanding westward, establishing control over parts of neighboring Ireland as well as exploring ...

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Eating Puerto Rico: A History of Food, Culture, and Identity, Paperback - Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra

236,99 RON 253,99 RON

Reducere. Available for the first time in English, Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra's magisterial history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico unfolds into ...

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Japan's Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, Paperback - Edward J. Drea

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award Popular impressions of the imperial Japanese army still promote images of suicidal banzai cha...

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The Life of Tilkepnaye: A 12 Month Study of Native Chaldean Catholics in Their Hometown of Tilkepe, Hardcover - Michael J. Bazzi

233,99 RON 250,99 RON

Reducere. In this hardback, English edition of The Life of Tilkpemaye. Fr. Bazzi takes his reader on a 12-month journey into a day in the life of the village...

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Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery, Paperback - Margaret Ellen Newell

232,99 RON 249,99 RON

Reducere. In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands...

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Pocahontas's People: The Powhatan Indians of Virginia Through Four Centuries, Paperback - Helen C. Rountree

232,99 RON 249,99 RON

Reducere. In this history, Helen C. Roundtree traces events that shaped the lives of the Powhatan Indians of Virginia, from their first encounter with Englis...

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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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Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean, Paperback - Jenny Shaw

230,99 RON 247,99 RON

Reducere. Set along both the physical and social margins of the British Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century, Everyday Life in the Early Engl...

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Solar Arcs: Astrology's Most Successful Predictive System, Paperback - Tyl, Noel

229,99 RON 246,99 RON

Reducere. In this indispensable astrology book, Noel Tyl presents the definitive study of astrology's most accurate prediction system. The first major presen...

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History of English, Paperback - Jonathan Culpeper

228,99 RON

Routledge Language Workbooks provide absolute beginners with practical introductions to core areas of language study. Books in the series provide c...

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More Auspicious Shores, Paperback - Caree A. Banton

228,99 RON

More Auspicious Shores chronicles the migration of Afro-Barbadians to Liberia. In 1865, 346 Afro-Barbadians fled a failed post-emancipation Caribbe...

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No Star Too Beautiful: Yiddish Stories from 1382 to the Present, Paperback - Joachim Neugroschel

227,99 RON 243,99 RON

Reducere. First developed and written in medieval Germany, Yiddish eventually became the everyday speech of Jews all over Europe and later globally. Yiddish ...

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The Koren Ncsy Siddur, Ashkenaz, Hebrew/English, Hardcover - Koren Publishers

225,99 RON 241,99 RON

Reducere. The Koren NCSY Siddur is a collaboration between Koren and NCSY, the youth wing of the OU, and cements an exciting partnership to achieve NCSY's ma...

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Late Merovingian France, Paperback - Richard A. Gerberding

224,99 RON 240,99 RON

Reducere. This collection of documents in translation brings together the seminal sources for the late Merovingian Frankish kingdom. It inteprets the chronic...

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Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s-1830s, Paperback - Steven King

223,99 RON

DescriptionFrom the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, the English Old Poor Law was waning, soon to be replaced by the New Poo...

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The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800, Paperback - Steven Moore

222,99 RON

Winner of the 2014 Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa SocietyHaving excavated the world's earlies...

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The Count of Monte Cristo, Volume 1: Unabridged Bilingual Edition: English-French, Paperback - Alexandre Dumas

221,99 RON 237,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionVolume 1 of 4 Alexandre Dumas, born in France in 1802, is one of the most widely read French authors in history. His novels of high adve...

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The Rig Veda, Paperback - ***

221,99 RON 237,99 RON

Reducere. Considered one the four canonical texts of the Hindu religion, known collectively as "The Vedas", "The Rig Veda" is one of the most important works...

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History of the Popes, Volume III: Their Church and State, Paperback - Leopold Von Ranke

221,99 RON 237,99 RON

Reducere. "...After the attempt made by the Popes to renew their dominion over the world had been finally defeated, notwithstanding its partial success, thei...

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Physician of the Soul, Healer of the Cosmos: Isaac Luria and His Kabbalistic Fellowship, Paperback - Lawrence Fine

220,99 RON 236,99 RON

Reducere. Isaac Luria (1534-1572) is one of the most extraordinary and influential mystical figures in the history of Judaism, a visionary teacher who helped...

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The Complete Guide to German Shorthaired Pointers: History, Behavior, Training, Fieldwork, Traveling, and Health Care for Your New GSP Puppy - Joanna

220,99 RON 236,99 RON

Reducere. Hardcover version is printed in FULL COLOR The German Shorthaired Pointer, or GSP, is an exceptionally versatile hunting dog that was developed in ...

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Battle for Sitka, 1802 -1804, Alaskan Tlingits, Russians and Native Allies in Russian America, Hardcover - Alexander V. Zorin

220,99 RON 236,99 RON

Reducere. Battle for Sitka is an English translation of a Russian historian's and chief curator's well considered views on the 1802 Russian loss of their for...

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Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism, Paperback - Noenoe K. Silva

219,99 RON 235,99 RON

Reducere. In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protes...

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A Masterclass in Antique Furniture: How to Find and Identify American, English, Dutch and French Antique Furniture, Clocks and Musical Instruments (Ha

219,99 RON 235,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis superb guide informs the reader on how to identify and discover the most gorgeous furniture ever to grace Europe and North America....

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Arts of Dying. Literature and Finitude in Medieval England, Paperback - D Vance Smith

218,99 RON

DescriptionPeople in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory--but t...

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How Literatures Begin: A Global History, Paperback - Joel B. Lande

217,99 RON

A comparative history of the practices, technologies, institutions, and people that created distinct literary traditions around the world, from anc...

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The Strange Death of Liberal England, Paperback - George Dangerfield

214,99 RON 230,99 RON

Reducere. At the beginning of the twentieth century England's empire spanned the globe, its economy was strong, and its political system seemed immune to the...

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The European Seaborne Empires: From the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions, Hardcover - Gabriel Paquette

213,99 RON

DescriptionAn accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship In...

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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, Paperback - David Hackett Fischer

212,99 RON 227,99 RON

Reducere. This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own ti...

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Where Chiang Kai-Shek Lost China: The Liao-Shen Campaign, 1948, Hardcover - Harold M. Tanner

211,99 RON 226,99 RON

Reducere. The civil war in China that ended in the 1949 victory of Mao Zedong's Communist forces was a major blow to US interests in the Far East and led to ...

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Earth and Spirit: Medicinal Plants and Healing Lore from Puerto Rico, Paperback - Maria Benedetti

211,99 RON 226,99 RON

Reducere. An inspiring work of oral history, Earth and Spirit explores and celebrates Puerto Rico's tradition of botanical medicine as it was practiced up to...

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