The Far West, Hardcover

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Marco Polo's family traveled to the Far East with the hope of establishing trade with what today is known as China and India. But It was Henry of P...

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Preaching's Preacher's Guide to the Best Bible Reference for 2014 (General Reference) How can we account for the "Book of the Law" suddenly being d...

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Reducere. The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 nearly doubled the size of the United States. The U.S. suddenly went from consisting of 17 states along the Atlantic...

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Reducere. The author of How to Train Your Dragon returns with the final, magical installment of the New York Times bestselling Wizards of Once series Xar and...

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Reducere. Mark Rowlands presents a novel analysis of three epoch-defining environmental problems: climate, extinction, and pestilence. Our climate is changin...

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Reducere. Back in hardcover format after a 50-year absence -- now with bonus special pages!The Happy Hollisters on a River Trip (Volume #2 in the Happy Holli...

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DescriptionEvan Schultheis reconsiders the evidence for Attila the Hun's most famous battle, the climax of his invasion of the Western Roman Empire...

Born in Massachusetts, Jared Bibler relocated to Iceland in 2004 only to find himself in the middle of an unprecedented financial crisis a handful ...

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A century ago, when Japan was transforming itself from an isolated feudal society into a modern nation, a Japanese educator queried about the ethos...

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A musician of rare artistry, the self-effacing yet charismatic Yo-Yo Ma connects with his audiences with startling effectiveness. He remains devote...

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Sufism is a growing and global phenomenon, far from the declining relic it was once thought to be. This book brings together the work of fourteen l...

In Western Europe the Golden Age of Islamic metalwork in Iran was (and is) generally considered to be the earlier period, and later metalwork was c...

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DescriptionReturning from a much-needed holiday, Persimmon 'Simmy' Brown discovers that life in the Lake District is, as ever, far from relaxing. B...

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DescriptionOne Man, Three Yokai, and a Dragon on a Road Trip to Hell The boys are back, in 400-page hardcovers that are as pretty and badass as the...

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