Atlas of the Great Irish Famine, Hardcover - John Crowley
977,99 RON
Best Reference Books of 2012 presented by Library Journal The Great Irish Famine is the most pivotal event in modern Irish history, with implicatio...
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The Natural History of Us
Greening the City: Nature in French Towns from the 17th Century, Hardcover - Charles-François Mathis
786,99 RON 842,99 RON
Reducere. The time seems ripe for the greening of cities: green roofs and walls, planted pavements, shared or therapeutic gardens... Is the city discovering ...
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Feasting and Fasting: The History and Ethics of Jewish Food, Hardcover - Aaron S. Gross
658,99 RON
How Judaism and food are intertwined Judaism is a religion that is enthusiastic about food. Jewish holidays are inevitably celebrated through eatin...
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Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History, Paperback - Ted Steinberg
508,99 RON 544,99 RON
Reducere. DescriptionIn this ambitious and provocative text, environmental historian Ted Steinberg offers a sweeping history of the United States--a history ...
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Portraits of Cuba, Hardcover - Daniel Duncan
379,99 RON
Scenes from Havana to Santiago Through an abundance of dynamic photographs, Portraits of Cuba depicts the experiences of Cubans of different ages a...
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Weak Knowledge: Forms, Functions, and Dynamics, Hardcover - Moritz Epple
376,99 RON
Many of us view the world of science as a firm bastion of knowledge, with each new discovery and further illumination adding to an unshakable found...
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Storytelling for User Experience: Crafting Stories for Better Design, Paperback - Whitney Quesenbery
376,99 RON 403,99 RON
Reducere. We all tell stories. It's one of the most natural ways to share information, as old as the human race. This book is not about a new technique, but ...
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Hélène Binet: The Intimacy of Making: Three Historical Sites in Korea, Hardcover - Hélène Binet
346,99 RON
The shrines, gardens, tea houses and sacred sites of Korea, as portrayed by architectural photographer Hélène BinetIn The Intimacy of Making, Londo...
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Rethinking the Concept of 'healing Settlements' Water, Cults, Constructions and Contexts in the Ancient World, Paperback - Maddalena Bassani
319,99 RON
Description'Rethinking the Concept of 'Healing Settlements' Water, Cults, Constructions and Contexts in the Ancient World' brings together papers d...
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Giant Snakes: A Natural History, Paperback - John C. Murphy
317,99 RON 340,99 RON
Reducere. DescriptionSnakes, particularly venomous snakes and exceptionally large constricting snakes, have haunted the human brain for a millennium. They ap...
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Atmospheric Chemistry: From the Surface to the Stratosphere, Paperback - Grant Ritchie
316,99 RON
Understanding the composition and chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere is essential to global ecological and environmental policy making and researc...
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Arizona's Amphibians & Reptiles: A Natural History and Field Guide, Paperback - John C. Murphy
316,99 RON 339,99 RON
Reducere. DescriptionFor both the casual observer and the experienced naturalist, this indispensable field guide and natural history reference covers all the...
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Animal Cognition 101, Paperback - Erin Colbert-White
307,99 RON
This concise overview provides a scientific yet highly accessible introduction to the science of animal cognition. Written for undergraduate colleg...
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Face of Imperialism: Responsibility-Taking in the Political World, Paperback - Michael Parenti
301,99 RON
In the last half-century we have witnessed a dramatic expansion of American corporate power into every corner of the world, accompanied by an equal...
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Flights of Passage: An Illustrated Natural History of Bird Migration, Hardcover - Mike Unwin
273,99 RON
DescriptionA visually stunning, photographically driven celebration of bird migration--one of the great marvels of the natural world The vast trans...
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In Amazonia: A Natural History, Paperback - Hugh Raffles
271,99 RON
DescriptionThe Amazon is not what it seems. As Hugh Raffles shows us in this captivating and innovative book, the world's last great wilderness has...
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A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf - Legacy Edition: A Great Hike To The Gulf Of Mexico, Florida, And The Atlantic Ocean, Hardcover - John Muir
263,99 RON 282,99 RON
Reducere. John Muir's Great Hike to the Gulf Of Mexico, Florida, and the Caribbean WatersThis deluxe, unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of John Muir's 1916 A...
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Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language, Paperback - Douglas C. Baynton
255,99 RON 273,99 RON
Reducere. Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Ale...
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The Concise Book of Owls: A Guide to Nature's Most Mysterious Birds, Hardcover - Lochlainn Seabrook
252,99 RON 270,99 RON
Reducere. DescriptionWhat makes owls unique among our planet's 10, 000 bird species? The Concise Book of Owls, by award-winning writer-naturalist and histori...
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Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums, Hardcover - Samuel J. Redman
251,99 RON 269,99 RON
Reducere. In 1864 a U.S. army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota. Carefully recording his observations, he sent the s...
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Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison, Hardcover - David Wootton
247,99 RON
A provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents.We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much...
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¡viva George!: Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the Us-Mexico Border, Paperback - ***
241,99 RON 258,99 RON
Reducere. Since 1898, residents of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have reached across the US-Mexico border to celebrate George Washington's bir...
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Nature's Mirror: How Taxidermists Shaped America's Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species, Hardcover - Mary Anne Andrei
239,99 RON
It may be surprising to us now, but the taxidermists who filled the museums, zoos, and aquaria of the twentieth century were also among the first t...
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Going for Broke: Japanese American Soldiers in the War Against Nazi Germany, Paperback - James M. McCaffrey
238,99 RON 255,99 RON
Reducere. When Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Americans reacted with revulsion and horror. In the patriotic war fever that follow...
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Alcatraz: A History of the Penitentiary Years, Paperback - Michael Esslinger
237,99 RON 254,99 RON
Reducere. ALCATRAZ - the name alone said it all... It was meant to send a shudder down the spines of the nation's most incorrigible criminals. It stripped Al...
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New Jersey State of Mind, Hardcover - Peter Genovese
235,99 RON
No state has been so frequently mocked, maligned, or misunderstood as New Jersey. Yet the state is filled with amazing places and people who rarely...
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Aristotle: From Antiquity to the Modern Era, Hardcover - Barbara Scalvini
226,99 RON 242,99 RON
Reducere. Aristotle towers over Western philosophy and science as no other single person does. As they have come down to us, Aristotle's works comprise a ver...
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Southern Appalachian Celebration: In Praise of Ancient Mountains, Old-Growth Forests, and Wilderness, Hardcover - James Valentine
225,99 RON 241,99 RON
Reducere. With this stunning collection of images of the Southern Appalachians, James Valentine presents an enduring portrait of the region's unique natural ...
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Hal Borland's Book of Days, Hardcover - Hal Borland
225,99 RON 241,99 RON
Reducere. Oftentimes the answers to life's biggest questions can be found by searching for them at the smallest scales. In Book of Days, beloved nature write...
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On the Prowl: In Search of Big Cat Origins, Hardcover - Mark Hallett
217,99 RON
Big cats such as lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars fascinate us like few other creatures. They are enduring symbols of natural majesty and power...
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Nosey Beast: Natural history of the coatis, Hardcover - Christine C. Hass
213,99 RON 228,99 RON
Reducere. Nosey Beast is the first comprehensive work on the coatis. Combining the results of her decades of study on wild and captive white-nosed coatis wit...
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The Swahili People and Their Language: A Teaching Handbook, Paperback - Dainess Mashiku Maganda
206,99 RON 221,99 RON
Reducere. History is a testament to what happened to a people or a place. It shows how things were and their transformation while explaining why the changes ...
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Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, Hardcover - Nicholas A. Christakis
205,99 RON
"A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more" (Frank Br...
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Silver Springs - The Liquid Heart of Florida, Paperback - Robert L. Knight
199,99 RON 213,99 RON
Reducere. Silver Springs, located in central Florida, is perhaps the best known natural artesian spring in the world. A grand natural wonder of the world on ...
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Historic Photos of the Presidio, Hardcover - Rebecca Schall
197,99 RON
Situated at the mouth of the Golden Gate is the Presidio of San Francisco, one of the nation's most famous former U.S. Army bases, currently a Nati...
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Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies, Paperback - Hunter Vaughan
193,99 RON
DescriptionIn an era when many businesses have come under scrutiny for their environmental impact, the film industry has for the most part escaped ...
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Experiencing Architecture, 2nd Edition, Paperback - Steen Eiler Rasmussen
193,99 RON
DescriptionA classic examination of superb design through the centuries.Widely regarded as a classic in the field, Experiencing Architecture explor...
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The Alps: High Mountains in Motion, Hardcover - Lorenz Andreas Fischer
188,99 RON
Extreme weather conditions, transitioning seasons, daytime and nighttime, erosion and deposition, melting and freezing, and avalanches: the Alps ar...
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Gone at 3: 17: The Untold Story of the Worst School Disaster in American History, Hardcover - David M. Brown
187,99 RON 201,99 RON
Reducere. At 3: 17 p.m. on March 18, 1937, a natural gas leak beneath the London Junior-Senior High School in the oil boomtown of New London, Texas, created ...
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Riding Shotgun with Norman Wallace: Rephotographing the Arizona Landscape, Paperback - William Wyckoff
186,99 RON 200,99 RON
Reducere. In Riding Shotgun with Norman Wallace, award-winning geographer William Wyckoff celebrates the photographic legacy of Norman Grant Wallace, whose w...
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Signs of Resistance: American Deaf Cultural History, 1900 to World War II - Susan Burch
185,99 RON
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003 During the nineteenth century, American schools for deaf education regarded sign language as the "natural la...
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The Natural Contract, Paperback - Michel Serres
184,99 RON
Global environmental change, argues Michel Serres, has forced us to reconsider our relationship to nature. In this translation of his influential 1...
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Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution, Paperback - Bruce T. Moran
183,99 RON
DescriptionAlchemy can't be science--common sense tells us as much. But perhaps common sense is not the best measure of what science is, or was. In...
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Colors of the Soul: Physiological and Spiritual Qualities of Light and Dark, Paperback - Dennis Klocek
182,99 RON
The subject of color is a very important aspect of life and healing, especially healing what we could call the split in the world created by ordina...
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Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers, and the Fate of Populations, Paperback - Anthony McMichael
182,99 RON
When we think of climate change, we often picture man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occur...
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Between Paradise and Peril: The Natural Disaster History of the Monterey Bay Region, Paperback - Gary Griggs
182,99 RON
Description"Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice" - Will DurantThe Monterey Bay Region seems to have it all ...
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The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains, Hardcover - Joseph LeDoux
182,99 RON
A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and human beings to...
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Go & See: See What You Have. Invest All You'Ve Been Given., Paperback - Jaclyn M. Loween
180,99 RON 193,99 RON
Reducere. We all want to impact the world around us, but too many of us struggle to realize visions tucked into our hearts and minds. Feelings of doubt, lone...
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Kids On Earth: A Children's Documentary Series Exploring Global Cultures and The Natural World: Costa Rica, Hardcover - Sensei Paul David
180,99 RON 193,99 RON
Reducere. Wouldn't you like to take a family vacation to a place you've never been, right now?You and your entire family are invited to come and experience, ...
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Equine Empowerment: A Guide To Positive Reinforcement Training, Paperback - Jessica Gonzalez
179,99 RON 192,99 RON
Reducere. DescriptionScience based training is not just a way of modifying behavior, but an entire way of living with animals. A solid understanding of our s...
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Dragonflies and Damselflies: A Natural History, Hardcover - Dennis Paulson
178,99 RON 191,99 RON
Reducere. A lavishly illustrated introduction to the world's dragonflies and damselfliesDragonflies and damselflies are often called birdwatchers' insects. L...
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Into the Carpathians: A Journey Through the Heart and History of East Central Europe (Part 2: The Western Mountains) - Alan E. Sparks
177,99 RON 190,99 RON
Reducere. The journey continues in Part 2 of Into the Carpathians. Still on the trail of wolves, we are now led into the western Carpathian and the Sudeten M...
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Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692, Paperback - Richard Godbeer
175,99 RON 188,99 RON
Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard GodbeerThe Salem witch hunt of 1692 is among the most infamous events in early American history; however, it was no...
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Stripped Bare: The Art of Animal Anatomy, Hardcover - David Bainbridge
174,99 RON 187,99 RON
Reducere. DescriptionA lavishly illustrated compendium of the art and history of animal anatomy from antiquity to todayFor more than two thousand years, comp...
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Death from a Distance and the Birth of a Humane Universe: Human Evolution, Behavior, History, and Your Future, Paperback - Joanne Souza
173,99 RON
Contributor(s): Author: Joanne SouzaAuthor: Paul M. BinghamA new biological theory of human uniqueness and theory of everything based in human evol...
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Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe, Hardcover - Johnjoe McFadden
173,99 RON 186,99 RON
Reducere. A biologist argues that simplicity is the guiding principle of the universe Centuries ago, the principle of Ockham's razor changed our world by sho...
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The Big Book of Amaro, Hardcover - Matteo Zed
172,99 RON 185,99 RON
Reducere. Amaro, translated literally as "bitter, " is an herbal liqueur traditionally enjoyed as a digestif. Delightfully complex and bittersweet, it's also...
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A Natural History of Beer, Hardcover - Rob DeSalle
171,99 RON
DescriptionA celebration of beer--its science, its history, and its impact on human culture What can beer teach us about biology, history, and the ...
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A Year with Nature: An Almanac, Hardcover - Marty Crump
171,99 RON
DescriptionA Year with Nature is an almanac like none you've ever seen: combining science and aesthetics, it is a daily affirmation of the extraord...
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Secret Selves: A History of Our Inner Space, Hardcover - Stephen Prickett
171,99 RON
Who are we and how do we define our inner selves? In his last work, Professor Stephen Prickett presents a literary and cultural exploration of our ...
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Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators, Paperback - U. S. Navy Naval Air Systems Command
170,99 RON 182,99 RON
Reducere. (NAVWEPS 00-80T-80) This textbook presents the elements of applied aerodynamics and aeronautical engineering which relate directly to the problems ...
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Keeping Together in Time: Dance and Drill in Human History, Paperback - William H. McNeill
170,99 RON 182,99 RON
Reducere. Could something as simple and seemingly natural as falling into step have marked us for evolutionary success? In Keeping Together in Time one of th...
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Hal Borland's Book of Days, Paperback - Hal Borland
170,99 RON 182,99 RON
Reducere. Oftentimes the answers to life's biggest questions can be found by searching for them at the smallest scales. In Book of Days, beloved nature write...
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4, 000-Footers of New Hampshire's White Mountains, Hardcover - Mike Dickerman
169,99 RON 181,99 RON
Reducere. New Hampshire's iconic 4, 000-foot peaks, with their rugged character and natural beauty, have been attracting hikers, explorers, and outdoor enthu...
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Florida's Rivers: A Celebration of Over 40 of the Sunshine State's Dynamic Waterways, Hardcover - Doug Alderson
168,99 RON 180,99 RON
Reducere. The rivers in Florida are steeped in a rich natural and cultural history. They are avenuesthrough time, allowing us to wrap ourselves in a rich his...
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The Concise Book of Owls: A Guide to Nature's Most Mysterious Birds - Lochlainn Seabrook
167,99 RON 179,99 RON
Reducere. DescriptionWhat makes owls unique among our planet's 10, 000 bird species? The Concise Book of Owls, by award-winning writer-naturalist and histori...
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Extreme Planet: Carsten Peter's Adventures in Volcanoes, Caves, Canyons, Deserts, and Beyond! - Carsten Peter
167,99 RON
The earth explodes in shoots of hot magma, glaciers crash into the ocean, grotesque creatures lurk in deep caves... follow noted National Geographi...
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From Sin to Amazing Grace: Discovering the Queer Christ, Paperback - Patrick S. Cheng
167,99 RON 179,99 RON
Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Patrick S. ChengThroughout the history of Christianity, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ("LGBT" or"queer") people ha...
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Whidbey Island: Reflections on People & the Land, Hardcover - Elizabeth Guss
166,99 RON 178,99 RON
Reducere. For generations, Whidbey Island's vivid beauty has made it a home for those drawn in by a rural landscape and thriving communities. Whether native ...
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Rancho Cucamonga, Hardcover - Paula Emick
166,99 RON 178,99 RON
Reducere. Located at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains near the southern end of the Cajon Pass, Rancho Cucamonga has served as a natural crossroads for t...
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