The Post-American World

Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957, Paperback - Derek Leebaert

147,99 RON 158,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionA new understanding of the post World War II era, showing what occurred when the British Empire wouldn't step aside for the rising Ameri...

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Rabindranath Tagore: An Anthology, Paperback - Rabindranath Tagore

145,99 RON 156,99 RON

Reducere. The first Asian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Rabindranath Tagore mesmerized the world with his spiritual insights and finely wroug...

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Twilight of the American Century, Paperback - Andrew J. Bacevich

145,99 RON 156,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionAndrew Bacevich is a leading American public intellectual, writing in the fields of culture and politics with particular attention to wa...

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No Domain: The John McAfee Tapes, Hardcover - Mark Eglinton

144,99 RON 155,99 RON

Reducere. An exhilarating and uncensored account of the maverick tech titan's wild life, a breakneck journey from Silicon Valley to his sudden, mysterious de...

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Master of War: The Life of General George H. Thomas, Paperback - Benson Bobrick

144,99 RON 155,99 RON

Reducere. - A first-rate historian: Benson Bobrick is the author of several celebrated books, including The Fated Sky and Testament . His work has been haile...

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Holdout, Hardcover - Jeffrey Kluger

144,99 RON

When evil forces are going unchecked on Earth, a principled astronaut makes a spilt-second decision to try to seek justice in the only place she kn...

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St. Landry Parish, Hardcover - Philip Andrepont

143,99 RON

St. Landry Parish, one of the oldest European settlements in Louisiana, has a fascinating history and culture. By the 15th century, the Appalousa I...

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Bedford and Its Neighbors, Hardcover - Daniel J. Burns

143,99 RON

Bedford can trace its roots as far back as 5800 BC, as evidence of early Native American civilizations has been found. Once described as a "prehist...

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The Kentucky Derby: How the Run for the Roses Became America's Premier Sporting Event, Paperback - James C. Nicholson

142,99 RON 152,99 RON

Reducere. Each year on the first Saturday in May, the world turns its attention to the twin spires of Churchill Downs for the high-stakes excitement of the "...

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Lost in Summerland: Essays, Hardcover - Barrett Swanson

142,99 RON 152,99 RON

Reducere. Barrett Swanson embarks on a personal quest across the United States to uncover what it means to be an American amid the swirl of our post-truth cl...

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Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House, Paperback - Peter Baker

142,99 RON 152,99 RON

Reducere. A New York Times Top 10 Best Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable BookTheirs was the most captivating American political partnership since Ric...

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Don't Burn This Country: Surviving and Thriving in Our Woke Dystopia, Hardcover - Dave Rubin

142,99 RON 152,99 RON

Reducere. A guide for anyone who wants to revive the American dream while the woke mob tries to burn down the country. You don't have to be a conspiracy theo...

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Webster Groves, Hardcover - Tom Cooper

141,00 RON

Drive down almost any street in Webster Groves and one is filled with a sense of timelessness. Entire neighborhoods are in the National Register of...

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M24 Chaffee, Vol. 1: American Light Tank in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, Hardcover - David Doyle

140,99 RON

DescriptionThe M24 Chaffee was the finest light tank developed by the US during WWII. This tank was developed by Cadillac, which, along with farm e...

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There Was a Time: James Brown, the Chitlin' Circuit, and Me, Hardcover - Alan Leeds

139,99 RON 149,99 RON

Reducere. "Alan Leeds was a proteg of James Brown and a true historian of the world that nurtured the great entertainer. Alan was a witness to the vibrant bl...

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The Executive Order, Hardcover - David Fisher

138,99 RON

In David Fisher's The Executive Order, this one-step-ahead-of-the-headlines thriller, a reporter races to uncover a conspiracy when he learns that ...

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A Woman of Intelligence, Hardcover - Karin Tanabe

138,99 RON

From a master of historical fiction (NPR), Karin Tanabe's A Woman of Intelligence is an exhilarating tale of post-war New York City, and one remark...

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We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities After 9/11, Paperback - Tram Nguyen

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

Reducere. In an ironic reversal of the American dream, a staggering 20, 000 members of the immigrant community of Midwood, Brooklyn (known as Little Pakistan...

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The Clay Pigeons of St. Lo, Paperback - Joseph Balkoski

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. This classic of military history tells the exciting story of the fall of St. L , the first major objective of the invading American armies in Norma...

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Post Romantic: Poems, Hardcover - Kathleen Flenniken

136,99 RON

In her wide-ranging third book, poet Kathleen Flenniken undertakes the difficult task of re-seeing what is before us. Post Romantic fuses personal ...

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Black Women in White America: A Documentary History, Paperback - Gerda Lerner

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. Recipient of the 2002 Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Historical Writing. In this "stunning collection of documents" (Washington Pos...

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Embracing the Other: The Transformative Spirit of Love, Paperback - Grace Ji-Sun Kim

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. An innovative Asian feminist perspective on God's Spirit We live in a time of great racial strife and global conflict. How do we work toward healin...

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The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide, Paperback - Meizhu Lui

133,99 RON 143,99 RON

Reducere. For every dollar owned by the average white family in the United States, the average family of color has less than a dime. Why do people of color h...

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Reluctant Reformers: Racism and Social Reform Movements in the United States, Paperback - Robert L. Allen

133,99 RON 143,99 RON

Reducere. Reluctant Reformers explores the centrality of racism to American politics through the origins, internal dynamics, and leadership of the major demo...

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Henry Patrick Raleigh: The Confident Illustrator, Hardcover - Manuel Auad

129,99 RON 139,99 RON

Reducere. Henry Patrick Raleigh (1880-1944) was an American illustrator whose drawings of society life defined the Gatsby era. He rose from school dropout at...

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Peter Taylor: A Writer's Life, Paperback - Hubert Horton McAlexander

128,99 RON

"Splendid. . . . McAlexander's biography only makes it clearer than ever that Peter Taylor was our last great southern man of letters."--Chicago Tr...

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Investigating William Branham: The Unfolding Story of Plagiarisms and Errors, Paperback - Bryan H. Smalls

128,99 RON 138,99 RON

Reducere. Who was William Branham (1909-1965) and what were his claims? He was an American pastor and evangelist credited for spearheading the post World War...

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Smith House II, Hardcover - Michael Prokopow

127,99 RON 136,99 RON

Reducere. Over the course of his distinguished career, architect Arthur Erickson (1924-2009) designed numerous houses, each an exercise in transforming the n...

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With Light Steam, Paperback - Bryon Macwilliams

127,99 RON 136,99 RON

Reducere. In 1996 Bryon MacWilliams left the relative stability of the United States for the chaos of post-Soviet Russia, and stayed. Over the course of near...

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The Betrayal of the Negro, from Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson, Paperback - Rayford Whittingham Logan

126,99 RON 135,99 RON

Reducere. Between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the end of World War I in 1918, African Americans experienced their nadir. The Betrayal of the Negro ...

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The Tribe: The Inside Story of Irish Power and Influence in Us Politics, Hardcover - Caitriona Perry

125,99 RON

In The Tribe, Caitr ona Perry is on familiar ground, returning to Washington and the green strongholds of the United States.Irish Americans were on...

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The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency, Paperback - John Dickerson

125,99 RON

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the veteran political journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent, a deep dive into the history, evolution, and curren...

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America in Retreat: The Decline of Us Leadership from Ww2 to Covid-19, Hardcover - Michael Pembroke

125,99 RON

The story of how America turned its back on the world... In the heady days after 1945, the authority of the United States was unrivalled and, with ...

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To Raise a Boy: Classrooms, Locker Rooms, Bedrooms, and the Hidden Struggles of American Boyhood, Hardcover - Emma Brown

125,99 RON

''To Raise a Boy is a clear-eyed and sometimes shocking view of the world that we have created for boys, and a call for change.'' -Peg Tyre, author...

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There She Was: The Secret History of Miss America, Hardcover - Amy Argetsinger

125,99 RON

A Washington Post Style editor's fascinating and irresistible look back on the Miss America pageant as it approaches its 100th anniversary. The sas...

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Until the Last Trumpet Sounds: The Life of General of the Armies John J. Pershing, Paperback - Gene Smith

121,99 RON 130,99 RON

Reducere. Critical Praise for Gene Smith On Until the Last Trumpet Sounds ""The best recent compact study of the commander of the American Expeditionary Forc...

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All the Love in the World, Paperback - Cathy Song

121,99 RON 130,99 RON

Reducere. Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Short Stories. ALL THE LOVE IN THE WORLD is a debut prose collection by award-winning poet Cathy Song. The...

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The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 8, Paperback - Gayle Reaves

121,99 RON 130,99 RON

Reducere. This anthology collects the ten winners of the 2020 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at UNT's Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conferen...

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History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History, Paperback - Dana Lindaman

120,99 RON 129,99 RON

Reducere. History Lessons offers a lighthearted and fascinating challenge to the biases we bring to our understanding of American history. The subject of wid...

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The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, Paperback - Samuel Moyn

119,99 RON 163,99 RON

Reducere. Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is base...

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The Magic Island, Paperback - William Seabrook

119,99 RON

"The best and most thrilling book of exploration that we have ever read ... an] immensely important book." -- New York Evening Post"A series of exc...

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Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945, Paperback - Michael Harper

118,99 RON 127,99 RON

Reducere. "Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep" is a rich collection of the work of post-World War II African-American poets. It brings together the voices of the mo...

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I Feel So Good. The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy, Paperback - Bob Riesman

118,99 RON

A major figure in American blues and folk music, Big Bill Broonzy (1903-58) left his Arkansas Delta home after World War I, headed north, and becam...

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Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust, Paperback - Joseph Berger

117,99 RON

In this touching account, veteran New York Times reporter Joseph Berger describes how his own family of Polish Jews -- with one son born at the clo...

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The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington, Paperback - Jennet Conant

116,99 RON 125,99 RON

Reducere. Now in paperback, and following her extraordinary, bestselling, and much-acclaimed accounts of the most guarded secrets of the Second World War, he...

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Fort Benning, Paperback - Kenneth H. Thomas Jr

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionEstablished outside Columbus, Georgia, in October 1918 by the United States Army as Camp Benning, the base was moved to its permanent lo...

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New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America, Paperback - Nathan Miller

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. The images of the 1920s have been indelibly imprinted on the American imagination-from jazz, bootleggers, flappers, talkies, the Model T Ford, Babe...

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Apples of North America: A Celebration of Exceptional Varieties, Paperback - Tom Burford

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. "For all of us who cherish the apple, its utility, its flavors, and its powers of revelation and connection." --Adrian Higgins, garden columnist, T...

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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African American Literary Criticism, Paperback - Henry Louis Gates Jr

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "eclectic, exciting, convincing, provocative" and in The Washington Post Book World as "brilliantly ori...

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Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan, Paperback - Ronald H. Spector

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. "The best book by far on the Pacific War" (The New York Times Book Review), this classic one-volume history of World War II in the Pacific draws on...

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We Demand: The University and Student Protests, Paperback - Roderick A. Ferguson

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Roderick A. FergusonIn the post-World War II period, students rebelled against the university establishment. In student-led...

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Ann Strange Owl: A Northern Cheyenne Memoir, Paperback - Sharon Arms

112,99 RON 120,99 RON

Reducere. From her birth in a one-room cabin the 1930s on the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana, Ann Strange Owl's memoir chronicles her remarkable li...

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The Ignorance of Bliss: An American Kid in Saigon, Paperback - Sandy Hanna

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. Description"Very early in my life I became a self-appointed spy." The Ignorance of Bliss tells the true story of ten-year-old Sandy, who moves with...

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The Black Bruins: The Remarkable Lives of UCLA's Jackie Robinson, Woody Strode, Tom Bradley, Kenny Washington, and Ray Bartlett, Paperback - James W.

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. The Black Bruins chronicles the inspirational lives of five African American athletes who faced racial discrimination as teammates at UCLA in the l...

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The Ecological Indian: Myth and History, Paperback - Shepard Krech

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. The idea of the Native American living in perfect harmony with nature is one of the most cherished contemporary myths. But how truthful is this lar...

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The Edna Lewis Cookbook, Paperback - Edna Lewis

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. Edna Lewis was recently honored with the issuance of a postal stamp by the US Post Office. She is renowned as one of the greatest American chefs an...

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A Traitor at the Stone Court, Paperback - Jordan Rivet

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionChange your face. Find the secret. Save the world. As war rages with the dreaded Obsidian King, Mica and the disgraced Lord Caleb chase ...

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Lone Star, Paperback - Paullina Simons

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. From the bestselling, acclaimed author of Tully and The Bronze Horseman comes the unforgettable love story between a college-bound young woman and ...

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Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of the Book of the New Sun, Paperback - Gene Wolfe

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. "A major work of twentieth-century American literature...Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within.....

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Shadow & Claw: The First Half of the Book of the New Sun, Paperback - Gene Wolfe

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. "A major work of twentieth-century American literature...Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within.....

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The Georgetown Set: Friends and Rivals in Cold War Washington, Paperback - Gregg Herken

109,99 RON

In the years after World War II, Georgetown's leafy streets were home to an unlikely group of Cold Warriors who helped shape American strategy. Thi...

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The Nazi Hunters, Paperback - Andrew Nagorski

108,99 RON 116,99 RON

Reducere. More than seven decades after the end of the Second World War, the era of the Nazi Hunters is drawing to a close. Their saga is finally told in thi...

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Reagan: An American Journey, Paperback - Bob Spitz

107,99 RON

DescriptionFrom New York Times bestselling biographer Bob Spitz, a rich biography of an epic American life, capturing what made Ronald Reagan so be...

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Matters of Chance, Paperback - Jeannette Haien

107,99 RON 115,99 RON

Reducere. Matters of Chance is a glorious, aptivating novel about Morgan and Maude Shurtliff, who fall in love and marry in the years before World WarII. Una...

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Reboot!: What to Do When Your Career Is Over But Your Life Isn't, Paperback - Phil Burgess

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. ``It's better to wear out than rust out.`` That is the message of 'Reboot ' While American culture glamorizes the ``Golden Years`` of endless leisu...

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I'm Still Standing: From Captive U.S. Soldier to Free Citizen--My Journey Home, Paperback - Shoshana Johnson

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. SHOSHANA HOLDS NOTHING BACK in this harrowing account of an ordinary woman caught in extraordinary circumstances. She reveals decisions made by cha...

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Beyond Borders: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Fiction Series, Paperback - Peter Vincent Pry

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. An EMP is a high-tech means of killing people the old fashioned way - through starvation, disease, and societal collapse. Dr. Peter Vincent PryThey...

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Latin American Art Since 1900, Paperback - Edward Lucie-Smith

106,99 RON

The only one-volume introduction to modern and post-modern art from Latin America, perhaps the most exciting and rewarding art scene in the world t...

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Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda's Newest Center, Paperback - Maria Ressa

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. For anyone wishing to understand the next, post-9/11 generation of al-Qaeda planning, leadership, and tactics, there is only one place to begin: So...

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Never Give Up!: Relentless Determination to Overcome Life's Challenges, Paperback - Joyce Meyer

103,99 RON 111,99 RON

Reducere. Joyce Meyer is probably better equipped than anyone when it comes to never giving up. She overcame an abused childhood, a bad marriage and extremel...

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