The Violent Century

Self-Portrait with Russian Piano, Paperback - Wolf Wondratschek

95,99 RON 102,99 RON

Reducere. A legendary literary figure who initiated a one-man Beat Generation in his native Germany, Wolf Wondratschek "is eccentric, monomaniacal, romantic-...

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A Pilgrimage of Murder: A Medieval Mystery Set in 14th Century London, Paperback - Paul Doherty

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. Brother Athelstan's Canterbury pilgrimage is disrupted by brutal murder in the latest absorbing medieval mystery. Summer, 1381. The Great Revolt ha...

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The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories, Paperback - Don Delillo

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. A finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Story Prize, the first ever collection of "dazzlingly told" (The New York Times) short st...

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Ninja: 1, 000 Years of the Shadow Warrior, Paperback - John Man

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. The definitive history of the ninja, based on a wealth of historical texts, local Japanese sources, and John Man's own treks across Asia"An immense...

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The Stolen Ones, Paperback - Richard Montanari

97,99 RON 104,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn Richard Montanari's chilling new suspense novel, a sealed-off network of secret passages connects all of Philadelphia to the killer h...

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The Coming of the Horseclans, Paperback - Bob McLain

97,99 RON 104,99 RON

Reducere. The Return of Robert Adams' Classic Horseclans Series for a New Generation!Milo of Morai, over 600 years old and immune to death by ordinary means,...

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The Scarlet Letters, Paperback - Ellery Queen

98,99 RON 105,99 RON

Reducere. Beautiful actress Martha Lawrence has a problem. Her once loving husband, Dirk, has become violent and controlling, and she doesn't know why. When ...

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The Feast of Bacchus - Ernest George Henham

100,39 RON 111,54 RON

Reducere. In the remote hamlet of Thorlund stands the manor house known as the Strath, an eerie place that exercises a mysterious hold over anyone who enters...

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Storm of the Century, Paperback - Stephen King

100,99 RON 108,99 RON

Reducere. #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King presents an original screenplay and major television event set in Maine's remote Little Tall Isla...

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Zone, Paperback - Mathias Enard

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. ``The novel of the decade, if not of the century.``--Christophe ClaroFrancis Servain Mirkovic, a French-born Croat who has been working for the Fre...

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Fifty-Nine in '84: Old Hoss Radbourn, Barehanded Baseball, and the Greatest Season a Pitcher Ever Had, Paperback - Edward Achorn

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. "All fans of baseball, all fans of a good story, will love this book." -- Professor Gordon Wood, Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize winner "This is a beau...

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Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition, Paperback - Nisid Hajari

102,99 RON 110,99 RON

Reducere. An NPR Book of the YearA Seattle Times Book of the YearWilliam E. Colby Award Winner"A beautifully written, deeply intelligent book abouta] crucial...

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Gangs and Outlaws of Western Pennsylvania, Paperback - Thomas White

102,99 RON 110,99 RON

Reducere. Violent bank heists, bold train robberies and hardened gangs all tear across the history of the wild west--western Pennsylvania, that is. The regio...

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The Boys in Chicago Heights: The Forgotten Crew of the Chicago Outfit, Paperback - Matthew J. Luzi

102,99 RON 110,99 RON

Reducere. Chicago Heights was long the seat of one of the major street crews of the Chicago Outfit, but its importance has often been overlooked and misunder...

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Against a Crimson Sky (the Poland Trilogy Book 2), Paperback - James Conroyd Martin

103,99 RON 111,99 RON

Reducere. A magnificent and sweeping epic, Against a Crimson Sky is an unforgettable tale of love, secrets, valor, and the enduring strength of the human spi...

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The Political Writings from Alienation and Freedom, Paperback - Frantz Fanon

103,99 RON

Frantz Fanon's political impact is difficult to overestimate. His anti-colonialist, philosophical and revolutionary writings were among the most in...

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Violent Image. Insurgent Propaganda and the New Revolutionaries, Paperback - Neville Bolt

103,99 RON

Neville Bolt investigates how today's revolutionaries have rejuvenated the nineteenth century 'propaganda of the deed' so that terrorism no longer ...

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Salvation: Jesus's Mission and Ours, Paperback - John B. Cobb

103,99 RON 111,99 RON

Reducere. What would Jesus do? This is an old question that Christians of each successive generation have had to pose anew if they want to be faithful discip...

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The Reckoning, Paperback - M. J. Trow

103,99 RON

Trow goes out on a high note with his sterling 11th and final mystery starring English playwright Kit Marlow.... Trow reinforces his place at the t...

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Collected Writings of Chairman Mao - Politics and Tactics, Paperback - Mao Zedong

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. Mao Zedong (also known as Mao Tse-tung) is regarded as one of the most controversial figures in modern world history. Having conquered the country,...

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Collected Writings of Chairman Mao: Volume 2 - Guerrilla Warfare, Paperback - Mao Zedong

105,99 RON 113,99 RON

Reducere. Mao Zedong (also known as Mao Tse-tung) is regarded as one of the most controversial figures in modern world history. Having conquered the country,...

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Metronome: A History of Paris from the Underground Up, Paperback - Lorant Deutsch

105,99 RON

A phenomenal bestseller in France, Metronome presents a fascinating history of Paris through the lens of the city's iconic Metro systemDid you know...

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The Vikings: From Odin to Christ, Paperback - Martyn Whittock

105,99 RON 113,99 RON

Reducere. The popular image of the Vikings is of tall red-headed men, raping and pillaging their way around the coast of Europe, stopping only to ransack mon...

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Philmont: A History of New Mexico's Cimarron Country, Paperback - Lawrence Murphy

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. Here is the first comprehensive history of the Colfax County area of northeastern New Mexico. Best known today as the home of the Philmont Scout Ra...

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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow, Paperback - Henry Louis Gates

107,99 RON

DescriptionThe New York Times bestseller. A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the vi...

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The Big Book of California Ghost Stories, Paperback - Janice Oberding

107,99 RON 115,99 RON

Reducere. Few states can rival California in terms of natural beauty and exciting history. But nearly three centuries of violent crime, sickness, greed, and ...

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White Fang, Hardcover - Jack London

108,99 RON 116,99 RON

Reducere. The story takes place in Yukon Territory, Canada, during the Klondike Gold Rush at the end of the 19th-century, and details a wild wolfdog's journe...

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Whitechapel Rising, Paperback - Anthony M. Strong

108,99 RON 116,99 RON

Reducere. An impossible killer stalks the streets of London.Jack the Ripper faded into history over a century ago, his identity lost to the ages. Until a wor...

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Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians, Paperback - Paul Marshall

108,99 RON 116,99 RON

Reducere. Christians are the world's most widely persecuted religiousgroup, according to studiesby the Pew Research Center, Newsweek, and the Economist, amon...

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Big Scrum PB, Paperback - John J. Miller

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. John J. Miller delivers the intriguing, never-before-told story of how Theodore Roosevelt saved American Football--a game that would become the nat...

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The Last Empress, Paperback - Anchee Min

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. The last decades of the nineteenth century were a violent period in China's history marked by humiliating foreign incursions and domestic rebellion...

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The Hundred Headless Woman, Paperback - Max Ernst

110,99 RON

Originally published in Paris in 1929, this collage novel by avant-gardist Max Ernst constitutes a seminal 20th-century work of art. The artist's s...

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By Force Alone, Paperback - Lavie Tidhar

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. A retelling of Arthurian myth from World Fantasy Award-winner Lavie Tidhar, By Force Alone. Everyone thinks they know the story of King Arthur and ...

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Global Citizenship in the 21st Century - A Leap of Faith to a Better World: Celebrating Diversity, Inter Racial, Inter Faith and Inter Cultural Harmon

111,99 RON

DescriptionOver the past two decades, two opposing currents have been building. On the one hand a resurgence of jingoistic nationalism, racial into...

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James Bowie: Texas Fighting Man, Paperback - Clifford Hopewell

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. Texas' most famous fighting man, James (Jim) Bowie, a descendant of the fierce natives of the Scottish Highlands, gets the full treatment in Cliffo...

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Biddle, Jackson, and a Nation in Turmoil: The Infamous Bank War, Paperback - Cordelia Frances Biddle

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. The first half of the 19th century was an era of upheaval. The United States nearly lost the War of 1812. Partisanship became endemic during violen...

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Mariner's Wake, Paperback - Adam Marsh

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. Kara Nkosi is a Mariner-sworn to protect those of her blood and heart, sworn to protect the sea. Generations ago, her people escaped starvation and...

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The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square, Paperback - Steven A. Cook

112,99 RON 120,99 RON

Reducere. The recent revolution in Egypt has shaken the Arab world to its roots. The most populous Arab country and the historical center of Arab intellectua...

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American Hauntings: The Rise of the Spirit World and Birth of the Modern Ghost Hunter, Paperback - Troy Taylor

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. AMERICAN HAUNTINGS THE RISE OF THE SPIRIT WORLD AND THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN GHOST HUNTER BY TROY TAYLORDo you believe in ghosts? You're not alone. ...

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Under the Trestle: The 1980 Disappearance of Gina Renee Hall & Virginia's First No Body Murder Trial., Paperback - Ron Peterson Jr

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. Description"Under The Trestle" is the true story of the most compelling murder case in Virginia history. In 1980, beautiful Gina Renee Hall, a Radf...

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Charlotte True Crime Stories: Notorious Cases from Fraud to Serial Killing, Paperback - Cathy Pickens

116,99 RON 125,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionCrimes that captivated attention in the Charlotte area over the years run the gamut from missing people to the wrongly accused. This col...

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The Chronoliths, Paperback - Robert Charles Wilson

116,99 RON 125,99 RON

Reducere. One day in Thailand, 21st-century slacker Scott Warden witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar. Its arriva...

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Cumbres Borrascosas, Hardcover - Emily Bronte

116,99 RON 125,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionCumbres Borrascosas is the essential English romantic novel of the nineteenth century. It describes the passionate and intense love betw...

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The Life Written by Himself, Paperback - Avvakum Petrov

116,99 RON

Moscow in the middle of the seventeenth century had a distinctly apocalyptic feel. An outbreak of the plague killed half the population. A solar ec...

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Lion of Ireland, Paperback - Morgan Llywelyn

117,99 RON 126,99 RON

Reducere. Morgan Llywelyn's New York Times bestselling historical classic of the greatest Irish kingKing. Warrior. Lover.Brian Boru was stronger, braver, and...

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Climate Wars: What People Will Be Killed for in the 21st Century, Paperback - Harald Welzer

118,99 RON

Struggles over drinking water, new outbreaks of mass violence, ethnic cleansing, civil wars in the earth's poorest countries, endless flows of refu...

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The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915, Hardcover - Jon Grinspan

119,99 RON

A penetrating, character-filled history "in the manner of David McCullough" (WSJ), revealing the deep roots of our tormented present-day politics. ...

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Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers, Paperback - Doug J. Swanson

119,99 RON

"Swanson has done a crucial public service by exposing the barbarous side of the Rangers." --The New York Times Book Review A twenty-first century ...

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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, Hardcover - Henry Adams

120,99 RON 129,99 RON

Reducere. Using architecture, sculpture, culture and history, Adams humanizes the medieval period and provides valuable insight on religious philosophy. Mont...

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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, Paperback - Jung Chang

121,99 RON 130,99 RON

Reducere. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history--a bests...

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The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931, Paperback - Adam Tooze

121,99 RON 130,99 RON

Reducere. A bold new interpretation of the First World War and the birth of the American Century In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no en...

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Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive, Paperback - Marisa J. Fuentes

121,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Marisa J. FuentesIn the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Ma...

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Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas, Paperback - Mari Sandoz

122,99 RON 131,99 RON

Reducere. Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of the Oglala Sioux whose personal power and social nonconformity contributed to his reputation as being...

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We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption, Hardcover - Justin Fenton

125,99 RON

The astonishing true story of "one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation" (The New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize-...

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The Dark and the Darker, Paperback - J. L. Hickey

126,99 RON 135,99 RON

Reducere. For over a century, the children of Ojibway City have gone missing at an alarming rate, some reported, some not. Either way, anyone living near the...

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The Feathers of Death (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) - Simon Raven

128,99 RON

When Lieutenant Alastair Lynch shoots young Drummer Malcolm Harley in the back for desertion in the face of an enemy attack, his action seems to be...

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Chasing the Modern: The Twentieth-Century Life of Poet Xu Zhimo, Paperback - Tony S. Hsu

128,99 RON 138,99 RON

Reducere. At the height of his literary prowess, Xu Zhimo was the most famous living poet in all of China. With his round spectacles and aristocratic profile...

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Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed, Paperback - John F. Ross

129,99 RON 139,99 RON

Reducere. The sensational true story of Eddie Rickenbacker, America's greatest flying aceAt the turn of the twentieth century two new technologies--the car a...

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Recovering the Scandal of the Cross: Atonement in New Testament and Contemporary Contexts, Paperback - Mark D. Baker

132,99 RON

DescriptionFor the first-century Roman world the cross was first and foremost an instrument of shameful and violent execution. But early Christians...

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The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic, Hardcover - Mike Duncan

132,99 RON

The creator of the massively popular, award-winning podcast series The History of Rome brings to life the story of the tumultuous years that set th...

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Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, Paperback - Diogenes Laertius

132,99 RON 142,99 RON

Reducere. Originally written in Greek sometime in the 3rd century, "Lives of the Eminent Philosophers" is the historically significant collection of biograph...

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The Brahms Bust: A Megan Crespi Mystery Series Novel, Paperback - Alessandra Comini

132,99 RON 142,99 RON

Reducere. After visiting the nineteenth-century German/Texan sculptor Elisabet Ney Museum in Austin, art crimes detective Professor Megan Crespi identifies a...

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Night Things, Paperback - Michael Talbot

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionBuilt by a madwoman during the Victorian era, Lake House is a 160-room mansion in the Adirondacks with stairways that lead nowhere, biza...

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Savage (a Jack Sigler Thriller), Paperback - Jeremy Robinson

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. For more than a hundred million years, the Dark Continent has kept a savage secret. While on the trail of a stolen tactical nuclear weapon, Jack Si...

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The Nine Lives of Charles E. Lively: The Deadliest Man in the West Virginia-Colorado Coal Mine Wars, Paperback - R. G. Yoho

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

Reducere. The West Virginia and Colorado Coal Mine Wars of the early twentieth century was a tumultuous and violent time in our nation's history. At the cent...

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Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West, Hardcover - Raymond Ibrahim

138,99 RON

A sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West, shedding a revealing light on current hostilities The West and Islam--...

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Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-To-Table History of How Beef Changed America, Hardcover - Joshua Specht

138,99 RON 148,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionHow beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food complexBy the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor ha...

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The Trial of Tom Horn, Paperback - John W. Davis

138,99 RON 148,99 RON

Reducere. For weeks in 1902 it commanded headlines. All of Wyoming and much of the West followed the trial of Tom Horn for the murder of a fourteen-year-old ...

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Piles of Slain, Heaps of Corpses, Paperback - Jacob Onyumbe Wenyi

139,99 RON 149,99 RON

Reducere. Piles of Slain, Heaps of Corpses reads the violence in the book of Nahum against the background of the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

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Abraham's God: The Origin and History of the Beliefs of Jews, Christians, and Muslims, Paperback - John W. Dickerson

141,99 RON 151,99 RON

Reducere. Abraham's God is the incredible story of the origin of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and how they came to the shared faith in the God of Abraha...

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