The Violent Century

Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide, Paperback - Hans-Lukas Kieser

170,99 RON

The first English-language biography of the de facto ruler of the late Ottoman Empire and architect of the Armenian GenocideTalaat Pasha (1874-1921...

princeton university press, carti, carte straina, biography

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American Red, Paperback - David Marlett

169,99 RON 181,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe Great American Century begins, the modern world roars to life, Capitalists flaunt greed and seize power, Socialists and labor unions...

story plant, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Reckoning, Hardback - M.J. Trow

167,99 RON

Description"Trow goes out on a high note with his sterling 11th and final mystery starring English playwright Kit Marlow.... Trow reinforces his pl...

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April Blood: Florence and the Plot Against the Medici, Paperback - Lauro Martines

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. One of the world's leading historians of Renaissance Italy brings to life here the vibrant--and violent--society of fifteenth-century Florence. His...

oxford university press, usa, carti, carte straina, earth sciences

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The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science, Hardcover - Seb Falk

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. Soaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. But the so-called Dark Ag...

w. w. norton & company, carti, carte straina, mathematics & science

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A History of War: From Ancient Warfare to the Global Conflicts of the 21st Century, Hardcover - Chris McNab

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. This lavishly illustrated full-color hardback explores the dark but compelling story of warfare, from its emergence in prehistoric tribal disputes,...

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The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution, Paperback - Thomas P. Slaughter

165,99 RON 177,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWhen President George Washington ordered an army of 13, 000 men to march west in 1794 to crush a tax rebellion among frontier farmers, h...

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Uleyli-The Princess & Pirate (A Junior Graphic Novel): Based on the true story of Florida's Pocahontas, Hardcover - G. C. Daniels

165,99 RON 177,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionUleyli is a princess-but she isn't happy with all that comes with it. She'd rather daydream and create art than learn how to rule her pe...

rebourne communications, carti, carte straina, biography

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The Founding of Thomas Jefferson's University, Hardcover - John A. Ragosta

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. Established in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the University of Virginia was known as "The University" throughout the South for most of the nineteenth c...

university of virginia press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny, Hardcover - Emily Katz Anhalt

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. An incisive exploration of the way Greek myths empower us to defeat tyranny. As tyrannical passions increasingly plague twenty-first-century politi...

redwood press, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion

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Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier, Hardcover - Bob Drury

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. The Instant New York Times Besteller National Bestseller [The] authors' finest work to date. --Wall Street JournalThe explosive true saga of the le...

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

163,99 RON 175,99 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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Maritime Annapolis: A History of Watermen, Sails & Midshipmen, Hardcover - Rosemary F. Williams

163,99 RON 175,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWith fortunes that have ebbed and flowed with the tides, Annapolis has graced the banks of the Severn River and the Chesapeake Bay since...

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Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires, Hardcover - Juan Cole

162,99 RON 174,99 RON

Reducere. In the midst of the dramatic seventh-century war between two empires, Muhammad was a spiritual seeker in search of community and sanctuary. Many ob...

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The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West, Hardcover - Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

161,99 RON 173,99 RON

Reducere. In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization ...

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The War of Jenkins' Ear: The Forgotten Struggle for North and South America: 1739-1742, Hardcover - Robert Gaudi

161,99 RON 173,99 RON

Reducere. Filled with unforgettable characters and maritime adventure, the incredible story of a forgotten war that shaped the fate of the United States--and...

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Ned Christie: The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero, Hardcover - Devon Abbott Mihesuah

160,99 RON 172,99 RON

Reducere. Who was Nede Wade Christie? Was he a violent criminal guilty of murdering a federal officer? Or a Cherokee statesman who suffered a martyr's death ...

university of oklahoma press, carti, carte straina, biography

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Nothing But Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy, Paperback - Eric Foner

159,99 RON 171,99 RON

Reducere. Nothing But Freedom examines the aftermath of emancipation in the South and the restructuring of society by which the former slaves gained, beyond ...

lsu press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Global Jihad: A Brief History, Paperback - Glenn E. Robinson

153,99 RON 164,99 RON

Reducere. Most violent jihadi movements in the twentieth century focused on removing corrupt, repressive secular regimes throughout the Muslim world. But fol...

stanford university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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To Poison a Nation: The Murder of Robert Charles and the Rise of Jim Crow Policing in America, Hardcover - Andrew Baker

153,99 RON 164,99 RON

Reducere. An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes the historical roots of today's criminal justice crisis A deeply researched and ...

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All Things Left Wild, Hardcover - James Wade

153,99 RON 164,99 RON

Reducere. After an attempted horse theft goes tragically wrong, sixteen-year-old Caleb Bentley is on the run with his mean-spirited older brother across the ...

blackstone publishing, carti, carte straina, children's

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Violent Victorians. Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century London, Paperback - Rosalind Crone

153,99 RON

First book to bring together the wide range of violent entertainments that characterised popular culture in nineteenth-century London and seriously...

manchester university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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A Life in Peace and War, Paperback - Brian Urquhart

151,99 RON 162,99 RON

Reducere. How can peace be encouraged and sustained in a violent world? For nearly half a century at the United Nations, ultimately as Under Secretary-Genera...

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Atrocities in Action, Library Binding - Kevin P. Winn

150,99 RON 161,99 RON

Reducere. The Racial Justice in America: Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in educatio...

cherry lake publishing, carti, carte straina, children's

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Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution, Paperback - Priya Satia

150,99 RON 161,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionA rich and ambitious history reframing the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of the British empire, and the emergence of industrial c...

stanford university press, carti, carte straina, earth sciences

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Twentieth-Century German Poetry, Paperback - Michael Hofmann

150,99 RON 161,99 RON

Reducere. This groundbreaking anthology will serve as the standard for years to come. Editor Michael Hofmann has assembled brilliant translations of the majo...

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Sunniness in Painting: From Edward Hopper to David Hockney, Paperback - Nicola Vitale

149,99 RON

DescriptionSince the middle of the twentieth century, visual art has displayed an ambivalent nature, torn between the poles of abstractionism and r...

mimesis, carti, carte straina, the arts, the arts: general issues

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Against a Crimson Sky (The Poland Trilogy Book 2), Hardcover - James Conroyd Martin

148,99 RON

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...

hussar quill press, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, generational sagas

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Margaret of Anjou - Queenship and Power in Late Medieval England, Paperback - Helen E. Maurer

148,99 RON

Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflic...

boydell & brewer ltd, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Spanish Missions of Texas, Hardcover - Byron Browne

148,99 RON

After the conquest of Mexico by Hernan Cortes in the sixteenth century, conquistadors and explorers poured into the territory of Nueva Espana. The ...

history press library editions, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Oil, Paperback - Gavin Bridge

145,99 RON

Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was abo...

polity press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, politics & government

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Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream, Hardcover - Michael Shnayerson

145,99 RON

The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip "Fast-paced and absorbing. ....

yale university press, carti, carte straina, biography

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1919 the Year That Changed America, Hardcover - Martin W. Sandler

144,99 RON 155,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionAcclaimed author Sandler examines the pinnacle events of 1919 and their relevance to significant issues in American life today.1919 was ...

bloomsbury publishing plc, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation, Hardcover - David French

144,99 RON

David French warns of the potential dangers to the country--and the world--if we don't summon the courage to reconcile our political differences. T...

st. martin's press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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Return of the Barbarians: Confronting Non-State Actors from Ancient Rome to the Present, Paperback - Jakub J. Grygiel

143,99 RON

Barbarians are back. These small, highly mobile, and stateless groups are no longer confined to the pages of history; they are a contemporary reali...

cambridge university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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War in Japan 1467-1615, Paperback - Stephen Turnbull

143,99 RON 154,99 RON

Reducere. In 1467 the Onin War ushered in a period of unrivalled conflict and rivalry in Japan that came to be called the Age of Warring States or Sengoku Ji...

osprey publishing (uk), carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary

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The Woodwitch (Valancourt 20th Century Classics), Paperback - Stephen Gregory

143,99 RON 154,99 RON

Reducere. Description'A thorough reinvention of the Gothic landscape . . . Gregory's voice and vision are wholly original.' - Ramsey Campbell 'Admirable . . ...

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Mount St. Helens, Hardcover - David A. Anderson

143,99 RON

The story of Mount St. Helens is that of an active volcano and human interaction with it. The mountain is culturally important to the regional nati...

arcadia publishing library editions, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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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...

mountain arbor press, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion, religion & beliefs

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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 ...

cascade books, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion

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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--...

da capo press, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary

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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...

princeton university press, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary

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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 ...

university of oklahoma press, carti, carte straina, law

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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...

fox run publishing, llc, carti, carte straina, biography

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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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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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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...

ivp academic, carti, carte straina, philosophy & religion, religion & beliefs

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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...

sunstone press, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...

columbia university press, carti, carte straina, children's

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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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