The Violent Century

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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 Bloody Habit, Paperback - Eleanor Bourg Nicholson

94,99 RON

It is 1900, the dawn of a new century. Even as the old Queen's health fails, Victorian Britain stands monumental and strong upon a mountain of tech...

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Violent Abuse of Women in 17th and 18th Century Britain, Paperback - Geoffrey Pimm

94,99 RON

This work records the many kinds of violent physical and verbal abuse perpetrated against women in Britain and her colonies, both domestically and ...

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On Revolution, Paperback - Hannah Arendt

94,99 RON 101,99 RON

Reducere. A unique and fascinating look at violent political change by one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century and the author of Eichmann ...

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The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty, Paperback - Willi

94,99 RON 101,99 RON

Reducere. A gripping and sensational tale of violence, alcohol, and taxes, The Whiskey Rebellion uncovers the radical eighteenth-century people's movement, l...

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A Golden Fury, Hardcover - Samantha Cohoe

94,99 RON

"A vivid ride through eighteenth century Europe with darkness and dread creeping at its corners. Utterly enchanting." - Emily A. Duncan, New York T...

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Mountain of the Dead, Paperback - Jeremy Bates

93,99 RON 100,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe greatest unsolved mystery of the 20th century--until now.Fact: During the night of February 1, 1959, in the remote reaches of Siberi...

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Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans, Paperback - Gary Krist

92,99 RON 99,99 RON

Reducere. From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz cultu...

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Like a Charm: A Novel in Voices, Paperback - Karin Slaughter

92,99 RON 99,99 RON

Reducere. New York Times bestselling authors including Karin Slaughter, Lee Child, Peter Robinson, Laura Lippman, John Connolly, and others, combine their ta...

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Come on Up, Paperback - Jordi Nopca

90,99 RON 97,99 RON

Reducere. "Heartbreaking and hilarious, tender and violent." --New York Times Book Review"Jordi Nopca's stories, written with clarity and flair, are smart an...

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The Anatomy of Fascism, Paperback - Robert O. Paxton

89,99 RON 96,99 RON

Reducere. What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers th...

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Herself Surprised, Paperback - Joyce Cary

89,99 RON 96,99 RON

Reducere. Herself Surprised is the story of Sara Monday, a former housemaid who tells of "her grand days" and of all her "coming down days since."Looking bac...

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Anson's Way, Paperback - Gary D. Schmidt

89,99 RON 96,99 RON

Reducere. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and young British subject Anson Granville Staplyton has traveled to Ireland, where his regiment has been sent to ...

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From Afar, Paperback - Roger Thomas

89,00 RON

The Magi, or Three Kings, of the Nativity story are among the best loved yet most mysterious figures in all history. The fleeting and sparse accoun...

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The Invited, Paperback - Jennifer McMahon

88,99 RON

DescriptionA chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell ...

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Beyond the Rivers of Babylon: My Journey of Optimism and Resilience in a Turbulent Century, Paperback - Joseph Samuels

88,99 RON 95,99 RON

Reducere. Rowing upon the Tigris River to enjoy a summer campfire on the tiny islands that emerged every summer, teenaged Joseph Samuels never could have ima...

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The KGB and the Stasi: The History of the Eastern Bloc's Most Infamous Intelligence Agencies, Paperback - Charles River Editors

87,99 RON 94,99 RON

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading " T]he Stasi often used a method which was really diabolic. It...

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America's Greatest Engineering Projects: The Construction History of the Transcontinental Railroad, the Panama Canal, and the Hoover Dam, Paperback -

86,00 RON

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the projects' construction *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The Transcont...

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The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush, Paperback - Howard Blum

84,99 RON

New York Times bestselling author Howard Blum expertly weaves together three narratives to tell the true story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush. It i...

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The Overstory, Hardcover - Richard Powers

82,99 RON

The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of th...

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Suffragette: My Own Story, Paperback - Emmeline Pankhurst

82,99 RON 88,99 RON

Reducere. "Suffragette" is now on release as a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst. . Illustrated with sixteen photographs. . In...

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The Riddle of St. Leonard's: The Owen Archer Series - Book Five, Paperback - Candace Robb

81,99 RON 87,99 RON

Reducere. "Gripping and believable...you can almost smell the streets of 14th-century York as you delve deeper into an engrossing plot." --PRIMA In the year ...

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Talking to the Enemy. Violent Extremism, Sacred Values, and What it Means to Be Human, Paperback - Scott Atran

81,99 RON

The author has spent years talking to terrorists - from Gaza and Afghanistan, to Indonesia and Europe. In this book, he delivers a fascinating jour...

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An African American and Latinx History of the United States, Paperback - Paul Ortiz

81,99 RON

An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights Spanning more than two hundred years, An African Amer...

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Men of Iron, Hardcover - Howard Pyle

81,99 RON 87,99 RON

Reducere. A quest for knighthood motivates Myles Falworth through rigorous training and dangerous jousting tournaments to confront a lifelong enemy and claim...

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Neferet's Curse, Hardcover - P. C. Cast

80,99 RON 86,99 RON

Reducere. The White City, 1893: In turn-of-the-century Chicago, with the World's Fair bringing bustle and excitement to her home city, sixteen-year-old Emily...

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Jesus' Son: Stories, Hardcover - Denis Johnson

80,99 RON 86,99 RON

Reducere. ``These pocket-sized titles are stunning....They make the perfect stocking stuffers `` - Metro ``Bought together or separately, these fiction title...

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Freedomville: The Story of a 21st-Century Slave Revolt, Paperback - Laura T. Murphy

80,99 RON 86,99 RON

Reducere. A celebrated revolution brought freedom to a group of enslaved people in northern India. Or did it? Millions of people today are still enslaved; ne...

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The Experiment of the Tropics: Poems, Paperback - Lawrence Lacambra Ypil

79,99 RON 85,99 RON

Reducere. Named 1 of 6 must-read poetry books in April 2019 by The Millions.The co-winner of the inaugural Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize. Through the lens of h...

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The Girl in the Photograph, Paperback - Lygia Fagundestelles

78,99 RON 84,99 RON

Reducere. Complex and hauntingly beautiful, Lygia Fagundes Telles's most acclaimed novel is a journey into the inner lives of three young women, each reveali...

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Cumbres Borrascosas, Paperback - Emily Brontë

76,99 RON 82,99 RON

Reducere. Cumbres Borrascosas, de Emily Brontë, una de las tres hermanas Brontë, contiene la quintaesencia de la novela romántica inglesa decimonónica. En su...

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Atrocities in Action, Paperback - Kevin P. Winn

76,99 RON 82,99 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...

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Calling Back the Dead: A Northern Michigan Asylum Novel, Paperback - J. R. Erickson

74,99 RON 80,99 RON

Reducere. Each book in the Northern Michigan Asylum Series is a stand alone novel. The sprawling Kerry Manor has stood abandoned for nearly a century.But tha...

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