The Violent Century

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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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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End of Men, Paperback - Suzanne Strobel

73,99 RON 79,99 RON

Reducere. Millions of babies. All girls. Why?In a dark and divided dystopian America, an ambitious reporter must risk her life and reputation to find out why...

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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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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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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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Miss Potter's Cats: A Coloring Book featuring Beatrix Potter's Unforgettable Felines, Paperback - Frankie Bow

51,00 RON

"I do not draw cats well, " Beatrix Potter reportedly complained to her publisher in 1916. But Potter continued to draw cats, and drew them well, p...

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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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Men of Iron, Paperback - Howard Pyle

53,99 RON 57,99 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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Ireland in the Twentieth Century, Paperback - Tim Pat Coogan

208,99 RON 223,99 RON

Reducere. A rousing history of Ireland in its most tumultous century by one of the most well-known and beloved Irish writers of our time. Tim Pat Coogan's Ir...

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Journeys Through the Russian Empire: The Photographic Legacy of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Hardcover - William Craft Brumfield

325,99 RON 348,99 RON

Reducere. At the turn of the twentieth century, the photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky undertook a quest to document an empire that was undergoing rapid cha...

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We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America, Hardcover - Robert T. Chase

301,99 RON 323,99 RON

Reducere. In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while...

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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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My Husband. The Extraordinary History of Nicholas Brome, Paperback - Anne Elliott

61,00 RON

'My Husband' combines fifteenth century imagery with themes of morality and forgiveness in a historical novel that takes inspiration from a true st...

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Terrible Beauty. The Violent Aesthetic and Twentieth-Century Literature, Paperback - Marian Eide

456,99 RON

The "century of trauma" produced writing at once saturated in political violence and complicated by the ethics of aesthetic representation. Stretch...

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Uncertain Transition from Stability to Peace, Paperback - Sarah Minot

182,99 RON

Most violent conflicts since the turn of this century were in countries that had experienced an earlier violent conflict. How can we tell when a co...

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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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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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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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Witchcraft and Magic in Europe, Volume 3: The Middle Ages, Paperback - Bengt Ankarloo

197,99 RON 211,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionDuring the Middle Ages a shared European concept of magic emerged. In the early period, pagan beliefs and practices were absorbed into e...

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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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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...

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The Wars Inside Chile's Barracks: Remembering Military Service Under Pinochet, Paperback - Leith Passmore

191,99 RON 205,99 RON

Reducere. From 1973 to 1990 in Chile, approximately 370, 000 young men-mostly from impoverished backgrounds-were conscripted to serve as soldiers in Augusto ...

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Empire of the Black Sea: The Rise and Fall of the Mithridatic World, Hardcover - Duane W. Roller

189,99 RON 203,99 RON

Reducere. What is commonly called the kingdom of Pontos flourished for over two hundred years in the coastal regions of the Black Sea. At its peak in the ear...

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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...

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The Century of the Black Ships (Novel): Chronicles of War Between Japan and America, Hardcover - Naoki Inose

182,99 RON 195,99 RON

Reducere. For nearly a century, Japanese writers gave voice to the anxieties of a nation headed inexorably toward war. Not just any war, but one that in the ...

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Age of Rogues: Rebels, Revolutionaries and Racketeers at the Frontiers of Empires, Hardcover - Ramazan Hakkı Öztan

867,99 RON 928,99 RON

Reducere. In Age of Rogues, leading scholars engage with themes of historical and cultural legacies, contentious interactions within imperial regimes, and th...

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How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier, Paperback - Stuart Banner

213,99 RON 228,99 RON

Reducere. Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth, nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from AmericanIndians to whi...

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The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea, Hardcover - Edward J. Watts

178,99 RON 191,99 RON

Reducere. As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long...

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The History and Coinage of the Roman Imperators 49-27 BC, Hardcover - David R. Sear

472,99 RON 506,99 RON

Reducere. The brief period covered by The History and Coinage of the Roman Imperators witnessed the violent transition of the Roman state from a republican c...

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

300,99 RON 322,99 RON

Reducere. The explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the heigh...

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Revisiting Austria: Tourism, Space, and National Identity, 1945 to the Present, Hardcover - Gundolf Graml

950,99 RON

Following the transformations and conflicts of the first half of the twentieth century, Austria's emergence as an independent democracy heralded a ...

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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...

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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...

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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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In The Time Of Madness, Paperback - Richard Lloyd Parry

69,99 RON

** Richard Lloyd Parry is the winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize **In the last years of the twentieth century, Richard Lloyd Parry found hims...

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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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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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Ivanhoe, Hardcover - Walter Scott

69,99 RON

DescriptionThe FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning edition features deluxe c...

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Prayer and Performance in Early Modern English Literature: Gesture, Word and Devotion, Hardcover - Joseph Sterrett

684,99 RON

DescriptionEarly modern England was a nation alive with intense religious debate, with often violent results. Central to these debates were questio...

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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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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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Phantom Terror: Political Paranoia and the Creation of the Modern State, 1789-1848, Hardcover - Adam Zamoyski

226,99 RON 242,99 RON

Reducere. For the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century, the years following the French Revolution were characterized by intense anxie...

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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 ...

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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...

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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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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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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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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...

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African American Religions, 1500-2000, Paperback - Sylvester a. Johnson

176,99 RON 189,99 RON

Reducere. This book provides a narrative historical, postcolonial account of African American religions. It examines the intersection of Black religion and c...

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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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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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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), 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...

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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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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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Journey Into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag, Hardcover - Julius Margolin

260,99 RON 279,99 RON

Reducere. Under the Soviet regime, millions of zeks (prisoners) were incarcerated in the forced labor camps, the Gulag. There many died of starvation, diseas...

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Melmoth the Wanderer (Illustrated and Annotated), Hardcover - Charles Maturin

193,99 RON 207,99 RON

Reducere. Melmoth the Wanderer is a violent story about a man who sold his soul to the devil in exchange of a longer life, but he regretted about his deal an...

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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...

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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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America's Good Terrorist: John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid, Hardcover - Charles P. Poland

173,99 RON

John Brown is a common name, but the John Brown who masterminded the failed raid at Harpers Ferry was anything but common. His failed efforts have ...

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Superfluous Death, Paperback - Hazel Holt

67,99 RON 72,99 RON

Reducere. The sleepy seaside town of Taviscombe has more than its share of gossips and schemers. It also has Mrs. Sheila Malory, a widow whose gift for judgi...

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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 Bible, the Talmud, and the New Testament: Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik's Commentary to the Gospels, Hardcover - Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik

492,99 RON

DescriptionBorn in Slutzk, Russia, in 1805, Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik is a largely forgotten member of the prestigious Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty....

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Salambo - Gustave Flaubert

54,99 RON 58,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionAn historical novel that interweaves historical and fictional characters. The action takes place immediately before and during the Merce...

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The Prose Edda, Paperback - Snorri Sturluson

49,99 RON 53,99 RON

Reducere. Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda is the source of most of what we know of Norse mythology. Its tales ...

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Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon, Paperback - Anthony Harkins

320,99 RON

In this pioneering work of cultural history, historian Anthony Harkins argues that the hillbilly-in his various guises of "briar hopper, " "brush a...

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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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Liberty Men and Great Proprietors, Paperback - Alan Taylor

345,99 RON 370,99 RON

Reducere. This detailed exploration of the settlement of Maine beginning in the late eighteenth century illuminates the violent, widespread contests along th...

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Wanted, Paperback - Matsuri Hino

56,99 RON 60,99 RON

Reducere. In the Mediterranean at end of the 17th century, former songstress Armeria disguises herself as a boy and boards the ship of the pirate Skulls--the...

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