The Violent Century

Fighting for Faith and Nation, Paperback - Cynthia Keppley Mahmood

176,99 RON 189,99 RON

Reducere. The ethnic and religious violence that characterized the late twentieth century calls for new ways of thinking and writing about politics. Listenin...

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The Devi Gita: The Song of the Goddess: A Translation, Annotation, and Commentary, Paperback - C. MacKenzie Brown

288,99 RON 309,99 RON

Reducere. This book provides a translation, with introduction, commentary, and annotation, of the medieval Hindu Sanskrit text the Devi Gita (Song of the God...

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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...

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Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense, Paperback - Ann Laura Stoler

193,99 RON

Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political co...

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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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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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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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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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What Is to Be Done?, Paperback - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

60,99 RON 65,99 RON

Reducere. This is Lenin's seminal text on social revolution and how to achieve it, published some 16 years before Russia's October 1917 Revolution. His plan ...

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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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The Last Ottoman Wars: The Human Cost, 1877-1923, Hardcover - Jeremy Salt

425,99 RON

During the last half century of its existence, the Ottoman Empire and the lands around its borders were places of constant political turmoil and un...

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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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Three Years with Quantrill: A True Story, Paperback - John McCorkle

184,99 RON 197,99 RON

Reducere. This famous memoir by John McCorkle, reissued for the first time, is the best published account by a scout who "rode with Quantrill." John McCorkle...

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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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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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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...

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The Great Steel Strike and Its Lessons: The American Strike of 1919, Its Causes and the Labor Unions Involved, Paperback - William Z. Foster

71,99 RON 77,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionTrade unionist and Marxist politician William Z. Foster explains the organization and failure of the steel strike in 1919, an action whi...

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Ritual, Violence, and the Fall of the Classic Maya Kings, Paperback - Gyles Iannone

364,99 RON

Maya kings who failed to ensure the prosperity of their kingdoms were subject to various forms of termination, including the ritual defacing and de...

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The Arkansas Regulators, Paperback - Charles Adams

248,99 RON 266,99 RON

Reducere. Description The Arkansas Regulators is a rousing tale of frontier adventure, first published in German in 1846, but virtually lost to English reade...

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Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter, Hardcover - Kerri K. Greenidge

191,99 RON 205,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWilliam Monroe Trotter (1872- 1934), though still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylist...

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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...

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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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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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Martyred: Story St Lorenzo, Paperback - Susan Tan

63,99 RON 68,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Susan TanThis novelized account of the life of Saint Lorenzo Ruiz, a married Chinese-Filipino layman, retraces the series o...

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The Johnson County War, Paperback - Bill O'Neal

201,99 RON 216,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bill O'NealIn the early 1890s Wyoming's northern rangeland was torn by the Johnson County War, a violent western collision ...

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Lairies, Paperback - Steve Hollyman

62,99 RON

LAIRIES is the brilliant and brutal debut from Steve Hollyman, mapping the lives of violent young men at the start of the twenty-first century, liv...

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The Loop, Paperback - Nicholas Evans

51,99 RON 55,99 RON

Reducere. From the author of The Horse Whisperer comes the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, an extraordinary new novel of love, family, and man's str...

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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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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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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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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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Manhattan Mafia Guide: Hits, Homes & Headquarters, Hardcover - Eric Ferrara

172,99 RON 185,99 RON

Reducere. During the early twentieth century, Sicilian and Southern Italian immigrants poured into New York City. Looking to escape poverty and persecution a...

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An Outpost of Progress and Other Stories, Paperback - Joseph Conrad

18,99 RON

DescriptionDrawing upon his experiences as the captain of a steamer on the Congo River, Joseph Conrad wrote "An Outpost of Progress, " a sharp crit...

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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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Quest for Security. Sovereignty, Race, and the Defense of the British Empire, 1898-1931, Hardback - Jesse Tumblin

684,99 RON

Colonial hierarchy and race fueled rapid militarization in the British Empire that shaped the violent course of the twentieth century. This innovat...

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Writing Revolution in Latin America. From Marti to Garcia Marquez to Bolano, Paperback - Juan De Castro

262,99 RON

In the politically volatile period from the 1960s through the end of the twentieth century, Latin American authors were in direct dialogue with the...

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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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The Untied States of America: A Thinkable Alternative to Civil War II - Updated & Revised July 2019, Paperback - Fred Kilbourne

59,99 RON

UPDATED AND REVISED JULY 2019The United States is coming apart at the seams. Hostilities between the parties to the national debate, substantially ...

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Anarchism and Other Essays, Paperback - Emma Goldman

63,99 RON

Destruction and violence How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is ignorance; that it's power of destruction is t...

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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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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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Suspended Apocalypse, Paperback - Dylan Rodriguez

236,99 RON 253,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionSuspended Apocalypse is a rich and provocative meditation on the emergence of the Filipino American as a subject of history. Culling fro...

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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 Jews of Kishinev (Chisinau, Moldova): Translation of Yehudei Kishinev, Hardcover - Yitzchak Koren

258,99 RON 277,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn the 19th century, Kishinev was the economic and cultural capital of Russian Bessarabia By mid-century, Jews made up almost half the p...

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The Hundred Years War, Volume 2: Trial by Fire, Paperback - Jonathan Sumption

291,99 RON 312,99 RON

Reducere. A succession of catastrophes in the middle years of the fourteenth century brought France to the brink of destruction. The bankruptcy of the French...

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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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Ghost Night - Heather Graham

51,99 RON 55,99 RON

Reducere. A slasher movie turns real when two young actors are brutally murdered on a remote island film set. Their severed heads and arms are posed in macab...

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Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923, Hardcover - R. F. Foster

198,99 RON 212,99 RON

Reducere. On Easter Monday, 1916, Irish rebels poured into Dublin's streets to proclaim an independent republic. Ireland's long struggle for self-government ...

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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...

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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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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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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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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 ...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sons and Lovers, Paperback - D. H. Lawrence

69,99 RON

Sons and Lovers is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence, and the price of family bonds. Repelled by her une...

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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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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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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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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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Iran: A Social and Political History Since the Qajars, Paperback - Yann Richard

188,99 RON

DescriptionFrom encounters with Western powers in the nineteenth century through to a Constitutional Revolution at the beginning of the twentieth c...

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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...

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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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Anarchism and Other Essays, Paperback - Emma Goldman

57,99 RON 62,99 RON

Reducere. Emma Goldman's strident critique of capitalism and equally passionate defence of anarchy raised her from a penniless Jewish immigrant to 'Red Emma'...

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Dreamland Burning, Hardcover - Jennifer Latham

171,99 RON 184,99 RON

Reducere. Some bodies won't stay buried.Some stories need to be told. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family's property, she has ...

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The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair-Trade Tea Plantations in India, Paperback - Sarah Besky

186,99 RON

Nestled in the Himalayan foothills of Northeast India, Darjeeling is synonymous with some of the finest and most expensive tea in the world. It is ...

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