The Violent Century

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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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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All the Days Past, All the Days to Come, Paperback - Mildred D. Taylor

62,99 RON

The saga of the Logan family--made famous in the Newbery Medal-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry--concludes in a deeply fulfilling story, now av...

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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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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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The Crime Boss Coloring Book: Mos: Most Notorious Mafia Bosses of the 20th Century., Paperback - ***

52,99 RON 56,99 RON

Reducere. Welcome to the family! It's time get out your colored pencils and officially become a Made Man or Woman.This unique adult coloring book features so...

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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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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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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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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...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates: Children's Classics, Paperback - Mary Mapes Dodge

47,99 RON 51,99 RON

Reducere. The novel takes place in the Netherlands and is a colourful fictional portrait of early 19th-century Dutch life, as well as a tale of youthful hono...

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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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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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African American Literature in Transition, 1850-1865: Volume 4, 1850-1865, Hardcover - Teresa Zackodnik

902,99 RON 966,99 RON

Reducere. The period of 1850-1865 consisted of violent struggle and crisis as the United States underwent the prodigious transition from slaveholding to oste...

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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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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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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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Understanding Video Games: The Essential Introduction, Paperback - Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen

410,99 RON

From Pong to virtual reality, Understanding Video Games, 4th Edition, takes video game studies into the next decade of the twenty-first century, hi...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Dreamland Burning, Paperback - Jennifer Latham

56,99 RON

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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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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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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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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History of the Barricade, Hardcover - �ric Hazan

64,99 RON

How the French invented the barricade, and its symbolic impact on popular protests throughout historyIn the history of European revolutions, the ba...

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Haunting Without Ghosts, Hardcover - Juliana Martínez

367,00 RON

For half a century, cultural production in Colombia has labored under the weight of magical realism--above all, the works of Gabriel Garc a M rquez...

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

355,99 RON

In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urb...

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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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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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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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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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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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