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The Music of Charlie Chaplin, Paperback - Jim Lochner

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Revisiting the "sick Man of Asia": Discourses of Weakness in Late 19th and Early 20th Century China, Paperback - Iwo Amelung

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Within one of the most complex musical categories yet to surface, Cal Tjader quietly pioneered the genre as a jazz vibraphonist, composer, arranger...

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Jeremy Brett - Playing A Part, Paperback - Maureen Whittaker

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American Indian Medicine, Paperback - Virgil J. Vogel

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Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations, Paperback - Bruno Monsaingeon

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Jeremy Brett - Playing A Part - B&W Version, Paperback - Maureen Whittaker

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Ofield: The Autobiography of Public Relations Man Ofield Dukes, Paperback - Ofield Dukes

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Rudolph Valentino The Silent Idol: His Life in Photographs, Paperback - Donna Hill

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John Dee's Five Books of Mystery: Original Sourcebook of Enochian Magic, Paperback - Joseph Peterson

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Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video, Paperback - Barry Keith Grant

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Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West, Paperback - Mark S. Foster

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The Road to Hel: A Study of the Conception of the Dead in Old Norse Literature, Paperback - Hilda Roderick Ellis

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Persian Nativities IV: On the Revolutions of the Years of Nativities, Paperback - Benjamin N. Dykes

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Kyrios Christos: A History of the Belief in Christ from the Beginnings of Christianity to Irenaeus, Paperback - Wilhelm Bousset

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DescriptionIn Kyrios Christos, Wilhelm Bousset argues that the Hellenistic Church's declaration of "Jesus as Lord" is a transformation of the pre-C...

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Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks, Paperback - Frank M. Snowden

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History of the Anglo-Saxons, Paperback - Sharon Turner

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Sharon Turner (1768-1847) practised as a solicitor in London, but as a young man he had become involved in the study of Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic l...

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The PS Royal William of Quebec: The First True Transatlantic Steamer, Paperback - Eileen Reid Marcil

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World trade was revolutionized in the 19th Century when ships went from sail to steam. When did the first steamship cross the Atlantic? Who built i...

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The Sense of Music, Paperback - Victor Zuckerkandl

295,99 RON

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Regards from the Dragon Seattle, Paperback - David Tadman

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Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities Over the Long Nineteenth Century, Paperback - Libra R. Hilde

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Invoking the Beyond: The Kantian Rift, Mythologized Menaces, and the Quest for the New Man, Paperback - Paul D. Collins

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The Ever-Present Origin: Part One: Foundations of the Aperspectival World, Paperback - Jean Gebser

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This English translation of Gebser's major work, Ursprung und Gegenwart (Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlag, 1966), offers certain fundamental insights whi...

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Selected Philosophical and Scientific Writings, Paperback - Emilie Du Chatelet

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DescriptionThough most historians remember her as the mistress of Voltaire, Emilie Du Ch telet (1706-49) was an accomplished writer in her own righ...

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Champlain's Dream, Paperback - David Hackett Fischer

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Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic, Paperback - Richard A. McKay

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The search for a ``patient zero``--popularly understood to be the first person infected in an epidemic--has been key to media coverage of major inf...

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Sam Maloof, Woodworker, Paperback - Sam Maloof

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Paul McCartney: The Songs He Was Singing Vol. 1, Paperback - John Blaney

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Islam and the Destiny of, Paperback - Charles Le Gai Eaton

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How Welfare Worked in the Early United States: Five Microhistories, Paperback - Gabriel J. Loiacono

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David Copperfield (Annotated, LARGE PRINT), Paperback - Charles Dickens

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Time of Our Lives: The Ethics of Common Sense, Paperback - Mortimer J. Adler

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Is it a good time to be alive? Is ours a good society to be alive in? Is it possible to have a good life in our time? And finally, does a good life...

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The President Travels by Train: Politics and Pullmans, Paperback - Bob Withers

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Jesus, Interpreted: Benedict XVI, Bart Ehrman, and the Historical Truth of the Gospels, Paperback - Matthew J. Ramage

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The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics, Paperback - Don E. Fehrenbacher

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Delta: The History of an Airline, Paperback - W. David Lewis

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Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag, Paperback - Janusz Bardach

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Becoming a Visible Man, Paperback - Jamison Green

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At least two generations of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people have emerged since Becoming a Visible Man was first published i...

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Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America!, Paperback - Ronald Dalton Jr

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Solving the Mystery of Babylon the Great, Paperback - Edward Hendrie

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George C. Marshall and the Early Cold War: Policy, Politics, and Society, Paperback - William a. Taylor

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Life of Captain James Cook, Paperback - J. C. Beaglehole

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The Man Who Made Babe Ruth: Brother Matthias of St. Mary's School, Paperback - Brian Martin

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At six-feet-six, the hulking Martin Leo Boutilier (1872-1944) was hard to miss. Yet the many books written about Babe Ruth relegate the soft-spoken...

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The MaddAddam Trilogy: Oryx & Crake/The Year of the Flood/MaddAddam, Paperback - Margaret Atwood

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A boxed set (three trade paperbacks) of the internationally celebrated speculative fiction trilogy from one of the most visionary authors of our ti...

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Colville, Paperback - Andrew Hunter

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The Dilemmas of an Upright Man: Max Planck and the Fortunes of German Science, with a New Afterword, Paperback - J. L. Heilbron

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Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century, Paperback - Barry Mazor

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Conversations with Joseph Brodsky, Paperback - Cynthia L. Haven

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Reducere. Biography -- Literary CriticismJoseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is unquestionably the greatest poet to emerge from postwar Russia and one of the great mi...

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Hebrews to Negroes 2 Volume 3: Wake Up Black America, Paperback - Ronald Dalton Jr

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ronald Dalton JrAs years pass by, the "Antichrist Beast System" is slowly "emerging" upon us and around us. But are the tru...

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The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant - Volumes I and II, Paperback - Ulysses S. Grant

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Reducere. Includes Volume I & II. Written in the last year of his life as he battled throat cancer and poverty, "Personal Memoirs" was published by Mark Twai...

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