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Ordering of Time. Meditations on the History of Philosophy, Hardback - George Lucas

556,99 RON

George Lucas sweeps aside the constraints of traditional methodological and cultural boundaries to answer the profound issues concerning the histor...

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Ambitious Honor: George Armstrong Custer's Life of Service and Lust for Fame, Hardcover - James E. Mueller

179,99 RON 192,99 RON

Reducere. George Armstrong Custer, one of the most familiar figures of nineteenth-century American history, is known almost exclusively as a soldier, his bri...

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Remaking Radicalism: A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the United States, 1973-2001, Paperback - Dan Berger

311,99 RON 333,99 RON

Reducere. This book brings together documents from multiple radical movements in the recent United States from 1973 through 2001. These years are typically v...

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Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe, Paperback - George Holmes

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This richly illustrated book tells the story of Europe and the Mediterranean over the thousand years which saw the creation of Western Civilization...

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Cumberland Island: A History, Paperback - Mary R. Bullard

150,99 RON 161,99 RON

Reducere. Cumberland Island is a national treasure. The largest of the Sea Islands along the Georgia coast, it is a history-filled place of astounding natura...

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Crackers in the Glade: Life and Times in the Old Everglades, Paperback - Betty Briggs

144,99 RON 155,99 RON

Reducere. Crackers in the Glade is a visually stunning account of bygone days in the Everglades. The largest remaining subtropical wilderness in the United S...

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Handbook of Hindu Mythology, Paperback - George M. Jr. Williams

213,99 RON 228,99 RON

Reducere. Unlike many other ancient mythologies, Hinduism thrives in the modern world. One billion followers and countless others have been captivated by its...

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Nature and Madness, Paperback - Paul Shepard

198,99 RON 212,99 RON

Reducere. Through much of history our relationship with the earth has been plagued by ambivalence--we not only enjoy and appreciate the forces and manifestat...

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River of Lakes: A Journey on Florida's St. Johns River, Paperback - Bill Belleville

131,99 RON 141,99 RON

Reducere. First explored by naturalist William Bartram in the 1760s, the St. Johns River stretches 310 miles along Florida's east coast, making it the longes...

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The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Paperback - Chris Fuhrman

127,99 RON 136,99 RON

Reducere. Book Sense Book of the Year AwardSet in Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1970s, this is a novel of the anarchic joy of youth and encounters with the...

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Scratching the Woodchuck, Paperback - David Kline

127,99 RON 136,99 RON

Reducere. David Kline came upon a sleeping woodchuck one summer day as he walked the land near his farm. In a gesture that speaks eloquently of Kline's relat...

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Equal Under the Sky: Georgia O'Keeffe and Twentieth-Century Feminism, Paperback - Linda M. Grasso

298,99 RON 319,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionEqual under the Sky is the first historical study of Georgia O'Keeffe's complex involvement with, and influence on, US feminism from the...

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Smokelore: A Short History of Barbecue in America, Paperback - Jim Auchmutey

168,99 RON 180,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionBarbecue: It's America in a mouthful. The story of barbecue touches almost every aspect of our history. It involves indigenous culture, ...

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The Pawnee Indians, Paperback - George E. Hyde

218,99 RON 234,99 RON

Reducere. No assessment of the Plains Indians can be complete without some account of the Pawnees. They ranged from Nebraska to Mexico and, when not fighting...

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General George Crook: His Autobiography, Paperback - George Crook

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General Crook spent his entire military career, with the exception of the Civil War years, on the frontier. Fighting the Indians, he earned the dis...

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The Art of Command: Military Leadership from George Washington to Colin Powell, Paperback - Harry S. Laver

247,99 RON 265,99 RON

Reducere. What essential leadership lessons do we learn by distilling the actions and ideas of great military commanders such as George Washington, Dwight D....

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The Art of Command: Military Leadership from George Washington to Colin Powell, Hardcover - Harry S. Laver

236,99 RON

What essential leadership lessons do we learn by distilling the actions and ideas of great military commanders such as George Washington, Dwight D....

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Black Drink: A Native American Tea, Paperback - Charles M. Hudson

160,99 RON

Until its use declined in the nineteenth century, Indians of the southeastern United States were devoted to a caffeinated beverage commonly known a...

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Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage, Hardcover - Vincent Carretta

158,99 RON

With Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773), Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784) became the first English-speaking person of African desce...

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The Hanging of Ang?lique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montr?al, Paperback - Afua Cooper

223,99 RON 239,99 RON

Reducere. During the night of April 10, 1734, Montr al burned. Marie-Joseph Ang lique, a twenty-nine-year-old slave, was arrested, tried, and found guilty of...

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Johnny Mercer: Southern Songwriter for the World, Paperback - Glenn T. Eskew

165,99 RON 177,99 RON

Reducere. John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer (1909-76) remained in the forefront of American popular music from the 1930s through the 1960s, writing over a thousan...

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Thomas Nast, Political Cartoonist: Political Cartoonist, Paperback - John Chalmers Vinson

138,99 RON 148,99 RON

Reducere. If it is true that the pen is mightier than the sword and that one picture is worth a thousand words, Thomas Nast must certainly rank as one of the...

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The Journals of Louisa May Alcott, Paperback - Louisa May Alcott

274,99 RON 294,99 RON

Reducere. From her eleventh year to the month of her death at age fifty-five, Louisa May Alcott kept copious journals. She never intended them to be publishe...

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Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World: A Memoir Anthology, Paperback - Nancy C. Atwood

157,99 RON 169,99 RON

Reducere. Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors--some eminent, some less well known--who grew u...

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Southern Homes and Plan Books: The Architectural Legacy of Leila Ross Wilburn, Hardcover - Sarah J. Boykin

233,99 RON 250,99 RON

Reducere. Southern Homes and Plan Books showcases the architectural legacy and design philosophy of Leila Ross Wilburn (1885-1967), a legacy that includes hu...

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Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words, Paperback - Susan Reyburn

89,99 RON 96,99 RON

Reducere. Until recently, Rosa Parks's personal papers were unavailable to the public. In this compelling new book from the Library of Congress, where the Pa...

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The Children's Table: Childhood Studies and the Humanities, Paperback - Annette Ruth Appell

228,99 RON 245,99 RON

Reducere. Like the occupants of the children's table at a family dinner, scholars working in childhood studies can seem sidelined from the "adult" labor of h...

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St. Eom in the Land of Pasaquan: The Life and Times and Art of Eddie Owens Martin, Hardcover - Tom Patterson

177,99 RON

Self-taught Georgia artist Eddie Owens Martin (1908-86), known as St. EOM, created a visionary art site called Pasaquan in the mid-1950s in Marion ...

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Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War, Hardcover - J. Matthew Gallman

190,99 RON 204,99 RON

Reducere. Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any ...

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Trembling Earth: A Cultural History of the Okefenokee Swamp, Paperback - Megan Kate Nelson

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. This innovative history of the Okefenokee Swamp reveals it as a place where harsh realities clashed with optimism, shaping the borderland culture o...

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Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean, Paperback - Jenny Shaw

230,99 RON 247,99 RON

Reducere. Set along both the physical and social margins of the British Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century, Everyday Life in the Early Engl...

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Rage in the Gate City: The Story of the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot, Paperback - Rebecca Burns

129,99 RON 139,99 RON

Reducere. During the hot summer of 1906, anger simmered in Atlanta, a city that outwardly savored its reputation as the Gate City of the New South, a place w...

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Saving the Soul of Georgia: Donald L. Hollowell and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Hardcover - Maurice C. Daniels

186,99 RON 200,99 RON

Reducere. Donald L. Hollowell was Georgia's chief civil rights attorney during the 1950s and 1960s. In this role he defended African American men accused or ...

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Savannah in the Old South, Paperback - Walter J. Fraser

231,99 RON 248,99 RON

Reducere. This flowing, instantly engaging narrative tells the story of Savannah from the hopeful arrival of its first permanent English settlers in 1733 to ...

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Sea Turtles of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States, Paperback - C. Robert Shoop

129,99 RON 139,99 RON

Reducere. Written by two of the Southeast's foremost authorities on sea turtle conservation, this is an accessible, fully illustrated guide to the species th...

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The Chicken Book, Paperback - Page Smith

181,99 RON

Liberating today's chicken from cartoons, fast food, and other demeaning associations, The Chicken Book at once celebrates and explains this noble ...

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The American College and University: A History, Paperback - Frederick Rudolph

281,99 RON

First published in 1962, Frederick Rudolph's groundbreaking study, The American College and University, remains one of the most useful and signific...

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The Pale of Settlement: Stories, Paperback - Margot Singer

122,00 RON

In settings from Jerusalem to Manhattan, from the archaeological ruins of the Galilee to Kathmandu, The Pale of Settlement gives us characters who ...

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Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark, Paperback - Barbara Hurd

102,99 RON 110,99 RON

Reducere. In this exhilarating work, Barbara Hurd explores some of the most extraordinary places on earth, from sacred caves in India to secret caves in Ariz...

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The Poems of Sidney Lanier, Paperback - Sidney Lanier

142,99 RON 152,99 RON

Reducere. The poems of Sidney Lanier continue to find an admiring audience more than a century after his death. Though his poetry evokes both the landscape a...

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Inward Morning, Paperback - Henry Bugbee

204,99 RON 219,99 RON

Reducere. When first published in 1958, The Inward Morning was ahead of its time. Boldly original, it blended East and West, nature and culture, the personal...

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The Line of the Sun, Paperback - Judith Ortiz Cofer

114,99 RON

Set in the 1950s and 1960s, The Line of the Sun moves from a rural Puerto Rican village to a tough immigrant housing project in New Jersey, telling...

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Maps to Anywhere, Paperback - Bernard Cooper

180,99 RON 193,99 RON

Reducere. Award NameHemingway Foundation/PEN AwardAward categoryFictionThe essays in Maps to Anywhere plot terrain that is at once familiar and subtly strang...

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A Homeric Dictionary, revised, Paperback - Georg Autenrieth

251,99 RON 269,99 RON

Reducere. Autenrieth's A Homeric Dictionary has been the companion of countless individuals who have begun the study of Homer. Far and away the hardiest and ...

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George Washington's Diaries: An Abridgment, Paperback - George Washington

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. CULLED FROM the six volumes of The Diaries of George Washington completed in 1979, this selection of entries chosen by retired Washington Papers ed...

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The Ultimate Engineer: The Remarkable Life of Nasa's Visionary Leader George M. Low, Hardcover - Richard Jurek

163,99 RON 175,99 RON

Reducere. From the late 1950s to 1976 the U.S. manned spaceflight program advanced as it did largely due to the extraordinary efforts of Austrian immigrant G...

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The Gullah People and Their African Heritage, Paperback - William S. Pollitzer

213,99 RON

The Gullah people are one of our most distinctive cultural groups. Isolated off the South Carolina-Georgia coast for nearly three centuries, the na...

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

263,99 RON 282,99 RON

Reducere. Beginning in the 1920s as a lowly crop-dusting operation in Louisiana, Delta Air Lines had, by its fiftieth anniversary, down to become one of the ...

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Listening to the Savage: River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies, Paperback - Barbara Hurd

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. Barbara Hurd's Listening to the Savage weaves rich explorations of science, history, mythology, literature, and music. The listening of the book de...

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Great & Noble Jar: Traditional Stoneware of South Carolina, Paperback - Cinda K. Baldwin

214,99 RON 230,99 RON

Reducere. In Great and Noble Jar, Cinda K. Baldwin offers the first authoritative study of South Carolina stoneware and traces the ways in which a rich regio...

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Around the World on a Bicycle, Paperback - Fred A. Birchmore

130,99 RON 140,99 RON

Reducere. This classic, once hard-to-find travelogue recalls one of the very first around-the-world bicycle treks. Filled with rarely matched feats of endura...

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Through a Small Ghost: Poems, Paperback - Chelsea Dingman

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. This collection of poems speaks to the grief and trauma associated with stillbirth and infertility. But more than that, these poems are concerned w...

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Conquistador's Wake: Tracking the Legacy of Hernando de Soto in the Indigenous Southeast, Paperback - Dennis B. Blanton

144,99 RON 155,99 RON

Reducere. The focus of Conquistador's Wake is a decade-long archaeological project undertaken at a place now known as the Glass Site, located in Telfair Coun...

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Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes, Paperback - George W. Torrance

307,00 RON

The purpose of economic evaluation is to inform decisions intended to improve healthcare. The new edition of Methods for the Economic Evaluation of...

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Origins of Happiness. The Science of Well-Being over the Life Course, Paperback - George Ward

155,99 RON

Drawing on a range of evidence using large-scale data from various countries, the authors consider the key factors that affect human well-being, in...

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Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination, Paperback - Kristen Lillvis

141,00 RON

Examines the future-oriented visions of black subjectivity in works by contemporary black women writers, filmmakers, and musicians, including Toni ...

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Minerals of Georgia: Their Properties and Occurrences, Paperback - Jose Santamaria

163,99 RON

Minerals of Georgia presents an illustrated, alphabetized record of every mineral (or mineral group) identified in the state. Under each entry is a...

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The Great Savannah Races, Paperback - Julian K. Quattlebaum

193,99 RON 207,99 RON

Reducere. While automobile races had been held in Europe earlier, it was not until after 1900 that organized races were held in the United States. These cont...

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Oklahoma Place Names, Paperback - George H. Shirk

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. In this new and enlarged edition of his popular book, the author has added not only a number of new entries but also new information to existing en...

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Stories of Erskine Caldwell, Paperback - Erskine Caldwell

175,99 RON 188,99 RON

Reducere. This collection of ninety-six stories was first published in 1953 and presents the best of Erskine Caldwell's short fiction from his most productiv...

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Bamboo Fly Rod Suite: Reflections on Fishing and the Geography of Grace, Paperback - Frank Soos

99,99 RON

After he was handed an old broken-down bamboo fly rod, Frank Soos waited several years before he cautiously undertook its restoration. That painsta...

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Etowah River User's Guide, Paperback - Joe Cook

107,99 RON 115,99 RON

Reducere. From its headwaters on the southern slope of the Tennessee Valley divide near Dahlonega to its confluence with the Oostanaula to form the Coosa in ...

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The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West, Paperback - Matthew Christopher Hulbert

158,99 RON 170,99 RON

Reducere. The Civil War tends to be remembered as a vast sequence of battles, with a turning point at Gettysburg and a culmination at Appomattox. But in the ...

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Race and the University: A Memoir, Paperback - George Henderson

190,99 RON 204,99 RON

Reducere. In 1967, George Henderson, the son of uneducated Alabama sharecroppers, accepted a full-time professorship at the University of Oklahoma, despite h...

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African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee, Paperback - Allison Dorsey

213,99 RON 228,99 RON

Reducere. The lush landscape and subtropical climate of the Georgia coast only enhance the air of mystery enveloping some of its inhabitants--people who owe,...

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Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories, Paperback - Melinda Moustakis

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. In her debut collection, Melinda Moustakis brings to life a rough-and-tumble family of Alaskan homesteaders through a series of linked stories. Bor...

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The World of the Salt Marsh: Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast, Paperback - Charles Seabrook

126,99 RON 135,99 RON

Reducere. The World of the Salt Marsh is a wide-ranging exploration of the southeastern coast--its natural history, its people and their way of life, and the...

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A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel, Paperback - Steven C. Weisenburger

246,99 RON 264,99 RON

Reducere. Adding some 20 percent to the original content, this is a completely updated edition of Steven Weisenburger's indispensable guide to Thomas Pynchon...

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Jekyll Island Club: Southern Haven for America's Millionaires, Hardcover - June Hall McCash

241,99 RON 258,99 RON

Reducere. From its inception in 1886, the Jekyll Island Club included in its elite membership the nation's wealthiest families, among them the Rockefellers, ...

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The Natural Communities of Georgia, Hardcover - Bradford Winn

532,99 RON 570,99 RON

Reducere. The Natural Communities of Georgia presents a comprehensive overview of the state's natural landscapes, providing an ecological context to enhance ...

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