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Disturbed Forests, Fragmented Memories. Jarai and Other Lives in the Cambodian Highlands, Paperback - Jonathan Padwe

148,00 RON

DescriptionIn the hill country of northeast Cambodia, just a few kilometers from the Vietnam border, sits the village of Tang Kadon. This community...

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Mother's Beloved: Stories from Laos, Paperback - Outhine Bounyavong

146,99 RON 157,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionOuthine Bounyavong is one of the most prominent contemporary writers in Laos. His stories are animated with Laotian virtues of simplicit...

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Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers, Paperback - Elissa Washuta

144,99 RON 155,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionJust as a basket's purpose determines its materials, weave, and shape, so too is the purpose of the essay related to its material, weave...

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Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America, Paperback - Mary Paik Lee

143,99 RON

Mary Paik Lee left her native country in 1905, traveling with her parents as a political refugee after Japan imposed control over Korea. Her father...

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In the Path of Destruction: Eyewitness Chronicles of Mount St. Helens, Paperback - Richard Waitt

138,99 RON 148,99 RON

Reducere. "The air had no oxygen, like being trapped underwater...I was being cremated, the pain unbearable."--Jim Scymanky "I was on my knees, my back to th...

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Ethnobotany of Western Washington: The Knowledge and Use of Indigenous Plants by Native Americans - Erna Gunther

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. Since its original publication in 1945, this small classic has acquired a new audience concerned with living in harmony with the environment and in...

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Post Romantic: Poems, Hardcover - Kathleen Flenniken

136,99 RON

In her wide-ranging third book, poet Kathleen Flenniken undertakes the difficult task of re-seeing what is before us. Post Romantic fuses personal ...

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The Beat: Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C., Paperback - Kip Lornell

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. A history of the distinctive, capital sound that fuses hip-hop, funk, and soul The Beat was the first book to explore the musical, social, and cult...

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Zakhor, Paperback - Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

135,99 RON

"Mr. Yerushalmi's previous writings . . . established him as one of the Jewish community's most important historians. His latest book should establ...

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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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Woke Gaming: Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Injustice, Paperback - Kishonna L. Gray

135,99 RON 185,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionFrom #Gamergate to the 2016 election, to the daily experiences of marginalized perspectives, gaming is entangled with mainstream culture...

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Hatched: Dispatches from the Backyard Chicken Movement, Hardcover - Gina G. Warren

134,99 RON 144,99 RON

Reducere. "Chickens are a lot more mainstream than veganism and a little bit like kombucha: super weird twenty years ago, now somewhat popular and made even ...

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Sweet Bitter Blues: Washington, DC's Homemade Blues, Paperback - Phil Wiggins

133,99 RON 143,99 RON

Reducere. Sweet Bitter Blues: Washington, DC's Homemade Blues depicts the life and times of harmonica player Phil Wiggins and the unique, vibrant music scene...

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Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Asian American Writers, Paperback - Frank Chin

133,99 RON 143,99 RON

Reducere. In the eyes of mid-twentieth-century white America, "Aiiieeeee " was the one-dimensional cry from Asian Americans, their singular expression of all...

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The Structure of Twana Culture: With Comparative Notes on the Structure of Yurok Culture, Paperback - William W. Elmendorf

132,99 RON 142,99 RON

Reducere. This remarkable account of Washington's Twana Indians contains the most complete body of information compiled on any Native American group in the s...

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Forgotten Trails: Historical Sources of the Columbia's Big Bend Country, Paperback - Ron Anglin

130,99 RON 140,99 RON

Reducere. Indian inhabitants long ago laid out the basic travel routes in central Washington's Grand Coulee country, and in their footsteps followed a host o...

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Beach of Heaven: A History of Wahkiakum County, Paperback - Irene Elizabeth Martin

125,99 RON 134,99 RON

Reducere. Birthplace of the state's canned salmon industry and the cooperative extension movement, Wahkiakum County has a historic significance extending bey...

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The Meaning of Independence: John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson, Paperback - Edmund S. Morgan

124,99 RON 133,99 RON

Reducere. Americans did not at first cherish the idea of political severance from their mother country. In just a few years, however, they came to desire ind...

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Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology, Paperback - David B. Williams

124,99 RON

Most people do not think to observe geology from the sidewalks of a major city, but all David B. Williams has to do is look at building stone in an...

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Pictorial Anatomy of the Cat, Paperback - Stephen G. Gilbert

119,99 RON

This book is designed for use as a dissection guide in comparative vertebrate anatomy or in mammalian anatomy. The material covered and the time al...

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George Washington: The Wonder of the Age, Paperback - John Rhodehamel

119,99 RON

Description"The only Washington biography you need."--Wall Street Journal As editor of the award-winning Library of America collection of George Wa...

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Eat a Bowl of Tea, Paperback - Louis Chu

119,99 RON 128,99 RON

Reducere. At the close of the Second World War, racist immigration laws trapped enclaves of old men in Chinatowns across the United States, preventing their ...

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The Cabinet. George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution, Paperback - Lindsay M. Chervinsky

117,99 RON

The US Constitution says nothing about a presidential cabinet, yet this institution has grown powerful. Lindsay M. Chervinsky tells the story of Ge...

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Not Just Trees: The Legacy of a Douglas-Fir Forest, Paperback - Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. This gracefully written story shows all that is lost when we destroy ancient stands of trees--as revealed through a 60-year study of the flora and ...

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Fifth Chinese Daughter, Paperback - Jade Snow Wong

115,99 RON

Jade Snow Wong's autobiography portrays her coming-of-age in San Francisco's Chinatown, offering a rich depiction of her immigrant family and her s...

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Looking at Totem Poles, Paperback - Hilary Stewart

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. Magnificent and haunting, the tall cedar sculptures called totem poles have become a distinctive symbol of the native people of the Northwest Coast...

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The Black Bruins: The Remarkable Lives of UCLA's Jackie Robinson, Woody Strode, Tom Bradley, Kenny Washington, and Ray Bartlett, Paperback - James W.

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. The Black Bruins chronicles the inspirational lives of five African American athletes who faced racial discrimination as teammates at UCLA in the l...

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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation, Paperback - Colin G. Calloway

107,99 RON

DescriptionGeorge Washington's place in the foundations of the Republic remains unrivalled. His life story--from his beginnings as a surveyor and f...

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First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role, Paperback - Jeanne E. Abr

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionHow the three inaugural First Ladies defined the role for future generations, and carved a space for women in AmericaAmerica's first Fir...

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Onions in the Stew, Paperback - Betty MacDonald

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. "For twelve years we MacDonalds have been living on an island in Puget Sound. There is no getting away from it, life on an island is different from...

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Witness Tree: Seasons of Change with a Century-Old Oak, Paperback - Lynda V. Mapes

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. Seasonal changes in nature are among the most readily observable clues to the biological effects of climate change. "It came to me, " writes acclai...

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The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir, Paperback - Ernestine Hayes

98,99 RON 105,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of returning to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after ma...

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In the Name of Salish and Kootenai Nation: The 1855 Hell Gate Treaty and the Origin of the Flathead Indian Reservation, Paperback - Robert Bigart

86,99 RON

DescriptionOn July 16, 1855, eighteen leaders of the Flathead, Kootenai, and Upper Pend d'Oreilles Indians signed an agreement with the United Stat...

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