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A Letter to America, Paperback - David L. Boren

69,99 RON

A powerful wake-up call to all AmericansWith only 6 percent of the world's population, how long will the United States remain a global superpower? ...

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The Raptors of North America: A Coloring Book of Eagles, Hawks, Falcons, and Owls, Paperback - Anne Price

80,99 RON 86,99 RON

Reducere. Bird enthusiasts of all ages will welcome this fun approach to learning about the raptors of North America. Educators, children, and beginning bird...

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Vivien Leigh, Paperback - Anne Edwards

81,00 RON

This is the story of the actress who became a Hollywood legend by winning the coveted role of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind, and whose circ...

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Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America, Paperback - Michael P. Winship

81,99 RON

On fire for God--a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to re...

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The Future of Conservation in America: A Chart for Rough Water, Paperback - Gary E. Machlis

82,99 RON 88,99 RON

Reducere. This is a turbulent time for the conservation of America's natural and cultural heritage. From the current assaults on environmental protection to ...

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Beating the Competition. 150 Ways to Win New Customers for Your Small Business, Paperback - Tait Trussell

86,99 RON

"A well-written first step into the often times misunderstood business of communicating." - BooklistPublisher: University Press of AmericaAuthor(s)...

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The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America, Paperback - Colin G. Calloway

88,99 RON 95,99 RON

Reducere. In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on...

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The Trade in Rare Books and Manuscripts between Britain and America c. 1890-1929, Paperback - Laura (University of London) Cleaver

89,99 RON

This Element examines the trade in rare books and manuscripts between Britain and America during a period known as the 'Golden Age' of collecting. ...

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Roanoke Island: The Beginnings of English America, Paperback - David Stick

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. Well before the Jamestown settlers first sighted the Chesapeake Bay or the Mayflower reached the coast of Massachusetts, the first English colony i...

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Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America, Paperback - Kali Nicole Gross

99,99 RON 106,99 RON

Reducere. Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs,...

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Red Meat Republic. A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America, Paperback - Joshua Specht

99,99 RON

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Mammals of North America, Paperback - Roland W. Kays

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. The best-selling field guide that "sets new standards" (New Scientist) and "makes all other field guides for mammals of the United States. . . and ...

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Hatteras Blues: A Story from the Edge of America, Paperback - Tom Carlson

102,99 RON 110,99 RON

Reducere. Tom Carlson tells the story of Ernal Foster and the Foster family of Hatteras Village, who gave birth to what would become the multi-million dollar...

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Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power Across Neoliberal America, Paperback - Brett Story

105,99 RON 113,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionFrom broken-window policing in Detroit to prison-building in Appalachia, exploring the expansion of the carceral state and its oppressiv...

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Mushrooms of North America in Color: A Field Guide Companion to Seldom-Illustrated Fungi, Paperback - Alan Bessette

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. With 72 out-of-the-ordinary species represented, this book sets out to bridge the gap among regional field guides, and to give an enhanced view of ...

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The Story of America: Essays on Origins, Paperback - Jill Lepore

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories--from John Smith's account ...

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Striking Distance: Bruce Lee and the Dawn of Martial Arts in America, Paperback - Charles Russo

107,99 RON 115,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn the spring of 1959, eighteen year-old Bruce Lee returned to San Francisco, the city of his birth. Although the martial arts were wide...

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Radical Religion in America: Millenarian Movements from the Far Right to the Children of Noah, Paperback - Jeffrey Kaplan

107,99 RON 115,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis work focuses on the milieu of three religiously based apocalyptic movements, their radical doctrine and rejection of mainstream Ame...

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Wales, the Welsh and the Making of America, Paperback - Vivienne Sanders

107,99 RON

The exciting story of the Welsh immigrants and their descendants who made a disproportionate contribution to the creation and growth of the wealthi...

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The Depolarizing of America: A Guidebook for Social Healing, Paperback - Kirk J. Schneider

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. Our nation needs healing dialogues--especially now In the wake of the coronavirus, many of the issues dividing us as a nation and world--such as po...

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God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America, Hardcover - Lyz Lenz

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. In the wake of the 2016 election, Lyz Lenz watched as her country and her marriage were torn apart by the competing forces of faith and politics. A...

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Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America, Paperback - Virginia DeJohn Anderson

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine...

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Bunion Derby: The 1928 Footrace Across America, Hardcover - Charles B. Kastner

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. On March 4, 1928, 199 men lined up in Los Angeles, California, to participate in a 3, 400-mile transcontinental footrace to New York City. The Buni...

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How America Lost Its Mind: The Assault on Reason That's Crippling Our Democracy, Paperback - Thomas E. Patterson

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. Americans are losing touch with reality. On virtually every issue, from climate change to immigration, tens of millions of Americans have opinions ...

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The Mythology of Native North America, Paperback - David Leeming

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. Most North Americans experience mythology by way of translations of classical texts, and surprisingly few of us are familiar with Coyote, Spider Wo...

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The Divided States of America. Why Federalism Doesn't Work, Paperback - Donald F. Kettl

114,99 RON

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Donald F. KettlIllustration(s): 9 b/w illus. 8 tables.Number of pages: 248Publication date: 2022Dim...

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Climb to Fitness, Paperback - Julie Ellison

115,99 RON

Beginner climbers and those who have never considered climbing before are instructed on the best methods for using climbing apparatus as part of th...

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Story of Silver. How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World, Paperback - William L. Silber

116,99 RON

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Rediscovery of North America, Hardcover - Barry Lopez

116,99 RON

" The Spanish incursion into the New World, with its brutal destruction of indigenous peoples and their cultures and its material exploitation of m...

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Native North America, Paperback - Larry J. Zimmerman

118,99 RON 127,99 RON

Reducere. With abundant photographs, more than 160 in color, Native North America illustrates tribal life, sacred arenas, spiritual traditions, and artifacts...

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Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America, Paperback - Aby M. Warburg

118,99 RON

Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America translates Aby M. Warburg's seminal study of the "serpent ritual" of the Hopi people,...

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Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830, Paperback - J. H. Elliott

118,99 RON

This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish c...

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Reassembling Social Security. A Survey of Pensions and Health Care Reforms in Latin America, Paperback - Carmelo Mesa-Lago

118,99 RON

The reform of social security pensions and healthcare is a key issue for the modern world, and in many ways Latin America has acted as a social lab...

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We're Still Here. Pain and Politics in the Heart of America, Paperback - ***

118,99 RON

We're Still Here provides powerful, on the ground evidence of the remaking of working-class identity and politics. Drawing on years of fieldwork an...

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Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1685-1815, Paperback - Kathryn E. Holland Braund

119,99 RON 128,99 RON

Reducere. Deerskins and Duffels documents the trading relationship in the eighteenth century between the Creek Indians and the Anglo-American peoples who set...

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Polish Peasant in Europe and America. A Classic Work in Immigration History, Paperback - Florian Znaniecki

119,99 RON

Focusing on the immigrant family, this title brings together documents and commentary that is suitable for teaching United States history survey co...

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We're Not Here to Entertain: Punk Rock, Ronald Reagan, and the Real Culture War of 1980s America, Hardcover - Kevin Mattson

119,99 RON

Many remember the 1980s as the era of Ronald Reagan, a conservative decade populated by preppies and yuppies dancing to a soundtrack of electronic ...

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Accessible America. A History of Disability and Design, Paperback - Bess Williamson

119,99 RON

DescriptionA history of design that is often overlooked-until we need it Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have yo...

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How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America, Hardcover - Heather Cox Richardson

119,99 RON

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom, " Heather Cox Richardson argues in this ...

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Aquinas and Analogy, Paperback - Ralph M. McInerny

120,99 RON

De nominum analogia by Cajetan introduces a spurious argument that is not found in Aquinas's writing. This text traces the source of the confusion ...

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Aquinas's Summa: Background, Structure, and Reception, Paperback - Jean-Pierre Torrell

120,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Jean-Pierre TorrellTranslator: Benedict M. GuevinIn this concise new volume by the acclaimed author of the biography of Sai...

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Sharing in Christ's Virtues: For the Renewal of Moral Theology in Light of Veritatis Splendor, Paperback - Livio Melina

123,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Livio MelinaTranslator: William E. MayThe encyclical Veritatis splendor (The Splendor of Truth) represents the first docume...

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Book of Psalms-OE: A New Translation According to the Hebrew Text, Paperback - Jewish Publication Society of America

124,99 RON

A new translation according to the traditional Hebrew text The Psalms have long brought comfort to those who mourn and have helped us find the spir...

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Exceptional America: What Divides Americans from the World and from Each Other, Paperback - Mugambi Jouet

124,99 RON

Why did Donald Trump follow Barack Obama into the White House? Why is America so polarized? And how does American exceptionalism explain these soci...

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Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America, Paperback - Theodora Kroeber

125,99 RON 134,99 RON

Reducere. OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American an...

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Norse America. The Story of a Founding Myth, Hardback - Gordon Campbell

125,99 RON

The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth...

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Charles I's Killers in America: The Lives and Afterlives of Edward Whalley and William Goffe, Hardcover - Matthew Jenkinson

125,99 RON

DescriptionWhen the British monarchy was restored in 1660, King Charles II was faced with the conundrum of what to with those who had been involved...

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Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America, Hardcover - W. Caleb McDaniel

125,99 RON

DescriptionThe unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinn...

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Bumble Bees of North America: An Identification Guide, Paperback - Paul H. Williams

126,99 RON 135,99 RON

Reducere. More than ever before, there is widespread interest in studying bumble bees and the critical role they play in our ecosystems. Bumble Bees of North...

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Mountain Madness: Found and Lost in the Peaks of America and Japan, Paperback - Clinton Crockett Peters

126,99 RON 135,99 RON

Reducere. With Mountain Madness, Clinton Crockett Peters chronicles his travels and personal transformation from a West Texas evangelical to mountain guide-a...

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Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life, Paperback (2nd Ed.) - Joseph Ratzinger

127,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Joseph RatzingerEditor: Aidan NicholsTranslator: Michael WaldsteinPresents a balanced perspective of the doctrine at the ce...

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Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America, Paperback - Michael Reid

128,99 RON

A newly updated edition of the best-selling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America Ten years aft...

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The Politics of Petulance: America in an Age of Immaturity, Paperback - Alan Wolfe

128,99 RON

DescriptionHow did we get into this mess? Every morning, many Americans ask this as, with a cringe, they pick up their phones and look to see what ...

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Botox Nation: Changing the Face of America, Paperback - Dana Berkowitz

128,99 RON 177,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dana Berkowitz One of NPR's Best Books of 2017 The first in-depth social investigation into the development and rising popu...

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The Distributive Politics of Environmental Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean, Paperback - Ricardo A. Gutierrez

129,99 RON

This Element seeks to address the lack of a comprehensive research agenda in Latin American and Caribbean environmental politics and helps integrat...

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White Christian Privilege: The Illusion of Religious Equality in America, Paperback - Khyati y. Joshi

129,99 RON 139,99 RON

Reducere. Exposes the invisible ways in which white Christian privilege disadvantages racial and religious minorities in America The United States is recogni...

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Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America, with a New Preface, Paperback - Randy Shaw

130,99 RON 140,99 RON

Reducere. Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing th...

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How America Lost Its Mind: The Assault on Reason That's Crippling Our Democracy, Hardcover - Thomas E. Patterson

131,99 RON 141,99 RON

Reducere. Americans are losing touch with reality. On virtually every issue, from climate change to immigration, tens of millions of Americans have opinions ...

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The Underground Railroad and the Geography of Violence in Antebellum America, Paperback - Robert H. Churchill

131,99 RON 141,99 RON

Reducere. As runaway slaves fled from the South to escape bondage, slave catchers followed in their wake. The arrival of fugitives and slave catchers in the ...

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Children of Perdition: Melungeons and the Struggle of Mixed America, Paperback - Tim Hashaw

132,99 RON 142,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tim HashawSome oppressed groups fought with guns, some fought in court, some exercised civil disobedience; the Melungeons, ...

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Unbuttoning America: A Biography of "peyton Place, Hardcover - Ardis Cameron

132,99 RON 142,99 RON

Reducere. Published in 1956, Peyton Place became a bestseller and a literary phenomenon. A lurid and gripping story of murder, incest, female desire, and soc...

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The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World, Hardcover - William L. Silber

133,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionHow silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silver's transformation from soft...

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A Short History of Thomism, Paperback - Romanus Cessario

134,99 RON 144,99 RON

Reducere. Since the first followers of Saint Thomas Aquinas took up the task of explaining and defending his writings, Thomists have influenced deeply the We...

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The Politics of LGBTQ Rights Expansion in Latin America and the Caribbean, Paperback - ***

134,99 RON

The first section of this Element reviews the history of LGBTQ rights in the region since the 1960s. The second section reviews explanations for th...

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Ethica Thomistica, Revised Edition, Paperback - Ralph McInerny

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ralph McInernyFirst published fifteen years ago, Ethica Thomistica is widely recognized as one of the finest introductions ...

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Abbey in America: A Philosopher's Legacy in a New Century, Hardcover - John A. Murray

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. More than twenty-five years after his death, iconic writer and nature activist Edward Abbey (1927-1989) remains an influential presence in the Amer...

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Work on Oneself: Wittgensteins Philosophical Psychology, Paperback - Fergus Kerr

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. Beginning with a largely biographical study of Wittgenstein, Kerr argues that Wittgenstein's philosophy was partly prompted by his strong reaction ...

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After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America, Paperback - E. C. Pielou

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. The fascinating story of how a harsh terrain that resembled modern Antarctica has been transformed gradually into the forests, grasslands, and wetl...

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The Pornification of America: How Raunch Culture Is Ruining Our Society, Hardcover - Bernadette Barton

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. An up-close look at how porn permeates our culture Pictures of half-naked girls and women can seem to litter almost every screen, billboard, and ad...

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Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America, Paperback - Jeffrey H. Skevington

136,99 RON

DescriptionA groundbreaking guide to flower flies in North America This is the first comprehensive field guide to the flower flies (also known as h...

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