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Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction, Hardcover - Kate Masur

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Greek Stones Speak: The Story of Archaeology in Greek Lands (Second Edition, Revised and En), Paperback - Paul Lachlan Mackendrick

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Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression 1920-1941, Paperback - Michael E. Parrish

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Attachment-Focused Parenting: Effective Strategies to Care for Children, Hardcover - Daniel A. Hughes

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The New Regime: Transformations of the French Civic Order, 1789-1820s, Paperback - Isser Woloch

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Charles Ives: A Life with Music, Paperback - Jan Swafford

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Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (Revised), Paperback - Robert William Fogel

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Reducere. Over the past quarter-century, Robert William Fogel has blazed new trails in scholarship on the lives of the slaves in the American South. Now he p...

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Passing, Paperback - Nella Larsen

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nella LarsenEditor: Carla KaplanLarsen's status as a Harlem Renaissance woman writer was rivaled by only Zora Neale Hurston...

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Jane Eyre, Paperback - Charlotte Bronte

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charlotte BronteEditor: Deborah Lutz-The third-edition text (1848), the last corrected by Charlotte Bront , accompanied by ...

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The Erik Erikson Reader, Paperback - Erik H. Erikson

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Reducere. Erik H. Erikson is recognized as one of the world s leading figures in the field of psychoanalysis and human development. His ideas about the stage...

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The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History, Paperback - Walter LaFeber

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Reducere. When Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Tokyo harbor in July 1853, opening Japan to the West, a century and a half of economic, cultural, and occa...

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The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain, Paperback - Terrence W. Deacon

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Shame and Pride: Affect, Sex, and the Birth of the Self, Paperback - Donald L. Nathanson

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Reducere. For too long those who explain emotional discomfort on the basis of lived experience and those who blame chemistry have been at loggerheads. As Dr....

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Picasso: A Biography, Paperback - Patrick O'Brian

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Patrick O'BrianEverything about Picasso, except his physical stature, was on an enormous scale. No painter of the first ran...

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The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records, Paperback - Ashley Kahn

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Reducere. Noted jazz author Ashley Kahn brings to life the behind-the-scenes story of Impulse Records, one of the most significant record labels in the histo...

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Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver, Paperback - Arthur Allen

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Reducere. Vaccine juxtaposes the stories of brilliant scientists with the industry's struggle to produce safe, effective, and profitable vaccines. It focuses...

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Theaters of the Body: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatic Illness, Paperback - Joyce McDougall

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joyce McDougallIn this book, Joyce McDougall presents a bold and exciting recasting of the psychoanalytic approach to the f...

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Making Certain It Goes on: The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo, Paperback - Richard Hugo

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Reducere. DescriptionRichard Hugo was, in James Wright s words, a great poet, true to our difficult life. Making Certain It Goes On brings together, as Hugo ...

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Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917, Hardcover - Dale Cockrell

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Reducere. DescriptionEverybody's Doin' It is the eye-opening story of popular music's seventy-year rise in the brothels, dance halls, and dives of New York C...

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Wuthering Heights: A Norton Critical Edition, Paperback - Emily Bronte

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Reducere. "A fine new edition at an affordable price." --Bernard Duyfhuizen, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

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City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920, Paperback - Timothy J. Gilfoyle

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Reducere. In the 19th century, New York saw the development of a sex industry at the heart of a consumer world of entertainment, goods, newspapers and advert...

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A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds, Hardcover - Scott Weidensaul

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Reducere. In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable birds to cross immense oceans, fly above the hig...

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Up Front, Hardcover - Bill Mauldin

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Reducere. "The real war, " said Walt Whitman, "will never get in the books." During World War II, the truest glimpse most Americans got of the "real war" cam...

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Mexican Everyday, Hardcover - Rick Bayless

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In his previous books, Rick Bayless transformed America's understanding of Mexican cuisine, introducing authentic dishes and cooking methods as he ...

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Captain James Cook: A Biography, Paperback - Richard Hough

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Reducere. Richard Hough's vivid narrative captures all the excitement of this age of discovery and establishes Cook as a link between the vague scientific sp...

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Fatal Justice: Reinvestigating the MacDonald Murders, Paperback - Jerry Allen Potter

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Reducere. This "devastating rebuttal to Fatal Vision" (Boston Phoenix) demonstrates that the jury was not privy to crucial evidence in the case of Jeffrey Ma...

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Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus, Hardcover - Jennifer S. Hirsch

175,99 RON

The fear of campus sexual assault has become an inextricable part of the college experience. Research has shown that by the time they graduate, as ...

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Cryptography: The Key to Digital Security, How It Works, and Why It Matters, Hardcover - Keith Martin

175,99 RON

Despite its reputation as a language only of spies and hackers, cryptography plays a critical role in our everyday lives. Though often invisible, i...

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The Story of My Life: The Restored Classic, Paperback - Helen Keller

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Reducere. The story of Helen Keller, who triumphed over deafness and blindness and became "a symbol of the indomitable human spirit, " is now considered one ...

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Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War, Paperback - Donald McCaig

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Reducere. Jacob's Ladder is a Civil War epic, a love story that pits the indomitable longing of the human heart against circumstances of racism, slavery, and...

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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution, Hardcover - ***

175,99 RON

The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery le...

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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, Hardcover - Annalee Newitz

175,99 RON

In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history ...

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Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car, Hardcover - Anthony M. Townsend

175,99 RON

For decades we have dreamed of building an automobile that can drive itself. But as that dream of autonomy draws close, we are discovering that the...

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Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life, Paperback - Robert Spaethling

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The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel, Paperback - Isaac Babel

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Reducere. Following the historic publication of Norton's The Complete Works of Isaac Babel in the fall of 2001, The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel appears ...

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Art and Artist: Creative Urge and Personality Development, Paperback - Otto Rank

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Reducere. Art and Artist explores the human urge to create in all its complex aspects, in terms not only of individual works of art but of religion, mytholog...

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Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933-1946, Paperback - Deborah Dwork

174,99 RON 187,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionAs persecution, war, and deportation savaged their communities, Jews tried to flee Nazi Europe through both legal and clandestine routes...

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Stories for the Third Ear: Using Hypnotic Fables in Psychotherapy, Paperback - Lee Wallas

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The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank, 1397-1494, Paperback - Raymond De Roover

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Reducere. The roots of modern capitalism go back to the Italian banking system of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In the fifteenth century, the Med...

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Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York, Paperback - Timothy J. Gilfoyle

173,99 RON 186,99 RON

Reducere. In George Appo's world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucra...

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Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms, Hardcover - Timothy D. Walker

173,99 RON

When Timothy D. Walker started teaching fifth graders at a Helsinki public school, he began a search for the secrets behind the successes of Finlan...

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The Classic Fairy Tales, Paperback (2nd Ed.) - Maria Tatar

173,99 RON

Contributor(s): Editor: Maria Tatar- Seven different tale types: "Little Red Riding Hood, " "Beauty and the Beast, " "Snow White, " "Sleeping Beaut...

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Revolutionizing Trauma Treatment: Stabilization, Safety, & Nervous System Balance, Paperback - Babette Rothschild

173,99 RON

Being able to monitor and modulate a trauma client's dysregulated nervous system is one of the practitioner's best lines of defense against traumat...

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Alexander Hamilton: A Biography, Paperback - Forrest McDonald

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Reducere. The founders of the American republic were ardently concerned with the judgment of posterity. Had they known what a fickle muse Clio would prove to...

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Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1910-1926 - Rainer Maria Rilke

172,99 RON 185,99 RON

Reducere. There are important letters here to Muzot, Lou Andreas-Salome, to Princess Marie of Thurn and Taxis Hohenlohe, and many others. The most significan...

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The Black Banners (Declassified): How Torture Derailed the War on Terror After 9/11, Hardcover - Ali Soufan

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Reducere. Widely heralded on publication as a "must-read" (Military Review) and "important window on America's battle with al-Qaeda" (Washington Post), Ali S...

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World History of the Dance, Paperback - Curt Sachs

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Reducere. This book is the most comprehensive history to appear before the public of the art which has been so fundamental an expression in every period of h...

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The Origins of Modern Germany, Paperback - Geoffrey Barraclough

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The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present: A Narrative History, Paperback - Rebecca Fraser

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Reducere. Just as much as kings and queens, battles and empire, Britain's great themes have been the liberty of the individual, the rule of law, and the parl...

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Pride and Prejudice, Paperback (4th Ed.) - Jane Austen

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jane AustenEditor: Donald GrayEditor: Mary A. FavretThis Norton Critical Edition also includes - Biographical portraits of ...

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Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers, Hardcover - John Kay

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Reducere. Some uncertainties are resolvable. The insurance industry's actuarial tables and the gambler's roulette wheel both yield to the tools of probabilit...

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Mad, Bad, and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors, Paperback - Lisa Appignanesi

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Reducere. This fascinating history of mind doctors and their patients probes the ways in which madness, badness, and sadness have been understood over the la...

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The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Classic Story of Seduction and Murder, Hardcover - Ann Rule

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Reducere. Ted Bundy was handsome, charming, a brilliant law student, and on the verge of a dazzling career. On January 24, 1989, he was executed for the murd...

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Someone Knows My Name, Hardcover - Lawrence Hill

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Reducere. Hurston/Wright LEGACY AwardAbducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom and of the knowled...

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The Freud Reader the Freud Reader, Paperback - Sigmund Freud

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Reducere. The fifty-one texts in this volume range from Freud's dreams, to essays on sexuality, and on to his late writings, includingCivilization and Its Di...

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Addiction Essentials: The Go-To Guide for Clinicians and Patients, Paperback - Carlton K. Erickson

169,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Carlton K. EricksonErickson examines alcohol, drugs that speed us up, drugs that slow us down, and how to recognize addicti...

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The Contours of American History the Contours of American History, Paperback - William Appleman Williams

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Reducere. William Appleman Williams was one of America's greatest critics of US imperialism. The Contours of American History, first published in 1961, reach...

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The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices, Paperback - Elazar Barkan

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Elazar BarkanHow do nations and aggrieved parties, in the wake of heinous crimes and horrible injustices, make amends in a ...

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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, Hardcover - Mary Roach

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mary RoachLike all of Roach's books, Gulp is as much about human beings as it is about human bodies.&nbspReview citationsLi...

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Robert E. Lee: A Biography, Paperback - Emory M. Thomas

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Reducere. In this probing and personal biography, Emory Thomas reveals more than the man himself did. Robert E. Lee has been, and continues to be, a symbol a...

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Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier, Paperback - James H. Merrell

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Reducere. Award NameBancroft PrizeAward categoryHistoryJames Merrell's brilliant book is an account of the "go-betweens, " the Europeans and Indians who move...

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Aesthetic Theory: Essential Texts for Architecture and Design, Paperback - Mark Foster Gage

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Reducere. This collection of writings on beauty includes selections from twenty key philosophers and theoreticians spanning two millennia: Plato - Aristotle ...

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Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning, Hardcover - Philip Kennicott

167,99 RON

As his mother was dying, Philip Kennicott began to listen to the music of Bach obsessively. It was the only music that didn't seem trivial or irrel...

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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders the True Story of the Manson Murders, Hardcover - Vincent Bugliosi

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Reducere. A national bestseller—over 7 million copies sold. "[A] social document of rare importance."—The New Republic. Prosecuting attorney in the Manson tr...

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Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry, Hardcover - Adrienne Rich

167,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Adrienne RichEditor: Sandra M. GilbertAdrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and ...

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Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience, Hardcover - Michael S. a. Graziano

167,99 RON

DescriptionFocusing attention can help an animal find food or flee a predator. It also may have led to consciousness. Tracing evolution over millio...

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Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory, Hardcover - Claudio Saunt

167,99 RON

In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Jus...

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Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon, Paperback - Patrick Tierney

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Reducere. What Guns, Germs, and Steel did for colonial history, this book will do for modern anthropology, telling the explosive story of how ruthless journa...

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The Eisenhower Diaries, Paperback - Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Reducere. In his books--the memoir of the Second World War, the two large volumes on the presidency, the incomplete autobiography written near the end of his...

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New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time, Hardcover - Craig Taylor

167,99 RON 179,99 RON

Reducere. In the first twenty years of the twenty-first century, New York City has been convulsed by terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, social...

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