What Is History, Now?

The Great Leap Backward: Forgetting and Representing the Mao Years, Hardcover - Lingchei Letty Chen

946,99 RON 1.013,99 RON

Reducere. It is now forty years after Mao Zedong's death and the end of the Cultural Revolution, and more than fifty years since the Great Leap Forward and t...

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The Leonberger: A Comprehensive Guide to the Lion King of Breeds, Hardcover - Caroline Bliss-Isberg

897,99 RON 960,99 RON

Reducere. Caroline Bliss-Isberg has spent countless hours researching, interviewing and documenting to produce what is by far the most comprehensive collecti...

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Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965-1996: Volume 3, Hardcover - Asha Nadkarni

867,99 RON 928,99 RON

Reducere. Asian American Literature in Transition Volume Three: 1965-1996 offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the political and aesthetic stakes of wha...

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Privatization A Systems Perspective, Hardcover - Walter Sobkiw

700,99 RON

Privatization of the US Government began in 1987 when President Reagan signed Executive Order 12607. This resulted in the report, Privatization Tow...

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Historical Dictionary of Democracy, Hardcover - Norman Abjorensen

601,99 RON

DescriptionDemocracy is easy to talk about but hard to define in other than broad generalizations; its history is a long, complex, and contested su...

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The Man of Many Faces: PT. 1 & 2: Uncovering the Truth about Dr. Malachi Z. York, Paperback - Yovan Christenson

589,99 RON 631,99 RON

Reducere. Description"The Man of Many Faces" is a revelation Finally here is the most comprehensive and objective critique of the Nuwaubian movement, detaili...

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The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology, Hardcover - Robbie Ethridge

575,99 RON

This volume uses case studies to capture the recent emphasis on history in archaeological reconstructions of America's deep past. Previously, archa...

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Critical Issues of Latinos and Education in 21st Century America; Where Are We?, Paperback - Abdín Noboa-Ríos

568,00 RON

The year 2011 marked the first time in U.S. history where more nonwhite babies were born than white babies. Academic year 2014-15 marked the first ...

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Cultural Anthropology: Tribes, States, and the Global System, Paperback - John H. Bodley

564,99 RON

Cultural Anthropology: Tribes, States, and the Global System, Seventh Edition, provides balanced coverage of three dramatically different cultural ...

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The Problem of Secret Intelligence, Hardcover - Kjetil Anders Hatlebrekke

556,99 RON

Systematically develops a new concept of intelligence as a cognitive activity that needs to be understood holistically What is intelligence--why is...

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In Theaters Everywhere. A History of the Hollywood Wide Release, 1913-2017, Paperback - Brian Hannan

494,99 RON

For over a century a vicious business war has been waged in Hollywood between studios and exhibitors. At stake, shares in what has now become a mul...

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Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present, Paperback - ***

467,99 RON

Explores Jewish women's lives in what is now Eastern and Western Europe, Britain, Israel, Turkey, North Africa, and North America. The volume focus...

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Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue: An Annotated Translation of Wu Yue Chunqiu, Hardcover - Jianjun He

448,00 RON

Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue is the first complete English translation of Wu Yue Chunqiu, a chronicle of two neighboring states during Ch...

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Politics in China: An Introduction, Third Edition, Paperback - William A. Joseph

447,99 RON 479,99 RON

Reducere. On October 1, 2019, the People's Republic of China (PRC) will celebrate the 70th anniversary of its founding. And what an eventful and tumultuous s...

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The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power, Hardcover - Jared A. Ball

444,99 RON 476,99 RON

Reducere. This Palgrave Pivot offers a history of and proof against claims of "buying power" and the impact this myth has had on understanding media, race, c...

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Social Ethics Making, Paperback - Gary Dorrien

442,99 RON 473,99 RON

Reducere. In the early 1880s, proponents of what came to be called "the social gospel" founded what is now known as social ethics. This ambitious and magiste...

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The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism, Paperback - Terryl L. Givens

427,00 RON

Winner of the Best Anthology Book Award from the John Whitmer Historical Association Winner of the Special Award for Scholarly Publishing from the ...

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New Directions in Assessing Historical Thinking, Paperback - Kadriye Ercikan

410,99 RON

DescriptionNew technologies have radically transformed our relationship to information in general and to little bits of information in particular. ...

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The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, Hardcover - Kevin Coval

405,99 RON 434,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionHip-Hop is the largest youth culture in the history of the planet rock. This is the first poetry anthology by and for the Hip-Hop genera...

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Buying America from the Indians: Johnson v. McIntosh and the History of Native Land Rights, Hardcover - Blake A. Watson

391,99 RON 419,99 RON

Reducere. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Johnson v. McIntosh established the basic principles that govern American Indian property rights to this day. In t...

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Constructing Jesus: Memory, Imagination, and History, Paperback - Dale C. Allison

365,99 RON 391,99 RON

Reducere. What did Jesus think of himself? How did he face death? What were his expectations of the future? In this volume, now in paperback, internationally...

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The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949, Paperback - Norman M. Naimark

360,99 RON 386,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1945, when the Red Army marched in, eastern Germany was not "occupied" but "liberated." This, until the recent collapse of the Soviet...

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Introduction to International and Global Studies, Third Edition, Paperback - Shawn C. Smallman

343,99 RON 368,99 RON

Reducere. Shawn C. Smallman and Kimberley Brown's popular introductory textbook for undergraduates in international and global studies is now released in a s...

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Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress - Hasok Chang

335,99 RON 359,99 RON

Reducere. What is temperature, and how can we measure it correctly? These may seem like simple questions, but the most renowned scientists struggled with the...

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Richmond County, Virginia Deed Abstracts, 1726-1774 Account Book 1 Extracts and Deed Books 9-13, Paperback - Wesley Pippenger

331,99 RON 355,99 RON

Reducere. The bulk of what is presented here are abstracts of items found in Richmond County Deed Books 9 (1734-1741) through 13 (1768-1774). This main run o...

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The Story of the Choctaw Indians: From the Past to the Present, Hardcover - Joe Watkins

329,99 RON 353,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionRather than focusing on a single Choctaw group, this book offers for the first time a combined story of "the Choctaw" as the tribe compr...

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Dumbo: The Making of a New York Neighborhood, Hardcover - Paul Goldberger

327,99 RON

The illustrated history of a seminal New York neighborhood--a story of birth, decline, and renewal, of high design, of grit and glamour--a tale of ...

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Giant Snakes: A Natural History, Paperback - John C. Murphy

317,99 RON 340,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionSnakes, particularly venomous snakes and exceptionally large constricting snakes, have haunted the human brain for a millennium. They ap...

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A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945. Volume 4: Sicily and Italy to the Fall of Rome 14 May, 1943 - 5 June, 1944, Hardcover - Russell Gue

314,99 RON

DescriptionThe fourth volume in this momentous series commences with the attacks on the Italian island fortress of Pantellaria which led to its sur...

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Plagues in World History, Paperback - Aberth

307,99 RON 329,99 RON

Reducere. Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosi...

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Calcutta Then Kolkata Now, Hardback - Anshika Varma

304,99 RON

Calcutta Then: Calcutta is where it all began. The city symbolised India's transformation from medievalism to modernity. Kolkata Now: Love it, endu...

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Interpretation in Jungian Analysis: Art and Technique, Paperback - Mark Winborn

301,99 RON

An American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize Finalist 2019 Analytic interpretation is fundamental to the process of psychoanalysis, Jun...

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The First Maya Civilization: Ritual and Power Before the Classic Period - Francisco Estrada Belli

300,99 RON

DescriptionWhen the Maya kings of Tikal dedicated their first carved monuments in the third century A.D., inaugurating the Classic period of Maya h...

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Crypto Wars: Faked Deaths, Missing Billions and Industry Disruption, Hardcover - Erica Stanford

300,99 RON 322,99 RON

Reducere. Crypto is big news. You may be an existing user yourself or have friends that laud its promise of getting rich fast. Arm yourself with knowledge to...

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Science, Paperback - Steve Fuller

299,99 RON

In this challenging and provocative book, Steve Fuller contends that our continuing faith in science in the face of its actual history is best unde...

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Driven: Inside BMW, the Most Admired Car Company in the World, Hardcover - David Kiley

290,99 RON 311,99 RON

Reducere. An exclusive look at one of the world's most successful and controversial companies, and the mysterious family behind it. BMW is arguably the most ...

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Teaching Critically about Lewis and Clark: Challenging Dominant Narratives in K-12 Curriculum, Paperback - Alison Schmitke

284,99 RON 304,99 RON

Reducere. The Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery is often presented as an exciting adventure story of discovery, friendship, and patriotism. However, this sa...

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Champlain's Dream, Paperback - David Hackett Fischer

283,99 RON 303,99 RON

Reducere. Cundill PrizeWinner of the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaime...

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Animal Breeding Plans, Paperback - Jay L. Lush

283,99 RON 303,99 RON

Reducere. First published in 1943, "Animal Breeding Plans" contains a detailed guide on animal breeding designed for students with experience of genetics, em...

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The Paradox of German Power, Hardcover - Hans Kundnani

278,99 RON 298,99 RON

Reducere. Since the Euro crisis began, Germany has emerged as Europe's dominant power. During the last three years, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been ...

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Cantelon's Casual Commentary: A 21st Century Guide to the Life of Jesus for the Internet Generation, Hardcover - James Cantelon

274,99 RON 294,99 RON

Reducere. Not only is the Holy Bible publishing's all-time best seller, but Jesus continues to be the most famous and written-about character in history. The...

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The Things Our Fathers Saw - The War in the Air Book One: The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown, USA, Hardcover - Matthew Ro

272,99 RON 292,99 RON

Reducere. Description"For all of us to be free, a few of us must be brave, and that is the history of America." But dying for freedom isn't the worst that co...

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The Things Our Fathers Saw: Voices of the Pacific Theater: The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown, USA, Hardcover - Matthew R

271,99 RON 291,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe telephone rings on the hospital floor, and they tell you it is your mother, the phone call you have been dreading. You've lost part ...

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The Last Days of the Sioux Nation, Paperback - Robert M. Utley

271,99 RON

This fascinating account tells what the Sioux were like when they first came to their reservation and how their reaction to the new system eventual...

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Rome and America: The Great Republics: What the Fall of the Roman Republic Portends for the United States, Paperback - Walter Signorelli

270,99 RON 289,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn innumerable ways, the United States of America is the political and social descendant of the Roman Republic, and the influences of Ro...

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The War in the Air Book Two (2ND EDITION, REVISED and EXPANDED: Combat, Captivity, Reunion), Hardcover - Matthew Rozell

270,99 RON 289,99 RON

Reducere. (2ND EDITION, REVISED and EXPANDED: COMBAT, CAPTIVITY, REUNION)WHAT DO YOU FILL YOUR POCKETS WITH when you're rousted awake in the middle of a free...

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Building the Dream: History of the Bowling Green Corvette Plant, Hardcover - Larry R. Herrin

269,99 RON 288,99 RON

Reducere. Corvette is an icon. For most of its history it was built in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The author, a forty-one year veteran of GM, spent twenty-four...

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Rent, Hardcover - Jonathan Larson

267,99 RON 286,99 RON

Reducere. Pulitzer PrizeIn these pages, Rent offers what most theater books can't: a chance to step behind the curtain and feel the electricity of a stage ph...

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Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History, Hardcover - William Safire

266,99 RON 285,99 RON

Reducere. An instant classic when it was first published a decade ago and now enriched by seventeen new speeches, Lend Me Your Ears contains more than two hu...

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The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government, Paperback - David K. Johnson

266,99 RON 285,99 RON

Reducere. The McCarthy era is generally considered the worst period of political repression in recent American history. But while the famous question, "Are y...

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The Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant, Paperback - Michael Axworthy

263,99 RON 282,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionNader Shah, ruler of Persia from 1736 to 1747, embodied ruthless ambition, energy, military brilliance, cynicism and cruelty. His reign ...

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History and Obstinacy, Hardcover - Alexander Kluge

263,99 RON

If Marx's opus Capital provided the foundational account of the forces of production in all of their objective, machine formats, what happens when ...

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The Contemporary History of Latin America, Paperback - Tulio Halperín Donghi

262,99 RON 281,99 RON

Reducere. For a quarter of a century, Tulio Halperín Donghi's Historia Contemporánea de América Latina has been the most influential and widely read general ...

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In the Shadow of Billy the Kid: Susan McSween and the Lincoln County War, Paperback - Kathleen P. Chamberlain

257,99 RON 276,99 RON

Reducere. Award NameSpur AwardsAward categoryNonfiction-BiographyThe events of July 19, 1878, marked the beginning of what became known as the Lincoln County...

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Sudden Money: Managing a Financial Windfall, Hardcover - Susan Bradley

255,99 RON 273,99 RON

Reducere. From inheritances and divorce and insurance settlements to retirement payouts and the most recent phenomenon of stock options, the largest transfer...

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The Best Read Naturalist": Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Paperback - Ralph Waldo Emerson

249,99 RON 267,99 RON

Reducere. Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in American nature writing, yet until now readers have had no book devoted to this central...

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The Trojan Epic: Posthomerica, Paperback - ***

247,99 RON 265,99 RON

Reducere. Composed in the third century A.D., the Trojan Epic is the earliest surviving literary evidence for many of the traditions of the Trojan War passed...

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History Has Begun: The Birth of a New America, Hardcover - Bruno Maçães

246,99 RON 264,99 RON

Reducere. Popular consensus says that the US rose over two centuries to Cold War victory and world domination, and is now in slow decline. But is this right?...

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The Day It Rained Militia: Huck's Defeat and the Revolution in the South Carolina Backcountry, May-July 1780, Hardcover - Michael C. Scoggins

245,99 RON 263,99 RON

Reducere. In July of 1780, when the Revolutionary War in the Southern states seemed doomed to failure, a small but important battle took place on James Willi...

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The Gothic and Theory: An Edinburgh Companion, Paperback - Jerrold E. Hogle

245,99 RON 263,99 RON

Reducere. Provides a scholarly account of the striking interplay between the Gothic and theory over two-and-a-half centuries This collection provides a thoro...

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The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age, Hardcover - Andrew Whitby

242,99 RON

This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of bi...

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Flyboys: A True Story of Courage, Hardcover - James Bradley

242,99 RON 259,99 RON

Reducere. The classic New York Times bestselling story of heroism and sacrifice--by the author of Flags of Our Fathers, The Imperial Cruise, and The China Mi...

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Cinco de Mayo: Cinco de Mayo: What is Everybody Celebrating? (2nd Ed.), Hardcover - Donald W. Miles

240,99 RON 257,99 RON

Reducere. Cinco de Mayo has evolved into a holiday so popular that in the United States it draws larger crowds than here in the United States. About half a m...

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The Things Our Fathers Saw - Vol. 3, the War in the Air Book Two: The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown, USA, Hardcover - Ma

237,99 RON 254,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionDying for freedom isn't the worst that could happen. Being forgotten is.(The War in the Air Book Two) VOLUME 3 IN THE BEST SELLING 'The ...

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From the Hands of a Weaver: Olympic Peninsula Basketry Through Time - Jacilee Wray

237,99 RON 254,99 RON

Reducere. For millennia, Native artists on Olympic Peninsula, in what is now northwestern Washington, have created coiled and woven baskets using tree roots,...

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Eating Puerto Rico: A History of Food, Culture, and Identity, Paperback - Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra

236,99 RON 253,99 RON

Reducere. Available for the first time in English, Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra's magisterial history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico unfolds into ...

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Witch's Starter Kit: Witchcraft, the Elements, and Magical Living, Hardcover - Lisa Chamberlain

236,99 RON 253,99 RON

Reducere. A Perfect Starting Point for the Beginning WitchIf you've landed on this page, it's likely that you have more than once had the feeling that there'...

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Extreme Ironing 101: A Quick Guide on How to Extreme Iron Step by Step from A to Z, Hardcover - HowExpert

235,99 RON 252,99 RON

Reducere. The world of extreme sports is evolving every day. Many of us are reinventing the parameters of tradition and creating new ways to do things. In 20...

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Spanish Expeditions Into Texas, 1689-1768, Paperback - William C. Foster

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. Mapping old trails has a romantic allure at least as great as the difficulty involved in doing it. In this book, William Foster produces the first ...

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Christian Socialism: An Informal History, Paperback - John C. Cort

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. Once again in America the banner of socialism has been raised--for some, an aspirational agenda, while for others a terrifying specter. What does i...

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