Who Was First?

Resistance, Paperback - Agnes Humbert

83,99 RON

Translation by Barbara Mellor of the life of Agnes Humbert, who helped establish one of the first resistance cells in occupied France. After she wa...

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American Acrostics Volume 8: Puzzling American Authors, Paperback - Cynthia Morris

70,99 RON 75,99 RON

Reducere. Who was America's first best-selling author? Which author was passionate about pencils? Who wrote about travels to other galaxies, but refused to s...

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Daniel Suhr: A Story of September 11th, Paperback - Paul Conlon

80,99 RON 86,99 RON

Reducere. On September 11, 2001 no one in the South Tower survived. Yet sixteen FDNY Firefighters were ordered into the building moments before it collapsed,...

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Book Buddies: Ivy Lost and Found, Hardcover - Cynthia Lord

69,99 RON 74,99 RON

Reducere. A lonely doll helps a child adjust to a blended family in the first of a charming series about library toys and the children who borrow them, writt...

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Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings, Paperback - Jay Barbree

89,99 RON 96,99 RON

Reducere. A revised edition of the New York Times bestselling classic: the epic story of the golden years of American space exploration, told by the men who ...

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Louise Bourgeois: An Intimate Portrait (Artist Biographies, Women in Art), Hardcover - Jean-Francois Jaussaud

133,99 RON 188,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionA rare glimpse inside the private world of Louise Bourgeois, one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. "Readers who already ...

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The Woman Who Cracked the Anxiety Code: The Extraordinary Life of Dr Claire Weekes, Paperback - Judith Hoare

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. The true story of the little-known mental-health pioneer who revolutionized how we see the defining problem of our era: anxiety. Panic, depression,...

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The Times I Knew I Was Gay, Hardcover - Eleanor Crewes

132,99 RON 142,99 RON

Reducere. A charming, highly relatable graphic memoir that follows one young woman's adventures in coming out and coming of age. Ellie always had questions a...

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Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War - Steve Inskeep

100,99 RON

Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Fr mont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward exp...

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The Business of Tomorrow: The Visionary Life of Harry Guggenheim: From Aviation and Rocketry to the Creation of an Art Dynasty - Dirk Smillie

149,99 RON 160,99 RON

Reducere. A veteran Forbes journalist brings to life the brilliant and complex Harry Guggenheim in the first-ever biography on this groundbreaking American f...

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Ein Sendbrief Vom Dolmetschen - An Open Letter on Translating, Paperback - Martin Luther

40,99 RON

Martin Luther wrote the Open Letter on Translation in September 1530 at the fortress of Coburg in Saxony where he was being kept for his own protec...

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The Poetry of Celia Thaxter - Volume I, Paperback - Celia Thaxter

64,99 RON 69,99 RON

Reducere. Celia Laighton Thaxter was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on June 29th, 1835 and spent her childhood years on the Isles of Shoals, initially on ...

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My Life as an Explorer: Autobiography of the First Man to Reach the South Pole, Paperback - Roald Amundsen

83,99 RON 89,99 RON

Reducere. Roald Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer whose team were the first to reach the South Pole - this is his astonishing story, in his own words.Amundse...

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Curious about Fossils, Paperback - Kate Waters

25,99 RON

Dig into this photo-packed Penguin-Smithsonian book about fossils and find out what "was" going on in our world. Aren't you curious about what Eart...

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Hidden History of New Haven, Paperback - Robert Hubbard

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe celebrated history of New Haven often overshadows its fascinating and forgotten past. The Elm City was home to America's first woman...

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Hidden History of New Haven, Hardcover - Robert Hubbard

165,99 RON 177,99 RON

Reducere. The celebrated history of New Haven often overshadows its fascinating and forgotten past. The Elm City was home to America's first woman dentist, a...

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Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism, Hardcover - Dinyar Patel

231,99 RON

The definitive biography of Dadabhai Naoroji, the nineteenth-century activist who founded the Indian National Congress, was the first British MP of...

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Herbert McCabe, Hardcover - Franco Manni

310,99 RON 332,99 RON

Reducere. Herbert McCabe struck those who met him (Alasdair MacIntyre, Anthony Kenny, Terry Eagleton, Denys Turner) or those who read his writings (David Bur...

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War Is a Racket: Original Edition, Paperback - Smedley D. Butler

46,99 RON 50,99 RON

Reducere. "War is a Racket" is marine general, Smedley Butler's classic treatise on why wars are conducted, who profits from them, and who pays the price. Fe...

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Michigan's Crossroads to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in Jackson County, Paperback - Linda Hass

128,99 RON 138,99 RON

Reducere. In the early to mid-1800s, Jackson County was home to two branches of the Underground Railroad, a secret network that funneled fugitives from slave...

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Mozart's Sister, Paperback - Rita Charbonnier

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. The fascinating life of Wolfgang's older sister, Nannerl--whose talent may have equaled her brother's Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia Mozart, affection...

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Lilith: The Legend of the First Woman Revised, Hardcover - Ada Langworthy Collier

212,99 RON 227,99 RON

Reducere. Old rabbanic tradition teaches that Eve was not Adam's first wife, rather a mysterious woman named Lilith who was thrown out of Eden before Adam an...

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Lilith: The Legend of the First Woman, Paperback - Ada Langworthy Collier

105,99 RON 113,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionOld rabbanic tradition teaches that Eve was not Adam's first wife, rather a mysterious woman named Lilith who was thrown out of Eden bef...

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Open Secret, Paperback - Stella Rimington

62,99 RON

The autobiography of the first female Director-General of MI5 who was appointed in 1992. "Was She right to publish? Most certainly. If we are to ha...

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Brando's Bride, Paperback - Sarah Broughton

62,99 RON

DescriptionIn October 1957 Marlon Brando married an Indian actress called Anna Kashfi. He was thirty-three and at the pinnacle of his fame, having ...

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Who Was Georgia O'Keeffe?, Paperback - Who HQ

39,99 RON

Discover how a little girl raised on a dairy farm grew up to become the first woman ever to have an exhibition of their entire life's work at the M...

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Who Was Sam Walton?, Paperback - James Buckley

30,99 RON

DescriptionThe story of a department-store trainee who became the richest man in America and owner of the biggest retail store in the world: Walmar...

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America's First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster (Mind of a Serial Killer, True Crime, Women's Studies History, Irish Ame

125,99 RON

The First Lady--Serial Killer The nurse from hell. Always cheerful, helpful, and sweet, nurse Jane Toppan was the last person you would suspect to ...

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Murder in Shadow, Paperback - Anne Cleeland

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anne CleelandIt seemed a little strange, that Detective Sergeant Kathleen Doyle wound up being the ranking officer on this ...

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Nigeria's Soldiers of Fortune: The Abacha and Obasanjo Years, Paperback - Max Siollun

199,99 RON

In the cataclysmic decade that is the focus of this book, Nigeria was subject to several near-death experiences. These began when the country nearl...

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The Napoleon of Notting Hill & the Man Who Was Thursday, Paperback - G. K. Chesterton

84,99 RON 90,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionG. K. Chesterton is already a staple in the Hendrickson list with "Orthodoxy" and "Heretics" in the Hendrickson Christian Classics serie...

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The Life of John Wesley Hardin: From the Original Manuscript as Written by Himself, Paperback - C. Stephen Badgley

85,99 RON 92,99 RON

Reducere. Hero or Villain? John Wesley Hardin, aka "Young Seven Up, " "Little Arkansas, " "Wes Clemmons" and "J. H. Swain, " was a notorious outlaw and gunfi...

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Short History of the Crimean War - Trudi Tate

119,99 RON

The Crimean War (1853-1856) was the first modern war. A vicious struggle between imperial Russia and an alliance of the British, French and Ottoman...

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The Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr

51,99 RON 55,99 RON

Reducere. This, the original little book, has been incredibly popular since it was first written back in 1918. William Strunk, Jr., a professor at Cornell, r...

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Who Was Roberto Clemente', Paperback - James Buckley

32,99 RON 35,99 RON

Reducere. Growing up the youngest of seven children in Puerto Rico, Roberto Clemente had a talent for baseball. His incredible skill soon got him drafted int...

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A Place of Safety: A Chief Inspector Barnaby Novel, Paperback - Caroline Graham

112,99 RON 120,99 RON

Reducere. Chief Inspector Barnaby investigates when the charming English village of Ferne Basset is turned upside down by the murder of local man who had rec...

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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Life from Beginning to End, Paperback - Hourly History

81,99 RON 87,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionOne of America's most influential presidents was a man who could not walk. The polio that struck Franklin Delano Roosevelt when he was a...

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Korean Mythology: Captivating Myths, Legends, and Folktales from Korea, Hardcover - Matt Clayton

134,99 RON 144,99 RON

Reducere. Have you ever encountered a noblewoman who was so beautiful that every time she walked by a body of water, the divine being who lived there kidnapp...

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The Giraffe That Walked to Paris, Hardcover - Nancy Milton

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. Here is the beguiling true story of the first giraffe ever to live in Europe. The year was 1826, and the giraffe belonged to the pasha of Egypt, wh...

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Nate (Hardcover), Hardcover - ***

180,99 RON 193,99 RON

Reducere. HARDCOVER EDITIONNate Monson was gorgeous, obnoxiously wealthy, and a player. He was also the person who could destroy my world with a single decis...

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Nate, Paperback - ***

98,99 RON 105,99 RON

Reducere. Nate Monson was gorgeous, obnoxiously wealthy, and a player. He was also the person who could destroy my world with a single decision. I walked int...

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Similar cu Nate, Paperback - ***

Women. Jean-Georges Simon, Paperback - Robert Waterhouse

31,99 RON

First in a series exploring the work of Hungarian-born British artists. Jean-Georges Simon (1894-1968) was a Yorkshire-based painter and art teache...

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Chickweed Wintergreen. Selected Poems, Paperback - Harry Martinson

67,00 RON

First substantial selection of for English-language readers of the poetry of Harry Martinson, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1974. Robin ...

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Robin Murray. Selected Writings, Paperback - ***

188,99 RON

Robin Murray (1940-2017) was a radical economist whose work spanned fair trade, industrial strategy and technological change. This special collecti...

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Snake: The Legendary Life of Ken Stabler, Paperback - Mike Freeman

82,99 RON 88,99 RON

Reducere. The first in-depth biography of one of the most talented and infamous legends to play in the National Football League--the life and times of pro fo...

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The John McPhee Reader, Paperback - John McPhee

120,99 RON 129,99 RON

Reducere. The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author's first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published hi...

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Thomas Harriot: A Life in Science, Hardcover - Robyn Arianrhod

200,99 RON

As Robyn Arianrhod shows in this new biography, the most complete to date, Thomas Harriot was a pioneer in both the figurative and literal sense. N...

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Get Yourself Together First, Paperback - Gavata

74,99 RON

DescriptionBeing reared by her grandparents who were respected members of the community, Gav ta (V ) lived in a fine home, had lots of love, attend...

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Queen of the Mountaineers: The Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman, Hardcover - Cathryn J. Prince

184,99 RON

DescriptionFanny Bullock Workman was a complicated and restless woman who defied the rigid Victorian morals she found as restrictive as a corset. W...

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Bridget Riley: A Very Very Person, Paperback - Paul Moorhouse

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn January 1965 the international art world converged on New York to pay homage to a brilliant new star. The glittering opening of The R...

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General Sun, My Brother, Paperback - Jacques Stephen Alexis

199,99 RON 213,99 RON

Reducere. The first novel of the Haitian novelist Jacques Stephen Alexis, General Sun, My Brother appears here for the first time in English. Its depiction o...

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Wetwork Repair, Paperback - William Rooney

109,99 RON

DescriptionIn this compelling thriller, anything is possible and no one in high government circles is safe. Wetwork Repair is the gripping and trou...

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Scarne on Dice, Paperback - John Scarne

225,99 RON

"Mr. Scarne was not one who, when the boys rode off to war, gave them good advice, chocolate bars, or woolen underwear. Rather he took the men asid...

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The Complete Story of Sadako Sasaki: And the Thousand Paper Cranes, Paperback - Masahiro Sasaki

56,99 RON

For the first time, middle readers can learn the complete story of the courageous girl whose life, which ended through the effects of war, inspired...

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The Mismeasure of Progress: Economic Growth and Its Critics, Hardcover - Stephen J. Macekura

188,99 RON

Few ideas in the past century have had wider financial, political, and governmental impact than that of economic growth. The common belief that end...

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An Austin Anthology II, Hardcover - James 'Jim' Stringer

97,99 RON

DescriptionFollowing on from Jim Stringer's first book An Austin Anthology, this second volume features 20 more stories relating to the Austin Moto...

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Forrest J. Ackerman Presents This Island Earth, Paperback - Raymond F. Jones

105,99 RON 113,99 RON

Reducere. In 1949 and 1950 a science fiction serial by Raymond F. Jones appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories. Within half a decade that serial would make his...

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A Simple Introduction to Chemistry, Paperback - Max Parsonage

35,99 RON 38,99 RON

Reducere. Previously, only available as an ebook, where it was No.1, it is now available for the first time as a paperback (It was No. 1 on Amazon.co.uk, Sec...

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Color Me Flo, Paperback - Flo Kennedy

80,99 RON 86,99 RON

Reducere. For the first time, lawyer, feminist, and civil rights advocate Florynce Kennedy tells the complete story of her life from being one of the first B...

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Man of the First Hour: A Son's Story, Paperback - George Van Popta

127,99 RON 136,99 RON

Reducere. Man of the First Hour is a personal account of a loving son who invites the reader into the life and times of Rev. Jules Van Popta. It's a glimpse ...

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The Confessions of Nat Turner, Paperback - Nat Turner

25,99 RON 27,99 RON

Reducere. The Confessions of Nat Turner (1831) is a historical pamphlet by Nat Turner and Thomas Ruffin Gray. Published shortly after Turner's execution, The...

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The Real Middle Earth: Exploring the Magic and Mystery of the Middle Ages, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Lord of the Rings, Paperback - Brian Bates

152,99 RON 163,99 RON

Reducere. J.R.R. Tolkien claimed that he based the land of Middle Earth on a real place. The Real Middle Earth brings alive, for the first time, the very rea...

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Jock of the Bushveld: A 100 Year Celebration, Paperback - Percy Fitzpatrick

89,99 RON 96,99 RON

Reducere. The much-loved classic by Percy Fitzpatrick, available as a limited centenary edition. Jock of the Bushveld, published in 1907, has been read and e...

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A Journal of the Plague Year: An account by Daniel Defoe of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the bubonic plague struck the city of L -

105,99 RON

A Journal of the Plague Year is a book by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. It is an account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, ...

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Raised in the Shadow of the Bomb: Children of the Manhattan Project, Paperback - Deborah Leah Steinberg

89,99 RON

This story began before I was born, when my father, Ellis P. Steinberg, and uncle Bernard Abraham worked on the secret undertaking that developed t...

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The First Fighter Pilot - Roland Garros: The Life and Times of the Playboy Who Invented Air Combat, Paperback - Ed Cobleigh

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionRoland Garros enjoyed an exciting life. An aviation pioneer in the early 1900s, he taught himself how to fly a bamboo airplane despite c...

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The Ultimate World Wrestling Entertainment Trivia Book, Paperback - Aaron Feigenbaum

127,99 RON 136,99 RON

Reducere. Are you a real fan of World Wrestling Entertainment (R)? Do you have ruthless aggression? Do you have to know it all -- and beyond? Now you can ste...

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The First Fighter Pilot - Roland Garros: The Life and Times of the Playboy Who Invented Air Combat, Hardcover - Ed Cobleigh

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. Roland Garros enjoyed an exciting life. An aviation pioneer in the early 1900s, he taught himself how to fly a bamboo airplane despite crashing it ...

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Historic Photos of Ernest Hemingway, Hardcover - James Plath

206,99 RON 221,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWhen Ernest Hemingway won the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, presenters called him "one of this epoch's great molders of style, " prai...

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Chris Killip: The Station, Hardcover - Chris Killip

440,99 RON

Late in 2016, British photographer Chris Killip's (born 1946) son discovered a box of contact sheets of the photos his father had made at the Stati...

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