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  • Movin’ On
    Jeremy Paul Ämick
    Coming of age during the British Invasion of the early 1960s, Ron West was inspired to pursue a career in music. His interest in bands like the Beatles influenced the formation of the Chesmann and Chesmann Square-popular Kansas City area bands that survived for a decade and included his two younger brothers, Steve and Gary. Then, in 1977, West formed a new band, Missouri, which...
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    14,07 €

  • Cherokee History and the Spirit Family
    James Neil Barnes
    Thoroughly researched and eloquently told by author and Spirit family descendant James Barnes, this resonant, non-fiction history showcases the amazing resiliency of a people who refuse to let suffering keep them from maintaining joy, love, and cultural identity. Follow the Spirit family from 1826-1910, through one of the darkest periods of cultural persecution in our nation’s ...
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    37,45 €

  • 1862 Diary of Rebecca Marilla Hine Sackett
    Jeffrey Randall
    Rebecca Marilla Hine Sackett was a young married woman raising her family in western Connecticut during the Civil War, after briefly living in Iowa. Married to Henry Eldred Sackett, with one living child, Clara, she began a diary in 1862, writing regularly from January 1 until September 1. This is a transcription of that diary, with additional notes to add context to her fami...
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    29,55 €

  • In Defence of Lenin
    Alan Woods / Rob Sewell
    John Reed, the author of Ten Days that Shook the World, once said that Lenin was the most loved and the most hated person alive. He was loved by tens of millions who wanted to change society, but hated by the ruling class and their apologists.As the creator of the Bolshevik Party and leader of the Russian Revolution, Lenin was a man who changed the world and translated the idea...
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    21,00 €

  • India - What can it teach us?
    F. Max Müller
    A must-read for every Indian. What Can It teach us? is a compilation of lectures delivered by Max Muller at Cambridge.F. Max Müller in lectures portrays India; specially the Vedic India; as an epitome of virtuosity & morality; whose glory is equal if not greater to the classical Greek or Roman Civilizations.F. Max Müller urges the Westerners to come out of their supreme colonia...
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    17,01 €

  • Rickets, Race and Reproduction
    Deborah Kuhn McGregor / Robert Kuhn McGregor
    This book outlines the history of rickets, a disease commonly associated with childhood, and studies its association with race and its long-reaching effects on childbirth. For centuries, the condition was poorly understood. For females, rickets could pose a double jeopardy: suffering in childhood and severe danger in adulthood when giving birth. The disease could result in a co...
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    108,32 €

  • Jump
    Jim Serger
    In 1984, five teenagers and two adults were given more than what they expected at a Van Halen concert. Forty-years ago, a band from Pasadena, California delivered one amazing concert in Cincinnati, Ohio. Van Halen gave these kids an experience that would last for years, one that they can recall instantly, especially when they hear the song, JUMP. Van Halen not only gave them an...
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    21,81 €

  • Standing Firm for Indonesia’s Democracy
    Jun Honna / Nobuhiro Aizawa
    This book presents the first oral history of Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) (2004-2014). As the first directly elected president, he played a very important role in Indonesia’s democratization. Indonesia’s economy also got back on the path of growth under his administration.In a series of interviews, SBY tells how he handled military affairs in 1990s, what...
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    45,12 €

  • Standing Firm for Indonesia’s Democracy
    This book presents the first oral history of Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) (2004-2014). As the first directly elected president, he played a very important role in Indonesia’s democratization. Indonesia’s economy also got back on the path of growth under his administration.In a series of interviews, SBY tells how he handled military affairs in 1990s, what...
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    80,65 €

  • From the Mountains to the Prairies
    George Holloway
    This historical book, based on real events and persons, follows the tumultuous journey of one family--that of John and Elizabeth Holloway--from colonial South Carolina to North Carolina and then to the Natchez District governed by Spain before, during, and after the American Revolution. From the extensive research done by the author and other ancestors of this family, including...
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    18,20 €

  • Killing over Land
    Robert M. Owens
    In early America, interracial homicide-whites killing Indians, Indians killing whites-might result in a massive war on the frontier; or, if properly mediated, it might actually facilitate diplomatic relations, at least for a time. In Killing over Land, Robert M. Owens explores why and how such murders once played a key role in Indian affairs and how this role changed over time....
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    63,33 €

  • Treasure Express
    Neill C. Wilson
    Treasure Express, first published in 1938, is an exciting account of the heady early days of the Wells Fargo offices and its paddlewheel, stagecoach, and express services. The book chronicles the story of Henry Wells (1805-78) and William Fargo (1818-81) who incorporated Wells, Fargo & Company in California in 1852, providing express services from the gold fields to financial c...
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    20,27 €

  • Hidden From History, Volume 1
    Danica De La Mora
    The 'Hidden From History' series is a compilation of letters, documents, flyers, pamphlets, ads, newspaper clippings, quarterly publications, cartoon illustrations, and other anti-suffrage memorabilia that are in the public domain, but often are difficult to find. With inquiries about the history of suffrage, an official narrative is the dominant, accessible story, but there is...
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    74,51 €

  • BOLÍVAR. Ensayo de una interpretación bibliográfica a través de sus documentos
    Tomás POLANCO ALCÁNTARA
    Esta nueva edición de la obra del profesor Tomás Polanco Alcántara, sobre 'Simón Bolívar, Ensayo de una interpretación biográfica a través de sus documentos,' es uno de sus más importantes trabajos biográficos que ahora sus herederos presentan al público lector con el apoyo de la Editorial Jurídica Venezolana International. Polanco, fallecido en 2002, fue autor de numerosas bio...
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    34,03 €

  • Reflections of a Colored Girl
    Martha R Bireda
    'August 8, 2023: ’In my life, I have found myself as a colored, a negro, a Black, an African American, and a person of color. This is my reflection as a colored girl.’ This phrase opens each essay heard on WGCU FM from Martha R. Bireda, Ph.D. Dr. Bireda is a writer, lecturer, and living history performer with over 30 years of experience as a lecturer, consultant and trainer for...
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    19,20 €

  • The Untold Beginning
    Corie A Moment
    Title: 'The Untold Beginning: The Creation, is an enlightening and captivating children’s picture book that delves into the history of melanated people and their ancestral connections to the 12 tribes of Israel. Written to make biblical scriptures accessible and understandable to children aged 3 to 18, this book unveils a hidden history that will inspire, educate, and empower y...
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    27,30 €

  • The Book of Five Rings
    Musashi Miyamoto
    ’When you attain the Way of strategy, there will not be one thing you cannot see.’ - Miyamoto Musashi.  Book of Five Rings Shortly before his death in 1645, the undefeated swordsman Miyamoto Musashi retreated to a cave to live as a hermit. There he wrote five scrolls describing the 'true principles' required for victory in the martial arts and on the battlefield. Instead of rel...
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    9,11 €

  • America, Land of My Dreams
    Adel G. Hanna
    WITH A CANDID, CLEAR, and engaging voice, Dr. Hanna, born in Sudan, shares captivating true-life stories about his immigrant journey in America. He traces his Christian ancestral history in the Levant, Egypt, and Ethiopia and recounts his multiracial parents’ immigrant journeys to Sudan.He describes vividly the hidden secrets and long-forgotten stories of his ancestors and pare...
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    23,84 €

  • Was I Your First?
    Derk R. Mattocks
    Derk Mattocks was raised during a time when the fight for social justice was at its peak in the United States. Instead of shying away, he learned to challenge the circumstances and not let them dictate how he would live his life. Of course, Derk would say while he does not consider himself a fighter, there was something innate that led him to the top of a career field that was ...
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    28,38 €

  • Was I Your First?
    Derk R. Mattocks
    Derk Mattocks was raised during a time when the fight for social justice was at its peak in the United States. Instead of shying away, he learned to challenge the circumstances and not let them dictate how he would live his life. Of course, Derk would say while he does not consider himself a fighter, there was something innate that led him to the top of a career field that was ...
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    24,65 €

  • The Moore Family
    Garry Moore
    John Moore and his wife, Margaret Moore (née Considine), were early European pioneers who settled in around 1843 in the North East of what was then known as the Port Phillip District of the Colony of New South Wales and is now the State of Victoria. Like the great majority of their fellow settlers, neither John nor Margaret was born in Australia.John Moore was born in Woodchurc...
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    33,64 €

  • Slapping Leather
    Elyssa Ford / Rebecca Scofield
    Unapologetically brings gay rodeo out of the closetCampy and competitive, gay rodeo offers a community of refuge that straddles the urban and rural. Since the mid-1970s, gay rodeos have provided space to both embrace and challenge the idealized masculinity associated with the iconic cowboy of the US West. Slapping Leather traces the history and growth of gay rodeo over the deca...
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    134,71 €

  • Slapping Leather
    Elyssa Ford / Rebecca Scofield
    Unapologetically brings gay rodeo out of the closetCampy and competitive, gay rodeo offers a community of refuge that straddles the urban and rural. Since the mid-1970s, gay rodeos have provided space to both embrace and challenge the idealized masculinity associated with the iconic cowboy of the US West. Slapping Leather traces the history and growth of gay rodeo over the deca...
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    38,02 €

  • Stigma Cities
    Jonathan Foster
    Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, a city that he loved, Jonathan Foster was forced to come to grips with its reputation for racial violence. In so doing, he began to question how other cities dealt with similar kinds of stigmas that resulted from behavior and events that fell outside accepted norms. He wanted to know how such stigmas changed over time and how they affected a c...
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    42,60 €

  • Homeschool American History
    Sterling Education
    Thousands of students use Sterling to achieve academic success!Comprehensive content book for homeschooling American History. From the founding of the United States of America to the present-day political and societal challenges, this comprehensive text is a perfect study guide to learn about our nation’s history and its democracy. Student learn historical figures and important...
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    51,82 €

  • Splinter
    Andrew Jackson
    SPLINTER: Rhodesia’s Lake War aims to fill a gap in the record of the 1970s Rhodesian Bush War. Related partly in participants’ own words, it is the first written account of the history and operations of the waterborne units of the Rhodesian Corps of Engineers and the British South Africa Police. From the early days of the war, both these units patrolled the strategically imp...
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    41,49 €

  • The Miracle That Made Us USA A 'UNITED' NATION
    Betty Lou Rogers
    This passage outlines the American colonies’ journey towards independence from English rule and the formation of theUnited States. It highlights key events and figures, including the imposition of taxes leading to colonial unrest, the Boston Tea Party, John Hancock, the Revolutionary War, the challenges faced by the newly formed United States, and the writing of the Constitutio...
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    10,22 €

  • Geografia E Ensino:
    Organizadores: Amanda Quintela De Castro. Francisco Oricélio Da Silva Brindeiro
    No século XXI é notório o impacto do mundo globalizado no campo educacional. Naatual sociedade da informação, o saber geográfico se manifesta através das mais diversasferramentas e nos mais variados veículos de comunicação, as informações chegam aos ouvidosde forma quase instantânea expondo problemáticas globais e locais de maneira muito maisintensa do que no passado.No ensino ...
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    39,21 €

  • Decoding Orinoco Shamans
    Federico Cook
    This book is a tribute to the shamans of the Orinoco, those men who learned to bow to nature by using the multiple facets of the human mind. It is also the expression of a blood debt of more than five hundred years, for where many saw only charlatanism and deception, there was an elaborate tradition of wisdom, far ahead of its time, which vanished forever as a result of the vio...
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    11,00 €

  • A Life at the Crossroads
    Michael L. Cooper-White
    A Life at the Crossroads tells the story of a Minnesota farm boy who became an inner-city pastor, high-profile denominational executive, and the last president of the world’s most historic seminary (Gettysburg Lutheran). Cooper-White, who is also a commercial pilot and flight instructor, pursued journalism following his ministerial career. In clear and winsome prose, he shares ...
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    24,47 €


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