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  • !Tention: A Story of Boy-Life During the Peninsular War

    A sharp volley, which ran echoing along the ravine, then another, just as the faint bluish smoke from some hundred or two muskets floated up into the bright sunshine from amidst the scattered chestnuts and cork-trees that filled the lower part of the beautiful gorge, where, now hidden, now flashing out and scattering the rays of the sun, a torrent roared and foamed along its rocky course onward ... Read more

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  • " Hoch Geachter Her Verhörrichter …"

    Polizeialltag im Bündner Landjägerkorps 1818-1848

    Als im Mai 1804 acht Bündner Soldaten aus dem Zürcher Bockenkrieg in ihre Heimat zurückkehrten, bildeten sie das erste kantonale Polizeikorps. Der eben erst entstandene Kanton Graubünden brauchte es zum Schutz vor unerwünschtem "fremdem Gesindel" und vermehrt für die Kontrolle der eigenen Kantonsbürger. Martín Camenisch verfolgt die Professionalisierung des Bündner Polizeiwesensvon der Frühphase ... Read more

    $67.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • " La plus belle avenue du monde " - Une histoire sociale et politique des Champs-Élysées

    Series series Poche / Sciences humaines et sociales
    Les Champs-Élysées sont l'objet de fantasmes qui les dépeignent depuis des siècles en avenue du luxe mondial, du plaisir et du pouvoir. En réalité, c'est un espace contesté, traversé par une forte conflictualité politique et sociale. La " prise " répétée des Champs par les Gilets jaunes, en 2018 et 2019, l'a plus que jamais révélé.Face à la cohorte de superlatifs et de noms prestigieux qui ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • " Mon cher confrère... " - Lettres d'un psychiatre (1953-1963)

    Series series Histoire
    " Mon cher confrère ", " mon cher ami " : ces formules de courtoisie commencent les lettres ici rassemblées, dans lesquelles le Docteur H. P., installé dans le nord-ouest de la France au milieu du XXe siècle, remercie des médecins de lui avoir adressé un patient ou une patiente en consultation. En quelques phrases d'une froideur clinique manifestant son assurance et laissant percer son amusement ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • " The Power of Eggs: A Comprehensive Guide to History, Nutrition, Facts and Culinary Delights."

    Are you interested in enhancing the nutritious content of your diet by consuming a greater variety of foods? There is no need to look any further than 'The Power of Eggs.' This in-depth guide is loaded with the most recent findings from studies on the nutritional benefits of eggs, including their role in enhancing cognitive function, boosting healthy heart function, and aiding the building of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "'Tis Sixty Years Since"

    *** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS***Synopsis:Excerpt from Tis Sixty Years Since: Address of Charles Francis Adams, Founders Day, January 16, 1913, University of South CarolinaTo say that in life and in the order of life's events it is the unexpected which is apt to occur, is a commonplace. That it has been so in my own case, I shall presently show. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • "... dass der Mensch was lernen muss."

    Bildungsgeschichte(n) aus dem Ruhrgebiet und dem Bergischen Land

    by Detlef Vonde ...
    Anlässlich des 100. Geburtstags der bergischen Volkshochschulen in Wuppertal und Solingen beleuchtet die vorliegende Aufsatzsammlung exemplarisch die historischen \"Entstehungswehen\" kollektiver Lernprozesse als Beiträge zu einer Bildungsgeschichte im Bergischen Städtedreieck und im angrenzenden Ruhrgebiet. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • "... dass einmal dem Juden das Land auf diese Weise abgenommen wird ..."

    Die jüdischen Einwohner von Enkirch vor und während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus

    Die Geschichte der jüdischen Einwohner von Enkirch und der jüdischen Gemeinde von der napoleonischen Zeit bis zur Auflösung der Gemeinde durch die Nationalsozialisten und der Verfolgung der Mitglieder, die in Vertreibung und Exil oder Deportation und Ermordung während des Holocaust mündete. Aktualisierte und ergänzte Auflage ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • "...bliebe bald nichts mehr übrig, als die Leute auf den Bettel zu schicken"

    Wie es den bayerischen Schwaben in der Weltwirtschaftskrise erging

    by Zdenek Zofka ...
    Der "Black Friday" (eigentlich war es ein Donnerstag) am 24.Oktober 1929, der große Börsencrash in New York wurde zum Auslöser der Weltwirtschaftskrise. In Deutschland führte diese zu einer sozialen Verelendung, wie wir sie uns heute kaum mehr vorstellen können. Arbeitslosigkeit, Kurzarbeit, sinkende Kaufkraft, Firmenzusammenbrüche, Geschäftsaufgaben, Zwangsversteigerungen von Bauernhöfen - von ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • "...da Partigiano ero l'ultima ruota del carro..."

    Series Book 3 - Esperienze e Testimonianze
    Maristella Bertero, nata nei primi anni del secondo dopoguerra, ha potuto sentire, fin dall’infanzia, i racconti di prima mano dei Partigiani che hanno partecipato alla Resistenza nelle Langhe. Convinta che le grandi vittorie siano state conseguite con il contributo delle persone più semplici, degli eroi sconosciuti, ha voluto raccogliere la testimonianza di un uomo che, giovanissimo, è stato ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "...the real war will never get in the books"

    Selections from Writers During the Civil War

    Edited by Louis P. Masur ...
    "These thousands, and tens and twenties of thousands of American young men, badly wounded, all sorts of wounds, operated on, pallid with diarrhea, languishing, dying with fever, pneumonia, &c. open a new world somehow to me, giving closer insights, new things, exploring deeper mines than any yet, showing our humanity, (I sometimes put myself in fancy in the cot, with typhoid, or under the knife,) ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • "...until you are safe"

    by TONY SQUIRE ...
    In 1914, as Europe teetered on the edge of war, Australia seemed a world away. Life in the Queensland town of Kilcoy carried on; the country folk oblivious to the catastrophe about to engulf their world, changing their lives forever.Amidst this tranquil backdrop, three young men from the Taylor family, along with many from the town and the surrounding area, eagerly answer the call, rushing to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • "...von dem müden Haupte nehm' die Krone ich herab"

    Kaiserin Elisabeth privat

    So lebte Kaiserin Elisabeth privat Dieses Buch, das sich nicht nur inhaltlich, sondern auch sprachlich von ähnlichen Werken unterscheiden möchte, erzählt vom Alltag und von den "Sorgen" einer Kaiserin: vom privaten Tagesablauf Elisabeths, von ihrer Garderobe, von den Körper- und Haarpflegeritualen, von den Essensgewohnheiten (oder besser vom Fasten), von Kuren, Krankheiten und deren Bekämpfung, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "1812" - Napoleon I in Russia

    "1812 - Napoleon I in Russia" by Vasilïĭ Vasilʹevich Vereshchagin provides readers with a vivid and poignant account of Napoleon Bonaparte's ill-fated Russian campaign. Vereshchagin's artwork is renowned for its ability to capture the essence of historical events, and this book is no exception. Through a combination of evocative paintings and insightful commentary, Vereshchagin immerses readers in ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "A Alegria da Casa"

    higiene e história dos costumes no Segundo Império

    "Iranilson Buriti revisita a obra da missionária inglesa Sarah Kalley 'A Alegria da Casa' (1866) como um dispositivo pedagógico que contempla discursos moralizadores ancorados em ideias e práticas de disciplinarização e higienização. Inserindo-se numa perspectiva da história da cultura da escrita, Iranilson observa a obra da Sarah Kalley como um dispositivo pedagógico que contempla discursos ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "A Few Bloody Noses"

    The Realities and Mythologies of the American Revolution

    by Robert Harvey ...
    The noted British historian and author of Liberators offers a colorful, enlightening and myth-busting history of the American Revolution.According to King George III, Britain merely wanted to give America “a few bloody noses” and return to mutual cooperation. Yet the ensuing uprising led to the creation of the United States, the most powerful country in the modern world. In “A Few Bloody Noses”, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "A full moon, thousands of stars...but no Margie"

    by John Gilboe ...
    "A full moon, thousands of stars...but no Margie" offers weekly accounts of love letters written by the author's parents during World War II. Readers will get a glimpse into the daily lives of those deployed and those left behind. The actual words of the letter writers tell the story, and the reader will experience first-hand the joys, fears, frustrations, monotony, hope, and love of a generation ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "A Mind Purified by Suffering"

    Evgenia Ginzburg’s "Whirlwind" Memoirs

    Edited by Olga M. Cooke ...
    Series series The Real Twentieth Century
    “A Mind Purified by Suffering": Evgenia Ginzburg’s "Whirlwind" Memoirsrepresents the first book on one of Russia’s most important classics of Gulag literature. Ginzburg’s memoirs of her eighteen-year ordeal through Stalinist concentration camps,Journey into the WhirlwindandWithin the Whirlwind, place her in the company of Russian writers, such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Varlam Shalamov. The ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • "A Mind-Opening Influence of Great Importance": Arthur Raper at Agnes Scott College

    An article from Southern Cultures 18:1, Spring 2012

    He was such an eye-opener to me . . . such a reversal of the whole way you think about life and society."This article appears in the Spring 2012 issue of Southern Cultures. The full issue is also available as an ebook.Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • "A New Kind of War"

    America's Global Strategy and the Truman Doctrine in Greece

    by Howard Jones ...
    America's experience in Greece has often been cited as a model by those later policymakers in Washington who regard the involvement as a "victory" for American foreign policy. Indeed, President Johnson and others referred to Greece as the model for America's deepening involvement in Vietnam during the mid-1960's. Greece became the battlefield for a new kind of war--one that included the use of ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • "A palavra que vivifica e salva contra o mal da palavra que mata"

    imprensa católica - Belém (1910-1930)

    A obra examina a atuação da imprensa católica após a separação entre Igreja e Estado no Brasil (1889) e como as campanhas pela chamada "boa imprensa" ecoaram especificamente em Belém do Pará, no período de 1910 a 1930, contribuindo para o fortalecimento da instituição e a organização dos jornais católicos que existiam na cidade. Busca compreender a expansão diocesana e a reorganização paroquial ... Read more

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  • "A Peculiar People"

    Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America

    Though the U.S. Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion, it does not specify what counts as a religion. From its founding in the 1830s, Mormonism, a homegrown American faith, drew thousands of converts but far more critics. In "A Peculiar People", J. Spencer Fluhman offers a comprehensive history of anti-Mormon thought and the associated passionate debates about religious ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • "A Problem from Hell"

    America and the Age of Genocide

    From former UN Ambassador and author of the New York Times bestseller The Education of an Idealist Samantha Power, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book on America's repeated failure to stop genocides around the worldIn her prizewinning examination of the last century of American history, Samantha Power asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to stop ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • "A Terrible and Terribly Interesting Epoch"

    The Holocaust Diary of Lucien Dreyfus

    Series series Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context
    Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumThis extraordinary wartime diary provides a rare glimpse into the daily life of French and foreign-born Jewish refugees under the Vichy regime during World War II. Long hidden, the diary was written by Lucien Dreyfus, a native of Alsacewho was a teacher at the most prestigious high school in Strasbourg, an editor of the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD