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  • CIRCE [ENG.]
    MILLER, MADELINE
    Scorned, rejected and at last exiled from her father´s house for her dark gifts, Circe arrives on the remote island of Aiaia with nothing but her wits and magic to help her. But there is danger for a solitary woman in the world, and Circe´s independence and strange powers draw the wrath of men and gods alike. To protect what she holds dear, Circe must decide whether she belongs...
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    10,85 €

  • LANDSCAPE AND TRAVELLING EAST AND WEST
    MOELLER, HANS-GEORG / WHITEHEAD, ANDREW K. [EDS.]
    Philosophical reflections on journeys and crossings, homes and habitats, have appeared in all major East Asian and Western philosophies. Landscape and travelling first emerged as a key issue in ancient Chinese philosophy, quickly becoming a core concern of Daoism and Confucianism. Yet despite the eminence of such reflections, Landscape and Travelling East and West: A Philosophi...
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    33,00 €

  • ALGERIA REVISITED
    AISSAOUI, RABAH / ELDRIDGE, CLAIRE (ED.)
    On 5 July 1962, Algeria became an independent nation, bringing to an end 132 years of French colonial rule. Algeria Revisited provides an opportunity to critically re-examine the colonial period, the iconic war of decolonisation that brought it to an end and the enduring legacies of these years. Given the apparent centrality of violence in this history, this volume asks how we ...
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    43,50 €

  • A HISTORY OF THE NETHERLANDS
    WIELENGA, FRISO
    Books offering an overview of Dutch history are few and far between in the English-speaking world. Friso Wielenga's A History of the Netherlands: From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day fills this gap. It offers a modern, integrated outline of Dutch history from the period in which the country took shape as a geographical, administrative and political entity and undermine...
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    33,00 €

  • ORIGINS OF CIVILIZATION OF ANGKOR, THE
    HIGHAM, CHARLES F.W.
    The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor reflects the results of a research programme conducted by Charles Higham over the last twenty years, highlighting much entirely new, and occasionally surprising, information and providing a distinct perspective on cultural change over two millennia. The book covers the background of environmental change, the adoption of rice farming, ar...
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    22,40 €

  • STREET FIGHT IN NAPLES
    ROBB, PETER
    Naples is always a shock, flaunting beauty and squalor like nowhere else. It is the only city in Europe whose ancient past still lives in its irrepressible people. In 1503, Naples was the Mediterranean capital of Spain's world empire and the base for the Christian struggle with Islam. It was a European metropolis matched only by Paris and Istanbul, an extraordinary concentratio...
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    14,00 €

  • AN ORDINARY MAN
    RUSESABAGINA, PAUL
    'I still don't understand why those men in the militias didn't just put a bullet in my head and execute every last person in the rooms upstairs but they didn't. I survived to tell the story, along with those I sheltered. There was nothing particularly heroic about it...'Paul Rusesabagina was an ordinary man - a quiet manager of a luxury hotel in Rwanda. But on 6 April 1994 mobs...
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    12,60 €