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The Nibelungenlied
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /Filled with portrayals of deception, love, murder, and revenge—yet defying traditional medieval epic conventions for representing character—the Nib...
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The Other Side of Gold Mountain
The University of Alberta Press (CA)£30.99| /In June of 2010, the University of Alberta's Bruce Peel Special Collections Library mounted an exhibit of documents, photographs, artifacts, and ep...
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The Pavlova Story
Otago University Press (NZ)£17.95| /While Australians and New Zealanders have long debated which country invented the pavlova (a large meringue dessert cake said to emulate the lightn...
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The Peak
Blacksmith Books (HK)£24.95| /The Peak is Hong Kongs top residential district, where property prices are as high as the altitude. How did it become an exclusive enclave in the ...
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The Peloponnesian War
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£20.99| /The first unabridged translation into American English, and the first to take into account the wealth of Thucydidean scholarship of the last half o...
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The Perry Expedition and the "Opening of Japan to the West" 1853-1873
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /By the time U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's squadron of four ships sailed into Tokyo Bay on July 8, 1853, the Japanese Tokugawa government had alrea...
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The Perry Expedition and the "Opening of Japan to the West," 1853â1873
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£50.00| /By the time U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's squadron of four ships sailed into Tokyo Bay on July 8, 1853, the Japanese Tokugawa government had alrea...
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The Political Thought of African Independence
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£34.99| /The Political Thought of African Independence: An Anthology of Sources brilliantly frames the debates that captivated the world as former European ...
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The Political Thought of African Independence
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£90.99| /The Political Thought of African Independence: An Anthology of Sources brilliantly frames the debates that captivated the world as former European ...
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The Prague Spring as a Laboratory
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co.KG£47.99| /Retrospectively, the Prague Spring appears to have been a coherent but unsuccessful experiment in finding a synthesis of Western democracy and soci...
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The Prussian Army - to 1815
Schiffer Military£36.99| /This book is a comprehensive study of the Prussian army from its inception in the first standing troops, raised as his personal guards by the Elect...
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The Railroader's Wife
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /The story of the railway has never been told in such a charming voice as in these letters by Bernice Medbury Martin. Bernice Medbury married railro...
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The Rainbow Chasers
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£17.99| /This first-hand account of a Canadian pioneer -- the next title in TouchWood's Classics West series -- tells the story of a hard-won wilderness hom...
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The Ranch on the Cariboo
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /It was the summer of '43 on a Cariboo ranch. He was 12 and had to become a man. If you were a man, you could become a cowboy. Join the author on th...
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The Remarkable World of Frances Barkley
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Frances Barkley was just eighteen when she became the first European woman to set foot on the west coast of North America. After a sheltered upbrin...
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The Renaissance in Italy
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£26.99| /The Italian Renaissance has come to occupy an almost mythical place in the popular imagination. The outsized reputations of the best-known figures ...
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The Renaissance in Italy
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£79.99| /The Italian Renaissance has come to occupy an almost mythical place in the popular imagination. The outsized reputations of the best-known figures ...
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The Right Fight
Goose Lane Editions£26.99| /In The Right Fight: Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma, CBC reporter Jacques Poitras provides a journalists account of how Bernard Lord rose...
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The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation. Volume 1
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£203.99| /In the first chapter of The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation, the history of the province while under French rule is rapid...
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The Rise of Islam
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /"What sets this text apart from many others is its focus on the socioeconomic, political, and cultural milieu in which a new religious movement was...
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The Road to Canada
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Since the last Ice Age, the only safe route into Canada's interior during the winter started at the Bay of Fundy and followed the main rivers north...
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The Road to Socialism
V & R Unipress GmbH£47.99| /The book is the first comprehensive empirical study of transport infrastructure in two socialist countries in the years 19451989. In the case stud...
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The Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Abridged
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£19.99| /This new abridgment of both volumes of Livermore's classic translation presents those selections that comprise Garcilaso's historical narrative. Ka...
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The Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Abridged
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£45.99| /This new abridgment of both volumes of Livermore's classic translation presents those selections that comprise Garcilaso's historical narrative. Ka...
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The Rumrunners
Folklore Publishing (CA)£7.99| /The thirsty days of Prohibition in Alberta began at midnight on June 30, 1916, but many had been drinking so hard that the booze had long ago run o...
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The Runic Inscriptions of the Isle of Man
Viking Society For Northern Research (UK)£30.00| /This book provides a modern, scholary edition of the runic inscriptions, Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon, discovered in the Isle of Man. All are carv...
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The Saga of the Volsungs
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda (Hackett, 2015) comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literat...
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The Saga of the Volsungs
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£50.00| /From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda (Hackett, 2015) comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literat...
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The Santa Fe Scottish Rite Temple
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£40.99| /Santa Fes Scottish Rite Temple, built in 1912, is a historic landmark and the home of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in New...
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The Science, Religion and Culture of Georgia
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£97.99| /This book gives a survey of characteristics as well as developmental stages of the Georgian society as it is distilled in its science, religion, an...
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The Secret of Success
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£84.99| /This books links American prosperity literature and business self-help literature in an effort to uncover their connections to concepts of success ...
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The Shadow of the Strongman
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£19.99| /A searing novel of the post-1910 Mexican revolutionary era that itself challenged the Mexican political establishment, Guzmàn's The Shadow of the S...
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The Shadow of the Strongman
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£56.99| /A searing novel of the post-1910 Mexican revolutionary era that itself challenged the Mexican political establishment, Guzmàn's The Shadow of the S...
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The Song and the Silence
Lone Pine Publishing (CA)£9.99| /This is the story of the fascinating and challenging life of Stoney Chief Frank Kaquitts-Sitting Wind. It includes his time as an actor, when he pl...
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The Soviet Space Program
Schiffer Military£18.99| /The N1 was the booster rocket for the Soviet manned moon program and was thus the direct counterpart of the Saturn V, the rocket that took American...
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The Soviet Space Program
Schiffer Military£18.99| /The N1 was the booster rocket for the Soviet manned moon program and was thus the direct counterpart of the Saturn V, the rocket that took American...
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