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Individuality in Late Antiquity (Studies in Philosophy and Theology in Late Antiquity)

By: Alexis Torrance

Price: $51.95

Publisher: Routledge: February 2018

Seller ID: 162710

ISBN: 1138546089

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Late antiquity is increasingly recognised as a period of important cultural transformation. One of its crucial aspects is the emergence of a new awareness of human individuality. In this book an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars documents and analyses this development. Authors assess the influence of seminal thinkers, including the Gnostics, Plotinus, and Augustine, but also of cultural and religious practices such as astrology and monasticism, as well as, more generally, the role played by intellectual disciplines such as grammar and Christian theology. Broad in both theme...
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The American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism

By: Alfred F. Young, ed.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press: January 1976

Seller ID: 135310

ISBN: 0875805191

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Light cover wear, firm binding, frequent underlining in the text.
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Endurance : Shackletons Incredible Voyage

By: ALFRED LANSING

Price: $7.75

Publisher: Tyndale House Pub: June 1999

Seller ID: 157885

ISBN: 0842308245

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

Light cover wear, firm binding, unmarked text.
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Post-War Europe Through the Eyes of Youth

By: ALICE CARLSTEDT NELSON

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Robert V Van Trees: 2002-08-01

Seller ID: 20070917122813

ISBN: 0533139805

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

God Save the Queen

By: ALLAN A. MICHIE

Price: $8.50

Publisher: William Sloane Associates: April 1953

Seller ID: 20080401137766

ISBN: B000O73768

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Used - good. Light water rippling to last few pages, overall very clean, solid copy with minimal age toning. Dustjacket good with water stained edges, edgewear. 396 pp.
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THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN AMERICA 1865-1878

By: ALLAN NEVINS

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Macmillan and Co: January 1927

Seller ID: 20090425155664

ISBN: B001K22S5C

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Ex library copy with usual marks. Some underlining and marginalia. Binding sound.
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Postwar Epoch: Perspectives on American History Since 1945

By: ALLEN YARNELL

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Joanna Cotler Books: November 1972

Seller ID: 20090514156784

ISBN: 006047324X

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

Very good. Pen mark on fore edge, a nice solid copy, unmarked, sharp edges.
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Pan-Americanism from Monroe to the Present: A View from the Other Side

By: ALONSO AGUILAR

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Monthly Review Press: January 1968

Seller ID: 20090409155175

ISBN: B001QTSYB6

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Good. Bumped corner, a very solid, lightly used copy, text free of marks. 192 pp.
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The Imperial Years: The U.S. Since 1939

By: ALONZO L. HAMBY

Price: $4.25

Publisher: Weybright and Talley: January 1976

Seller ID: 20090520157149

ISBN: B000KJM5AY

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Good. Binding cracked in center but solid, pen marginalia, back cover sunned, a sharp copy with bright pages. 429 pp.
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The Age of Louis XVI

By: ALVAR GONZALEZ PALACIOS

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Hamlyn: April 1966

Seller ID: 20080401137840

ISBN: B000O6GW1G

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Used - very good. Very solid, with extensive color plates. Dustjacket very good with shelf wear, small edge tear. 158 pp.
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Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition (Penguin Classics)

By: Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: July 2002

Seller ID: 118450

ISBN: 0142437077

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The New World story of the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca in his own words

This riveting true story is the first major narrative detailing the exploration of North America by Spanish conquistadors (1528-1536). The author, Alvar N ez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking Spanish nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition sent to claim for Spain a vast area of today's southern United States. In simple, straightforward prose, Cabeza de Vaca chronicles the nine-year odyssey endured by the men after a shipwreck forced them to make a westward journey on foot from present-day Flo...
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Surfaces: A History

By: Amato, Joseph A.

Price: $39.95

Publisher: University of California Press: May 2013

Seller ID: 104401

ISBN: 0520272773

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Human beings are surrounded by surfaces: from our skin to faces, to the walls and streets of our homes and cities, to the images, books, and screens of our cultures and civilizations, to the natural world and what we imagine beyond. In this thought-provoking and richly textured book, Joseph A. Amato traces the human relationship with surfaces from the deep history of human evolution, which unfolded across millennia, up to the contemporary world. Fusing his work on Dust and On Foot, he shows how, in the last two centuries, our understanding, creation, control, and manipulation of ...
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: September 2001

Seller ID: 177716

ISBN: 074322454X

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Like New

Stephen E. Ambrose's iconic New York Times bestseller about the ordinary men who became the World War II's most extraordinary soldiers: Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, US Army.

They came together, citizen soldiers, in the summer of 1942, drawn to Airborne by the $50 monthly bonus and a desire to be better than the other guy. And at its peak--in Holland and the Ardennes--Easy Company was as good a rifle company as any in the world.

From the rigorous training in Georgia in 1942 to the disbanding in 1945, Stephen E. Ambrose tells the story ...
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The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: November 1998

Seller ID: 177717

ISBN: 068485628X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

As-new binding and interior with light shelfwear/scuffing to jacket.
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Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany

By: AMBROSE, STEPHEN E.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: September 1998

Seller ID: 179301

ISBN: 0684848015

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

From Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bitterest days of World War II.

In this riveting account, historian Stephen E. Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 bestseller D-Day. Citizen Soldiers opens at 0001 hours, June 7, 1944, on the Normandy beaches, and ends at 0245 hours, May 7, 1945, with the allied victory. It is biography of the US Army in the European Theater of Operations, and Ambrose again ...
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Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Anchor: April 1996

Seller ID: 177345

ISBN: 0385479662

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Like New

The full story of what led Crazy Horse and Custer to that fateful day at the Little Bighorn, from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose.

On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 U.S. Army soldiers rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer of the Seventh Cavalry. Both were men of aggression and supreme courage. Both had become leaders in their societies...
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (Lewis & Clark Expedition)

By: AMBROSE, STEPHEN E.

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: March 1996

Seller ID: 177586

ISBN: 0684811073

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Owner name, a sharp clean copy; edgewear to back upper jacket neatly taped, front as new.
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Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938 - third edition (Hist of the USA v. 8)

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: August 1976

Seller ID: 178768

ISBN: 0140212477

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

Owner name present, a clean solid copy.
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The Crusades Through Arab Eyes

By: AMIN MAALOUF

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Schocken: April 1989

Seller ID: 162175

ISBN: 0805208984

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Amin Maalouf has sifted through the works of contemporary Arab chroniclers of the Crusades, eyewitne
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Silent History: Body Language and Nonverbal Identity, 1860-1914

By: Andersson, Peter K.

Price: $49.95

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press: October 2018

Seller ID: 176937

ISBN: 0773554750

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The written and verbal traces of the past have been extensively studied by historians, but what about the nonverbal traces? In recent years, historians have expanded their attention to other kinds of sources, but seldom have they taken into account the most vital and omnipresent nonverbal aspect of life - body language. Silent History explores the potential of early photography to uncover the structure and nature of everyday body language in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through a close study of street photography by pioneering photographers who were the first to document ...
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