History of the Americas
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A Promised Land
Barack ObamaCurrent price €38.05Original price €42.99THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the po...
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Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life''s greatest lesson
Mitch AlbomCurrent price €11.80Original price €14.99THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON THAT HAS TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF OVER 9 MILLION READERS'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecelia Ahern__________Ma...
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Dark Money: how a secretive group of billionaires is trying to buy political control in the US
Jane MayerCurrent price €15.99Original price €18.50A LITHUB BOOK OF THE DECADE. The US is one of the largest democracies in the world - or is it? America is experiencing an age of profound economi...
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World History: From the Ancient World to the Information Age
DKCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99An essential gift for every history buff, this boldly illustrated book maps out the events that have shaped our world - from the dawn of human civi...
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Alexander Hamilton
Ron ChernowCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99You've seen the show, you've sung the songs, now read the full story of America's most misunderstood founding father. 'I was swept up by the story...
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The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11 on the 20th Anniversary
Garrett M. GraffCurrent price €14.20Original price €15.99THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Incredibly evocative and compelling. - The Washington PostThe most moving and chilling oral history you will read. -...
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Leadership in Turbulent Times: Lessons from the Presidents
Doris Kearns GoodwinCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the or...
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Collins Modern Classics)
Hunter S. ThompsonCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light ...
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Grandma Gatewood''s Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
Ben MontgomeryCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.992014 National Outdoor Book Award Winner in History / Biography Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometo...
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The Black Banners (Declassified): How Torture Derailed the War on Terror after 9/11
Ali SoufanCurrent price €15.76Original price €18.99Widely heralded on publication as a must-read (Military Review) and important window on Americas battle with al-Qaeda (Washington Post), Ali Soufan...
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Washington: A Life
Ron ChernowCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume lif...
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The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency Of Jimmy Carter
Kai BirdCurrent price €26.85Original price €36.99"Important . . . [a] landmark presidential biography . . . Bird is able to build a persuasive case that the Carter presidency deserves this new loo...
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The U.S. Constitution: A Very Short Introduction
David J. BodenhamerCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Though the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788, its impact on our lives is as recent as today's news. Claims and counterclaims about the constit...
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The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction
R. B. BernsteinCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99The Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military...
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E. BaptistCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution,the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's lat...
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John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery: Selections from the Diary
David WaldstreicherCurrent price €27.83Original price €31.99In the final years of his political career, President John Quincy Adams was well known for his objections to slavery, with rival Henry Wise going s...
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Grant
Ron ChernowCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99A dramatic portrait of one of America's most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant, by Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow, author of ...
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John Henry Wigmore and the Rules Of Evidence: The Hidden Origins of Modern Law
Andrew PorwancherCurrent price €58.49Original price €64.99At the dawn of the twentieth century, the United States was reeling from the effects of rapid urbanization and industrialization. Time-honored veri...
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The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Other Important American Documents
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The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
Malcolm GaskillCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE**A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR*'A bona fide histor...
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Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness
Craig NelsonCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99On 7 December 1941, an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes launched a surprise attack on the United States, killing 2,403 people and forcing America''...
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The Sugar Barons
Matthew ParkerCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50For 200 years after 1650 the West Indies were the most fought-over colonies in the world, as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and t...
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The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee
Nancy J. SchoenbergerCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50A poignant, evocative, and wonderfully gossipy account of the two sisters who represented style and class above all elseJackie Kennedy Onassis and ...
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The American Presidents in 100 Facts
Jem DuducuCurrent price €12.59Original price €13.99America's many presidents, both famous and obscure, have been as varied as the history of the country they have ruled. Over two centuries the presi...
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America Before: The Key to Earth''s Lost Civilization: A new investigation into the mysteries of the human past by the bestselling author of Fingerprints of the Gods and Magicians of the Gods
Graham HancockCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER***''Hancock''s books provide a fascinating, alternative version of prehistory. America Before, detailed and ...
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Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed
Jeanne VertefeuilleCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99While there have been other books about Aldrich Ames, Circle of Treason is the first account written by CIA agents who were key members of the CIA ...
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Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J Edgar Hoover
Anthony SummersCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50For nearly fifty years, J. Edgar Hoover held great power in the United States. The creator of the FBI and its Director until his death, he played a...
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Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs, and Khipu
Edgar GarciaCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That...
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Crusoe''''s Island: A Rich and Curious History of Pirates, Castaways and Madness
Andrew LambertCurrent price €12.37Original price €14.55Originally named Juan Fernandez, the island of Robinson Crusoe in the South Pacific was the inspiration for Defoe''''s classic novel about the adve...
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The Free State of Jones: A True Story of Defiance During the American Civil War
Victoria BynumCurrent price €14.95Original price €16.99Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Missi...
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American History: A Very Short Introduction
Paul S. BoyerCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50This brief history of America will span the earliest migrations to the present, reflecting Paul S. Boyer's interests in social, intellectual, and c...
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A Short History of Brazil: From Pre-Colonial Peoples to Modern Economic Miracle
Gordon KerrCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50The recorded history of Brazil is brief when compared to most European countries, having been discovered by Portuguese sailor and explorer Pedro Ál...
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American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
Chris KyleCurrent price €12.59Original price €13.99Former U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle tells the story of his legendary career, from 1999-2009, during which time he recorded the most confirmed sniper k...
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Dead, White and Blue: The Zombie and American National Identity
Aaron W ClaytonCurrent price €43.49Original price €49.99Science fiction and horror television shows predict how the world might be different if zombies were real, or if artificial intelligence could deve...
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Boy General of the 11th Alabama: John C.C. Sanders and Company C in the Civil War
Don AbelCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99In the spring of 1861, John Caldwell Calhoun Sanders, a 21-year-old cadet at the University of Alabama, helped organize a company of the 11th Alaba...
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Alexander Hamilton and the Growth of the New Nation
John C. MillerCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Probably no American statesman displayed more constructive imagination than did Alexander Hamilton. Prodigal of ideas, bursting with plans for dive...
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