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€ 12.31 "Africa belongs to the Africans; the sooner they take it back the better. But--a country also belongs to those who feel at home in it.... € 44.03 In 1974, the Academy Award-winning film The Sting brought back the music of Scott Joplin, a black ragtime composer who died in 1917. Led by...
€ 13.47 "I was born with skins too few. Or they were scrubbed off me by. . . robust and efficient hands." The experiences absorbed through these... € 12.50 This classic memoir of the 1920s brilliantly recreates an extraordinary era, when 'The Young' danced all night - determined, in the pursuit...
€ 190.47 Suetonius' biographical sketches of the teachers of 'grammar' and rhetoric survive only in part and are fairly brief; yet it would be... € 1.54 Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister, and a leader of...
€ 25.28 € 21.49 With the passion and intelligence that have made him one of the most respected and renowned reporters of this century, Peter Arnett recounts... € 28.45 The reign of Louis XVI, which ended with the guillotining of Louis and his queen, Marie Antoinette, in 1793, is a dramatic and crucial part...
€ 16.21 Until recently most people thought Dracula was a creation of film and fiction. With the original publication of In Search of Dracula, the... € 21.29 € 18.10 Focusing on the moment of each creator's most significant breakthrough, Howard Gardner presents a fascinating look at the nature of genius...
€ 11.55 € 9.82 Oates discerns the historical truth from the mythical legend that surrounds Abraham Lincoln in this original and fascinating portrait of... € 15.20 In this rare first-hand account of the private world of a Cairo harem during the years before Egypt declared independence in 1922, Shaarawi...
€ 18.12 € 15.40 The monumental work that assured T.E. Lawrence's place in history as "Lawrence of Arabia." Not only a consummate military history, but also... € 18.40 A courageous woman recounts her journey from aristocrat to revolutionary in nineteenth-century Russia.
€ 14.86 The author's account of World War II, his wife's death, and his political and literary activities. "A splendid ending to one of the most... € 14.86 € 12.63 The impassioned relationship between Anais Nin and Henry Miller is further explored in this exchange of letters, written over a period of...
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