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 Bernadotte: Napoleon's Marshal, Sweden's KingBest Price: $213.69 Jean Bernadotte was an enigmatic but dashing and courageous soldier in early 19th-century... |  Adam's Diary (Modern Scandinavian Literature in Translation)Adam?s Diary , set in Oslo and by one of Norway?s leading writers, is the compelling story of... |  Six Scandinavian Novelists: Lie, Jacobsen, Heidenstam, Selma Lagerlof, Hamsum, Sigrid UndsetBest Price: $31.99 |  A Dreamed Life |  Tage Erlander: Serving the Welfare State, 1946-1969 (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies)Best Price: $40.00 Prime minister of Sweden and leader of the Social Democratic party from 1946-1969, Tage Erlander... |
 Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark (Regency Library)Long regarded as Mary Wollstonecraft's most delightful work, this series of twenty-five... |  Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach: The Victory of a Tenacious Will (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought)Best Price: $29.95 This portrayal of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) is based on published and unpublished... |  Early Kings of NorwayBest Price: $2.63 The Icelanders, in their long winter, had a great habit of writing; and were, and still are,... |  Scandinavian Modern Furnishings 1930-1970: Designed for Life (Schiffer Book for Designers & Collectors)Best Price: $43.81 In the middle of the twentieth century, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland, four countries... |  Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater (Historical Dictionaries Of Literature And The Arts)Best Price: $95.00 The literature of Scandinavia is amazingly rich and varied, consisting of the works produced by... |
 Gruffudd ap Cynan: A Collaborative Biography (Studies in Celtic History)Best Price: $90.00 The reign of the North Welsh king Gruffudd ap Cynan (1075-1135) marked the culmination of a... |  Nordic LineaBest Price: $12.95 When Germany invaded Lithuania in the late 1930s, young Ingrid and her parents weren't too... |  Distances: A Personal Evocation of People and PlacesBest Price: $25.50 |  Martin Luther King Jr.,: The Pastor Who Had A Daring Dream (Heroes of Faith and Courage Series)Best Price: $5.87 |  In the Name of Science?: P. J. W. Debye and his Career in Nazi Germany (Studies of the Netherlands Institute for War)This volume describes and analyses the highly successful career of the Dutch physicist and Nobel... |
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 NordicSpace 2010: Who's Who in the Nordic and Canadian Space Industry (NordicSpace : Who's Who in the Canadian and Nordic Space Industry) |  Gustavus Adolphus: A History of the Art of War from Its Revival After the Middle Ages to the End of the Spanish Succession War, with a Detailed ... Campaign of Turenne, Condé, Eugene and MarlBest Price: $21.37 This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional... |  MOGENS HØIRUP: AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF AN ORDINARY MANBest Price: $8.50 Howard Kulin's narrative about his Danish father-in-law adds to the many stories about... |  Leif Eriksson (On My Own Biographies)Best Price: $3.40 FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Looks at the life and accomplishments of explorer Lief... |  William Carey: The Shoemaker Who Pioneered Modern Missions (Heroes of Faith and Courage Series) |
 Queen Christina of Sweden and Her Circle: The Transformation of a Seventeenth-Century Philosophical Libertine (Brill's Studies in Itellectual History)The life and works of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) have often been obscured behind a... |  Grimm Brothers and the Germanic Past (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science Series III: Studies in the History of the Language Sciences)Best Price: $158.00 | |||
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