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  • Sebastopol to Dagenham
    Thomas Basil Fanshawe
    'Sebastopol appears to be a succession of forts which the Russians are strengthening every day. A great number of the men are sick of the whole concern. No one looks forward to another winter out here with any degree of satisfaction'.Captain Thomas Basil Fanshawe served with the 33rd (Duke of Wellington's) Regiment at Sebastopol during the Crimean War. The letters h...
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    23,05 €

  • James Noble Allan - The Man · The Mason · The MPP
    Allison F Gowling
    This biography of James Noble Allan is given the warm glow of a local “grass roots” tribute by Allison Gowling. Tracing James Allan's life from the humble beginning in Canborough, Ontario, through the years of power and influence at all levels of municipal and provincial politics, the author rewards the reader with specific details which form a fitting tribute to this most ...
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    19,83 €

  • EROTIC ART
    Cassidy Hughes
    EROTIC ARTby Cassidy Hughes The whole history of erotic art from prehistory to the present day is explored in this comprehensive, detailed and fully illustrated survey. The major erotic artists of the Western tradition are featured: Egon Schiele, Thomas Rowlandson, Pablo Picasso, Titian, Jean Baptiste Dominique Ingres, Felicien Rops, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo da Vinci...
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    56,89 €

  • FRANK STELLA
    James Pearson
    FRANK STELLA: AMERICAN ABSTRACT ARTISTBy James Pearson A study of the American abstract artist Frank Stella (b. 1936), surveying his career from the famous Black Paintings of the late 1950s up to the present day. Frank Stella has become become among America’s premier contemporary artists. Unlike many modern artists, Stella has always worked in abstraction. His art is irrepr...
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    19,02 €

  • Simple Steps to a Better Life
    Sandra Williams
    Simple Steps to a Better Life provides a wonderful down-to- earth vehicle to help our children and others live a truly Christian life. Sandra Williams weaves the story of her Italian- American family together with her own journey of faith to share with the reader her understanding of family values, as well as a template for living a God-centered life. The book is an important c...
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    15,04 €

  • The Room Downstairs
    Brian C Johnson
    Sam is a twenty-something who never quite grew out of her tomboy phase. Rejected by her own mother, Sam is taken in by Miss Bea, her best friend’s mother, who gives her a room in the basement and promises to protect her, even from her own lesbian ways. Following Miss Bea’s unexpected death, a young couple buys the home. Their newborn son faces numerous health concerns, includin...
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    26,54 €

  • It’s All About Muhammad
    F. W. Burleigh
    Why all the car bombs, beheadings, and mass murders in the Middle East? Why the relentless killing of non-Muslims throughout the world by the followers of Muhammad's religion? Why Boston, Chattanooga, Paris, San Bernardino? People blame verses of the Koran for all of this, but it's not about the Koran.Author F. W. Burleigh draws on an academic, investigative, and litera...
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    21,08 €

  • Prophetic Conflict and Yahwistic Tradition
    M. Sashi Jamir
    This work argues that ancient Israel had an adequate rubric in its Yahwistic tradition for distinguishing between true and false prophecy. Generally, in Old Testament (OT) scholarship, it has been argued that ancient Israel simply did not have the capacity to discern between the two. In fact, there has been a tendency to reduce prophecy in the OT to a mere vaticinium ex eventu....
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    27,50 €

  • The Worst Country in the World
    Patsy Trench
    “Set against the backdrop of the Australian migrant experience, 'The Worst Country in the World' is not only a great read but a thought-provoking one too, especially for those with links to Australia, which reinvented itself from a convict colony to one of the ’luckiest’ countries in the world.” Karen Clare, Family Tree magazine.In 1801 Mary Pitt, a 53-year-old widow an...
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    14,92 €

  • Hide It In Your Heart
    Ahava Lilburn
    Minister 2 Others has produced a second book in the HIDE IT IN YOUR HEART series - PSALM 23. This bilingual book contains the entire chapter of Psalm 23, one of the most memorized chapters in Psalms. The first half of the book is in English. However, by turning the book over, the same book is represented in the Hebrew with both the Hebrew translation and its transliteration. Th...
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    23,60 €

  • The life of Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1608 - 1666
    H C Fanshawe
    Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608-1666), was a diplomat, poet and linguist. As Ambassador to Spain and Portugal he negotiated the marriage of Charles II and Catherine of Braganza. He was also acclaimed for his poetry and his translations of Latin and European works such as the Lusiads by Luis de Camoes and Il Pastor Fido (the Faithful Shepherd) by Giovanni Battista Guarini. Sir Richar...
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    17,51 €

  • All About the Greater Good
    Teri Ames
    Vermont Mother Falsely Accused of Child Abuse What if you were falsely accused of abusing your child? Sarah and James Bennett are well-respected professionals raising their three children in a small Vermont community. Like most working mothers, Sarah is dealing with a less-than-perfect marriage, a challenging job, and children who don't always do what they are told. Whe...
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    11,55 €

  • Born Into Baseball
    Jr. Jim Campanis / JrJim Campanis
    The baseball life of Jim Campanis Jr. has been anything but ordinary. His father, Jim Sr., was a long-time pro catcher who spent several years on the Pirates where a 6-year-old Jim Jr. shagged flies next to major leaguers.  His grandfather Al was one of the most powerful men in baseball as GM of the Dodgers, but his career ended suddenly and shamefully after a disastrous appear...
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    15,79 €

  • Africa's Child
    Maria Nhambu
    From the Foreword by Marian Wright Edelman   Africa’s Child is an unforgettable and searingly personal book….In the face of repeated obstacles and injustices, Nhambu continued to analyze the world around her with wit and a sharp sense of humor. Above all, as a very young child she decided one day that even if there was no other person in the world who loved and wanted her, sh...
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    19,80 €

  • The J. Abrams Book
    Jacob Abrams / Ruth Murphy
    Selections from articles and memoirs by and about Jacob Abrams, who in 1918 with four friends was charged and convicted of inciting resistance to the war effort, sentenced to 20 years in prison, and ultimately deported to Russia after losing an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. Originally published as J. Abrams-Buch, edited by El Centro Cultural Israelita de México and...
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    14,38 €

  • Biblical Discipleship
    Dr. Todd M. Fink
    Today, we have many ways of defining success in life. Some define it as being a sports hero, others as being wealthy, others as being popular and well liked, and still others as being happy. How does God define success? He defines it as being spiritually mature! How do we become spiritually mature? There’s only one way, and it’s called discipleship. However, statistics show th...
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    16,55 €

  • Hexagon Dilemma
    L.P. Suzanne Atkinson / L.PSuzanne Atkinson
    Book II of the Regarding Hayworth Series:Gaby Ridgway is forty and widowed. She moves to the small town of Hayworth, Alberta the summer of 1977 in an attempt to rebuild, restore, and renew her life.Her career as a family counsellor for the Alberta government Department of Health and Welfare is jeopardized by a suspicious disappearance, a Nova Scotia murder, and the complication...
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    15,62 €

  • Turing
    Fergus Mason
    Hundreds of movies and thousands of books have been written about the heroes of World War II. For dozens of years, however, few people knew about one of the greatest heroes of the war—a mild-mannered, eccentric mathematician from the University of Cambridge. This man, an undeniable genius whose later life was plagued by controversy and tragedy, probably played a greater role in...
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    12,03 €

  • Brownie Wise, Tupperware Queen
    Fergus Mason
    In 1950 a saleswoman living in Florida decided to find a fun new way to market an unexciting product – reusable food containers. She already had plenty of experience selling household goods but now she wanted to try something different, and she was after a quirky, lively way to sell things. The solution she chose was being used to sell brushes in the USA by the late 1930s, but ...
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    8,04 €

  • ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
    WILLIAM H. PATTERSON / WILLIAM HPATTERSON
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    34,12 €

  • All the World Drowning
    Benjamin Allen Preston
    Kazimir Jonah Godwin is named for his great-great-great-great-grandfather, founder of the rural Wisconsin town of New Eden where Kazimir is growing up. Taught by his father to seek the prophetic gifts of his ancestors and by his uncle to follow the paths of nature, Kaz must ultimately probe the line between spiritual revelation and insanity. By his side will be his best friend ...
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    15,71 €

  • His Name Was Murder
    Phil LeVota
    This book tells the story of five different homicide cases from Kansas City, Missouri as told by the prosecutor who handled the cases himself, Phil LeVota.  Five different stories are the five chapters that tell the different tale of true crime from the criminal's perspective, the police perspective, and the prosecution perspective. The Jackson County Prosecutor's offic...
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    14,06 €

  • Global Perspectives on Media Events in Contemporary Society
    Andrew Fox
    Media events have been described as broadcasts that involve an engaged audience viewing the same event simultaneously; though this definition is still relevant, the way media outlets interact with and react to their audiences has greatly changed. This is in part due to the emergence of social media platforms which allow a participatory audience, something that genre-specific te...
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    216,65 €

  • Gay Children, Straight Parents
    Richard Cohen
    Hope and Healing for Families. Out of his own experience and the experience of many of those he has served in his counseling practice, Richard Cohen sets out a step-by-step plan that offers a path toward renewed family relationships grounded in love, faith and mutual respect. “Richard is movingly candid about the brokenness in his own family life, and he’s not afraid to get d...
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    18,55 €

  • None Call Me Dad
    Ky Owen
    None Call Me Dad is the true, mesmerizing story of a 21st Century dad. On two weeks notice, Ky Owen becomes an adoptive father to a six-year-old son. Five years later, on two days notice, he becomes a father to a teenage daughter. Along the way he assumes the role of father figure to four other kids. “None call me dad,” Owen writes, “But they know that’s who I am.” Intriguing ...
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    11,12 €

  • Global Perspectives on Youth Gang Behavior, Violence, and Weapons Use
    Youth violence has become a concern as gangs become a popular option for urban children and teenagers and weapons use among young populations becomes more prevalent. Exploring the psychological motivations and foundations upon which such violence is developed and cultivated can assist in better understanding the modern dilemma of violence, weapons use, and gang behavior among c...
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    243,22 €

  • Blooming into Mindfulness
    Martha Brettschneider
    In a world that pushes us to always look for the next best thing, Blooming into Mindfulness shows you how to break the cycle of discontent and take control of your own happiness.Narrated with humor and raw honesty, Martha Brettschneider shares her transformation from ego-centered screaming mommy to a meditation-touting creative, finally at peace with the world.Inspirational, mo...
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    17,74 €

  • Elvis Meets The Beatles
    Chris Hutchins / Peter Thompson
    Elvis meets The Beatles.  HOW did John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr ever get to America in the first place? How did Elvis Presley, a poor boy from the Tennessee backwoods, arrive in Hollywood? This book is a rare focus on the lives and careers of five of the most famous entertainers ever. It converges on the night the greatest summit in rock 'n ro...
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    33,98 €

  • Arm Candy
    Christopher Gaida / Michael Aloisi
    The Amazon.com #1 Best Seller, now in paperback! In this newly edited edition, Chris reveals what happened after Hollywood heard about this book. Find out whether he has been blackballed from the industry, what celebrity sister confronted him on a live radio show about his Diva’s chapter and what he wants everyone to really know about the entertainment industry. From Julia Robe...
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    20,72 €

  • Playing With Fire
    Taylor Henderson
    Ella Snotty is worth more than a quickie... After a family scandal tore their family apart, seventeen-year-old Ella chooses to stay in California with her mom for the rest of the school year. Things are lonely since her sister Lena went to live with their dad. But at least she has her new boyfriend, Shane Quinn, to make things a little less depressing. Ella isn't the only gir...
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    8,02 €


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