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  • Waterloo Betrayed
    Stephen M. Beckett / Stephen MBeckett
    THIS BOOK HAS BEEN SUPERCEDEDSee Operations of the Armée du Nord : 1815, The Analysis for the definitive guide of French operations in 1815.   Discover why Napoleon really lost the Waterloo Campaign Napoleon was betrayed during 1815 There is no doubt of this. The Traitors admitted as much, and the Allied powers documented their acts. In the immediate aftermath of Napoleon's...
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    38,86 €

  • Studies In Structural Sociology
    Frank W Young
    This collection of articles and essays embodies a new approach to sociology based on the original meaning of the word. Its central concept is 'community,' which is defined to cover units as small as the household and as large as the nation-state. Individuals are a special case of community. So defined, communities account for almost all the independent social organization of th...
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    18,65 €

  • Social Sustainability HANDBOOK for Community-Builders
    Daniel Raphael
    Designing and building a sustainable community must be build upon a values system that is sustainable because all decision-making is based on values of choosing according to those values. The values that have sustained our species for over 250,000 years would be a good place to start: the search for a better quality of life, of growth, to grow into our innate potential and do...
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    16,65 €

  • Out From The Shadow Of Men
    Laila El-Sissi
    'The shadow of a man is better than a roof over the head.' This Arabic proverb has long described the plight of women in Egypt. Like the classic Pyramids of Giza, the culture of Egypt for the most part stands unchanged. Egyptian men continue to use the banner of Islam and antiquated interpretation of the Quran to justify controlling women. Egyptian women continue to believe G...
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    18,90 €

  • AFFAIRS VALENTINO - A Special Edition
    EVELYN ZUMAYA
    On August 23rd, 1926, silent film star Rudolph Valentino died unexpectedly at thirty-one-years of age. His sudden death inspired mass hysteria among his fans. His grieving fans were not the only ones to mourn. His business manager and close friend, George Ullman, was appointed executor of Valentino’s estate and faced the daunting task of settling the movie star’s complex postmo...
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    52,96 €

  • The Emancipation of a Buried Man
    Eddy Gilmore
    A child of a hoarder-an outcast growing up amid shocking squalor-finds purpose in this vivid memoir. Broken, alone and buried in a house full of junk and shame, Eddy Gilmore takes the 'normal' route out-institutionalized learning. But when college life fails to offer meaning, the young man reaches a turning point, a point at which he abandons social norms, abandons the status q...
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    13,73 €

  • A Commentary on James
    David Pawson
    Common sense is not all that common, especially in its sanctified form. But the letter of James to the dispersed Messianic believers of his day is full of it.Sceptical about his half-brother Jesus before his death, he became his devoted slave after his resurrection. No wonder he led the Jerusalem church through its major crisis.Though he wrote in excellent Greek, he thought lik...
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    17,44 €

  • Injustice
    Gregorio Nosovsky
    Three masked men, an entire team of Police officers, investigators and a throng of newsmen all from major news networks stormed into a plastic surgery clinic to arrest an alleged surgeon who a handful of supposed victims pointed to as responsible for their disfigurement. His controversial case was published all throughout the country and even overseas, sensationalizing what thi...
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    10,11 €

  • A Commentary on 1 & 2 Thessalonians
    David Pawson
    Speculation about the second coming of our Lord is nothing new. The saints in Thessalonica were already being misled. Paul’s two corrective letters, among his earliest, deal with the issue in a way that is profound and practical, as well as giving details to be found nowhere else in the New Testament. The ’rapture’, the man of lawlessness, the temple - these and other features ...
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    16,39 €

  • Entheosonic Whistling Vessels
    Denis Casarsa / Timothy Robbins
    Entheosonic Whistling Vessels are transformation tools using the inherent power of sound to unlock our creative powers. The universal and sacred language of sounds produced by the vessels are used as a doorway to synchronize acoustic resonance with Gaia, our mother Earth. The vessels produce 'phantom tones' or 'beat frequencies' inducing shamanic sound ecstasy to tune our manif...
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    21,73 €

  • Wildflower
    Janine Carbone
    Faith desperately tries to hold on and fit into the mold of the 'typical' college student, but her life quickly spirals out of control when visions of a dark past consume her. When these repressed memories begin to resurface, she relives the devastation of dealing with abandonment, death and betrayal. Faith soon realizes she never did escape the dangers of the past, and that he...
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    16,63 €

  • Publicola
    John Quincy Adams
    The letters of Publicola, a fascinating window into the debate that occurred in the early days of the French Revolution, before significant blood had been shed in France, before the French people had beheaded their king and queen, before the Reign of Terror, before Napoleon was a name of any significance, and before all of Europe became engulfed in war, written anonymously by J...
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    9,60 €

  • My First One Hundred Years
    Janice H Wood / Janice Hagan Wood / Raymond D Hagan
    My First One Hundred Years is a fascinating story of an amazing man. Ray Hagan has demonstrated what courage, determination and absolute trust in God can accomplish in seemingly impossible situations. He is an excellent example of a godly life well lived. 3 ...
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    20,57 €

  • Gringo Lessons
    Bill Whaley
    Gringo Lessons: Twenty Years of Terror in Taos is a tale of modern adventure about a young man, who experienced the local culture from 1966 to 1987. There he met the community: skiers, La Gente, los vato locos, Chicano activists and their Spanish contemporaries, the artists, drug dealers, fellow soldiers, tempting sirens, the occasional movie star, and a host of con artists. Fi...
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    20,16 €

  • A Strand of Hope
    Ruth Cooper
    Long before the cold winter at Valley Forge, to the bleak graynessof 9-11, there have been many times when it seemed all hope waslost. Woven throughout the history of America, an unbreakablestrand of hope has pulled us through. The Strand of Hope beganlong ago, and Ruth Cooper not only identifies what and who it is,but how to connect with that hope, and let America’s DNA rebuil...
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    19,12 €

  • A Hero in a Bandana
    Brad W Hoover
    You are invited to come along on a gripping journey involving one brave boy and his steadfast family. A story from the hand of an ER physician from the opposite end of the white coat, it describes a parent's nightmare yet also a community's uplifting love and undying support. See how this ordinary father's journal transforms into an extraordinary primer on not only survival but...
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    7,25 €

  • Aegis
    Nathan Roten
    Be Careful What You Wish For.It May Just Be Given To You.For many nights in Greenwood Orphanage, visions of his loving parents flood the dreams of 15-year-old Graham. But the dreams quickly dissolve into haunting nightmares. Just when Graham thinks he will escape the darkness of his mind, he wakes up to find his possessions hovering in the air all around him before they crash t...
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    12,91 €

  • A Capful of Wind
    Monica Matterson
    A Capful of wind, AKA "Useless Information for Aspiring Skippers" charts the author's progress from her first dubious adventures in a leaky tub to Coastal 1 examination. Despite everything that the elements and even fellow seafarers throw at her, Monica Matterson wittily recalls a wealth of fascinating and usually hilarious tales of misadventure on, in and sometimes under t...
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    16,58 €

  • Runaway Thoughts
    In 2013 students at Venice High School in Los Angeles formed the first P.O.P.S. (Pain of the Prison System) club, a club for those whose lives have been touched by prison. Many have parents, friends, siblings, uncles and aunts inside; some have had their own brushes with the law. All have stories to tell. Runaway Thoughts offers the stories, artwork and essays of those whose vo...
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    16,35 €

  • 86 Dumplings of Insight into China
    Sally Waters
    MY STORIES FROM CHINA FOR YOUAre you moving or travelling to China? Are you curious about Chinese culture? Peel back the layers and uncover the richness of a Chinese way of life.86 Dumplings Of Insight Into China is an intimate guide to Chinese culture all wrapped up in bite-sized morsels of stories and insight. Come along with Sally as she shares own personal stories and obser...
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    12,18 €

  • French Holidays & Traditions
    Margo Lestz
    If you are intrigued by French culture and curious about the history behind French traditions, this book is for you. In it, you'll find a selection of short stories, written in a lively style, which often reveal little-known, but always fascinating facts about French customs. Would you like to know: • Why people have fish on their backs on April 1st? • How the Bastille was ...
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    7,16 €

  • The Mockingbird Devotional
    As long as it has been available, people have turned to the Bible to address the problems and anxieties of everyday life. We look to it for comfort in the midst of suffering, clarity in times of confusion, or simply to learn about God. Thankfully, what we find in its pages is not a collection of rules or demands but a message of unbending honesty and unspeakable compassion: the...
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    33,29 €

  • Preserve and Protect
    Allen Drury
    The United States is thrown into chaos as the President is killed in a plane crash shortly after securing his party’s nomination in a hotly contested race for re-election. As suspicions are cast upon the circumstances of the place crash, the incumbent party quickly convenes to nominate a candidate in a storm of domestic and international chaos.Against the backdrop of a rich cas...
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    15,14 €

  • Leadership is Male
    David Pawson
    Elisabeth Elliot writes in the Foreword: 'Here is a simple, sane, serious treatment of the subject by a man who loves God, respects women, and takes the inspiration of Scripture and the integrity of the apostles for granted. He deals with all the ’difficult’ texts. He tells us that his subject is not a clerical issue, nor is hierarchical, situational, historical, or experimenta...
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    11,08 €

  • Israel in the New Testament
    David Pawson
    Those who believe what the Bible teaches about God’s plans and purposes for the people and place of Israel are often accused of giving more time and attention to the Old Testament than the New, and there is some truth in this. Over 80% of the promises and prophecies of the Old Testament have been literally fulfilled. It is a simple matter of faith in God’s faithfulness to belie...
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    16,83 €

  • The Vineyard We Knew
    Kevin J. Parham
    A poignant memoir about the life of an African-American boy from the city summering on Martha's Vineyard during the rustic 1950s and turbulent 1960s. It's a coming of age story that is very personal, yet universal. It opens up to a reader a world that many will not know, but one they will still recognize. The Vineyard We Knew is almost elegiac in nature in that it creates a se...
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    15,68 €

  • The Little Book of Awareness
    Peter Ingle
    Awareness is beyond the mind. At best, the mind can suggest what awareness is and describe what it is not. The Little Book of Awareness tries to go a step farther by evoking awareness in the reader and exploring what it means for awareness to consciously realize itself as pure awareness. Only when this happens does true transformation begin. ...
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    13,80 €

  • Fearful Majesty
    Benson Bobrick
    Ivan the Terrible - the name evokes the legend of a cruel and dangerously insane tyrant. Fearful Majesty explores that legend and exposes the man, his nature, and his time.This acclaimed biography of one of Russia’s most important and tyrannical rulers is not only a rich, readable biography, it is also surprisingly timely, revealing how many of the issues Russia faces today hav...
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    21,18 €

  • From Consulting to Cutting
    Nicole Barrett
    Nicole Barrett co-founded NiaNicole Salon in October of 2008. She has an extensive amount of training from across the world and has taken various classes in hair cutting techniques, as well as coloring techniques and finishing. With a background in business consulting, she helped Fortune 500 companies regain and maintain market eminence. As a past educator for L’Oreal, Nicole h...
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    17,07 €

  • Defending Christian Zionism
    David Pawson
    Has God brought the Jewish people back to Palestine?How can both Jews and Christians be God’s chosen people?How many covenants are there in the Bible?Do all Christian Zionists accept dispensational teaching?Does the God of Israel ever change his promises?These are some of the questions that must be faced in the light of current attacks on Christian Zionism by some evangelical w...
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    13,61 €