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  • The Story of my Life
    John Albert Macy
    The Story of My Life, is Helen Keller’s autobiography detailing her early life, especially her experiences with Anne Sullivan. The book is dedicated to inventor Alexander Graham Bell. The dedication reads, 'To ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Who has taught the deaf to speak and enabled the listening ear to hear speech from the Atlantic to the Rockies, I dedicate this Story of My Life.' ...
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    36,69 €

  • The Story of My Life Vol. 6 Spanish Passions
    Giacomo Casanova
    Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women that his name is now synonymous with 'wom...
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    35,99 €

  • The Story of My Life Vol. 5 in London and Moscow
    Giacomo Casanova
    Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women that his name is now synonymous with 'wom...
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    36,12 €

  • The Story of My Life Vol. 3 the Eternal Quest
    Giacomo Casanova
    Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women that his name is now synonymous with 'wom...
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    36,11 €

  • The Story of My Life Vol. 2 to Paris and Prison
    Giacomo Casanova
    Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women that his name is now synonymous with 'wom...
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    35,94 €

  • Belinda
    Maria Edgeworth
    Being unwed, Belinda is sent to live with Lady Delacour, whom Belinda considers fascinating and charming. Lady Delacour believes herself to be dying of breast cancer. She hides her emotional distress from Belinda through wit and charm. The first half of the novel is concerned with the blooming friendship between Belinda and Lady Delacour, which is eventually broken, 'I see...th...
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    36,23 €

  • The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Vol. 6 Spanish Passions
    Giacomo Casanova
    Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women that his name is now synonymous with 'womanizer'. He associated with European ro...
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    35,99 €

  • The Garden of Allah
    Fox Emmet
    The Garden of Alla explores the Spiritual Key to Isaiah XXXV. 'Even those who love the Bible most are apt to make the mistake of looking upon it as merely a book, the greatest book ever written, no doubt, but still a book; whereas the truth about the Bible is that it is really a spiritual vortex in which spiritual power pours from the Absolute or Divine Plane into the physic...
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    20,79 €

  • The Story of my Life Vol. 1 The Venetian Years
    Giacomo Casanova
    Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women that his name is now synonymous with 'wom...
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    35,79 €

  • The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Vol. 3 the Eternal Quest
    Giacomo Casanova
    Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women that his name is now synonymous with 'womanizer'. He associated with European ro...
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    36,11 €

  • The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Vol. 5 in London and Moscow
    Giacomo Casanova
    Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women that his name is now synonymous with 'womanizer'. He associated with European ro...
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    36,12 €

  • The Life of Samuel Johnson
    James Boswell
    This is a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell. It is regarded as an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography; many have claimed it as the greatest biography written in English. While Boswell’s personal acquaintance with his subject only began in 1763, when Johnson was 54 years old, Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson’s life by...
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    36,04 €

  • The Persian Expedition
    Xenophon Xenophon
    Stranded deep in enemy territory, the Spartan general Clearchus and the other Greek senior officers were subsequently killed or captured by treachery on the part of the Persian satrap Tissaphernes. Xenophon, one of three remaining leaders elected by the soldiers, played an instrumental role in encouraging the Greek army of 10,000 to march north across foodless deserts and snow-...
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    27,97 €

  • Manifesto of the Communist Party
    Karl Marx
    The Communist Manifesto was first published on February 21, and it is one of the world’s most influential political tracts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it laid out the League’s purposes and program. The Manifesto suggested a course of action for a proletarian (working class) revolution to overthrow the ...
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    14,22 €

  • Notes from the Underground
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Notes from Underground is a study of a single character, and a revelation of Dostoyevsky’s own deepest beliefs. In this work we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who, disillusioned by the oppression and corruption of the society in which he lives withdraws from that society into the underground. Considered by many to be the first existentialist novel, Notes from the Und...
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    20,46 €

  • Practical Mysticism
    Evelyn Underhill
    Underhill was a leading authority on modern mysticism. Written just before World War 1, Practical Mysticism reviews the works of the greatest Western mystics, including Teresa of Avila, Julian of Norwich, and Thomas à Kempis. Underhill brings esoteric subjects onto a practical footing, showing that the profound gifts of mysticism are not only for the few but are within reach of...
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    20,51 €

  • Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
    Thomas De Quincey
    Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum (opium and alcohol) addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was 'the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him fame almost overnight. ...
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    17,94 €

  • Cyrano de Bergerac
    Edmond Rostand
    Hercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French dramatist and duelist. He is now best remembered for the works of fiction which have been woven, often very loosely, around his life story, most notably the 1897 play by Edmond Rostand. In these fictional works he is featured with an overly large nose, which people would travel from miles around to see. Portraits suggest that ...
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    28,14 €

  • Psychology of Revolution
    Gustave Lebon
    The present age is not merely an epoch of discovery; it is also a period of revision of the various elements of knowledge. Having recognised that there are no phenomena of which the first cause is still accessible, science has resumed the examination of her ancient certitudes, and has proved their fragility. To-day she sees her ancient principles vanishing one by one. ...
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    27,92 €

  • Gitanjali
    Rabindranath TAGORE
    I have carried the manuscript of these translations about with me for days, reading it in railway trains, or on the top of omnibuses and in restaurants, and I have often had to close it lest some stranger would see how much it moved me. These lyrics-which are in the original full of subtlety of rhythm, of untranslatable delicacies of colour, of metrical invention-display in the...
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    18,10 €

  • Purpose in Prayer
    Edward M. Bounds / Edward MBounds
    The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil everywhere. Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive. It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil. Prayer is no fitful, shortlived thing. It is no voice crying unheard and unheeded in the silence. It is a voice which goes into God...
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    20,54 €

  • 'THE TRIPLE WHAMMY' AND OTHER RUSSIAN STORIES
    Louis Menashe
    A captivating lifetime of personal and professional experiences by an American historian, film specialist and documentary filmmaker in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. The author’s experiences as a radical in the turbulent 1960s, and his eventual disenchantment offer some precedents and perspectives to all those on the Left, Center or Right interested in the fluctuation...
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    26,31 €

  • Traveling to a New America
    James Hilgendorf
    Author, speaker, poet, and filmmaker James Hilgendorf draws upon his own books, poems, blogs, and articles, to create a pastiche of a new America - one that even now, amid all the division, anger, and loss of hope we are experiencing in our country, is struggling to be born.A song of immense new beginnings, of a deep seismic shift in the way we view our own individual identity ...
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    13,54 €

  • Rise up
    Dana H. Senders
    Rising up is not as easy to do as we think it is. This entitles us to do the things that we are meant to do. It's about overcoming the weakness in woman's basketball officiating. This also help us to figure out what to do when you have a chronic illness and how to succeed. As I rose up to do all the things that I could do I had obstacles to face. From the beginning of t...
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    8,38 €

  • Rise up
    Dana H. Senders
    Rising up is not as easy to do as we think it is. This entitles us to do the things that we are meant to do. It's about overcoming the weakness in woman's basketball officiating. This also help us to figure out what to do when you have a chronic illness and how to succeed. As I rose up to do all the things that I could do I had obstacles to face. From the beginning of t...
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    23,91 €

  • On Our Way Home
    Dwight Kiefert
    How do you handle the loss of a child? Where do you turn for answers? Death does not have to be a mystery. Join author and father, Dwight Kiefert as he shares his story: the tragic loss of a young son, Matthew, killed by a drunken school bus driver in 1987; and the direction and faith he and his family came to know after their darkest hour. More than 95% of marriages that su er...
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    8,30 €

  • Adventures on the Pan American Highway of South America
    Earl Roe Donnell / Lucretia Ayers Donnell
    What happens when an intrepid and resourceful sixty-something woman decides in 1953 that a long driving trip, touring the newly opened Pan American Highway in South America, would be just the thing her ailing husband needs? Follow the Donnells in this page turning, true yarn as recorded by Lucretia Donnell in her letters. Robbed, stuck in the mud, marooned with car troubles, wi...
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    30,46 €

  • The Real Jesus And Other Sermons
    James Allan Francis
    WHAT would the thoughtful and reverent Christian of today not give for a sure enough close-up look at Christ Jesus as he walked among men? This is not finding fault with the Gospels but with the mass of tradition, church dogma, and what not, that has accumulated since that first century and in the mind of the church obscures the Real Jesus.Yet we know that the only way to make ...
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    14,39 €

  • Changing Faces II
    Darrel Dabbs
    Dabbs wasn’t quite a teenager when his vitiligo surfaced.  It showed up as a little patch around his eyes when he was in sixth grade, Dabbs said.  It spread to his lips, mouth, hands and then across his body.            For years, he wore makeup to avoid stares and have a consistent skin tone. He had his lips tattooed so they wouldn’t be pink.  “It made me look so much better,”...
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    23,23 €

  • Walking On Air
    Jethro Shaw
    The true story of a midwestern boy who grew up during the Great Depression. Jethro Shaw as a young child overcame extreme physical infirmities, and his life as an airman and all of his endeavors. In his own words, he tells of how he succeeded and prospered against the odds. ...
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    31,56 €


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