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  • Will Clayton
    Ellen Clayton Garwood
    Will Clayton left his mark on world commerce through the development of Anderson, Clayton & Co., the world’s largest cotton marketing firm; he made an equally important impress on international economics and politics through special and vital service in the State Department during three crucial years of world history.The politico-economic philosophy that Will Clayton developed ...
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    39,18 €

  • Shakespeare
    Stanley Wells
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    25,70 €

  • Nietzsche Unpublished Letters
    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    Discover the compelling private world of the most infamous philosopher of the nineteenth century in Nietzsche’s Unpublished Letters. With correspondence to Nietzsche’s inner circle-including several titillating letters to his sister-Nietzsche’s Unpublished Letters gives readers a never-before-seen look into the philosopher’s daily life. Friedrich Nietzsche was a German phi...
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    19,59 €

  • Nietzsche Unpublished Letters
    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
    Discover the compelling private world of the most infamous philosopher of the nineteenth century in Nietzsche’s Unpublished Letters. With correspondence to Nietzsche’s inner circle—including several titillating letters to his sister—Nietzsche’s Unpublished Letters gives readers a never-before-seen look into the philosopher’s daily life. Friedrich Nietzsche was a German phi...
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    11,65 €

  • James Stephen Hogg
    Robert C. Cotner / Robert CCotner
    No other governor has become so completely identified with Texas and its citizens as Jim Hogg, the first native Texan to hold the state’s highest office. His fame was not, however, easily earned. Orphaned at twelve, he worked as farmhand, typesetter, and country editor to finance his study of law, an endeavor that eventually led him into public life.Even before his admission to...
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    80,34 €

  • The Cradle of Erewhon
    Joseph Jones
    In 1859, Samuel Butler, a young Cantabrigian out of joint with his family, with the church, and with the times, left England to hew out his own path in New Zealand. At the end of just five years he returned, with a modest fortune in money and an immense fortune in ideas. For out of this self-imposed exile came Erewhon, one of the world’s masterpieces of satire, which contained ...
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    33,58 €

  • Kitty, My Rib
    E. Jane Mall
    Katharine (Katharina Von Bora) Luther was Martin Luther’s better half. She narrowly escaped from the Nimbschen convent, experienced marriage with an unromantic beginning, and later became Luther’s beloved 'Kitty.' She mellowed Luther’s harsher side, kept the household from bankruptcy despite her husband’s generosity, and enhanced his life with the excitement of family living.Wi...
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    22,65 €

  • Brecht
    Martin Esslin
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    32,58 €

  • Lucky 7
    Will Tom Carpenter
    'No. 7'-as Carpenter, the youngest of seven children, called himself-was born in Missouri in 1854 and moved west with his family, first to Kansas, then to the settlements near Pikes Peak, and finally, in 1872, to Texas with his elder brother. From the time he made his first cattle drive, he wanted no other life but that of herding longhorns across the free and flat grasslands o...
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    27,07 €

  • Making of the Auden canon
    Joseph Warren Beach
    Making of the Auden canon was first published in 1957. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.No poet writing in English is more representative of the intellectual trends of the thirties and forties than W. H. Auden. British born...
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    86,13 €

  • You May Take the Witness
    Clinton Giddings Brown
    When Clinton Giddings Brown (1882-1964) retired from a long and successful career as a trial lawyer in San Antonio, Texas, fishing on the Gulf Coast was out-by doctor’s orders. So he sat on the front gallery of his house in San Antonio and fished with a lead pencil in the richly stocked memories of his professional life. 'Some days I didn’t get a nibble, but some mornings they ...
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    33,69 €

  • Beyond the Cross Timbers
    W. Eugene Hollon
    Acclaimed in his own time, Captain Randolph B. Marcy-trailblazer, geographer, fighter in the Mexican War, American Indian authority, and author-traveled as extensively as any other nineteenth-century explorer. Yet, Marcy has not achieved the fame of Lewis and Clark, Pike, Long, and Fremont, although he was the first to trace the Red River, in 1852. Marcy conducted five major ex...
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    30,85 €

  • The Empress Frederick Writes to Sophie Her Daughter
    Empress Victoria
    The letters of Empress Frederick shed light on German politics and society during the late 19th century, and the outlook Germany’s royal family held on matters domestic and foreign.Famed for her charity work and promotion of social welfare, Victoria, Princess Royal – also styled as ‘the Empress Frederick’ – demonstrates a refined and sensitive soul. She is watchful and sensitiv...
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    18,51 €

  • Slide Rule
    Nevil Shute
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    39,67 €

  • Barnaby Rich
    Thomas Mabry Cranfill
    Soldier, sea captain, freebooter, courtier, writer, reformer, and informer, Barnaby Rich was a man of his time. In the service of Queen Elizabeth, Rich took part in numerous campaigns fraught with hardship and disaster in France, the Low Countries, and Ireland. After twenty years of soldiering, he wrote Riche His Farewell to Militarie Profession, which attracted the attention o...
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    27,06 €

  • Shanghai Pierce
    Chris Emmett
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    30,61 €

  • Marsden Hartley
    Elizabeth McCausland
    Marsden Hartley was first published in 1952. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Art connoisseurs and students, who are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of Marsden Hartley in an understanding of modern at, will we...
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    40,39 €

  • Alexander Pope
    Bonamy Dobree
    A biographical and critical study. From a life so crammed with incident, Mr. Dobrée has chosen those facts which seem most to bear on the poet’s development in life through art. 3 ...
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    13,55 €

  • Woman at Work
    Mary Anderson
    Woman at Work was first published in 1951. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.This is the story of a remarkable woman whose life has been devoted to the betterment of working conditions for women. Mary Anderson was director o...
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    71,71 €

  • On Good Ground
    Sister Helen Angela Hurley
    On Good Ground was first published in 1951. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Besides providing a vivid yet scholarly account of a religious order, this book reflects much of the regional history of the area where the nuns h...
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    86,07 €

  • Pioneer Doctor
    Lewis J. Moorman
    'A delightfully told story of the life of Dr. Moorman, of his patients, and of a changing time.' Dr. Henry A. Christian, Harvard Medical College, in the Foreword Pioneer Doctor is the story of half a century of medical practice, from the early days in Oklahoma Territory to metropolitan conditions today. Lewis J. Moorman, M.D., once told a patient who apologized for calling him...
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    28,32 €

  • Hanging Judge
    Fred Harvey Harrington
    Isaac C. Parker, the stern U.S. judge for Indian Territory from 1875 to 1896, brought law and order to a lawless frontier region. He held court in the border city of Fort Smith, Arkansas, but his jurisdiction extended over the Indian tribal lands to the west. Pressing juries for convictions, Parker sent seventy-nine convicted criminals to the gallows-as many as six at a time. M...
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    31,17 €

  • Spinoza Dictionary
    Dagobert D. Runes
    In this work Baruch Spinoza, one of the cardinal thinkers of all time, answers the eternal questions of man and his passions, God and nature. In the deepest sense, this dictionary of Spinoza’s philosophy is a veritable treasury of sublime wisdom. Dagobert D. Runes was a philosopher and author. He was the founding publisher of The Philosophical Library, where he w...
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    15,37 €

  • The Salt-Box
    Jan Hilliard
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    15,72 €

  • Proust’s Way
    Francois Mauriac
    The thinking and suffering of the author of Remembrance of Things Past are intimately exposed in these letters to Mauriac. Mauriac, François 1885–1970, French writer. Mauriac achieved success in 1922 and 1923 with Le Baiser au lépreux and Genitrix (tr. of both in The Family, 1930). Generally set in or near his native Bordeaux, his novels are imbued with his profound, thoug...
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    10,09 €

  • Peter Nielsen’s Story
    Niels Thorpe
    Peter Nielsen’s Story was first published in 1949. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. ...
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    72,08 €

  • John A. Johnson
    Winifred G. Helmes / Winifred GHelmes
    John A. Johnson was first published in 1949. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.The first native-born governor of Minnesota, and the only Democrat to have been elected to that office three times, was also the first Minnesotan...
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    86,07 €

  • Horns of Thunder
    Mary Berthel
    Vital and colorful, witty and entertaining, full of the youth and vigor and optimism of the frontier, the weekly issues of St. Paul's Minnesota Pioneer from the spring of 1849 to the summer of 1852 reflect the robust personality of James M. Goodhue (1810-1852) and through him the world of the American frontier.Like most nineteenth-century newspapermen, Goodhue was part of a...
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    17,23 €

  • Maria
    Alice Lee Marriott / Margaret Lefranc
    Volume 27 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series María: The Potter of San Ildefonso is the story of María Martínez and her husband, Julián, who revived the ancient Pueblo craft of pottery-making and stimulated interest in Southwestern Pueblo pottery among both white people and Indians.María Montoya Martínez, or Marie, as she sometimes signs her pottery, is a woman wh...
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    30,80 €

  • Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1910-1926
    Rainer Maria Rilke / Jane Bannard Greene / M. D. Herter Norton / MDHerter Norton
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    23,87 €


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