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  • Recipes Shi!
    PaperLand
    Easy to note the secret cooking tips from your grandma, mom, and dad.You can record the ingredients, directions, notes, and photos up to 48 menus.Beautiful cover with modern floral style.This book has a total of 100 pages, contains 2 inner covers and 98 planner pages. ...
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    18,89 €

  • Essays and Miscellanies - Part II (Esprios Classics)
    Plutarch
    Plutarch (AD 46-after 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo. He is known primarily for his Parallel Lives, a series of biographies of illustrious Greeks and Romans, and Moralia, a collection of essays and speeches. Upon becoming a Roman citizen, he was named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus. Plutarch’s best-known work ...
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    27,46 €

  • The Law and the Word (Esprios Classics)
    Thomas Troward
    Thomas Troward (1847-1916) was an English author whose works influenced the New Thought Movement and mystic Christianity. Troward was a divisional Judge in British-administered India. His avocation was the study of comparative religion. After his retirement from the judiciary in 1896, Troward set out to apply logic and a judicial weighing of evidence in the study of matters of ...
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    20,66 €

  • My Impressions of America (Esprios Classics)
    Margot Asquith
    Emma Margaret Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith (née Tennant 1864 - 1945), known as Margot Asquith, was a British socialite, author, and wit. She was married to H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. During World War I, Asquith’s outspokenness led to a public outcry. For example, she visited a German prisoner of war camp and she accused her shell-shocked ste...
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    18,57 €

  • Right Above Race (Esprios Classics)
    Otto H. Kahn / Otto HKahn
    Otto Hermann Kahn (February 21, 1867 - March 29, 1934) was a German-born American investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. He was Born and raised in the city of Mannheim, Germany, he started working for Deutsche Bank and, in 1888, was sent to their London office. He became a naturalized British citizen, but in 1893 he accepted an offer from Speyer a...
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    18,57 €

  • The Letters of Saint Catherine of Siena
    Benincasa Catharine
    St. Catherine of Siena (1347 - 1380) was an Italian mystic, who was part of the Dominican order. She was canonized in 1461, and is recognized as a Doctor of the Church.She was born in Siena, Italy, and early on wanted to devote herself solely to God as a nun, although this was against the will of her parents. She joined a group of pious women and soon became famous for mystical...
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    15,72 €

  • Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 10 (Esprios Classics)
    Elbert Hubbard
    Elbert Green Hubbard (1856-1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. He was an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement and is, perhaps, most famous for his essay A Message to Garcia. He founded Roycroft, an Arts and Crafts movement community in East Aurora, New York in 1895. Although called the 'Roycroft Press' by latter-day collectors and p...
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    24,42 €

  • A Dream of John Ball (Esprios Classics)
    William Morris
    William Morris (24 March 1834 - 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, novelist, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he helped wi...
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    18,61 €

  • In the Wilderness, and Certain Diversities of American Life (Esprios Classics)
    Charles Dudley Warner
    Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900) was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Warner traveled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Art...
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    19,79 €

  • Fennel and Rue, and Emile Zola (Esprios Classics)
    William Dean Howells
    William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 - May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed 'The Dean of American Letters'. He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story 'Christmas Every Day' and the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Tra...
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    20,65 €

  • How Spring Came in New England, and The Indeterminate Sentence (Esprios Classics)
    Charles Dudley Warner
    Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900) was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Warner traveled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Art...
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    17,60 €

  • The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner - Volume 2 (Esprios Classics)
    Charles Dudley Warner
    Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900) was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Warner traveled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Art...
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    23,67 €

  • The Amateur Garden (Esprios Classics)
    George Washington Cable
    George Washington Cable (October 12, 1844 - January 31, 1925) was an American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been called 'the most important southern artist working in the late 19th century', as well as 'the first modern Southern writer.' In his treatment of racism, mixed-race families and miscegena...
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    20,65 €

  • Joseph Andrews, Volume 1 (Esprios Classics)
    Henry Fielding
    Henry Fielding (22 April 1707 - 8 October 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his earthy humour and satire. His comic novel Tom Jones is still widely appreciated. He and Samuel Richardson are seen as founders of the traditional English novel. He also holds a place in the history of law enforcement, having used his authority as a magistrate to found the Bow Str...
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    22,93 €

  • Pickwickian Studies (Esprios Classics)
    Percy Fitzgerald
    Samuel Pickwick is a fictional character and the main protagonist in The Pickwick Papers (1836), the first novel by author Charles Dickens. One of the author’s most famous and loved creations, Pickwick is a retired successful businessman and is the Founder and Chairman of the Pickwick Club, a club formed to explore places remote from London and investigate the quaint and curiou...
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    20,66 €

  • Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing (Esprios Classics)
    Charles Dudley Warner
    Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900) was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Warner traveled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Art...
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    18,70 €

  • The Complete Works of Artemus Ward - Part 7
    Artemus Ward
    Charles Farrar Browne (April 26, 1834 - March 6, 1867) was an American humor writer, better known under his nom de plume, Artemus Ward, which as a character, an illiterate rube with 'Yankee common sense', Browne also played in public performances. He is considered to be America’s first stand-up comedian. His birth name was Brown but he added the 'e' after he became famous. Brow...
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    19,83 €

  • The Complete Works of Artemus Ward - Part 4
    Artemus Ward
    Charles Farrar Browne (April 26, 1834 - March 6, 1867) was an American humor writer, better known under his nom de plume, Artemus Ward, which as a character, an illiterate rube with 'Yankee common sense', Browne also played in public performances. He is considered to be America’s first stand-up comedian. His birth name was Brown but he added the 'e' after he became famous. Brow...
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    19,76 €

  • Captain John Smith (Esprios Classics)
    Charles Dudley Warner
    Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900) was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Warner traveled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Art...
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    22,94 €

  • The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 - 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind and insatiable noumenal will. Building on the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer developed an atheistic metaphysical...
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    19,86 €

  • Walking the Journey of Life
    Judite Holder
    One woman’s courageous walk through life, grief and faithIn loving memory of parents, son and dedicated to two loving, caring and fun-loving granddaughters ...
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    16,43 €

  • The Old Maid (The ’Fifties) (Esprios Classics)
    Edith Wharton
    Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider’s knowledge of the upper class New York 'aristocracy' to realistically portray the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the Nation...
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    18,57 €

  • The Billow and the Rock (Esprios Classics)
    Harriet Martineau
    Harriet Martineau (12 June 1802 - 27 June 1876) was a British social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist. Martineau wrote many books and a multitude of essays from a sociological, holistic, religious, domestic, and perhaps most controversially, feminine perspective. She also translated various works by Auguste Comte, and she earned enough to su...
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    22,93 €

  • France City, Annecy Travel
    Thomas Bailey
    France City, Annecy Travel. Annecy Tourism. Nestled by the northwestern shore of its namesake lake, Annecy is the jewel of the Haute-Savoie. From its crowning Château d’Annecy down to its gurgling canals, Annecy’s Vieille Ville (Old Town) is infused with antique charm. Made great by the medieval Counts of Geneva and augmented by the Dukes of Savoy, Annecy still has numerous 16t...
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    35,11 €

  • Aruba Caribbean
    Thomas Bailey
    Aruba Caribbean. Vacation Headquarters. North Americans fleeing winter make Aruba the most touristed island in the southern Caribbean. The draws are obvious: miles of glorious white-sand beaches, plenty of all-inclusive resorts, and a cute, compact capital, Oranjestad, which is well suited for the two-hour strolls favored by cruise-ship passengers. It’s all about sun, fun and s...
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    34,72 €

  • Antalya Turkey
    Thomas Bailey
    Antalya Turkey. Vacation, Tourism. Once seen simply as the gateway to the Turkish Riviera, Antalya today is very much a destination in its own right. Situated right on the Gulf of Antalya (Antalya Körfezi), the largest city on Turkey’s western Mediterranean coastline is both classically beautiful and stylishly modern. At its core is the wonderfully preserved old-city district o...
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    34,95 €

  • Belgium Beautiful City of Antwerp
    Thomas Bailey
    Belgium Beautiful City of Antwerp. Tourism. Antwerp (Antwerpen /Anvers in Dutch/French) is Belgium’s second city, biggest port and capital of cool. It has long been a powerful magnet for everyone from fashion moguls and club queens to art lovers and diamond dealers. In the mid-16th century it was one of Europe’s most important cities and home to baroque superstar painter Pieter...
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    34,83 €

  • Amsterdam City Guide, Netherlands
    Thomas Bailey
    Amsterdam City Guide, Netherlands. Holland Travel. Amsterdam combines the unrivaled beauty of the 17th-century Golden Age city center with plenty of museums and art of the highest order, not to mention a remarkably laid-back atmosphere. It all comes together to make this one of the world’s most appealing and offbeat metropolises. Built on a latticework of concentric canals like...
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    34,63 €

  • Baku, Azerbaijan
    Thomas Bailey
    Baku, Azerbaijan. Eastern Tour. You may have never heard of this country before but I assure you that there are a lot of things to see and do in Azerbaijan and after reading this guide to the best places and activities in Baku and surroundings you may want to book a flight straightaway. Luckily, this travel guide provides you with everything you need to know before going to Aze...
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    35,00 €

  • Assisi City, Italy
    Thomas Bailey
    Assisi City, Italy. Umbria Environment. Saint Francis, Tourism and Vacation. Assisi is Umbria’s most famous town and one of its loveliest. This beautiful medieval town, with its geranium-hung streets, lovely views, and fountain-splashed piazzas, is heir to the legacy of St. Francis, patron saint of Italy and the town’s favorite son. The 12th-century monk founded the Franciscan ...
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    34,95 €