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  • Daily Prompts to Promote Gratitude
    PaperLand
    The act of writing down three simple gratitudes each day establishes a state of mindfulness that supports and reinforces the Law of Attraction. It is designed to enable children to focus on being thankful both in the biggest and smallest of wins in life.This book has a total of 104 pages, contains 3 inner cover and 101 planner pages. ...
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    18,95 €

  • The Picturesque St. Lawrence (Esprios Classics)
    Clifton Johnson
    Clifton Johnson (January 25, 1865 - January 22, 1940) was an American author, illustrator, and photographer. He published some 125 books in many genres including travel books, children’s stories, and biographies, many with his own illustrations and photographs. Even though he received little formal education, Johnson became an accomplished author, photographer, artist, editor, ...
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    22,97 €

  • My Canadian Leaves (Esprios Classics)
    Frances E. O. Monck / Frances EOMonck
    'Ship 'Asia,' Monday Evening, Cabin 67, May 16th, 1864.-You will like a journal even begun in this terrible hole of suffering humanity. I think so much of you all and of lovely Ryde. Blayney will tell you all about us[1]-of our fog between Holyhead and Kingstown when we stopped in the middle of the sea and nearly ran down a brig, of our friendship with Mr. Maguire, the M. P. fo...
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    23,80 €

  • Serious Hours of a Young Lady (Esprios Classics)
    Charles Sainte Foi
    'A celebrated author has justly remarked that Christian women can, like the guardian angels, invisibly govern the world; and the author of the 'Serious Hours of a Young Lady' has very appropriately made this truth the basis of his book, since the object that he had in view in writing it was to point out the important role that woman plays in society, and to give the young girl ...
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    20,70 €

  • Debit and Credit, Volume II (Esprios Classics)
    Gustav Freytag
    Gustav Freytag (1816 - 1895) was a German novelist and playwright. His literary fame was made universal by the publication in 1855 of his novel, Soll und Haben (Debit and Credit), which was translated into almost all European languages. It was translated into English by Georgiana Harcourt in 1857. It was hailed as one of the best German novels and praised for its sturdy but une...
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    28,94 €

  • Liguori’s Meditations on the Last Things
    St. Alphonsus Liguori / StAlphonsus Liguori
    These meditations were originally composed in the 18th century by St. Alphonsus Liguori(1696 - 1787), a Catholic bishop from the Naples region in Italy. They first appeared in English in 1886 in Eugene Grimm’s (1835-1891) 'Complete Ascetical Works of Saint Alphonsus de Liguori: The way of salvation and of perfection.' The meditations are aimed at awakening the reader to the sha...
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    16,79 €

  • Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons (Esprios Classics)
    Henry C. Mahoney / Henry CMahoney
    'It was whilst suffering the agonies of solitary confinement in the military prison of Wesel that I first decided to record my experiences so that readers might be able to glean some idea of the inner workings and the treatment meted out to our unfortunate compatriots who were travelling in Germany at the outbreak of war and who have since been interned.From the moment of my de...
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    26,72 €

  • Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings (Esprios Classics)
    Mary F. Sandars / Mary FSandars
    'Books about Balzac would fill a fair-sized library. Criticisms on his novels abound, and his contemporaries have provided us with several amusing volumes dealing in a humorous spirit with his eccentricities, and conveying the impression that the author of 'La Cousine Bette' and 'Le Pere Goriot' was nothing more than an amiable buffoon.Nevertheless, by some strange anomaly, the...
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    24,43 €

  • The Hawarden Visitors’ Hand-Book (Esprios Classics)
    William Henry Gladstone
    William Henry Gladstone (1840-1891) was a British Liberal Party Member of Parliament, and the eldest son of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone and his wife Catherine née Glynne. Gladstone was born in Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales. He attended Eton College and read Greek and Latin at Christ Church, Oxford University. He was a member of parliament for a total of 20 years, repre...
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    19,29 €

  • Myths and Legends of the Sioux (Esprios Classics)
    Mrs. Marie L. McLaughlin / MrsMarie LMcLaughlin
    'An Arikara woman was once gathering corn from the field to store away for winter use. She passed from stalk to stalk, tearing off the ears and dropping them into her folded robe. When all was gathered she started to go, when she heard a faint voice, like a child’s, weeping and calling: 'Oh, do not leave me! Do not go away without me. '' ...
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    21,46 €

  • النفط والسياسة في حياتي
    طارق شفيق
    يقدم هذا الكتيب موجزا للسيرة الذاتية لواحد من أكبر قادة صناعة النفط في العراق، وواحد من أول الخبراء الذين جندوا طاقاتهم من أجل أن تكون تلك الصناعة أداة وطنية للتنمية. وهو أحد مؤسسي شركة النفط الوطنية العراقية التي ورثت كل امتيازات الشركات الأجنبية بعد التأميم. سوف يتعرف القارئ على الخلفية التاريخية التي صنعت منه ذلك الرجل، وعلى المجهودات المضنية التي بذلها خلال مسار طويل من ال...
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    15,05 €

  • The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon (Esprios Classics)
    Siegfried Sassoon
    Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC (8 September 1886 - 1 September 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon’s view, were responsible for a jingoism-fue...
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    18,67 €

  • The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee (Esprios Classics)
    John Dee
    John Dee (13 July 1527 - 1608 or 1609) was an Anglo-Welsh mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, teacher, occultist, and alchemist. He was the court astronomer for, and advisor to, Elizabeth I, and spent much of his time on alchemy, divination and Hermetic philosophy. As an antiquarian, he had one of the largest libraries in England at the time. As a political advisor, he advoc...
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    19,73 €

  • The Life Story of an Old Rebel (Esprios Classics)
    John Denvir
    'I owe both the title of this book and the existence of the book itself to the suggestion of friends. I suppose a man of 76 may be called 'old,' although I have by no means given up the idea that I can still be of use to my country.And a Rebel? Yes! Anything of the nature of injustice or oppression has always stirred me to resentment, and-is it to be wondered at?-most of all wh...
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    22,88 €

  • Twelve Men (Esprios Classics)
    Theodore Dreiser
    Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (1871-1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Dreiser’s best known novels include Sister Carrie (1900...
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    27,46 €

  • The Writings of Thomas Paine, Volume I (Esprios Classics)
    Thomas Paine
    Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain) (1737 - 1809) was an English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary. He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776-1783), the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and helped inspire the patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain. His ...
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    22,91 €

  • Montaigne and Shakspere (Esprios Classics)
    John M. Robertson / John MRobertson
    John Mackinnon Robertson PC (14 November 1856 - 5 January 1933) was a prolific journalist, advocate of rationalism and secularism, and Liberal Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom for Tyneside from 1906 to 1918. Robertson was best known as an advocate of the Christ myth theory. He wrote in February 1906 to a friend that he 'gave up the ’divine’' when he was a teenager. It...
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    19,79 €

  • It is Time to Look Within
    PaperLand
    Journaling is a creative way to document your life.Writing exercises will help you reflect and expand on your self-exploration and self-discovery.Guide you in getting to know and understand yourself.This book has a total of 102 pages which contain 100 question pages ...
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    18,92 €

  • Tacitus on Germany (Esprios Classics)
    Caius Cornelius Tacitus
    Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c. AD 56 - c. 120) was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is considered by modern scholars to be one of the greatest Roman historians. He lived in what has been called the Silver Age of Latin literature, and has a reputation for the brevity and compactness of his Latin prose, as well as for his penetrating insights into the psycholog...
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    18,25 €

  • The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus (Esprios Classics)
    Caius Cornelius Tacitus
    Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c. AD 56 - c. 120) was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is considered by modern scholars to be one of the greatest Roman historians. He lived in what has been called the Silver Age of Latin literature, and has a reputation for the brevity and compactness of his Latin prose, as well as for his penetrating insights into the psycholog...
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    20,65 €

  • The Quarterly Review, Volume CLXII, No. CCCXXIV
    Various
    Some of our readers are not likely yet to have forgotten the remarkable essay which the late Professor Brewer contributed to our pages in 1871, and which has since been reprinted in the volume of ’English Studies,’ published shortly after the author’s death in 1879. English History owes a larger debt to few men of our time than it owes to Mr. Brewer. As a teacher whose pupils w...
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    28,20 €

  • Captain Cook
    W. H. G. Kingston / WHGKingston
    William Henry Giles Kingston (28 February 1814 - 5 August 1880), often credited as W. H. G. Kingston, was an English writer of boys’ adventure novels. His first book The Circassian Chief appeared in 1844. His first book for boys Peter the Whaler was published in 1851 and had such success that he retired from business and devoted himself entirely to the production of this kind o...
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    24,38 €

  • Asser’s life of King Alfred
    Asser Bishop of Sherborne
    Alfred the Great (848 - 899) was a king in West Saxon and then the first king of the Anglo-Saxons, king of Britain. He spent his early career fighting Viking invasions, until in 878 he won a decisive victory against them, and then personally oversaw the conversion of the Viking leader to Christianity. He left a legacy for being gracious, rational, peaceable, and generally worki...
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    7,17 €

  • Trust The Process
    PaperLand
    Journaling is a creative way to document your life.Writing exercises will help you reflect and expand on your self-exploration and self-discovery.Guide you in getting to know and understand yourself. This book has a total of 102 pages which contain 100 question pages. ...
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    18,92 €

  • The Life of Prophet Hud (Eber) Bilingual Edition English And Spanish
    Jannah Firdaus Mediapro
    The people of ’Ad lived many years in the windswept hills of an area between Yemen and Oman. They were physically well built and renowned for their craftsmanship especially in the construction of tall buildings with lofty towers. They were outstanding among all the nations in power and wealth, which, unfortunately, made them arrogant and boastful. Their political power was held...
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    12,33 €

  • Tom Quick the Indian Slayer
    James E. Quinlan / James EQuinlan
    One of the most dramatic tales from early pioneer America, the story of Tom Quick and his one-man war against the American Indians still arouses strong emotions to this day-especially among the descendants of his victims, to the point where his monument was attacked and taken down in 1997. Born in 1734 of Dutch ancestry, Tom Quick lived in peace alongside the Indians for the fi...
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    22,25 €

  • Grateful For It All
    Colleen Kittrell
    She was shunned by most children throughout school. Born with Cerebral Palsy in the 60’s, she learned living with it had its challenges. Every experience she had helped shape the person she would become. She learned it’s all in how you look at things. Attitude is everything. ...
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    15,19 €

  • Tales of Prophet Noah (Nuh) Bilingual Edition English and Spanish
    Muhammad Vandestra
    Prophet Nuh ibn Lamech ibn Methuselah known as Prophet Noah in the Old Testament, is recognized in Islam as a prophet and apostle of Allah SWT (God). He is an important figure in Islamic tradition, as he is one of the earliest prophets sent by God to mankind. According to Islam, Noah’s mission was to save a wicked world, plunged in depravity and sin. God charged Noah with the d...
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    12,48 €

  • Tales of Prophet Yunus (Jonah) Bilingual Edition English and French
    Muhammad Vandestra
    Prophet Jonah (Yunus) (pbuh) also known as Dhan-Nun. About his people Almighty Allah said: Was there any town community that believed after seeing the punishment, and its Faith at that moment, saved it from the punishment? (the answer is none)--except the people of Jonah; when they believed, We removed from them the torment of disgrace in the life of the present world, and perm...
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    10,58 €

  • Totally Amazing
    Teresa Heartchild / Teresa Pocock
    How does a person with Down syndrome assert her right to be herself in an Ableist society? It’s not easy. However, artist Teresa Heartchild shows us how she has successfully advocated for herself. From writing to government officials for an apology for her wrongful placement in a long-term care institution, to asserting her rights for more of what she loves in life-like more ma...
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    21,53 €


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