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  • 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 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 €

  • Mixed Blessings - Simple Pleasures
    In the hustle and bustle of today’s busy world, it can sometimes be difficult to find time to indulge in life’s simple pleasures. Now, here’s your chance. Inside these pages you’ll find one hundred bite-sized stories, inspirational articles, devotions, and poems, all inspired by ten simple pleasures of life--reading, handcrafts, fishing, shopping, baking, art, and so much more....
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    18,38 €

  • 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 €

  • A Commentary on Hebrews
    David Pawson
    ’But I’m not a Hebrew! So why should I read a letter addressed to Jewish believers?’ Because the author’s warnings and appeals (’Don’t go back, do go on’) are needed by Christians teetering on the slippery slope of backsliding or simply standing still. For the eager believer, still running the race, this letter offers a new perspective on both the Old Testament and the Lord Jes...
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    16,10 €

  • A Commentary on Galatians
    David Pawson
    Attacks by the enemy against the church are much more successful when they come from the inside, and one of the quickest ways to do that is to pervert or corrupt or erode the gospel. Legalism and licence are still with us. But so is true liberty. We are free not to sin - and free to be bold, if we will only walk in the Spirit. ...
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    20,07 €

  • A Commentary on the Gospel of John
    David Pawson
    Eyewitnesses, Jesus’ own words and astonishing works all point to one who was truly God come in the flesh, the living Word, the very glory of God among humanity. John’s collected evidence and proof all make the most compelling testimony to Jesus’ right to demand our ongoing trust and obedience. ...
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    19,83 €

  • Sally Field Can Play the Transsexual
    Leslie L. Smith
    A 2015 Reader's Favorite Finalist, this tale of sex, loss, redemption and pharmaceuticals in the modern AIDS era that will make you laugh, break your heart, and inspire you. Leslie L. Smith's #SFCPT is a coming-of-age story - a teenage gay runaway turned hustler, David Matthews, is on a journey to find himself and his community. Along the way he is visited by a ghost, m...
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    10,39 €

  • The Kama Sutra Kitchen
    Ashley Apple
    The secret to successful aphrodisiacs is in the alchemy of creating, and this book is designed to increase sensuality to support the proper mood while concocting aphrodisiac recipes. Each section of the book is short and sweet, designed to introduce you to the basic concepts of alchemy and herbal medicine.This is a recipe book for creating aphrodisiac treats that increase sexua...
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    21,25 €

  • Taste for Truth
    Barb Raveling
    They say it takes 21 days to develop a habit. But we all know how hard it is to make through those first 21 days. Taste for Truth will help you get through those first few weeks when you’d like nothing better than to give up. Taste for Truth offers 30 days of Bible study and hands-on renewing of the mind help. You’ll be taking off the lies that make you overeat and putting on t...
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    9,80 €

  • Clouds
    Gary W. Burns / Gary WBurns / Gary William Burns
    Explore within and garner self awareness; slow down a busy day and look inward.  This volume of inspirational poetry was written for those seeking personal growth through the mindfulness of reflective moments. These calming, inspiring and meditative poems provide a sense of repose and reflective serenity.The short one page poems in this book of poetry celebrate the themes of wh...
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    25,86 €

  • The Art Album
    Dawud Knuckles
    'The Art Album' is an illustrated book celebrating the long-standing relationship between the visual arts and hip-hop music, and is the result of a collaboration between two giants of the American music scene. Dawud Knuckles is a veteran of the record industry in America. In the 1990s, his friends founded the hip-hop record label Ruff Ryders, with whom he worked for many...
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    32,48 €

  • Race, Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison
    Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber
    In this first interdisciplinary study of all nine of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison's novels, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber investigates how the communal and personal trauma of slavery embedded in the bodies and minds of its victims lives on through successive generations of African Americans. Approaching trauma from several cutting-edge theoretical perspectives -- psychoanalytic, n...
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    35,76 €

  • Mobile Pedagogy and Perspectives on Teaching and Learning
    Distance learning has existed in some form for centuries, but modern technologies have allowed students and teachers to connect directly, no matter what their location, using the internet and mobile devices. Mobile Pedagogy and Perspectives on Teaching and Learning explores the tools and techniques that enable educators to leverage wireless applications and social networks to i...
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    229,74 €

  • The Steppe to Europe
    Lajos Racz / Alan Campbell
    This book, a much-augmented translation of the author’s original Hungarian version, is an account of Hungary’s past from the perspective of environmental history, incorporating a wide range of environmentally-relevant research findings. Data on climate, agriculture, mining, hunting, urban development and political administration are synthesised to create a rich account of a peo...
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    112,72 €

  • Thy Kingdom Fall (After Eden Series, Book 1)
    Austin Dragon
    This is how the controversial futuristic epic series begins…75 years from now.Thy Kingdom Fall (After Eden Series, Book 1) is the provocative, sci-fi thriller by author Austin Dragon—a dramatic mix of politics, religion, technology and intrigue.In 2089, a former skin-runner-turned-star-reporter quietly investigates the Washington DC murder of the most powerful political king-ma...
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    21,91 €

  • This Kind of Knowing
    Susannah Sheffer
    This Kind of Knowing is built of driven lines where we explore mysterious tensions, "in the cage where the heart paces." From the very beginning, in "Caving," these poems are alive, "like something blooming,/ like something you never imagined/ but realized with surprise/ that you could, actually, love." Thumb through the back issues of Bear River Review. for some of the pieces ...
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    10,24 €

  • Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era
    William J Cooper Jr.
    In his masterpiece, Jefferson Davis, American, William J. Cooper, Jr., crafted a sweeping, definitive biography and established himself as the foremost scholar on the intriguing Confederate president. Cooper narrows his focus considerably in Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era, training his expert eye specifically on Davis's participation in and influence on events centra...
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    22,67 €

  • Obligations to Future Generations
    B. Barry / BBarry / R. I. Sikora / RISikora
    When this seminal collection of essays was first published in 1978, the philosophical ’problem’ of obligations to fixture generations was not widely recognised. But as the contributors point out, the theories that have constituted the stock-in-trade of moral philosophers for the past two hundred years often produce weird and counter-intuitive results when they are extended to t...
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    89,85 €

  • Queen of the World
    Ben Hennessy
    In the legends, the Four saved the world from war and poverty. These incredible men walked the lands, seeking an audience with the ruler of each nation. They demanded that mankind focus its efforts on education, trade and culture. No longer would the people face starvation and terror. This commandment was enforced with displays of miraculous power. After all, it is difficult to...
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    15,27 €

  • Fly With Me, Cloth Hardcover
    Ute S. Buehler
    'Fly With Me' is Ute Buehler's first book of poetry. While German is her native language, she shows a mastery of English and the artistry of poetry and photography in this book. Each poem and each photograph is beautifully integrated. Together they set forth her vision of art, creativity and a broad understanding of the nature of love. In 'Fly With Me' it is hard to know ...
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    24,26 €

  • Learning with Mobile Technologies, Handheld Devices, and Smart Phones
    Mobile Learning is a new trend in pedagogical communities. It matches the speed of fast moving methodologies in pedagogical world. The theories of activity-based learning, problem-based learning, work-based learning, and opinion-based learning, learner-centered learning, and so forth, can be integrated with these tiny handheld devices. Students and teachers communicate effectiv...
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    229,54 €

  • Blended Learning Environments for Adults
    There is a general notion that adult education literature generally supports the idea that teaching adults should be approached in a different way than teaching children. Adult learners include working adults with family responsibilities, older workers who may not feel confident about returning to school and people who are currently in the workforce and who need to upgrade skil...
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    229,76 €

  • Satellites Out of Orbit
    Chris Wind
    A unique collection of feminist prose and poetry in five sections: I. Epistles: epistles written by Eve, Cain’s wife, Noah’s wife, Delilah, the Queen of Sheba, Mary, and others - as if they were feminist II. Myths: the myths within the myths revealed - what might Pandora, Circe, Penelope, Eurydice, Persephone, the Gorgons, and others have thought and done if they had not been t...
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    15,69 €

  • The Secret in Their Eyes
    Eduardo Sacheri
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    16,06 €

  • Holy Dissent
    Glenn Dynner
    BThe religious communities of early modern Eastern Europe—particularly those with a mystical bent—are typically studied in isolation. Yet the heavy Slavic imprint on Jewish popular mysticism and pervasive Judaizing tendencies among Christian dissenters call into question the presumed binary quality of Jewish-Christian interactions. In Holy Dissent: Jewish and Christian Mystics ...
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    62,96 €