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  • 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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    21,24 €

  • 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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    22,38 €

  • SEXUAL HISTORY OF LONDON
    CATHARINE ARNOLD
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    18,76 €

  • 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 €

  • YOU SHOULD REALLY WRITE A BOOK
    REGINA BROOKS
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    16,31 €

  • 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 €

  • Chico Xavier
    Chico Xavier / João Marcos Weguelin
    Chico Xavier – A aurora de uma vida entre o céu e a TerraDiversos (espíritos) Francisco Cândido Xavier (autor) João Marcos Weguelin (organizador)As mensagens aqui apresentadas foram psicografadas por Chico Xavier e publicadas no jornal espírita Aurora, dirigido por Inácio Bittencourt, entre julho de 1928 e abril de 1933. Nesses primeiros anos, Chico era ainda muito jovem, não s...
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    14,51 €

  • Wrecking Crew
    Kent Hartman
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    28,20 €

  • 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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    18,37 €

  • 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 €

  • Communication Technology for Students in Special Education and Gifted Programs
    Communication technology provides new opportunities for individuals with special needs, facilitating assistive communication, increasing mobility, offering a different model of engagement, and allowing new forms of exploration. However, many people learn about these new technologies haphazardly through teachers, social workers, therapists, and networks of people who have simila...
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    256,19 €

  • A Rugged Nation
    Marco Armiero
    Landscape, politics and history: the Italian mountains as a crucible of national and natural identity.This book is part of a wider current in environmental history, that explores the links between nature and nation. It uncovers how Italian identity and mountains have constituted one another. It argues that state regimes since unification in 1861 have made mountains into nationa...
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    92,22 €

  • identity Who Are You?
    Jr. Russell D. Blackman
    Identity is to know that you are in the will of God. There is a place in God that will cause you and I to cry Holy, Holy, Holy, if we just press into the realm of our true identity. Learn your true identity! In this insightful book, Russell D. Blackman, Jr. gives you a clear path to learning who you are, and the power you possess by knowing it. This book will change the way you...
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    8,73 €

  • Edward VII
    Christopher Hibbert
    To his mother, Queen Victoria, he was 'poor Bertie,' to his wife he was 'my dear little man,' while the President of France called him 'a great English king,' and the German Kaiser condemned him as 'an old peacock.' King Edward VII was all these things and more, as Hibbert reveals in this captivating biography. Shedding new light on the scandals that peppered his life, Hibbert ...
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    20,70 €

  • Dreaming of Kaleidoscopes
    Chris Wind
    Poetry from the poet’s late teens in the 1970s to her early thirties in the 1990s-sensitive, passionate, and most of all, illuminating.   scabs and scars blowing across the snowstanding on a cliffin a silent blizzard crumblingand dreaming of kaleidoscopesall of the pieces always fit'dreaming of kaleidoscopes is a top pick of poetry and is very much worth considering.' Midwe...
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    12,03 €

  • Bonded by Blood
    Cash
    From her deathbed, where HIV is choking away her last breaths, Black Girl, an infamous ex-prostitute of Atlanta's Auburn Avenue 'ho stroll, exacts two promises from her three young teen-aged sons, Khalil, B-Man, and Quantavious. She does not try to fool herself that the boys will be anything but hustlers. Hustling is in their blood from both ends, hers and her father...
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    29,17 €

  • Dumped
    John W. Reaves
    Dumped is a coming of age novel set in Florida from 1944 to 1952. Lying in bed at night, Billy struggles to picture his mother's face, but can only envision her back as she walks away. With only the love and compassion of his grandmother's maid to support him, Billy is forced to find any way possible to survive abandonment, abuse, and unimaginable cruelty until an unexpected ev...
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    16,62 €

  • Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic
    Amy Horowitz
    The relocation of North African and Middle Eastern Jews to Israel in the 1950s and 1960s brought together communities from Egypt, Iraq, Kurdistan, Yemen, and many other Islamic countries, as well as their unique music styles. In the unstable, improvisatory spaces of transit camps, development towns, and poor neighborhoods, they created a new pan-ethnic Mizrahi identity and a ho...
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    46,99 €

  • Educational Gameplay and Simulation Environments
    Games and simulations are not only a rapidly growing source of entertainment in today’s world; they are also quite beneficial. They enable players to develop quick-reaction and motor skills, engage cognitive processes, and interact with peers around the globe, thereby enhancing social skills. However, as a result of the rise of games and simulations, educators are struggling to...
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    236,93 €

  • SNIPER ONE
    DAN MILLS
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    18,71 €

  • Questions of Fire
    Greg Mosson
    Questions of Fire is a poet's response to the complex 21st century environment, from work to home to war, in an age dawning with violence. This book offers not quick solutions to dilemmas, but discoveries won through experience, and illuminating observations of contemporary life. Meditation on Washington D.C. in April 2003 During the war, winter thawed in a ...
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    13,93 €

  • In the Beginning
    Michael Lienesch
    The current controversy over teaching evolution in the public schools has grabbed front-page headlines and topped news broadcasts all across the United States. In the Beginning investigates the movement that has ignited debate in state legislatures and at school board meetings. Reaching back to the origins of antievolutionism in the 1920s, and continuing to the promotion of int...
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    47,60 €

  • The Grandmother Poems
    Marcia Katz Wolf
    Marcia Katz Wolf's The Grandmother Poems operates at the fulcrum of her family's history. Some of the poems concern her parents after World War II, inscrutably altered by the Holocaust - her mother fresh from a nose job, 'Queen Celeste with her trunk cut off;' her father in the cellar darkroom, 'his hands rising ghostly from the developing fluid / retrieving something I could ...
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    13,58 €

  • The Great Hunger
    Karen Douglass
    'It's my job to remember things I never saw,' Karen Douglass says in one poem, and she does - remember and see through the imagination's eye. In beautifully detailed poems, succinct and meditative at once, she shows us food as delight and weapon, necessity and art, gift and punishment. The many dynamics of hunger, both physical and spiritual, what we need to be nourished and to...
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    13,58 €

  • Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica
    Valerius Flaccus / Michael Barich
    Swollen seas, erotic monsters, Greek passion gone Latin, deftlyThis 1st-century AD Latin version of the earlier Greek epic features exotic lands, wondrous monsters and a sea voyage over swells of young love. Valerius Flaccus lent sharp Roman refinements and erotic passion to the tale, which are skillfully sustained in this careful and appealing modern translation in English ver...
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    19,29 €