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  • The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Vol. 5 in London and Moscow
    Giacomo Casanova
    Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century. He has become so famous for his often complicated and elaborate affairs with women that his name is now synonymous with 'womanizer'. He associated with European ro...
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    36,12 €

  • The Knights
    Aristophanes Aristophanes
    The play is a satire on the social and political life of classical Athens during the Peloponnesian War and in this respect it is typical of all the dramatist’s early plays. It is unique however in the relatively small number of its characters and this was due to its scurrilous preoccupation with one man, the pro-war populist Cleon. ...
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    18,11 €

  • The Frogs
    Aristophanes Aristophanes
    The Frogs tells the story of the god Dionysus, despairing of the state of Athens’ tragedians, and allegedly recovering from the disastrous Battle of Arginusae. He travels to Hades to bring Euripides back from the dead. He brings along his slave Xanthias, who is smarter, stronger, more rational, more prudent, and braver than Dionysus. ...
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    18,10 €

  • The Life of Samuel Johnson
    James Boswell
    This is a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson written by James Boswell. It is regarded as an important stage in the development of the modern genre of biography; many have claimed it as the greatest biography written in English. While Boswell’s personal acquaintance with his subject only began in 1763, when Johnson was 54 years old, Boswell covered the entirety of Johnson’s life by...
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    36,04 €

  • The Clouds
    Aristophanes Aristophanes
    The Clouds can be considered not only the world’s first extant ’comedy of ideas’ but also a brilliant and successful example of that genre. The play gained notoriety for its caricature of the philosopher Socrates ever since its mention in Plato’s Apology as a factor contributing to the old man’s trial and execution. ...
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    18,10 €

  • 'THE TRIPLE WHAMMY' AND OTHER RUSSIAN STORIES
    Louis Menashe
    A captivating lifetime of personal and professional experiences by an American historian, film specialist and documentary filmmaker in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. The author’s experiences as a radical in the turbulent 1960s, and his eventual disenchantment offer some precedents and perspectives to all those on the Left, Center or Right interested in the fluctuation...
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    26,31 €

  • Have Faith in Massachusetts
    Calvin Coolidge
    'Calvin Coolidge is generally remembered as our most laconic President, to the point that most jokes about him revolve around the silence of ''Silent Cal.'' But the President of Amherst College, while conferring on Coolidge an honorary Doctor of Laws, praised him for teaching the lesson of ''adequate brevity.''Before he went to Washington as Vice President, and then succeeded t...
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    17,76 €

  • Optimism
    Helen Keller
    Who better than Helen Keller to write about optimism? Helen Keller became blind when she was nineteen months old. At the time children who were deaf and blind were simply given up on. But Helen’s mother read that a deaf blind person had been educated and decided to explore that possibility for her daughter. As a result of this Helen Keller was the first deaf blind person to ear...
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    14,24 €

  • Parables of the Cross
    I. Lilias Trotter / ILilias Trotter
    Isabella Lilias Trotter was an artist and a Christian missionary for over 38 years to the Muslims of Algeria. After serving God in England for a time with the YWCA, she went with her own funding to Algeria to serve God there. In 1888 she founded the Algiers Mission Band. In 1964 the Algiers Mission Band became incorporated into Arab World Ministries. ...
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    14,28 €

  • Flower Fables
    Louisa May Alcott
    Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women. In the mid-1860s, Alcott wrote passionate, fiery novels and sensational stories. She also produced wholesome stories for children, and after their positive reception, she did not generally return to creating works for adults. Alcott continued to write until her death. ...
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    17,94 €

  • King John
    William Shakespeare
    War and Betrayal--France threatens war with England unless King John renounces his claim to the throne in favor of his nephew Arthur. John refuses and war ensues. John is excommunicated by the Pope, and his nephew Arthur dies under mysterious circumstances. Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail,And say there is no sin, but to be rich;And being rich, my virtue then shall be,To...
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    20,51 €

  • Cyrano de Bergerac
    Edmond Rostand
    Hercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French dramatist and duelist. He is now best remembered for the works of fiction which have been woven, often very loosely, around his life story, most notably the 1897 play by Edmond Rostand. In these fictional works he is featured with an overly large nose, which people would travel from miles around to see. Portraits suggest that ...
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    28,14 €

  • Traveling to a New America
    James Hilgendorf
    Author, speaker, poet, and filmmaker James Hilgendorf draws upon his own books, poems, blogs, and articles, to create a pastiche of a new America - one that even now, amid all the division, anger, and loss of hope we are experiencing in our country, is struggling to be born.A song of immense new beginnings, of a deep seismic shift in the way we view our own individual identity ...
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    13,54 €

  • Лекции по Первому посланию к Коринфянам I
    Jaerock Lee
    Люди, живущие в современном мире, иногда чувствуют себя в замешательстве, они конфликтуют сами с собой, потому что растеряли свои ценности. И это относится не только к неверующим. Бывает, что и верующие сталкиваются с разного рода проблемами. Проблемными сторонами их жизни могут стать ссоры, споры, судебные тяжбы, браки, разводы. Враг, дьявол и сатана, постоянно искушает верующ...
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    12,59 €

  • Walking On Air
    Jethro Shaw
    The true story of a midwestern boy who grew up during the Great Depression. Jethro Shaw overcame extreme physical infirmities, as a young child. The story of his life as an airman, and all of his endeavors. In his own words, Jethro tells of how he succeeded and prospered against the odds. ...
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    31,56 €

  • The Real Jesus And Other Sermons
    James Allan Francis
    WHAT would the thoughtful and reverent Christian of today not give for a sure enough close-up look at Christ Jesus as he walked among men? This is not finding fault with the Gospels but with the mass of tradition, church dogma, and what not, that has accumulated since that first century and in the mind of the church obscures the Real Jesus.Yet we know that the only way to make ...
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    14,39 €

  • Good Health and Long life
    Rich Kanyali
    Good Health & Long Life—Another Perspective is written to give a different perspective on Health and Long life. Many times the only focus on health is what we do physically such as what we eat, how we exercise and so forth. However, there is a very much untapped side of health which is even more important than even the physical. In this book, I explore this side and how we can ...
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    5,37 €

  • A Love That Will Last
    Richard Howell
    Richard (Dick) Howell was born into a long line of Gloucestershire farming families. His early childhood coincided with the Second World War, and left him with many lasting memories. Although he opted for an office career himself, his roots go deep, and his heart has always been in the beauty of the countryside. Having shared his schooldays with a Byron, a Keats and a Browning ...
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    10,08 €

  • The Arrows That Choose Us
    Marilyn Annucci
    In The Arrows That Choose Us, Marilyn Annucci's poems of quiet observation startle with their precision: a curmudgeonly crow trapped in a yard “opens his wing like a set of black cards”; the knife at the bottom of a dishpan is “a mute battleship gone down on its side”; Houdini is “holding his breath at the bottom of your bathtub.” Metaphysical in scope, this collection offe...
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    16,54 €

  • 하나님의 법도
    Jaerock Lee
    하나님 앞에 가까이 이를 수 있는 길하나니께 응답받을 수 있는 길하나님과 함께하는 길하나님을 만나는 길이 바로 여기에 있습니다. 지금으로부터 4천여 년 전, 하나님께서는 아브라함을 믿음의 조상으로 세우고 복을 주어 그 후손으로 하여금 하늘의 뭇별과 바닷가의 모래와 같이 창대하게 하리라는 언약의 말씀을 주셨습니다.때가 이르자 신실하신 하나님께서는 아브라함의 손자 야곱의 열두 아들을 통해 이스라엘 민족을 형성하셨지요. 야곱과 그의 아들들은 하나님의 계획 속에 흉년을 피해 애굽으로 이주한 후 400년 동안 애굽에 살았는데, 이는 큰 민족을 이루기까지 다른 이방 민족의 침략으로부터 지켜 주기 위한 하나님의 사랑이었습니다.애굽으로 이주할 때에 70명에 불과했던 야곱의 가족이 하나의...
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    14,04 €

  • Mississippi Goddamn
    Jonathan Norton
       “Some shows have warnings for strobe lights. Some have them for loud gunshots.  Some for smoke.   MISSISSIPPI GODDAMN, a new play by Jonathan Norton should have one for intensity.   Granted, anyone attending a play about civil rights pioneer Medgar Evers set in 1963 Jackson, Mississippi, should expect some strife. Blood in the battle for racial equality is no surprise, but f...
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    17,87 €

  • The Lady From Maxim’s
    Georges Feydeau / Laurence Senelick
       “It seems to me that for fertility in droll inventions, the perpetual outpouring of unforeseen misunderstandings, for the inexhaustible gaiety of dialogue, Feydeau’s new play is superior to everything he’s written so far. The most astonishing thing is the sureness with which everything is controlled, explained, justified, in the most extravagant buffoonery. The cross-purpose...
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    21,85 €

  • Fit For A Queen
    Betty Shamieh
       “Plenty of glamorous backstabbing, diva dissing and sexual double-crossing…has every right to claim the name Dynasty for itself.  But the title character in Betty Shamieh’s bouncy, bumpy comic melodrama is the real thing. A queen, I mean, and not just of the self-dramatizing type. Scratch that. She’s more than a queen. She’s a pharaoh, one Hatshepsut, who reigned over Egypt ...
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    17,30 €

  • Who’s Holiday!
    Matthew Lombardo
       “A raunchy riff on Dr Seuss’s yuletide tale… The little tyke has become a bottle-blonde adult who spends her days in a trailer appointed with Airstream functionality and seasonal kitsch…brassy, very funny…a holiday offering that dirties up Christmas while ultimately reveling in its spirit.” Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times   “This irreverent, adults-only sequel…dares to...
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    18,16 €

  • Extraordinary Leadership
    Cher Holton
    This transformational leadership book, grounded in state-of-the-art research and proven by real-life application in the trenches, moves beyond traditional leadership theories to introduce you to seven incredible Core Abilities and shows you how to connect with them to become an Extraordinary Leader who can bring out the very best in your people.All the techniques in the world w...
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    23,85 €

  • CUM FOR ME 2
    Ca$h
    Crawl in bed, take off your clothes, and let us take you on a stimulating, sexual ride of a lifetime. CUM FOR ME volume 2: NASTY AS CAN BE is an urban erotica compilation that will leave you hot, wet and dripping. Every page will stroke you tenderly. Each story will heightened your desire more and more until your hands go into a frenzy and your heartbeat increases to it's m...
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    11,94 €

  • CONSUMPTION PATTERNS OF THE MIDDLE CLASS IN CONTEMPORARY CHN
    DI ZHU
    This book, set against the background of accounts of globalisation, aims to figure out the consumer orientation of the middle class in contemporary China, in particular how the new elements in consumer orientation operate in the Chinese context. It focuses on the contemporary middle class. Data used in the book are taken from national representative surveys conducted in the rec...
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    133,74 €

  • Nebo I
    Jaerock Lee
    'Nebo je miesto, kde sa Božie deti tešia večnému životu, a kde sú pre ne pripravené nepredstaviteľne krásne a obdivuhodné veci. Podrobne o tom viete len vtedy, keď vám to Boh dovolí a zjaví vám to.'Aspoň raz v živote si pravdepodobne položíte nasledujúce otázky: „Čo ma čaká po živote na tomto svete?“ alebo „Naozaj existuje nebo a peklo?“Mnoho ľudí zomrie ešte predtým, než nájdu...
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    11,17 €

  • The Write Way to Grieve
    Terri Johnson
    The death of a child is one of the deepest traumas known. When a child commits suicide, the trauma strikes deeper because of the guilt, social stigma and unanswered questions associated with suicide. How did everyone miss the signs of this child’s emotional turmoil? Why did this happen?There is no right way to grieve the death of a loved one.The Write Way to Grieve tells the st...
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    12,78 €

  • According to the Scriptures
    David Allen
    “If all you know is the New Testament, you do not know the New Testament” - so the late New Testament scholar Martin Hengel is reputed to have said. According to the Scriptures considers the way in the New Testament writers utilized the Jewish Scriptures in order to describe, articulate and evaluate the death of Jesus, takes Hengel at his word. What Old Testament texts are quot...
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    47,47 €


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