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  • Take a Stand, Art Against Hate
    Take a Stand: Art Against Hate, A Raven Chronicles Anthology, edited by Seattle-based writers Anna Balint, Phoebe Bosche, and Thomas Hubbard, contains poems, stories and images from 117 writers, 53 artists, 69 illustrations, divided into five fluid and intersecting sections: Legacies, We Are Here, Why?, Evidence, and Resistance. We begin with Legacies because the current increa...
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    19,74 €

  • The Strenuous Life
    Theodore Roosevelt
    First published in 1900, “The Strenuous Life” is a collection of essays and speeches by American President Theodore Roosevelt.  The title comes from his famous 1899 speech, also called “The Strenuous Life”, which is included in this collection. In this well-known address, Roosevelt argues that the application of great effort in all our work and the striving to overcome hardship...
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    9,97 €

  • Digest
    Quintus Curtius
    This comprehensive collection includes all of Quintus Curtius's important essays from 2016 to January 2020.  'No branch of knowledge,' as the author says, 'is tangential to the curve of wisdom.'  The range of topics is diverse, and includes history, moral and ethical philosophy, travel and exploration, language, and the wisdom of the Near East.  The essays are grouped into ...
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    41,88 €

  • Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio
    Zygmunt G. Barański / Zygmunt GBaranski
    Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, the three crowns of Italian literature, dealt with literature, doctrine, and reality in distinct, yet also overlapping, ways. In this major collection of nineteen essays, Barański explores how they endeavoured to create and establish their authority and identity as writers, while developing new ideas about literature and its status in the world, ...
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    130,85 €

  • Consider the Oyster
    Blanche Brown
    In 1941, MFK Fisher published Consider the Oyster; O, how the world and its ecology have changed since then! Blanche Brown continues the celebration of the tasty bivalve within the context of a bulldozing, dam-building, oil-spilling world. The poem researches the animal through etymology, history, the news, and personal anecdote. But best of all we come to know it by feeling it...
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    10,28 €

  • On the Arts
    Naomi Beth Wakan
    With a strong creative streak and a passion for learning and writing, Naomi Beth Wakan has dabbled in many different art forms during her eighty-eight years. Her activities have led her to see art as the awareness of sensory action and reaction in the everyday. In other words, opportunities for making art are everywhere, and the possibilities for expressing oneself as an artist...
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    14,25 €

  • Don’t Call Me Princess
    Peggy Orenstein
    The New York Times bestselling author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter delivers her first ever collection of essays--funny, poignant, deeply personal and sharply observed pieces, drawn from three decades of writing, which trace girls’ and women’s progress (or lack thereof) in what Orenstein once called a 'half-changed world.' Named one of the '40 women who changed ...
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    18,69 €

  • Anarchism And Other Essays
    EMMA GOLDMAN
    Anarchism And Other Essays: With Biographic Sketch By Hippolyte HavelThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via profe...
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    11,48 €

  • Musings To Be Told
    Shruti Gautam
    Perception of feelings from my perspective, exploring the reality of life as a teenager eager to be an adult! Trying to reach out to the world through my poems, quotes and letters! Writing out to people who have yearned to have someone to understand what their heart has gone through. ...
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    11,56 €

  • Harald’s Garland
    Harald Lutz Bruckner
    Rise and Fall of the Hahnenkamms: "I'll be damned! A bigamist to boot!" was all Apfelbaum could say as he struck his desk with his right fist. Sattler suffered momentary Maulsperre [lockjaw]. Recovering from the initial shock, he smiled at Amalia Dorothea and got out of his chair. He extended his right hand . . .The Betrayal: Yes, she had been betrayed and robbed, but the t...
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    20,84 €

  • The Donkey Elegies
    Nickole Brown
    An essay in poems, The Donkey Elegies closely examines an animal’s history, tracing how one species hauled the stones that built our civilizations, plowed the fields that fed generations, and carted soldiers and weapons from war to war. The poems undo the brunt end of every lewd joke and unearth the sacred origins of a creature we rarely consider except as melancholy cartoon or...
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    11,76 €

  • Your Song Changed My Life
    Bob Boilen
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    14,54 €

  • How Did I Get Here?
    Jesse Browner
    A literary exploration that asks seeks to answer the question: Have I lived the life I intended?Jesse Browner, a novelist with a full-time job at the United Nations, has written a book reminiscent of the Talking Heads classic song 'Once in a Lifetime.' Based on an essay he wrote for Poets and Writers Magazine, Browner asks hard questions about life choices, about the tendency t...
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    16,39 €

  • Other Serious, The
    Christy Wampole
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    15,59 €

  • Paper Trails
    Pete Dexter
    In the 1970s and ’80s, before he earned national acclaim for his award-winning novels, Pete Dexter was a newspaper columnist. Every week, in a few hundred words, Dexter cut directly to the heart of the American character at a time of national turmoil and crucial change. With haunting urgency, his columns laid bare the violence, hypocrisy, and desperation he saw on the streets o...
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    15,26 €

  • Seek
    Denis Johnson
    'Johnson writes with a fervor that can only be described as religious. Seek is scary and beautiful and ecstatic and uncontrolled...he elevates the mundane to the sublime; he boils things down to their essence. He’s simply one of the few writers around whose sentences make you shudder.' --Adrienne Miller, EsquirePart political disquisition, part travel journal, part self-explora...
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    16,50 €

  • Testaments Betrayed
    Milan Kundera
    The author of the modern classic novel 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' (more than 700,000 copies sold), and one of the masters of twentieth-century fiction, composes a brilliant essay that celebrates the art of the novel -- ...
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    16,39 €

  • Listening Below the Noise
    Anne D LeClaire / Anne D. LeClaire
    'Listening Below the Noise offers readers the possibility of finding grace and peace in the natural world and in ourselves. Elegant and honest... one of those rare books that finds its way into our hearts, and stays there.' -- Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle A meditation on silence, the art of being present, and simple spirituality from critically acclaimed novelist Ann...
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    16,50 €

  • Roaring Stream
    Nelson Foster
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    18,69 €

  • What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker
    Damon Young
    A Finalist for the NAACP Image AwardLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayAn NPR Best Book of the YearA Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite of the YearFrom the cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com, and one of the most read writers on race and culture at work today, a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the absur...
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    15,33 €

  • Notes, Themes, Things And Other Things
    Ndaba Sibanda
    President Ramaphosa stated, “Land is a very broad, as well as a complex issue, and it has to be handled very delicately because around land there is quite a lot of emotion”.This is an incisive, relevant book which tackles recent, and sometimes explosive issues like the land reform and expropriation in South Africa and the outbreaks of xenophobia in same country.The essays also ...
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    17,25 €

  • Able Muse, Winter 2019 (No. 27 - print edition)
    This is the annual Able Muse Review (Print Edition) - Winter 2019 issue, Number 27. This issue continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with the Able Muse-online and in print. After more than a decade of online publishing excellence, Able Muse print edition maintains the superlative s...
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    19,02 €

  • RidgeLines
    Jamie K Reaser
    RidgeLines is an exploration of nature and human nature. It is celebration, wonderment, reflection, and deep inquiry. The stories, though in the author’s unique voice and arising of a particular place, readily become our own, traveling time and distance. This book is an opportunity to witness and be witnessed. It is an invitation for connection, conversation, and belonging. ...
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    13,96 €

  • Negotiating Waters
    This book examines how seas, oceans, and passageways have shaped and reshaped cultural identities, spurred stories of reunion and separation, and redefined entire nations. It explores how entire communities have crossed seas and oceans, voluntarily or not, to settle in foreign lands and undergone identity, cultural and literary transformations. It also explores how these crossi...
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    69,13 €

  • The Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays
    Andrew Carnegie
    Renowned steel magnate and philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie, immigrated to America from Scotland as a boy in 1848, and at the age of thirteen began his first job as a bobbin boy, earning $1.20 a week. By the 1870s, the successful entrepreneur had founded the Carnegie Steel Company, later U.S. Steel, which would eventually establish Carnegie as the second wealthiest man in histor...
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    9,90 €

  • Ex-Centric Souths
    Autores Varios
    'Ex-Centric Souths: (Re)Imagining Southern Centers and Peripheries' adds a voice in ongoing attempts to chart new routes and to decenter the South in many ways in the hope of exploring Southern identity and multiple Souths. The articles collected in this volume bring to the forefront the translocal and transnational connections and relationships between the South and the circum...
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    15,00 €

  • Knowing By Heart
    Lee Whitney
    Knowing By Heart is a loving tribute to family life on a small farm. In the mid-1970s, the author and his family made a momentous decision; they turned their summer residence in the province of New Brunswick into a fully developed homestead way of life. At the time of this decision, Lee Whitney was a professor of medieval literature and history at the University of Toronto. The...
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    20,18 €

  • Teacher Voice
    Teacher Voice is an anthology of ficiton, essays, and poetry from thirteen talented writers who are also teachers working across the spectrum of education, from preschool on up to college. 3 ...
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    9,53 €

  • MUSEPAPER
    Alexis Williams Carr
    MUSEPAPER, VOLUME IPrize-Winning Poems, Stories, and Essays of 1,000 words or less.5 Prize-Winning Poems7 Prize-Winning Stories12 Prize-Winning Essays — This collection is brilliant, funny, and deep, each work a beautiful little masterpiece. — Laura Maynard ApplesJonathan Segol Taking Our TimeM.K. Sturdevant Ice LessonsMichele Flynn From the GardenLaura Rose Folie Á DeuxMolly S...
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    19,32 €

  • Goose River Anthology, 2019
    Deborah J Benner
    The seventeenth annual Goose River Anthology, 2019  is a fine collection of the best poetry, fiction, and essays submitted to us from all parts of the United States.  There are over  50  talented authors represented in this volume.   Many are seasoned writers while some are being published for the first time. Don’t miss your chance to experience this rare treasure.Deborah Benne...
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    41,70 €


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