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  • Cugetari (Reflections) 2022
    Vavila Popovici
    Orice cugetare poate fi un câștig intelectual și moral. Sau, măcar un exercițiu al minții.Este al nouălea volum (bilingv) de Cugetări. În ordinea aparițiilor: Gânduri (2009); Fulgurații (2012); Cugetări/Reflections (2016); Cugetări/Reflections (2017); Cugetări/Reflections (2018); Cugetări/Reflections (2019); Cugetări/Reflections (2020); Cugetări/Reflections (2021); Cugetări/Ref...
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    10,14 €

  • Book Collecting
    John Herbert Slater
    NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERSBook Collecting: A Guide For AmateursThis 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 & Reformatti...
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    10,60 €

  • Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs And Book Clubs
    Henry Howard Harper
    NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERSBook-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs And Book ClubsThis 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 & Reform...
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    7,71 €

  • The Book
    Cyril Davenport
    NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERSThe Book: Its History And DevelopmentThis 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 & Reformatti...
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    13,22 €

  • Aging with a Plan
    Sharona Hoffman
    This book is a concise, comprehensive resource for readers facing the prospects of their own aging and of caring for elderly relatives―an often overwhelming task for which life rarely prepares us. It covers legal, financial, social, medical, and other aging challenges, offering abundant practical advice intertwined with engaging personal anecdotes. ...
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    33,48 €

  • The Ballad of Reading Gaol
    Oscar Wilde
    The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency with other men in 1895 and sentenced to two years’ hard labour in prison.During his imprisonment, on Tuesday, 7 July 1896, a hanging took place. Charles Tho...
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    14,06 €

  • Thoughts I Met on the Highway
    Ralph Waldo Trine
    Thoughts I Met on the Highway is a New Thought philosophy/self-help classic by Ralph Waldo Trine that provides words of cheer and encouragement for those with a heavy heart. The book provides the inspirational thought of Trine himself as well as empowering words from great 19th century writers such as Robert Browning, Edwin Markham, Emily Dickinson, and others. ...
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    13,37 €

  • TW Index Volume 3
    Jan Young
    TW Index is a complete and detailed index of everything that has appeared in the SDC Turning Wheels magazine since its inception in 1972. Of greatest importance are the advice items that are indexed by subject (engines, brakes, steering, etc.) including all individual letters that appear in the Co-Operator column. Historical items are also indexed by subject as well as by the...
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    24,16 €

  • i love you
    juliet h
    'I love you' is a novel directed towards those who are struggling with self-love, suicidal thoughts, etc. This book can be read by anyone of course, but I got the inspiration to write it because of two of my best friends who are struggling with these serious issues. I would hate to lose them and I would hate to know that someone else in the world took their life because they fe...
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    11,23 €

  • A Critic in Pall Mall
    Oscar Wilde
    A Critic in Pall Mall is an Oscar Wilde literary criticism text that examines the works of English literary giants. The text includes these literary studies:The tomb of Keats -- Keats’s Sonnet on blue -- Dinners and dishes -- Shakespeare on scenery -- ’Henry the Fourth’ at Oxford -- A handbook to marriage -- To read or not to read -- The letters of a great woman -- Béranger in ...
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    16,41 €

  • Tolstoy on Shakespeare
    Leo Tolstoy
    Tolstoy on Shakespeare excerpt: I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a powerful esthetic pleasure, but having read, one after the other, works regarded as his best: 'King Lear,' 'Romeo and Juliet,' 'Hamlet' and 'Macbeth,' not only did I feel no delight, but I felt an irresistible repulsion and tedium, and doubted as to whether ...
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    14,31 €

  • Euthydemus
    Plato
    Euthydemus written c. 384 BC, is a dialogue by Plato which satirizes what Plato presents as the logical fallacies of the Sophists. In it, Socrates describes to his friend Crito a visit he and various youths paid to two brothers, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, both of whom were prominent Sophists and pankrationists from Chios and Thurii.The Euthydemus contrasts Socratic argumentat...
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    14,00 €

  • Culture and Anarchy
    Matthew Arnold
    Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869. The preface was added in 1869.Arnold’s famous piece of writing on culture established his High Victorian cultural agenda which remained dominant in debate from the 1860s until the 1950s....
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    16,56 €

  • The Dhammapada
    Max Mueller
    The Dhammapada is a collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form and one of the most widely read and best known Buddhist scriptures. The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka Nikaya, a division of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism.The Buddhist scholar and commentator Buddhaghosa explains that each saying recorded in the collection was made on a different...
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    13,62 €

  • The Mind of the Artist
    Various Authors
    The Mind of the Artist is a book of quates from some of the greatest artist in human history and it reveals the thoughts and philosophies of these great men of art. The book contains this passage: 'It is always interesting and profitable to get the views of workmen on their work, and on the principles which guide them in it; and in bringing together these sayings of artists Mrs...
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    14,46 €

  • Renaissance
    Brianne Ste Marie Lacroix
    In Brianne Ste Marie Lacroix’s debut poetry collection, Renaissance, she takes you on a journey of the reclamation of her life’s narrative. She warmly and honestly takes you through her past, present, and future through lenses of introspection, truth, beauty, freedom, and love.Embracing the power she was able to cultivate through vulnerability within herself, she found her voic...
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    24,99 €

  • Tolstoy on Shakespeare
    Leo Tolstoy
    Tolstoy on Shakespeare is literary criticism book by Leo Tolstoy that has this passage by Tolstoy: 'I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a powerful esthetic pleasure, but having read, one after the other, works regarded as his best: 'King Lear,''Romeo and Juliet,''Hamlet' and 'Macbeth,' not only did I feel no delight, but I fel...
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    15,58 €

  • Timaeus
    Plato
    Timaeus is one of Plato’s dialogues, mostly in the form of a long monologue given by the title character Timaeus of Locri, written c. 360 BC. The work puts forward speculation on the nature of the physical world and human beings and is followed by the dialogue Critias.Participants in the dialogue include Socrates, Timaeus, Hermocrates, and Critias. Some scholars believe that it...
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    17,69 €

  • The Portraits, Prints and Writings of John Milton
    George Charles Williamson
    John Milton: intellectual, civil servant and one of the greatest poets of his time, was a prolific writer. Although talented and renowned, much of his famous works, such as Paradise Lost, and Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint, (a sonnet about his deceased second wife Katherine Woodcock), was written during his blindness. Milton made significant contributions to art and pol...
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    12,85 €

  • Bridge Builder Motivational Journal
    David 'Dae-Lee' Arrington / David Dae-Lee Arrington
    If you’re a leader seeking to grow in your capacity to authentically and effectively lead diverse teams, this weekly motivational quote journal is for you. 40 Under 40 Business Journal leader, and author David 'Dae-Lee' Arrington shares quick quotes, inspired by his 'corner to the cul-de-sac' journey, challenging corporate and community leaders to move beyond their silo’s, expa...
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    33,42 €

  • Bridge Builder Motivational Journal
    David 'Dae-Lee' Arrington / David Dae-Lee Arrington
    If you’re a leader seeking to grow in your capacity to authentically and effectively lead diverse teams, this weekly motivational quote journal is for you. 40 Under 40 Business Journal leader, and author David 'Dae-Lee' Arrington shares quick quotes, inspired by his 'corner to the cul-de-sac' journey, challenging corporate and community leaders to move beyond their silo’s, expa...
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    55,32 €

  • Symposium
    Plato
    The Symposium is a philosophical text by Plato dated c. 385-370 BC. It depicts a friendly contest of extemporaneous speeches given by a group of notable men attending a banquet. The men include the philosopher Socrates, the general and political figure Alcibiades, and the comic playwright Aristophanes. The speeches are to be given in praise of Eros, the god of love and desire.I...
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    12,91 €

  • Wise Quotations For Your Journey
    Tadhg McCarthy
    Wise quotations can be defined as a group of words from an original author showing experience, knowledge and good judgement. Included in this book are 60 different areas of life that affect us all and as Isaac Disraeli said, 'The Wisdom of the Wise, and the experience of the ages, may be preserved by Quotations'. A good book should inform, educate and entertain and the quotatio...
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    27,85 €

  • Wise Quotations For Your Journey
    Tadhg McCarthy
    Wise quotations can be defined as a group of words from an original author showing experience, knowledge and good judgement. Included in this book are 60 different areas of life that affect us all and as Isaac Disraeli said, 'The Wisdom of the Wise, and the experience of the ages, may be preserved by Quotations'. A good book should inform, educate and entertain and the quotatio...
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    17,45 €

  • Index to the Lahaina News (1979-2003), the Lahaina Sun (1970-1973), and the Lahaina Times (1980-1983, limited issues)
    Index to the Lahaina News (1979-2003), the Lahaina Sun (1970-1973), and the Lahaina Times (1980-1983, limited issues) ...
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    50,48 €

  • Book of L vol.ii
    D’Moon Team
    Legacy of Latin Fiat Lux 'Let there be Light', like lightning, inspiring minds from ancient Rome to digital age, at this moment sheds light onto this Book of L.'L', a magic ring, holds key words about Life. Book of L sees L in Quotation, L in Latin Motto, and L in Poem, heritage to all.Latin: 'Lumen Ad Viam'.Buddha: 'Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the...
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    20,91 €

  • Midnight Thoughts
    Aisha Siddique
    ’Midnight Thoughts’, a brand new collection of poetry brings a fresh perspective on the issues young adults can relate to: love, sadness and wishes. All deemed too reckless for them to be able to understand in this tender age by the eyes of society. Take a moment to enjoy this poetry collection, bringing you to a world full of realities. ...
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    13,54 €

  • Hosted Horror on Television
    Bruce Markusen
    In October 1957, Screen Gems made numerous horror movies available to local television stations around the country as part of a package of films called Shock Theater. These movies became a huge sensation with TV viewers, as did the horror hosts who introduced the films and offered insight--often humorous--into the plots, the actors, and the directors. This history of hosted ...
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    58,64 €

  • The Best Bible?
    Matthew J. Barron / Matthew JBarron
    Whether you’re looking for a Bible that you can trust or you’re merely curious as to what makes each version unique, The Best Bible? will orient you with insights into the translation process and the kinds of decisions that Bible translators and editors make. It briefly surveys the rich (and treacherous) tradition of English Bible translation done by those who labored under off...
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    34,05 €

  • Collected Thoughts
    Peter Marx
    Reader, you have here an honest book; it does at the outset forewarn you that, in contriving the same, I have proposed to myself no other than a domestic and private end: I have had no consideration at all either to your service or to my glory. My powers are not capable of any such design. I have dedicated it to the particular commodity of my family and friends, so that, having...
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    18,44 €