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  • Problem
    Alan E. Nourse / Alan ENourse
    He was just dozing off when the fat lady up the aisle let out a scream. A huge reptilian head had materialized out of nowhere and was hanging in air, peering about uncertainly. A scaly green body followed, four feet away, complete with long razor talons, heavy hind legs, and a whiplash tail with a needle at the end. For a moment the creature floated upside down, legs thrashing....
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    14,28 €

  • Coming Attraction
    Fritz Leiber
    Wysten Turner is a Brit visiting America after it’s great war with Russia. He meats a woman with a tail of woe in the streets of New York. Her boyfriend is a professional wrestler who beats her. She begs Turner to help her escape him, but is the situation as straight forward as it seems? ...
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    14,28 €

  • Four Arthurian Romances -Eric Et Enide-
    Chretien Detroys
    Erec et Enide features many of the common elements of Arthurian romance, such as Arthurian characters, the knightly quest, and women or love as a catalyst to action. While it is not the first story to use conventions of the Arthurian characters and setting, Chrétien de Troyes is credited with the invention of the Arthurian romance genre by establishing expectation with his cont...
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    17,94 €

  • Mutual Aid a Factor of Evolution
    Kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
    Written partly in response to Social Darwinism and in particular to Thomas H. Huxley’s Nineteenth Century essay, 'The Struggle for Existence', Kropotkin’s book drew on his experiences in scientific expeditions in Siberia to illustrate the phenomenon of cooperation. After examining the evidence of cooperation in nonhuman animals, pre-feudal societies, in medieval cities, and in ...
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    28,01 €

  • Four Arthurian Romances -Yvain-
    Chretien Detroys
    In the poem, Yvain seeks to avenge his cousin Calogrenant who had been defeated by an otherworldly knight Esclados beside a magical storm-making stone in the forest of Brocéliande. Yvain defeats Esclados and falls in love with his widow Laudine. ...
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    17,93 €

  • Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann
    Walter Lippmann
    Public Opinion exposes how media can shape public perception and how that perception changes society. Walter Lippmann is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner and visionary. ...
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    36,95 €

  • A Study in Scarlet
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    Doyle, unsuccessful in his medical practice, in need of money and a more satisfying career, had already sold a number of magazine stories when he wrote the novella, 'A Study in Scarlet,' the first Sherlock Holmes story, which, after many rejections, was published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual for 1887. Doyle got twenty-five pounds for all rights to the story. He never received a...
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    17,85 €

  • Indian Boyhood
    Charles A. Eastman / Charles AEastman
    The Memoirs of an Indian boyhood, is and autobiography by Charles Eastman. Eastman was a Native American physician, writer, national lecturer, and reformer. He was of Santee Sioux and Anglo-American ancestry. Active in politics and issues on American Indian rights, he worked to improve the lives of youths, and founded 32 Native American chapters of the Young Men’s Christian Ass...
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    20,37 €

  • First Lessons in Beekeeping
    C. P. Dadant / CPDadant
    A great book for anyone who is interested in beekeeping. This easy to understand book with hundreds of illustrations walks you through everything you need to know about beekeeping. Simply one of the best books ever written on the subjects. A facsimile edition. ...
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    27,99 €

  • Little Women
    Louisa May Alcott
    The novel follows the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March - and is loosely based on the author’s childhood experiences with her three sisters. At sixteen, Meg is the oldest sister. She is considered the beauty of the March household, and is well-mannered. Jo starts out as a tomboyish, hot-tempered, fifteen-year-old girl. Beth is even-tempered and has always bee...
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    36,12 €

  • Genji Monogatari
    Lady Murasaki Shikibu
    The Tale of Genji Monogatari is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, around the peak of the Heian Period. It is sometimes called the world’s first novel, the first modern novel. ...
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    36,96 €

  • Manifesto of the Communist Party
    Karl Marx
    The Communist Manifesto was first published on February 21, and it is one of the world’s most influential political tracts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it laid out the League’s purposes and program. The Manifesto suggested a course of action for a proletarian (working class) revolution to overthrow the ...
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    14,22 €

  • Otto of the Silver Hand
    Howard Pyle
    Born into a family that is already engaged in a blood feud with another noble house, Otto is sent to live with monks, but is reclaimed at age 12 by his militant, but loving father. The gentle-natured boy is kidnapped and mutilated by the rival family. Pauline, his captors daughter helps him escape. His father allows him to return to the monks who place him under the emperor’s ...
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    17,98 €

  • Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them
    Rolfe Cobleigh
    A wonderful book for anyone interested in starting their own homestead or small farm. This book will show you how to be self reliant and build the things you’ll need. There are more than 200 illustrations showing you how to make handy farm devices. You’ll learn about the farmer’s workshop and tools, running a grindstone, making a dumb waiter, making a cradle, how to clean a wel...
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    27,90 €

  • Notes from the Underground
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Notes from Underground is a study of a single character, and a revelation of Dostoyevsky’s own deepest beliefs. In this work we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who, disillusioned by the oppression and corruption of the society in which he lives withdraws from that society into the underground. Considered by many to be the first existentialist novel, Notes from the Und...
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    20,46 €

  • John H. Haaren’s Complete Famous Men Series
    John H. Haaren / John HHaaren
    Collected here in one omnibus edition are all of four of John H. Haaren’s Famous Men Series, Included are Famous Men of Greece, Famous Men of Rome, Famous Men of the Middle Ages, and Famous Men of Modern Times. These four books will entertain and enlighten your children. They will learn about Aristotle, Ptolemy, Ulysses, Pericles, Alexander the Great, Horatius, Camillus, Caesar...
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    36,15 €

  • Practical Mysticism
    Evelyn Underhill
    Underhill was a leading authority on modern mysticism. Written just before World War 1, Practical Mysticism reviews the works of the greatest Western mystics, including Teresa of Avila, Julian of Norwich, and Thomas à Kempis. Underhill brings esoteric subjects onto a practical footing, showing that the profound gifts of mysticism are not only for the few but are within reach of...
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    20,51 €

  • Stories of King Arthur’s Knights Told to the Children by Mary MacGregor
    Mary MacGregor
    More than five hundred years ago there lived a diligent man called Sir Thomas Malory, who wrote in English words many of the beautiful Welsh tales about King Arthur’s Knights, that the people of Wales loved so well. All the stories in this little book were found in Malory’s big book, except ’Geraint and Enid.’ But it, too, is one of the old Welsh tales that tell of the brave kn...
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    20,64 €

  • Second Sight
    Alan E. Nourse / Alan ENourse
    (Note: The following excerpts from Amy Ballantine’s journal have never actually been written down at any time before. Her account of impressions and events has been kept in organized fashion in her mind for at least nine years (even she is not certain when she started), but it must be understood that certain inaccuracies in transcription could not possibly have been avoided in ...
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    14,28 €

  • The Reluctant Dragon (Illustrated Edition)
    Kenneth Grahame
    In this delightful tale an unnamed boy discovers that there is a dragon living in the downs above his house. But this is no ordinary dragon, this is an erudite, poetry-loving dragon. The boy and the dragon become friends in short order. Unfortunately, the villagers also discover that there is a dragon living in the downs and they send for the great dragon slayer St. George. The...
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    20,70 €

  • The Wind People
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    Sometimes she had walked for days at a time in that dream; she would wake to find food that she could not remember gathering. Somehow, pervasive, the dream voices had taken over; the whispering winds had been full of voices and even hands. She had fallen ill and lain for days sick and delirious, and had heard a voice which hardly seemed to be her own, saying that if she died th...
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    13,89 €

  • The Sentimentalists
    Murray Leinster
    You do not always have to go looking for a guardian angel. He may be looking for you-but perhaps for somebody else’s benefit!Rhadampsicus and Nodalictha were on their honeymoon, and consequently they were sentimental. To be sure, it would not have been easy for humans to imagine sentiment as existing between them ...
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    14,19 €

  • The Marvellous History of King Arthur in Avalon
    Geoffrey Junior
    THE writer considereth the truth of the matters which are recorded in the Historie of King Arthur concerning the site of the Island of Avalon and the family of Queen Morgan la Faye. He telleth how Morgan la Faye carried away King Arthur and his Round Table into Avalon; and how she made them pass the time there for many hundreds of years; how she put King Arthur to sleep; of the...
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    18,03 €

  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
    Jessie Weston
    Brave, chivalrous, loyally faithful to his plighted word, scrupulously heedful of his own and others’ honour, Gawain stands before us in this poem. We take up Malory or Tennyson, and in spite of their charm of style, in spite of the halo of religious mysticism in which they have striven to enwrap their characters, we lay them down with a feeling of dissatisfaction. ...
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    18,10 €

  • The Wild One
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    This is a story that they tell on the solitary farms on the borders of the Catskill mountains, where I grew up. It is a mistake to think that country is settled and modern, just because the big highways stretch from city to city, and the factories hold out clean jobs that pay better than the scratch-the-soil farming on shale rock. For between every farm is a stretch of woodland...
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    13,90 €

  • The Planet Savers
    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    In The Planet Savers Marion Zimmer Bradley introduced the world to her amazing Darkover series. A disease threatens all of Darkover and the only man that can save Darkover has a multiple personality disorder. He is two distinct men. But two men who hate one another and vie for possession of their one body. But to save Darkover they must work together. ...
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    17,99 €

  • Star Surgeon
    Alan E. Nourse / Alan ENourse
    A Sector General Novel In the far future Humans are part of an intergalactic civilization populated with countless alien races. Humans are prized for their medical expertise and make up almost all of doctors in the galaxy. Dal Timgar is the first non-human to attempt to become a qualified physician recognized by the Hospital Earth. But, before he reaches his goal he and his com...
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    17,73 €

  • Bear Trap
    Alan E. Nourse / Alan ENourse
    The Secretary of State has died and Tom Shandor discovers that the Secretary requested that he put together his official biography for national consumption. Shandor has no idea why he’s been chosen for the project nor the shocking secrets he’ll find once he starts the project. There’s more riding on the choices he will make than he could possible imagined. ...
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    14,19 €

  • Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
    Albert Pike
    Morals and Dogma is a collection of thirty-two essays which provide a philosophical rationale for the degrees (membership levels) of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. The lectures provided a backdrop for the degrees by giving lessons in comparative religion, history, and philosophy.' ...
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    41,31 €

  • His Last Bow
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    The most significant thing about Doyle’s London was that it was inhabited by Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, who seem more real to us than most historical figures. They’ve managed to convince any number of people of their reality. Presumably the British post office no longer receives letters address to Sherlock Holmes from all over the world, but once upon a time, it receive...
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    28,07 €


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