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  • Under the Sign of the Samovar
    Marcia Katz Wolf
    My grandmother’s samovar has been an abiding presence in my life. Carried to the United States as she and my great-grandparents escaped the Russian pogroms, it is a reminder of their determination to resist the forces that seek to destroy the human spirit, their courage in leaving behind all they had known. In losing their home, they made it possible for my parents and me to ...
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    11,23 €

  • Tears (poetry by Saadi) Volume 2
    Iman Tavassoly / Paul Cronin
    Between 2006 and 2011, Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami – author of three books of original verse – released his selections from and adaptations of four masters of Persian poetry: Nima (1895 – 1960), Hafez, Saadi and Rumi (all from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries). This material is presented to English-speaking readers for the first time, in eight volumes: Nima’s ...
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    84,44 €

  • Tears (poetry by Saadi) Volume 2
    Iman Tavassoly / Paul Cronin
    Between 2006 and 2011, Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami – author of three books of original verse – released his selections from and adaptations of four masters of Persian poetry: Nima (1895 – 1960), Hafez, Saadi and Rumi (all from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries). This material is presented to English-speaking readers for the first time, in eight volumes: Nima’s ...
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    100,12 €

  • Stocking Stuffers Christmas Adult Coloring Book
    Coloring Books for Adults
    Enjoy a collection of 20 holiday themed images, put together in the perfect size for most Christmas stockings. Each image was carefully chosen or illustrated to work in this mini format. This book features several custom illustrations by Maria Elena Guzman and Alexis Cornee, created especially for this book! This unique and festive gift makes the perfect stocking filler for the...
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    7,14 €

  • Camouflaged Sisters
    Lila Holley
    Camouflaged Sisters chronicles the courageous path of fourteen women who overcame various internal and external struggles during their military careers. These veterans give open accounts of how they adapted, achieved work-life balance, relied on their faith, and used mentorship as a vital tool in their success pre- and post-military career.Expect to be inspired by black women w...
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    20,65 €

  • THE MUSEUM HEIST
    Kameel Nasr
    In the early morning hours after St. Patrick’s Day, 1990, two men disguised as policemen gain access to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, a stately four-story Italian mansion in the Fenway district of Boston. They handcuff the guards, wrap their mouths with duct tape, and proceed to commit the largest robbery in history. The stolen masterpieces, including Vermeer’s The Conce...
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    11,73 €

  • Telegram from Mandalay
    Will Cribb
    This is the story of Will Cribb: an idyllic childhood, his father’s early death, a mother’s indifference, a ten-year banishment by his stepfather to boarding school thousands of miles away, and the shy boy’s efforts to cope with the school’s barefoot regime and tough bullies.However, this is no misery memoir. It is also about how the growing boy realises his dream of travelling...
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    12,45 €

  • It's All About Shoes
    Pamela Laskin
    Unique stories about shoes and their memories as diverse as the women who write them. — Jane Weitzman from Stuart Weitzman Shoes If there’s a woman who’s not fixated on shoes, chances are she has no feet or lives on a hot desert island where footwear is superfluous. As we go through life, the fixation may mutate from the annual delight with a new pa...
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    13,66 €

  • Inevitable & Imminent
    Hugh Wesley Carrington
    We’ve been duped into removing prayer from the center of our churches and have placed it on the periphery or semi-periphery.  What we’re witnessing today in our churches, and in society at large, is that legacy of prayerlessness.  Church leadership may be hesitant and embarrassed to admit it, but there is a direct correlation between our spiritual weakness and our lack of corpo...
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    29,16 €

  • The Untold Story of the Real Me
    Free Minds Writers
    The Untold Story of the Real Me is a collection of poems written by young people who were charged and incarcerated as adults at the age of 16 or 17. All poets are members of the Free Minds Book Club and Writing Workshop; many are currently incarcerated in the DC Jail or federal prison. Their work explores themes of parenthood, love, pain, identity, race, and freedom in voices b...
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    27,14 €

  • Fourteen to Fortyish
    Claudia Williams
    Fourteen to Fortyish: The Formative years is a collection of poems that traces the relationships of a girl of fourteen to a woman in her forties. Like the growth from girl to woman the poems in this collection also mature. Claudia Williams has written a book of love poems like no other. Claudia Williams began writing the poems in fourteen to Fortyish: The Formative Years when ...
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    16,23 €

  • Developing Successful Strategies for Global Policies and Cyber Transparency in E-Learning
    The globalization of education has developed alongside the advancement of technological resources. By integrating these resources into the education system, better services and opportunities are now available in online learning contexts. Developing Successful Strategies for Global Policies and Cyber Transparency in E-Learning is an essential reference source for the latest acad...
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    256,05 €

  • Ropes & Reins
    Christine Steendam
      In the world of ropes and reins, rodeo is a passion, not a sport. Tracy is the best team roper on the circuit, but the same tenacity that drives her talent makes her impulsive and reckless. Her career threatened by a fit of anger, she has only one chance to save the life she’s built. Carson dreams of life beyond the family farm. When those dreams lead him to the world of t...
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    9,41 €

  • Desert Deacon
    Pam Halbert
    Climb every mountain… Find out how a fun-loving young girl was motivated to turn early life tragedy and challenges into a life of freedom and ‘mountain top’ experience. Discover how a strong faith, courage and tenacity were required to reverse her destiny and  find her true identity. This memoir is of one of Western Australia’s first female Anglican deacons and priest to be giv...
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    13,21 €

  • One Kiss
    Edward V Bonner
    The very title of Edward V. Bonner's first volume of poetry, One Kiss (Ingram, 2015), suggests some ways in which the poems inside balance the universal with the particular. Most of the poems examine the themes of beauty and risk, pleasure and danger, in the context of one of three kinds of relationships: to romantic partners, to the spiritual world, and to the world of nature....
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    11,43 €

  • From Dawn to Daylight
    Dawn Downey
    Dawn Downey’s second collection of essays is for everyone who savors down-to-earth stories with a twist of wisdom. Deeply honest and deeply personal, her observations are laced with quirky insights and self-deprecating humor. She draws inspiration from the flu, the garden, bad knees and bad TV. She explores larger themes of loss and estrangement, while retaining a youthful outl...
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    9,50 €

  • 7 Chapters, 7 Days
    Tiffany L Wade
    This book will take you on a spiritual journey to enhance your spiritual well-being. The author asks that you read one chapter a day for seven days. Each chapter provides scriptures that are from the King James Bible. After reading this book, you will have a different outlook on your life, and you will be ready to go to the next level that God has for you. There will be a new y...
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    9,45 €

  • A Commentary on Romans
    David Pawson
    REVISED AND UPDATED TO INCLUDE DAVID’S MOST RECENT TEACHING 2014.A key commentary on this well-known epistle of Paul, based on talks given by the author. This is an essential volume in the New Testament Commentary series.This book takes the reader to the heart of Paul’s longest letter, which has had a tremendous impact on key figures in church history, with its message about th...
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    16,09 €

  • Rest in Green Pastures
    Jay Lockhart / Jerrie Barber
    The role of elder is arguably the church's most thankless job. From putting out fires and dealing with disgruntled members to teaching new Christians and encouraging the weak, all while being a model disciple, an elder's role can seem exhausting and unrelenting. To survive, elders need a place of spiritual solitude and relief where they can draw closer to the Chief Shep...
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    14,48 €

  • Bhagavad Gītā
    Swami Lakshmanjoo
    This treasure of knowledge was one of the last works by Swami Lakshmanjoo. He said, "It was a new revelation of the supreme secrets, hidden in the Kashmiri recension of the Bhagavad Gita." Based on Abhinavagupta's commentary of the Gitarthasamgraha, "The Essence of the Gita", Swamiji declared that, "this revelation was initiated by his direct experience of the state of Univ...
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    42,64 €

  • Bhagavad Gī̄tā
    Swami Lakshmanjoo
    This treasure of knowledge was one of the last works by Swami Lakshmanjoo. He said, "It was a new revelation of the supreme secrets, hidden in the Kashmiri recension of the Bhagavad Gita." Based on Abhinavagupta's commentary of the Gitarthasamgraha, "The Essence of the Gita", Swamiji declared that, "this revelation was initiated by his direct experience of the state of Univ...
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    26,24 €

  • Creaking Floorboards
    Colbourne Miller
    Creaking Floorboards, Colbourne Miller's debut novel, is a true insight into the world of Ian Wills: An archetypal HSP, a patriot, a romantic, a lover of nature, a tad eccentric, somewhat political, very obsessive, but, above all, an Ancient Briton through and through! Ian Wills' trials and tribulations are numerous; frequently they are funny, occasionally they are sad,...
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    15,50 €

  • Waterloo Betrayed
    Stephen M. Beckett / Stephen MBeckett
    THIS BOOK HAS BEEN SUPERCEDEDSee Operations of the Armée du Nord : 1815, The Analysis for the definitive guide of French operations in 1815.   Discover why Napoleon really lost the Waterloo Campaign Napoleon was betrayed during 1815 There is no doubt of this. The Traitors admitted as much, and the Allied powers documented their acts. In the immediate aftermath of Napoleon's...
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    38,86 €

  • The Book of Days
    The Book of Days is an illustrated anthology from the 2015 Sydney Writers’ Festival. The book was designed live during the festival at a workstation next to the Pier 2/3 Main Stage at Walsh Bay. The anthology is divided into two parts. The first is a selection of writing and illustrations from festival presenters. It includes excerpts of what was read or shown at festival event...
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    25,66 €

  • Studies In Structural Sociology
    Frank W Young
    This collection of articles and essays embodies a new approach to sociology based on the original meaning of the word. Its central concept is 'community,' which is defined to cover units as small as the household and as large as the nation-state. Individuals are a special case of community. So defined, communities account for almost all the independent social organization of th...
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    18,65 €

  • Social Sustainability HANDBOOK for Community-Builders
    Daniel Raphael
    Designing and building a sustainable community must be build upon a values system that is sustainable because all decision-making is based on values of choosing according to those values. The values that have sustained our species for over 250,000 years would be a good place to start: the search for a better quality of life, of growth, to grow into our innate potential and do...
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    16,65 €

  • Poetry of Peisse
    Sharon Cully
    Many things that we experience in life often cannot be explained away by human efforts to quantify them with science. The steady increase in the number of these events serve only to fuel our suspicions that there is far more to life and existence than what we can see with our eyes. Are you brave enough to take off the lid of Pandora’s box and look inside? This book takes you ...
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    12,50 €

  • Little Snoops
    Regina Webster
    The Snoops, Timothy and Casey, are back at their adventures again! Join the cousins as they find new and clever ways to deal with Tyson, the stubborn bully. But that's only the beginning of the surprises the boys will see this year. Together, they face bullies, football camp, and most confusing of all: girls. With a little help from a few new friends, Timothy and Casey lear...
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    7,25 €

  • A Commentary on James
    David Pawson
    Common sense is not all that common, especially in its sanctified form. But the letter of James to the dispersed Messianic believers of his day is full of it.Sceptical about his half-brother Jesus before his death, he became his devoted slave after his resurrection. No wonder he led the Jerusalem church through its major crisis.Though he wrote in excellent Greek, he thought lik...
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    17,44 €

  • A Commentary on 1 & 2 Thessalonians
    David Pawson
    Speculation about the second coming of our Lord is nothing new. The saints in Thessalonica were already being misled. Paul’s two corrective letters, among his earliest, deal with the issue in a way that is profound and practical, as well as giving details to be found nowhere else in the New Testament. The ’rapture’, the man of lawlessness, the temple - these and other features ...
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    16,39 €