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  • Mother Earth, Vol. I
    Various
    'THERE was a time when men imagined the Earth as the center of the universe. The stars, large and small, they believed were created merely for their delectation. It was their vain conception that a supreme being, weary of solitude, had manufactured a giant toy and put them into possession of it.' ...
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    18,57 €

  • The Indolence of the Filipino (Esprios Classics)
    José Rizal
    José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (June 19, 1861 - December 30, 1896) was a Filipino nationalist and polymath during the tail end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is tagged as the national hero (pambansang bayani) of the Filipino people. An ophthalmologist by profession, Rizal became a writer and a key member of the Filipino Propaganda Movement,...
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    16,40 €

  • A Glossary of Provincial Words and Phrases in Use in Somersetshire (Esprios Classics)
    Wadham Pigott Williams
    'It is now nearly six years ago that the Committee of the Somersetshire Archæological Society asked me to compile a Glossary of the Dialect or archaic language of the County, and put into my hands a valuable collection of words by the late Mr. Edward Norris, surgeon, of South Petherton. I have completed this task to the best of my ability, with the kind co-operation of our late...
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    18,70 €

  • The New Society (Esprios Classics)
    Walther Rathenau
    Walther Rathenau (29 September 1867 - 24 June 1922) was a German industrialist, writer and liberal politician. During the First World War of 1914-1918 he was involved in the organization of the German war economy. After the war, Rathenau served as German Foreign Minister (February to June 1922) of the Weimar Republic. Rathenau initiated the 1922 Treaty of Rapallo, which removed...
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  • Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) (Esprios Classics)
    Francis Galton
    Sir Francis Galton, FRS (16 February 1822 - 17 January 1911), was an English Victorian era polymath: a statistician, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician. He was knighted in 1909. Galton produced over 340 papers and books. He also created the statistical concept of co...
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    20,71 €

  • My Larger Education (Esprios Classics)
    Booker T. Washington / Booker TWashington
    Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary black elite. Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and ...
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    23,69 €

  • Circumstantial Evidence and Other Stories (Esprios Classics)
    Edgar Wallace
    Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 - 10 February 1932) was an English writer. He joined the army at age 21 and was a war correspondent during the Second Boer War, for Reuters and the Daily Mail. Struggling with debt, he left South Africa, returned to London, and began writing thrillers to raise income, publishing books including The Four Just Men (1905). Drawing on his...
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    22,96 €

  • You Say Soccer, I Say Football
    Edward Patrick Akinyemi
    '[Akinyemi] seamlessly weaves together academic and pop culture sources into the soccer sources to illustrate why soccer concepts appeal to a wider discussion, and vice versa.' -- World Soccer TalkThe world’s most popular game seduces millions of people all over the world. But football fans are constantly accused of caring too much about something that is 'just a game'. Unfortu...
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    15,66 €

  • The Trial and Execution for Petit Treason of Mark and Phillis, Slaves of Capt. John Codman (Esprios Classics)
    Abner Cheney Goodell / Jr.
    'It is not surprising that the execution of a woman, by burning, so lately as when Shirley was governor,-a period when the province had greatly advanced in culture and refinement,-should seem to any one incredible. Indeed, even so critical and thorough a student of our provincial history as our late distinguished associate, Dr. Palfrey, once wrote to me inquiring if the rumor o...
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    18,16 €

  • Trigger Warning 2020
    NYC Queer Comic Fair
    Over 75 queer creators in one book! So exciting! Poetry, comics, photography, illustration, prose, playlists, coloring pages, fiction, pinups! Everything queer! ...
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    16,27 €

  • The Settlers at Home (Esprios Classics)
    Harriet Martineau
    Harriet Martineau (12 June 1802 - 27 June 1876) was a British social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist. Martineau wrote many books and a multitude of essays from a sociological, holistic, religious, domestic, and perhaps most controversially, feminine perspective. She also translated various works by Auguste Comte, and she earned enough to su...
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    22,19 €

  • Philosophy of Facet Theory Pocket Guide
    Katie Lustig / Paul M W Hackett
    Facet theory is a philosophy about the nature of the world and how this should be investigated by disciplines within social sciences and humanities. It is also a series of research design and analysis procedures. In this pocket guide we present facet theory’s philosophical basis and describe and illustrate how facet theory may be used within your own qualitative and quantitativ...
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    37,52 €

  • La voie rationnelle
    Matgioi
    L’orgueil individuel est la chose qui est, dans toute la race jaune, la plus inconnue, et paraît, aux yeux des Jaunes qui le constatent chez d’autres races, la plus incompréhensible. Le respect des Ancêtres morts à qui l’on se rattache, la solidarité avec les vivants, qui sont tous des parcelles d’un même grand être social, éloignent le Chinois de toute recherche de particulari...
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    21,95 €

  • Introduction à l’ésotérisme islamique
    Yvan Aguéli
    Parmi les différentes doctrines ésotériques, il n’en est, à ma connaissance, aucune qui offre autant d’analogie avec celle des Arabo-Islamites que le Taoïsme chinois, tel que l’a exposé Matgioi dans ses divers ouvrages. Cela est d’autant plus surprenant que l’Islam, non seulement exotérique, mais encore ésotérique, est, je ne dis pas la combinaison, mais le juste milieu et l’éq...
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    18,93 €

  • La Vera Lucía
    Abdenal Carvalho
    Vera Lúcia 'es la historia de una mujer dominada por un deseo sexual incontrolable que acaba enamorándose de un hombre de similares características. A lo largo de la trama, las personas que la rodean la traicionan, la engañan y la lastiman. Descubrir que su hija tuvo un romance íntimo con su pareja resultó en dolor y una profunda decepción. Esto era demasiado y la revuelta era ...
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    28,98 €

  • Vera
    Abdenal Carvalho
    Vera Lúcia 'is the story of a woman dominated by an uncontrollable sexual desire who ends up falling in love with a man with similar characteristics. Throughout the plot, the people around her betray, deceive, and hurt her. Finding out that her daughter had an intimate affair with her partner resulted in grief and deep disappointment. This was too much and the revolt was inevit...
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    29,02 €

  • The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States (Esprios Classics)
    Martin Robison Delany
    Martin Robison Delany (May 6, 1812 - January 24, 1885) was an African-American abolitionist, journalist, physician, soldier, and writer, and arguably the first proponent of black nationalism. Delany is credited with the Pan-African slogan of 'Africa for Africans. Born as a free person of color in Charles Town, Virginia, now West Virginia (not Charleston, West Virginia) and rais...
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    22,18 €

  • The Garies and Their Friends (Esprios Classics)
    Frank J. Webb / Frank JWebb
    Francis Johnson Webb (March 21, 1828 - c. 1894) was an American novelist, poet, and essayist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His novel, The Garies and Their Friends (1857), was the first novel by an Indian-African American to be published, and the first to portray the daily lives of free blacks in the North. As a young man, Frank Webb worked in Philadelphia’s vibrant community...
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    28,97 €

  • The Settler and the Savage (Esprios Classics)
    R. M. Ballantyne / RMBallantyne
    Robert Michael Ballantyne (24 April 1825 - 8 February 1894) was a Scottish author of juvenile fiction who wrote more than 100 books. He was also an accomplished artist, and exhibited some of his water-colours at the Royal Scottish Academy. In 1848 he published his first book Hudson’s Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of North America, and for some time was employed by the publishers M...
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    25,14 €

  • The Girl With The Venomous Vagina The Light Novel
    MCGOKU305 SAN
    The Girl With The Venomous Vagina The Light Novel Is a American LGBTQ Action Adventure Romance Slasher Light Novel Written By Novelist MCGOKU305 San and It is the First Book Written in The Gay And Lesbian Genre By MCGOKU305 SanThe Story FollowsA Bisexual Female Serial Killer/ Sex Addict With Superhuman Strength and Abilities Name Vicky Venom Is On The Search For Big Strong Ha...
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    39,72 €

  • John March, Southerner (Esprios Classics)
    George W. Cable / George WCable
    George Washington Cable (October 12, 1844 - January 31, 1925) was an American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans, Louisiana. He has been called 'the most important southern artist working in the late 19th century', as well as 'the first modern Southern writer.' In his treatment of racism, mixed-race families and miscegena...
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    29,68 €

  • The Karen People of Burma (Esprios Classics)
    Rev. Harry Ignatius Marshall / RevHarry Ignatius Marshall
    'The Karen are a group of Indo-Chinese tribes living principally in Burma, the easternmost province of the British Indian Empire, in the Indo-Chinese peninsula, and in the adjoining country of Siam to the east. They are found between the tenth and twenty-first degrees of north latitude and between the ninety-fourth and one hundredth degrees of east longitude. The greater part o...
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    28,93 €

  • 读麦:书信---复活麦克卢汉的大脑(卷三)
    Marshall McLuhan 原著 朱晓 译按
    读麦,就是阅读麦克卢汉,简写成'读麦',是我模仿蒙古歌手独有的技巧'呼麦'编造的一个词,就算是发挥麦克卢汉所推崇的听觉思维吧。麦克卢汉是加拿大的传播学理论家和英语文学教授,以格言'媒介即信息'而闻名,他影响巨大的著作有《谷登堡群星》(1962)、《理解媒介:人的延伸》(1964)和《媒介即信息》(1967)。五六十年来,围绕麦克卢汉颇多争议,追随者奉他为先知,反对者贬他为巫师,他的理论热了冷、冷了热,他的文字很多人都说复杂难懂。那么,到了移动互联网的今天,我们应该怎样读麦呢?麦克卢汉很看重探索,提倡用各种探针去刺探,以感知新技术新环境。用麦氏这一思想来反观读麦,麦克卢汉各种作品的阅读,不妨采用这样的步骤:首先,读麦氏与人的交谈记录,看被人刺探后麦氏的反应;其次,书信日记,这里面应该有最真实的、未经雕琢的闪念,只可惜日记没有出版;第三,演讲,看麦氏在口...
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    32,97 €

  • In Defense of Women (Esprios Classics)
    H. L. Mencken / HLMencken
    Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians, and contemporary movements. His satirical reporting on the Scopes Trial, which he dubbed the 'Monkey Trial,' also gained him attention. As ...
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    21,48 €

  • Clotelle; or, The Colored Heroine (Esprios Classics)
    William Wells Brown
    William Wells Brown (c. 1814 - November 6, 1884) was a prominent African-American abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian in the United States. Born into slavery in Montgomery County, Kentucky, near the town of Mount Sterling, Brown escaped to Ohio in 1834 at the age of 19. He settled in Boston, Massachusetts, where he worked for abolitionist causes and becam...
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    21,41 €

  • Sex Positions
    Stella Young
    Don’t let your relationship crumble!If you want to put your sexual intercourse on turbo, then read on!Do you have problems in the bedroom?Is your sex life collapsing under the weight of boredom?You don’t know how to 'freshen up' the sexual relationship with your partner?This guide is what you are looking for!The Illustrated Practical Guide to Sex!151 sexual positions that will ...
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    24,51 €

  • RockStar
    Lainey Dex Ryder
    Maddy is Avid and experienced in Climbing mountains. Rockstar embodies the thrills produced by testing one’s courage, resourcefulness, cunning, strength, ability, and stamina to the utmost in a situation of inherent risk both on the mountain and with Erica, her lesbian lover. ...
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    24,72 €

  • Romantic Conflicts Volume 7
    Lainey Dex Ryder
    A continuation of the Erotic Journey Between Kat and Jenna in this beautifully arranged novel ...
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    27,06 €

  • Romantic Conflicts Volume 2
    Lainey Dex Ryder
    Continue on the Epic Journey of Kat and Jenna in this Erotic Novel of love ...
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    26,31 €

  • 读麦·讲演:复活麦克卢汉的大脑(卷一)
    Marshall McLuhan 原著 朱晓 译按
    读麦,就是阅读麦克卢汉,简写成'读麦',是我模仿蒙古歌手独有的技巧'呼麦'编造的一个词,就算是发挥麦克卢汉所推崇的听觉思维吧。麦克卢汉是加拿大的传播学理论家和英语文学教授,以格言'媒介即信息'而闻名,他影响巨大的著作有《谷登堡群星》(1962)、《理解媒介:人的延伸》(1964)和《媒介即信息》(1967)。五六十年来,围绕麦克卢汉颇多争议,追随者奉他为先知,反对者贬他为巫师,他的理论热了冷、冷了热,他的文字很多人都说复杂难懂。那么,到了移动互联网的今天,我们应该怎样读麦呢?麦氏从电子媒介中看到了电子信息的光电速度,由这样的实时信息看到了日后互联网的许多特征,比如由果及因、听觉模式的复兴、人人卷入人人、人的天使化等等等等。从互联网开始倒带播放信息史,一是看印刷史、看书写史、看字母表的历史,这样就不难理解'媒介即信息',就不难反省互联网的种种现象;再就...
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    33,35 €