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  • The Persian Expedition
    Xenophon Xenophon
    Stranded deep in enemy territory, the Spartan general Clearchus and the other Greek senior officers were subsequently killed or captured by treachery on the part of the Persian satrap Tissaphernes. Xenophon, one of three remaining leaders elected by the soldiers, played an instrumental role in encouraging the Greek army of 10,000 to march north across foodless deserts and snow-...
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    27,97 €

  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
    Linda Brent
    Here is one of the few slave narratives written by a women. Slavery is a terrible thing, but it is far more terrible and harrowing for women than for men. Harriet Jacobs was owned by a brutal master who beat his slaves regularly and subjected them to indignations that were far worse. Jacobs eventually escaped her master and moved to a northern state. Though she was unable to ta...
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    28,13 €

  • Rise up
    Dana H. Senders
    Rising up is not as easy to do as we think it is. This entitles us to do the things that we are meant to do. It's about overcoming the weakness in woman's basketball officiating. This also help us to figure out what to do when you have a chronic illness and how to succeed. As I rose up to do all the things that I could do I had obstacles to face. From the beginning of t...
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    8,38 €

  • Rise up
    Dana H. Senders
    Rising up is not as easy to do as we think it is. This entitles us to do the things that we are meant to do. It's about overcoming the weakness in woman's basketball officiating. This also help us to figure out what to do when you have a chronic illness and how to succeed. As I rose up to do all the things that I could do I had obstacles to face. From the beginning of t...
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    23,91 €

  • Walking On Air
    Jethro Shaw
    The true story of a midwestern boy who grew up during the Great Depression. Jethro Shaw as a young child overcame extreme physical infirmities, and his life as an airman and all of his endeavors. In his own words, he tells of how he succeeded and prospered against the odds. ...
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    31,56 €

  • Changing Faces II
    Darrel Dabbs
    Dabbs wasn’t quite a teenager when his vitiligo surfaced.  It showed up as a little patch around his eyes when he was in sixth grade, Dabbs said.  It spread to his lips, mouth, hands and then across his body.            For years, he wore makeup to avoid stares and have a consistent skin tone. He had his lips tattooed so they wouldn’t be pink.  “It made me look so much better,”...
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    23,23 €

  • THE MUSICIAN
    Don Hamilton
    THE MUSICIAN is an autobiography of an 86 year old Jazz  musician who wanted to go to some big city like New York or Chicago to become a 'star',ater he graduated from college, however he decided to become a music teacher, for the security and be a part time professional musician as a sideline. After he tried the professional world for two summers, he realized he had made the ri...
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    7,64 €

  • Viaţa Mea, Credinţa Mea Ⅰ
    Jaerock Lee
    Viaţa Mea, Credinţa Mea Ⅰ: My Life, My Faith Ⅰ(Romanian Edition)O aromă foarte duhovnicească extrasă din viaţa care a înmugurit cu o iubire nemărginită pentru Dumnezeu, în mijlocul valurilor negre şi a celei mai mari disperări. 3 ...
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    14,87 €

  • Mitt Liv, Min Tro Ⅰ
    Jaerock Lee
    ’Mitt Liv, Min Tro (I)’, selvbiogafien av Dr. Jaerock Lee, vil også gi den mest beryktede og åndelige aroma for deres lesere. Det er fordi hans liv er tatt ifra kjærlighet til Gud som har opplevd de mørke bølger, de kalde lenker og de dypeste fortvilelser. 3 ...
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    14,87 €

  • Мојот Живот, Мојата Вера Ⅰ
    Jaerock Lee
    Мојот Живот, Мојата Вера (I) & (II), дводелната автобиографија на Д-р Џерок Ли, исто така ја обезбедува најмиризливата духовна арома за читателите. Тоа е така бидејќи неговиот живот е издвоен од љубовта кон Бога што ги има искусено темните бранови, ладното поробување и најдлабокиот очај. 3 ...
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    14,76 €

  • Mein Leben, Mein Glaube Ⅰ
    Jaerock Lee
    Überrascht schaute sich meine Frau meinen Körper genau an und auch sie glaubte, dass Gott mich geheilt hatte. Sie war so froh, umarmte mich und fing an laut zu weinen. Wir weinten lange Zeit. Alle Sorgen und Schmerzen waren wie weggeschmolzen und wir waren voller Freude und Dankbarkeit. Es heißt, man bekommt die am stärksten duftenden Rosenparfüme von Rosen auf den Bergen im Ba...
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    14,78 €

  • Moj Život, Moja Vera Ⅰ
    Jaerock Lee
    Moj Život, Moja Vera ⅠCategoryTestimonyAuthorDr. Džerok LiNajmirisnija duhovna aroma izvučena iz života koji je cvetao sa neuporedivom ljubavlju za Boga, u sred crnih talasa, hladnih okova i najdubljeg očaja 3 ...
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    14,87 €

  • Η Ζωή Μου, Η Πίστη Μου Ⅰ
    Jaerock Lee
    «Η Ζωή Μου, Η Πίστη Μου Ι & ΙΙ», η αυτοβιογραφία του Δρος Τζέροκ Λι σε δύο μέρη, προσφέρει στους αναγνώστες το πιο ευωδιαστό πνευματικό άρωμα. Κι αυτό συμβαίνει επειδή η ζωή του έχει αποσταχθεί από την αγάπη του Θεού, έχοντας περάσει από σκοτεινά κύματα, ψυχρούς ζυγούς και βαθύτατη απελπισία.Η ζωή του αιδεσιμότατου Δρος Λι αποτελεί μία από τις δραματικότερες περιπτώσεις κατά τι...
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    18,15 €

  • I was born a winner
    Claston A Bernard
     I grew up in Jamaica in the district of Burnt Savannah, St. Elizabeth, between Lacovia and Mountainside. That’s about a twenty-minute drive from Santa Cruz, St. Elizabeth. Life was tough for me as a child. While we lived in poverty, my parents did the best they could for my siblings and me. I was often called names and ridiculed. Join me as I journey from the rocky playgrounds...
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    15,54 €

  • Beyond East and West
    John C.H. Wu / John C.HWu
    When John C. H. Wu’s spiritual autobiography Beyond East and West was published in 1951, it became an instant Catholic best seller and was compared to Thomas Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain, which had appeared four years earlier. It was also hailed as the new Confession of St. Augustine for its moving description of Wu’s conversion in 1937 and early years as a Catholic. This...
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    106,52 €

  • Tu Youyou’s Journey in the Search for Artemisinin
    Wenhu Zhang / Yiran Shao / Junxian Yu
    Tu Youyou's Journey in the Search for Artemisinin is an autobiographical science book chronicling in detail the great experiences of Tu Youyou from her childhood to winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.As Tu Youyou is the first female scientist from China to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, this win created a sudden wave of interest in medicine, r...
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    82,76 €

  • Strong Beauty
    Karen Furneaux
    Strong Beauty: Power Up the Champion Within is an Olympic athlete’s journey to harness the POWER of self-belief and appreciate the beauty in us all.Karen Furneaux, world champion, Sports Hall-of-Famer and international speaker, shares her deepest insights and the golden nuggets that it takes to succeed at your goals.Karen’s actionable P.O.W.E.R. tools help you to find your uniq...
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    14,33 €

  • Wax Poetics Issue 67 (Paperback)
    A. D. Amorosi / Chris Williams / Dan Dodds
    Our new version of the classic Wax Poetics music journal!Wax Poetics Issue 67 contains all-new content featuring interviews and write-ups on a slew of Prince's albums, including 1978's 'For You,' 1986's 'Parade,' 1987's 'Sign O the Times,' 1988's 'Lovesexy,' 1991's 'Diamonds and Pearls,' and 1995's 'The Gol...
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    28,01 €

  • Young Sam Walton
    Brenda Turner
    The road to greatness must have appeared long and uncertain to young Sam Walton, born in rural Oklahoma. In fact, no one likely imagined that Sam would build the largest revenue company in the world, with over 2 million employees. As a boy, Sam was hardworking and enterprising. But, most importantly, Sam had a genuine concernfor others. He worked part-time jobs to help his fami...
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    12,16 €

  • Armor On
    L.K.
    When I saw Satan, I wanted to die. I wanted to be in the arms of Jesus that very moment. At the time, I didnt know I was in a dark spiritual warfare and my home was the battlegrounds. Through my journey, Jesus was showing me my spiritual gifts. He was teaching and training me to trust him completely. The once-dark season feels like a lifetime ago. My new voyage with Jesus is a ...
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    14,22 €

  • My book of Genesis
    Richard Macphail
    FOREWORD BY PETER GABRIEL. School friend, aide-de-camp and tour manager, Richard Macphail was for almost five years the glue that held Genesis together, and in his affectionate memoir My Book of Genesis he tells his own unique story of the group's early years. Richard was the singer in Anon, the Charterhouse school group that included Mike Rutherford and Anthony Phillips, w...
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    29,66 €

  • My Aunt Louisa and Woodrow Wilson
    Margaret Axson Elliott
    In this book, written with brilliance and charm, we see Wilson, in bright, remembered flashes, through the eyes of his young sister-in-law. Here, also, is the Southern background--Illyria, a composite of several small Southern towns slowly reviving after the war, where lived the Axson family and Aunt Louisa, the staunch Puritan.Originally published in 1944.A UNC Press Enduring ...
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    60,83 €

  • Patrick Geddes
    Philip Boardman
    In Edinburgh during the eighties and nineties, Geddes was a truant professor of botany who spent more time cleaning up slums, building cooperative apartment houses, founding student hostels, running summer schools, criticizing universities, and encouraging the arts than he did in the classroom. He became an expert in botany, sociology, city-planning, reclamation, and economics....
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    76,24 €

  • George B. McClellan
    Bryan Conrad / H. J. Eckenrode / HJEckenrode
    In their study, the authors redeem the most ill-judged man in American history' and point out that it was he who took command of the Union forces and probably saved the Union cause. More than the stry of McClellan, it is the story of the nation’s capital fearful of invasion, of a Washington dominated by politicians and partisans, and of military intrigue in high places.'Origina...
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    60,83 €

  • Philip Pendleton Cooke
    John D. Allen / John DAllen
    Philip Pendleton Cooke, a typical Virginia gentleman farmer and lawyer, realized a creditable achievement in lyric poetry, in critical essays marked by vigorous good sense, and in the historical tales to which he returned. His work received recognition from leading literary men of his day, and his writing merits attention in any consideration of Southern literature.Originally p...
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    48,50 €

  • Broken Conditions
    Jo Lena Johnson
    Broken Conditions, Volume 1 of The Clean Colored Girl Chronicles highlights the author’s college years and chronicles key relationships, which lead to drama, adventure, hurt and poor choices into her 30s. See how growing up affects and influences almost every decision, relationship and behavior. When what she learned wasn’t working, she did something about it … sometimes!The Cl...
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    13,82 €

  • Nipples To Kneecaps
    Mandy Brown
    'Nipples to Kneecaps – To Die or Not to Die with Cancer' is the true, inspirational story of Steve, a man who seemed to have it all…until a cancer diagnosis threatened to take it all away.Historians recall that the mid-1980s boasted big hair, loud music, and iconic Hollywood superstars. Mandy recalls, “My dear girl, I have seen many a patient in my time and we cannot he...
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    15,07 €

  • Opportunity
    A JPosner / A. J. Posner / AJPosner
    When life gives us lemons,we must learn to make lemonade. Like lemonade, opportunitycan be bitter or sweet. It’s what we do with it that counts. With hard work and determination,we can learn to make lemon icing. But society still bakes the cake. Only when there is a mutual acceptance and equal OPPORTUNITYcan our sweet icing become an integral part ofthe ENRICHED CAKE OF LIFE fo...
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    10,49 €

  • Our World
    1000 Tales Co-op Ltd
    Our World is the flagship project of 1000 tales Co-op Ltd. It aims to highlight the diversity of both our lands and its peoples. It is a coffee table book featuring up and coming photographers from around the world. Each photograph is accompanied by a short written piece about the world from the perspective of the Photographer. These pieces were written in the photographer’s na...
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    16,63 €

  • El Lince
    Victor Nickolich
    Noviembre de 1977. Cuba ha reunido a un poderoso equipo de paracaidistas para competir en los Juegos Panamericanos de ese deporte en México. Su entrenador, un competidor experimentado de la Unión Soviética, está convencido que los cubanos pueden vencer al equipo del ejército de los EE. UU. en esta ocasión. La emoción en los principales círculos del gobierno crece a medida que s...
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    28,53 €


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