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  • The Adventures of John Jewitt
    John Jewitt / Robert Brown
    The Adventures of John Jewitt, only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston during a Captivity of Nearly Three Years among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver IslandBy John Jewitt. Edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Brown, PhD.In 1803, the American ship Boston was attacked, seized, and burned by Nootka Indians while anchored off the Pacific Northwest Coast of ...
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    39,34 €

  • André Paul Wesner Osias Mémoires et Souvenirs
    Martine M. Osias / Martine MOsias
    Mémoires et souvenirs et d’un Haïtien pas comme les autres. ...
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    51,01 €

  • Peter Stuyvesant
    John S. C. Abbott / John SCAbbott
    This engrossing work details the early history of the colonization of Manhattan and its surrounding regions from the exploration of the Hudson River in 1610 through to the final surrender of the colony to the English in 1664.The thoroughly-researched history takes the reader through the trials and tribulations of colonists, Indians, slaves, soldiers, and politicians alike. Hard...
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    40,33 €

  • The Programmer’s Odyssey
    Garth Eaglesfield
    The Programmer’s Odyssey tells the story of a computer programmer’s working life from the days of punched cards to the age of the Internet. Not just a stodgy technical history it weaves in the social and cultural changes taking place as the 20th century gave way to the 21st. ...
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    13,81 €

  • TWELVE DEAD FROGS AND OTHER STORIES, A FILMMAKER’S MEMOIR (1st Edition USA ©2017, 3rd Printing)
    Rick Schmidt
    No-budget feature filmmaker Rick Schmidt has written a fascinating memoir, TWELVE DEAD FROGS AND OTHER STORIES, which, he hopes, will 'fill in the blanks' on how he learned the tools of the trade and shared them in his seminal how-to, Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices (Viking Penguin, 1988, 1995, 2000). Schmidt’s outside the box approach has resulted in the launch of coun...
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    21,18 €

  • The Life of Christopher Columbus
    John S. C. Abbott / John SCAbbott
    This is one of the most enthralling and all-encompassing biographies ever written about Christopher Columbus, the man who changed the course of world history with his voyages over the Atlantic Ocean.Renowned history writer John S. C. Abbott takes the reader on a no-holds-barred-and remarkably objective-ride from Columbus’s background and life, to his struggle in the courts of P...
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    24,38 €

  • Exodus Tales of Prophet Moses (Musa) and Prophet Haron (Aaron)
    Muhammad Vandestra
    The pharaoh who ruled Egypt was a tyrant who oppressed the descendants of Prophet Jacob (pbuh), known as the children of Israel (Bani Israel). He used every means to demean and disgrace them. They were kept in bondage and forced to work for him for small wages or nothing. Under this system the people obeyed and worshipped the pharaoh, and the ruling class carried out his orders...
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    12,65 €

  • History of Louis Philippe
    John S. C. Abbott / John SCAbbott
    A fascinating account of the life, trials, tribulations-and ultimately failure-of one of Europe’s first notable 'constitutional monarchs,' Louis Philippe (1773-1850).The first king to be properly elected by the National Assembly, his reign was based on the principle of union of king and people, and marked the first real shift away from the 'divine right to rule' approach to kin...
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    40,37 €

  • The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
    John Muir
    A fascinating autobiography of John Muir (1838-1914)-founder and first president of the Sierra Club, America’s oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization.Muir is renowned to the present-day as one of the most famous American naturalists, authors, amateur inventors, and early advocates of preservation of wilderness in the United States, and as la...
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    39,41 €

  • Kitab Suci Al-Quran Edisi Bahasa Indonesia Surat Al-Fatihah Dan Al-Baqarah
    Muhammad Vandestra
    Terjemahan Surat Al-Fatihah Dan Al-Baqarah Dari Kitab Suci Al-Quran Dalam Bahasa Indonesia (Translation of Holy Quran in Indonesia Languange). Al-Quran adalah kitab suci agama Islam, Umat Islam percaya bahwa Al-Qur’an merupakan puncak dan penutup wahyu Allah SWT yang diperuntukkan bagi seluruh umat manusia dan bangsa jin.Serta menjadi bagian dari rukun iman, yang disampaikan ke...
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    17,61 €

  • Richard III
    Jacob Abbott
    King Richard III of England (1452-1485) only occupied the throne for two years, but his death at the Battle of Bosworth Field marked the end of the thirty-year long Wars of the Roses and symbolized the end of the Middle Ages in that country. His life and death became entwined with intrigue and myth, spurred on by William Shakespeare’s dramatization of his life in one of the Bar...
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    39,32 €

  • The Other Side of Me - memoir of a bipolar mind
    Julie Kraft
    SOFTCOVER - colour edition In this unforgettable memoir, first-time author Julie Kraft takes readers on an intimate journey through her struggles and triumphs with bipolar disorder. No stone is left unturned. In baring her skeletons and soul, Julie offers a rare glimpse into a world that affects millions but is often misrepresented, feared, or hidden. It is Julie’s greatest hop...
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    31,83 €

  • Inns and Taverns of Old London (Esprios Classics)
    Henry C. Shelley / Henry CShelley
    Setting forth the Historical and literary associations of those ancient hostelries, together with an account of the most notable coffee-houses, clubs, and pleasure gardens of the British metropolis. ...
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    22,11 €

  • Whats in a name?Everything!
    Pooja Misra
    Why Should I read .....WHATS IN A NAME?EVERYTHING! YOU WERE NOT BORN TO BE MEDIOCRE!So when you say this out loud after having a caught a glimpse of Pooja Misra’s upcoming biography....somewhere in the back of your mind you have surrendered to Mediocrity!Really! You truely shouldn’t read this book,and live an ignorant life of not knowing your massive potential.....Because you w...
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    88,42 €

  • TWELVE DEAD FROGS AND OTHER STORIES, A FILMMAKER’S MEMOIR (1st Edition Hardcover USA ©2018, 2nd Printing)
    Rick Schmidt
    No-budget feature filmmaker Rick Schmidt has written a fascinating memoir, TWELVE DEAD FROGS AND OTHER STORIES, which, he hopes, will 'fill in the blanks' on how he learned the tools of the trade and shared them in his seminal how-to, Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices (Viking Penguin, 1988, 1995, 2000). Schmidt’s outside the box approach has resulted in the launch of countl...
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    80,62 €

  • Most Evil Movie Lines Note Book
    BRANDTASH
    This note book is filled with quotes from some of the most evil movie and TV villains. ...
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    18,00 €

  • The Other Side of Me - memoir of a bipolar mind
    Julie Kraft
    HARDCOVER - colour edition (alternate cover)In this unforgettable memoir, first-time author Julie Kraft takes readers on an intimate journey through her struggles and triumphs with bipolar disorder. No stone is left unturned. In baring her skeletons and soul, Julie offers a rare glimpse into a world that affects millions but is often misrepresented, feared, or hidden. It is Jul...
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    49,70 €

  • Tales of Prophet Yunus (Jonah) Bilingual Edition English and French
    Muhammad Vandestra
    Prophet Jonah (Yunus) (pbuh) also known as Dhan-Nun. About his people Almighty Allah said: Was there any town community that believed after seeing the punishment, and its Faith at that moment, saved it from the punishment? (the answer is none)--except the people of Jonah; when they believed, We removed from them the torment of disgrace in the life of the present world, and perm...
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    10,58 €

  • Tales of Prophet Lot (Luth) Bilingual Edition English and Indonesia
    Muhammad Vandestra
    Prophet Abraham (Pbuh) left Egypt accompanied by his nephew Luth (Pbuh), who then went to the city of Sodom (Sadum), which was on the western shore of the Dead Sea. This city was filled with evil. Its residents waylaid, robbed and killed travelers. Another common evil among them was that men had sex with men instead of with women. This unnatural act later became known as sodomy...
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    11,18 €

  • William the Conqueror
    Jacob Abbott
    American master storyteller Jacob Abbott’s classic work on William the Conqueror tells the dramatic story of the Norman nobleman who conducted one of the most audacious invasions in European history and thereby wrote his name into the annals of history. Starting with the origins of the Norman people, this work explores-in typical easy-to-read Abbott style-the background and dev...
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    38,31 €

  • Totally Amazing
    Teresa Heartchild / Teresa Pocock
    How does a person with Down syndrome assert her right to be herself in an Ableist society? It’s not easy. However, artist Teresa Heartchild shows us how she has successfully advocated for herself. From writing to government officials for an apology for her wrongful placement in a long-term care institution, to asserting her rights for more of what she loves in life-like more ma...
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    21,53 €

  • What a Pain!
    Jennifer H Clarke
    This book is about my pain journey. It is not a book of medical facts. It is an account about what I have endured and have learnt about myself, including my mistakes, after living with chronic pain over the last decade or so.'I did not choose this path, but where it takes me is now my responsibility' ...
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    9,92 €

  • Islam Folklore Tales of Luqman The Wise Bilingual Edition English and Spanish
    Muhammad Vandestra
    Luqman (also known as Luqman the Wise, Luqmaan, Lukman, and Luqman al-Hakeem. was a wise man for whom Surah Luqman, the thirty-first sura (chapter) of the Quran, was named. Luqman is believed to be from Africa and is of Ethiopian descent. There are many stories about Luqman in Persian, Arabic and Turkish literature and the primary historical sources are the Tafsir ibn Kathir an...
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    12,47 €

  • Tales of Hazrat Aminah Bint Wahb The Mother of Prophet Muhammad SAW Last Messenger of Allah SWT Hardcover Edition
    Muhammad Vandestra
    The Life of Hazrat Aminah bint Wahb The Mother of Prophet Muhammad SAW Last Messenger of Allah SWT (God) Based from The Noble Quran and Al-Hadith Hardcover Version. ...
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    32,35 €

  • The Winter of the Wolf
    Wolodymyr Papuca
    Throughout his childhood and youth, Wolodymyr Papuca was blown like a leaf in the wind from one perilous situation to the next. Born in the Ukraine in 1925, Wolodymyr’s early life became entangled in the rival ideologies of communism and Nazism and daily life was a battle for survival. When the Second World War broke out, Wolodymyr was just 14 years old and had been a Young Com...
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    28,43 €

  • The Story of Atlantis and The Lost Lemuria (Esprios Classics)
    W. Scott-Elliot / WScott-Elliot
    After the demise of Lemuria, new races emerged on Atlantis from the surviving ape-like creatures. This led to the Atlantean races, beginning with the black skinned 'Rmoahal' and leading to the 'copper coloured' Tlavatli, who were ancestor-worshippers, and then the 'Toltecs', who had advanced technology including 'airships'. The Toltecs were succeeded by 'First Turanians' and th...
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    20,66 €

  • Kisah Nabi Muhammad SAW Edisi Bilingual Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Inggris (Tales of Prophet Muhammad SAW Bilingual)
    Muhammad Vandestra
    Kisah Kehidupan Nabi Muhammad SAW Edisi Bilingual Dalam Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Inggris Bersumberkan Dari Al-Quran and Al-Hadist.Tales of Prophet Muhammad SAW Bilingual Edition In English and Indonesia Languange Edition. Based from The Noble Quran and Al-Hadith.Ketika cahaya tauhid padam di muka bumi, maka kegelapan yang tebal hampir saja menyelimuti akal. Di sana tidak ter...
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    17,39 €

  • Things My Dad
    Zach Morgan
    Dinndayal Morgan, my father and best friend passed away from renal cancer in 2015. When he passed I began to write. I reflected on the most significant moments in my life and his significance in those moments whether he was here or already gone. From great blessings to comedic events, and from coming of age realizations to traumatizing experiences, my twenties have been loaded ...
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    40,30 €

  • Who Is Allah SWT The Creator of Universe In Islam
    Muhammad Vandestra
    It is a known fact that every language has one or more terms that are used to refer to God and sometimes to lesser deities at the same time. This is not the case with Allah. Allah is the personal name of the One true God. Nothing else can be called Allah. The term has no plural or gender. This shows its uniqueness when compared with the word 'god,' which can be made plural...
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    17,93 €

  • Bilal the Abyssinian One Light, Many Colors
    Osoul Center
    This book, Bilal ibn Rabah: Islam’s Attitude to Racial Discrimination, outlines the history of Bilal ibn Rabah, a former slave from Abyssinia who became a companion of the Prophet. Islam elevated his status and the Prophet gave him the happy news of being destined for heaven in the life to come. ...
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    14,76 €


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