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  • Optimism
    Helen Keller
    Who better than Helen Keller to write about optimism? Helen Keller became blind when she was nineteen months old. At the time children who were deaf and blind were simply given up on. But Helen’s mother read that a deaf blind person had been educated and decided to explore that possibility for her daughter. As a result of this Helen Keller was the first deaf blind person to ear...
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    14,24 €

  • Best Korean Short Stories Collection 2 대한민국 베스트 단편 소설모음집 2
    Meet the very finest of Korean short stories. This compilation of 17 short stories bring you the essence of Korean literature, covering the early 1900's to the late 1900's. Also ideal for advanced Korean learners.대한민국 문화의 정수를 담아 1900년초부터 1900년후반까지의 거장들의 작품을 담은 모음집. 한국 문화와 언어를 공부하는 상급자 수준의 학생들에게 교재로도 적합한 도서. ...
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    10,78 €

  • the post calvin
    After three years of publishing daily pieces online, the post calvin is proud to present the post calvin: selected essays. Editors Josh deLacy, Will Montei, Debra Rienstra, and Abby Zwart have gathered suggestions from writers and chosen pieces that represent the heart and soul of the post calvin. the post calvin is a daily online journal that features twenty-eight regular wri...
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    13,30 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Color
    Kenneth A. McClane / Kenneth AMcClane
    In 1991, acclaimed poet Kenneth A. McClane published Walls: Essays, 1985-1990, a volume of essays dealing with life in Harlem, the death of his alcoholic brother, and the complexities of being black and middle-class in America. Now, in Color: Essays on Race, Family, and History, McClane contributes further to his self-described 'autobiographical sojourn' with a second collectio...
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    28,20 €

  • DeFacto Feminism
    Judy Juanita
    Judy Juanita views activism and feminism as it plays out in her political, artistic and spiritual life. A distinguished semifinalist for OSU’s 2016 Non/Fiction Collection Prize, De Facto… blends essays, poems, graphics by the late Rini Templeton and literary criticism. An act of self-definition with the feel of memoir, these essays follow a long line of thinkers, including Anna...
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    14,63 €

  • Utopía
    Tomás Moro
    En 1516, en pleno reinado de Enrique VIII, Moro publica su obra más famosa, donde explica la organización de una sociedad ideal, imaginaria, que se establece en una nación en forma de isla, llamada Utopía. Desde entonces, esta palabra simbolizará todo mundo idealizado.En Utopía se vive en paz y se comparten todos los bienes. Las autoridades son elegidas por votación popular y s...
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    14,46 €

  • Treze vidas cruzadas
    Ana Dâmaso
    Treze Vidas Cruzadas é uma narrativa sensível e inspiradora sobre pertencimento, resiliência e a força transformadora da educação. A obra acompanha a trajetória de Aline – personagem fictícia, que representa muitas vidas reais – desde a infância simples no interior de Minas Gerais até sua consolidação como pesquisadora e referência na área da saúde, sem jamais se desconectar de...
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    10,92 €

  • Manual de desaparición
    Ruymán Rodríguez Peñate
    Ensayo sobre el arte de desaparecerNo es un método para sentirse mejor. No contiene claves para el éxito ni frases para repetirse frente al espejo. Este libro no quiere salvarte: quiere incomodarte.En una época en la que todo debe mostrarse, registrarse y compartirse, desaparecer se ha convertido en un gesto político, estético y vital. No hablamos de evasión, sino de estrategia...
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    14,00 €

  • Teoísmo
    Adhemar Ramires
    Não escolhemos nascer.Recebemos um corpo, um tempo e uma consciência inquieta.O teoísmo nasce nesse intervalo entre Deus e o nada.Não o Deus dos dogmas, mas a ideia que resiste à razão e à fé cega. Um pensamento que não promete salvação, apenas lucidez diante da dor, da finitude e do mistério de existir.Viver, talvez, seja apenas isso:seguir adiante carregando o peso da própria...
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    16,54 €

  • El dedal de Stalin
    Jesús García Castrillo
    Entre un lenguaje cercano, articulado a través del diálogo, la belleza de la prosa y la seriedad de un investigador, emerge una tesis tan audaz como rigurosa; el euskera no se formó hace miles de años, sino hace apenas diez siglos, en plena Edad Media. 10 ...
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    21,96 €

  • Yo quemé los pies de los niños y maté los peces
    Geovanni Reyes
    Entre 1992 y 2002, un joven obrero atraviesa fábricas, agencias de empleo y turnos interminables en una Colombia que produce sin mirar de frente sus costos humanos. En el corazón de una planta química —entre tanques, alarmas y protocolos que se aprenden a golpes— descubre el reverso del progreso: la precariedad normalizada, la negligencia técnica, el silencio como parte del eng...
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    14,04 €

  • ¿Puede un hombre cambiar el mundo?
    Rubén Iglesias / Rubén Iglesias - Harislur
    ¿Puede un hombre cambiar el mundo?¿Es casual la situación actual de occidente?¿El mundo woke y las leyes progres surgieron por arte de birlibirloque?¿Crees que eres verdaderamente libre?Si vives en Europa, ¿has reflexionado sobre el cambio que tendrá tu vida en unos años debido al crecimiento islámico?¿Están en peligro tu cultura, tradiciones y costumbres? ¿Te consideras de cla...
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    20,00 €

  • Usurper
    D. Harlan Wilson
    In the sequel to the critically acclaimed Outré, a novel that explores the future of cinema through the unlikely vehicle of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, D. Harlan Wilson turns to James Joyce’s Ulysses as a source of inspiration, entertainment, and social commentary. Outré tells the story of an aging movie star battling the tyranny of filmmaker Donovan Ogg and an antagonistic, s...
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    21,20 €

  • REBELLEHEART
    Karin Sziva
    What if one’s most tender letters - never meant for the world - could become an unexpected inspiration for someone else to come home to themselves?REBELLEHEART is a raw journey into the wild terrain of love, loss, and emotional truth.Intimate and fiercely honest, these fragments invite you to remember what it means to feel, to risk, and to live with your heart wide open.There’s...
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    12,77 €

  • Folk Traditions and Cultural Identity of Western Odisha
    Anjali Tripathy
    Western Odisha, marked by a rich and diverse assemblage of music, dance, oral narratives, and ritual practices, constitutes one of India’s most significant reservoirs of folk traditions. Sustained through voice, rhythm, movement, and collective memory, these traditions form the core of the region’s cultural identity. They function not merely as aesthetic expressions but as carr...
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    20,11 €

  • Interstellar Flight Magazine Best of Year Six
    Holly Lyn Walrath
    Welcome to yet another edition of Interstellar Flight Magazine, your trusted companion for the long drift between stars. This year, we bring you a taste of Earth’s cultural memory, preserved for the year 2024. Carefully curated to keep your imagination humming while you wait for arrival at your nearest port of call, this year’s anthology brings essays, reviews, and interviews d...
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    17,38 €

  • Tratado de prova dedutiva sobre a razão
    José Luis Garcia Pereira
    Deus existe?A eternidade existe?Qual o objetivo da vida de cada ser físico?Qual a nossa missão?Qual o objetivo da manifestação do próprio Universo?Quem sou eu, afinal?Todas estas respostas podem ser encontradas no conteúdo apresentado nesta obra, que se concretiza como sendo a fundamentação racional do que se poderá revelar pela interpretação e pela dedução, como uma unidade qu...
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    22,36 €

  • Gouger of the Bulletin
    Ion Idriess
    This second volume of ’Gouger’ contains more of the early writings of Ion Idriess, many written under his various pseudonyms that were previously not located with the great story-teller. Most of these stories, articles and paragraphs have never been in book form until now, and are the result of much pain-staking research by Idriess scholar, Jim Bradly. As always with Idriess, t...
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    23,23 €

  • O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories Of 1923
    Unknown
    In the quiet corners of early 20th-century America, where moral dilemmas unfold against a backdrop of societal change, lies a collection that captures the essence of human experience. Once out of print for decades, this literary fiction collection has been lovingly restored by Alpha Editions for today’s and future generations. It stands as a testament to the enduring power of s...
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    21,10 €

  • Smrutira Barnali
    Biraja Routray
    Born in 1973, Dr. Biraja Routray is a powerful voice among contemporary voices in Odia short stories. His short stories and poems are around the variance of the day-to-day life of a common man. He remains in the continuous search of life and shares his experience in the form of short stories with readers. His six short story collections are 'Gahali Arapakhe', 'Bahubachan', 'Pra...
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    16,60 €

  • Artes visuales en 2666 de Roberto Bolaño
    Fan Wu
    El presente trabajo parte de la hipótesis de que la hibridación de lo visual constituye una estrategia narrativa fundamental en 2666, la última y más ambiciosa obra de Roberto Bolaño. Tiene como objetivo principal examinar en profundidad las relaciones interartísticas entre texto e imagen en esta obra maestra. Asimismo, se indaga en las concepciones estéticas del autor a partir...
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    24,95 €

  • Autoridad y dictadura
    Francisco Gallardo Negrete
    Así como la novela moderna surgió en el siglo XVI, de acuerdo con Roberto González Echevarría, por imitación de la ley en el imperio español, la novela del dictador en Hispanoamérica apareció trescientos años más tarde, entre el colapso del gobierno colonial y la instauración de las repúblicas liberales, emulando al “discurso hegemónico” vigente: la no-ley. En Autoridad y dicta...
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    21,90 €

  • Discurso del método
    René Descartes
    Discurso del método, cuyo título completo es Discurso del método para conducir bien la propia razón y buscar la verdad en las ciencias (Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences) es la principal obra escrita por René Descartes y una obra cumbre del pensamiento occidental, de fundamental importancia para el desarrollo de la filo...
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    14,90 €

  • Midnight’s Orchards
    Makitia Thompson
    Midnight’s Orchards is a curated collection of intimate quotes and reflective passages about love, loss, faith, and the quiet work of becoming.Written for slow reading and quiet moments, this book explores the many ways love shapes and breaks us: romantic and empty, desperate and enduring, toxic and sustaining. These reflections move through grief, abandonment, identity, longin...
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    14,14 €

  • 一个凤凰男和半个纽约客
    应帆
    《一个凤凰男和半个纽约客》是一部以个人经验为核心、兼具幽默、反思与情感厚度的散文集。作者应帆出生于苏北乡村,成长于中国的教育体系,成年后赴美求学、工作,旅居纽约二十余年。书中的文字,正是在乡村与城市、中国与美国、理工训练与文学感受之间来回穿行的记录。全书分为六辑,从'我是凤凰男'的自嘲与自省写起,写家庭出身、阶层流动与身份标签;写父母、伴侣与子女,写'虎妈'、父亲的厨艺、母亲在美国的生活适应,也写为人夫、为人父的困惑与温柔;写育儿日常中的笑与痛,写小儿女的成长、代际差异与文化错位;写美国社会与普通美国人,写老师、邻居、朋友,也写一个移民在异国日常中逐渐建立起的理解与情感连接;最终回到纽约--这座城市既给予自由,也不断制造迷路。应帆的散文不追求宏大叙事,而擅长从鸡蛋、头发、胡子、饭菜、图书馆、地铁、一次尴尬的面试等具体细节中,展开对身份、记忆、文化与人...
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    21,52 €

  • Adabi Mubahis, Fikri Zaviye
    Mehdi Ifadi
    Adabi Mubahis, Fikri Zaviye gathers thirteen essays by Mehdi Ifadi that traverse literary criticism, historical inquiry, and aesthetic philosophy with elegant clarity. Ifadi’s fluent, spirited prose renders complex ideas accessible without sacrificing depth-addressing the evolution of Urdu letters, translations and presses, the philosophy of love and beauty, and critical readin...
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    23,78 €

  • Médiations méditérranéennes
    NA / TBD
    Au sommaire : L’influence de la Méditerranée dans L’Odyssée de Nikos Kazantzákis.De la Méditerranée dans l’œuvre de Jean-Philippe Toussaint : une géographie de la mémoire .Matière hammam.The Mediterranean Humanism of Albert Camus : An Art for Living in Times of Disaster.Tahar Bekri, poète de la Méditerranée.Jacques Fersen, Capri et la Méditerranée. Abdelkébir Khatibi, penseur ...
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    32,15 €

  • Guzre Chehre, Zinda Baatein
    Shahid Ahmad Dehlvi
    Guzre Chehre, Zinda Baatein (Faces of the Past, Living Words) gathers six literary pen-portraits that vividly resurrect the personalities and cultural life of Delhi. Written in a clear, evocative style, these essays blend concise character sketches with rich scenes, dialogues, and historical nuance. The author’s eye for outward mien and inner temperament brings each subject ali...
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    22,37 €