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Reminiscences of My Life in Camp: An African American Woman's Civil War Memoir, Paperback - Susie King Taylor

149,99 RON 160,99 RON

Reducere. Near the end of her classic wartime account, Susie King Taylor writes, "there are many people who do not know what some of the colored women did du...

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Decisions: How to Master the Art of Decision-Making, Paperback - Pankaj Garg

78,99 RON 84,99 RON

Reducere. "We make decisions, but decisions make our life."All of us need to make decisions that may be major or minor. One good decision can work wonders an...

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Il Vagabondo: An Urban Opera, 33: A Tale of Gusto and Enchantment, Adaptation, Loss, and Preserving the Old Ways of Making a Life - Glenn Carley

136,99 RON

Enter the cross-cultural tale of gusto and enchantment, adaptation and loss, preserving the old ways of making a life. Presented in six acts with i...

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Sor Juana: Or, the Traps of Faith, Paperback - Octavio Paz

329,99 RON 353,99 RON

Reducere. Mexico's leading poet, essayist, and cultural critic writes of a Mexican poet of another time and another world, the world of seventeenth-century N...

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High-Speed Society: Social Acceleration, Power, and Modernity, Paperback - Hartmut Rosa

266,99 RON 285,99 RON

Reducere. Everywhere, life seems to be speeding up: we talk of "fast food" and "speed dating." But what does the phenomenon of social acceleration really ent...

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Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story, Paperback - Rachel Kadish

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. Tolstoy famously wrote, "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." To Tracy Farber, thirty-three, happily sing...

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Why Travel Matters: A Guide to the Life-Changing Effects of Travel, Paperback - Craig Storti

75,99 RON 81,99 RON

Reducere. When you travel, you have a choice: You can be a tourist and have a nice time, or you can be a traveler and change your life. Why Travel Matters is...

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Interpreting Old Testament Wisdom Literature, Paperback - David G. Firth

209,99 RON 224,99 RON

Reducere. In popular perception, Wisdom literature is a "self-help" or "philosophy" section of the Old Testament library--the odd and interesting bits of can...

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A Reader's Companion to Mikhail Bulgakov's the Master and Margarita, Paperback - J. a. E. Curtis

178,99 RON 191,99 RON

Reducere. Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, set in Stalin's Moscow, is an intriguing work with a complex structure, wonderful comic episodes...

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Under the Hawthorn Tree, Paperback - Marita Conlon-McKenna

41,99 RON 44,99 RON

Reducere. One of the greatest historical fiction adventures in children's literature. Marita Conlon-McKenna's Children of the Famine series brings to life as...

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Petrarch: The Canzoniere, or Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta, Paperback - Mark Musa

421,99 RON 451,99 RON

Reducere. Mark Musa, in editing and translating Petrarch's Canzoniere, has performed a wonderful service to the English-speaking reader. Here, in one volume,...

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The Count of Monte Cristo, Paperback - Alexandre Dumas

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. Best-selling author Alexandre Dumas--who also wrote The Three Musketeers--tells this heartbreaking yet heroic tale of Edmond Dantes who takes reven...

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Fields of Home, Paperback - Marita Conlon-McKenna

43,99 RON 47,99 RON

Reducere. One of the greatest historical fiction adventures in children's literature. Marita Conlon-McKenna's Children of the Famine series brings to life as...

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Theological Interpretation of Scripture, Paperback - Stephen E. Fowl

67,99 RON

DescriptionDescription: Christians have been interpreting Scripture with an aim of deepening their life with God and each other from the very begin...

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Noah and the Ark, Hardcover - Tomie dePaola

72,99 RON 78,99 RON

Reducere. The late, beloved children's book writer and illustrator Tomie dePaola, presents his unique, imaginative artwork to bring new life to this beautifu...

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On Flirtation, Paperback - Adam Phillips

212,99 RON 227,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionPeople tend to flirt only with serious things--madness, disaster, other people's affections. So is flirtation dangerous, exploiting the ...

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Fiction Without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture, Paperback - Lynn Festa

192,99 RON 206,99 RON

Reducere. Although the Enlightenment is often associated with the emergence of human rights and humanitarian sensibility, humanity is an elusive category in ...

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The Poems of Phillis Wheatley, Paperback - Phillis Wheatley

31,99 RON 34,99 RON

Reducere. Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) is the first book of poetry published by an African American author. Written while Wheatley w...

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How to Live. What To Do.: Life Lessons from Literature - Josh Cohen

107,99 RON

What can Alice in Wonderland teach us about childhood? Could reading Conversations with Friends guide us through first love? Does Esther Greenwood'...

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Acrobat, Paperback - Nabaneeta Dev Sen

88,99 RON

A deeply humane new collection by a luminary of Bengali literature A radiant collection of poetry about womanhood, intimacy, and the body politic t...

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The Master and Margarita, Paperback - Mikhail Bulgakov

75,99 RON

The acclaimed, bestselling translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's masterwork, an undisputed classic of Russian and world literature An audacious revisio...

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Hook: A Memoir, Paperback - Randall Horton

120,99 RON 129,99 RON

Reducere. Hook: A Memoir is a gripping story of transformation. Without excuse or indulgence, author and educator Randall Horton explores his downward spiral...

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The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination. Myth, Literature, Science and Philosophy, Paperback - ***

196,99 RON

This is a book for readers who are fascinated by the Moon and the earliest speculations about life on other worlds. It takes the reader on a journe...

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Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times, Paperback - John Darnton

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. Now in paperback, today's most celebrated writers explore literature and the literary life in an inspirational collection of original essays.By tur...

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Oblomov, Paperback - Ivan Goncharov

37,99 RON 40,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionOblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the ...

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The Way of the Living Ghost, Paperback - John Anderson

250,99 RON 268,99 RON

Reducere. The Way of the Living Ghost is a cautionary treatise. It is a work about being hollow and overfull, and about seeing "now" and "then" through darke...

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Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene, Paperback - Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

158,99 RON

Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revit...

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Sky and Symbol, Paperback - Liz Greene

269,99 RON

DescriptionHuman beings in all cultures have long used the sky to tell stories and weave myths that impart meaning to life on earth. The key to all...

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97, 196 Words: Essays, Paperback - John Lambert

94,99 RON 101,99 RON

Reducere. A selection of the best short work by France's greatest living nonfiction writer No one writes nonfiction like Emmanuel Carr re. Although he takes ...

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Ancient Rhetoric: From Aristotle to Philostratus, Paperback - Thomas Habinek

81,99 RON

A new and original anthology that introduces the use of rhetoric in the classical world, from Aristotle to Cicero and beyond Classical rhetoric is ...

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Daisy Miller and Other Stories, Paperback - Henry James

44,99 RON

The tale of Daisy's irruption into staid European society enjoyed, as did Daisy herself, a succes de scandale; and it has remained one of Jamess mo...

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Gift or Theft, Paperback - Liza Cody

117,99 RON

Seema is a gardener and a dreamer. She is almost content with her safe life, sharing a flat with her best friend. Until, on a girls' night out, a b...

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Shapeshifters: A History, Hardcover - John B. Kachuba

108,00 RON

DescriptionThere is something about a shapeshifter--a person who can transform into an animal--that captures our imagination; that causes us to wan...

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The Night Life Of The Gods, Paperback - Thorne Smith

95,99 RON 102,99 RON

Reducere. This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an at...

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My Secret Life (Complete), Paperback - Anonymous

180,99 RON 193,99 RON

Reducere. This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an at...

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Praxis II Elementary Education Multiple Subjects 5001 Study Guide: Exam Prep Book with Practice Test Questions, Paperback - ***

415,99 RON 445,99 RON

Reducere. Updated for your 2021 certification, Cirrus Test Prep's unofficial Praxis II Elementary Education Multiple Subjects 5001 Study Guide: Exam Prep Boo...

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Praxis II Elementary Education Multiple Subjects 5001 Study Guide: Exam Prep Book with Practice Test Questions, Paperback - ***

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. Updated for your 2021 certification, Cirrus Test Prep's unofficial Praxis II Elementary Education Multiple Subjects 5001 Study Guide: Exam Prep Boo...

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10 Questions Every Teen Should Ask (and Answer) about Christianity, Paperback - Rebecca McLaughlin

69,99 RON

How can we believe the Bible is true? Why can't we just agree that love is love? Isn't Christianity against diversity? Going to school, hanging out...

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Early Christian Lives, Paperback - Athanasius

69,99 RON

Written between the mid-fourth and late sixth centuries to commemorate and glorify the achievements of early Christian saints, these six biographie...

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Idylls, Paperback - Theocritus

56,99 RON

A key figure in the development of Western literature, the Greek poet Theocritus of Syracuse, was the inventor of ``bucolic`` or pastoral poetry in...

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Pair of Blue Eyes, Paperback - Thomas Hardy

62,99 RON

Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began A Pair of ...

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Elective Affinities, Paperback - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

60,99 RON

Elective Affinities was written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary giant. This is a new edition of his penetrating st...

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Aesthetics, Literature, and Life: Essays in Honor of Jean Pierre Cometti, Paperback - Jerrold Levinson

166,99 RON

DescriptionThe complex relationship between life and the arts has always been a crucial topic in philosophical discourse. The essays in this book d...

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Selected Poems of William Blake, Paperback - William Blake

69,99 RON

Writer and religious rebel, William Blake sowed the seeds of Romanticism in his innovative poems concerning faith and the vision that inspired him ...

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Stupid Questions, Hardcover - Philippe Corentin

73,99 RON

Description You would think it's obvious. Who hasn't heard "Well, that's a stupid question"? This inviting little book will amuse children who enjo...

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The Matters at Mansfield: Or, the Crawford Affair, Paperback - Carrie Bebris

116,99 RON 125,99 RON

Reducere. Jane Austen meets Anne Perry in a historical mystery series featuring the hero and heroine from Pride and PrejudiceFollowing the birth of their fir...

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The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Paperback - Sigmund Freud

97,99 RON 104,99 RON

Reducere. The most trivial slips of the tongue or pen, Freud believed, can reveal our secret ambitions, worries, and fantasies. The Psychopathology of Everyd...

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Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times, Hardcover - Katherine May

126,99 RON 135,99 RON

Reducere. "Every bit as beautiful and healing as the season itself. . . . This is truly a beautiful book." --Elizabeth GilbertAn intimate, revelatory book ex...

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The Jungle (Graphic Novel), Paperback - Upton Sinclair

119,99 RON

DescriptionA compelling graphic novel adaptation of Upton Sinclair's seminal protest novel that brings to life the harsh conditions and exploited e...

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The Mysterious Correspondent: New Stories, Paperback - Marcel Proust

107,99 RON

'Startlingly audacious.' Literary Review New writing from the literary master Throughout Proust's life, nine of his short stories remained unseen -...

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A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature, Paperback - Jacqueline Goldsby

291,99 RON

This incisive study takes on one of the grimmest secrets in America's national life-the history of lynching and, more generally, the public punishm...

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Sarahland, Hardcover - Sam Cohen

119,99 RON

"Queer, dirty, insightful, and so funny" (Andrea Lawlor), this coyly revolutionary debut story collection imagines new origins and futures for its ...

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Storm Sisters, Paperback - Afton Rorvik

88,99 RON 95,99 RON

Reducere. Nothing is more comforting that the gift of friendship when the storms of life rage. The concept of a "storm sister" is immediately clear to women,...

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Jiu-Jitsu Combat Tricks - Japanese Feats of Attack and Defence in Personal Encounter - Illustrated with Thirty-Two Photographs Taken from Life by A. B

139,99 RON 149,99 RON

Reducere. This vintage book contains a simple, beginner-friendly guide to Jiu-Jitsu. Jiu-Jitsu, also referred to as Jujitsu, is a Japanese style of martial a...

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Under the Yoke, Paperback - Ivan Vazov

88,99 RON 95,99 RON

Reducere. Under the Yoke is a novel by Ivan Vazov written in 1888. It depicts the Ottoman rule of Bulgaria and is the most famous piece of classic Bulgarian ...

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Between the Assassinations, Paperback - Aravind Adiga

100,99 RON 108,99 RON

Reducere. Welcome to Kittur, India. Of its 193, 432 residents, only 89 declare themselves to be without religion or caste. And if the characters in Between t...

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Lamb in His Bosom, Paperback - Caroline Miller

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. In 1934, Lamb in His Bosom won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. It was the first novel by a Georgia author to win a Pulitzer, soon followed by Go...

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How to Read and Critique a Scientific Research Article: Notes to Guide Students Reading Primary Literature (with Teaching Tips for Faculty Members), P

196,99 RON

Given the explosion of information and knowledge in the field of Life Sciences, adapting primary literature as materials in course work as part of ...

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A Tale of Two Cities the Complete & Unabridged Classic Edition, Paperback - Charles Dickens

107,99 RON 115,99 RON

Reducere. This premium quality volume includes the complete and unabridged text of Charles Dickens' timeless classic in a freshly edited and newly typeset ed...

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Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Paperback - Rodger L. Tarr

146,99 RON 157,99 RON

Reducere. " Rawlings is] among the first ten American story writers today."--The New Republic, 1940"She will help to make the American short story a living p...

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Banned Book Club, Paperback - Hyun Sook Kim

74,99 RON

DescriptionWhen Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and sort-of convincing her trad...

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The Buck, the Black, and the Existential Hero: Refiguring the Black Male Literary Canon, 1850 to Present, Paperback - James B. Haile

277,99 RON 297,99 RON

Reducere. The Buck, the Black, and the Existential Hero: Refiguring the Black Male Literary Canon, 1850 to Present combines philosophy, literary theory, and ...

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Hell on the Border: The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book Two, Paperback - Sidney Thompson

102,99 RON 110,99 RON

Reducere. Set in 1884, Hell on the Border tells the story of Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves at the peak of his historic career. Famous for being a crack sho...

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Fionn Mac Cumhail: Celtic Myth in English Literature, Paperback - James MacKillop

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. The Gaelic hero Fionn mac Cumhaill (often known in English as Finn MacCool) has had a long life. First cited in Old Irish chronicles from the early...

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Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth, Hardcover - Wole Soyinka

160,99 RON 172,99 RON

Reducere. The first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature gives us a tour de force, his first novel in nearly half a century: a savagely satiric, gle...

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The Book Lover's Treasury of Quotations: An Inspired Collection on Reading, Writing and Literature, Paperback - Jo Brielyn

56,99 RON

Rich with meaningful quotes, heartfelt humor and witty one-liners, The Book Lover's Treasury of Quotations brings together the best and brightest t...

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Sympathy for the Devil, Paperback - Kent Anderson

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. Kent Anderson's stunning debut novel is a modern classic, a harrowing, authentic picture of one American soldier's experience of the Vietnam War--"...

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Sumerians: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Sumerian History, Sumerian Mythology and the Mesopotamian Empire of the Sumer Civilizat, Paperback - Captiva

86,99 RON 93,99 RON

Reducere. Explore the Captivating History of the Sumerians The sheer importance of Sumerian culture in regards to world culture as a whole is impossible to o...

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Layla and Majnun: Nizami, Paperback - Paul Smith

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. LAYLA AND MAJNUN: NIZAMI Translation & Introduction by Paul Smith It is impossible to underestimate the effect of Nizami's 'Layla and Majnun' on th...

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Bird Feet and the Twelve Steps: A Thoughtful Seeker Finds Al-Anon Recovery, Paperback - Bruce W. Hasenyager

61,99 RON 66,99 RON

Reducere. Love a drunk or an addict? Learn to love safely and live peacefully. Read the story of how a "low bottom" codependent emerged from chaos, confusion...

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