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  • Proto Sci Fi
    Charles Featherstone
    In the millennia before the term ’science fiction’ appeared in 1851 or Hugo Gernsback popularized the term in 1929, storytellers were already gazing at the moon and wondering who might live there, and what other wonders and terrors the universe might hold. They imagined voyages to other worlds, encounters with alien intelligences, utopian futures, and experiments that pushed hu...
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    26,40 €

  • History’s Great Speeches
    Charles Featherstone
    Embark on a journey through 2,400 years of history with this definitive collection of 167 of the world’s greatest speeches. Presented chronologically, this master volume spans from the golden age of Athens in 431 BCE to Sun Yat-sen’s visionary call for Pan-Asianism in 1924.The odyssey begins with Demosthenes, whose rhetorical mastery forms the DNA of modern expression. Witness ...
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    34,82 €

  • A Weaponised Field Guide to Schopenhauer’s Art of Being Right
    Arthur Schopenhauer / Charles Featherstone / Thomas Bailey Saunders
    Being right doesn’t mean you’re going to win. This is why.You’ve been here before. You make a solid point, logically sound, only to watch the conversation get hijacked. Suddenly, you’re defending against a ridiculous exaggeration, a personal jab, or some clever-sounding nonsense that has nothing to do with what you actually said. You get frustrated, derailed, and defeated-even ...
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    16,14 €

  • Emperor Norton I
    Charles Featherstone
    Long before he proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States, a young Joshua Norton arrived at the Cape of Good Hope as part of a grand British scheme: the 1820 Settler scheme. His family, like thousands of others, was promised fertile land to serve as a buffer against the Xhosa kingdoms on the volatile Eastern Cape frontier.This wryly humorous and meticulously researched nov...
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    11,84 €

  • The Love That Matters
    Charles H. Featherstone / Charles HFeatherstone
    A blond-haired, blue-eyed Lutheran man is approached on the streets of Chicago by members of the Latin Kings so he may teach them how to pray, and he does so with grace--this man’s story, one suspects, isn’t going to be a typical one.Life has not been easy for Charles Featherstone. From being bullied by peers and teachers in school, to his refusing to become a bully himself by ...
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    28,54 €