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  • The House of the Red Balconies
    A.J. Demas
    Hylas has come to Tykanos to build an aqueduct. He has not come to enjoy the island’s main attraction: the six houses where the companions of Tykanos, courtesans both female and male, offer tea and elegant conversation. Yet he cannot ignore them as he finds himself renting a room in one of the tea houses and meeting his neighbour, the beautiful, chronically ill companion Zo.Ove...
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    16,03 €

  • Honey and Pepper
    A.J. Demas
    Newly freed from enslavement, Nikias is making a life for himself in the bustling city of Pheme, working at a snack stand, drinking with a group of anti-slavery radicals, and pining for the beautiful law clerk next door. When he sees his crush attacked in the street by an outraged ex-client, it seems it’s finally Nikias’s chance to be the hero.Kallion doesn’t need a rescue. Wha...
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    15,20 €

  • Game of Privilege
    Lane Demas
    This groundbreaking history of African Americans and golf explores the role of race, class, and public space in golf course development, the stories of individual black golfers during the age of segregation, the legal battle to integrate public golf courses, and the little-known history of the United Golfers Association (UGA) — a black golf tour that operated from 1925 to 1975....
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    47,50 €

  • Strong Wine
    A.J. Demas / A.JDemas
    Retired soldier Damiskos and his lover Varazda have been living together in Boukos for a month, and their future is beginning to look bright. Then Damiskos receives a letter summoning him home to Pheme-where his parents are deeply in debt, his brother is being hunted by loan sharks, and an unwanted arranged marriage looms.And that’s before Damiskos is charged with murder. Fortu...
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    14,15 €

  • Saffron Alley
    A.J. Demas / A.JDemas
    A month ago, eunuch sword-dancer and spy Varazda collided with ex-soldier Damiskos at a seaside villa during a dizzying week of intrigue, assassinations, and a fake love affair that-maybe-turned real. Now Varazda is back home in Boukos, at the centre of a family and community he dearly loves, and Damiskos is coming to visit.Things aren’t going according to plan.Varazda’s family...
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    14,15 €

  • Surprises in Miliʻs Suitcase
    Antonia Demas / Katherine Orr
    Growing up in Hawaii, eleven-year old Hana knows sharing food is about sharing gifts of love and aloha. In this story, Hana discovers that sharing delicious foods is also about sharing the gift of health. After Hana is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, Auntie Mili comes to visit, bearing knowledge that diabetes can be reversed by eating a plant-based diet rich in fruits and veget...
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    14,25 €

  • Sword Dance
    A.J. Demas / A.JDemas
    Five years ago, Damiskos’s brilliant military career was cut short, leaving him with a permanent disability and scars that are not all physical. Adrift and still grieving, he tries to find meaning in an unsatisfying job.Work takes him to the remote seaside villa of an old friend, where, among an odd assortment of guests, he meets the eunuch sword-dancer Varazda. Enigmatic and b...
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    14,02 €

  • Something Human
    A.J. Demas / A.JDemas
    They met on a battlefield and saved each other’s lives. It’s not the way enemies-to-lovers usually works.Adares comes from a civilization of democracy and indoor plumbing. Rus belongs to a tribe of tattooed, semi-nomadic horse-breeders. They meet in the aftermath of battle, when Rus saves Adares’s life, and Adares returns the favour. As they shelter in an abandoned temple, a fr...
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    14,07 €

  • One Night in Boukos
    A.J. Demas / A.JDemas
    On a night when the whole city is looking for love, two foreigners find it in the last place they expected.The riotous Psobion festival is about to begin in the city of Boukos, and the ambassador from the straightlaced kingdom of Zash has gone missing. Ex-soldier Marzana, captain of the embassy guard, and the ambassador’s secretary, the shrewd and urbane eunuch Bedar, are the o...
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    14,11 €

  • With Knowledge and Virtue
    PhD Themi H. Demas / PhD Themi HDemas
    Technology continues to advance … and so do our problems.Two of our biggest threats are global warming and nuclear war, and we must eliminate these threats. Fortunately, cost-effective technology exists to reduce global warming, but we must be smart enough to use it.The author offers a detailed proposal for combating climate change, building a more robust economy by creating jo...
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    12,31 €

  • An Inherited Past
    Demas Huckaba
    After years of hard work and secrecy, Allen and a group of rogue scientists are ready to test the new development. It’s time to make history. They’re prepared to flip the switch and activate the ancient artifact. But something goes horribly wrong and the artifact cannot be shut down. Instead of a reactor, they have opened a portal from which spews multitudes of demon-like creat...
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    17,45 €

  • Strategies for Sustainable Tourism at the Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang, China
    Jinshi Fan / Martha Demas / Neville Agnew
    At the Mogao Grottoes, a World Heritage site near Dunhuang city in Gansu Province, visitor numbers have increased inexorably since 1979 when the site opened. A national policy that identifies tourism as a pillar industry, along with pressure from local authorities and businesses to encourage more tourism, threatens to lead to an unsustainable situatio...
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    68,11 €

  • Bargaining With God for a Better Deal
    Fanuel A. Demas PhD / Fanuel ADemas PhD
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    14,85 €

  • Seasonal Patterns of Stress, Immune Function, and Disease
    Gregory E. Demas / Gregory EDemas / Randy J. Nelson / Randy JNelson / Sabra L. Klein / Sabra LKlein
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    56,58 €

  • It’s a Jungle Out There and a Zoo in Here
    Cheryl Demas
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    17,48 €

  • Eleven Stories High
    Corinne Demas
    This memoir evokes a girl’s coming of age in a postwar New York City planned, 'utopian' community.Eleven Stories High is a memoir of a middle-class New York childhood, the perceptions of a girl growing up in a housing project that she deemed a 'utopia of the fifties.' The story follows the process of memory, rather than the conventions of chronology, and explores the concept of...
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    25,27 €