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  • R. D. Laing in the Twenty-First Century
    Douglas Kirsner / Fritjof Capra / M. Guy Thompson
    In this remarkable review of the seminal contribution of the Scottish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, R. D. Laing, the three authors, each intimately acquainted with the subject matter, explore Laing’s intellectual and clinical legacy. ...
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    268,31 €

  • R. D. Laing in the Twenty-First Century
    Douglas Kirsner / Fritjof Capra / M. Guy Thompson
    In this remarkable review of the seminal contribution of the Scottish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, R. D. Laing, the three authors, each intimately acquainted with the subject matter, explore Laing’s intellectual and clinical legacy. ...
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    64,05 €

  • Retrovival
    Douglas Thompson
    In a world of the future obsessed with the past, the race is on to resurrect a Roman centurion...In the year 2089 England has collapsed into a failed state riven by civil war. In neighbouring Scotland a populist demagogue comes to power on a wave of anti-English sentiment, promising to drive out immigrants who have fled from the south. Globally the endless search for mass enter...
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    27,84 €

  • Half-A-Dozen Housekeepers
    Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin / Mills Thompson
    'Half-A-Dozen Housekeepers: A Story for Girls in Half-A-Dozen Chapters' by Kate Douglas Wiggin is a charming tale exploring the bonds of sisterhood and the resourcefulness of young women. This classic juvenile fiction, perfect for readers who enjoy stories about girls and their friendships, centers around a group navigating the challenges and joys of shared living.The story del...
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    17,17 €

  • Stray Pilot
    Douglas Thompson
    Thomas Tellman, an RAF pilot who disappeared pursuing a UFO in 1948, unexpectedly returns entirely un-aged to a small town on Scotland’s north-east coast. He finds that his 7-year-old daughter is now a bed-bound 87-year-old woman suffering from dementia. She greets him as her father but others assume she is deluded and that Thomas is an unhinged impostor or con man. While Tho...
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    27,78 €

  • Knock! Knock!
    Douglas G. Thompson / Douglas Thompson / Echo Garrett / Echo Montgomery Garrett
    For the past five decades, I’ve made my living in sales, and an excellent one at that in one of the toughest sales arenas out there: selling accident, health, and life insurance door-to-door. I decided I was going to make the sales process a fun experience for both the consumer and myself. I cannot recall meeting a single soul who told me of a childhood dream to be a salesperso...
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    14,63 €

  • Emilianna
    Douglas Thompson
    Did I only dream of Emilianna? Or was she real? If she was real, what she taught me was that nothing was real. Or if she was a dream, then she taught me that everyone was dreaming and dreaming was everything. Waking late this morning, I knew that I’d been thinking of her again, her flat down by the river Kelvin, from which the fog and ice would spread in winter at dusk and dawn...
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    16,58 €

  • Emilianna
    Douglas Thompson
    Did I only dream of Emilianna? Or was she real? If she was real, what she taught me was that nothing was real. Or if she was a dream, then she taught me that everyone was dreaming and dreaming was everything. Waking late this morning, I knew that I’d been thinking of her again, her flat down by the river Kelvin, from which the fog and ice would spread in winter at dusk and dawn...
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    9,76 €

  • The Fallen West
    Douglas Thompson
    Few writers can continuously span the chasms of prejudice that divide literary writing from science fiction and horror. The Fallen West unites Douglas Thompson’s mainstream poetry with his often outlandishly surreal short stories. The distorting mirrors of the tales focus on how the human condition oscillates between boredom and terror. The poems explore how the forces of decay...
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    13,43 €

  • Montaigne and the Tolerance of Politics
    Douglas I Thompson
    At the heart of Montaigne’s Essais lies a political conception of religious tolerance that we have largely forgotten today. In contemporary popular and academic discourse, tolerance of religious and other differences most often appears as an individual ethical disposition or a moral principle of public law. For Montaigne, tolerance is instead a political capacity: the power and...
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    160,85 €

  • The Sleep Corporation
    Douglas Thompson
    By turns wistful, haunting and macabre, ‘The Sleep Corporation’ is a major collection of thirty-one stories by Douglas Thompson, a self-proclaimed ‘Glasgow Surrealist’ and one of the most original and individual voices to have emerged in the field of British speculative and dark fiction over the last fifteen years. “Thompson is a short story writer and novelist of almost unpar...
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    16,69 €

  • Volwys and other stories
    Douglas Thompson
    Two centuries from now, humans’ unchecked environmental pollution will have provoked a new ice age. Amid the ruins of the city of Volwys, a bio-dome is under construction to protect a privileged elite, while the peasants outside live in mediaeval squalor, facing gradual extinction as the planet cools. Only one man alive remembers our world, having been kept alive by genetic man...
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    20,23 €

  • The Rhymer
    Douglas Thompson
    The Rhymer, an Heredyssey by Douglas Thompson defies classification in any one literary genre. A satire on contemporary society, particularly the art world, it is also a comic-poetic meditation on the nature of life, death and morality. A mysterious tramp wanders from town to town, taking a new name and identity from whoever he encounters first. Apparently amnesiac or even bra...
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    22,19 €

  • Lord of the Dance
    Douglas Thompson / Michael Flatley
    An inspirational and extraordinary memoir by one of the world’s most popular performers ...
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    21,52 €

  • Entanglement
    Douglas Thompson
    Described as philosophical science fiction, Entanglement explores our assumptions about such constants as death, birth, sex and conflict, as the characters in the story explore distant worlds and the intelligent life that lives there.Entanglement starts in 2180 when travel to neighbouring star systems has been mastered by the use of quantum teleportation, ’entanglement’ of sub-...
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    27,50 €

  • Mechagnosis
    Douglas Thompson
    Scott Malthrop is a murderer with a difference: his entire house is filled with an enormous device gradually assembled by him and his father over four decades. Known only as 'The Machine' the device seems to transport Malthrop to different locations in space and time by feeding off his memories and a vast array of sentimental objects and trophies taken by Malthrop from his own ...
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    19,15 €

  • Sir Devaux Of Davington
    Douglas Thompson (prelector at Cheltenha
    Rediscover the charm of 19th-century verse with 'Sir Devaux Of Davington: A Rhyme' by Douglas Thompson. This narrative poem, penned by the prelector at Cheltenham Grammar School, offers readers a delightful journey through a lighthearted tale told in skillful rhyme. Perfect for enthusiasts of classic poetry and those seeking a touch of whimsical storytelling, 'Sir Devaux Of Dav...
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    17,69 €

  • Apoidea
    Douglas Thompson
    Apoidea...When the bees were wiped out, famine and war threatened and mankind faced the abyss. But then came salvation, in the form of the cyber bee. Fully functional, fully capable of replacing its extinct predecessor. Humanity would survive.But suddenly, the bees are not behaving the way they should. Something is wrong...Apoidea...A fast paced, intelligent and frighteningly c...
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    12,24 €

  • Sylvow
    Douglas Thompson
    In the city of Sylvow, brother and sister Claudia and Leo Vestra made a childhood promise to each other: he would look after the plants and she would look after the animals. Unlike most promises, both of these were kept - each in their own way. Claudia is now a vet - looking after pampered pets or putting down strays and leading a mundane life in the city. Leo, on the other ...
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    29,86 €

  • Sylvow (Paperback)
    Douglas Thompson
    In the city of Sylvow, brother and sister Claudia and Leo Vestra made a childhood promise to each other: he would look after the plants and she would look after the animals. Unlike most promises, both of these were kept - each in their own way. Claudia is now a vet - looking after pampered pets or putting down strays and leading a mundane life in the city. Leo, on the other ...
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    16,05 €

  • Murder on the Zephyr
    Douglas Thompson
    The murder of a free-lance investigator aboard a crack Chicago to California train might have been written off and forgotten except for the involvement of a quasi-secret group funded by a general with the United States government when the train reaches the yard at Salt Lake City. A tangled trail of murder and mayhem is precipitated when a persistent Mexican/Irish homicide dete...
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    20,57 €

  • Ultrameta
    Douglas Thompson
    Under the biological microscope, fractal geometry reveals itself as the secret structure of Life itself. Like Russian dolls, the closer we zoom in, the more we pass into repeating realms of infinite divisibility. In Ultrameta, Douglas Thompson searches for just such patterns in the confusion and social devastation of modern urban life. Ultrameta is the metropolis of all metropo...
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    29,64 €

  • Ultrameta, a Fractal Novel (Paperback)
    Douglas Thompson
    Under the biological microscope, fractal geometry reveals itself as the secret structure of Life itself. Like Russian dolls, the closer we zoom in, the more we pass into repeating realms of infinite divisibility. In Ultrameta, Douglas Thompson searches for just such patterns in the confusion and social devastation of modern urban life. Ultrameta is the metropolis of all metropo...
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    19,41 €

  • Sir Devaux Of Davington
    Douglas Thompson
    ''Sir Devaux of Davington: A Rhyme in Four Epochs'' is a poetic work written by Douglas Thompson and published in 1856. The book tells the story of Sir Devaux, a knight from the village of Davington, and his adventures throughout four different time periods, or epochs. Each epoch represents a different era of history, including the Roman Empire, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance...
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    23,45 €

  • The Hustlers
    Douglas Thompson
    A racy, entertaining story of gambling, greed and the perfect con. ...
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    15,45 €

  • Satan’s Heritage
    Douglas Thompson
    Sabrina (Brandy) Mackenzie is a young woman finishing her college education in Boston when she is precipitously thrust into the mysterious world of Witchcraft against her will. A direct descendant of a 14th century witch, Lilith, Brandy’s destiny was preordained from birth by a circumstance her mother called ’Satan’s Heritage’. The novel moves through Scotland, England, Maine a...
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    19,13 €

  • The Curse of Dark Island
    Douglas Thompson
    Baron Armand Blessé, a 300-year-old vampire, leaves his native land to visit the Maine coast where his need for blood results in the death of several young women. In the small town of Rams Head, Maine, the attacks of the women and the death of one by exsanguination, involves the police chief, Dave Collins. Baffled by the nature of the attacks he is unable to solve, he calls ...
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    15,36 €

  • A Refuge From the Storm
    Douglas K. Thompson / Douglas KThompson
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    17,18 €

  • Methods in Observational Epidemiology
    Alice S. Whittmore / W. Douglas Thompson / Whittemore Evans Kelsey
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    153,36 €

  • Reducing Unemployment
    Douglas N. Thompson / Douglas NThompson / Garry K. Ottosen / Garry KOttosen
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    95,93 €


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