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  • Changing Winds
    St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Changing Winds pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'Changing Winds: A Novel' by St. John G. Ervine captures a pivotal era of profound social change and political unrest. Set against the backdrop of World War I and its lasting impact on Ireland, particularly Nor...
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    42,36 €

  • The Book of Haatan
    John Michael Greer
    Occult detective Ariel Moravec investigates the theft of a mysterious grimoire.Ariel Moravec has started her training as an apprentice mage and amateur sleuth, under the tutelage of her grandfather, Dr. Moravec. Her days are spent garbling herbs at Aunt Clarice’s hoodoo shop and working through the foundations of French occult literature.But her studies are interrupted by the d...
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    25,53 €

  • Some Impressions of My Elders (Cram Edition)
    St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Some Impressions of My Elders pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'Some Impressions of My Elders' offers insightful biographical essays on prominent figures in early 20th-century English and Irish literature. St. John Greer Ervine, a respected voice in his own ...
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    26,02 €

  • The House of the Crows
    John Michael Greer
    An Ariel Moravec Occult Mystery, #4Returning to Adocentyn after an unpleasant Christmas with her parents, 18-year-old Ariel Moravec is eager to study more magic with her adept grandfather. But she barely has time to arrive before she’s investigating her newest mystery: a haunting even professional ghost hunters couldn’t solve.One of the old mansions south of Coopers Bay is haun...
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    23,34 €

  • The Witch of Criswell
    John Michael Greer
    Occult detective Ariel Moravec investigates the strange forces stirring in the little farm town of Criswell, where a famous witch lived in colonial times.Eighteen-year-old Ariel Moravec doesn’t expect much from a summer with the grandfather she hasn’t met in years: a respite from her dysfunctional family, perhaps, and a brief delay before she has to face an uncertain future. A ...
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    25,58 €

  • Parnell
    St. John Greer Ervine
    'Parnell' is a compelling biographical study of one of the most enigmatic and influential figures in Irish history: Charles Stewart Parnell. Written by the acclaimed dramatist and biographer St. John G. Ervine, this work delves into the life of the 'Uncrowned King of Ireland,' exploring his rise to power as the leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party and his relentless pursuit ...
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    27,13 €

  • The Wayward Man
    St. John Greer Ervine
    'The Wayward Man' is a compelling psychological study and sea-faring adventure that captures the restless spirit of Robert Dunwoody, a young man born into a strict, religious Belfast household. St. John Greer Ervine explores the profound tension between familial obligation and the siren call of the unknown. When Robert defies his mother’s wish for him to enter the ministry, he ...
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    28,96 €

  • Collapse Now and Avoid the Rush
    John Michael Greer
    Thanks to our reliance - and addiction - to petroleum, industrial civilization is collapsing. But rather than the sudden mass calamity imagined by Hollywood films and prophets of doom, it’s a 'long descent,' a series of systemic catastrophes which we can no longer prevent.What can we do in such a time? With wit, kindness, and an astounding understanding of history and political...
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    25,82 €

  • Carnelian Moon
    John Michael Greer
    Occult detective Ariel Moravec investigates an ancient artefact and a disappearing dog... When Ariel Moravec and her grandfather are called to investigate the provenance of an ancient relic at the Heydonian Museum, it hardly has the makings of a thrilling or dangerous case. But mysterious happenings are afoot across town; there have been sightings of a shadowy dog that disappea...
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    22,31 €

  • Star’s Reach
    John Michael Greer
    A novel of the deindustrial future...More than four centuries have passed since industrial civilization stumbled to its ruin under the self-inflicted blows of climate change and resource depletion.Now, in the ruins of a deserted city, a young man mining metal risks his life to win a priceless clue.That discovery will send him, and an unlikely band of seekers, on a quest for a p...
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    21,26 €

  • After Progress
    John Michael Greer
    The acclaimed climate futurist examines our unquestioning faith in progress, and its limits in the face of peak oil and climate change.Since the Industrial Age began, scientific and technological progress has been nothing short of miraculous. As a result, progress itself has become the new religion of the West. Our faith in it is so complete that many of us ignore the perils of...
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    33,35 €

  • The Retro Future
    John Michael Greer
    An examination to discover a solution for the troubles of our modern age: technical regression.To most people paying attention to the collision between industrial society and the hard limits of a finite planet, it’s clear that things are going very, very wrong. We no longer have unlimited time and resources to deal with the crises that define our future, and the options are lim...
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    33,51 €

  • The Wealth of Nature
    John Michael Greer
    Renowned political theorist and author proposes a bold new economic paradigm based on the value of sustainability.The Wealth of Nature proposes a new model of economics based on the integral value of ecology.Building on the foundations of E.F. Schumacher’s revolutionary 'economics as if people mattered', this book examines the true cost of confusing money with wealth.By analyzi...
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    33,35 €

  • The Ecotechnic Future
    John Michael Greer
    How to survive and thrive in the post-industrial ageIn response to the coming impact of peak oil, John Michael Greer helps us envision the transition from an industrial society to a sustainable ecotechnic world-not returning to the past, but creating a society that supports relatively advanced technology on a sustainable resource base.Fusing human ecology and history, this book...
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    33,29 €

  • The Long Descent
    John Michael Greer
    The visionary classic that traces out the twilight of the petroleum ageIn 2008, as the price of crude oil spiked to record levels, John Michael Greer’s The Long Descent pushed past the stereotyped debates of the time to offer a harrowing but hopeful vision of the future of industrial society.As believers in perpetual progress insisted that something would turn up to replace dep...
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    33,35 €

  • Journey Star
    John Michael Greer
    A race for survival...Twenty years have passed on the colony world Eridan since the end of the war between the warrior mystics of the Halka and the heirs of the tyrannical Planetary Directorate.With the Directorate and its lethal battle-drones gone, the Halka have turned all their strength to the struggle against the cannibalistic Outrunners, so that Eridan can finally be made ...
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    22,16 €

  • Retrotopia
    John Michael Greer
    A journey forward into the past...The year is 2065. Decades ago, the United States of America fell apart after four brutal years of civil war, and the fragments coalesced into new nations divided by economic and political rivalries.Most of the post-US America is wracked by poverty and civil strife, with high-tech skyscrapers rising above crowded, starving slums.But one of the n...
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    22,16 €

  • The Fires of Shalsha
    John Michael Greer
    An ancient evil is stirring...Centuries after the death of Earth, something unbidden and wicked is beginning to awake on the colony world of Eridan.Six killing machines have lunged out of the northern barrens to annihilate an isolated community.The one clue to the motive behind the killings is locked within the shattered mind of the only survivor.As helicopters race through the...
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    21,94 €

  • The Hall of Homeless Gods
    John Michael Greer
    A cli-fi thriller in a gritty futureMeet Jerry Shimizu. He’s a tough, two-fisted fixer who works for the boss of Habitat Four, one of five Japanese refugee communities built on abandoned oil platforms off the coast of the United States in a hard-edged dystopian future of technological decline and climate chaos. His beat is Shoreside, the bustling, brawling, anything-goes tempor...
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    22,22 €

  • The Nyogtha Variations
    John Michael Greer
    A Haliverse fantasy: A whisper from Carcosa...Five years have passed since Brecken Kendall met the shoggoth she nicknamed Sho and began to discover the unnerving realities hidden behind the stories of iconic weird-fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft.Now Brecken and Sho live in Arkham, Massachusetts, where Brecken juggles the demands of her day job with the early stages of her career ...
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    21,77 €

  • The Shoggoth Concerto
    John Michael Greer
    A Haliverse fantasy: In the Shadow of Hob’s Hill... ...
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    21,75 €

  • The Seal of Yueh Lao
    John Michael Greer
    A Haliverse fantasy: A legacy from the Eldritch past...Asenath Merrill, sixteen years old, spends her summers studying witchcraft in the village of Chorazin and her nights traveling the uncanny kingdoms of the Dreamlands.It’s all perfectly ordinary, if it so happens that you belong to one of the secretive cults that worship the Great Old Ones, your mother comes from Innsmouth a...
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    22,35 €

  • A Voyage to Hyperborea
    John Michael Greer
    A Haliverse fantasy: Beneath Greenland’s glaciers...All Toby Gilman wants is a postdoc position where he can pursue his studies in ancient Arctic linguistics and keep the secret of his nonhuman ancestry safely hidden.The bitter academic politics in his field leaves him only one option: a Miskatonic University expedition to an isolated station on the eastern coast of Greenland. ...
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    21,77 €

  • Arkham
    John Michael Greer
    A thrilling adventure on the other side of the Cthulhu Mythos: the stars are right at last... ...
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    22,10 €

  • Innsmouth
    John Michael Greer
    A thrilling adventure on the other side of the Cthulhu Mythos: there are two sides to every story...Like every other grad student at Miskatonic University, Owen Merrill knows about the Great Old Ones, the nightmare beings out of ancient legend that H.P. Lovecraft unearthed from archaic texts and turned into icons of modern fantasy fiction.After a chance discovery-a lost letter ...
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    23,29 €

  • Kingsport
    John Michael Greer
    A thrilling adventure on the other side of the Cthulhu Mythos: as the Old Gods awaken...Like other students at Miskatonic University, Jenny Parrish worries mostly about passing her finals and getting a graduate assistantship.Then an unexpected letter arrives from her great-aunt Sylvia, inviting her to spend the holidays and celebrate a mysterious Festival at the family mansion ...
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    22,15 €

  • Chorazin
    John Michael Greer
    A thrilling adventure on the other side of the Cthulhu Mythos: something sleeps with the hill...A last desperate hope brings Justin Martense to the little town of Dunwich in the Massachusetts hills.Justin’s family lies under an ancient curse brought down on them by an ancestor’s terrible deed. Once in each generation, one of the descendants of Gerrit Martense is summoned in dre...
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    22,14 €

  • Dreamlands
    John Michael Greer
    A thrilling adventure on the other side of the Cthulhu Mythos: onwards, to a country of dreams...For five and a half years, since the mysterious disappearance of two of her graduate students, Professor Miriam Akeley of Miskatonic University has pursued her own covert researches into the forbidden lore underlying the seemingly fantastic tales of H.P. Lovecraft.The clues she has ...
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    22,15 €

  • Providence
    John Michael Greer
    A thrilling adventure on the other side of the Cthulhu Mythos: in a handful of dust...As the ancient war between the old gods of Earth and their bitter enemies rises toward a final confrontation, Owen Merrill sets out from his new home in Arkham to Rhode Island, seeking the ultimate weapon in that war: the spells that might succeed in calling Great Cthulhu from his temple-tomb ...
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    22,14 €

  • Red Hook
    John Michael Greer
    A thrilling adventure on the other side of the Cthulhu Mythos: beneath Brooklyn’s sidewalk...The last thing Justin Martense wants to do is fling himself back into the ancient war between the Great Old Ones and their relentless enemies.Now that his family’s inherited illness has shown up, he wants nothing more than to wrap up eleven years of farming in the Catskill town of Leffe...
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    22,15 €


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