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  • El faro
    Michael D. O’Brien
    Ethan McQuarry es un joven farero en una pequeña isla del extremo de Nueva Escocia, en el Océano Atlántico. Sin familia, se ve a sí mismo como un «vigilante» silencioso, que cumple su deber año tras año, con un admirable sentido de la responsabilidad.Obsesionado por su soledad, se enfrenta a tormentas de un poder aterrador, también interiores, y recibe esporádicamente a visitan...
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    19,76 €

  • A Deep Sky Astrophotography Primer
    Michael O’Brien
    This instructional guide has one aim: to teach inexperienced astrophotographers how to take high quality images. Often, basic information about astrophotography is lacking, or is dealt with too briefly in books on the subject. This book is a distillation of the author’s own experiences, bringing together everything you will need to make the fastest possible progress in deep-sky...
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    47,52 €

  • Salvation’s Edge
    Michael O’Brien
    Gussalen, a young woman condemned to death in medieval England, is ripped away from all she knows, first by injustice, then by time travelers. This so-called rescue thrusts her into a new, unimaginable universe-one she cannot distinguish from Hell. Her saviors, Terry and Les-recruited by future scientists to gather lost historical data and DNA samples-must also transport the pr...
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    23,67 €

  • Godless Grace
    Michael O’ Brien
    Is it possible to live a fulfilling life of gratitude, joy, and humility in a state of grace without religion and a belief in God?  A cold hard look at the human predicament of existence in this universe based on the empirical knowledge we have today, Godless Grace uses narrative and poetry to go where people fear to tread. Not an everlasting life in heaven, but a finite life, ...
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    12,50 €

  • Welcome Home
    Michael O’Brien
    Peter Mayer is no stranger to adversity. After enduring the loss of his mother, the disappearance of his older brother during military service, and the ransacking of his beloved hometown in Germany during the Allied occupation, he is determined to press onward toward his future as a wood craftsman. With his good friend Georg in tow, he travels to the United States seeking a fre...
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    12,74 €

  • Monastery Mornings
    Michael Patrick O’Brien
    A love letter to a community of Trappist monks who provided family when it was needed the most. This warmhearted memoir describes how a small, insecure boy with a vibrant imagination found an unlikely family in the company of monks at Holy Trinity Abbey, in the mountains of rural Latter-day Saint Utah. Struggling with his parents’ recent divorce, Michael O’Brien discovered a ...
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    15,32 €

  • Killing Justice in the Lone Star State
    Michael O’Brien
    Killing Justice in the Lone Star State is a reality check on active Death Row cases (and some post-execution ones). The book offers a fresh perspective for campaigners and reformers which ranges across theory, policy and practice. It also explains the much criticised Texas ’law of parties.’Many organizations are engaged in a race to prevent the execution of death sentenced pris...
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    35,97 €

  • Life In The Past Lane
    Michael O’Brien
    This is the story of a man who researched his family tree only to find it had been growing in a forest full of unusual life.His family began arriving in Sydney, Australia in 1839, whether by choice or by the order of an overworked judge. Either way, they left their old ways (and sometimes, spouses) behind and began a new life (sometimes with new spouses).While the O’Brien and K...
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    19,45 €

  • Archangel Rachel
    Michael O Brien
    He also learned to love women from his Mom. Then he rode his bike around the coast of Florida in 1976 ending in 1,000 miles, then back to Purdue, Taking the name of Rachel. He also climbed all the Rocky Mountains. Then he wrote this 3rd book so you folks could marvel at high adventures. ...
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    10,88 €

  • The story of the Sun. New York, 1833-1918
    Frank Michael O’Brien
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve ...
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    16,27 €

  • Idea of the American South, 1920-1941
    Michael O’Brien
    The idea of the "South" has its roots in Romanticism and American culture of the nineteenth century. This study by Michael O'Brien analyzes how the idea of a unique Southern consciousness endured into the twentieth century and how it affected the lives of prominent white Southern intellectuals. Individual chapters treat Howard Odum, John Donald Wade, John Crowe Ransom, Alle...
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    61,46 €

  • Irish pioneers in Kentucky
    Michael Joseph O’Brien
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature. ...
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    5,87 €

  • Strategic Approaches to the Legal Environment of Business
    András Margitay-Becht / Michael O'Brien / Michael O’Brien
    Current and future managers are regularly confronted with decisions that create risk in the legal environment of business. This book provides a framework for qualifying legal risk and then determining if the legal risk is worth taking. This framework begins by looking at the relationship between the firm, its suppliers, customers, owners, agents, and others in society as a whol...
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    44,62 €

  • Overcoming Injustice and Loss
    Michael O'Brien / Michael O’Brien
    Wrongly jailed for the murder of a Cardiff newsagent in 1987.  Michael O'Brien became known as one of the Cardiff Newsagent Three. After serving eleven years and 43 days in prison, he was cleared at the Court of Appeal in 1999. Michael subsequently became an author and motivational speaker and has written a number of books on the criminal justice system, which have won him ...
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    9,32 €

  • I Want More!
    Michael J. O’Brien / Michael JO'Brien / Michael JO’Brien
    Are you experiencing a void in your life? Are you a nominal Christian and lack zeal for the Church? Have you become complacent, content, and satisfied with your nominal commitment to an organized religion? Or are you a zealous Christian and do not feel a thirst for more? In I WANT MORE!, author Michael O’Brien offers a look at developing a vibrant and powerful relationship with...
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    10,94 €

  • ThinkBanking & Corporate Webbing
    Amy M Young / Mary D. Hinesly / Michael J. O'Brien
    What are the new rules of business for the digital era?  Which companies will survive and which will go by the wayside?  Will your company survive? These big questions gnaw on the minds of business leaders. It is common knowledge that the digital revolution has happened, and information age is here; yet few fully understand what this means for business.  We can see that dig...
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    15,19 €

  • Love is Stronger than Pain
    Michael J. O’Brien / Michael JO'Brien / Michael JO’Brien
    In Love is Stronger than Pain, author Michael J. O'Brien, Irene's son, offers a true account of a wife and mother whose faith and perseverance were heroic. She raised eight children, two of whom were invalids born with a rare skin disease needing her constant care. She coped with the tragic accidental death of her twenty year old son, the death of her beloved husband, a...
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    15,03 €

  • America's Destruction of Iraq
    Michael M. O'Brien
    America's Destruction of Iraq by Washington insider Michael M. O'Brien details the origins of radical Islamic terrorism now spreading across the Middle East and North Africa. The outgrowth of America's involvement in Iraq, culminating with its March 2003 invasion, is the Islamic State-the most violent terrorist organization in history. Michael O'Brien is an outlier: a conserva...
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    22,14 €

  • Hidden Phase of American History
    Michael J. O’Brien / Michael JO'Brien / Michael JO’Brien
    This definitive work on the Irish participation in the American Revolution is both an inspiring record of heroic action and a supreme scholarly achievement. It establishes the fact that 38% of the continental Army was of Irish extraction. Well over 5,000 soldiers are named in the appendixes, one of which is solely devoted to Irish soldiers bearing the name of Burke, Connolly, C...
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    59,91 €

  • We Beheld His Glory
    Michael James O'Brien / Michael James O’Brien
    'We Beheld His Glory' depicts the Gospel of John in 100 original poems. Each poem summarizes a section of the Gospel and gives the reader an interpretative understanding of the scripture in flowing poetic verse. The poetry transports the reader to a new level of understanding the heart and essence of John’s Gospel while providing practical application for everyday life. Mike O’...
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    17,50 €

  • Pioneer Irish in New England
    Michael J. O’Brien / Michael JO'Brien / Michael JO’Brien
    While the great wave of Irish immigrants which arrived on our shores in the mid- to late-nineteenth century is well known, and their role in the industrialization of the United States is widely recognized, the important role they played in the original settlement of this country is frequently overlooked. The author’s purpose in compiling this volume was to show beyond any doubt...
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    35,10 €

  • Seriation, Stratigraphy, and Index Fossils
    Michael J. O’Brien / R. Lee Lyman
    It is difficult for today’s students of archaeology to imagine an era when chronometric dating methods were unavailable. However, even a casual perusal of the large body of literature that arose during the first half of the twentieth century reveals a battery of clever methods used to determine the relative ages of archaeological phenomena, often...
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    134,00 €

  • Mississippian Community Organization
    Michael J. O’Brien
    The Powers Phase Project was a multiyear archaeological program undertaken in southeastern Missouri by the University of Michigan in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The project focused on the occupation of a large Pleistocene-age terrace in the Little Black River Lowland-a large expanse of lowlying land just east of the Ozark Highland-between roughly ...
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    133,61 €

  • Irish Americans in the Confederate Army
    Sean Michael O’Brien
    In 1861, Americans flooded to enlist for what all thought would be a short and glorious war. Anxious to prove their loyalty to their new homeland, thousands of Irish immigrants were among those who hurried to join the fight on both sides. While the efforts of the Union’s legendary Irish Brigade are well documented, little has been said regarding the role Irish American soldi...
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    44,08 €

  • Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860
    Michael O'Brien / Michael O’Brien
    Michael O’Brien has masterfully abridged his award-winning two-volume intellectual history of the Old South, Conjectures of Order, depicting a culture that was simultaneously national, postcolonial, and imperial, influenced by European intellectual traditions, yet also deeply implicated in the making of the American mind.Here O’Brien succinctly and fluidly surveys the lives and...
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    53,97 €

  • The Socratic Paradoxes and the Greek Mind
    Michael J. O’Brien / Michael JO’Brien
    In assessing what the paradoxes meant to Plato, O’Brien uses certain broad principles of inquiry. First, he insists, any platonic doctrine must be placed in the context of Plato’s whole philosophy--a truism not always honored. Second, the conversations of the dialogue form do not merely embellish Plato’s philosophical statements but radically affect their expression.Originally ...
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    64,30 €

  • Placing the South
    Michael O’Brien
    The best from twenty years of a noted intellectual historian’s workPlacing the South offers a selection of work published between 1985 and 2005 by one of the most incisive historians and literary critics of the South. The pieces seek to situate the South in a variety of contexts and offer a compelling defense of what Kwame Anthony Appiah has called 'rooted cosmopolitanism.' Thi...
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    42,68 €

  • Pioneer Irish in New England
    Michael J. O’Brien / Michael JO'Brien / Michael JO’Brien
    In this book, Dr. O’Brien extends his thesis, begun in 'A Hidden Phase of American History,' that numerous Irishmen participated in the American Revolution, by demonstrating that the Irish were represented in the American colonies from the beginning of the colonial period. The author has combed through passenger lists, tax lists, marriage records, church records, and military r...
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    35,99 €

  • El Padre Elías
    Michael O´Brien
    El momento del Apocalipsis ha llegado La primera trompeta ha sonadoEs el final de los tiempos que anunciaba San Juan. La venida del Anticristo está muy cerca y el Papa sólo puede recurrir a una persona para intentar desenmascararle y así poder salvar el mundo.Desde su pequeño monasterio el Padre Elías ha de ponerse en camino porque sólo él tiene las capacidades necesarias para ...
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    22,36 €

  • Mrs. Adams in Winter
    Michael O’Brien
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    20,61 €


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