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  • Kingmaker
    Jaren Riley / Jed Quinn / Michael Koogler
    The first seal has been broken…   …and the last days of this world have begun. As the righteous look to the fulfillment of holy scripture and good finally triumphing over evil, others have emerged hoping for a much different end. A sinister plot, hatched thousands of years before the birth of Christ, has been waiting in secret for just this very moment. The plan? Hijack the ap...
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    13,21 €

  • Gold and Gossamer
    Riley S. Quinn
    The Mage King of Avonbend is meant to be untouchable. With his throne balanced on the precipice of the human and fairy world, Dante is the sworn protector of the Talamherra he knows from the Talamherra he doesn’t. But he cannot help feeling that the formidable Fairy Queen who lurks beyond the ruins and rivers of Avonbend’s borderlands is not truly the threat that human legends ...
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    20,37 €

  • The Last Letters Echoes from the WWII Frontline
    Riley R. Quinn
    In the midst of the devastation that defined World War II, there were soldiers who faced not only the brutality of battle but the heavy weight of the final moments. In The Last Letters: Echoes from the WWII Frontline, we are invited to step into the final thoughts and emotions of soldiers who, with the knowledge that death was near, wrote heartfelt letters to their loved ones. ...
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    13,41 €

  • The Pendant of Hyacinth
    Riley S. Quinn
    Embarking on the final leg of their journey, Hazel, Arael and Thalia boldly venture into the depths of The Subconscious Forest. But a dark force lurks within, waiting in the shadows of the trees... and their minds. While The Conscious Realm faces its own harrowing challenges, the trio must battle far more than Nightmares to save it. Thalia is forced to face the reality of a Gua...
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    13,36 €

  • The Pendant of Hyacinth
    Riley S. Quinn
    After reuniting under the most unexpected circumstances, Thalia, Hazel, and Arael strike up a deal that results in all three returning to Eos. Hazel wants to remain in Fantasy and use their newfound abilities to help, but Arael has already promised to return them home safely. Thalia, defending Hazel’s right to stay and desperate to cling to her chance to end the Nightmare Crisi...
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    17,34 €

  • The Fool, The Lovers, The Devil
    Riley Quinn
    Addison doesn’t wake up in other girls’ beds, her friendships don’t have 'benefits', and she certainly doesn’t believe in witches or demons. Or at least she didn’t before she met Mary. Now Addison must re-evaluate. Are her feelings for Mary simply demonic seduction? Is polyamory just going to be okay now? Is she even straight? The more Mary shows her supernatural side the less ...
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    16,28 €

  • The Pendant of Hyacinth
    Riley S Quinn
    Prince Arael Kendall’s past comes back to haunt him when the Nightmare Crisis throws his life into chaos. In a last ditch effort to make things right, he runs away from home and finds himself in the company of Hazel Redwood, a happy-go-lucky teen with their own secrets to sort out. As an odd string of coincidences begins to reveal the duo’s missing pieces, the monsters called N...
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    14,55 €

  • The Dark
    Riley Quinn
    IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS.ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK? The Cove has fallen. The woods are collapsing. Leonardo and the survivors return north to where their journey began, in search of allies to fight The Dark-a tangible nightmare in search of blood. But when they reach the Darkwoods, they find it even bleaker than they had feared. Any semblance of clan life has crumbled in the ...
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    14,58 €

  • The Cove
    Riley Quinn
    THOUGHT YOU KNEW THE WOODS?THINK AGAIN.After breaking away from the Ravens, Leonardo, Moth, Pinch, and the others were supposed to find a new home in the Cove, under the name Lion Clan. But within moments of arriving, they learned that everything they’d been told was a lie.A group of girls, also calling themselves Lions, occupy the fortress Leonardo planned to lead from. Sirens...
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    14,39 €

  • Lost Boys
    Riley Quinn
    No Rules.No Adults.No Way Out.Welcome to the Darkwoods.Deep in a mystical wood, four clans of boys live in the treetops, their story lost in time and their pasts buried with it. Secrets hide among the shadows of a crocodile-infested river, winding through the heart of the forest and beckoning to explore what lies beyond. Leonardo is a member of Raven Clan, the boldest and fierc...
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    14,34 €

  • An Analysis of Kenneth Waltz’s Theory of International Politics
    Bryan Gibson / Riley Quinn
    Kenneth Waltz’s 1979 Theory of International Politics is credited with bringing about a 'scientific revolution' in the study of international relations - bringing the field into a new era of systematic study. The book is also a lesson in reasoning carefully and critically. Good reasoning is exemplified by arguments that move systematically, through carefully organised stages, t...
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    11,54 €

  • An Analysis of Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince
    Ben Worthy / Riley Quinn
    How should rulers rule? What is the nature of power? These questions had already been asked when Niccolò Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513. But what made his thinking on the topic different was his ability to interpret evidence: to look at old issues and find new meaning within them. Many of Machiavelli’s contemporaries thought that God would make sure morality was rewarded....
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    11,54 €

  • An Analysis of Sheila Fitzpatrick’s Everyday Stalinism
    Riley Quinn / Victor Petrov
    How was the Soviet Union like a soup kitchen? In this important and highly revisionist work, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick explains that a reimagining of the Communist state as a provider of goods for the ’deserving poor’ can be seen as a powerful metaphor for understanding Soviet life as a whole. By positioning the state both as a provider and as a relief agency, Fitzpatrick es...
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    11,48 €

  • An Analysis of Theda Skocpol’s States and Social Revolutions
    Riley Quinn
    The modern world has been marked by social revolutions that have transformed the states where they occurred. Theda Skocpol examines three of these uprisings-the French, Russian, and Chinese revolutions-to consider the forces that make such dramatic upheaval possible. ...
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    11,64 €

  • An Analysis of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth
    Riley Quinn
    Frantz Fanon’s 1961 masterpiece is both a powerful analysis of the psychological effects of colonization and a rallying cry for violent uprising and independence. ...
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    11,64 €

  • An Analysis of Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France
    Riley Quinn
    Edmund Burke’s 1791 Reflections on the Revolution in France is a strong example of how the thinking skills of analysis and reasoning can support even the most rhetorical of arguments. Often cited as the foundational work of modern conservative political thought, Burke’s Reflections is a sustained argument against the French Revolution. Though Burke is in many ways not intereste...
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    11,61 €

  • An Analysis of Robert A. Dahl’s Democracy and its Critics
    Astrid Noren Nilsson / Elizabeth Morrow / Riley Quinn
    There are few better examples of analysis - the critical thinking skill of understanding how an argument is built - than Robert Dahl’s Democracy and its Critics. In this work, the American political theorist closely analyzes the democratic political system and then evaluates whether the arguments that are in favor of it are, in fact, rigorous. ¶Dahl sets out to describe democra...
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    11,45 €

  • An Analysis of Samuel P. Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
    Riley Quinn
    The end of the Cold War, which occurred early in the 1990s, brought joy and freedom to millions. But it posed a difficult question to the world’s governments and to the academics who studied them: how would world order be remade in an age no longer dominated by the competing ideologies of capitalism and communism? Samuel P. Huntington was one of the many political scientists wh...
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  • An Analysis of Edward Said’s Orientalism
    Riley Quinn
    Edward Said’s Orientalism is a masterclass in the art of interpretation wedded to close analysis. Interpretation is characterized by close attention to the meanings of terms, by clarifying, questioning definitions, and positing clear definitions. Combined with one of the main sub-skills of analysis, drawing inferences and finding implicit reasons and assumptions in arguments, i...
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    11,65 €

  • An Analysis of Aristotle’s Politics
    Katherine Berrisford / Riley Quinn
    Aristotle remains one of the most celebrated thinkers of all time in large part thanks to his incisive critical thinking skills. In Politics, which can be considered one of the foundational books of the western political tradition, the focus is on problem-solving, and particularly on the generation and evaluation of alternative possibilities.Aristotle’s aim, in Politics, is to ...
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    11,45 €

  • An Analysis of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs & Steel
    Riley Quinn
    In his 1997 work Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond marshals evidence from five continents and across 13,000 years of human history in an attempt to answer the question of why that history unfolded so differently in various parts of the globe. His results offer new explanations for why the unequal divisions of power and wealth so familiar to us today came into existence - and...
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    11,54 €

  • An Analysis of Mahbub ul Haq’s Reflections on Human Development
    Riley Quinn
    What is the ultimate goal of any human society? There have been many answers to this question. But by producing a series of notably well-structured arguments, economist Mahbub ul Haq’s Reflections on Human Development persuaded readers that the goal should be defined quite simply as the requirement that each society improve the lives of its citizens. If this is the agreed aim, ...
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    11,64 €

  • An Analysis of John A. Hobson’s Imperialism
    Riley Quinn
    English economist John Hobson’s 1902 Imperialism: A Study was an epoch-making study of the politics and economics of imperialism that shook imperialist beliefs to their core. A committed liberal, Hobson was deeply sceptical about the aims and claims of imperialistic thought at a time when Britain’s empire held sway over a vast portion of the globe. In order to critique what he ...
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    11,51 €