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  • The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, & Fairies
    Andrew Lang / Robert Kirk / W. Lockhart (William Lockhart) Bogle
    Robert Kirk’s 'The secret commonwealth of elves, fauns and fairies' offers an unparalleled journey into the hidden realms of the supernatural. This classic work, steeped in ancient folklore, meticulously explores the intricate societies and unique characteristics of elves, fauns, and fairies as they were believed to exist in a secret dimension alongside our own.Kirk’s profound ...
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    20,08 €

  • The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, & Fairies
    Andrew Lang / Robert Kirk / W. Lockhart (William Lockhart) Bogle
    Robert Kirk’s 'The secret commonwealth of elves, fauns and fairies' offers an unparalleled journey into the hidden realms of the supernatural. This classic work, steeped in ancient folklore, meticulously explores the intricate societies and unique characteristics of elves, fauns, and fairies as they were believed to exist in a secret dimension alongside our own.Kirk’s profound ...
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    33,72 €

  • La Comunidad Secreta
    Robert Kirk
    Robert Kirk se adentra en el mundo invisible que, según antiguas tradiciones, convive con el nuestro. A partir de testimonios y leyendas populares transmitidas durante generaciones, examina la existencia de criaturas feéricas, espíritus y otras entidades. Kirk analiza también fenómenos vinculados a la clarividencia y a las capacidades ocultas del ser humano, intentando armoniza...
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    17,58 €

  • Next Generation Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules
    Samantha Jenkins / Steven Robert Kirk
    This book begins by providing a simplified version of the computational quantum chemistry sufficient to calculate the wavefunctions that are the basic input of NG-QTAIM. Enough basic (scalar) QTAIM theory is provided to understand the later chapters. In addition, our developments of scalar QTAIM are presented and activities at various levels of difficulty are provided for the r...
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    48,07 €

  • British Subversive Propaganda during the Second World War
    Kirk Robert Graham
    This book offers the first in-depth intellectual and cultural history of British subversive propaganda during the Second World War. Focussing on the Political Warfare Executive (PWE), it tells the story of British efforts to undermine German morale and promote resistance against Nazi hegemony. Staffed by civil servants, journalists, academics and anti-fascist European exiles, P...
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    146,27 €

  • Evolution Fact or Fable?
    J. Robert Kirk J.D.
    This book distills twenty-five-plus years of personal study done by a Harvard Law-trained trial attorney to determine whether Darwin’s big ideaâ€'the notion that more complex species evolved from more simple ancestorsâ€'is supported by the scientific evidence. Spoiler alert: it is not. Yet most Americans have been taught to believe that Darwin’s theory has been proven beyond al...
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    20,03 €

  • A Hoot in Hell’s Island
    Kirk Warner / Ret.) Col. Kirk Gibson (USA / Robert D. Gibson
    In the dark days of 1942, the battle for the Solomon Islands was very much in doubt. When carrier dive bomber Robert D. 'Hoot' Gibson sighted the Japanese fleet heading for 'Hell’s Island,' he attacked the vanguard ships, sinking the heavy cruiser Kinugasa and two loaded Japanese troop transports in a battle royal that earned him the Navy Cross. He was also credited with the si...
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    14,74 €

  • A Hoot in Hell’s Island
    Kirk Warner / Ret.) Col. Kirk Gibson Warner (USA / Robert D. Gibson
    In the dark days of 1942, the battle for the Solomon Islands was very much in doubt. When carrier dive bomber Robert D. 'Hoot' Gibson sighted the Japanese fleet heading for 'Hell’s Island,' he attacked the vanguard ships, sinking the heavy cruiser Kinugasa and two loaded Japanese troop transports in a battle royal that earned him the Navy Cross. He was also credited with the si...
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    21,68 €

  • British Subversive Propaganda during the Second World War
    Kirk Robert Graham
    This book offers the first in-depth intellectual and cultural history of British subversive propaganda during the Second World War. Focussing on the Political Warfare Executive (PWE), it tells the story of British efforts to undermine German morale and promote resistance against Nazi hegemony. Staffed by civil servants, journalists, academics and anti-fascist European exiles, P...
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    156,67 €

  • The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies
    Robert Kirk
    “The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies” is the famous and mysterious treatise on fairy folklore, witchcraft, second sight, and ghosts by Gaelic scholar and minister, Robert Kirk. Written before he died in 1692, the work was not published until 1815 after many legends had grown around Kirk’s death, which imagined that he was secreted away by the fairies themselves...
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    8,05 €

  • The Secret Commonwealth of Elves Fauns and Fairies
    Robert Kirk
    2019 Reprint of 1893 Edition Edited by Andrew Lang.  Robert Kirk (1644 –1692) was a minister, Gaelic scholar and folklorist, best known for The Secret Commonwealth, a treatise on fairy folklore, witchcraft, ghosts, and second sight (a type of extrasensory perception described as a phenomenon by the people of the Scottish Highlands.) Folklorist Stewart Sanderson and mythologist ...
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    7,80 €

  • The Building of an Airport
    Robert F. Kirk / Robert FKirk
    The building of an airport in 1929 was not just developing a design and bringing together concrete and steel. It needed a radical design idea of how to safely bring heavier than air flying machines together with people as passengers. The questions involved defied answers. Such as how far can an aircraft safely fly? How many people can make up a safe flight? What should the desi...
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    24,49 €

  • Robots, Zombies and Us
    Robert Kirk
    Could robots be genuinely intelligent? Could they be conscious? Could there be zombies? Prompted by these questions Robert Kirk introduces the main problems of consciousness and sets out a new approach to solving them. He starts by discussing behaviourism, Turing’s test of intelligence and Searle’s famous Chinese Room argument, and goes on to examine dualism - the idea that c...
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    47,37 €

  • Robots, Zombies and Us
    Robert Kirk
    Could robots be genuinely intelligent? Could they be conscious? Could there be zombies? Prompted by these questions Robert Kirk introduces the main problems of consciousness and sets out a new approach to solving them. He starts by discussing behaviourism, Turing’s test of intelligence and Searle’s famous Chinese Room argument, and goes on to examine dualism - the idea that c...
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    193,71 €

  • Warriors at 500 Knots
    Dr. Robert F. Kirk / DrRobert FKirk
    This book is a sequel to the author’s first book about the F-4 and its pilots during the Vietnam War. It adds ten additional stories. These stories show the commitment to duty of the brave men who flew the F-4 and the pain that duty cost them. As the ground war struggled for success in Vietnam, it became intensely clear that the skies had to be owned by the Allies for victory t...
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    19,85 €

  • Chasing the American Dream
    Kirk A. Foster / Mark Robert Rank / Thomas A. Hirschl
    The United States has been epitomized as a land of opportunity, where hard work and skill can bring personal success and economic well-being. The American Dream has captured the imagination of people from all walks of life, and to many, it represents the heart and soul of the country. But there is another, darker side to the bargain that America strikes with its people -- it is...
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    32,91 €

  • Choices
    Robert F. Kirk / Robert FKirk
    Life can be hard, cold, and painful. Or it can be pleasant, warm, and rewarding. The consequences of the choices we make in life determine which way it will be. We can’t control many of life’s events, but we can control how we deal with them. Our responsibility is to build a successful life in a world of confusion, pain, and disorientation. In Choices: Responsible Decisions for...
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    32,21 €

  • Choices
    Robert F. Kirk / Robert FKirk
    Life can be hard, cold, and painful. Or it can be pleasant, warm, and rewarding. The consequences of the choices we make in life determine which way it will be. We can’t control many of life’s events, but we can control how we deal with them. Our responsibility is to build a successful life in a world of confusion, pain, and disorientation. In Choices: Responsible Decisions for...
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    19,71 €

  • Pitcairn Island, the Bounty Mutineers and Their Descendants
    Robert W. Kirk
    The infamous Bounty mutiny of 1790 culminated in nine mutineers taking up residence on the small Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific. Rivalry over Polynesian women soon led to homicidal strife and, by 1808, when American sealing vessel Topaz stopped at the island, John Adams was the only mutineer alive. He, however, headed what was soon discovered to be a utopianlike Christ...
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    44,08 €

  • Flying the Lindbergh Line
    Robert F. Kirk / Robert FKirk
    Flying in the early 20th Century was dangerous business. Aircraft were made of sticks and cloth and engines failed at alarming rates. Those who flew risked both accidents and death. However, some saw this stumbling attempt to master the skies as an opportunity to bring the human race forward. They had a vision of stylish travel in the skies combining comfort, speed and profit. ...
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    27,58 €

  • Flying the Lindbergh Line
    Robert F. Kirk / Robert FKirk
    Flying in the early 20th Century was dangerous business. Aircraft were made of sticks and cloth and engines failed at alarming rates. Those who flew risked both accidents and death. However, some saw this stumbling attempt to master the skies as an opportunity to bring the human race forward. They had a vision of stylish travel in the skies combining comfort, speed and profit. ...
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    36,44 €

  • Conceptual Link from Physical to Mental
    Robert Kirk
    How are truths about physical and mental states related? Physicalism entails that non-physical truths are redescriptions of a world specifiable in narrowly physical terms. In The Conceptual Link from Physical to Mental Robert Kirk argues that physicalists must therefore hold that the physical truth 'logico-conceptually' entails the mental truth: it is impossible for broadly log...
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    105,99 €

  • Paradise Past
    Robert W. Kirk
    In the 400 years from Magellan’s entrance into Pacific waters to 1920, the lives of the people of the South Pacific were utterly transformed. Exotic diseases from Europe and America, particularly the worldwide influenza pandemic, were deadly for islanders. Ardent missionaries changed the belief systems and lives of nearly all Polynesians, Aborigines, and those Papuans and Me...
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    58,80 €

  • Wormwood
    Robert L. Van Kirk / Robert LVan Kirk
    The residents of Wormwood, West Virginia, have seen their once-thriving town slip into obscurity and decay. Under the abysmal direction of the business and civic leaders, life has sunk to new lows. Of course new ideas are always welcome-as long as they line the pockets of those in charge. So most everyone has pretty much come to accept things as they are. Besides, what else cou...
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    14,79 €

  • Wormwood
    Robert L. Van Kirk / Robert LVan Kirk
    The residents of Wormwood, West Virginia, have seen their once-thriving town slip into obscurity and decay. Under the abysmal direction of the business and civic leaders, life has sunk to new lows. Of course new ideas are always welcome-as long as they line the pockets of those in charge. So most everyone has pretty much come to accept things as they are. Besides, what else cou...
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    22,34 €

  • Warriors at 500 Knots
    Robert F. Kirk / Robert FKirk
    As the ground war struggled for success in Vietnam, it became intensely clear that the skies had to be owned by the allies for victory to have a chance. It was the F-4 and its pilots that made that possible. The author, a Phantom pilot himself, details intense stories of undaunted and valiant American pilots with their legendary fierce Phantom. These are personal stories of int...
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    23,35 €

  • Warriors at 500 Knots
    Robert F. Kirk / Robert FKirk
    As the ground war struggled for success in Vietnam, it became intensely clear that the skies had to be owned by the allies for victory to have a chance. It was the F-4 and its pilots that made that possible. The author, a Phantom pilot himself, details intense stories of undaunted and valiant American pilots with their legendary fierce Phantom. These are personal stories of int...
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    32,17 €

  • A New Theory Of Chloroform Syncope
    Robert Kirk
    ''A New Theory of Chloroform Syncope'' is a book written by Robert Kirk in 1890. The book provides a detailed explanation of the administration of chloroform, an anesthetic that was widely used during the late 19th century. The author presents a new theory on how chloroform should be administered to patients in order to avoid complications and reduce the risk of syncope (fainti...
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    20,65 €

  • Zombies and Consciousness
    Robert Kirk
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    91,64 €

  • The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies
    Andrew Lang / Robert Kirk
    These Subterraneans have Controverfies, Doubts, Difputes, Feuds, and Siding of Parties... As to Vice and Sin, whatever their own Laws be... they tranfgrefs and commit Acts of Injuftice...-from Chapter 11As a study of 17th-century folklore, this mysterious and remarkable text is fascinating. As a document of the popular mindset of a time in which the odd or the outcast were stil...
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    17,82 €


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