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  • THE OLD MAN, AND THE WORLD HE LEFT BEHIND
    Sidney Owitz
    Even though we are all different, we are also the same. We share DNA, we require much of the same food, we need the same things in order to live (like oxygen and warmth), or else we die. This does not only apply to human beings. It also applies to birds, animals and fish, with some exceptions. We and the birds and animals, insects and fish have similar habits. We all migrate to...
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    15,61 €

  • MORE SCARS ON PLANET EARTH
    Sidney Owitz
    If you happen to be traveling through Outer Space, you mightbe fortunate enough to pass in the direction of the planet Earth,a beautiful smooth, round object hurtling in an orbit around thesun, on a prescribed course, with its satellite moon orbitingaround it. Earth has made countless trillion revolutions aroundthe sun, which will be repeated for evermore.Man has dug holes in t...
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    16,47 €

  • Predator and Prey
    Sidney Owitz
    Carnivorous animals are more humane than humans. They only kill in order to eat. Humans also kill animals to eat, but very often they kill for fun and pleasure, and for the trophy. They like to display in their living rooms the head of a deer that they have shot, or they sell for profit the horns of a rhinoceros for its supposed sexual advantages, or the skin of a tiger to be u...
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    20,12 €

  • Strange Places, Strange Faces
    Sidney Owitz
    We are all the same, yet so different - perhaps even strange to each other. 'Strange Places, Strange Faces' deals with this phenomenon. The dictionary gives the definition of ’strange’ as unusual or surprising, that which is unsettling, unfamiliar or alien, not previously encountered. I suppose we appear strange to people who are unfamiliar to us, just as they appear different ...
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    16,38 €

  • Journey into Yesterday
    Sidney Owitz
    This book includes a number of views into the past reminding us of who we are, who our ancestors were and where they came from, what they believed and how we arrived here at this point of time. It tells of some of our achievements and many of our mistakes. No, we are not perfect. ...
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    16,42 €

  • Empires Come, Empires Go
    Sidney Owitz
    This is a panorama involving strong men who lead their countries in order to achieve power and conquer territory, supposedly, to last forever. Their dreams have sent them far and wide in order to spread their influence and fame. They are driven by ego, brutality, a desire for wealth and a lust for being idolized. Numerous lives have needlessly been lost and mass destruction has...
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    16,39 €

  • The River
    Sidney Owitz
    The river flows through good times and bad, through forests and deserts, through days of cheer and days of sadness, through war and peace, and finally, it ends in the sea. It may assist in fertilizing the land, and it may help to spread disease and pollution. We cannot live without it, yet it could also drown us and kill us. Life is like a river. ...
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    12,60 €

  • A Cut Above
    Sidney Owitz
    A Cut Above consists of a collection of essays about people. These people are not better than others, nor are all of them necessarily great people, but they are different, which to my mind makes them more interesting. It also discusses the causes and effects of the diaspora and migration of populations and the status of women in a man’s world. The reader will be introduced to a...
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    16,31 €

  • Beyond This Place
    Sidney Owitz
    'Beyond this Place' consists of a collection of essays involving episodes of the past from a different world which seems so remote today. It includes memories of the author’s childhood and some experiences that he encountered during his medical training and career. There is also a historical perspective of people and events that have affected the lives of those who came after t...
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    19,80 €

  • A Mosaic
    Sidney Owitz
    According to the New Oxford American Dictionary a mosaic is a picture or a pattern produced by arranging together the small colored pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile or glass. The smaller pieces are an integral part of the whole. Numerous art forms exist in mosaic patterns. Many cultures have practiced this art over the last few thousand years. Mosaics have been foun...
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    19,68 €

  • The Other Room
    Sidney Owitz
    'The Other Room' is a sequel to 'Portraits in a Gallery' where the stories of a number of portraits hanging on the walls in a gallery were discussed. This is not unlike 'Pictures at an Exhibition', a collection of descriptive musical pieces by Modest Moussorgsky on viewing his friend’s art works at an exhibition. 'The Other Room' is the adjacent room to the main gallery where f...
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    22,85 €

  • Portraits in a Gallery
    Sidney Owitz
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    22,77 €

  • The Invisible Thread
    Sidney Owitz
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    25,06 €

  • Through My Eyes
    Sidney Owitz
    This is the story of a young boy and his piano. The young boy is an autistic child with other problems as well, but has a great ability and passion for music. As he grows older life deals him many pleasures and, at the same time, as many problems. Success mingles with loneliness, while optimism and depression alternate between periods of mental aberration. The story is told by ...
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    22,00 €

  • The Stone-Cutter
    Sidney Owitz
    The 'Stone-Cutter' is the story of a very successful sculptor-artist, with little formal education, who shuns publicity and lives the life of a hermit. A young man who happens to find him working on a hill-top, becomes awe-struck by his artistic ability and is drawn into the world of art. His goal is to follow in the footsteps of the master. The two strike up a student-teacher ...
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    23,92 €

  • Things I Never Learned at School
    Sidney Owitz
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    21,94 €

  • Unshuttered Windows
    Sidney Owitz / Sydney Owitz
    Unshuttered Windows is partly autobiographical, and partly about people that the writer has come across during his life. He also discusses his views on religion and some other philosophical subjects.Having been born in South Africa and spent the second half of his life in America, he relates aspects of the South African landscape and the years of the apartheid era as well as t...
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    13,03 €