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  • Dog Doing Well
    Sonya Vesterholt / Nina Sokol
    In this poignant and darkly humorous memoir, Sonya Vesterholt recounts her experiences growing up in Leningrad during the Stalin era and the post-Stalin "thaw."This collection of memories, stories, and jokes conveys personal experiences of historical events in the Soviet Union. Characters collide with the oppressive state espionage system that interferes in their personal lives...
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    17,70 €

  • Five Points on an Invisible Line
    Su J. Sokol
    Some families we choose, some battles we can’t avoid, some lines we must cross together.A bomb at the airport.A mysterious disappearance.A family pushing boundaries.Three years after finding refuge in near-future Montreal, Laek and Janie prepare to expand their unconventional family. But when their friend Philip’s arrival coincides with an explosion at the airport, their sanctu...
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    21,35 €

  • Invisible Line
    Su J Sokol
    Some revolutions start with a roar, others with the quiet turn of a wheel.A hostile government.A desperate escape.A sanctuary city that holds their future.In a near-future New York crushed under authoritarian rule, history teacher Laek can no longer hide his radical past. After a brutal confrontation with the NYPD, he and his family must flee across the border-by bicycle-into Q...
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    21,49 €

  • Mudge and Lola in the Strollah
    Iris G Sokol
    Dogs can be BFF and take care of each other! 'Mudge and Lola in the Strollah' is a heartwarming, true story about the lives, the love, and the incredible friendship between two dogs, Lola and Mudge, written from Lola’s point of view in her sweet (and a little sassy!) voice. Lola, a Norwich Terrier, shares her story from puppyhood in London to traveling to her new family in Amer...
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    19,55 €

  • Quantity in the Interpretative Realm of Language and Communication
    Augustín Sokol / Jana Sokolová
    This monograph offers an insight into the system of quantitative expressions in contemporary Slovak. Its interpretative framework is based on the theory of the linguistic worldview and linguistic naturalness, the idea of markedness and the principle of normativity. The monograph is topically divided into four chapters. In the first and second chapters, it focuses on compound fo...
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    100,53 €

  • The Center of the Universe
    Jakob Vedelsby / Nina Sokol
    Bill and Barbara have both fallen through the cracks of the everyday. Bill has gone on leave from a research position at a university while Barbara has left her medical practice. But where do you go when your partner has left and sheer exhaustion has taken over? How do you find your way back? To escape from a chaotic world, Bill and Barbara, independently of one another, travel...
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    18,52 €

  • A Young Person’s Guide to Law and Justice
    Daniel Sokol
    ’The law isn’t what it looks like on TV: it’s more interesting. This excellent book will convince you of that.’ Henry Mance, Chief Features Writer, Financial TimesThinking of studying law at school or university? Or are you simply curious about the fascinating world of law and lawyers?A Young Person’s Guide to Law and Justice is written by an experienced father and son team of ...
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    14,81 €

  • Angelina’s Bottom
    Kristian Himmelstrup / Nina Sokol
    A young Danish associate professor travels to the United States to teach at a Texas University. He is to teach Danish at its Germanic institute, where most of the work is otherwise about German and especially the Second World War.  An entertaining, intelligent and hilarious novel about the university world; about hierarchies and envy; about guarding research results and guardin...
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    18,12 €

  • Harry
    Fred Sokol
    Harry was just a year out of college when he tried taking census in New York City’s Lower East Side during the summer of 1970. He was sweaty and he tied a bandana around his head to keep his long hair from falling over his eyes. Harry loved music almost as much as he loved Carolyn, whom he felt he’d known forever. He was cool and she was pretty: a match.He immediately grew clos...
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    15,23 €

  • Shakespeare on Prejudice
    B. J. Sokol
    How are unwarranted dislikes and prejudices portrayed in the works of Shakespeare and to what extent does Shakespeare differ from his contemporaries in their portrayal? What can we learn about Shakespeare’s times and our own through a close reading of prejudice depicted in his plays?In this study, B. J. Sokol examines what King Edward in Henry VI Part III calls ’your scorns and...
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    50,75 €

  • She Is Me
    Ph.D. Lori Sokol
    This book will provide every girl with s-heroes who will show you how you too can achieve anything you choose. From a successful writer and author (like Gloria Steinem), to a champion tennis player (like Billie Jean King), to a Nobel Peace Prize winner (like Leyma Gbowee), each of these women started out as young girls with very little, except for their dreams. It was by believ...
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    16,23 €

  • The Silence Sound Makes
    Nina Sokol
    It isa houseof adifferentcolor. Acrossthe streetfrom whereI livethere isa playground. Thehouse isnot inthat end. Furthermore... ...
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    14,05 €

  • Rasta Time
    Kathy Arlyn Sokol
    RasTa Time is Kathy Arlyn Sokol’s personal journey with the King of Reggae Bob Marley, which has spanned over four decades. Her journey takes us from Kansas and Japan, where she first met and toured with him, to Miami, Jamaica and the Bahamas to learn more of his music’s enduring power. The book was inspired by Kathy’s in-depth interview with Marley in 1979 in Tokyo. It is perh...
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    13,17 €

  • Black College Nines
    Jay Sokol
    Historically Black College and University baseball (commonly referred to as HBCU baseball or black college baseball) has been part of the collegiate baseball scene dating back to 1887 when Southern University and Straight University faced off in New Orleans, Louisiana.Those two black college 'nines' (the moniker that was first used in the nineteenth century referencing a baseba...
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    16,75 €

  • The Ultimate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook
    Leslie Sokol / Marci G. Fox
    Take control of your mental health today!   Grounded within the basic principles of CBT, The Ultimate Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook is your go-to resource for taking healing into your own hands. Filled with over 50 practical exercises and worksheets, it will help you restructure your thinking, face your fears, curb your anger, resist unhelpful urges, and grow the most p...
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    27,78 €

  • Connection Mode
    Nancy Sokol Green
    Could simple changes to your brain and nervous system make your life easier?Drawing on humorous examples, true stories, and playful analogies, Connection Mode shows how our nervous system-including a surprisingly common missed opportunity to finish our lower brain development-often interferes with our lives in ways we don’t even realize. The book answers questions such as:How c...
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    13,26 €

  • Silverbirch Summer
    Fred Sokol
    A summer of choice...and basketballFor April, the rustic Silverbirch Lodge in the Catskills was magical, a tree palace. It was where Long Islanders in 1965, who didn’t have their own vacation homes, went to get away for the summer. And after a whirlwind senior year of high school, it seemed like the perfect place to spend the time before college deciding what she really wanted ...
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    14,79 €

  • Breach
    Kelly Sokol
    The boundary between battlefield and home front blurs. Are there wounds love can heal?Marleigh Mulcahy grew up in a boxing gym, the daughter of hard-drinking parents who didn’t keep a stable roof overhead. In the cinder-block Box-n-Go, amidst the sweat and funk, she meets EOD specialist Jace Holt, a highly and expensively trained bomb diffuser with three successful deployments ...
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    16,29 €

  • The Larvae, Ansaldo and The Spice Merchant’s Son
    Robert Zola Christensen / Nina Sokol
    Just like in Paris, there are men in Calais who deal in human trafficking. They frequent the bars at the harbor to see if there are any newcomers. I was sitting together with my two travel companions, the spice merchant’s son and the man from Rouen. We were in the middle of eating a meal which consisted of meat and cabbage when an elderly sailor entered. He sat down at the end ...
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    13,12 €

  • Zee
    Su J. Sokol
    Ever since she was born, Zee’s had a talent, a particular kind of intelligence. She perceives things no one else can. Zee is able to hear other people’s thoughts, feel their emotions. She can even see herself through their eyes, and this seeing changes her.Sometimes, Zee is the precocious daughter of her four grownups.Other times, Zee’s a rough boy from Brooklyn, New York, play...
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    14,11 €

  • She Is Me
    Lori Sokol
    For the first time in history, more women are serving as leaders of countries, corporations and communities than ever before-and the qualities that contribute to their significant success are not what long-held patriarchal societies are accustomed to. She Is Me: How Women Will Save The World reveals the strengths women use to wield power that enhances lives, prevents war, and ...
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    14,32 €

  • Tiny Shifts
    Kristian Himmelstrup / Nina Sokol
    “She was the perpetual motion machine of the party who could piss itself in the mouth, the false inference of the party: She was interesting because she had interesting friends who were interesting because they knew her.” ...
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    12,91 €

  • Kindred Instruments
    Ron Sokol
    LET’S MAKE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC!These musical instruments are very much alive, and share their experiences with us, their ups and downs, their interaction with the world. Open the pages here to dine with tuba and trombone. Meet the violin who is going to soon be gifted to a true master. A piccolo who becomes a stand-up comedienne, no less. The flute held in the one hand of a war vet...
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    32,52 €

  • Shakespeare’s Artists
    B. J. Sokol
    This study of the many poets, musicians and visual artists portrayed or described in Shakespeare’s plays and poems reveals a fascination with art and its makers that continued to influence Shakespeare’s work throughout his career. It also uncovers unexpected aspects of an enthusiastic Elizabethan consumption of artworks, an enthusiasm that had significant bearing on the quite...
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    59,79 €

  • Love Poems
    Robert Sokol
    Poetry is a suggestive art Using symbols and direct imitation of Life, it stimulates the imagination of the reader through imagery, taking the stronghold of their feelings, arousing them to a passionate reaction. It also appeals to understanding, and is, therefore, capable of directing lessons of wisdom.Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, recollected in tra...
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    8,83 €

  • Heart Poems
    Robert Sokol
    Poetry is a suggest art using symbols and direct imitation of life. It stimulates the imagination of the readers, taking string hold of their feelings, arousing them to passionate reactions. It also reaches out to understanding and is therefore capable of evoking lessons of wisdom. Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings of expression and technical skill, reflec...
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    8,52 €

  • No Balloons
    Robert Zola Christensen / Nina Sokol
    No Balloons takes place at a university in the politically correct country of Sweden where everything looks very nice and respectable. At least on the surface. At the Institute for Languages and Literature at Lund University, the Danish professor finds himself struggling with Swedish mentality. He is a man in the prime of his life, yet still everything seems to be falling apart...
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    14,16 €

  • Michell Structures
    Cezary Graczykowski / Tomasz Lewiński / Tomasz Sokół
    The book covers the theory of Michell structures being the lightest and fully stressed systems of bars, designed within a given domain, possibly within the whole space, transmitting a given load towards a given support. Discovered already in 1904 by A.G.M. Michell, the structures named after him have attracted constant attention due to their peculiar feature of disclosing the o...
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    247,92 €

  • The Vineyard Years
    Susan Sokol Blosser
    A memoir by the highly successful founder of Sokol Blosser Winery, one of the first wineries in the Willamette Valley of Oregon and the first in the area to be run by a woman. Renowned for her progressive and pioneering approach to farming, running a business, and raising a family, the author tells a touching story through the lens of food and wine and offers iconic recipes tha...
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    14,35 €

  • New Day in the City
    Donna Claycomb Sokol / Roger Owens
    Frederich Buechner once wrote, "Dreams of fame and fortune die hard, if they ever die at all." Many mainline urban congregations remember the days of fame and fortune--days when their prominence downtown mattered. Population shifts, the decline of mainline congregations, and demographic changes have robbed many downtown churches of these dreams - but not all churches. Many cong...
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    16,78 €


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