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  • Words of Hope in Troubled Times
    José Ramos-Horta
    The Twenty-first Century offers us a chance, a unique chance, to coalesce around common global interests – to reverse the nefarious consequences of climate change, manage clean water reserves that are becoming a rare commodity, save our polluted rivers, lakes, and seas, replenish the depleted fish stock, eliminate extreme poverty and hunger, and de-escalate tensions on the Kore...
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    23,52 €

  • Ofrenda de símbolos
    Linda Acosta Rodríguez
    En las páginas de Ofrenda de Símbolos, Linda Acosta nos invita a un viaje íntimo y revelador a través de la poesía y la narrativa. Este libro, más que una mera compilación, es un acto de entrega sincera, donde cada palabra es un testimonio de gratitud y amor. Desde versosprofundos hasta relatos cotidianos, Acosta nos sumerge en un océano de emociones y significados, desafiando ...
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    10,40 €

  • Contos curtinhos/ cuentos brevísimos
    FERNANDO CABRITA
    CONTOS CURTINHOS/CUENTOS BREVÍSIMOS. Bilingüe portugués/español, traducido por el también escritor Joaquín González Málaga.Una (contra)oda a la estupidez humana, insondable e inabarcable. Obra maestra en brevedad, concisión y acidez en su justa medida.Fernando, de alguna manera, estaba abocado sin él saberlo a escribir algún día este libro. Para reír, llorar y pensar (a partes ...
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    14,01 €

  • Esto queda entre tú y yo, si quieres
    Cristina Camisón Borrás
    La humanidad se ha pasado la existencia dudando; indagando, resolviendo misterios, descubriendo la verdad.En la era de la (sobre)información, superadas por las circunstancias, las personas empezamos a opinar sin reflexionar.Algunas hemos vuelto a lo instintivo, nos limitamos a reaccionar, otras nos limitamos a existir en la simulación y otras empezamos a cuestionarnos por qué n...
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    16,00 €

  • Abbott
    Tony Abbott
    When Tony Abbott declared on election night, 7 September, 2013, that Australia was “under new management and once more open for business”, he was emphasising more than his incoming government’s determination to revive the national economy. By using the lingo of small business, he was affirming his affinity with what his predecessor Robert Menzies called “the backbone of the nat...
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    52,61 €

  • En la soledad de mil recuerdos
    Elizabet Worren
    En este libro hago un viaje a mi interior, a toda esa vorágine de sentimientos, sensaciones, pensamientos, amor no correspondido, etc. Es un fiel reflejo de mi propia vida. También expreso lo que percibo a mí alrededor, describo por ejemplo, las estaciones del año, a animales que llaman nuestra atención, etc. De ahí, el título de En la soledad de mil recuerdos Son las luces y l...
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    15,55 €

  • ABBOTT
    Paul Ritchie
    This year we turn our attention to Tony Abbott’s brief but productive period as Prime Minister. The influences of Menzies and Howardare clear, but so too is Abbott’s literary skill, honed as a journalist. Like Menzies and Howard, Abbott achieved the remarkable task of leading his party out of opposition. These speeches reveal he also had a strong plan for government, accomplis...
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    32,19 €

  • Talking to an Empty Room
    Hardikar Vinay
    He got the hang of his audience very quickly and then decided how high the pole-vault bar was to be set; and his audience ranged from the at-post-level villagers to international experts in fields of political economy, philosophy, culture, media and sometimes literature...His speeches may not have won acceptance of the policy-makers but they must have been eye-openers to those ...
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    11,52 €

  • HOWARD
    John W Howard
    “The essence of a good speech is that the speaker should have something to say which he is resolved to convey to his listeners in the simplest, most intelligible, and most persuasive language.” -- Sir Robert Menzies‘If you want to govern a free people successfully for four terms, here’s how.’ -- John O’Sullivan.John Howard could convey more in a single speech than lesser politi...
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    32,05 €

  • Speeches of Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison
    In 1888, Benjamin Harrison campaigned for the Presidency in the manner common for candidates of his era: he stayed at home in Indianapolis and spoke to visiting delegations. In 1889, he traveled to Washington to take up residency in the White House, and made a few brief trips out of town. In 1890, he undertook a train journey lasting more than a week and covering nearly 2,700 m...
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    23,81 €

  • ACCEPTANCE SPEECH FOR THE CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
    Melany L Nugent-Noble
    Using a process of hand sorting of text that does not rely on algorithms, this work combines the respective acceptance speeches of U.S Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, given at their respective party conventions in July, 2016.There is no additional text added or removed from the original transcripts with the exception of punctuation and [pauses], which ...
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    22,26 €

  • HOWARD
    John Howard
    “The essence of a good speech is that the speaker should have something to say which he is resolved to convey to his listeners in the simplest, most intelligible, and most persuasive language.”-- Sir Robert Menzies‘If you want to govern a free people successfully for four terms, here’s how.’-- John O’Sullivan.John Howard could convey more in a single speech than lesser politici...
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    53,04 €

  • Self-Reliance and Other Essays
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    2018 Reprint of Selections from Emerson’s Essays: First Series [1841] and Second Series [1844].   Essayist, poet, and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was a founder of American Transcendentalism, a philosophy emphasizing self-reliance, introspection and the importance of nature for the human being. He was a prescient critic of the dehumanizing tendencies of modern s...
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    8,16 €

  • Speeches of Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison
    In 1888, Benjamin Harrison campaigned for the Presidency in the manner common for candidates of his era: he stayed at home in Indianapolis and spoke to visiting delegations. In 1889, he traveled to Washington to take up residency in the White House, and made a few brief trips out of town. In 1890, he undertook a train journey lasting more than a week and covering nearly 2,700 m...
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    31,60 €

  • The Forgotten People
    Robert Menzies
    From the original blurb of 1943:All who listened, in 1942, to the broadcast talks of our former Prime Minister, the Rt Hon. R. G. Menzies, will welcome this collection of them in printed form. From the standpoint of a true patriot and in the spirit of man to man, Mr Menzies examines, in The Forgotten People, many of the problems arising from our present state of war. With movin...
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    24,60 €

  • Odyssey
    Meredith Coleman McGee
    Mississippi author Meredith Coleman McGee presents the reader with a triple expression of literary form in ODYSSEY, a uniquely written, well researched work which produces a family of fiction and nonfiction writings under one cover. This edition of ODYSSEY includes three chapters of poems, a chapter of speeches, a chapter of newspaper and other articles, and the final chapter i...
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    21,82 €

  • The Powerful Woman in America and Europe
    HISHAM AKRAM ALSHAMMARY
    The nineteenth-century writers such as George Eliot opened the eyes of Englishmen and Europeans to their own past history with his historical romances. Ivanhoe and Kenilworth, for example, are imaginative reconstructions of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Many readers, however, think that certain novelists are at their best in their handling of their minority stories. Late...
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    12,66 €

  • Africanismo
    Charles Olusegun Doherty
    African has a rich culture in terms of languages, idioms, social lives, and general behavior. However, with the current globalization, most of the moral values and the originality of Africans are under threat of extinction. Most of the cultural values such as proverbs and dialects, which are passed from generation for centuries, might be affected if nothing is done as soon as p...
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    18,71 €

  • Audacity
    Barack Obama
    "We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it."---Barack ObamaFew political careers and presidencies have been more defined by speeches than Barack Obama’s. This book is a collection of Barack Obama's most Influential speeches that span Obama’ political career --from his time as senator through to the end of his tenure as president— giving an in-depth look i...
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    16,27 €

  • Como una red
    Josep Antoni Ysern i Lagarda
    Es un hecho que el dominico Vicent Ferrer (1350-1419) supo atraer, gracias a la calidad y calidez de sus sermones, a un público tan multitudinario como variopinto que, a su vez, empezó a fraguar una visión casi legendaria de este orador, que percibía siempre próximo, cercano. Este volumen recoge una panorámica de su predicación, ilustrada con una selección de diez sermones -rep...
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    16,00 €

  • Blazing Your Path Through Life
    Jim Zwers
    Have you ever been in a situation where you had to make a tough decision and didn't know know what to do or which way to turn? You're not alone. Life can be intimidating, confusing, uncertain ... but it doesn't have to be that way. Sometimes we desperately need the knowledge and experience of someone who has been through what you're about to face. Like a friend or mentor to cal...
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    8,56 €

  • Antonio de Nebrija
    Rafael Sánchez Pérez
    Reproducción del «Elogio de Antonio de Lebrija y oración apologética», que en el concurso de oposiciones a la cátedra de Latinidad de la villa de Lebrija, en 1815, realizó Francisco Rodríguez García. Laudatio pronunciada en latín que, un año después publicó en versión castellana junto al texto latino, José Álvarez Caballero, que fue su oponente en aquella oposición, en la sevil...
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    15,00 €

  • Something for You
    Delores Oliver Baker
    'Something for You' is a family oriented fiction book composed of various intriguing observations and life experiences. It contains writings of class reunion reflection and tribute, condolences, resolutions, plays, poems and prayers. In traveling through life, we experience some good times as well as sad times. Both events of life have been captured in this book.In reference to...
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    11,07 €

  • Speech Matters
    Judith Field / Marissa Pinkas
    Does a student you know have trouble presenting their ideas to their class? Never fear! There's a new resource available for pupils in years 7 and 8 that will greatly boost their confidence and have them orating with the best of them! Speech Matters is a practical lesson-based resource for teachers, directed at students, in which all aspects of public speaking are explicitly e...
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    25,49 €

  • From the Dissident Right II
    John Derbyshire
    This book is mainly a collection of speeches made and essays published in 2013. Most of the material appeared on VDARE.com, an online magazine dedicated to frank discussion of the National Question, which embraces issues of immigration, population, race, culture, language, religion, and national identity. ...
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    8,33 €

  • Speeches of Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison
    In 1888, Benjamin Harrison campaigned for the Presidency in the manner common for candidates of his era: he stayed at home in Indianapolis and spoke to visiting delegations. In 1889, he traveled to Washington to take up residency in the White House, and made a few brief trips out of town. In 1890, he undertook a train journey lasting more than a week and covering nearly 2,700 m...
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    37,27 €

  • What Is Your Passion?
    Dr. Anthony DeMarco
    The author served in the United States Marine Corps during WWII and was a combat veteran in the South Pacific. He graduated from a Theological School and became a minister for many years. He graduated from Temple University, magna cum laude, earning his Doctoral Degree in Urban Education. He was employed by the Philadelphia School District until retirement and then moved to the...
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    15,49 €

  • What Is Your Passion?
    Dr. Anthony DeMarco
    The author served in the United States Marine Corps during WWII and was a combat veteran in the South Pacific. He graduated from a Theological School and became a minister for many years. He graduated from Temple University, magna cum laude, earning his Doctoral Degree in Urban Education. He was employed by the Philadelphia School District until retirement and then moved to the...
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    25,10 €

  • The Name Which Is Above Every Name And The Shepherd And His Flock
    John William Reeve
    The book ''The Name Which Is Above Every Name And The Shepherd And His Flock: Lectures Preached In Portman Chapel, During Lent 1866 And 1867'' by John William Reeve is a collection of lectures delivered during the Lenten season of 1866 and 1867 in Portman Chapel. The book is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the name of Jesus and its significance, exploring how ...
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    37,51 €

  • Address To The British Association For The Advancement Of Science (1867)
    William Robert Grove
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    12,55 €


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