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  • Optimism
    Helen Keller
    Who better than Helen Keller to write about optimism? Helen Keller became blind when she was nineteen months old. At the time children who were deaf and blind were simply given up on. But Helen’s mother read that a deaf blind person had been educated and decided to explore that possibility for her daughter. As a result of this Helen Keller was the first deaf blind person to ear...
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    14,24 €

  • Best Korean Short Stories Collection 2 대한민국 베스트 단편 소설모음집 2
    Meet the very finest of Korean short stories. This compilation of 17 short stories bring you the essence of Korean literature, covering the early 1900's to the late 1900's. Also ideal for advanced Korean learners.대한민국 문화의 정수를 담아 1900년초부터 1900년후반까지의 거장들의 작품을 담은 모음집. 한국 문화와 언어를 공부하는 상급자 수준의 학생들에게 교재로도 적합한 도서. ...
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    10,78 €

  • the post calvin
    After three years of publishing daily pieces online, the post calvin is proud to present the post calvin: selected essays. Editors Josh deLacy, Will Montei, Debra Rienstra, and Abby Zwart have gathered suggestions from writers and chosen pieces that represent the heart and soul of the post calvin. the post calvin is a daily online journal that features twenty-eight regular wri...
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    13,30 €

  • From Dawn to Daylight
    Dawn Downey
    Dawn Downey’s second collection of essays is for everyone who savors down-to-earth stories with a twist of wisdom. Deeply honest and deeply personal, her observations are laced with quirky insights and self-deprecating humor. She draws inspiration from the flu, the garden, bad knees and bad TV. She explores larger themes of loss and estrangement, while retaining a youthful outl...
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    9,50 €

  • The Book of Days
    The Book of Days is an illustrated anthology from the 2015 Sydney Writers’ Festival. The book was designed live during the festival at a workstation next to the Pier 2/3 Main Stage at Walsh Bay. The anthology is divided into two parts. The first is a selection of writing and illustrations from festival presenters. It includes excerpts of what was read or shown at festival event...
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    25,66 €

  • Runaway Thoughts
    In 2013 students at Venice High School in Los Angeles formed the first P.O.P.S. (Pain of the Prison System) club, a club for those whose lives have been touched by prison. Many have parents, friends, siblings, uncles and aunts inside; some have had their own brushes with the law. All have stories to tell. Runaway Thoughts offers the stories, artwork and essays of those whose vo...
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    16,35 €

  • Color
    Kenneth A. McClane / Kenneth AMcClane
    In 1991, acclaimed poet Kenneth A. McClane published Walls: Essays, 1985-1990, a volume of essays dealing with life in Harlem, the death of his alcoholic brother, and the complexities of being black and middle-class in America. Now, in Color: Essays on Race, Family, and History, McClane contributes further to his self-described 'autobiographical sojourn' with a second collectio...
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    28,20 €

  • Real Women’s Stories 2018
    Beth Kallman Werner
    The twelve brief chapters in this book reflect the beauty and the burdens of life, the highs and lows of being a woman.With stories about: mothers and daughters; relocating from a small town in Idaho to a tiny island in the Caribbean; a United States marine adopting a baby girl from an orphanage during the Vietnam War; surviving divorce, alcoholism, and domestic violence; build...
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    13,87 €

  • DeFacto Feminism
    Judy Juanita
    Judy Juanita views activism and feminism as it plays out in her political, artistic and spiritual life. A distinguished semifinalist for OSU’s 2016 Non/Fiction Collection Prize, De Facto… blends essays, poems, graphics by the late Rini Templeton and literary criticism. An act of self-definition with the feel of memoir, these essays follow a long line of thinkers, including Anna...
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    14,63 €

  • Whippoorwill Calls
    Gabrielle Songe
    Alternating between prose and poetry the author weaves her journey of awakening from agnosticism to belief. The story travels along paths of loves and loves lost at times metaphorically and other times supernaturally. Does 'More Is Expected' signal a sequel? Old Testament Prophet Jeremiah and King David provide sign posts along the way. ...
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    8,53 €

  • Japón España: la Vía Dual
    Pedro Gallo / Pedro Gallo Tenaguillo
    El libro de Pedro Gallo está escrito con prosa rica, culta, ágil y fluida. Y aborda un tema que conoce realmente bien, y que justamente por ello lo explica con profundidad y con claridad. Es un libro que se lee con todo interés y con todo gusto. La relación entre España y Japón es básicamente buena pero tiene un potencial de desarrollo y crecimiento espectacular prácticamente e...
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    18,99 €

  • What Is It Like to be Alive?
    Chris Arthur
    In What is it Like to be Alive? Fourteen Attempts at an Answer, prize-winning essayist Chris Arthur looks into life’s mirror and offers an account of what can be seen in ordinary things. Each of the book’s fourteen essays is an exercise in seeing beyond the obvious, and finding hidden depth in the places and things we might otherwise take for granted. Arthur ranges over subject...
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    19,66 €

  • Islaah-e-Moashira - Islam ki Rahnumai
    Mufti Tanzim Aalim Qasmi
    In this book written by Mufti Tanzim Aalim Qasmi, articles regarding the reform of the society have been included which address the urgent need for societal reform. Reading these articles will instill a spirit of action and a fear of God, as well as awareness of Islamic customs and guiding principles on interpersonal relationships, behavior, and both individual and group life. ...
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    24,72 €

  • A Farmer’s Almanac - Stories about Land, Food, and Life
    Drausin Wulsin
    This is Volume II of A Farmer’s Almanac Series, Wonder of Actualization. The first of Drausin Wulsin’s three ventures on the land, covering a span of over 30 years, was starting a grass-based, New Zealand-style dairy in the state of Ohio. The next entailed creating a wetlands mitigation bank on 215 acres. The third was developing a grass-based meat business, involving beef, she...
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    13,62 €

  • Utter, Earth
    Isaac Yuen
    Part nature guide, part self-help column, and all love letter to the more-than-human world, Utter, Earth is an exercise in wonder. For animal lovers and readers of Brian Doyle, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Amy Leach. A light, literary take on an animal book for grown-ups, a tongue-in-cheek self-help column with lessons drawn from nature, a sort of hitchhiker’s guide to the more-...
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    19,20 €

  • Cómo reemplazar a la mujer que te abandona
    Ángel Salomón Riveros Saavedra
    La presente obra es la descripción real de una tragicomedia provocada por el fanatismo y la ceguera mental de mi exesposa, cuya mente, como en la alegoría de la caverna de Platón, se llenó de sombras y,gobernada por la sabia ignorancia, sin previo diálogo, me abandonó, generando una profunda ruptura familiar.El sentido de este libro no es solo el de narrar una experiencia por l...
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    8,32 €

  • Sexistir
    Andrea Orlandini
    Somos seres en continua evolución, que observamos, experimentamos y cuestionamos para propiciar revoluciones y el surgimiento de nuevos paradigmas. La sexualidad, fundamental para nuestra identidad frente a nosotros mismos y a los demás, no es inmune a esta dinámica de cambio. En este contexto, esta obra emerge como un espacio de reflexión para examinar los modelos contemporáne...
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    18,92 €

  • Sigo aquí
    Anahí Zúñiga
    Mi abuela murió un jueves. Ese día supe que debía irme lejos, confiesa Anahí Zúñiga al inicio de Sigo aquí, un ensayo íntimo en el que la autora recorre los claroscuros de su vínculo con la palabra, la salud mental, las relaciones personales y la creatividad, en una búsqueda cruda pero entrañable por dar sentido a las heridas de la memoria, la familia, la sociedad y el cuerpo m...
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    13,52 €

  • Alfaaz ke Waaris
    Syed Khalid Qadri
    A collection of several literary pieces by Syed Khalid Qadri, this book offers critiques and insights on subjects like the tragic figure of Mirza Ghalib, Albert Camus’s essay on music, the freedom of sexual expression in Western fiction and Prof. Khalid Sayeed’s book of literary criticism. ...
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    19,97 €

  • The After
    Michael Ramos
    When Michael Ramos enlisted in the Navy and was assigned to serve as a chaplain’s bodyguard thirteen days before 9/11, he had no idea he would soon be sent to Iraq. But he embraced the posting, combat service, and career for a decade, until, at age thirty-four, the military told him his skill set was no longer relevant. Through divorce and remarriage, his son’s choice to enlist...
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    25,55 €

  • Come! Come! Where? Where?
    James Seay
    James Seay’s essays reflect a poet’s eye for detail and a seeker’s wrestling with life’s big questions and experiences: what it means to be a parent, losing a child, confronting mental illness, observing and living through the collision of cultures, finding the universal in the particularity of every day. We share moments with Seay that stay with us, dipping in and out of his l...
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    127,29 €

  • Come! Come! Where? Where?
    James Seay
    James Seay’s essays reflect a poet’s eye for detail and a seeker’s wrestling with life’s big questions and experiences: what it means to be a parent, losing a child, confronting mental illness, observing and living through the collision of cultures, finding the universal in the particularity of every day. We share moments with Seay that stay with us, dipping in and out of his l...
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    29,29 €

  • A Question of Value
    Robert Brunk
    In the late 1970s, Robert Brunk discovered the world of auctioneering. Drawn to the unique mountain culture and the history of fine art in and around Asheville, North Carolina, Bob started a business, Brunk Auctions, that became part of a bustling network of commerce. America’s passion for collecting, buying, and selling reached remarkable heights in the following decades. Auct...
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    26,66 €

  • The Tears and Smiles of Things
    Andriy Sodomora / Roman Ivashkiv / Sabrina Jaszi
    An evocative collection of vignettes and essays from Ukraine’s “voice” of classical antiquity, now available in English for the first time.Inspired by Virgil’s exquisitely ambivalent phrase “sunt lacrimae rerum” (there are tears of/for/in things), Andriy Sodomora, the Ukrainian “voice” of classical antiquity, has produced a series of original vignettes and essays about things: ...
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    216,85 €

  • The Tears and Smiles of Things
    Andriy Sodomora / Roman Ivashkiv / Sabrina Jaszi
    An evocative collection of vignettes and essays from Ukraine’s “voice” of classical antiquity, now available in English for the first time.Inspired by Virgil’s exquisitely ambivalent phrase “sunt lacrimae rerum” (there are tears of/for/in things), Andriy Sodomora, the Ukrainian “voice” of classical antiquity, has produced a series of original vignettes and essays about things: ...
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    17,91 €

  • Local Weather
    Andrew Squitiro
    Andrew Squitiro’s debut prose collection, LOCAL WEATHER (Dynamo Verlag; 94pp; paperback; 6 February 2024) is a collection of sixteen tight dispatches as intense as they are concise. Set amid the weeping willows and Spanish moss of New Orleans, a city where climate change is felt punishingly, these essays unflinchingly explore human alienation, the human yearning for connection ...
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    12,98 €

  • Sincerely, Black Teens
    Jack and Jill of America Nashville
    Sincerely, BlackTeens is a collection of essays, poems, and prose written by the Teens of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. Nashville Chapter. In this book, the authors write a heartfelt letter to the country, their peers, their parents, and the world, that shares what it means to grow up Black in America. The Jack and Jill teens share their feelings on issues like Racism, coloris...
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    19,15 €

  • As ideias fora do lugar
    Schwarz Roberto
    Nos dois ensaios aqui compilados, As ideias fora do lugar e Nacional por subtração, Roberto Schwarz, considerado o mais importante pensador marxista de literatura brasileira, discute sobre um paradoxo vivido pela sociedade brasileira como um mal-estar, no qual há uma sensação de deslocamento entre as ideias e o lugar e entre a cultura e a sociedade. Os ensaios são complementado...
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    12,48 €

  • Bring Out Your Dead
    Chad Davidson
    Could the shlock-rock ’70s band Kiss in any way affect the outcome of a death-dealing twenty-first-century virus? Is Bob Ross--that permed, inimitable painter of Edenic nostalgia on PBS--actually an emissary from the land of personal loss? Might the work of Edward Hopper reflect facets of a global plague? What is the grammar, finally, of grief, of isolation? The essays in Chad...
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    22,31 €

  • X in the Tickseed
    Ed Falco
    From discursive essay-poems to tightly constructed lyrics, Ed Falco’s X in the Tickseed examines a world that reveals itself through its mysteries, reflecting upon the ephemeral nature of all things. In the series of poems that bookend the collection, a speaker identified only as X reviews personal history and relationships, speculating, pondering, and questioning in the face o...
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    15,67 €


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