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"The Quick and the Dead: True Stories of Life and Death from a New Zealand Pathologist" ("Temple-Camp Cynric")" True stories of life and death from a New Zealand pathologist From the number-one bestselling author of The Cause of Death comes a book about the unlikely, extraordinary, obscure and often tragic ways humans meet their end. A dead body without a trace of trauma; alien parasites; worms of the br... |
21,08 € |
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"Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life" ("Flannery Michael A.")" For years Alfred Russel Wallace was little more than an obscure adjunct to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Remembered only for prompting Darwin to write On the Origin of Species in 1859 by writing his own letter proposing a theory of natural selection, Wallace was rightly dubbed by one biogr... |
13,12 € |
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"Jane Austen for Kids, 68: Her Life, Writings, and World, with 21 Activities" ("Sanders Nancy I.")"Often compared to William Shakespeare, Jane Austen's genius was her cast of characters--so timeless and real that readers know them in their own families and neighborhoods today. Her book's universal themes--love and hate, hope and disappointment, pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility--still t... |
15,64 € |
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"Fixer and Fighter: The Life of Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, 1170 - 1243" ("Harwood Brian")"Hubert de Burgh rose from obscure beginnings to become one of the most powerful men in England. He loyally served first King John and then the young Henry III and played a crucial role in saving the Plantagenet dynasty when it was at its most vulnerable. During King John's disastrous wars in France... |
14,60 € |
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"Three Minutes for a Dog: My Life in an Iron Lung" ("Alexander Paul R.")"Contrary to popular belief Polio is not extinct. This is the true story of an indomitable spirit afflicted with unimaginable physical and psychological challenges. Paul Alexander's life is a saga that started in 1946 and has been profoundly shaped by the Polio epidemic of the early 1950's. Survivor... |
28,08 € |
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"Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases" ("Lee-Chin Maia")"A hauntingly illustrated guide to memorable Latin phrases, including famous quotations on love, death, nature, politics, and more. Latin may be a "dead" language, but it's all around us--in science, philosophy, religion, and at the root of English grammar. From "carpe diem" to the more obscure "al... |
19,44 € |
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"Harvest Bells: New and Uncollected Poems by John Betjeman" ("Betjeman John")" A charming new collection of previously undiscovered poems by Sir John Betjeman. John Betjeman (1906-1984), the former poet laureate, remains one of Britain's foremost and much-loved writers whose poetry has passed into the collective memory as an affectionate and witty monument to twentieth cent... |
16,56 € |
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Death of NatureNature as FemaleThe world we have lost was organic. From the obscure origins of our species, human beings have lived in daily, immediate, organic relation with the natural order for their sustenance. In 1500, the daily interaction with nature was still structured for most Europeans, as it was for ot... |
15,06 € |
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Death of NatureNature as FemaleThe world we have lost was organic. From the obscure origins of our species, human beings have lived in daily, immediate, organic relation with the natural order for their sustenance. In 1500, the daily interaction with nature was still structured for most Europeans, as it was for ot... |
15,06 € |
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"The Annotated Pride and Prejudice" ("Austen Jane")" This Revised and Expanded Edition contains hundreds of new notes and illustrations. The first-ever fully annotated edition of one of the most beloved novels in the world is a sheer delight for Jane Austen fans. Here is the complete text of Pride and Prejudice with thousands of annotations on faci... |
16,44 € |
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"Faith, Unity, Discipline" ("Kiessling Hein G.")" Even once we accept that morality has a universal foundation, we should still recognize that the particular values, virtues, relationships and obligations that guide our decisions are often contingent. We should respect one another, advance happiness, live flourishing lives and advance justice, bu... |
20,28 € |
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Gospel of the Eels'I can't recall us ever talking about anything other than eels and how to best catch them, down there by the stream. Actually, I can't remember us speaking at all. Maybe because we never did.' The European eel, Anguilla anguilla, is one of the strangest creatures nature ever created. Remarkably litt... |
11,17 € |
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Andy Warhol - PolaroidsInstant Andy Before there was Instagram, there was Warhol Andy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amassed a huge collection of instant pictures of friends, lovers, patrons, the famous, the obscure,... |
53,85 € |
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"Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus" ("Cahill Thomas")"NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization comes a compelling historical narrative about Jesus--an obscure rabbi from a backwater of the Roman Empire who became the central figure in Western Civilization. Divertingly instructive...gratifying...[Cahill] ma... |
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The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Weidenfeld & NicolsonThe international bestseller and modern classic - over 20 million copies sold worldwide'Shadow is the real deal, a novel full of cheesy splendour and creaking trapdoors, a novel where even the subplots have subplots. One gorgeous read' STEPHEN KING'An instant classic' DAILY TELEGRAPHThe Shadow of th... |
14,20 € |
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"Norman Mailer: The Naked and the Dead & Selected Letters 1945-1946 (Loa #364)" ("Mailer Norman")"A landmark in the modern literature of war by a still-controversial literary icon Includes a selection of letters--nine never before published--that reveal the real life roots of one of the greatest American debut novels of the last century Nearly universally praised upon publication as an achiev... |
36,36 € |
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KhomeiniThis is a new edition of the bestselling biography of the Iranian leader who influenced the current global Islamic revival.When the Ayatollah Khomeini burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s, radical Islam became a factor of political life that would change the world. And with the Irani... |
36,13 € |
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Captain Cook - autor neuvedenýOn the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook's successful navigation to the coast of Australia, this is Alistair MacLean's absorbing story of one of Britain's great national heroes, from his obscure beginnings to his sudden and violent death at the age of fifty-one. When James Cook was hacked to death b... |
12,30 € |
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"Andy Warhol. Polaroids 1958-1987" ("Woodward Richard B.")" Andy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amassed a huge collection of instant pictures of friends, lovers, patrons, the famous, the obscure, the scenic, the fashionable, and himself. Created in co... |
14,24 € |
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