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Reading the Red Book Taylor & Francis Ltd
The long-awaited publication of C.G. Jung´s Red Book in October, 2009 was a signal event in the history of analytical psychology. Hailed as the most important work in Jung´s entire corpus, it is as enigmatic as it is profound. Reading The Red Book by Sanford L. Drob provides a clear and comprehensive guide to The Red Book´s narrative and thematic content, and details The ...
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Reading the Red Book Taylor & Francis Ltd
The long-awaited publication of C.G. Jung´s Red Book in October, 2009 was a signal event in the history of analytical psychology. Hailed as the most important work in Jung´s entire corpus, it is as enigmatic as it is profound. Reading The Red Book by Sanford L. Drob provides a clear and comprehensive guide to The Red Book´s narrative and thematic content, and details The ...
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So Shall You Reap - Leonová Donna
Anotace: DIVE INTO THE LATEST INSTALMENT IN DONNA LEON`S COMMISSARIO BRUNETTI SERIES`Donna Leon provides another delectable slice of the thoughtful policeman`s life at work and at home... So Shall You Reap is as witty and wise as anything Leon has written. To read her is to restore the soul.` Mark Sanderson, The Times`Like all of Leon`s novels, it ultimately feels like a...
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Analects - Konfucius Konfucius
Anotace: Formed in a time of great unrest in ancient China, The Analects is vital to an understanding of Chinese history and thought, and, 2,500 years on, it remains startlingly relevant to contemporary life. Complete and unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon...
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Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn´t Food ... and Why Can´t We Stop? - van Tulleken Chris
Anotace: Chosen by the SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, FT and DAILY MAIL as one of their BEST SUMMER BOOKS OF 2023`If you only read one diet or nutrition book in your life, make it this one` Bee Wilson`A devastating, witty and scholarly destruction of the shit food we eat and why` Adam Rutherford---An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production ...
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The Analects - Confucius
<p>Formed in a time of great unrest in ancient China, The Analects is vital to an understanding of Chinese history and thought, and, 2,500 years on, it remains startlingly relevant to contemporary life.Complete and unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers...
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Fourth Wing: Discover your new fantasy romance obsession with the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick! - Rebecca Yarros
Anotace: Welcome to the brutal and elite world of Basgiath War College, where everyone has an agenda, and every night could be your last . . . Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general - also known as her tough-as-talons mother - has ordered Violet to join the hu...
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Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros
Anotace: Welcome to the brutal and elite world of Basgiath War College, where everyone has an agenda, and every night could be your last . . . Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general - also known as her tough-as-talons mother - has ordered Violet to join the hun...
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Reading & Training
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County depicts one of American history’s most exciting periods: the California Gold Rush of the 1850s. Come to Angel’s Mining Camp in California and meet Smiley whose frog is a living gold mine until one day… And read about Mark Twain’s amazing remedies for curing a cold and about an incredible thunderstorm!
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The Betrayal of Anne Frank - Rosemary Sullivan
<p>‘Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation’ New York Times</p> <p>Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept</p> <p>The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World War: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why?</p> <p>Now, thanks to radical new technology and the obsession of a retired FBI ag...
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Habsburgs - neuveden
Anotace: The Habsburgs have been described as demons - responsible for a `history of atrocities`; and, as dodos - living fossils unable to adapt to the modern world. This book features figures as mad Queen Juana, progressing through Spain with her husband`s decaying body; the `heroically fertile` Maria Theresa; and, the Maximilian, `Emperor` of Mexico.
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Listen to Learn - Using American Music to Teach Language - Tibbett Teri
Anotace: Offers middle school language arts and social studies teachers a fresh approach to teaching thematic units in both language arts and social studies. This book`s each section covers the music of a particular cultural group and era in American history.
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Wandering Witch 1: The Journey of Elaina - Jougi Shiraishi
<p>Ever since she was a little girl reading books of magic and adventure, Elaina has dreamed of following in the footsteps of her childhood idol, the witch Nique, and living a life of travel. Now a full-fledged witch herself, Elaina sets off on a journey without a destination, wandering far and wide to see the world. With each new place she sees and person she meets...
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Agatha Christie - Clocks
The new-look series of Hercule Poirot books for the 21st century. As instructed, stenographer Sheila Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Crescent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living room floor. What intrigued Poirot about the case was the time factor. Although in a state of shock, Sheila clearly reme...
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Routledge Library Editions: Revolution in England Taylor & Francis Ltd
Routledge Library Editions: Revolution in England examines the turbulent times that led to the English revolution and civil war as new political and religious ideas led to the overthrow of the king and establishment of a republic. Modern ideas of democracy were established then, and are analysed here in a series of books that look at the various radical sects such as the ...
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Inkheart - Funkeová Cornelia
Anotace: Meggie loves stories, but her father, Mo, hasn`t read to her sinceher mother disappeared.When a stranger knocks at their door, Mo is forced to reveal anextraordinary secret - when he reads aloud, words come alive,and dangerous characters step out of the pages.Suddenly Meggie is living the kind of adventure she has only readabout in books, but this one will chang...
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Papyrus - Vallejo Irene
Anotace: Best Books of 2022 Financial Times`A literary phenomenon.` - Times Literary Supplement`Imaginative, lively and contemporary...masterly.` - Economist `Vallejo enlivens history with imagination and personal anecdote` - Observer`A mindboggling history of the earliest books... the story she tells is impressively rip-roaring` - Daily Telegraph`Packed with fascinating...
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Papyrus - Irene Vallejo
<p>Best Books of 2022 Financial Times'A literary phenomenon.' - Times Literary Supplement'Imaginative, lively and contemporary...masterly.' - Economist 'Vallejo enlivens history with imagination and personal anecdote' - Observer'A mindboggling history of the earliest books... the story she tells is impressively rip-roaring' - Daily Telegraph'Packed with fascinating ...
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Old Testament
The Old Testament is a collection of writings which came into being over a period of more than a thousand years in the history of the people of Israel and which reflect the life of the people in this period. Therefore, there is a reciprocal relationship between the writings or "books" of the Old Testament and the life of Israel in its history. The understanding of the tex...
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Harafish
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, Naguib Mahfouz is perhaps the best-known living Arab writer. His books have had great success in this country, particularly "The Cairo Trilogy. Fans of the famed trilogy will be delighted with "The Harafish, an epic novel that chronicles the dramatic history of the al-Nagi family -- a family that moves, over many generatio...
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Architecture of Memory
Recalling how they lived in a single house that was occupied by several Jewish and Muslim families, in the generation before Algerian independence, Joelle Bahloul's informants build up a multivocal micro-history of a way of life which came to an end in the early 1960s. Uprooted and dispersed, these former neighbours constantly refer back to the architecture of the house i...
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The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution and the Twentieth C (1416526153)
Kniha - autor Peter Watson, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá - autor Peter Watson, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá A virtuoso tour through the cultural history of German ideas and influence, from 1750 to the present. This is a grand, sweeping cultural history in the bestselling tradition of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel, with the resonance and histo...
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Sugar, Sugar : Bitter Sweet Tales of Indian Migrant Workers - Malkani Lainy
Anotace: Sugar, Sugar is a contemporary collection of short stories which reveals a rich and culturally diverse history behind India`s migrant workers and one of the most abundant and controversial commodities in the world. Inspired by historical documents between 1838 and 1917, and the living memories of the descendents of indentured workers, Sugar, Sugar, spans five co...
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Soil Invertebrates Taylor & Francis Ltd
Soil invertebrates make up diverse communities living in soil pores and on the soil surface, digging burrows and tunnels, processing organic matter and interacting with microbes. Soil is also a habitat of growing concern as many human activities cause soil degradation. This book documents the evolutionary history of soil invertebrates and their multitude of adaptations. S...
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Exploring the Ecologies of Music and Sound Taylor & Francis Ltd
Makis Solomos explores the ecologies of music and sound, inspired by Felix Guattari, for whom environmental destruction caused by capitalism goes hand in hand with deteriorating ways of living and feeling, and for whom an ecosophical stance, combining various ecological registers, offers a glimpse of emancipation, a position strengthened today by intersectional approaches...
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Sugar, Sugar : Bitter Sweet Tales of Indian Migrant Workers - Lainy Malkani
<p>Sugar, Sugar is a contemporary collection of short stories which reveals a rich and culturally diverse history behind India's migrant workers and one of the most abundant and controversial commodities in the world. Inspired by historical documents between 1838 and 1917, and the living memories of the descendents of indentured workers, Sugar, Sugar, spans five con...
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Knihy, ktoré ovplyvnili dejiny
Knihy, ktoré ovplyvnili dejiny je pútavý a podmanivý knižný sprievodca viac než osemdesiatimi z tých najslávnejších, najvzácnejších a najdôležitejších písomných diel sveta od Zvitkov od Mŕtveho mora po Denník Anny Frankovej, vrátane ručne iluminovaných rukopisov, zásadných tlačených kníh a niektorých z najlepších príkladov ilustrovanej literatúry. Prekrásne spracované kap...
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They Both Die at the End (1471166201)
Kniha - 384 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná "A new, heartbreaking novel from the author of ""More Happy Than Not"" and ""History Is All You Left Me"". Two very different boys receive the dreaded call from Death-Cast, informing them that they will die by the end of the day. They spend the day living life to the full, but neither expected to fall in love... A...
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The Legend of Zelda Book Hyrule Historia
Dark Horse Books and Nintendo(R) bring you The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia, containing an unparalleled collection of historical information on The Legend of Zelda? franchise. This handsome hardcover contains never-before-seen concept art, the full history of Hyrule, the official chronology of the games, and much more! Starting with an insightful introduction by the l...
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Guns, Germs and Steel : (Patterns of Life) - Jared Mason Diamond
<p>PATTERNS OF LIFE: SPECIAL EDITIONS OF GROUNDBREAKING SCIENCE BOOKS Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ...
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Routledge Library Editions: Colonialism and Imperialism Taylor & Francis Ltd
Routledge Library Editions: Colonialism and Imperialism is a 51-volume collection of previously out-of-print titles that examine the history, practice and implications of Western colonialism around the globe. From the earliest contact by European explorers to the legacies that remain today, these books look at various aspects of the topic that, taken together, form an ess...
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Vegetarianism, Meat and Modernity in India Taylor & Francis Ltd
Never before in human history have vegetarianism and a plant-based economy been so closely associated with sustainability and the promise of tackling climate change. Nowhere is this phenomenon more visible than in India. The book’s empirical focus is on the changing relationship between vegetarian/non-vegetarian as understood, practiced and contested in middle-class India...
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Bedside Companion for Book Lovers: An anthology of literary delights for every night of the year - McMorland Hunter Jane
Anotace: A glorious treasury of literary curiosities for every night of the year.Bedside Companion for Book Lovers contains an eclectic mix of fact and fiction, letters, diaries, essays and dedications, all suffused with the joys of books and reading. The perfect gift for the bibliophile in your life, it contains snippets from some of the greatest writers and book collec...
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The Bookshop Book (1472119258)
Kniha - 288 stran, anglicky, Pevná bez přebalu lesklá - autor Jen Campbell, 288 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá Every bookshop has a story We're not talking about rooms that are just full of books. We're talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, and in old run-down train s...
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Aenigma / One Hundred Years of Anthroposophical Art - Reinhold J. Fäth,David Voda
Anotace: It seems that the specialized literature dedicated to 20th-century art history has described and chronologically categorized all the major European art movements and groups. Almost no one had foreseen that the theosophist and anthroposophist Hilma af Klint would shake the codified history of abstract art in recent years. But Hilma af Klint was part of larger art...
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Aenigma / One Hundred Years of Anthroposophical Art
It seems that the specialized literature dedicated to 20th-century art history has described and chronologically categorized all the major European art movements and groups. Almost no one had foreseen that the theosophist and anthroposophist Hilma af Klint would shake the codified history of abstract art in recent years. But Hilma af Klint was part of larger art movement ...
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Aenigma - One Hundred Years of Anthroposophical Art - Reinhold J. Fäth
<p>It seems that the specialized literature dedicated to 20th-century art history has described and chronologically categorized all the major European art movements and groups. Almost no one had foreseen that the theosophist and anthroposophist Hilma af Klint would shake the codified history of abstract art in recent years. But Hilma af Klint was part of larger art ...
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The Book Thief - Zusak Markus - 13x19
Zlodějka knih - originál v anglickém jazyce. The internationally bestselling story of a young girl in Nazi Germany who steals books, now a major motion picture starring Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson. Here is a small fact - You are going to die 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living wit...
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Little People, Big Dreams: Audrey Hepburn (1786030527)
Kniha - autor Isabel Sanchez Vegara, 32 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá Audrey Hepburn grew up in Arnhem in the Netherlands. After living through the hardships of World War Two, she moved to study ballet in London. She went on to star in plays and films, eventually becoming one of the most iconic actresses of all time. This moving book features stylish and qui...
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The Bookshop Woman - Hanada Nanako
Anotace: THIS BOOK IS A LOVE STORY TO BOOKS. A love story to climbing all the way down a book`s rope, free diving to its bottom, and then resurfacing at its close, ready to breathe a different kind of air.Nanako Hanada`s life is in crisis. Recently separated from her husband, living in youth hostels and internet cafes, her work is going no better. Book sales at the eccen...
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On the Road - Deary Terry
Anotace: Put the pedal to the metal! Discover all the foul facts behind the story of cars and automobiles across the world with history`s most horrible headlines: motor edition. The master of making history fun, Terry Deary, turns his attention to the road. From scalding steam engines to preposterous propellor powered vehicles, awful accide...
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Your Health in Your Horoscope
Please, do not trust this book more than your doctor! The ancient tradition of astrology is another way of looking at ourselves than the methods developed by modern natural science. It cannot substitute science any more than science can incorporate astrology. The best use you can have of this introduction to medical astrology is as an alternative perspective on...
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The Librarian of Auschwitz. The Graphic Novel - Antonio Iturbe
<p>The Librarian of Auschwitz is ideal for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Choice, this graphic novel is the story of the smallest library in the world – and the most dangerous. Based on a true story, it is an extraordinary novel of courage and hope by Antonio Iturbe and Loreto Aroca.‘It wasn’t an extensive library. In fact, it consisted of eight books...
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b - Antonio G. Iturbe
Anotace: The Librarian of Auschwitz is ideal for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Choice, this graphic novel is the story of the smallest library in the world - and the most dangerous. Based on a true story, it is an extraordinary novel of courage and hope by Antonio Iturbe and Loreto Aroca. 'It wasn't an extensive library. In fact, it consisted o...
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Librarian of Auschwitz - neuveden
Anotace: For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Choice: this is the story of the smallest library in the world - and the most dangerous. 'It wasn't an extensive library. In fact, it consisted of eight books and some of them were in poor condition. But they were books. In this incredibly dark place, they were a reminder of less sombre times, when wor...
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The Invisible Hour - Hoffmanová Alice
Anotace: From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of the Practical Magic series comes an enchanting novel about love, heartbreak, self-discovery and the enduring magic of books. Sixteen-year-old Ivy is pregnant and alone. Cast out by her family, she runs away and finds safety in the arms of Joel Davis. He offers a simpler life than the one she had in Boston, a ...
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Václav Havel The Power of the Powerless in the 20th Century - Martin Vopěnka; Eva Bartošová
Anotace: This biography is not just about Václav Havel and his legacy, but about the history of Central Europe in the 20th Century. It offers a foundation that anyone interested in this history should know. Václav Havel grew up during the great historical upheavals of the Second World War and the division of Europe by the Iron Curtain. Later he would make ...
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Václav Havel The Power of the Powerless in the 20th Century
This biography is not just about Václav Havel and his legacy, but about the history of Central Europe in the 20th Century. It offers a foundation that anyone interested in this history should know. ***** Václav Havel grew up during the great historical upheavals of the Second World War and the division of Europe by the Iron Curtain. Later he would make his own mark on his...
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At Home with Ivan Vladislavic Taylor & Francis Ltd
At Home With Ivan Vladislavic is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavic. Bringing a flaneur’s internal GPS to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavic established a critical sense of home via an intimate knowledge of geography and history. This sense of belonging can have positive ecological effects as we tend to protect what we know. The flaneur’...
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Middle East in Focus: Yemen
Yemen is one of the world's oldest civilization centers, but today it seems to be a country stuck in time. Struggles with colonization, corrupt government and extreme poverty have taken their tolls on the population. In the late 2000s, the country dominated headlines as a terrorist haven. Despite the conflicts, the country remains a top tourist destination. Learn more abo...
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Native Americans of the United States: Focus on Alaskan Tribes (Eskimo, Inuit, Aleut and More)
Native Americans in the United States are defined as the indigenous peoples of North America that are within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, including Alaska and Hawaii. This book, part of a series, focuses on the culture and history of American Indians with a specific focus on the tribes of Alaska including the Inupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Inuit, T...
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The Bookshop Woman - Nanako Hanada
<p>THIS BOOK IS A LOVE STORY TO BOOKS. A love story to climbing all the way down a book's rope, free diving to its bottom, and then resurfacing at its close, ready to breathe a different kind of air.Nanako Hanada's life is in crisis. Recently separated from her husband, living in youth hostels and internet cafes, her work is going no better. Book sales at the eccent...
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Nazis in the Metro - Daeninckx Didier
Anotace: From France´s leading political crime writer comes a novel that delves into the country´s radical political movements on both the left and the right, in the wake of a brutal attack. When André Sloga, an apparently washed-up novelist with a history of baiting the system, is assaulted and left for dead in the basement of his apartment building, the freelance priva...
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How to Change Your Mind: - neuveden
Anotace: `Reminds us that the mind is the greatest mystery in the universe` Yuval Noah Harari, Guardian, Books of the Year Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? Join Michael Pollan on a journey to the frontiers of the human mind. Diving deep into an extraordinary world - from shamans and magic mushroom hunts to the pioneering labs mapping our brains - and putting...
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Nazis In The Metro
From France’s leading political crime writer comes a novel that delves into the country’s radical political movements on both the left and the right, in the wake of a brutal attack. When André Sloga, an apparently washed-up novelist with a history of baiting the system, is assaulted and left for dead in the basement of his apartment building, the freelance private eye Gab...
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Jewish Mysticism
Interest in Jewish mysticism is, in our generation, widespread and growing. From Hebrew schools to Hollywood, people of all backgrounds and levels of knowledge are pursuing the subject. Books, magazines, journals, and classes are rapidly growing in number. One result of this burst of interest and popularization of Jewish mysticism is the problem of misinformation. The ne...
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The Good Part: the feel-good romantic comedy of the year! - Cousens Sophie
Anotace: From the New York Times bestselling author of Just Haven`t Met You Yet, This Time Next Year, and Before I Do `Sophie`s books are always filled with warmth, but she`s outdone herself here. It`s the definition of a feel-good read! Funny, poignant, and heartfelt, I fell head-over-heels for this one` LAURA JANE WILLIAMSLucy Young is only twenty-six, but she`s exhaus...
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The Good Part: the feel-good romantic comedy of the year! - Sophie Cousens
<p>From the New York Times bestselling author of Just Haven't Met You Yet, This Time Next Year, and Before I Do 'Sophie's books are always filled with warmth, but she's outdone herself here. It's the definition of a feel-good read! Funny, poignant, and heartfelt, I fell head-over-heels for this one' LAURA JANE WILLIAMSLucy Young is only twenty-six, but she's exhaust...
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Eighteenth-Century Europe
The three-quarters of a century between 1715 and 1789 are often seen as the last years of Europe's old order. But a dramatic rise in Europe's population, the agricultural and industrial revolutions in Britain and the unprecedented challenges of the Enlightenment began to shake the foundations of the old regime well before 1789. Drawing on the best contemporary scholarship...
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Seba. Cabinet of Natural Curiosities. 40th Anniversary Edition - Irmgard Müsch
<p>Exotic plants, corals and crocodiles, birds and butterflies. Albertus Seba’s extraordinary catalog of natural specimens is not only one of the 18th century’s greatest natural history achievementsbut also one of the most prized natural history books of all time. It is a beautiful tribute to the abundance and diversity of Earth's creatures, great and small, as well...
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