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Definite Medication: Containing Therapeutic Facts Gleaned from Forty Years Practice - Homeopathic Medicine and Herbal RemediesEli G. Jones, a doctor who worked in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, describes a variety of remedies he claims work to cure ailments both minor and serious.Most of the methods described by Eli G. Jones generally involve herbal remedies or homoeopathy,...
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Reinhold NiebuhrThe Modern Christian Revolutionaries series from James Clarke & Co. LTD. is designed for laymen to easily learn about important modern historical figures in Christianity.Author: D. R. DaviesPublisher: Wipf & Stock PublishersPublished: 09/19/2019Pages: 118Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.25dISBN: 9781532693571
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FlightNew York-based performance poet, native Floridian, recent MFA graduate and Cave Canem Fellow Robert Anthony Gibbons takes us on a transcontinental and transformative voyage, sweeping and spectacular, across the United States in search of America and self. Seventeen poems log his observations and meditations...
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The Best Of John B Keane: Collected Humorous WritingsJohn B. Keane is known nationally and internationally as a successful playwright, handling tragedy and comedy with equal art, and as a prose fiction writer of great invention and skill. Yet an equal claim to fame is made by the hundreds of short pieces...
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The Essential Clarence Major: Prose and PoetryClarence Major is one of America's literary masters. He has published numerous books, from novels to poetry and short story collections. Among his many accolades, he was a finalist for the National Book Award and a Fulbright scholar and received the PEN Oakland/Reginald Lockett...
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Hobomok: A Tale of Early Times By an AmericanThe publication of this work in 1824 was met with an immediate scandal. Mary, the novel's protagonist and a Puritan settler in the New World, falls in love and marries a Native American. The author confronted directly issues of religious oppression, gender stereotypes, and...
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Who is This King of Glory?: A Critical Study of the Christos-Messiah TraditionThis book reveals that much of Christianity and its beliefs had originated in ancient Egypt rather than the Middle East. The author presents us with how, where and why many spiritual Egyptian beliefs were adopted into Christian form and accepted as "history", as opposed...
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Dr. Ernst Leitz II and the Leica Train to Freedom: Defying the Nazis with a CameraThrough their writing and artwork, teens tell the compelling story of a a successful businessman, Dr. Ernst Leitz II, who helped hundreds of Jews escape death in Nazi Germany. His business manufactured cameras and photography equipment and he sent Jewish employees to safety, sometimes...
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Proof of LossLiterary Nonfiction. California Interest. Upon learning about her ex-brother-in-law's cancer diagnosis, Sara Marchant decides to stand in as caretaker during his intensive treatment. Marchant's distinct, evocative, and at times humorous memoir, PROOF OF LOSS, grips the reader from all sides, illuminating Marchant's own tragic...
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A la CostaAriel Cl sicos Ecuatorianos rinde homenaje a la Cultura Nacional con el mayor esfuerzo editorial ecuatoriano de todos lo tiempos. A la Costa es parte de esta gran colecci n.Escrita en 1904 por Luis A. Mart nez. En "A la Costa" est n varios...
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Dictionary of Jamaican EnglishOriginally published by Cambridge University Press in 1967 and then revised as a second edition in 1980, this classic study has never before been available in a paperback edition. This method and plan of the dictionary are basically those of the Oxford English Dictionary,...
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Caribbean Reasonings: The George Lamming Reader - The Aesthetics of DecolonisationGeorge Lamming is one of the best known, certainly one of the most highly regarded contemporary writers from the Caribbean. Spanning nearly 60 years and encompassing fiction, poetry and critical essays, Lamming's writing covers the length and breadth of Caribbean intellectual, cultural, political and...
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Being the Other: The Muslim in IndiaThe clouds are moving ecstatically from Kashi to Mathura and the sky will remain covered with dense clouds as long as there is Krishna in Braj. These lines were composed by Mohsin Kakorvi, a Muslim poet, to celebrate not Lord Krishna's birthday but that...
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Don Juan Tenorio [With CD (Audio)]Who is the most skilled swordsman and conqueror of women, Don Luis de Mejia or Don Juan Tenorio? They have made a bet to find out.Author: Josbe ZorillaPublisher: Santillana USA Publishing CompanyPublished: 08/15/2011Pages: 86Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.30dISBN: 9788497131056Language: SpanishThis...
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Cinco Semanas En Globo / Five Weeks in a BalloonUn gran clásico de Julio Verne en una cuidada edición actualizada, ilustrada y adaptada. Explorar África en globo? Con el Victoria y dos intrépidos compañeros, el doctor Fergusson se propone triunfar donde han fracasado otras grandes expediciones. Juntos vivirán una extraordinaria aventura llena de...
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Formas Breves = Short FormsAuthor: Ricardo PigliaPublisher: Editorial AnagramaPublished: 06/01/2001Pages: 144Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.70w x 0.50dISBN: 9788433924636Language: SpanishReview Citation(s): Criticas 06/01/2001 pg. 38Publishers Weekly 06/11/2001This title is only available via back order
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Opowieśc wigilijna. A Christmas Carol"Czytamy w oryginale" to seria wydawnicza zawierająca adaptacje największych dziel literatury anglojęzycznej. Dwujęzyczna adaptacja powieści to atrakcyjna pomoc dla uczących się języka angielskiego. Śledząc losy bohater w, możemy na bieżąco por wnywac tekst angielski i polski. Adaptacja zostala przygotowana z myślą o czytelnikach średnio...
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Alice im Wunderland: Mit den Illustrationen der Originalausgabe von John TennielLewis Carroll: Alice im Wunderland. Mit den Illustrationen der Originalausgabe von John Tenniel Erstdruck: London (Macmillan) 1865. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Hier nach der ersten deutschen bersetzung von Antonie Zimmermann, mit zweiundvierzig Illustrationen von John Tenniel, Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Hartknoch, 1869]. Inhaltsverzeichnis Alice im...
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Die Andere Tradition: Psalm-Gedichte Im 20. JahrhundertEnglish summary: "The other tradition. Psalms-Poems of the 20th Century" deals with poems which refer to Biblical Psalms in content and form. The author analyses poems by German-writing poets of the last century: from Else Lasker-Schuler, Georg Trakl and Bertolt Brecht through Karl Wolfskehl,...
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Norman Mailer/Bert Stern. Marilyn Monroe"This book is really two books. It is a biography, and it is also a pictorial retrospective of an actress whose greatest love affair was conceivably with the camera," wrote Norman Mailer in his 1973 biography, Marilyn.Now TASCHEN has paired Mailer's original text with...
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