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  • The Story of Butler’s Rangers and the Settlement of Niagara (Esprios Classics)
    Ernest Cruikshank
    Ernest Alexander 'E. A.' Cruikshank FRSC (29 June 1853 - 23 June 1939), was a Canadian Brigadier General, a historian who specialized in military history and the first Chairman of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. Cruikshank was born in Bertie Township, Canada West in 1853, and was educated at St. Thomas Grammar School and Upper Canada College. He worked as a jo...
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    20,70 €

  • Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush (Esprios Classics)
    Ian Maclaren
    Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush is a book of short stories by Ian Maclaren’s published in 1894. It became a hugely popular bestseller. It is considered to be part of the Kailyard School of Scottish literature. A kailyard or kailyaird (kale) is comparable to a cabbage patch and refers to a kitchen garden as might be found adjacent to a cottage. The title, Beside the Bonnie Brier Bu...
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    23,03 €

  • Debit and Credit, Volume I (Esprios Classics)
    Gustav Freytag
    Gustav Freytag (1816 - 1895) was a German novelist and playwright. His literary fame was made universal by the publication in 1855 of his novel, Soll und Haben (Debit and Credit), which was translated into almost all European languages. It was translated into English by Georgiana Harcourt in 1857. It was hailed as one of the best German novels and praised for its sturdy but une...
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    28,95 €

  • 3 Minute Gratitude Journal for Boys
    PaperLand
    The act of writing down three simple gratitudes each day establishes a state of mindfulness that supports and reinforces the Law of Attraction. It is designed to enable children to focus on being thankful both in the biggest and smallest of wins in life.This book has a total of 104 pages, contains 3 inner cover and 101 planner pages. ...
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    18,95 €

  • The Automobilist Abroad (Esprios Classics)
    Francis Miltoun
    'We have progressed appreciably beyond the days of the old horseless carriage, which, it will be remembered, retained even the dashboard. To-day the modern automobile somewhat resembles, in its outlines, across between a decapod locomotive and a steam fire-engine, or at least something concerning the artistic appearance of which the layman has very grave doubts.' ...
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    25,92 €

  • The Building of a Book (Esprios Classics)
    Frederick H. Hitchcock / Frederick HHitchcock
    'In a certain fine and true sense books of imaginative writing-and the present writer cannot undertake to speak of any others-are not built, but born. Nevertheless, there has always been an unlucky tendency on the part both of writers and readers to overstate this non-mechanical nature of poetic works, whether in prose or verse, and to give the processes of this production that...
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    25,17 €

  • Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest (Esprios Classics)
    E. T. Allen / ETAllen
    'Forest wealth is community wealth. The public’s interest in it is affected very little by the passage of timber lands into private ownership, for all the owner can get out of them is the stumpage value. The people get everything else. Our forests earn nothing except by being cut and shipped to the markets of the world. Of the price received for them usually much less than a fi...
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    20,62 €

  • The Greek View of Life (Esprios Classics)
    G. Lowes Dickinson / GLowes Dickinson
    Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862-1932), known as Goldie, was a British political scientist and philosopher. He lived most of his life at Cambridge, where he wrote a dissertation on Neoplatonism before becoming a fellow. He was closely associated with the Bloomsbury Group. Dickinson was deeply distressed by Britain’s involvement in the First World War. Within a fortnight of the...
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    22,90 €

  • The European Anarchy (Esprios Classics)
    G. Lowes Dickinson / GLowes Dickinson
    Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862-1932), known as Goldie, was a British political scientist and philosopher. He lived most of his life at Cambridge, where he wrote a dissertation on Neoplatonism before becoming a fellow. He was closely associated with the Bloomsbury Group. Dickinson was deeply distressed by Britain’s involvement in the First World War. Within a fortnight of the...
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    19,45 €

  • The Church and Modern Life (Esprios Classics)
    Washington Gladden
    Washington Gladden (1836-1918) was a leading American Congregational pastor and early leader in the Social Gospel movement. He was a leading member of the Progressive Movement, serving for two years as a member of the Columbus, Ohio city council and campaigning against Boss Tweed as religious editor of the New York Independent. Gladden was probably the first leading US. religio...
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    20,70 €

  • Great Britain at War (Esprios Classics)
    Jeffery Farnol
    Farnol published his first romance novel My Lady Caprice in 1907. The success of his early novels led Farnol to become a professional writer. He produced about 40 novels and volumes of stories, and some non-fiction and children’s books. His last book was completed by his second wife Phyllis. Two of his early books, The Amateur Gentleman and The Broad Highway, have been issued i...
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    19,67 €

  • Brittany and Its Byways (Esprios Classics)
    Mrs. Bury Palliser / MrsBury Palliser
    Fanny Bury Palliser (1805-1878) was an English writer on art, and lace. Born on 23 September 1805, she was daughter of Joseph Marryat, M P., of Wimbledon, by his wife Charlotte, daughter of Frederic Geyer of Boston, Massachusetts; she was a sister of Frederick Marryat the novelist. In 1832 she married Captain Richard Bury Palliser, who died in 1852, and with whom she had four s...
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    23,68 €

  • My Memories of Eighty Years (Esprios Classics)
    Chauncey M. Depew / Chauncey MDepew
    Chauncey Mitchell Depew (April 23, 1834 - April 5, 1928) was an attorney for Cornelius Vanderbilt’s railroad interests, president of the New York Central Railroad System, and a United States Senator from New York from 1899 to 1911. After graduating from Yale, Depew entered the office of Edward Wells, a lawyer in Peekskill, as a student. Depew then read law with William Nelson o...
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    26,70 €

  • Letters on England (Esprios Classics)
    Voltaire
    Letters on the English (or Letters Concerning the English Nation; French: Lettres Philosophiques) is a series of essays written by Voltaire based on his experiences living in England between 1726 and 1729 (though from 1707 the country was part of the Kingdom of Great Britain). It was published first in English in 1733 and then in French the following year, where it was seen as ...
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    20,70 €

  • The Secret Ingredient is Love
    PaperLand
    Easy to note the secret cooking tips from your grandma, mom, and dad.You can record the ingredients, directions, notes, and photos up to 48 menus.Beautiful cover with modern floral style.This book has a total of 100 pages, contains 2 inner covers and 98 planner pages. ...
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    18,89 €

  • Watch Me Rock 5th Grade Daily Prompt Journal
    PaperLand
    The act of writing down three simple gratitudes each day establishes a state of mindfulness that supports and reinforces the Law of Attraction. It is designed to enable children to focus on being thankful both in the biggest and smallest of wins in life.This book has a total of 104 pages, contains 3 inner cover and 101 planner pages. ...
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    18,95 €

  • Madame Roland (Esprios Classics)
    John S. C. Abbott / John SCAbbott
    John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1805-1877), an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer, was born in Brunswick, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott. Owing to the success of his work, The Mother at Home, he devoted himself from 1844 onwards, to literature. He was a voluminous writer of books on Christian ethics, and of popular histories, which were credited with cultivating a ...
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    22,13 €

  • Life of St. Francis of Assisi (Esprios Classics)
    Paul Sabatier
    Charles Paul Marie Sabatier (1858-1928), was a French clergyman and historian who produced the first modern biography of St. Francis of Assisi. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times. Sabatier’s 1893 book La Vie de St. François d’Assise (translated as Life of St. Francis of Assisi in 1894) was placed upon the Index of Forbidden Books by the Catholic Churc...
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    31,20 €

  • Jack in the Forecastle; or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale (Esprios Classics)
    John Sherburne Sleeper
    John Sherburne Sleeper (1794-1878) was an American sailor, ship master, novelist (who used the pseudonym of Hawser Martingale), journalist and politician. Sleeper was the publisher and editor of the Exeter, New Hampshire, News-Letter, editor and proprietor of The Lowell Daily Journal and editor and part proprietor of The Boston Mercantile Journal. Sleeper purchased The Lowell D...
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    28,97 €

  • Six Days of the Irish Republic (Esprios Classics)
    L. G. Redmond-Howard / LGRedmond-Howard
    'Those who were in Dublin on Easter Monday 1916 were privileged to witness a scene which for dramatic setting and for paradoxical conception is certainly the most extraordinary of any of the long line of rebellions in Irish history, for at a time when it seemed almost universally admitted that 'Separatism' was from an economic, racial, and military point of view utterly impossi...
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    21,43 €

  • Forty-Six Years in the Army (Esprios Classics)
    John M. Schofield / John MSchofield
    John McAllister Schofield (1831-1906) was an American soldier who held major commands during the American Civil War. He later served as US. Secretary of War under Presidents Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant, and Commanding General of the United States Army. When the Civil War broke out, Schofield helped assure Missouri did not join the Confederacy. He became a major in the 1...
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    31,94 €

  • Shakespeare’s Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 (Esprios Classics)
    Arthur Acheson
    'Froude, the keynote of whose historical work is contained in his assertion that 'the Reformation was the root and source of the expansive force which has spread the Anglo-Saxon race over the globe,' recognising a logical and dramatic climax for his argument in the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, ends his history in that year; while Gardiner, whose historical interest was...
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    23,65 €

  • Bill Organizer
    PaperLand
    The monthly invoice planner consists of organized spaces for managing your moneyPlan for your expenses ideal for business, budgeting, bookkeeping, and personal finance organize your billsThis sheet will help you for an entire yearThis book has a total of 100 pages ...
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    18,89 €

  • Life of Prophet Muhammad SAW Last Messenger and Prophet of God English Edition Ultimate Version
    Jannah Firdaus Mediapro
    Life of Prophet Muhammad SAW The Last Messenger and Prophet of Allah SWT (God) English Edition Ultimate Version Based from The Noble Quran and Al-Hadith.The advent of the Prophet Muhammad SAW changed the face of the history of mankind in a manner that this world has never seen before. Since the first man and Prophet Adam Pbuh was sent down to Earth, Allah SWT sent many prophets...
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    41,67 €

  • Razmyshleniya o tvorcheskikh lyudyakh
    Ekaterina Yakovina
    The author is a writer and an artist at the same time. The book is written like questions and short answers to them. The author writes about many subjects such as the responsibility for talent that creative people have, relations between society and creative people, the influence of art on people, and many others. ...
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    17,50 €

  • Among the Mushrooms (Esprios Classics)
    Ellen M. Dallas / Ellen MDallas
    'Have you not seen in the woods on a late autumn morning a poor fungus or mushroom-a plant without any solidity, nay, that seemed nothing but a soft mush or jelly-by its constant total and inconceivably gentle pushing, manage to break its way up through the frosty ground, and actually to lift a hard crust on its head? It is the symbol of the power of kindness.'Emerson. ...
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    20,71 €

  • Laurier
    J. W. Dafoe / JWDafoe
    The four articles which make up this volume were originally published in successive issues of the Monthly Book Review of the Manitoba Free Press and are herewith assembled in book form in response to what appears to be a somewhat general request that they be made available in a more permanent form.J. W. D. October 13 1922. ...
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    18,44 €

  • A Walk From London to John O’Groat’s (Esprios Classics)
    Elihu Burritt
    Elihu Burritt was an American diplomat, philanthropist and social activist, born December 8, 1810, in New Britain, Connecticut. He was a descendant of William and Elizabeth Burritt from Stratford, Connecticut. He first worked as a blacksmith. As an adult he was active as a lecturer in many causes, opposing slavery, working for temperance, and trying to achieve world peace. He w...
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    25,18 €

  • With British Guns in Italy
    Hugh Dalton
    So far as I know, no British soldier who served on the Italian Front has yet published a book about his experiences. Ten British Batteries went to Italy in the spring of 1917 and passed through memorable days. But their story has not yet been told. Nor, except in the language of official dispatches, has that of the British Divisions which went to Italy six months later, some of...
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    22,88 €

  • The Training of a Forester (Esprios Classics)
    Gifford Pinchot
    Gifford Pinchot was an American forester and politician. Pinchot served as the first Chief of the United States Forest Service from 1905 until his firing in 1910, and was the 28th Governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1923 to 1927, and again from 1931 to 1935. 'At one time or another, the largest question before every young man is, 'What shall I do with my life?' Among the pos...
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    18,47 €


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