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  • Lahore ka jo zikr kiya
    Gopal Mittal
    'Lahore Ka Jo Zikr Kiya' is a blend of personal reminiscences and facts of the period between 1932 and 1947 - an era of momentous historical interest to this sub-continent.The book is in the nature of biographical sketches combined with the bitter-sweet truths of those years. If for nothing else, ’Lahore Ka Jo Zikr Kiya’ makes pleasurable reading. Mr. Mittal, who is an equally ...
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    23,97 €

  • 500 Minutos
    Ehekatl Hernández Chale
    ¿Podemos aprender de una canción? ¿enseñar a morir, a vivir, a en- tender nuestro mundo interior y nuestro lugar allá afuera?Reconciliarse con la muerte gracias a Portishead, llorar con Puccini, hacer una revolución con hard core vasco, dar voz a los niños a través de la música gamer y a una generación con Sonic Youth; hablar de determinismo con Belle and Sebastian, tomar una c...
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    16,64 €

  • Schiffy - The Life and Times of Somebody You Probably Don’t Know, But Should
    David 'Schiffy' Schiff
    Schiffy - The Life and Times of Somebody You Probably Don’t Know, But Should is the story of David 'Schiffy' Schiff, an internationally recognized as the go-to Orals Coach for some of the world’s largest companies and has helped them win billions of dollars by securing highly lucrative government and defense contracts.Schiffy has successfully leveraged his four Emmy Awards for ...
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    13,64 €

  • Resurrecting Jane de La Vaudère
    Sharon Larson
    Examines the life of French writer Jane de La Vaudère (1857–1908), exploring how she adapted her persona to shifting literary trends and readership demands, which captured public curiosity and advanced her sales. ...
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    143,80 €

  • Invierno sueco
    Matías Wiszniewer
    ¿Qué ignotos laberintos convocan a reencontrarnos con René Descartes, aquel viajero que soñó su filosofía en una dramática noche de 1619? Esta fascinante novela nos conduce a un apasionante viaje por las ideas que engendraron el mundo moderno, a un tiempo histórico fundacional, y hasta a un thriller psicológico y policial. La pluma del autor logra sumergirnos en la íntima conci...
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    27,08 €

  • Memorias de una niña rehén (High society)
    Carmen Iriondo
    Una niña secuestrada, no por fuerzas parapoliciales o delincuentes, sino por sus abuelos. Con una distancia que dosifica sabiamente el dolor y una gracia maliciosa transformada en invención verbal, la autora, poeta y psicoanalista, cuenta su infancia de venturosa heredera a la que todo se le ha dado, salvo cariño. La madre, colmo de la paquetería drogada, vive tendida en su cam...
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    17,68 €

  • Rainer Maria Rilke
    Lou Andreas-Salomé
    Este libro es una biografía elegíaca del poeta, en el que Rilke habla a través de sus cartas, enlazadas artesanalmente por la autora. Se trata de un poeta que parte en busca de su propia voz, su sí mismo, en una enconada lucha con su propia naturaleza. Lou Andreas-Salomé muestra el revés de la trama de la creación, el riesgo vital que supone encontrar al poeta en cada uno de no...
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    14,56 €

  • El mundo de ayer
    Stefan Zweig
    El mundo de ayer es Viena y Europa antes de 1914, donde Stefan Zweig creció y conoció sus primeros éxitos como escritor, leído con pasión. Por aquel mundo viajó y estrechó amistad con Freud y Verhaeren, Rilke y Valéry En ese lugar estable, a pesar de las tensiones nacionalistas, la libertad de pensamiento conservaba todas sus prerrogativas. ¿Es este un libro nostálgico? Ciertam...
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    22,78 €

  • The Occult Diary
    August Strindberg
    August Strindberg (1849-1912) kept a diary from February 1896 in Paris until the summer of 1908 in Stockholm. He referred to his diary from this period as his Occult Diary and used it to help him decipher the world as he experienced it. He read and reread his own notations, adding new interpretations, and deleting others. He also drew on the diary as material for creative expre...
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    106,90 €

  • Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson
    Isiah Lavender
    A key figure in contemporary speculative fiction, Jamaican-born Canadian Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) is the first Black queer woman as well as the youngest person to be named a 'Grand Master' of Science Fiction. Her Caribbean-inspired narratives--Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon’s Arms, The Chaos, and Sister Mine--project complex futures and co...
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    20,84 €

  • We Danced On Our Desks
    Philip Norman
     'Absolutely fabulous!'  - Sir Ray Davies.The Kinks'We Danced On Our Desks offers a window on another lost world, a silver age of journalism when a magazine could please itself and celebrities would wait to be invited into its charmed circle. It’s also an unbeatable portrait of a writer finding his voice amid the distractions of a dementedly sybaritic decade.' - The Observer'It...
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    25,32 €

  • El Indio de Sevilla
    CARLOS SAN JOSÉ
    Ángel de la Rosa es una persona que por culpa de las drogas se ve abocado a vivir en la calle, perdiendo a su mujer e hijos. La situación tan caótica en la que tiene que sobrevivir, su forma de vestir (va con el torso desnudo, porta un arco y unas flechas) y en la que se autodenomina el Indio de Sevilla, hace que la ciudad lo acoja como un personaje diferente que deambula por s...
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    12,00 €

  • Entre un par de tajos
    Carlos Martín Figueroa
    Década de los años treinta en España. Tesifonte Morales, un hombre poco corriente para la época y con apenas dieciséis años de edad, decide por propia decisión enrolarse en el ejército, por lo que deberá iniciar un viaje desde su pueblo natal, situado en Granada, hasta San Fernando, Cádiz. Es allí donde conocerá a su nueva familia y se enamorará dos veces, primero de San Fernan...
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    18,97 €

  • Memórias Da Caserna
    Antônio Sérgio Carréra De Albuquerque Melo E Autores
    Memórias da Casernaconta a história de um grupo de jovens que um dia se apresentaram voluntariamente para servir ao seu país, por amor, patriotismo e honra, que vai além do período obrigatório, em alguns casos, quando muitos fizeram lá sua vida profissional e hoje gozam do merecido descanso. Além desses jovens, também integram essa bonita história, os profissionais que tiveram ...
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    18,05 €

  • Esta novela está mal escrita
    Dan Guajars
    En el verano de 1998 escribí una novela de fantasía. La edité durante dos años, solo para guardarla en un cajón.  En 2011 decidí reescribir la misma novela, desde cero; pero no la terminé. Ahora, terminado 2022, relato esa travesía de 24 años llena de autoengaño, boicots malogrados y mucha esperanza. Una memoir, junto a la novela terminada de 1998, y la novela que no logré term...
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    9,73 €

  • Aadhunik Bharat Ke Nirmata
    Ujjwal Bhattacharya
    उन्नीसवीं शताब्दी का भारत और खासकर बंगाल ने एक से एक युगान्तरकारी प्रतिभाओं को जन्म दिया। रवीन्द्रनाथ टैगोर यानी जोड़ासाँको के ठाकुर परिवार के शर्मीले नवयुवक से नोबल पुरस्कार और शान्ति निकेतन तक की यात्रा करने वाले गुरुदेव उस सदी के उन मनीषियों में से थे जिन्होंने भारत ही नहीं बल्कि वैश्विक जगत को बौद्धिक और एक हद तक राजनैतिक रूप से भी प्रभावित किया। उज्ज्वल भट्टाचार्य द्वारा ...
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    18,92 €

  • Malabar Farm
    E. B. White / Louis Bromfield
    'A rare book of abundant variety . . . breathes the satisfaction of a busy rewarding life. This is a book for thoughtful people who love America. It will be read with gratitude far and wide. It is beautifully written.' -Chicago TribuneWhen Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield and his young family returned to America from France on the eve of World War II, they settled ...
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    33,49 €

  • Conversations with Joe R. Lansdale
    Andrew J Rausch
    Joe R. Lansdale (b. 1951), the award-winning author of such novels as Cold in July (1989) and The Bottoms (2000), as well as the popular Hap and Leonard series, has been publishing novels since 1981. Lansdale has developed a tremendous cult audience willing to follow him into any genre he chooses to write in, including horror, western, crime, adventure, and fantasy. Within thes...
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    21,05 €

  • Los colores de la vida
    Catalina Sanchez Sanchez
    A través de esta autobiografía, Catalina Sánchez Sánchez, una migrante oaxaqueña afincada en California, logra transmitir las peripecias que implica buscar el sueño americano al otro lado de la frontera. A través de palabras sencillas y honestas, la autora nos relata su vida, partiendo de las memorias de su infancia en los pueblos de Oaxaca Santa María Coyotepec y Santa Cruz Pa...
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    14,84 €

  • Michael Angelo Buonarroti
    Charles Holroyd
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    42,59 €

  • John Ruskin
    Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    37,53 €

  • Walter Pater
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    23,05 €

  • La Fontaine Et Ses ’fables’
    Taine Hippolyte 1828-1893
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    39,57 €

  • Charles Kingsley
    Charles Kingsley / Frances Eliza Grenfell Kingsley
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    27,00 €

  • Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle; Volume 1
    James Anthony Froude / Jane Welsh Carlyle
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    41,67 €

  • Greuze and his Models
    John Rivers
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    28,95 €

  • The Great in Music; a Systematic Course of Study in the Music of Classical and Modern Composers. 1st- Year
    W S. B. 1837-1912 Mathews
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    36,41 €

  • Life of Heinrich Heine
    William Sharp
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    35,65 €

  • Mark Twain
    William M. Clemens
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    35,68 €

  • Meine Lebensgeschichte
    Fanny Lewald
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the 'public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the wor...
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    36,62 €