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  • On Good Ground
    Sister Helen Angela Hurley
    On Good Ground was first published in 1951. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Besides providing a vivid yet scholarly account of a religious order, this book reflects much of the regional history of the area where the nuns h...
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    86,07 €

  • Pioneer Doctor
    Lewis J. Moorman
    'A delightfully told story of the life of Dr. Moorman, of his patients, and of a changing time.' Dr. Henry A. Christian, Harvard Medical College, in the Foreword Pioneer Doctor is the story of half a century of medical practice, from the early days in Oklahoma Territory to metropolitan conditions today. Lewis J. Moorman, M.D., once told a patient who apologized for calling him...
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    28,32 €

  • Spinoza Dictionary
    Dagobert D. Runes
    In this work Baruch Spinoza, one of the cardinal thinkers of all time, answers the eternal questions of man and his passions, God and nature. In the deepest sense, this dictionary of Spinoza’s philosophy is a veritable treasury of sublime wisdom. Dagobert D. Runes was a philosopher and author. He was the founding publisher of The Philosophical Library, where he w...
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    15,37 €

  • The Salt-Box
    Jan Hilliard
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    15,72 €

  • Hanging Judge
    Fred Harvey Harrington
    Isaac C. Parker, the stern U.S. judge for Indian Territory from 1875 to 1896, brought law and order to a lawless frontier region. He held court in the border city of Fort Smith, Arkansas, but his jurisdiction extended over the Indian tribal lands to the west. Pressing juries for convictions, Parker sent seventy-nine convicted criminals to the gallows-as many as six at a time. M...
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    31,17 €

  • Proust’s Way
    Francois Mauriac
    The thinking and suffering of the author of Remembrance of Things Past are intimately exposed in these letters to Mauriac. Mauriac, François 1885–1970, French writer. Mauriac achieved success in 1922 and 1923 with Le Baiser au lépreux and Genitrix (tr. of both in The Family, 1930). Generally set in or near his native Bordeaux, his novels are imbued with his profound, thoug...
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    10,09 €

  • Peter Nielsen’s Story
    Niels Thorpe
    Peter Nielsen’s Story was first published in 1949. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. ...
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    72,08 €

  • John A. Johnson
    Winifred G. Helmes / Winifred GHelmes
    John A. Johnson was first published in 1949. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.The first native-born governor of Minnesota, and the only Democrat to have been elected to that office three times, was also the first Minnesotan...
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    86,07 €

  • Horns of Thunder
    Mary Berthel
    Vital and colorful, witty and entertaining, full of the youth and vigor and optimism of the frontier, the weekly issues of St. Paul's Minnesota Pioneer from the spring of 1849 to the summer of 1852 reflect the robust personality of James M. Goodhue (1810-1852) and through him the world of the American frontier.Like most nineteenth-century newspapermen, Goodhue was part of a...
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    17,23 €

  • Maria
    Alice Lee Marriott / Margaret Lefranc
    Volume 27 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series María: The Potter of San Ildefonso is the story of María Martínez and her husband, Julián, who revived the ancient Pueblo craft of pottery-making and stimulated interest in Southwestern Pueblo pottery among both white people and Indians.María Montoya Martínez, or Marie, as she sometimes signs her pottery, is a woman wh...
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    30,80 €

  • Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1910-1926
    Rainer Maria Rilke / Jane Bannard Greene / M. D. Herter Norton / MDHerter Norton
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    23,87 €

  • An American Engineer in Afghanistan
    Marjorie Bell
    An American Engineer in Afghanistan was first published in 1948.The legend of Afghanistan as 'The Forbidden Country' grew chiefly from a warning of the British Indian Government which once guarded the Afghan frontier north of the Khyber Pass -- 'It is absolutely forbidden to cross this border into Afghanistan.' A glance at the endsheet map in this book will recall its strategic...
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    85,99 €

  • Hermon Carey Bumpus, Yankee Naturalist
    Jr. Hermon C. Bumpus / JrHermon CBumpus
    Hermon Carey Bumpus, Yankee Naturalist was first published in 1947. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.In this small volume, Dr. Bumpus’ son has outlined the personal history and professional career of his distinguished fathe...
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    57,70 €

  • General George Crook
    George Crook / Martin F. Schmitt
    General Crook spent his entire military career, with the exception of the Civil War years, on the frontier. Fighting the Indians, he earned the distinction of being the lowest-ranking West Point cadet ever to rise to the rank of major general.Crook’s autobiography covers the period from his graduation from West Point in 1852 to June 18, 1876, the day after the famous Battle of ...
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    30,59 €

  • The Lives of the Prophets
    Charles Cutler Torrey
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    11,85 €

  • Strange Scriptures That Perplex the Western Mind
    Barbara M. Bowen
    Because the Bible describes a culture very different from that of Western countries today, what it says is sometimes puzzling to modern readers. In many cases, however, the ways in which Near Eastern merchants and farmers carry on their daily work have hardly changed over the intervening centuries since the inspired authors wrote. The aim of this interesting volume is to clarif...
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    15,03 €

  • Land Hunger
    Carl Coke Rister
    The restless land hunger that drew thousands of men into the Boomer Movement to open the 'Oklahoma' district of Indian Territory to settlement is a phenomon of power and human determination. The movement was best expressed in the character of David L. Payne, an Oklahoma Boomer and border adventurer in the mold of Sam Houston or Buffalo Bill Cody. Payne was not content to settle...
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    28,40 €

  • Will Rogers
    Betty Rogers
    Of the many books written about Will Rogers, none can have the immediacy, firsthand knowledge, and personal perspective of this account by his wife, Betty Blake Rogers. Her story is of Will Rogers, from wayward youth to international celebrity.Will was born in 1879 in the Cherokee nation of Indian Territory, near what is now Oologah, and died in 1935 with Wiley Post in an airpl...
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    30,71 €

  • ANTHEM
    Ayn Rand
    Unabridged value reproduction of ANTHEM by Ayn Rand.  The story set in the dark ages where technology is planned and individuality is not allowed. Rand developed the concept while living in Russia.  This work was rejected by Rand’s American publisher as, “the author does not understand…”  Read the book and decide for yourself. ...
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    16,56 €

  • Think And Grow Rich Original 1937 Edition
    Napoleon Hill
    Complete 1937 original edition of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill is the worldwide best seller for over 80 years focused on wealth building. In fifteen chapters, Hill describes how each of us shapes the events around us, creating much of the positive riches in our own lives.Think and Grow Rich lessons include the “Faith,” “Persistence,” and “Imagination.”Hill teaches, for ...
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    8,54 €

  • Think And Grow Rich Original 1937 Edition
    Napoleon Hill
    Complete 1937 original edition of Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill is the worldwide best seller for over 80 years focused on wealth building. In fifteen chapters, Hill describes how each of us shapes the events around us, creating much of the positive riches in our own lives.Think and Grow Rich lessons include the “Faith,” “Persistence,” and “Imagination.”Hill teaches, for ...
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    17,64 €

  • Something of Myself
    Rudyard Kipling
    This unfinished autobiography by Rudyard Kipling offers a glimpse into the author’s early life, and some of the periods he spent working on his most famous books and poems.Little of this autobiography refers to the private life of the author, his purpose instead being to shed light on the creative inspirations which he saw and which inspired Kipling’s celebrated literary works....
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    12,49 €

  • Contemporaries of Marco Polo
    Manuel Komroff
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    20,56 €

  • The Mis-Education of the Negro
    Carter Godwin Woodson
    Complete and unabridged text in the direct voice of Carter Godwin Woodson.  Anyone studying influence, persuasion, or social controls would do well to study this book.“When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it.” ...
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    17,70 €

  • Magic and Mystery in Tibet
    Alexandra David-Neel
    Alexandra David-Neel was among the first Westerners to extensively explore Tibet. In these memoirs she tells of her encounters there; the people and their culture, and fervently Buddhist society.The author’s early years, wherein her enthusiasm for travel and curiosity of faraway cultures grew, are excluded from these pages. Rather we begin with David-Neel’s first trip to Tibet,...
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    14,87 €

  • My Life as an Explorer
    Roald Amundsen
    Roald Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer whose team were the first to reach the South Pole – this is his astonishing story, in his own words.Amundsen begins by explaining that he was not born with an urge to explorer the farthest, uncharted regions of the world. At fifteen he received as a gift the memoirs of Sir John Franklin, a famous British explorer, which roused an immediat...
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    12,55 €

  • Liberalism
    L. T. Hobhouse / LTHobhouse
    Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse was a British liberal political theorist and sociologist, who has been considered one of the leading and earliest proponents of social liberalism. His works, culminating in his famous book Liberalism (1911), occupy a seminal position within the canon of New Liberalism. He worked both as an academic and a journalist, and played a key role in the establi...
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    16,55 €

  • Liberalism
    L. T. Hobhouse
    Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse was a British liberal political theorist and sociologist, who has been considered one of the leading and earliest proponents of social liberalism. His works, culminating in his famous book Liberalism (1911), occupy a seminal position within the canon of New Liberalism. He worked both as an academic and a journalist, and played a key role in the establi...
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    6,06 €

  • A Daughter of the Samurai
    Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
    'The customs of all countries are strange to untrained eyes, and one of the most interesting mysteries of my life here is my own gradual but inevitable mental evolution.'-Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, A Daughter of the Samurai (1926)A Daughter of the Samurai (1926) by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto is the insightful account of the author’s drastic change of culture from feudal Japan to an arra...
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    56,02 €

  • A Daughter of the Samurai
    Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
    'The customs of all countries are strange to untrained eyes, and one of the most interesting mysteries of my life here is my own gradual but inevitable mental evolution.'-Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, A Daughter of the Samurai (1926)A Daughter of the Samurai (1926) by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto is the insightful account of the author’s drastic change of culture from feudal Japan to an arra...
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    25,39 €


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