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Legends of Pro Wrestling offers the first comprehensive look at the entire world of wrestling. With detailed biographies and never-before-seen statistics of some of the greatest athletes in the sport, you will be able to read about hundreds of wrestlers, dating back to the mid-1800s. As the first of its kind, this centralized reference book offers wrestling enthusiasts a range of information at their fingertips and stands alone as the ultimate wrestling...
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We often consider dogs to be our enduring sidekicks but the truth is domestic pigs have played a role in our lives for nearly as long.
Pigs are highly social and smart. They like to play. They're inventive, crafty and belligerent - and incredibly singleminded.
Ultimately, we have far more in common with these creatures than we like to admit.
Here is a charming ode to one of the most common, yet surprisingly intelligent, animals populating our landscapes....
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A guide to living fully and humanely by learning the wisdom of authentic manual work.
Many of us live in a world of constant abstraction, immersed in our heads and our screens. But there is a deeper wisdom to be found in working with our hands in the real world. In The Wisdom of Our Hands, craftsman and educator Doug Stowe shows how working with our hands, either professionally or as a hobby, is essential for a full education and a full life.
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Paul Ariès livre une théorie à contre-courant et pourtant réaliste : les plus écolos ne sont pas ceux que l'on croit !
Ce livre est d'abord un coup de gueule contre l'idée selon laquelle il n'y aurait rien de bon à attendre des milieux populaires au regard de la situation écologique.
Les élites auraient donc raison: « Salauds de pauvres qui consommez si mal ! ». Ce discours discriminant est susceptible de contaminer ceux qui à gauche...
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A provocative collection of essays by one of the foremost thinkers of second-wave feminism In a career spanning four decades, Alix Kates Shulman has written on issues ranging from marriage, sex, and divorce to religious identity, age, and family devotion. Throughout her diverse body of work runs a staunch advocacy of equal rights and social justice. Beginning with her provocative essay "A Marriage Agreement," written in 1969, and continuing through...
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John Keats is one of Britain's best-known and most-loved poets. Despite dying in Rome in 1821, at the age of just twenty-five, his poems continue to inspire generations who reinterpret and reinvent the ways in which we consume his work.
Apart from his long association with Hampstead, North London, he has not previously been known as a poet of 'place' in the way we associate Wordsworth with the Lake District, for example, and for many years readers...
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Extrait: "Regrettez-vous le temps o le Ciel favorisait la Terre de continuels prodiges, suspendait sans cesse les lois de la Nature, et manifestait par les œuvres des thaumaturges, ses énergiques volontés? Regrettez-vous le temps o les anges, messagers divins, exécutaient au milieu des hommes les mandats du Très-Haut; o les astres mêmes obéissent à la voix des mortels, et les éléments domptés, à nos impatients désirs?"
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10708) Night Rooms: Essays
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Night Rooms is a poetic, intimate collection of personal essays that weaves together fragmented images from horror films and cultural tropes to meditate on anxiety and depression, suicide, body image, identity, grief, and survival.
Whether competing in shopping mall beauty pageants, reflecting on childhood monsters and ballet lessons, or recounting dark cultural ephemera while facing grief and authenticity in the digital age, Gina Nutt's shifting...
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Un relato apasionante sobre la situación actual de Oriente Medio
La derrota de Oriente - continuación de La cárcel identitaria, publicada por Libros del K.O. en 2013 - es el cuaderno de bitácora de un corresponsal escéptico en mitad de un naufragio. Eugenio García Gascón anota en su diario el paisaje de una región, Oriente Medio, sumida en un círculo vicioso de fanatismo religioso, intereses geopolíticos e interferencias extranjeras. El...
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Frank Thoms went to the Soviet Union not to judge but to learn. As a result, he gained the trust and confidence of the people he befriended-and discovered much about himself.
Behind the Red Veil recounts Frank's quest to understand the Russian people. He spent his initial twenty-five years as a teacher, during which time he pursued his understanding of Marxism, Russian history, and Soviet Communism. His first venture to the Soviet Union occurred...
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Une trajectoire hors du commun : prêtre par tradition familiale, aumnier chez les SS par conviction religieuse.
Lorsque Louis Firenes part pour le front de l'Est, son père, pourtant fervent patriote, lui dit : "O il y a des femmes et des hommes qui souffrent et meurent, il faut un prêtre." Ce professeur dans un collège catholique, en accompagnant en Russie les jeunes légionnaires wallons, ne fait que ce qu'il considère comme son devoir : être...
10712) Les Cinq Sens
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Extrait : "Dans l'antiquité, on portait beaucoup plus d'attention que de nos jours à la beauté des oreilles. Elien, qui nous a conservé dans ses écrits le portrait de la célèbre Aspasie, cite, parmi ses perfections, une oreille courte et bien détachée de la tête. Martial met au nombre des difformités d'une femme de son temps, celle d'avoir les oreilles trop longues. Cependant, les petites oreilles ne passèrent pas toujours pour être les...
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Green Obsession traces the long path that architect Stefano Boeri and his studio - Stefano Boeri Architetti - have followed in the last fifteen years of practice, aiming at the redefinition of the relationship between city and nature. The book follows a discursive thread, alternating dialogues and scientific essays by some of the main protagonists who have contributed to widening the perspective on this subject, helping to raise awareness while protecting...
10714) The Eye of Osiris
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To find a missing archaeologist, Dr. Thorndyke digs for a body After the great success of his latest expedition, the brilliant archaeologist John Bellingham returns from the sandy tombs of Egypt with enough ancient treasures to fill a wing at the British Museum. He visits a friend for dinner and is told to wait in the study. When the friend arrives, he finds the study empty; Bellingham has vanished into thin air. When Bellingham does not reappear,...
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Sophisticated mayhem from a master of crime fiction Since his friend and partner in crime, A. J. Raffles, jumped into the Mediterranean, Bunny Manders has scraped along as best he can. At Raffles's side, he was witness to, and participant in, the most ingenious burglaries the underworld had ever seen. Without him, Bunny is a struggling ex-convict, so down on his luck that he answers an ad seeking a male nurse and companion for a notoriously rude invalid....
10716) A Thin Ghost and Others
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Are you the type who loves nothing more than curling up with a book of ghost stories? If so, be sure to add A Thin Ghost and Others to your must-read list. A gem from the golden age of Gothic horror, these spine-tingling tales will satisfy your craving for ghoulishly top-notch fiction. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is extremely dedicated to bringing to the forefront the...
10717) Ordinary Wonder Tales
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A journalist and folklorist explores the truths that underlie the stories we imagine, and reveals the magic in the everyday.
"I've always felt that the term fairy tale doesn't quite capture the essence of these stories," writes Emily Urquhart. "I prefer the term wonder tale, which is Irish in origin, for its suggestion of awe coupled with narrative. In a way, this is most of our stories." In this startlingly original essay collection, Urquhart reveals...
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Fragrance has long been used to mark who is civilized and who is barbaric, who is pure and who is polluted, who is free and who is damned-
Focusing their gaze on our most primordial sense, writer and perfumer Tanaïs weaves a brilliant and expansive memoir, a reckoning that offers a critical, alternate history of South Asia from an American Bangladeshi Muslim femme perspective. From stories of their childhood in the South, Midwest, and New York,...
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In Charles Dickens' adventure story, "The Perils of Certain English Prisoners", a silver mine is captured by brigands, who also kill a number of English colonists and take the rest hostage. In the ensuing narrative, the pluck of some intrepid women prisoners enables the captives to make a daring escape. Inspired by the real-life events of the Indian Mutiny in 1857, Dickens set this novella in Belize to blur the distinction.
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Get set for pulse-pounding adventure on the high seas with the master of the early science fiction and action genres, Jules Verne. The novel The Survivors of the Chancellor is a fictional but remarkably well researched and detailed account of the passengers who survive the disastrous final voyage of the Chancellor, a British sailing vessel.
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