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A 1st bilingual ed. (450 copies) very good+ paperback, light signs of use as in image, scratch (1x1cm.) on back cov. 113p. 28x23cm. 750gr. TEXT Greek/ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ,
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Vierzig Redensarten und Allerweltsweisheiten werden von den beiden Autorinnen gegen den Strich gebürstet: von "Die Geschmäcker sind verschieden" über "Liebe geht durch den Magen" bis hin zu "Ende gut, alles gut". Das Verblüffende: Alle Redensarten enthalten Impulse, mit den eigenen Sinnen Erfahrungen zu machen und so den Glauben neu zu "erden".

A 1st French ed. very good- paperback (flaps), ex-library with usual markings & stamps, adhesive wrapping on cov. as in image, text/block tight clean very good+. Traduit par Gabriel Martinez-Gros.262p. 22,5x14cm. 450gr.

A 1st German ed. as new hardcover with DJ. 219p. 20x12,5cm. 350gr. Aus dem Arab. von Hartmut Fähndrich.

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A 1st ed. good hardcover (cloth-bound), soiling of cloth & signs of age as in image, with stamp fr. end p. (image_2) "Alfred Rosenberg* spende fur die Deutsche Wehrmacht 1939/1942 Gau Westmark". "Die Stempel mit dem Schriftzug: "Alfred-Rosenberg-Spende für die Deutsche Wehrmacht …". Eine kurze Untersuchung nach anderen Belegen und Formen über diesen Stempel ergab, dass solche Stempel auch mit anderen Gaubezeichnungen bekannt sind. Es handelte sich bei diesen Aktionen um deutschlandweite Buchsammlungen, die das Ziel verfolgten, den Soldaten an der Front Bücher zukommen zu lassen. Durchgeführt wurde die Aktion "Buchspende für die Deutsche Wehrmacht" vom Kriegs-Winterhilfswerk, dem ein Aufruf Rosenbergs voranging. Bis zum Jahr 1940 konnten so 8 ½ Millionen Bücher gesammelt werden. Bis zum Frühjahr 1941 konnten in zwei Sammelaktionen 15 ½ Millionen Bücher an die kämpfende Front verschickt werden . Im Oktober 1941 erfolgte nach den Erfolgen der letzten zwei Sammlungen ein… Read More

Essex: Longman, 1987. Second impression. As new paperback. 2nd Impres.

A 1st Greek ed. good+ paperback (flaps), minor signs of wear on cov. as in image, text/block tight clean. 139p. 34,5x24,5cm. 900gr.
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A 3rd reprint very good+ paperback, minor signs of use, creased spine. 616p. 23x15,5cm. 950gr. This is the first comprehensive and fully documented history of modern Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania). After introductory chapters on the nineteenth century, Dr Iliffe concentrates on the colonial period, and especially on economic, social and intellectual change among Africans as the core of their colonial experience and the basis of their political behaviour. Particular attention is paid to the consequences for small-scale societies of their incorporation into the international order; the impact of capitalism and the emergence of capitalist relationships and attitudes; African attempts to defend or reform indigenous institutions and to organise movements of protest or revolt against European control; the successive formation and dissolution of a specifically colonial society; and the effects of economic change on Tanganyika's ecology in modern times. The book brings together the research which scholars of… Read More

A very good- paperback with blunt corners as in image. In this postscript to Tools for Creativity, Illich calls for the right to useful unemployment: a positive, constructive, and even optimistic concept dealing with that activity by which people are useful to themselves and others outside the production of commodities for the market. Unfettered by managing professionals, unmeasured and immeasurable by economists, these activities truly generate satisfaction, creativity, and freedom.

A very good paperback children's book with a big stain inside of cover (mostly front). 4th edition.

A 1st bilingual ed. good+ paperback, minor signs of wear on cov. as in image, some minor defects on spine, text/block tight clean. 830p. 28x21x8,5cm. 3400gr. TEXT Deutsch, English. Mit Beiträgen von / With texts by Anette Hüsch, Jöerg Immendorff, Pamela Kort, Peter-Klaus Schuster, Robert Storr. Interview von / by Hans-Ulrich Obrist.
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A near fine paperback with small signs of age tanning.

A near fine paperback with small signs of age tanning.

A near fine paperback with small signs of age tanning.

A 4th ed. as new paperback. Hazrat Inayat Khan ist der Begründer der internationalen Sufi-Bewegung und des internationalen Sufiordens. 1882 in Indien geboren, wurde der Sufi-Meister in seiner Heimat als Virtuose der klassischen indischen Musik verehrt. Khan emigrierte 1910, um seine Lehre in den Vereinigten Staaten und Europa bekanntzumachen. Als besondere religiöse Aktivität seines Ordens schuf er den konfessionsübergreifenden Universellen Gottesdienst. Seine Lehre ist eine Botschaft von Liebe, Harmonie und Schönheit. Khan starb 1927 während eines Aufenthalts in Neu Delhi.

A 1st French ed. very good+ hardcover (cloth-bound), minor signs of wear on covs. & spine as in image, text block clean tight.286p. 19x12,5cm. 350gr.

A very good paperback with minor wear on on edges as in image, text very good+, FON.

As new paperback. 2nd ed.From the CWA Gold Dagger-winning author of the Reykjavik Murder Mystery series comes an international thriller sweeping from modern Iceland to America and Nazi Germany at the end of World War II. 1945: A German bomber flies over Iceland in a blizzard; the crew have lost their way and eventually crash on the Vatnajokull glacier, the largest in Europe. Puzzlingly, there are both German and American officers on board. One of the senior German officers claims that their best chance of survival is to try to walk to the nearest farm and sets off, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. He soon disappears into the white vastness. 1999, mid-winter, and the US Army is secretively trying to remove an aeroplane from the Vatnajokull glacier. By coincidence two young Icelanders become involved--but will pay with their lives. Before they are captured, one of the two contacts his sister, Kristin, who will not rest until she discovers the truth of her brother's fate. Her pursuit puts her in… Read More

A near fine paperback with crinkle on front cover & price sticker inside back cover. 1st ed.Indridason fills the void that remains after you've read Stieg Larsson's novels.- USA Today on HypothermiaInspector Erlunder has spent his entire career struggling to evade the ghosts of his past. But ghosts are visiting him, both in the form of a séance attended by a dead woman and also in the reemerging puzzle of two young people who went missing 30 years ago. And theres the ghost of the detectives disastrous marriage, which, despite the pleas of his drug-addled daughter, he is unwilling to confront. In addition, hes still obsessed with the disappearance of his brother, who vanished without a trace when they were boys. He can only run from his ghosts for so long, and, when they finally catch up with him, Erlunder is forced to face the heart shattering truth of his past. One of the most haunting crime novels readers are likely to encounter this year or any other, this is classic story that belongs on the… Read More

London: Vintage, 2010. Second edition. Paperback. Near Fine. A near fine paperback with crinkled front cover & spine. 2nd ed. This is a Reykjavik Murder Mystery. A skeleton is found half-buried in a dried out lake. The bones have been weighed down with an old radio transmitter: is this a clue to the victim, and the killer's identity Detective Erlendur is called in to investigate and discovers that there may be a connection with a group of students who were sent to study in East Germany during the Cold War, and with a young man who walked out of his family home one day, never to return.