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The Last of the Legions and other Tales of long ago
0€ 22,95The Last of the Legions and other Tales of long ago is a volume collecting 13 short stories written by Artur Conan Doyle, first published in 1922 by John Murray. The stories covers various centuries from Antiquity to first millenary. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (1859-1930) was a Scottish author. He is most no-ted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction.
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The miraculous resurrection of Immanuel Kant and other articles
0€ 18,95The present volume makes an important contribution to the analysis of the political scene in Germany in the years since the end of the Cold War, pointing out dangers to democracy primarily from the Right but also from the Left. It is a contribution to scholarship that these important articles which appeared in a variety of journals are now accessible to a broader public.
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The natural evolution as a source of ethics
0€ 17,95An important question in the philosophy of ethics is the simple and practical question: What to do? This applies not only to personal decisions, but also to decisions to be taken by a community, a country, a continent or even a decision at a global level. In order to answer that question, knowledge of good and evil is necessary, and this knowledge is therefore also part of ethics.
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The Netherlands and Islam
0€ 9,95Diametrically opposed to them, a considerable section of the population is against a dreaded European super state in which Islam plays a prominent role. These Dutch distrust their politicians and the media; they are ill-disposed towards Islam and fear the loss of their national identity. Quite often they vote for the Partij voor de Vrijheid (Party for Freedom, PVV) led by the right-wing populist Geert Wilders. For these voters not only the nation-state, but their world view is at stake.
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The Promise
0€ 18,95The Promise, Orde fan de Swan, is meer dan een zoektocht naar archeologische geheimen die over de aarde verspreid liggen. The Promise is vooral ook een meeslepende roman over mensen die op subtiele wijze gemanipuleerd worden. Zelfs in de liefde. Een meesterlijk geschreven verhaal!
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The Promise | GLB
0€ 44,95The Promise, Orde fan de Swan, is meer dan een zoektocht naar archeologische geheimen die over de aarde verspreid liggen. The Promise is vooral ook een meeslepende roman over mensen die op subtiele wijze gemanipuleerd worden. Zelfs in de liefde. Een meesterlijk geschreven verhaal!
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The remarkable adventures of a loafer and Einsteins Error
0€ 19,95The famous physicist Olivier Loos compares his life with that of the loafer Tobias Vlek, he knows from his youth. As time goes by his appreciation for Tobias Vlek grows, realizing how he had failed in meeting his own expectations. His opposition against Albert Einstein met resistance with settled reputes and damaged his career. Therefore he chose for safer subjects due to sense of duty for his family.
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The remarkable adventures of a loafer and Einsteins Error
0€ 49,95The famous physicist Olivier Loos compares his life with that of the loafer Tobias Vlek, he knows from his youth. As time goes by his appreciation for Tobias Vlek grows, realizing how he had failed in meeting his own expectations. His opposition against Albert Einstein met resistance with settled reputes and damaged his career. Therefore he chose for safer subjects due to sense of duty for his family.
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The silent final
0€ 19,95Could the twin brothers be considered lucky, being the only concentration camp survivors from the Jewish community in Elburg. And what about the few dozen out of 660 men deported from Putten who returned after the war, were they lucky? In the Silent Final Henk Vaessen shows that for those who survived the war camps the suffering did not stop when they were liberated. For the spectator the war lasts from the beginning till the end… for the victim it lasts the rest of his life. And even then it is not over…
The story confronts the reader with controversial subjects like the ‘second and third generation syndrome’, the relationship Judaism-Christianity and anti-semitism. At the same time the author interweaves humour and gravity in the daily life of the main characters.
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The Star Mountains Expedition to Dutch New Guinea in 1959
0€ 18,95In 1959 the Koninklijk Nederlands Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (KNAG), together with the Rijksherbarium Leiden organised a multi-disciplinary expe-dition. This was a remarkable expedition because it was destined to explore the Star Mountains of what was then Dutch New-Guinea. The Star Mountains on the Central Mountain Range were the last area of Dutch New-Guinea not yet under Dutch control or governance. Hardly anything was known about this area, it was even questionable whether there were actually human inhabitants. The author of this book had the privilege of joining this historical expedition as an expert in mosses.
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The unofficial war between russia and japan in 1939
0€ 19,95At the edge of the world, The First Turn of the Wheel…
The Battle of Khalkin Gol (also called Nomonhan), sent shockwaves through world history. It was a testbed for future Soviet doctrine and a catalyst for the Japanese political upheaval that brought the United States into every theater of World War II.
