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  • The Spiritual World of the Germanic Peoples

    by Jan de Vries ...
    Jan de Vries penetrates to the essence of the Germanic human being. Avoiding the pitfalls of linguistic false friends, the author uncovers the spirit of the pagan Germanic peoples as they expressed it through their blood ties, poetry, and magic.The conception of personal freedom that could not be reduced to slavish submissiveness even within a strictly organized state is characteristic of the ... Read more

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  • The Green Library: 26 Classic Books to Enrich Your Botanical Knowledge

    Classic Writings on Plant Science, Wildflowers, Forests, Ecology, and Evolution

    by S. Leonard Bastin, Huron H. Smith, Charles C. P. Hobkirk, Henry A. Gleason, Charles Emerson Sanborn, Ernest E. Scholl, Marie Carmichael Stopes, Mrs. Loudon, G. F. Scott Elliot, Charles Clemon Deam, Alphonse de Candolle, Annie Lorrain Smith, Robert H. Mohlenbrock, E. E. Nuuttila, Wilbur R. Mattoon, George D. Fuller, Robert B. Miller, C. B. Webster, Jacob Levison, A. B. Brooks, George Francis Atkinson, Lorin Low Dame, Henry M. Brooks, Edward Step, K. Rangachari, C. Tadulinga Mudaliyar, Hugo de Vries, Daniel Trembly MacDougal, Frances Parsons, Charles Otis, Norman Taylor, Maxwell Masters, Julius Sachs, Isaac Bayley Balfour ...
    The Green Library gathers twenty-six classic botanical works into a capacious survey of plant life as science, craft, and cultural inheritance. Its selections range from field guides and floras to studies in taxonomy, ecology, forestry, plant physiology, fungi, and the practical identification of trees and wildflowers. Technical observation sits beside lucid popular exposition, while landmark ... Read more

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  • Surrender on Demand

    A Novel

    by Nadia de Vries ...
    Translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey ...
    "Get ready to fall in love with De Vries's playful pen and unrelenting view of mankind. Surrender on Demand is gorgeous and strange and somehow familiarly human, Dickens in a sharp modern jacket." --Yael van der Wouden, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The SafekeepA biting tale about class and destiny from the Netherlands--told through an endearing antihero named Shellfish.We all went to the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Price of Bread

    Regulating the Market in the Dutch Republic

    by Jan de Vries ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
    A prime contemporary concern - how to maintain fair market relations - is addressed through this study of the regulation of bread prices. This was the single most important economic reality of Europe's daily life in the early modern period. Jan de Vries uses the Dutch Republic as a case study of how the market functioned and how the regulatory system evolved and acted. The ways in which consumer ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Slouching Towards Kalamazoo

    A Novel

    by Peter De Vries, Derek De Vries ...
    Series series Phoenix Fiction
    The classic American coming of age novel of a precocious young man and the lessons learned from his tutor by "a masterly entertainer and social satirist" ( The New York Times).It is 1963 in an unnamed town in North Dakota, and Anthony Thrasher is languishing for a second year in eighth grade. Prematurely sophisticated, young Anthony spends too much time reading Joyce, Eliot, and Dylan Thomas but ... Read more

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  • Arthritis, Rheumatism and Psoriasis

    by Jan de Vries ...
    Arthritis, psoriasis and related rheumatic diseases are an enormous and growing problem throughout the world, with as many as 80 million people suffering from one or another of these conditions. Patients seeking help or relief from their own doctors or hospitals are often informed that they will simply have to live with the problem and that little can be done. In this book, Jan de Vries shows how ... Read more

    $7.29 USD

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    History of Southeast Asia: From Ancient Kingdoms and Spice Routes to Colonization, Independence, and the Modern ASEAN Era

    by Martin De Vries ...
    Narrated by Martin De Vries ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 57 min

    Explore the epic Asian history of ancient empires, spice routes, and colonial conquests that forged modern geopolitics. Perfect for your morning commute, this immersive deep dive transports listeners to the bustling port cities and monumental temples of the Indian Ocean and China Sea. Feel the dramatic clash of cultures as early human migrations evolve into powerful maritime societies.Witness the ... Read more

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  • The Cat's Pajamas and Witch's Milk

    by Peter De Vries ...
    Twin tales of middle-class hilarity and despair from the writer who was dubbed "America's preeminent comic novelist" by the New York TimesWhen college professor Hank Tattersall sees his former flame, Lucy Stiles, at a campus concert, it sets off a chain reaction that results in one of the funniest and most unforgettable exit scenes in American literature—involving a locked door, an alcoholic dog, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New American Handbook of Letter Writing

    Second Edition

    by Mary A. De Vries ...
    In today’s fast-paced, computer-based world, it’s more important than ever to communicate efficiently—and effectively. This comprehensive guide addresses common correspondence dilemmas and includes over 260 model messages to help you master all forms of written communication—personal or business, modern or traditional. Perfect for home or office use, this extensively indexed handbook is an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Tents of Wickedness

    A Novel

    by Peter De Vries ...
    A masterwork of literary parody about a suburban Samaritan and the poet he seeks to inspireAfter the wild adventures of Comfort Me with Apples, Chick Swallow has found domestic peace in Decency, Connecticut, accepting his fate as a middle-class husband and father and the author of an advice column in the local newspaper. His hard-won contentment is about to disappear like warm water down a bathtub ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shine

    An Anthology of Optimistic Science Fiction

    by Jetse De Vries ...
    A collection of near-future, optimistic SF stories where some of the genre's brightest stars and most exciting new talents portray the possible roads to a better tomorrow.Shine shows that positive change is far from being a foregone conclusion, but needs to be hard fought, innovative, robust and imaginative. Let's make our tomorrows Shine.Featuring orginal stories by Alastair Reynolds, Kay Kenyon, ... Read more

    $4.01 USD

  • The Rabbit Hole

    Weird Stories, #4

    by Tom Wolosz, Stewart C Baker, Jetse de Vries, Nicola Forster, Gregory J. Wolos, D.A. Becher, Isabelle Sanders, N.C. Krueger, Megan Carlson, Dominick Cancilla, Kevin Brown, GD Deckard, David Turnbull, Jeff Underwood, D.M. Kerr, Carol Fenlon, Russell Hemmell, Stephen McQuiggan, Ve Wardh, mimi speike, Carl E. Reed, Andrew Sutherland, Jeffrey Baldwin, Joseph Carrabis, Margret A. Treiber ...
    Series Book 4 - Weird Stories
    Stepping into the Rabbit Hole for the fourth time, you descend into madness. But is madness zany or just insane? Does the world, the universe, shift under your feet, or is your mind slipping into another realm of being? Maybe that safe reality you so treasure is a mirage, that all knowing, wise god actually having the deep wisdom of a teenage pizza delivery boy, who may just be an alien. Then ... Read more

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