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The Best of Des Griffin -Vol. I    by Des Griffin
Price: $8.00 USD. 66320 words. Language: English. Published on July 7, 2012. Nonfiction » History » World.

The Best of Des Griffin is a variety of 17 "Midnight Messenger Newspaper" and "Des Griffin Newsletter" articles dating from the late 1980s to the present. The topics cover globalism, economics, and insights into the background of who really rules the world. An excellent companion to the author’s first two books "Fourth Reich of the Rich" and "Descent into Slavery?" which also cover globalism etc
Enfance berlinoise    by Walter Benjamin
Price: $8.99 USD. 33250 words. Language: French. Published by Editions de  L'Herne  on July 6, 2012. Nonfiction » Philosophy » European philosophy.

Un texte autobiographique d’une très grande sensiblité lyrique et philosophique qui traite de la crise d’identité de Walter Benjamin, à travers le récit de son enfance. On y reconnait le positionnement successif de l’auteur en tant qu’Allemand, Français, Juif ou communiste.
Ill fares the land: essays on food, hunger and power    by Transnational Institute
Price: Free! 84480 words. Language: English. Published on July 2, 2012. Essay » Political.

"The pieces collected here...examine questions of power. Some fit into the ‘food systems and hunger’ category , others are more concerned with how we think about food systems and hunger. Control over the world food system implies control over technology and ideology, scholarship and culture as well. Such areas are not peripheral to the horrors of hunger."
Self, Other, Community: Meditations on Social Order and Social Breakdown    by George A. Kendall
Price: $6.99 USD. 54900 words. Language: English. Published on June 29, 2012. Essay » Sociology.

A collection of essays about the modern world's attack on human community in the pursuit of wealth and utopian social engineering schemes. The essays emphasize that we exist for the sake of community, which embodies love, not for the sake of wealth or power, which are means. Our spiritually diseased elites reverse the order, creating the mess we are in now.
Time Travel To Ancient Math & Physics    by William John Cox
Price: $1.99 USD. 25720 words. Language: English. Published on June 28, 2012. Nonfiction » Science and Nature » Mathematics.

Time Travel is the companion book to Mindkind: Math & Physics for the New Millennium. There we are provided with a new math and physics to carry us forward into the future. In Time Travel, we go back in time to take an insightful look at ancient civilizations and the science and mathematics they used.
A Few Hours In The Life Of A Young Man    by Alexey Subbotin
Price: $2.99 USD. 28170 words. Language: English. Published on June 28, 2012. Essay » Political.

The key theme is the present state of society in modern Russia contemplated from various angles. The storyline also touches on subjects like family relations, international politics and economics, modern science and even art. «A Few Hours In The Life Of A Young Man» is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Codicia e intelectualidad    by Victor Roura
Price: $8.99 USD. 84050 words. Language: Spanish. Published by LD Books - Lectorum  on June 27, 2012. Essay » Literature.

Este es un breve repaso de las actuaciones de los intelectuales en la política. También está aquí una mirada hacia la codicia que va de la mano con las aspiraciones intelectuales. Se repasan muchos personajes, sus nombres y acciones que dan fe de que en muchos casos, intelectualidad, poder y codicia, no son independientes.
52 Tips para escribir claro y entendible    by Eusebio Ruvalcaba
Price: $8.99 USD. 41490 words. Language: Spanish. Published by LD Books - Lectorum  on June 27, 2012. Nonfiction » Reference » Publishing and books.

El autor presenta 52 tips, que se concentran en la escritura como un oficio que requiere de una práctica constante. Dicha aplicación es lo que el autor entiende como ejercicio de honestidad. El escritor no nace, sino se hace, y todo aquel que pretenda gozar de las mieles de tan honesto oficio, primero debe aceptar el sufrimiento que conlleva el enfrentamiento con uno mismo.
Candide et son pote George W. Bush - Tome 1 - Biographie/Essai    by Victor Ojeda-Mari
Price: $2.58 USD. 66420 words. Language: French. Published on June 26, 2012. Essay » Political.

Cette biographie écrite à la suite d’un rêve cauchemardesque résultant de faits et de personnages réels, selon la formule consacrée, est une œuvre de fiction.N’empêche qu’à partir de faits et personnages réels, j’ai tout fait pour m’immerger dans G.W.BUSH pour qu’il soit plus vrai que nature.Ce livre est dédié À toutes les victimes du terrorisme:Religieux, raciste, politique,étatique.
The Waiting Game: An Essay on the Gift of Time    by Andrea Köhler
Price: $9.99 USD. 21330 words. Language: English. Published by Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc.  on June 23, 2012. Essay » Literature.

Graced with lyricism, "The Waiting Game" is an engaging meditation on the ways in which human beings are forced — and choose — to mark time, from earliest childhood to the final moments of life. This is an unsparing, yet often poetic, essay on the ordeals and pleasures inherent in the universal experience of waiting.