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Title: Report of the survey of the route of the Galena and Chicago Union Rail Road.Author: Richard Price MorganPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discove...

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This book argues that the Russian thinker Petr Kropotkin¿s anarchism was a bio-political revolutionary project. Overall, the book provides a refreshing, innovative approach to understanding Kropotkin¿s anarchism.

An atmospheric tale of corruption and abduction set on Mars, from the author of the award-winning science fiction novel Altered Carbon, now an exciting new series from Netflix. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN Hakan Veil is an ex-corporate enforcer equipped with military-grade body tech that's made him a human killing machine. His former employers have abandoned him on a turbulent Mars where Earth-based overlords battle ...

Ringil Eskiath ist auf der Flucht - auf der Flucht vor seiner Vergangenheit, seiner Familie und vor sich selbst. Yhelteth, die Hauptstadt des Imperiums, scheint zunächst ein sicherer Hafen für den raubeinigen Krieger zu sein, doch dann werden die Grenzen des Reiches von einem Feind bedroht, der älter und schrecklicher ist als alles, was Yhelteth jemals gesehen hat. Als die Stadt in Chaos und Schrecken versinkt, ist für Ringil die Stunde gekomm...

Ringil Eskiath stammt aus einer alteingesessenen Aristokratenfamilie, die allerdings mit ihm gebrochen hat. Dennoch hat Ringil alles, was er braucht: eine gute Klinge, einen hervorragenden Ruf als Schwertkämpfer und ein gesichertes Einkommen. Dann taucht eines Tages überraschend seine Mutter, die Kaiserin, auf und verlangt von ihm, dass er seine Cousine befreit, die in Gefangenschaft geraten ist. Schnell wird Ringil klar, dass es bei diesem Au...

Adelsspross und Schwertkämpfer Ringil Eskiath ist weit gereist - auf der verzweifelten Suche nach dem unsterblichen Zauberer, der von den mächtigen Feinden des Imperiums großgezogen wurde. Und er ist auf sich allein gestellt, denn seine Gefährten wurden von ihm getrennt. Während Ringil versucht, eine tödliche Magie zu erlernen, damit er es mit seinem Gegner aufnehmen kann, sind seine beiden Gefährten einem Geheimnis auf der Spur, das das ganze...

Richard L. Morgan has brought into dialogue his years of pastoral ministry with the sick and his appreciation of scripture as a valuable resource. His meditations bring both challenge (e.g. Escaping into Sickness) as well as comfort (This Too Shall Pass). They are daily thoughts for the sick and the caregiver, mutually engaged in a time of deep significance. - Frank S. Moyer Editor, Chaplaincy Today Morgan arrives at an understanding that whil...

Mit der Besiedelung des Mars haben dort auch Korruption, Machtgier und Gewalt Einzug gehalten. Einflussreiche Großkonzerne kämpfen um ihren Profit, die neugegründete Mars-Bewegung um ihre Unabhängigkeit von der Erde. Kein Wunder, dass Ex-Soldat Hakan Veil genug vom Roten Planeten hat und zurück auf die Erde möchte. Als Gegenleistung für sein Flugticket muss er noch einen einzigen Auftrag erfüllen: Er soll Special Agent Madison Madekwe bei ihre...

Da tempo immemorabile, Harlan's World - un pianeta ricoperto dagli oceani e con soltanto il cinque per cento di terra abitabile - è dominato da un'unica famiglia: gli Harlan, appunto. È questo il luogo in cui è nato Takeshi Kovacs e in cui l'ex mercenario è tornato. Ma New Hakkaido, la fredda, insensibile e labirintica capitale, è un posto molto pericoloso, soprattutto per Takeshi, che prima di diventare un soldato era un elemento di spicco ne...

Cambiare corpo non è un problema, nel XXVI secolo. Che il cambio sia soddisfacente, però, è tutta un'altra storia. Lo sa bene Takeshi Kovacs che, cinquant'anni dopo le indagini a Bay City, si è ritrovato in una «custodia» nuova su Sanzione IV, dov'è in corso una guerra civile tra il governo e il rivoluzionario Joshua Kemp. Tenente per il Cuneo di Carrera, un temibile gruppo di mercenari al soldo del governo, Takeshi dovrebbe tornare a combatte...

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Richard Morgan has always been one of our most successful SF authors with his fast-moving and brutal storylines, blistering plots and a powerful social conscience behind his work.And now he's back, with his first SF novel for eight years . . . and it promises to be a publication to remember.An ex-corporate enforcer, Hakan Veil, is forced to bodyguard Madison Madekwe, part of a colonial audit team investigating a disappeared lottery winner on M...

Altered Carbon. XXV vek. Chelovechestvo rasprostranilos' po vsej galaktike, a tehnologija izmenila samo ponjatie zhizni. Teper' ljudi sposobny zapisyvat' sobstvennoe soznanie i s legkost'ju zagruzhat' ego v novoe telo. Smert' stala lish' pomehoj na jekrane. Takeshi Kovacha, byvshego chlena korpusa chrezvychajnyh poslannikov, uzhe ubivali prezhde, no poslednjaja smert' okazalas' osobenno neprijatnoj. Okazavshis' za 180 svetovyh let ot doma, Kov...

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Richard L. Morgan has produced a welcome resource for those of us who have been divorced and felt we were beyond the pale of the Christian community. It is true that Jesus speaks against divorce, but it is also true that some New Testament scholars believe he was speaking to protect the rights of the oppressed under ancient law -- the oppressed being women. On the other hand, divorce is a painful experience that impacts over half of those who ...

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Isabella is lost, running from an abusive father and a broken home. Tempted by the Djinn, she's drawn into the forgotten world of Mysterion, where she joins the pirates and reinvents herself as Bella Couteau.When the pirate king commands her to assassinate his arch-enemy, the Elder of Mysterion, Bella seizes the opportunity to win glory and greatness as his chosen heir. But as she makes the perilous journey to Elder's Island, she starts to que...

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