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James Joyce
John Gerassi

James Joyce

E£85.00

By the time James Joyce wrote "The Fengan Awakening" with its broad view of world history, he might have fully felt that quotes like "modern" or "traditional" no longer made sense when applied to his work, but to his old admirers he is above everything else. : Updated like no other.

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    Violet's Hidden Doubts
    Martha Finley

    Violet's Hidden Doubts

    E£65.00

    Originally published more than 125 years ago in the Elsie Dinsmore series, these newly-updated stories introduce another young girl whose strong faith is a powerful example for today's girls---Violet Travilla, the daughter of Elsie Dinsmore. Violet is a fourteen-year-old Christian girl growing up in the late 1800s. Today's readers will find it easy to identify with Violet's growing faith and struggle toward maturity. Book one begins in 1877, when creative, independent fourteen-year-old Violet learns that growing up brings new problems, feelings, and questions. As the entire Travilla family faces a tragic loss, Violet discovers that true faith defeats even hidden doubts.

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    Ethics
    Dietrich Bonhoeffer

    Ethics

    E£225.00

    From one of the most important theologians of the twentieth century, Ethics is the seminal reinterpretation of the role of Christianity in the modern, secularized world.

    The Christian does not live in a vacuum, says the author, but in a world of government, politics, labor, and marriage. Hence, Christian ethics cannot exist in a vacuum; what the Christian needs, claims Dietrich Bonhoeffer..

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      Education for a New World
      Maria Montessori

      Education for a New World

      E£110.00

      The psychic life in newborns has aroused great interest. Th conclusion of research is that the first two years of life are the most important. So here begins a new path, wherein it will not be the professor who teaches the child, but the child who teaches the professor.

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        Education and Peace
        Maria Montessori

        Education and Peace

        E£110.00

        Maria Montessori tireless efforts to open new paths in education were as irresistible as a force of nature. Opening a Children's House, continuing following the psychological manifestations of the children, who evidently had been oppressed in their homes, opened new insights, which were breaking news for the world.

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          The Secret of Childhood
          Maria Montessori

          The Secret of Childhood

          E£215.00

          The Secret of Childhood

          In this book Maria Montessori explains the method which she has developed by observing children. It is here that she discovered the secret of childhood. The child has a spontaneous urge to learn. An understanding of this simple secret....

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            The Cost of Discipleship
            Dietrich Bonhoeffer

            The Cost of Discipleship

            E£195.00

            One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the aristocrat? What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us today?

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              To Educate the Human Potential
              Maria Montessori

              To Educate the Human Potential

              E£110.00

              This book is intended to help teachers and parents to envisage the needs of the child after the age of six. Every average by and girl of twelve years who has been educated till then in a Montessori School knows at least as much as the students who finish High School. And the surprising thing is that the child reaches this level easily.....

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                Life Together and Prayer in the Bible
                Dietrich Bonhoeffer

                Life Together and Prayer in the Bible

                E£170.00

                Dietrich Bonhoeffer, one of the most influential Christian martyrs in history, bequeathed to humanity a legacy of theological creativity and spirituality that continues to intrigue people from a variety of backgrounds. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, a sixteen volume series, offers a fresh, critical translation of Bonhoeffer's writings, with introductions, annotations, and interpretations.

                The stimulus for the writing of Life Together was the closing of the preacher's seminary at Finkenwalde. The treatise contains Bonhoeffer's thoughts about the nature of Christian community based on the common life that he and his seminarians experienced at the seminary and in the "Brother's House" there. Bonhoeffer completed the writing of Life Together in 1938.

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                  Violet's Turning Point
                  Martha Finley

                  Violet's Turning Point

                  E£65.00

                  In Violet's Turning Point, Vi Travilla and her friends visit New York City. They expect a summer holiday filled with shopping, sightseeing, and social occasions in America's most exciting city, but things quickly become complicated.

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                  Child, Society and the World: Unpublished Speeches
                  Maria Montessori

                  Child, Society and the World: Unpublished Speeches

                  E£160.00

                  This collection of speeches and lectures by Dr. Montessori provides the reader with a vivid and accurate understanding of the theories and working methods of the most important educationalist of the 20 th century. In addition, the teaching of peace, environmental awareness and universal responsibility lie at the heart of Montessori's ‘cosmic education'

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                    Letters and Papers from Prison
                    Dietrich Bonhoeffer

                    Letters and Papers from Prison

                    E£170.00

                    Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a young German pastor who was executed by the Nazis in 1945 for his part in the “officers’ plot” to assassinate Adolf Hitler. 

                    This expanded version of Letters and Papers from Prison shifts the emphasis of earlier editions of Bonhoeffer’s theological eflections to the private sphere of his life. His letters appear in greater detail and show his daily concerns. Letters from Bonhoeffer’s parents, siblings, and other relatives have also been added, in addition to previously inaccessible letters and legal papers referring to his trial.

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