Author: John Barne
Publisher: Tor Book
Keywords: giraut, souls, merchants
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2001-11-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0312890761
ISBN-13: 9780312890766
In The Merchants of Souls, a new movement on Earth seeks to use the recorded personalities of the dead as their helpless virtual reality playthings. To the worlds of the interstellar Thousand Cultures, where the reborn are accepted as normal citizens, its a monstrous crime and reinforces their distaste for Earth. If Earth cannot be stopped from ratifying its plans, the entire structure of galactic human civilization will collapse.
Author: Keiji Nakazawa
Publisher: Last Gasp of San Francisco
Keywords: death, merchants, vol, gen, barefoot
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-03-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0867195991
ISBN-13: 9780867195996
Cartoonist Keiji Nakazawa was seven years old and living in Hiroshima in the early days of August 1945 when the city was destroyed by an atomic bomb dropped by the U.S.A. Starting a few months before that event, the ten-volume saga shows life in Japan after years of war and privations, as seen through the eyes of seven-year-old Gen Nakaoka. Volume Eight opens in 1950; Gen is now in middle school, where he meets both a progressive-minded schoolteacher at odds with his conservative superiors, and a brilliant but cynical classmate who challenges the teacher’s -- and Gen’s -- values at
Author: P. Chalmi
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: commodity, trading, international, introduction, merchants, traders
Number of Pages: 307
Published: 1987-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3718604353
ISBN-13: 9783718604357
Author: George Ander
Publisher: Beard Book
Keywords: american, business, mortgaging, kkr, debt, merchants
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 2002-06-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1587981254
ISBN-13: 9781587981258
Story of Kolberg Kravis Roberts.
Author: Carolyn Morrow Long
Publisher: University of Tennessee Pre
Keywords: commerce, magic, religion, merchants, spiritual
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 2001-04-01
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 1572331100
ISBN-13: 9781572331105
They can be found along the side streets of many American cities: herb or candle shops catering to practitioners of Voodoo, hoodoo, Santera, and similar beliefs. Here one can purchase ritual items and raw materials for the fabrication of traditional charms, plus a variety of soaps, powders, and aromatic goods known in the trade as "spiritual products." For those seeking health or success, love or protection, these potions offer the power of the saints and the authority of the African gods. In Spiritual Merchants, Carolyn Morrow Long provides an inside look at the followers of African-based be
Author: Richard S. Harrison
Publisher: Sitka Press
Keywords: cork, quakers, years, philanthropists, mystics, merchants
Number of Pages: 253
Published: 2006-06-18
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0953954218
ISBN-13: 9780953954216
Author: William R. Leach
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: new, american, culture, rise, power, desire, merchants, land
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 1994-09-06
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0679754113
ISBN-13: 9780679754114
This monumental work of cultural history was nominated for a National Book Award. It chronicles America’s transformation, beginning in 1880, into a nation of consumers, devoted to a cult of comfort, bodily well-being, and endless acquisition. 24 pages of photos.
