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Inventare i libri: L’avventura di Filippo e Lucantonio Giunti, pionieri dell’editoria moderna (Italian Edition)

Things began to go wrong for the Autier group in 1305. Upon his release from prison, William Peyre, a trusted confidant and Believer, wanted money to pay off a debt he had run up while incarcerated. For reasons unknown, the Autiers refused him the money, and Peyre lured James Autier and Prades Tavernier to Limoux on the pretext of performing a cons
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Vida de María Sabina: La sabia de los hongos (Vidas para leerlas) (Spanish Edition)
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This created an interpretive culture where:
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Varian Fry’s oddness was not that of a Marcel Duchamp. It was that of an Ezekiel. The real reason that no one today has heard of Varian Fry is because the gift he had is not one that we value.
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All the Lies They Did Not Tell: The True Story of Satanic Panic in an Italian Community
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Quis ut Deus ?: Antijudéo-maçonnisme et occultisme en France sous la IIIe République (French Edition)
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It is to Paracelsus, the famed “father of chemo-therapy,” that we can trace the revival of interest in opium. The great sixteenth-century Swiss alchemist, medical reformer, and quack advocated and used opium on a lavish scale.