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Floating Gold: A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris by Christopher Kemp
epub |eng | 2012-11-17 | Author:Christopher Kemp

* * * This is how it happens. A man has managed somehow to clamber atop the whale. He sits in the morning sun, proudly astride its slippery silver flank. ...
( Category: Chemistry November 17,2017 )
Time and Narrative, Volume 2: 002 (Time & Narrative) by Ricoeur Paul
epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:Ricoeur, Paul [Ricoeur, Paul]

Conclusion At the end of this second volume of my study of time and narrative, I should like to make an overall assessment as I did at the end of ...
( Category: Philosophy November 17,2017 )
The Venture of Islam, Volume 1: The Classical Age of Islam: 001 by Hodgson Marshall G. S
mobi |eng | 2009-05-15 | Author:Hodgson, Marshall G. S. [Hodgson, Marshall G. S.]

The two sides in this schism have subsequently been labelled, conventionally, ‘Snnuîs’ and ‘Shî‘îs’. Each side adopted a historical position in justification of its present attitude. The Shî‘îs came to ...
( Category: Islam November 17,2017 )
The Scientific Revolution by Steven Shapin
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Steven Shapin

Moreover, in Newton's initial communication of these results to the Royal Society in 1672 he claimed to have ascertained "the true cause" of optical phenomena, and to have done so ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 17,2017 )
The Grand Inquisitor's Manual by Jonathan Kirsch
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Jonathan Kirsch [Kirsch, Jonathan]

A standard set of outrages came to be ascribed to the women who were persecuted during the Witch Craze, which continued to flare up in fits and starts from the ...
( Category: History November 17,2017 )
God Against the Gods by Jonathan Kirsch
epub |eng | 2005-01-25 | Author:Jonathan Kirsch [Kirsch, Jonathan]

CHAPTER SEVEN THE RULER OF THE WHOLE WORLD The Invention of the Totalitarian State by the First Christian Emperor of Rome Begin now to cast aside the causes of that ...
( Category: World November 17,2017 )
Scandinavians by Ferguson Robert;
epub |eng | | Author:Ferguson, Robert; [Ferguson, Robert]

Nils Strindberg’s remains. Grenna Museum, The Andrée Expedition Polar Centre. * You can see the film at https://youtu.be/dJM62aIN. † White Island. ‡ Hear it at https://youtu.be/XtgIxU8TCyY. Interlude Ibsen’s Ghosts IN ...
( Category: Europe November 17,2017 )
Centurion by L.B
epub |eng | 2013-09-28 | Author:L.B. [L.B.]

Gaius He awoke to a warm, lissome body beneath his own, and a rampant erection that needed appeasement. In the darkness it was easy to shift the sleeping man and ...
( Category: Bible Study & Reference November 16,2017 )
Rebel in the Ranks: Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the Conflicts That Continue to Shape Our World by Brad S. Gregory
azw3 |eng | 2017-09-12 | Author:Brad S. Gregory [Gregory, Brad S.]

Calvin, Geneva, and Reformed Protestantism So great is John Calvin’s influence on Reformed Protestantism that it is sometimes simply called “Calvinism.” No reformer other than Luther makes such a major ...
( Category: Europe November 16,2017 )
Immortal India: Articles and Speeches by Amish by Amish Tripathi
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-08-27 | Author:Amish Tripathi [Tripathi, Amish]

* * * First published in Hindustan Times, June, 2014 *The Vajji Sangha (Vajji Confederation), consisted of several janapadas, gramas (villages) and gosthas (groups). Eminent people were elected from each ...
( Category: World Literature November 16,2017 )
Deep France by Celia Brayfield
epub |eng | | Author:Celia Brayfield [Brayfield, Celia]

May Day, May Day Until the second round of the presidential election on 5 May, the Béarn suffered agonies of anxiety. The normal favourite topic of conversation, the weather, certainly ...
( Category: World November 16,2017 )
Britain's War by Daniel Todman
epub |eng | 2016-03-28 | Author:Daniel Todman

A PEOPLE’S WAR? One of the groups that Home Intelligence noted were being publicly criticized was ‘those in charge of the LDV’. The most widespread complaint among volunteers was the ...
( Category: Military November 16,2017 )
The Fall of the House of Wilde by Emer O'Sullivan
epub |eng | 2016-11-16 | Author:Emer O'Sullivan

26 ‘The Crushes’ Though 116 Park Street was by all accounts down at heel, certainly in comparison to the splendour of Merrion Square, it did not stop Jane from entertaining. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature November 16,2017 )
Cracking the AP Human Geography Exam, 2018 Edition by Princeton Review
epub |eng | 2017-10-10 | Author:Princeton Review

Cultural Adaptation The cultural landscape also retains the imprint of minority and immigrant groups. The ethnic neighborhood is the best example of how these groups make their way into the ...
( Category: Human Geography November 15,2017 )
What the Qur'an Meant by Garry Wills
epub |eng | 2017-10-03 | Author:Garry Wills

NOTES 1. The words “before his death” can refer, says Dakake, to his “seeming death” mentioned in 4.17 or to the way God takes Jesus up from life, keeping him ...
( Category: World November 15,2017 )

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