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Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Walter Isaacson [Isaacson, Walter]

MADONNA OF THE YARNWINDER Friar Pietro, in one of his letters to the persistent Isabella, described a painting that Leonardo was doing at the request of Louis XII’s secretary, Florimond ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics November 13,2017 )
Mystery of the Magi by Dwight Longenecker
epub |eng | 2017-09-30 | Author:Dwight Longenecker

they were clearly already in a process of metamorphosis [from a nomadic to a settled civilization] for they had acquired possessions that were not easily transported in a nomadic life. ...
( Category: History November 13,2017 )
From Gabriel to Lucifer by Valery Rees
epub |eng | | Author:Valery Rees [Rees, Valery]

Even in popular song, the name of Jerusalem still scorches the lips like a seraph’s kiss.18 The seraphim, whose home is in highest heavens, are not confined there totally beyond ...
( Category: History November 13,2017 )
An Ocean of Blessings by Penor Rinpoche
epub |eng | 2017-11-07 | Author:Penor Rinpoche

PADMASAMBHAVA THERE ARE COUNTLESS different religions in this world, but foremost among them are the extraordinary teachings of the omniscient Buddha Shakyamuni. The Buddhadharma is based on great compassion for ...
( Category: World November 13,2017 )
Childhood in World History (Themes in World History) by Stearns Peter N
azw3 |eng | 2016-07-01 | Author:Stearns, Peter N [Stearns, Peter N]

Further Reading See William A. Corsaro, The Sociology of Childhood (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2005); Ernest Bartell and Alejandro O’Donnell, eds., The Child in Latin America (Notre Dame, IN: ...
( Category: Social Sciences November 13,2017 )
Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire by Peirce Leslie
azw3 |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Peirce, Leslie [Peirce, Leslie]

While the foundation’s users doubtless took care to conduct themselves with circumspection, the Haseki complex was rarely silent. In warm weather, the voices of children reciting their lessons might waft ...
( Category: Middle East November 13,2017 )
Indira by Katherine Frank
epub |eng | 2001-11-13 | Author:Katherine Frank [Frank, Katherine]

In America, five days after Indira was sworn in, she appeared on the cover of Time magazine in full colour, complete with red rose and white-streaked hair, under the banner ...
( Category: Asia November 13,2017 )
History on Trial by Deborah Lipstadt
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Deborah Lipstadt

TWELVE FIGHTING WORDS "They clamor 'Ours! Ours! Ours!' when hoards of gold are uncovered. And then when antisemitism increases and the inevitable mindless pogroms occur, they ask with genuine surprise: ...
( Category: World November 13,2017 )
Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages by McCarthy Conor
epub |eng | | Author:McCarthy, Conor.

CHAPTER 3. OF THE CONVERSION OF HER SPOUSE AND THAT THEY FORSOOK THE WORLD AND LIVED CHASTELY And when she so a good while had lived with John, her spouse, ...
( Category: Social Sciences November 13,2017 )
Anatomia de un instante by Javier Cercas
mobi | | 2010-11-30 | Author:Javier Cercas

Aunque estuviera integrada en el CESID, la AOME no compartía su caos organizativo ni su precariedad de medios; al contrario: tal vez era una de las pocas unidades de los ...
( Category: World November 12,2017 )
Buddhist Warfare by Jerryson Michael; Juergensmeyer Mark; & Mark Juergensmeyer
epub |eng | 2008-11-12 | Author:Jerryson, Michael; Juergensmeyer, Mark; & Mark Juergensmeyer

The available information indicates that, unlike what happened during the Anti-Japanese War—when some Buddhists had questioned the authenticity and legitimacy of a Buddhist airplane (which would cause the massive destruction ...
( Category: World November 12,2017 )
The Guardian of All Things by Michael S. Malone
epub |eng | | Author:Michael S. Malone

OUT OF MIND The zeal for classification during the High Middle Ages and early Renaissance didn’t just infect scholars, occultists, and ecclesiastics but also the first modern scientists. Speaking across ...
( Category: History & Philosophy November 12,2017 )
Gandhi's Passion by Wolpert Stanley;
epub |eng | 2001-11-12 | Author:Wolpert, Stanley;

16 Imprisoned Soul of India GANDHI NEVER despaired behind bars. Adversity only cheered his passionate nature and intensified his resolve. The 1932-33 prison interlude brought the purifying rays of his ...
( Category: Asia November 12,2017 )
Religion in China: Survival and Revival under Communist Rule by Fenggang Yang
epub |eng | 2011-09-30 | Author:Fenggang Yang [Yang, Fenggang]

6 THE SHORTAGE ECONOMY OF RELIGION UNDER COMMUNISM WHEN A GOVERNMENT imposes its ideology and suppresses its competitors, to what extent can it succeed? Throughout human history, many regimes have ...
( Category: Religious Studies November 12,2017 )
Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It by Kolata Gina
azw3, epub |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Kolata, Gina [Kolata, Gina]

The first Americans were immunized on October 1. Ten days later, the first deaths occurred. Three elderly people in Pittsburgh, all of whom had heart problems, died suddenly after receiving ...
( Category: Biological Sciences November 12,2017 )

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