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Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robert Louis Stevenson [Stevenson, Robert Louis]

The hawker's little book, which I purchased, was a curious mixture. Side by side with the flippant, rowdy nonsense of the Paris music- halls, there were many pastoral pieces, not ...
( Category: Europe July 14,2017 )
von Daniken, Erich by The Return of the Gods
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:The Return of the Gods [Gods, The Return of the]

Flying through the air is also described in Sanskrit literature. My book, Der Götter-Schock, deals with this in detail.19 According to the Jain teaching, the epoch in which we live ...
( Category: Occult & Paranormal July 14,2017 )
The Dhammapada (Penguin Classics) by Penguin Classics
epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-08-26 | Author:Penguin Classics [Classics, Penguin]

CHAPTER 2 AWARENESS The Pali word translated here as ‘awareness’ is appamāda, the opposite of pamāda, ‘intoxication’, ‘carelessness’, ‘unawareness’. As often in Pali, the negative suffix has a stronger force ...
( Category: Buddhism July 12,2017 )
The Disappearance of Childhood (Vintage) by Neil Postman
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Neil Postman [Postman, Neil]

Chapter 7 The Adult-Child There is a well-traveled TV commercial for Ivory soap in which we are shown two women identified as a mother and daughter. The viewers are then ...
( Category: Social Sciences July 10,2017 )
Sacred Origins of Profound Things by Charles Panati
epub |eng | 1996-11-30 | Author:Charles Panati [Panati, Charles]

MONOTHEISM CATCHES THE GREEK FANCY: GREECE, FOURTH CENTURY B.C.E. The Jews really practiced what’s called ethnic monotheism—there is One God, and that God belongs only to his Chosen People. The ...
( Category: Religious Studies July 9,2017 )
Shackleton by Smith Michael
epub |eng | 2017-06-28 | Author:Smith, Michael [Smith, Michael]

Shackleton at his old school, Dulwich College, July 1909. Shackleton was an undistinguished scholar but made a triumphant visit for a prize-giving ceremony after returning from the Nimrod expedition. COURTESY: ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers July 9,2017 )
The Messiah Myth: The Near Eastern Roots of Jesus and David by Thomas L. Thompson
epub, pdf |eng | 2005-04-11 | Author:Thomas L. Thompson [Thompson, Thomas L.]

Yahweh empties the earth, makes it a wasteland, turning it upside down. . . . A curse has devoured the earth and its inhabitants . . . because they have ...
( Category: History July 9,2017 )
A Book of Voyages by Patrick O'Brian
epub |eng | 2013-11-06 | Author:Patrick O'Brian [Patrick O'Brian]

ORIENTAL SPLENDOUR Sir Thomas Roe: The Mogul’s Birthday. M. Tavernier: The Mogul’s Peacock Throne. Mr. Bell: Hunting with the Emperor K’ang Hsi. The Nabob’s Lady. THE MOGUL’S BIRTHDAY from THE ...
( Category: Genre Fiction July 9,2017 )
Stone of Destiny by Ian R. Hamilton
epub |eng | 2011-07-08 | Author:Ian R. Hamilton

Chapter Fifteen Twenty-four hours earlier we could have called the whole thing off and gone home to live with nothing worse than our private shame at our failure. Up until ...
( Category: Europe July 9,2017 )
A Concise History of World Population by Massimo Livi Bacci
epub |eng | 2017-03-06 | Author:Massimo Livi Bacci [Livi‐Bacci, Massimo]

A word on the causes of European migration is, however, in order. We have already referred to these in general terms: the creation of surplus population that the economic system ...
( Category: Social Sciences July 9,2017 )
The Sacred History by Mark Booth
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-11-12 | Author:Mark Booth

Portrait of Brunetto Latini, Corso Donati and Dante by Giotto (taken from the Chapel of the Podesta in Florence) The Templars operated something like an early secret service and may ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality July 8,2017 )
Why I March by Abrams Books
epub |eng | | Author:Abrams Books

( Category: Photo Essays July 7,2017 )
The Bazooka by Gordon L. Rottman
epub |eng | | Author:Gordon L. Rottman

FIRING THE 2.36in M1 SERIES BAZOOKAS One of the bazooka’s better attributes is that it was simple to operate, and therefore easy and quick to train crews to use the ...
( Category: Military July 7,2017 )
Auschwitz Report by Primo Levi & Leonardo De Benedetti
epub |eng | | Author:Primo Levi & Leonardo De Benedetti

There were no X-ray machines, so if an X-ray examination was needed the patient would be dispatched to Auschwitz, where there was good X-ray equipment, and from where he would ...
( Category: World July 3,2017 )
A World Undone by G.J. Meyer
epub |eng | 2008-10-21 | Author:G.J. Meyer

( Category: Europe July 1,2017 )

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