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Naufal Hachette Antoine
In 2009, Hachette Livre (# 3 publishing group worldwide) and Librairie Antoine (one of the most renowned Lebanese bookseller groups) joined their strengths to set up Hachette Antoine, a joint-venture based in Beirut, Lebanon. The aim of the JV between Hachette Livre and Librairie Antoine was to create a leading trade publisher in the Arabic speaking world, covering the Middle East (Levant and GCC) and North-Africa regions, with a business focus on high potential markets. Our strength: • Large-scale distribution channels in the MENA region with warehouses in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt. • Strong PR and Media connections throughout the region with efficient online and offline marketing tools. • The only Arab publishing house to provide professional and exhaustive editing on both translated and original Arabic books. • Full financial transparency: All audit assertions and financial statements are served by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Our imprints Naufal: is dedicated to fiction and non-fiction. Our list includes well established classical and contemporary authors from the Arab world among which the best-selling/phenomenon Algerian author, Ahlem Mosteghanemi, Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa, and Lebanese journalist and women’s rights activist, Joumana Haddad. Fiction/translated: In translated fiction, our strategy consists of publishing authors from Arab origins who write in languages other than Arabic, alongside international best-selling authors. We also leave room for a few “coups de cœur” by debut authors. Thrillers and suspense: Include names such as J.K. Rowling aka Robert Galbraith, Mary Higgins Clark, Harlan Coben, Anthony Horowitz and others, and providing quality translations. Non-Fiction: Biographies and Memoirs: Becoming, A promised land. HA Kids: Licenses: Hachette Antoine is the official licensee of Disney, Marvel, Star Wars, Nickelodeon, Ferrari... in the MENA region, with more brands to come. History and Topical books, Illustrated, Inspirational stories, HA Lifestyle, HA Education, HA Reference
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LIKE, WHAT?Graphical Teasers for Young Readers
by Gideon Bar Sinai
Like many adults, children are naturally inquisitive. They easily grasp principles, find challenges, and enjoy dealing with them; but how do you encourage their curiosity? When they come upon such an original book, it is like a treasure chest of surprises: colorful, intelligent, and fascinating. This is a unique concept, primarily intended to entertain young and adult readers alike. The utilization and encouragement of their natural curiosity enhance the book's enjoyment. The entire series contains 81 multicolor graphical teasers that cover a rich and diverse world of events. Each teaser conceals a riddle, where its discovery is a challenge within itself. While attempting to decipher the mystery, the reader develops an expertise in creative and investigative thinking, as well as abstraction, spatial perception, and imagination. Author Gideon Bar-Sinai explains: “The book goes beyond stimulating the readers' curiosity and desire to investigate, confronting them with the complexity of our world. It clarifies that the world is not as simple and structured as suggest most psychometric books, which are the dogmatic, one-dimensional antithesis of Like, What?” This brilliant series expands the reader’s imagination with the colorfulness and humor invested in it; although containing but a few words, it provides the young readers – and their parents who have not yet lost their natural curiosity – with entertainment, learning, insight, and enjoyment. As a universal book without words, it transcends the barriers of age, language, and culture, and makes for an ideal gift. A sequel with 27 additional graphic teasers will be published soon. Gideon Bar-Sinai, 49, married and father of three, former pilot with a B.Sc. in computer sciences, worked for many years in software development and held senior management positions in several Hi-tech companies. Like, What? is the first volume in this original series of graphic-teaser books.
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Business, Economics & LawJanuary 2018Special Interest Tourism
Concepts, Contexts and Cases
by Carol Southall, Lynn Minnaert, Nazia Ali, Ade Oriade, Allan Watson, Glen Croy, Ralf C Buckley, Dallen J Timothy, Steven Rhoden, Alison Caffyn, Richard Benfield, Cheng-Fei Lee, Sheela Agarwal, Graham Busby, Rong Huang
Special interest tourism is growing rapidly due to a discerning and heterogeneous travel market and the demand for more focused activity or interest-based tourism experiences. This book approaches the topic from the perspective of both supply and demand, and addresses the complexities now inherent in this area of tourism. It presents a contextualised overview of contemporary academic research, concepts, principles and industry-based practice insights, and also considers the future of special interest tourism in light of the emergence of ethical consumerism. With a clear, user-friendly structure, the book: -Links theoretical frameworks to clear practical applications. -Reviews key emerging issues for tourism relating to families and faith, the performing arts, active and passive pursuits, therapeutic leisure and travelling. -Includes contributions and case studies from international academics and practitioners to give a truly global overview. Sometimes referred to as niche or contemporary tourism, this book provides a complete introduction to the study of special interest tourism for students.
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Fiction8 personaggi
C.R.E.P.P.
by Federico Barbieri
C.R.E.P.P. is the opening novel of a trilogy that marks different periods in the cycle of life. This first volume tells the story of Paolo and Irene, two of the eight protagonists of this journey. A journey that symbolizes the first of the three phases: the Thesis. Antithesis and Synthesis will follow in the future publications. --- C.R.E.P.P. è il romanzo di apertura di una trilogia che segna periodi diversi del ciclo della vita. In questo primo volume si racconta di Paolo e Irene, due degli otto protagonisti di questo viaggio che sta a simboleggiare la prima delle tre fasi: la tesi.In filosofia la tesi è un’ipotesi, un’idea, il punto di partenza al quale seguono antitesi (una verifica necessaria a confutarla o confermarla) e sintesi (la conclusione che dovrebbe corrispondere alla verità).Arricchito dalla prefazione dello storico dell'arte, prof. Valerio Vernesi, sintetizza la tesi che si sovrappone al periodo della giovinezza, a cui seguiranno le altre fasi con i romanzi Per aspera ad astra (maturità) e Continuare a sognare (senilità). Le emozioni, gli amori, le preoccupazioni dei personaggi si intrecciano scivolando dalla gioventù alla vecchiaia, attraverso il racconto di Annibale che in tarda età raccoglie i ricordi e alcune lettere lasciate dai suoi amici per scrivere il libro delle loro vite.La giovinezza, dal sapore agrodolce, è il fulcro e l'anima di questo primo episodio di 8 personaggi, dove le riflessioni hanno l'impeto del primo periodo della vita nella contrapposizione degli opposti: vita e morte, amore e odio, viaggio e ricerca interiore.
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Christian liturgy, prayerbooks & hymnalsJanuary 2015The Sound of the Liturgy
How Words Work in Worship
by Cally Hammond
Cally Hammond looks at how words function as carriers of semantic content (communicating facts and doctrines; telling stories; articulating emotions and spiritual perceptions) and then contrasts this with words as they function as physical entities striking the ear, so as to evoke emotions, memories and spiritual perceptions. This basic antithesis between words as carriers of meaning and words as evokers of feeling, emotion, and memory leads to four chapters that explore in fascinating detail the four main aspects of liturgical speech: posture, repetition, rhythm and punctuation.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2023PERISCOPING WAR AND PEACE ON THE DIPLOMATIC CHESS BOARD
by Korieocha Emmanuel Uwaozuruonye
This compendium strives to confront the teething problems faced by students of international politics in respect of the complex issues of war and peace. This exercise is a deliberate attempt designed to unravel the tremor and illusion associated with the subject matter, to the benefit of the student. The target readerships of this book are students of history, international and diplomatic studies, political science, military science, strategic studies and sociology.
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FictionIL CIELO E LA TERRA
by Carlo Coccioli
THE SKY AND THE EARTH In the autumn of 1935, an Italian peasant girl named Teresa Vannucci saw vision of the Virgin Mary. These were followed by a miracle which returned to a little paralysed boy the use of his limbs.Don Ardito Piccardi, the parish priest who had assisted Teresa, and by means of whom the miracle was achieved, was shot by the Germans eight years later, saving by his death a group of young partisans. Heaven and Earth tells in fictional form the life-story of this priest. It starts with his death, his ultimate act of humanity, and reconstructs from its beginnings a life that can be described only as that of a saint. And with it comes an insight into aspects of life in Italy whose harsh realism is very far removed from her art and museum culture.Carlo Coccioli claims that this story is authentic. It is based upon documents, accounts and opinions collected from people who knew Don Ardito during his life. Up to the performance of the miracle, and its shattering repercussions, told here with a dispassionate truth that dispels any possibility of distortion or superstition, he works as a young priest in the mountain village of Chiarotorre. Afterwards, during Italy’s most difficult period of the war, Don Ardito lives a public figure and theologian. Finally, he returns to take up again the duties of parish priest of Chiarotorre, which is now under the command of the German army and a focus of partisan warfare.From the evidence collected, with its original variety of attitudes towards the priest, the personality of Don Ardito emerges with an astonishing unity and clarity. To all he is a man apart, even aloof, dedicated to his religion, and yet the hub of all those lives that revolve around his own. Constantly aware of the antithesis between the sacred and the profane ways of life, and the struggle within himself between good and evil, Don Ardito is at first almost inhuman in his attitude to human suffering. Only gradually, and at great cost, does he grow to realize more tolerant and truer relation between suffering and love; a balance, that is to say, between the claims of Heaven and those of the Earth.
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FictionDecember 2014Golden Needle in the Weaver Bird's Nest
by Arupa Patangia Kalita
If one can disentangle a weaver bird’s nest, one will find a golden needle that can sew and mend anything, but there’s a small condition: not a single thread must break in the process. Since no one has met the challenge successfully yet, the needle remains elusive. Perhaps the secret lies in building the nest with people as threads, perhaps in the harmony of all men. SYNOPSIS Banamali Chaudhury is a revenue collector or mouzadar of the British Raj in a small town dominated by Bodo people. A tall, handsome, aspiring brown sahib swearing by the British Crown, the philandering pseudo-royal would have women brought to his haveli in a palanquin to quench his lust. One day, he sets his eyes upon a beautiful girl of lower caste and wishes to marry her. But unknowingly, he ends up marrying a plain looking but well-educated girl, Santipriya. Realising his mistake, Banamali searches for the other girl and marries her too. Mistreatment and depression make Santipriya age quickly, but she gives birth to a pair of male twins, Chandranath and Priyanath. The twins grow up to be the antithesis of their father; they seek India’s freedom and join the Gandhian movement. Dismayed, their father disinherits them from his estate. The boys take shelter in a school house and continue their studies from there until their father dies. The elder becomes a lawyer in the big city and Priyanath takes up the reins of the estate that his debauch father has reduced to shambles. But Priyanath starts working for the people and gets involved in community activities. He sires a son and names him Alok. Alok is talented and an idealist. He studies in Delhi and gets a scholarship to pursue higher studies abroad. Defying pressures from his extended family, Alok decides not to leave his father and takes up a job as teacher in a local college. Difficult days have descended upon Assam; a secessionist movement erupts under a terrorist organisation. Every year, a family from neighbouring Bhutan would visit Priyanath’s home. Traditionally, many households here have such families visiting them from the Himalayan kingdom; the same family wouldvisit them every year. But this is soon going to stop – terrorists kill the entire family camping with Priyanath. Only a small boy survives and Priyanath takes him as his own.Just as Assam’s secessionist movement was losing steam, another armed struggle begins in this region, entailing the demand for a separate state. The extortionist militants demand money from Priyanath who refuses to comply. Out of revenge they barge into Alok’s college one day and gun him down. The now ageing Priyanath hears about a child born in the paddy fields. Riots had broken out between the Bodo and Muslim people. But in the midst of the fight, a woman collapsed. Nobody knew whether she was Hindu or Muslim, but the rioting stopped and everyone gathered around her. A lady known as Ammi Jan delivered the baby. When Priyanath heard this story, he sent his Bhutanese foster boy to fetch the mother and child. Looking at the innocent eyes of the one who had stopped the riots, Priyanath gives her something close to his heart – a gold chain that once belonged to his own child Alok. The novel carries fifty interwoven stories centred around the plot. The discreet narrative captures the socio-economic background of a tribal belt of Assam, an easternmost Indian frontier, bordering Bhutan. The novel traces the historical status of women and the calculated destruction of lush green nature along with its flora and fauna, rivers and hills. It is rich in the use of myths, tales and description of the different cultural layers of this quaint region. It traces some endangered institutions like an elephant training centre, along with its colourful folk beliefs and customs. It touches elements like the advent of Christianity in the place. An epic novel with its treatment of time and space across a century, it gives meaningful shape to a welter of facts, speculations and elements of popular imagination.
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Sustainable agricultureJuly 2019Integrated Farming Systems and Agricultural Sustainability
by A Zaman
The book is organized into sixteen chapters. A brief description of each of the chapters follows: Chapter 1 identifies the concept of importance and definition as basic requirement to know the challenges in the management of information security in the new millennium; Chapter 2 identifies the types of farming system and factors affecting farming system; Chapter 3 envisages sustainable agriculture, its problems and its impact in cropping system; Chapter 4 takes historical background of agriculture, its changing scenario and its resilience over the years. Chapter 5 delineated sustainable agriculture, its importance and its impact in cropping system; Chapter 6 describes the agro-climatic and agro-ecological zones that need for model of integrated farming system to be developed as a policy perspective to ensure the crop cultivation the highest level of protection against all sorts of threats. Chapter 7 takes history of agriculture, its changing scenario and its resilience over the years. Chapter 8 reviews the rejuvenation, modernization and mechanization of agriculture, its present bottlenecks on ethical elements of security such that trust could be promoted to outburst the explosive population; Chapter 9 reviews the information on soil resource in the context of problematic security threat; Chapter 10 reviews issues on external input based sustainable agriculture surrounding low land utilization as existing resource mobilization and utilization. Chapter 11 presents the importance of organic farming well as organic agriculture to get the best results in sustainable agriculture; Chapter 12 addresses the issue of water management and planning, with particular reference to irrigation management and judicious water application in crop cultivation. Chapter 13 presents gaps and problems in each of the current approaches in rainfed agriculture, rainwater harvesting as well as rainwater management in growing crops in best possible manner; Chapter 14 discusses management of lowland areas towards sustainable agriculture; Chapter 15 refers the land degradation and land treatments in the way of effective utilization of land resources through tillage, conservational tillage and other suitable measures; and Chapter 16 concludes the present principle of remedies, the economic equity, social security along the future task and presents pragmatic, formal, informal and technical principles necessary for managing food security in the new millennium.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentFebruary 2019Eat Less
Stop Overeating. Start Undereating
by Georgina Jackson Sytner
Eat Less is NOT a diet book. It doesn't read like a diet book or look like a diet book. Eat Less is an anti-obesity manifesto. Eat Less is stuffed with bite-sized nuggets of information on the benefits of eating less, advice on what to eat less of, and much more. Informative and motivational, the underlying message is very serious, but the manner in which it delivers those messages is never preachy and easily digestible. Eat Less offers practical advice on the life-changing benefits that simply eating less food can bring. Eat Less really works. The authors are living proof that the habit-changing lifestyle they set out could help millions of people easily get to a healthy weight and maintain it for life.
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Literary studies: generalAugust 2010For People Who Love Books
by Arthur Q. Gutch
This book is perfect for the seasoned or novice author, bookstore owner, librarian, publisher, editor or active reader. In presenting this compilation of over 2,000 thought-provoking insights related to books, it is my hope that you will harvest the messages and wisdom of those speaking from the page to, in some way, better your work and life. It is a great companion for those who participate in the creation and delivery of books, who want a recent or ancient perspective that will inspire you to clarify your purpose and achieve your potential.
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Colonialism & imperialismJanuary 2017Reading Colonies
Property and Control of the British Far Eas
by Rohan B. E. PRICE
By 1945, everywhere one looked in the Far East the British Empire was being openly questioned or was failing outright. Yet in the previous century, the British had been the pre-eminent imperial power from Weihaiwei to North Borneo. Reading Colonies: Property and Control of the British Far East investigates how the British held on for so long. Rent control legislation, and other measures of property law such as land improvement opportunities, are nominated as key tools used to frustrate decolonization in most Eastern colonies. British colonial administrations tried long and hard to inhibit the dialectical discord between their colonial hierarchism and local forms of nationalism with the prompts and plaudits of property policy. In cases where indigenous landlordism masqueraded as patriotism, independence came quickly (Ceylon and Burma). Where public housing established itself as a key post-war plank of social policy, freedom from British rule was a more gradual affair (British Malaya and Hong Kong). This study concludes that British colonial regimes did not offer a share of their industrial modernity to stay at the apex of political power, but readily adjusted old-style landlordism to keep nationalist usurpers at bay.
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Humanities & Social SciencesBasque Immigrants and Nevada's Sheep Industry
Geopolitics and the Making of an Agricultural Workforce, 1880-1954
by Iker Saitua
Basque Immigrants and Nevada’s Sheep Industry is a rich and complex exploration of the history of Basque immigration to the rangelands of Nevada and the interior West. It looks critically at the Basque sheepherders in the American West and more broadly at the modern history of American foreign relations with Spain after the Second World War.Between the 1880s and the 1950s, the western open-range sheep industry was the original economic attraction for Basque immigrants. This engaging study tracks the development of the Basque presence in the American West, providing deep detail about the sheepherders’ history, native and local culture, the challenges they faced, and the changing conditions under which the Basques lived and worked. Saitua also shows how Basque immigrant sheepherders went from being a marginalized labor group to a desirable, high-priced workforce in response to the constant demand for their labor power.As the twentieth century progressed, the geopolitical tide in America began to change. In 1924, the Restrictive Immigration Act resulted in a truncated labor supply from the Basque Country in Spain. During the Great Depression and the Second World War, the labor shortage became acute. In response, Senator Patrick McCarran from Nevada lobbied on behalf of his wool-growing constituency to open immigration doors for Basques, the most desirable laborers for tending sheep in remote places. Subsequently, Cold War international tensions offered opportunities for a reconciliation between the United States and Francisco Franco, despite Spain’s previous sympathy with the Axis powers.This fresh portrayal shows how Basque immigrants became the backbone of the sheep industry in Nevada. It also contributes to a wider understanding of the significance of Basque immigration by exploring the role of Basque agricultural labor in the United States, the economic interests of Western ranchers, and McCarran’s diplomacy as catalysts that eventually helped bring Spain into the orbit of western democracies.
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Thriller / suspenseAugust 2012Wotcha
by Kevin Saunders
Wotcha’ a contraction of the 15th century English greeting ‘what chere be with you?’ Watcher n a person who watches or observes somebody or something. A voyeur. Say WOTCHA! to Bart Raines, who’s condemned forever to be a watcher after a childhood prank left his eyelid glued to his beloved telescope. Stuck with one eye that can’t not see, he’s turned voyeurism into a lucrative blackmail industry. Say WOTCHA! to former rock star, avid coke fiend, Richard ‘Winston’ Smith who’s watched by millions among them erstwhile school friend Bart, who’s orchestrating revenge for Winston’s teenage betrayal through the sinister global surveillance network he calls the Daisy Chain. Say WOTCHA! to high class whore Daisy Chains (neé Raines) and her teenage son Joe, who’s abducted along with his girlfriend by a sinister ‘Christian’ cult, which leaves the kids to die, hogtied and helpless in a derelict drainage tunnel slowly filling with sewage. Watched by the world’s media, Winston, Daisy and Bart reunite to use fame and the Daisy Chain to save two teenage lives and their own souls from the filth that’s about to drown them. Wotcha! is a comic spit in the eye of born again zealots with a wink and a twinkle to the rest of us but it’s also deadly serious. Mining a rich seam of coalblack humour and sex, drugs and rock and roll, it starts on a bittersweet nostalgia trip and builds up to the pace of a thriller. CONTROVERSIAL STUFF? Its themes and explicit language make this a candidate for one of those ‘parental advisory’ stickers they put on CDs these days. Does that make WOTCHA! a book that people aged under sixteen shouldn’t read? In the author’s opinion absolutely not. ‘If rude words and references to sex, drugs and rock and roll upset you per se, this book’s not for you. But if you believe, as I do, that a sense of humour is what separates “naughty” from “evil”, I think you might enjoy this story, laugh at the funny bits, think about the serious bits and read the redemption between the lines.’
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Religious & spiritual fictionSeptember 2014Archangel of Sedona
by Tony Peluso
At the site of a world-famous architectural marvel located in the heart of the mystical red rock country surrounding Sedona, Arizona, a young college student encounters an ancient secret that holds the key to the origins of the universe. Haunted by his epiphany over decades, unexplainable—almost miraculous—events overtake him, until he has a revelation that compels him to go on a dangerous quest to resolve the mystery. Archangel of Sedona documents the personal story of Tony, a veteran integrating his combat experiences with his metaphysical awakening in the Red Rock’s atmosphere of infinite space and boundless silence. His hero’s journey through both beauty and danger combines mystery, adventure, and spiritual discovery. There is no serendipity.
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Vietnam War fictionSeptember 2012DEROS Vietnam
Dispatches from the Air-Conditioned Jungle
by Doug Bradley
DEROS Vietnam: Dispatches from the Air-Conditioned Jungle presents a unique, fictional montage of the war, and postwar, experiences of Vietnam support troops. Structurally based on Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time, DEROS Vietnam (the acronym stands for Date Eligible for Return from Over Seas) is a riveting collection of 16 short stories and 16 interlinears about the GIs who battled boredom, racial tensions, the military brass, drugs, alcohol—and occasionally the enemy. From cooks and correspondents to clerks and comptrollers, DEROS Vietnam distills the essence of life for soldiers in the rear during the war and, later, back home in a divided America. Vietnam veteran Doug Bradley, a former Army journalist who served in the air-conditioned jungle at U. S. Army Headquarters near Saigon in 1970-71, tells these compelling stories with wit, intensity, and empathy. In doing so, he provides a gateway to a Vietnam experience that has been largely ignored and whose reverberations still echo across America.
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Crime & mysteryAugust 2012Opportunity For Murder
by Terry Minahan
Another sequel to the Thadeus Burke adventure stories; continuing the antics of the aristocratic Lloyd’s Insurance Broker and his sister Dr Freddie, together with Inspector Johnny Jackson of Scotland Yard. It is now 1928. An apparently motiveless murder at the opening ceremony of the new Lloyd’s Underwriting Room develops into a trek around the country seeking money lenders and drug dealers. We follow the unravelling of this mystery, interwoven with passionate affaires involving most of the prime suspects. Entwined within this tale there are bodies at Country House Parties, Fancy Dress Balls and a Treasure Hunt, trips to the Derby and Royal Ascot, in addition to the now customary sexual shenanigans.. All part of the great fun in Britain’s last elegant decade, the nineteen-twenties.
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June 2018Soul Wars
by Josh Reynolds
It is said that all who live belong ultimately to the Undying King. In the shadowy lands of Shyish, Nagash, God of Death, calls forth his soulless legions to reassert his dominion. His dread advance begins with the free city of Glymmsforge, bastion of Azyr in the Realm of Death. Standing between Nagash and his prize are the brooding Anvils of the Heldenhammer, an ancient host of Stormcast Eternals, and Lord-Castellant Pharus Thaum, guardian of the Ten Thousand Tombs. As battles between the living and the dead rage throughout the Mortal Realms, the War of Heaven and Death begins anew. But even Sigmar’s chosen may not be enough to cease the onslaught. For how does one destroy what is already dead.
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May 2012The German Conception of History
The National Tradition of Historical Thought from Herder to the Present
by Georg G. Iggers
The first comprehensive critical examination in any language of the German national tradition of historiography
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December 2021The Three Companions
Courage, Compassion and Wisdom
by Joan van den Brink
Combining illuminating real-life stories with expert, practical guidance, take an inspiring journey of refl ection and realisation through how courage, compassion and wisdom has a profound impact on everyday situations and our capacity for tolerance, kindness and inclusivity.
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Thriller / suspenseOctober 2014south of good
by Randall Reneau
Forced out of the DEA after twenty years, Hardin Steel , Stainless to his close friends, has managed to get himself elected Sheriff of Cameron County, Texas. Twice divorced, with a bit of a drinking problem, he’s now dating Rory Roughton, a fiery sixth-generation Texan who’s as rich as she is beautiful—and hell-bent on keeping Steel on the straight and narrow. But then his best friend, Wes Stoddard, is nearly shot down flying in a load of pot, Rory is kidnapped by a Russian mercenary working for the most dangerous cartel in Mexico, and the Cuban Mafia decides they’d like the former DEA agent—dead. Steel is forced to take unsanctioned, unconventional—and mostly illegal—action in order to save himself and those closest to him . . .
