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Willi Unsoeld, a legend among mountaineers--a man whom Bill Moyers calls one of the few giants he has ever met--fearlessly challenged the world's highest peaks and inspired a generation of climbers with his legacy. Ascent is the story of his life--a thrilling tale of physical and spiritual...

From 1964 to 1980, the United States was buffeted by a variety of international crises, including the nation's defeat in Vietnam, the growing aggression of the Soviet Union, and Washington's inability to free the fifty two American hostages held by Islamic extremists in Iran. Through this period and...

The field of nursing has been built and shaped by outstanding and innovative nurses like those who share their words of nursing wisdom here. Many of these participating nurses devote their time and talents to research, many have written journal articles and text books that are used on a daily basis,...

Fully updated and revised, this comprehensive guide features forty-seven trails in Big Bend National Park.

“The Brehon Laws” explores early Irish—or “Brehon”—law, which shaped everyday life in Early Medieval Ireland. It looks at the history, influences and development of the laws, as well as what little remained of them in contemporary Irish law. Brehon Law survived in Ireland until the 17th...

Publiée dans la Revue de Paris en 1829, Vanina Vanini reflète le goût de l'exhibition et de la dissimulation chères à Stendhal. Nouvelle travestie en chronique, faux drame amoureux, personnages déguisés, ce fait divers de l'Italie du XIXe siècle, qui met en scène une princesse, un révolutionnaire,...

Teana is a brilliant neuroscientist woman living in a new Oceania country. Married with a daughter she has a rich and fulfilled personal and professional life. Always recognized by her peers for her contribution in her field, her career as a Manager for a governmental project and owner of an Executive...

This book deals with the earliest phases in the past history of Mankind: the selected period ends at the Aurignacian division of the Palaeolithic Age. I regret to be unable to affix definite dates in years to the several divisions of time now recognised. To illustrate the difficulty of forming conclusions...

This volume is a unique investigation of contemporary Jewish life in a Muslim country and the first ethnography of the Persian-Jewish diaspora, giving the reader a deep appreciation of this relatively unknown culture. The author describes in detail traditional Jewish life in the provincial city of Shiraz and the challenges of coexistence with a Muslim majority.  

La suite de La drôle de vie de Zelda Zonk, Prix Maison de la presse 2015 Suffirait-il de partir pour tout oublier ? En tout cas, c’est ce qu’a voulu croire Hanna. Pour effacer le souvenir de son amant, la jeune femme a quitté l’Irlande et a ouvert à New York une librairie, Pemberley, un endroit...

The little treatise which follows is divided into three parts, in the first of which I have dealt with the antiquities of the subject and a few things that arise from and connect therewith. It should be understood that it is not put forward as a contribution to the history of playing cards, about...

A look at the people who portrayed the Prince from the colonial era to the late 19th Century.

In the Authorized Version of the Epistle of Jude, we read the following words:-- "Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands, of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their...

This book provides the basic "skeleton" for all the services of the Orthodox Church, into which variable texts from other sources are inserted. The work is presented in a well-bound large print format. Using traditional English the book has the fixed texts for all the daily services of the...