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La peur règne en Europe : une menace pèse sur la paix des peuples, et cette " grande ombre " n'est autre que celle de Napoléon. Un jeune Anglais plonge alors dans un tourbillon des guerres entre puissants aux mains desquels les peuples ne sont que les instruments de leur quête de pouvoir...

Deutsch Die Kunsterzieherin Karin Karrenberg geht in diesem Buch auf Entdeckungsreise in der alten Gießereihalle “Olde Hut“ in Ulft in den Niederlanden. Sie findet und fotografiert Details aus einer Zeit, in der Technik noch etwas Sichtbares war. Die vollformatig und technisch unverändert gezeigten...

In offering herewith to the English-reading public the present work on Jewish Theology, the result of many years of research and of years of activity as President and teacher at the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati, I bespeak for it that fairness of judgment to which every pioneer work is entitled....

Persons not much interested in, or cognisant of, "antiquarian old womanries," as Sir Walter called them, may ask "what all the pother is about," in this little tractate. On my side it is "about" the veracity of Sir Walter Scott. He has been suspected of helping to compose,...

Remarrying couples are looking for real answers to help them build successful marriages that last a lifetime. Knowing God’s plan for a biblical marriage is foundational to finding true fulfillment. This up-to-date and easy-to-use premarital guide will help individuals, couples, pastors, counselors,...

Thanks to recent excavation Babylon has ceased to be an abstraction, and we are now able to reconstitute the main features of one of the most famous cities of the ancient world. Unlike Ashur and Nineveh, the great capitals of Assyria, Babylon survived with but little change under the Achæmenian kings...

Pip est un jeune garçon rêveur et sensible. Élevé par une soeur revêche et un beau-frère d'une nature excellente mais tenu sous la coupe de cette maîtresse femme, il aime à traîner au cimetière où sont enterrés ses parents. Les pierres tombales, bien évidemment, ajoutent à l'atmosphère...

Who knows but some of the ideas in the books may get you inspired to do that thing you always wanted to do, even if this comes in a very small way, to make your corner of this world a better place to be in. Who knows but you may realize your little corner is a really nice place to be in after all. It's all about life, if at times expressing life "outside the box" as the saying goes.

"Some Chairs. Broken Chairs" is a 2013 memoir written by Yike Guo. The Author describes in this memoir his own experiences in the most recent two years participating in student conferences simulating the working procedures, negotiations across Europe, notably Model United Nations conferences (Model UN)...

In this Council Special Report, Senior Fellow Micah Zenko and Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow Sarah Kreps argue that it is essential to begin working now to expand and establish rules and norms governing armed drones. By doing so, they predict, the United States will create standards of behavior that other countries will be more likely to follow.

Plugged-In Parenting comes at a time when parents find themselves between a rock and a hard place. They want to protect their children from the increasingly violent and sexualized content of movies, TV, the Internet, and music as well as cyberbullying and obsessive cell phone texting. But they fear...

To find out how the world was made, or rather, to give forth a theory accounting for its origin and continued existence, is one of the subjects that has attracted the attention of thinking minds among all nations having any pretension to civilization. It was, therefore, to be expected that the ancient...

It is not given to all to penetrate the innermost sanctuary of the secrets of Nature, very few know the road that leads to it. Some, impatient, err by taking paths which seem to shorten the route; others find, at almost every step, cross-roads which perplex them, lead to the left and to Tartarus,...

This book is a lyrical poetry collection. It contains 17 poems of my very personal views on some of the crucial issues in today’s world. The good and the bad in humanity, living conditions for welfare and health, constant wars and misanthropic religions, conspiracy theories – far out, as well as...