People s history of heaven

People's History of Heaven

A dazzling tribute to the resilience and determination of a remarkable community of women, for fans of Shantaram and Behind the Beautiful Forevers

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People's History Of Civilization

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Young People's History Of The United States

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Young People's History Of The United States

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Young People's History of the United States

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People’s History of Psychoanalysis

From Freud and the first generation of psychoanalysts in the late 1800s to Jesuit priest Ignancio Martin-Baro’s writings in the 1970s, Daniel José G

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People's History of the Vampire Uprising

In this wildly original debut - part social-political satire, part international mystery - a new virus turns people into something inhuman, upending s

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Young People's History Of The United States, Vol.2

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The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Albom Mitch

Anotace: The first novel in the Heaven series from the internationally bestselling author, Mitch Albom.THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN is a wonderfully moving fable that addresses the meaning of life, and life after death, in the poignant way that made TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE such an astonishing book.The novel`s protagonist is an elderly amusement park maintenance worker...

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People's Games

Now, in The PeopleÂ’s Games, John Scally tells the compelling stories of the men and women behind the rich history of Gaelic Games. Since the introd

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21st Century Voices Of A People's History Of The United States

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Heaven on Earth

An illustrated history of sixteen of the world's greatest cathedrals, interwoven with the lives, legacies and scandals of the people who built them.

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Who Made England?

ItÂ’s true: just over 1,000 years ago, English people lived in several smaller countries all over the island of Britain. A Saxon king called Alfred is

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Oxford World´s Classics The History of the English People 1000-1154 Oxford University Press

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Caste Heaven 1 - Ogawa Chise

Anotace: Today`s top could be tomorrow`s bottom when playing the caste game! School is hard enough as it is, but when students are forced to play a cutthroat game to determine their social ranks-and subsequent treatment-all bets are off. It`s a cruel game where the card you possess determines your class rank. Azusa has the king, the most powerful of the cards, allowing h...

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Bloody Brilliant People

â€Sometimes, 1+1 = changing the world. Cathy Newman’s witty, warm history on the power of determined couples will make you look at your relatio

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Painted People - Matt Lodder

<p>In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing ‘an art without a history’. ‘No-one’, it went on, ‘has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing.’ </p> <p>Until now.</p> <p>Painted People is a beguiling and intimate look at an untold history of humanity.</p> <p>The earliest tattoos yet ide...

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Level 5: The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Albom Mitch

Anotace: From the author of the number one "New York Times "bestseller "Tuesdays with Morrie "comes this long-awaited follow-up. Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling c...

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PER | Level 5: The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

<p>From the author of the number one "New York Times "bestseller "Tuesdays with Morrie "comes this long-awaited follow-up. Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little gi...

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Oxford World´s Classics - Religion/Anthropology The Ecclesiastical History of the English People Oxford University Press

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Czech Heaven / České nebe (anglicky) - Alena Ježková

<p>Od Cyrila a Metoděje, Ludmily, Václava, Vojtěcha… až po Jana Nepomuka Neumana. Kniha nejen o českých svatých, ale také o významné části naší národní historie a kulturního odkazu, který jsme dali světu. Svatí lidé – světci byli a dosud jsou celebritami křesťanské Evropy. Středověká společnost žila legendami o svých svatých, udržovala jejich kulty jako pilíře správ...

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To Heaven or to Hell

The first complete English translation and annotated study of Bartolomé de Las Casas’s 1552 Confesionario. Explores its history and its guidelines f

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Preston: A Potted History

An accessible history of Preston from prehistory to the present day highlighting the cityÂ’s significant events and people.

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Cork: A Potted History

An accessible history of Cork from its beginnings to the present day, following a walking trail highlighting the cityÂ’s significant events and people

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A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

Anotace: Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller, but even when he stays safely at home he can't contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization - how we got from there, being nothing at all, to here, being us. Bill B...

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Homelands: A Personal History of Europe - Garton Ash Timothy

Anotace: **A Financial Times Best Book of 2023**`A moving love letter to Europe` Lea Ypi, author of FreeDrawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered.Timothy Garton Ash, our greatest writer about Europe, has spent a lifetime studying Europe and this deeply felt book is full of vivid ...

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Sea People : In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific - Thompson Christina

Anotace: For more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island. Until the arrival of European explorers they were the only people to have ever lived there. Both the most closely related and the most widely dispersed people in the world before the era of mass ...

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Might & Magic VI: Mandate of Heaven (PC) (PC)

The Mandate of Heaven is the sixth part of the Might and Magic series set in the world of Erathia - one of the most popular series of cRPG games, created by New World Computing. The best and most elaborate installment of the saga, it is also considered a landmark game in the entire series.In terms of plot, the game bridges the gap between the events described in the secon...

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Korean Ancient Origins: Stories of People & Civilization - Xu Stella

Anotace: Korea`s myths and folklore are rooted in the ancient history of a land inhabited since Neolithic times. The earliest years are subject to myth with some references to the Gojoseon Kingdom being found in the northern region of Korea and Southern province of China in the 2300s BCE. Records become more reliable from the middle of the first millennium BCE before a 7...

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The History of Middle-Earth 11: War of the Jewels - Tolkien J. R. R.

Anotace: The second of two companion volumes which documents the later writing of The Silmarillion, Tolkien's epic tale of war. In The War of the Jewels Christopher Tolkien takes up his account of the later history of The Silmarillion from the point where it was left in Morgoth's Ring. The story now returns to Middle-earth, and the ruinous conflict of the High...

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Maoism : A Global History - Lovellová Julia

Anotace: Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao`s revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his ideas remain central to the People`s Republic. With disagreements between China and the West on the rise, the need to understand the political legacy of Mao is urgent and growing.A crucial motor of the Cold War: Maoism sha...

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History: The Definitive Visual Guide - Dorling Kindersley

Anotace: This lavishly illustrated visual encyclopedia tells the story of our world in depth and detail from the dawn of civilization to the present day.Charting human endeavour from every angle, History chronicles the significant events, ground-breaking ideas, political forces, and technological advances that have shaped our planet. Every historical episode is explored ...

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The Secret History of the Mongols - Atwood Christopher P.

Anotace: A new translation of a great historical epic, recounting the turbulent life and times of Chinggis Khan`Bear the sword andHew asunder high and haughty necksSlash apart all strong and self-willed shoulders`Born poor into a world of dangers and hardships, Chinggis (or Genghis) Khan would grow up to unify Mongolia and conquer a vast empire stretching from modern-day...

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The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History Taylor & Francis Ltd

This 9th edition of Martin Gilbert’s Atlas of Jewish History spans over four thousand years of history in 192 maps, presenting a vivid picture of a fascinating people and the trials and tribulations which have haunted their story. This new edition now includes an additional 38 of Martin Gilbert’s maps, across the whole range of Jewish history, originally published across ...

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The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History Taylor & Francis Ltd

This 9th edition of Martin Gilbert’s Atlas of Jewish History spans over four thousand years of history in 192 maps, presenting a vivid picture of a fascinating people and the trials and tribulations which have haunted their story. This new edition now includes an additional 38 of Martin Gilbert’s maps, across the whole range of Jewish history, originally published across ...

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Prague In Black And Gold: The History Of A City - Demetz Peter

Anotace: From the Velvet Revolution to the disturbing world of Franz Kafka, from the devestation of the Thirty Years War to the musical elegance of Mozart and Dvorak, Prague is steeped in a wealth of history and culture. PRAGUE IN BLACK AND GOLD is a first class history of this unique city, allowing us to unravel layer upon layer of startlingly symbolic sites and buiding...

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All Good People Here - Flowers Ashley

Anotace: What really happened to January Jacobs?A MYSTERIOUS COLD CASE...Twenty-five years ago, January Jacob`s parents awoke to find their daughter`s bed empty, a horrifying message spray-painted onto their wall. Hours later, January`s body was found discarded in a ditch. Her murder was never solved. But the town remembers.A DANGEROUS OBSESSION...Journalist Margot Davie...

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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West - Brown Dee

Anotace: The American West, 1860-1890: years of broken promises, disillusionment, war and massacre.Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos and ending with the massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee, this extraordinary book tells how the American Indians lost their land, lives and liberty to white settlers pushing westward. Woven into a an engrossing saga of cruelty, treac...

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Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations - Prashad Vijay

Anotace: Essays on acts of US imperialism, from the 1953 Iran coup to the 2019 ouster of Evo MoralesWashington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent and readable stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. It is a book that could easi...

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Homelands: A Personal History of Europe - Updated with a New Chapter - Garton Ash Timothy

Anotace: `Tremendously enjoyable ... thoughtful, honest, open, self-deprecating` Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times`Readers could hardly wish for a wiser guide ... panoramic ... defiantly hopeful` Financial TimesDrawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered.Timothy Garton Ash, our great...

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The World of Ice & Fire - The Untold History - Martin George R. R.

Anotace: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN HISTORY OF WESTEROS AND THE LANDS BEYOND WITH HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF ALL-NEW MATERIAL FROM GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If the past is prologue, then George R. R. Martin s masterwork the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time warrants one hell of an introduction. At long last, it has arrived with The World o...

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Borderlines: A History of Europe, told from the edges - Baston Lewis

Anotace: An illuminating history of twenty-nine key borderlines that demarcate Europe, and what they can tell us about the past, present and future of Europe.`A stunningly topical and timely book. Lewis Baston is a remarkable talent, very gifted as a writer and quite extraordinarily perceptive and original in his thinking` Anthony SeldonEurope`s internal borders have rar...

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Dagestan - History, Culture, Identity Taylor & Francis Ltd

Dagestan: History, Ethnography, Identity provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of Dagestan, a strategically important republic of the Russian Federation which borders Chechnya, Georgia and Azerbaijan, and its people. It outlines Dagestan’s rich and complicated history, from 5th c ACE to post USSR, as seen from the viewpoint of the Dagestani people. Chapters f...

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Armenian Genocide: History, lessons, consequences - Igor Bondarenko; John Akopov

Anotace: Armenian Genocide: History, Lessons, Consequences, is based upon archival documents and numerous academic publications. The book examines the background and causes of the mass exterminations of the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century. The study analyzes the territorial, demographic, physical, cultural, psychological and other losses s...

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Armenian Genocide: History, lessons, consequences - Igor Bondarenko; John Akopov

<p>Armenian Genocide: History, Lessons, Consequences, is based upon archival documents and numerous academic publications. The book examines the background and causes of the mass exterminations of the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century. The study analyzes the territorial, demographic, physical, cultural, psychological and other losses su...

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The Cold War : A World History - Westad Odd Arne

Anotace: As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better world could be created from the moral and physical ruins of the conflict. Instead, the combination of the huge power of the USA and USSR and the near-total collapse of most of their rivals created a unique, grim new environment: the Cold War.For over forty years ...

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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History - Frankopan Peter

Anotace: A 2023 HIGHLIGHT FOR: BBC NEWS * SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE * FINANCIAL TIMES * NEW EUROPEAN * GUARDIAN * NEW STATESMAN * THE TIMES * THE WEEK * WATERSTONES * BLACKWELL`SMost people can name the influential leaders and major battles of the past. Few can name the most destructive storms, the worst winters, the most devastating droughts.In The Earth Transformed, ground-...

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The World: A Family History - Montefiore Simon Sebag

Anotace: THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF THE ECONOMIST`S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARFrom the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thing all humans have in common: family. We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago. From here, Mont...

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Tomorrow's People: The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers - Paul Morland

<p>The great forces of population change – the balance of births, deaths and migrations – have made the world what it is today. They have determined which countries are superpowers and which languish in relative obscurity, which economies top the international league tables and which are at best also-rans.The same forces that have shaped our past and present are sha...

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The Good, The Bad and The History - Taylor Jodi

Anotace: BOOK 14 IN THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY`S SERIES, FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER JODI TAYLOR. `Brilliant, hilarious, keeps you on your toes` Reader review `The characters make me come back time and time again` Reader review `I have not found another author who can tell a story involving time travel as well` Reader review St Mary`s is under investiga...

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An Encyclopedia of Tolkien : The History and Mythology That Inspired Tolkien´s World - David Day

<p>A comprehensive, illustrated guide to the history, lands, and inhabitants of Middle-earth. The fantasy world of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth contains a rich assortment of people, cities, and creatures--as well as a deep, intertwined history that spans thousands of years. In this beautifully illustrated, leather-bound volume, best-selling author and Tolkien sc...

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Dust: The thrilling dystopian series, and the #1 drama in history of Apple TV (Silo) - Howey Hugh

Anotace: The much-anticipated final instalment of the Wool trilogy.`The next Hunger Games.` The Sunday Times`Thrilling, thought-provoking and memorable ... one of dystopian fiction`s masterpieces alongside the likes of 1984 and Brave New World.` Daily Express________________In the aftermath of the uprising, the people of Silo 18 are coming to terms with a new order. Some...

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Wool: The thrilling dystopian series, and the #1 drama in history of Apple TV (Silo) - Howey Hugh

Anotace: NOW THE NO.1 DRAMA IN THE HISTORY OF AppleTV+, SILO.An epic story of survival at all odds and one of the most anticipated books of the year, soon to also be a major Apple TV series.`Thrilling, thought-provoking and memorable ... one of dystopian fiction`s masterpieces alongside the likes of 1984 and Brave New World.` DAILY EXPRESS_____________In a ruined and ho...

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Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 2

THE TOUCH OF A HAND, A ROLL OF THE DICEXie Lian has confirmed that the bewitching youth San Lang is actually Hua Cheng, one of the Four Calamities and a supreme ghost despised by all heavenly officials. Still, he has trouble matching the terror of his companion s reputation with the charming, clever, and protective young man he s come to know. When a distress signal ...

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A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps - Elledge Jonn

Anotace: People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the stories of these borders, we can learn a lot ab...

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Making History: The First World War

Covering one of the most catastrophic events in human history, Making History: The First World War offers a strategic level experience in a turn-based global game of conflict. It’s a war between the Great Powers of the age, each straddling to one degree or another, the old world and the new. This is the moment when the industrialization of warfare became fully reali...

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Making History: The First World War (PC)

Covering one of the most catastrophic events in human history, Making History: The First World War offers a strategic level experience in a turn-based global game of conflict. It&rsquo;s a war between the Great Powers of the age, each straddling to one degree or another, the old world and the new.This is the moment when the industrialization of warfare became fully re...

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Prague in the Heart - 189 Stories from the City and its People - Renáta Fučíková

Anotace: Prague in the Heart is a collection of one hundred and eighty-nine true stories of events that have taken place in Prague over the past two hundred years. They show that the recent past has been no less dramatic and convoluted than in medieval times. Franz Kafka, Jaroslav Seifert, Bohumil Hrabal, Jaroslav Hašek, Jan Patočka, Jiří Dienstbier and ...

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The World of Ice &amp; Fire - The Untold History - George Raymond Richard Martin

<p>NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN HISTORY OF WESTEROS AND THE LANDS BEYOND WITH HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF ALL-NEW MATERIAL FROM GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If the past is prologue, then George R. R. Martin s masterwork the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time warrants one hell of an introduction. At long last, it has arrived with The World of...

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Making Gay History : The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights - Marcus Eric

Anotace: From the Boy Scouts and the U.S. military to marriage and adoption, the gay civil rights movement has exploded on the national stage. Eric Marcus takes us back in time to the earliest days of that struggle in a newly revised and thoroughly updated edition of Making History, originally published in 1992. Using the heartfelt stories of more than sixty people, he c...

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