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Storm of shadows
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Christina Dodd |
**The Chosen Ones #2**
When the world was young, twins were born. One brought light to a dark world; the other, darkness and danger. They gathered others around them, men and women destined to use… |
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Portraits of pride II
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L. P. Leung |
288 p. : 27 cm. + |
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Undue Influence
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Anita Brookner |
Enigmatic Claire is 30 and lives alone. When she meets Martin Gibson, a faded scholar, she becomes inordinately interested. She is even more interested when she meets his wife, a far more spectacular… |
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The savage garden
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Mark Mills |
"Young Cambridge scholar Adam Banting is in Tuscany, assigned to write a scholarly monograph about the famous Docci garden--a mysterious world of statues, grottoes, meandering rills, and classical in… |
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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George Prochnik |
**Taking his lead from his subject, Gershom Scholem—the 20th century thinker who cracked open Jewish theology and history with a radical reading of Kabbalah—Prochnik combines biography and memoir to … |
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Swann
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Carol Shields |
Mary Swann is the story of four individuals who become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet whose authentic and unique voice is discovered only hours before her husband hacks her… |
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Sri Chaitanyadev and Sri Gadadhar
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Rādhu Gosvāmī,Rādhu Gosvāmī |
Articles on the life and work of Gadādhara, 1486-1533, Vaishnavite religious leader, scholar from Bengal, India, and close associate of Chaitanya, 1486-1534, founder of a sect in Vaishnavism in Benga… |
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Historiadores de México en el siglo XX
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Enrique Florescano,Ricardo Pérez Montfort |
"The first part of this work offers biographical sketches of historians, including their contributions to the profession. The second part features historians' responses to a questionnaire exploring h… |
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Burton
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Byron Farwell |
Full-blooded biography, published in England in 1963 but only now making its US debut, of England's most notorious explorer; by the author of Eminent Victorian Soldiers (1985) and The Great War in Af… |
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Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab
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Crawford, Michael (Consultant) |
Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792) aroused great controversy in his lifetime. More than two centuries after his death, he still elicits strong views. For some he is the model of a pious religiou… |
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America's obsessives
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Joshua C. Kendall |
"Behind every great man (or woman), there's a compulsion"--Provided by the publisher. |
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Engaging with C.H. Dodd on the gospel of John
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Tom Thatcher |
"C.H. Dodd's Historical tradition in the Fourth Gospel, published in 1963, marked a milestone in New Testament research and has become a standard resource for the study of John. Historically, biblica… |
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I (still) believe
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John Byron |
I (Still) Believe explores the all-important question of whether serious academic study of the Bible is threatening to one's faith. Far from it -- faith enhances study of the Bible and, reciprocally,… |
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To laugh or to weep
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Anthony J. Jordan |
Conor Cruise O'Brien had a high opinion of his own abilities. He was an honours student and a brillaint diplomat. He was seconded to the United Nations in the Congo in 1960. The situation in Katanga … |
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Frissella frappe un mur
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Reynald Cantin |
Frissella la fantôme est bien embêtée : le Fantôministre lui a donné l'ordre d'effrayer un jeune garçon, mais elle n'arrive plus à traverser les murs. Selon le docteur Sigsig de la "Joyeuse maison ha… |
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VIVO
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Katy Börner |
The world of scholarship is changing rapidly. Increasing demands on scholars, the growing size and complexity of questions and problems to be addressed, and advances in sophistication of data collect… |
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Welcome to Boston
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Karen Rudnick |
This handbook is packed with handy tips and cultural interpretation about life in the United States. Designed to help international students and scholars manage a move to Boston, it is much more than… |
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Les grands scientifiques
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John Farndon |
"Avec 100 infos à connaître sur les grands scientifiques, les enfants entreront dans le monde de ces savants qui ont fait avancer les sciences. Les jeunes lecteurs découvriront au fil des pages ce qu… |
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Writers on organizations
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David J. Hickson,Derek S Pugh,Derek Salman Pugh |
Summarises the work of experts to provide an overview of the theory and practice of organization management. This book covers the structure and national and international environments of organization… |
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The Winter Knights (Edge Book #8) (Edge Chronicles)
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Paul Stewart,Chris Riddell |
Quint finally begins his training at the Knights Academy, Maris adjusts to life in Undertown, and Sanctaphrax shivers in anticipation of a legendary storm, while a storm of a different kind brews bet… |
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