Brighter Than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists

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This warm, practical commentary by the author of the best-selling translation of the Bhagavad Gita helps us understand and apply the Gita's teachin...

At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building the...

A comprehensive manual for living a spiritual life, based on a verse-by-verse commentary on India's timeless scripture - from the author of its bes...

For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of the road, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead....

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For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores...

Danubia is the brilliant and entertaining companion to the Sunday Times top ten bestseller Germania. It was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize...

DescriptionA Personal History of the Ozarks of Arkansas, Connell J. Brown's latest book, examines the Ozarks from the perspective of a native Arkan...

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The Middle East represents the greatest threat to world peace. A clear and concise explanation of the complex historical, religious, political and ...

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Tibet has long fascinated the West, but what really lies beyond our romantic image of a Buddhist mountain kingdom of peace and spirituality? Travel...

'This trot through German culture and history is an engrossing, informative and hilarious read' Sunday Times

Long before President Barack Obama praised his work as "an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a gener...

The defining experience of author's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. A marriage of history, remembrance, poetry and ...

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In this compelling and chilling memoir, a top forensic investigator lifts the lid on the most notable and notorious cases of his forty-year career.

An odyssey through the art, theory and brutality of modern political murder by Robert Baer, bestselling author, former CIA operative, and, yes, ass...

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Reducere. Here is everything you need to enhance your understanding of Khaled Hosseini's challenging text, A Thousand Splendid Suns. Whether you are reading ...

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Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredib...

Reducere. A Study Guide for Khaled Hosseini's "A Thousand Splendid Suns, " excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Newsmakers for Students. This concise stu...

A new edition, including the story of the founding of the Harlem Children's Zone Long before the avalanche of praise for his work--from Oprah Winfr...

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A vivid and authoritative account of the making of the modern Middle East, from the BBC's long-serving correspondent in the region.Publisher: Pan M...

Reducere. In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N. Evans takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immi...

Drawn from personal recollections, historical records, and biographical research, Capitan Chiquito relates the little-known life and career of a le...

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DescriptionIn this critically acclaimed book, Christian Marek masterfully provides the first comprehensive history of Asia Minor from prehistory to...

A radiant celebration of the love between parent and child.

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