Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World, Hardcover - Tom Holland

Reducere. DescriptionA historian of antiquity shows how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imaginationCrucifixion, the Romans believed, was the wors...

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'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific le...

The Kennedys in the World tells a new, rich, fascinating, and consequential story about Jack, Bobby, and Ted Kennedy. From an early age the brother...

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Life is not what you get out of it . . . it's what you put back in. Yet our current means for summarizing life's work, from resumes to salaries, ar...

Tells the stories of the wily filmmakers who made an Italian 007 flick by casting Sean Connery's brother, produced a Turkish space opera by stealin...

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Reducere. From the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, a masterwork of explanatory journalism that exposes how billionaires' systematic plunder ...

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A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the AmericasThe Expanding Blaze is a s...

This book is a re-working of my Romans: The Divine Marriage which was published by Wipf and Stock in 2011. This book follows much of the same argum...

This book will change your view of the New Testament and deserves to radically alter New Testament studies in Universities, Theological Colleges an...

DescriptionThe first exploration of the profound and often catastrophic impact the American Revolution had on the rest of the world While the Ameri...

Reducere. The collected essays, lectures, and occasional speeches of Dr. Howard Evan Runner in a new four-volume format. Professor Runner was the leading rep...

For many observers, the European Union is mired in a deep crisis. Between sluggish growth; political turmoil following a decade of austerity politi...

How the World Listens explores our everyday and professional interactions with sound. The book aims to uncover the human relationship with sound ac...

Reducere. O istorie minunata, plina de spirit si de informatii, a uneia dintre cele mai mari civilizatii ale umanitatii si a evenimentelor si popoarelor care...

Reducere. Recalls the group of scientists whose invention of radar during World War II contributed to the Allied victory, and chronicles their post-war achie...

Enjoy a collection of classical stories, culled from the greatest storytellers of all time, offering up tales of animals and other enchanted creatu...

Publisher: Monash University PublishingAuthor(s): Tony WellingtonNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 232 x 36Cover type: Pa...

In Mutual Admiration Society Royal Historical Society fellow Mo Moulton relates the remarkable friendship of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Say...

In Mutual Admiration Society Royal Historical Society fellow Mo Moulton relates the remarkable friendship of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Say...

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From the author of Losing Earth, a beautifully told exploration of our post-natural world that points the way to a new mode of ecological writing. ...

DescriptionThe Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three ...

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In the individualistic West, it is commonly assumed the Bible is about me and my relationship with God when, as many now agree, it is addressed pri...

Ten years after it was initiated, this book provides the definitive account of the 'age of austerity' from high politics to everyday life and how i...

Ten years after it was initiated, this book provides the definitive account of the 'age of austerity' from high politics to everyday life and how i...

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Experience the latest Jurassic World adventure again and again with the Story of the Movie!Publisher: Hachette Children's GroupNumber of pages: 160...

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Many observers have suggested that capitalism is fast destroying our planet, concentrating power in a few big companies. Excessive short-termism, l...

A powerful account of how the complex mercantile and military relationships between the British, Dutch, and American territories made the Industria...

DescriptionA major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the AmericasThe Expanding B...

Why the new nomad and an increase in migration is the best way to help the planet to prosper.Publisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): Felix Marqua...

"The pages of history recall scarcely any parallel episode at once so romantic in character and so extensive in scale." --Winston S. Churchill In 1...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Christian WolmarThe opening of the world's first railroad in Britain and America in 1830 marked the dawn of a new age. With...

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Charlotte Mason is known today as a British educationalist from the early 1900's whose ideas and philosophies are currently being rediscovered by m...

Publisher: William B Eerdmans Publishing CoAuthor(s): Frederick Christian BauerschmidtNumber of pages: 242Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 127 x 2...

Why subtitle a commentary on Romans The Divine Marriage? Mainly because the central message of the Bible has to do with the drama of God seeking ou...

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