Impossible Owls. Essays from the Ends of the World, Paperback - Brian Phillips

A vibrant, surprising and thought-provoking collection of essays from an exciting new literary voice who has been compared to John Jeremiah Sulliva...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Brian PhillipsOne of Buzzfeed's Best Books of Fall 2018 and named one of the Best Books of October by TIME, The Millions, a...

Nearly forty thrilling, first-hand accounts by men and women who are the modern heirs of the great explorers of previous ages.Illustrations: 25 Ill...

Reducere. It's been said that prayer is the vocabulary of faith. This book offers a wealth of resources from forgotten places to help us create a new vocabul...

The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic Ð at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse ...

Presents a sequence of sea novels set in the early nineteenth century, about a voyage from England to Australia.

Reducere. DescriptionAll his life, Alexander defied the limits the gods gave mortals. That passion overwhelmed cities and armies...and united a vast empire. ...

One thousand years after "the time of fire, " a gentle craftsman and flute player forsakes both his true love and birthright to seek the fabled Shi...

The concluding volume in Valerio Manfredi's epic series of Alexander the Great's tumultuous life.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Valerio Massimo...

Reducere. One day it started raining-and it never stopped... So began Brian Keene's Earthworm Gods, a novel that straddled the lines between the horror and b...

Reducere. The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics' interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the "epic of epics"--and to the pa...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The cycling doctor: Round the world with a stethoscope.Illustrations: 16 page colour plate section

Publisher: CornerstoneAuthor(s): Abbie GreavesNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 32Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

Reducere. The writers and chief actors of the Old Testament expressed a deep longing for the presence of God. This longing is symbolized through history in t...

The Scots are one of the world's greatest nations of emigrants. This title offers an account of the Scots as a 'global people', charting their forg...

Reducere. Few biblical topics are as important as mission. Mission is linked inextricably to humanity's sinfulness and need for redemption and to God's provi...

Reducere. Named for Herman Daly, the champion of steady-state economics, The Daly News was published online by the Center for the Advancement of the Steady S...

A brilliant, young con artist offered to help the world's most traveled people reach the planet's last untouched frontiers; instead, they were take...

Acts is an exciting story of church growth despite inner problems and outward conflict. The Book of Acts describes the spread of the gospel through...

Harrowing journeys of animals and plants - fleeing skyrocketing temperatures and mega-droughts - reported from the frontlines of the greatest migra...

Reducere. The superlative identification guide to 268 species of owl, now in paperback. Praise for the first edition: "A native of Finland, the author is the...

Reducere. DescriptionAged twenty-two, Charlie Walker left home in search of adventure. Fleeing the boredom that comes with comfort, he set off on a secondhan...

24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century c...

Reducere. DescriptionA newborn's absent face appears on the back of someone else's head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he's aft...

The superlative identification guide now revised with 19 additional owl species. Praise for the first edition: "[An] important book. Recommended fo...

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A Civil War Memory/Civil War Monitor Best Book of the YearAn Avery O. Craven Award FinalistA Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIn April 1865, Robert...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Catherine (Assistant Professor, University of San Francisco) BradyIllustration(s): 7 figures, 16 photos; 23 Illu...

Reducere. DescriptionAs Christianity's center of gravity has shifted to the Majority World in the 21st century, many younger churches in Africa, Asia, and La...

Reducere. The secret of Woolman's purity of style is that his eye is single, and that conscience dictated his words. This Quaker preacher and tailor was a ma...

Reducere. Teleportation, time machines, force fields, and interstellar space ships--the stuff of science fiction or potentially attainable future technologie...

Reducere. My name is Maximillian Murphy and like my surname suggests, what can go wrong will go wrong. I just broke the world and here's how it happened: Whe...

Reducere. Space is again in the headlines. E-billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are planning to colonize Mars. President Trump wants a "Space Force" to ac...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor S. Pearl BrilmyerIllustration(s): 5 halftonesNumber of pages: 304Collection: Thinkin...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor S. Pearl BrilmyerIllustration(s): 5 halftonesNumber of pages: 296Collection: Thinkin...

Reducere. In its 122 brief essays, Worlds in Words traces the history and links among key concepts in Western cultures. Beginning with Proto-Indo-European ro...

Reducere. A CRY FROM THE WOMB- Healing the Heart of the World contains astounding information that completely reframes the debate between pro-life and pro-ch...

This book covers cases throughout history, including malign spirits and gentle ghosts, apparitions, wraiths, haunted houses and spooky urban myths....

Reducere. DescriptionBrian Keene's seminal novel THE RISING and its sequel, CITY OF THE DEAD, revitalized the horror genre and gave zombie fans a new reason ...

"This one's a winner." --People Vance Lake is broke, jobless, and recently dumped. Taking refuge with his twin brother, Craig, on Cape Cod, he unwi...

DescriptionPhotographer Rob Palmer has a passion for birds of prey and has traveled across the North American continent in pursuit of images that c...

Reducere. Meg Langslow was actually looking forward to renovating the old Victorian mansion she and her boyfriend Michael bought. But she wasn't thrilled by ...

Objects in This Mirror is a collection of essays on contemporary art, literature, landscape, aesthetics, and cultural history. Beginning with a pol...

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Reducere. This is a companion to the groundbreaking ideas that began with Mike Clelland's earlier book, The Messengers. It is a further exploration into the ...

Reducere. A Michael L. Printz Honor Book and Carnegie Medal Winner! New from Geraldine McCaughrean comes Where the World Ends, an extraordinary story of eigh...