Ships, Sleighs and Christmas Lights: The Origins of Saint Nicholas, Paperback - Colleen Brice

Reducere. Snow-covered trees, twinkling lights and sleighs - these remind us of Christmas. But what about sunlit hills, an ancient lighthouse or a wooden shi...

Reducere. ABOUT THIS BOOK... YOU BETTER WATCH OUT... KRAMPUS IS COMING TO TOWN. Ancient folklore warns of a mythical counterpart to Santa Claus, who punishes...

Reducere. Much of the modern-day vision of Santa Claus is owed to the Clement Moore poem The Night Before Christmas and his description of Saint Nicholas as ...

Reducere. From hermitages on wind-blasted holms to dour nineteenth-century preaching barns; from a splendid cathedral founded by a Norse earl to a Nissen hut...

Reducere. A collection of Christmas stories which highlights the New York Dutch customs and traditions. This text includes The Book of St. Nicholas and the n...

You may have heard of ships. You may have also heard of the sea and the night. But did you realize there's nothing more beautiful than a ship and i...

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Reducere. From his very first day of life, when he rises from his bath to pray to God, it is clear that Nicholas is a miraculous child with a spiritual desti...

Reducere. Why not give more? Van Amsterdam the baker was well known for his honesty as well as for his fine Saint Nicholas cookies. He always gave his custom...

Reducere. This is a story for kids (and their parents) who are heartbroken by certain terrible information about Santa Claus. Think there's no more magic in ...

"Maybe this was the reason why I always felt like an outsider growing up. I never belonged in the ordinary. I was born to live amidst magic." Enzo ...

Reducere. Former secretary of education and New York Times bestselling author William Bennett blends his historical expertise with his gift for storytelling ...

From the bestselling author of 'The Lighthouse Stevensons', a gripping history of the drama and danger of wrecking since the 18th-century - and the...

Reducere. Why not give more? Van Amsterdam the baker was well known for his honesty as well as for his fine Saint Nicholas cookies. He always gave his custom...

Reducere. "A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more" (Frank Br...

Reducere. "Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house..." So begins the immortal lines that begin one of America's most famous poems adding m...

Reducere. As one of the best loved saints of all time, the image of Saint Nicholas is uniquely celebrated in different countries across the globe. As a bisho...

"A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more" (Frank Br...

Reducere. Can Christmas lights really talk? Do they have personalities and feelings In this fun, easy to read book, The Story of the Christmas Lights, meet S...

Reducere. DescriptionNotovitch's biography of Saint Issa, in which he asserts that Jesus Christ spent many of his missing years traversing India, is presente...

Everyone's favorite train-hopping juggler and bicycle mechanical genius are back Tag along with Dexter and Stray as they face the perils of the des...

Reducere. DescriptionWith his rosy cheeks and matching red suit--and ever-present elf and reindeer companions--Santa Claus may be the most identifiable of fa...

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Clement Clarke MooreIllustration(s): Imitation leather with gilt edgesNumber of pages: 24Publication d...

Reducere. In this heartwarming, feel-good novel, a snowstorm brings a cast of very different characters together at a sleepy New England inn, just in time fo...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts and descriptions of the cult *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading E...

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A scholar of world religions investigates religiously motivated violence that occurred in medieval Tibet and Bhutan, as well as in modern India, Sr...

Reducere. When was Christmas first celebrated? How did December 25 become the date for the feast? How did the Bible's "magi from the East" become three kings...

Reducere. In what may just be the most detailed, accurate and comprehensive book of its type ever published, Stanley J. St. Clair, author of On the Origin of...

Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour - Alexandre G. Mitchell

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charlotte RiggleIllustrator: R. J. HughesIt's the night before Saint Nicholas Day and Catherine is excited about Elizabeth ...

Reducere. 'Tis the season for mystery and romance featuring characters from two of Colleen Coble's most popular series Silent NightAs Christmas day nears, Br...

Sarah and Duck are decorating their house ready for Christmas. But they are missing the Christmas lights!Luckily, Bug knows a special place where t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Colleen CobleReturn to two of Colleen Coble's most beloved settings--Bluebird Ranch and Hope Beach--for holiday romance and...

Reducere. The contemporary and mythological worlds collide in this 4th thrilling Pegasus adventure with a feisty female heroine. A deadly plague has struck O...

DescriptionFor better or for worse, in recent times the rapid growth of international economic exchange has changed our lives. But when did this pr...

Reducere. Ebenezer Scrooge was dead to begin with. He did not go quietly. So said the workers at the London Institute for the Insane.Twenty-five years have p...

Reducere. An examination of the sacred botany and the pagan origins and rituals of Christmas - Analyzes the symbolism of the many plants associated with Chri...

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 ...

DescriptionVolume III completes almost 10 years of extensive research into colloquial and figurative English. The series, Most Comprehensive Origin...

A selection of science-fiction tales from the close of the 'Romantic' period to the end of the First World War. It gathers together classic short s...

DescriptionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.Th...

Reducere. In the half-century since the appearance of Hannah Arendt's seminal work The Origins of Totalitarianism, innumerable historians have detailed the h...

Reducere. LARGE PRINT EDITION More at LargePrintLiberty.com Written in the same year that he testified before the Currency Commission in Austria-Hungary, and...

DescriptionYoga, tantra and other forms of Asian meditation are practised in modernized forms throughout the world today, but most introductions to...

Reducere. It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experie...

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Established in the 19th century to carry passengers and freight across the Atlantic and Pacific, this is the story of the development of the compan...

This book offers a new sort of theory textbook that looks back to trace the development of our understanding of crime and deviance throughout the a...

Reducere. DescriptionGrace Albright is hoping for a Christmas miracle. Grace, a blind schoolteacher, and her father, the Reverend Bill Albright, are trying t...