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Beliefs that Changed the World
A history of the great religions, told through their core beliefs, by the editor of The Oxford Dictionary of World ReligionsHow did Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism come to be the world's dominant religions? What are the real beliefs of Islam, and the different branches within it? Who were the key figures of Judaism? And how are religious beliefs shaping today's world conflicts?
This book will answer the key questions about the great religions, from Bahai to Unitarianism, via Jainism, Mormonism, Shinto, and the major branches of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism.
Not only will this book explain what the disciples of each faith believe, but it will provide the reader with a greater understanding of the wider themes of religious and world history. Each chapter comprises an overview of the central tenets of each religion, key quotations from its core beliefs, and a historical depiction of each faith, from its earliest beginnings to its latest incarnations and impact on the modern world.
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Author:John Bowker
A Quiver Full of Arrows
Ordinary Heros,Extraordinary DeedsThe bestselling author of Kane & Abel, The Prodigal Daughter and Honor Among Theives once again astonishes, delights, and electrifies his legions of fans.From London to China, and New York to Nigeria, Jeffrey Archer takes the reader on a tour of ancient heirlooms and modern romance, of cutthroat business and kindly strangers, of lives lived in the realms of power and lives freed from the gloom of oppression. Fortunes are made and squandered, honor betrayed and redeemed, and love lost and rediscovered.Embracing the passions that drive men and women to love and to hate, the short stories in A Quiver Full of Arrows will captivate the hearts and souls of readers of everywhere.
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Author:Jeffrey Archer
The Firemaker
Margaret Campbell, a Chicago forensic pathologist, has been invited by the Chinese government to teach at the Beijing police university. She has accepted the six-week assignment with misgivings but is desperate to escape a troubled life in America. Arriving in Beijing, she checks "nothing to declare” on the health declaration they gave her on the plane---nothing, that is, "except a broken heart and a wasted life, neither of which was contagious.”She gets off to a bad start when her car knocks senior detective Li Yan off his bicycle. In a furious clash, he dresses her down in perfect English. But Li soon finds himself reintroduced to Margaret by his superiors when the newly promoted detective’s first case requires Margaret’s special expertise to identify a horribly burned corpse. Thrown together to track down the killer, Margaret and Li must bury their personal and cultural differences when they uncover a conspiracy that threatens not only their lives, but the lives of millions.
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Author:Peter May
The Edge of the Shadows
The first fire may have been an accident, but what about the second? And the third—the one that killed someone. Becca King and her friends wonder if one of the newcomers to the island is to blame. Perhaps it’s Isis Martin’s brother, Aidan, just home from a school for troubled teens. Or Parker Natalia, a talented musician fired by his bandmates for unknown reasons.Meanwhile, Becca’s education in the paranormal continues, as fellow psychic Diana Kinsale encourages her to explore her growing extrasensory abilities.Beautiful Whidbey Island may seem like a tranquil haven, but all is not as it seems.The third book in the Whidbey Island saga confirms Elizabeth George’s place as a top-notch writer of suspense novels.
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Author:Elizabeth George
The Art of Creative Thinking
Brief Summary
The art of creative thinking reveals how we can transform our businesses, our society and ourselves through a deeper understanding of human creativity. Rod judkins, a lecturer in creativity at the world-famous st martin's college of art, will examine the behaviour of successful creative thinkers and explain how all of us can learn from them to improve our lives.
Judkins will draw on an extraordinary range of reference points, from the dada manifesto to andy warhol's studio, via steve jobs, nobel prize winning economists and many others, and distil a lifetime's expertise into 90 succinct chapters.
Along the way he shares the story of most successful class in educational history (in which every single student won a nobel prize); shows why graphic nudity during public speaking can be both a curse and surprisingly persuasive; and reveals why, in the twenty-first century, it's technically illegal to be as good as good as michelangelo.
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Author:Rod Judkins
Solitude Creek
Jeffery Deaver, "the master of manipulation" (Associated Press) and "the most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the world." (Daily Telegraph, UK) returns with the new, long-awaited, Kathryn Dance thriller.
A tragedy occurs at a small concert venue on the Monterey Peninsula. Cries of "fire" are raised and, panicked, people run for the doors, only to find them blocked. A half dozen people die and others are seriously injured. But it's the panic and the stampede that killed; there was no fire.Kathryn Dance--a brilliant California Bureau of Investigation agent and body language expert--discovers that the stampede was caused intentionally and that the perpetrator, a man obsessed with turning people's own fears and greed into weapons, has more attacks planned. She and her team must race against the clock to find where he will strike next before more innocents die.
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Author:Jeffery Deaver
Day Four
Four planes. Three survivors. One message. It seemed like the end of the world... but it wasn't. This, however, just might be.The extraordinary, unforgettable sequel to THE THREE - perfect for fans of The Shining Girls, The Passage and Lost.Four days into a five day singles cruise on the Gulf of Mexico, the ageing ship Beautiful Dreamer stops dead in the water. With no electricity and no cellular signals, the passengers and crew have no way to call for help. But everyone is certain that rescue teams will come looking for them soon. All they have to do is wait.That is, until the toilets stop working and the food begins to run out. When the body of a woman is discovered in her cabin the passengers start to panic. There's a murderer on board the Beautiful Dreamer... and maybe something worse.
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Author:Sarah Lotz
Travels in the Interior of Africa
In 1795 Mungo Park, a twenty-four year old Scottish surgeon, set out from the Gambia to trace the course of the Niger, a river of which Europeans had no first-hand knowledge. Travels in the Interior of Africa is his journal of that extraordinary journey.
He travelled on the sufferance of African rulers and soon came to depend for his survival on the charity of African villagers. Before he reached the Niger, he en
dured months of captivity in the camp of a Moorish chief. His subsequent misadventures included being robbed and stripped naked by Fulani bandits.
Yet, throughout his travels, Park maintained a remarkable empathy for African societies and beliefs. He recorded what he saw as accurately as he could, and without presuming European superiority. He prefaced his journal with the disclaimer that it ‘has nothing to recommend it but truth'. It is a plain unvarnished tale, without any pretensions of any kind…’ Park’s truthfulness and lack of pretension will endear him to modern readers.
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Author:Mungo Park
The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a major Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. His political philosophy heavily influenced the French Revolution, as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological and educational thought. Rousseau was also a successful composer and made important contributions to music as a theorist.
During the period of the French Revolution, Rousseau was the most popular of the philosophers among members of the Jacobin Club. Rousseau’s Social Contract is a cornerstone in modern political and social thought and makes a strong case for democratic government and social empowerment.
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Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Best of Sherlock Holmes
The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch-sleuth.
Basing his selection around the author's own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle's ' Baker Street Dozen', creating a unique volume which distils the pure essence of the world's most famous detective.
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Author:Arthur Conan Doyle
Antony and Cleopatra
Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the playFull explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the playScene-by-scene plot summaries A key to famous lines and phrasesAn introduction to reading Shakespeare's languageAn essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the playIllustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare booksEssay by Cynthia MarshallThe Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs.
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Author:William Shakespeare
A Pair of Blue Eyes
Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began A Pair of Blue Eyes during the beginning of his courtship of his first wife, Emma. Blue-eyed and high-spirited, Elfride has little experience of the world beyond, and becomes entangled with two men: the boyish architect, Stephen Smith, and the older literary man, Henry Knight. The former friends become rivals, and Elfride faces an agonizing choice.
Written at a crucial time in Hardy's life, A Pair of Blue Eyes expresses more directly than any of his novels the events and social forces that made him the writer he was. Elfride's dilemma mirrors the difficult decision Hardy himself had to make with this novel: to pursue the profession of architecture, where he was established, or literature, where he had yet to make his name. This updated edition contains a new introduction, bibliography, and chronology.
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Author:Thomas Hardy
Act of Treason
It's a gorgeous autumn day in Georgetown. The Democratic candidates for president and vice president of the United States are dutifully glad-handing voters and the media outside a grand estate where a national security conference has just been held, bringing together the world's greatest minds to discuss the issues that are threatening the country. It's American politicking at its best. That's when all hell breaks loose.
When presidential candidate Josh Alexander's motorcade is ambushed by a group of terrorists, the nation is thrown into turmoil. Two weeks following the attack, Alexander is carried to victory by a sympathy vote, but his assailants have not been found. On the surface it appears to be the work of al-Qaeda, despite the tremendous job that the U.S. and her allies have done eliminating terrorist cells within the heart of America. While the FBI and the rest of the government begin scouring the world for jihadists, CIA director Irene Kennedy and Special Agent Skip McMahon are presented with classified information so toxic that they consider destroying it altogether, as it contains intelligence pointing to some of the most powerful players in Washington.
Enter Mitch Rapp, the one man reckless enough to follow the evidence to its explosive conclusion. His journey takes him through the shadowy world of contract killers, into the darkest corners of the globe, and eventually back to Washington, where the fragile pillars of power are shaken to their core.
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Author:Vince Flynn
Becoming Steve Jobs
#1 New York Times Bestseller Becoming Steve Jobs takes on and breaks down the existing myth and stereotypes about Steve Jobs. The conventional, one-dimensional view of Jobs is that he was half-genius, half-jerk from youth, an irascible and selfish leader who slighted friends and family alike. Becoming Steve Jobs answers the central question about the life and career of the Apple cofounder and CEO: How did a young man so reckless and arrogant that he was exiled from the company he founded become the most effective visionary business leader of our time, ultimately transforming the daily life of billions of people?Drawing on incredible and sometimes exclusive access, Schlender and Tetzeli tell a different story of a real human being who wrestled with his failings and learned to maximize his strengths over time. Their rich, compelling narrative is filled with stories never told before from the people who knew Jobs best, and who decided to open up to the authors, including his family, former inner circle executives, and top people at Apple, Pixar and Disney, most notably Tim Cook, Jony Ive, Eddy Cue, Ed Catmull, John Lasseter, Robert Iger and many others. In addition, Brent knew Jobs personally for 25 years and draws upon his many interviews with him, on and off the record, in writing the book. He and Rick humanize the man and explain, rather than simply describe, his behavior. Along the way, the book provides rich context about the technology revolution we all have lived through, and the ways in which Jobs changed our world.Schlender and Tetzeli make clear that Jobs's astounding success at Apple was far more complicated than simply picking the right products: he became more patient, he learned to trust his inner circle, and discovered the importance of growing the company incrementally rather than only shooting for dazzling game-changing products. A rich and revealing account that will change the way we view Jobs, Becoming Steve Jobs<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; l
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Author:Brent Schlender
The Impossible Is Possible by John Mason
Doing What Others Say Can't Be Done... Best-selling author John Mason captures inspirational truth in bite-sized nuggets, a format easy to remember and apply to life s issues, large and small. Every page is packed with practical wisdom and sound advice. Consider:
You ll always miss 100 percent of the shots you don t take.
Worry is like a dark room, because dark rooms are where negatives are developed.
In times of adversity, you don t have an obstacle; you have a choice.
Failure is the opportunity to start over more intelligently.
Faith is like a toothbrush. Everyone should have one and use it daily, but you shouldn't try to use someone else s.
The Impossible is Possible powerfully shows that the past doesn't equal the future-you can live a fruitful life when you step forward in faith, believing that God will never command what he doesn't provide the wherewithal to accomplish. The Impossible is Possible is the hardback with jacket version of John Mason's book You Can Do It.
What is true love
"Do you wake up and feel like you are in the wrong relationship?Are you happy with the person that you are married to or dating?Have you ever doubted that there is nothing like true love because of what you have gone through all your life?Do you even doubt the person that you are dating or married to?Do you really know what is true love is? If you are in relationship, marriage, or considering any of the two then this is the book for you. It has the age-old truths about love that are never told or spoken about but which help in starting, building and sustaining happy and successful relationships or marriages. Those who know these little secrets have very happy and wonderful relationships and marriages BUT they never share them because they seem too obvious. Lady, discover: What will make a man adore you like the Mogul emperor of India did Mumtaz to the point of building beautiful Taj Mahal in her memory. And man, get the answer to the hardest question: What women want. As a lady, be shocked to realize: It is not your intelligence, but childlike innocence that a man will find most alluring. And if you are a man, get to learn: She would be happier in your secure arms than in that car you have annually been working your head off to buy at the expense of spending quality time with her. Just simple truths… Grab a copy and rekindle the flames!
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Author:Bonnie Kim
200 Chocolate Recipes
Everyone needs to treat themselves from time to time, and there's no better way than with the world's most naughty-but-unbelievably-nice ingredient.
From cakes and bakes to desserts and sweets, Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook: 200 Chocolate Recipes provides you with 200 irresistible recipes to satisfy every sweet tooth, including clever variations and new ideas.
Every recipe is illustrated and includes clear step-by-step instructions, making them suitable for any cook. Whether indulging yourself on the sofa or stunning guests with these tantalising dishes, you'll never need another chocolate recipe book again.
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Author:Felicity Barnum-Bobb
Premier Sound Workbook for Baby Class
Premier Number Workbook-Pre-Unit
This Workbook teaches number recognition and numberwork progressing from simple to complex equations that include addition and subtraction.
Whilst there are colourful illustrations that will keep the child interested in learning, the book also has colouring, matching, sorting and drawing activities.
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Author:Tony Njoroge