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Refiner's Fire

By: Sylvia Bambola

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A thriller steeped in European culture like The Salzburg Connection, Refiner's Fire serves up serious suspense to avid fiction readers. This book's "secret underground society" is not Nazi war criminals, however-it's the persecuted Christian church. Yuri and Alexander Deyneko, separated as teens in postwar times, are reunited thirty-five years later in 1980s Bucharest. Now on separate sides of Nicolae Ceausescu's Iron Curtain, the secret life of one brother, a top army official and clandestine Christian, and the ambition of the other- now the American Ambassador to Romania-puts them on a collision course with each other. Fates hang on an issue of conscience. Great writing propels readers through the plot toward a gripping climax.

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Multnomah

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0307769429

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9780307769428

The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham

'worldly Cares' at St Albans Abbey in the Fourteenth Century

By: Sylvia Federico

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The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham

'worldly Cares' at St Albans Abbey in the Fourteenth Century

By: Sylvia Federico

A comparative reading of the "literary" works of Thomas Walsingham, highlighting his reaction to contemporary historical events.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1903153638

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9781903153635

Postcolonial Fictions in the Roman de Perceforest

Cultural Identities and Hybridities

By: Sylvia Huot

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Postcolonial Fictions in the Roman de Perceforest

Cultural Identities and Hybridities

By: Sylvia Huot

This vast romance chronicles an imaginary era of pre-Arthurian British history when Britain was ruled by a dynasty established by Alexander the Great. Its story of cultural rise, decline, and regeneration offers an exploration of medieval ideas about ethnic and cultural conflict and fusion, identity and hybridity.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1843841045

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9781843841043

College Rodeo

From Show to Sport

By: Sylvia Gann Mahoney

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College Rodeo

From Show to Sport

By: Sylvia Gann Mahoney

Guts and glory, bulls and barrel racing, spurs and scars are all part of rodeo, a sport of epic legends. Cowboys and cowgirls use brain and brawn to contend for prizes and placement, but more often than not, it is the prestige of honorable competition that spurs them on. College Rodeo covers the history of the sport on college campuses from the first organized contest in 1920 to the national championship of 2003. In the early years of the twentieth century, a growing number of kids from farms and ranches attended college, many choosing the land grant institutions that allowed them to prepare for agricultural careers back home. They brought with them a love for the skills, challenges, and competition they had known—a taste for rodeo. The first-ever college rodeo was held at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. It offered bronco busting, goat roping, saddle racing, polo, a greased pig contest, and country ballads from a quartet. The rodeo was a fund-raising effort that grew enormously popular; by its third year, the rodeo at Texas A&M drew some fifteen hundred people. The idea spread to other campuses, and nineteen years later, the first intercollegiate rodeo with eleven colleges and universities competing was held in 1939 at the ranch arena of an entrepreneur near Victorville, California. Seldom does a college sport exist for eighty years without having a book written about it, but college rodeo has. Sylvia Gann Mahoney has written the first history of the sport, tracing its growth parallel to the development of professional rodeo and the growth of the organizational structure that governs college rodeo. Mahoney draws on personal interviews as well as the archives of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association and newspaper accounts from participating schools and their hometowns. Mahoney chronicles the events, profiles winners, and analyzes the organizational efforts that have contributed to the colorful history of college rodeo. She traces the changing role of women, noting their victories that were ignored by much of the contemporary press in the early days of the sport. College Rodeo highlights outstanding individuals through extensive interviews, giving credit to the pioneers of college rodeo. This book includes rare photographs of rodeo teams, champions, and rodeo queens, blended with the true life details of sweat and tears that make intercollegiate rodeo such a popular sport.

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Texas A&M University Press

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158544331X

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9781585443314

The Holy Place

Architecture, Ideology, and History in Russia

By: Konstantin Akinsha,Grigorii Kozlov,Sylvia Hochfield

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The Holy Place

Architecture, Ideology, and History in Russia

By: Konstantin Akinsha,Grigorii Kozlov,Sylvia Hochfield

This title surveys two centuries of Russian history through a succession of ambitious architectural projects designed for a single construction site in central Moscow. It explores each project for this ideologically-charged site and documents the grand projects that were built as well as those that were only dreamed.

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Yale University Press

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0300144970

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9780300144970

Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards

By: Sylvia E. Thornbush,Mary J. Thornbush

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Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards

By: Sylvia E. Thornbush,Mary J. Thornbush

his interdisciplinary reference work presents a linked consideration, to the reader, of physical- cultural (physicocultural) representations of headstones located in urban churchyards in England and Scotland. The geomorphology of landscapes relevant to these locations is explained with the help of detailed case studies from Oxford and Edinburgh. The integrated physicocultural approach addresses the conservation of the archaeological record and presents a cross-temporal perspective of landscape change – of the headstones as landforms in their landscape (as part of deathscapes). The physical record (of headstones) is examined in the context of both cultural representation and change. In this way, an integrated approach is employed that connects the physical (natural) and cultural (social) records kept by historians and archeologists over the years. Changing Landscapes in Urban British Churchyards is of interest to geomorphologists, historians and scholars interested in understanding landscaping studies and cultural nuance of specific historical urban sites in England and Scotland.

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Bentham Science Publishers

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9811441243

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9789811441240

Annals of English Drama, 975-1700

An Analytical Record of All Plays, Extant Or Lost, Chronologically Arranged and Indexed by Authors, Titles, Dramatic Companies & C

By: Alfred Harbage,Sylvia S. Wagonheim

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Annals of English Drama, 975-1700

An Analytical Record of All Plays, Extant Or Lost, Chronologically Arranged and Indexed by Authors, Titles, Dramatic Companies & C

By: Alfred Harbage,Sylvia S. Wagonheim

An analytical record of all plays, extinct or lost, chronologically arranged and indexed by authors, titles and dramatic companies.

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Psychology Press

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0415010993

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9780415010993

Doing Business with Germans

Their Perception, Our Perception

By: Sylvia Schroll-Machl

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Doing Business with Germans

Their Perception, Our Perception

By: Sylvia Schroll-Machl

Sylvia Schroll-Machl writes about German cultural standards. Although her work is empirically ascertained and presented in a systematic way, she is able to maintain a certain self-critical levity. Her target groups are Germans and foreigners, who vocationally have something to do with Germans. Her goal is to promote mutual understanding and to offer assistance for intercultural interactions.

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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

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3647995568

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9783647995564

The Greatest Black Achievers in History

By: Sylvia Lovina Chidi

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The Greatest Black Achievers in History

By: Sylvia Lovina Chidi

This book summarizes the lives of the great black people that have made great contributions to the lives of many Worldwide. The book has brief detailed biographies of black activists, scientists, educators, entertainers, musicians, inventors, politicians, authors, sportsmen & women, and others who have surpassed the normal to make historical marks on society. The biographical account of each individual provides relevant dates, events and achievements by the individual. There are pictures and excellent drawings that highlight particular moments in history. This is one of the greatest pieces of work on black history and it will appeal to everyone including, students, groups, universities, libraries, schools and anyone interested in history of black people in the World.

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Lulu.com

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1291909338

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9781291909333

Many Tender Ties

Women in Fur-trade Society, 1670-1870

By: Sylvia Van Kirk

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Many Tender Ties

Women in Fur-trade Society, 1670-1870

By: Sylvia Van Kirk

Beginning with the founding of the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1670, the fur trade dominated the development of the Canadian west. Although detailed accounts of the fur-trade era have appeared, until recently the rich social history has been ignored. In this book, the fur trade is examined not simply as an economic activity but as a social and cultural complex that was to survive for nearly two centuries. The author traces the development of a mutual dependency between Indian and European traders at the economic level that evolved into a significant cultural exchange as well. Marriages of fur traders to Indian women created bonds that helped advance trade relations. As a result of these "many tender ties," there emerged a unique society derived from both Indian and European culture.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806118474

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9780806118475

Perspectives on Play

Learning for Life

By: Avril Brock,Sylvia Dodds,Pam Jarvis,Yinka Olusoga

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Perspectives on Play

Learning for Life

By: Avril Brock,Sylvia Dodds,Pam Jarvis,Yinka Olusoga

This book presents a review and critical analysis of research in the field whilst exploring development in the early childhood years from a broad range of multi-disciplinary perspectives. Brock's approach will offer a dynamic perspective on the practice of play that will rival existing texts currently on the market, it will be a valuable asset for any student studying for an Early Childhood, Childhood, or Education Studies degree.

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Routledge

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1317864743

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9781317864745

Outsiders

The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance

By: Sylvia Huot

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Outsiders

The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance

By: Sylvia Huot

Giants are a ubiquitous feature of medieval romance. As remnants of a British prehistory prior to the civilization established, according to the Historium regum Britannie, by Brutus and his Trojan followers, giants are permanently at odds with the chivalric culture of the romance world. Whether they are portrayed as brute savages or as tyrannical pagan lords, giants serve as a limit against which the chivalric hero can measure himself. In Outsiders: The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance, Sylvia Huot argues that the presence of giants allows for fantasies of ethnic and cultural conflict and conquest, and for the presentation—and suppression—of alternative narrative and historical trajectories that might have made Arthurian Britain a very different place. Focusing on medieval French prose romance and drawing on aspects of postcolonial theory, Huot examines the role of giants in constructions of race, class, gender, and human subjectivity. She selects for study the well-known prose Lancelot and the prose Tristan, as well as the lesser known Perceforest, Le Conte du papegau, Guiron le Courtois, and Des Grantz Geants. By asking to what extent views of giants in Arthurian romance respond to questions that concern twenty-first-century readers, Huot demonstrates the usefulness of current theoretical concepts and the issues they raise for rethinking medieval literature from a modern perspective.

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268081832

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9780268081836

World Poverty

By: Sylvia Whitman

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World Poverty

By: Sylvia Whitman

Examine the situations in the United States, India, Syria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guatemala, and the Ukraine, and investigate the strategies that these national governments have adopted to fight poverty.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438109067

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9781438109060

After Whistler

The Artist and His Influence on American Painting

By: Linda Merrill,Robyn Asleson,Lee Glazer,Lacey Taylor Jordan,John Siewert,Marc Simpson,Sylvia Yount

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After Whistler

The Artist and His Influence on American Painting

By: Linda Merrill,Robyn Asleson,Lee Glazer,Lacey Taylor Jordan,John Siewert,Marc Simpson,Sylvia Yount

This illustrated book - published to commemorate the centenary of the artist's death - addresses Whistler's extraordinary legacy and establishes his pivotal place in the history of American art.

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Yale University Press

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0300101252

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9780300101256

Globalization and Inequalities

Complexity and Contested Modernities

By: Sylvia Walby

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Globalization and Inequalities

Complexity and Contested Modernities

By: Sylvia Walby

How has globalization changed social inequality? Why do Americans die younger than Europeans, despite larger incomes? Is there an alternative to neoliberalism? Who are the champions of social democracy? Why are some countries more violent than others? In this groundbreaking book, Sylvia Walby examines the many changing forms of social inequality and their intersectionalities at both country and global levels. She shows how the contest between different modernities and conceptions of progress shape the present and future. The book re-thinks the nature of economy, polity, civil society and violence. It places globalization and inequalities at the centre of an innovative new understanding of modernity and progress and demonstrates the power of these theoretical reformulations in practice, drawing on global data and in-depth analysis of the US and EU. Walby analyses the tensions between the different forces that are shaping global futures. She examines the regulation and deregulation of employment and welfare; domestic and public gender regimes; secular and religious polities; path dependent trajectories and global political waves; and global inequalities and human rights.

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SAGE

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1473903661

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9781473903661

Genograms

Assessment and Intervention

By: Monica McGoldrick,Randy Gerson,Sylvia Shellenberger

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Genograms

Assessment and Intervention

By: Monica McGoldrick,Randy Gerson,Sylvia Shellenberger

Widely used by both family therapists and family physicians, the genogram is a graphic way of organizing the mass of information gathered during a family assessment and finding patterns in the family system. This popular text, now updated and expanded, provides a standard method for constructing a genogram, doing a genogram interview, and interpreting the results. Both entertaining and instructive, Genograms is an ideal way to introduce all those involved in family treatment - family therapists, physicians, nurses, social workers, pastoral counselors, and trainees in these fields - to this essential assessment and intervention tool.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393702944

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9780393702941

Haunting at the Beach

By: Sylvia Harvie

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Haunting at the Beach

By: Sylvia Harvie

Vera found herself in a far-fetched situation when her sons, Ian and Philip, invited her to join them on their fishing holiday near the beach at The Entrance, situated on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Cassandra and Vera were close every day of Veras holiday when she would sit on the beach in the shade of a large rock and read her novel. Cassandra sensed that Vera was a clever and intuitive woman who would be open to the spiritual world and had the business knowledge to get the help Cassandra needed, so she asked Vera for help. Vera and Anthony met at a beachside cafe nearby. Anthonys sister, with the help of friends, organised the meeting between Vera and Anthony.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1543401287

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9781543401288

Children's Literature in Action

A Librarian's Guide

By: Sylvia M. Vardell

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Children's Literature in Action

A Librarian's Guide

By: Sylvia M. Vardell

This practitioner-oriented introduction to literature for children ages 5–12 covers the latest trends, titles, and tools for choosing the best books and materials as well as for planning fun and effective programs and activities. The third edition of Children's Literature in Action provides an activity-oriented survey of children's literature for undergraduate and graduate students seeking licensure and degrees that will lead to careers working with children in schools and public libraries. Author Sylvia M. Vardell draws on her 30 years of university teaching and extensive familiarity with the major textbooks in the area of children's literature to deliver something different: a book that focuses specifically on the perspective and needs of the librarian, with emphasis on practical action and library applications. Its contents address seven major genres: picture books, traditional tales, poetry, contemporary realistic fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, and informational books. Each chapter includes practical applications for the educator who shares books with children and who develops literature-based instruction. Chapters are enriched by author comments, collaborative activities, featured books, special topics, and activities including selected awards and celebrations, historical connections, recommended resources, issues for discussion, and assignment suggestions. This new edition incorporates the 2018 AASL National School Library Standards.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 13

9798216060048

The Mechanical Hypothesis in Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy

By: Sylvia Berryman

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The Mechanical Hypothesis in Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy

By: Sylvia Berryman

This book argues against the assumption that the ancient Greeks did not take mechanics seriously.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521763762

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9780521763769

The Greatest Chess Kings

By: Sylvia Lovina Chidi

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The Greatest Chess Kings

By: Sylvia Lovina Chidi

This books covers the lives and selected chess games of the following players; George Koltanowski, Ruy Lopez de Segura, Wilhelm Steinitz, Paul Morphy, Emanuel Lasker, Jose Raul Capablanca, Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, Carlsen Magnus, Kramnik, Vladimir, Aronian Levon, Radjabov Teimour, Karjakin Sergey, Anand Viswanathan, Topalov Veselin, Nakamura Hikaru, Mamedyarov Shakhriyar, Grischuk Alexander, Caruana Fabiano, Morozevich, Alexander, Ivanchuk Vassily, Svidler Peter, Leko Peter, Wang Hao, Kamsky Gata, Gelfand Boris, Gashimov Vugar, Jakovenko Dmitry, Maurice Ashley and Pontus Carlsson. 242 chess games of the current and past male chess players in the world. 8 fantastic games have been chosen from each of the modern chess Kings. The remaining 20 games are games that include previous and current male chess pioneers This book is full of history and an excellent book for studying openings, middle games, end games and solving problems.

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509

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Lulu.com

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1291908803

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9781291908800

Emeralds Green

By: Sylvia Frances Chan

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Emeralds Green

By: Sylvia Frances Chan

These poems are about the ordinary man and the unusual. I have conversations in my poems. With the self, my darling, God and oftentimes, I am talking to you too. Love is my most favourite subject. This kind of love, as you can read in my poems, is a unique love. The poems in this book are laden and layered. They are not as simple as they seem, they have to be pondered on. I note in my poems beautiful experiences, but the smallest sad things too, those can be the loveliest. Sad things, we do not display, we keep it deep inside us, even these I want to share with you. People say that poems can heal a soul. My friends say that my poems contain healing words. In what way, better to read them yourself. Life is one exciting event, I assure you. I hope to write more. Wishing you many pleasant hours.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493193511

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9781493193516

Visits from the Afterlife

By: Sylvia Browne

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Visits from the Afterlife

By: Sylvia Browne

In Visits from the Afterlife, Browne journeys even deeper into The Other Side, detailing stirring true encounters, describing visitations with ghosts, in-transition spirits, and other troubled souls seeking peace and closure. She travels to locations as diverse as haunted homes and ships possessed by otherworldly forces. Through these spiritual visits, she explains the reasons behind many of the world's most bizarre and mysterious hauntings, and she shares her own personal, face-to-face experiences with these inexplicable phenomena. From surprising revelations about the spirit world to moving reunions with those who have moved on, Visits from the Afterlife once again illustrates spirits' profound and eternal influence on our earthly lives.

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Penguin

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1101210141

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9781101210147

Contemporary Australian Business Law

By: Mark Giancaspro,Gabrielle Golding,Beth Nosworthy,David Brown,Jessica Viven-Wilksch,Alexandra Wawryk,Sylvia Villios,Paula Zito

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Contemporary Australian Business Law

By: Mark Giancaspro,Gabrielle Golding,Beth Nosworthy,David Brown,Jessica Viven-Wilksch,Alexandra Wawryk,Sylvia Villios,Paula Zito

Contemporary Australian Business Law makes key legal concepts accessible to business students, while maintaining academic rigour.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108984673

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9781108984676

Gateway to the Heavenly City

Crusader Jerusalem and the Catholic West (1099–1187)

By: Sylvia Schein

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Gateway to the Heavenly City

Crusader Jerusalem and the Catholic West (1099–1187)

By: Sylvia Schein

Gateway to the Heavenly City presents a penetrating analysis of the attitudes of Latin Christendom towards Jerusalem in the period from the First Crusade to the Muslim capture of the city in 1187. Sylvia Schein starts by exploring the changes in the Western image of Jerusalem, first as the goal of the crusade, then after its conquest. She examines the theories used to justify the conquest and rule of the Holy City and the attitudes of the papacy towards this new rival centre of sanctity. Subsequent chapters describe the new character of Jerusalem's sanctity as the city of the Old and New Testaments, as the earthly gateway to the heavenly city, and in apocalyptic terms as the centre of the world and the place where the events of the end of the world would unroll. The reaction to the fall of crusader Jerusalem in 1187 is the subject of the final chapter. Based on a detailed examination of the source materials, from poetry and song to chronicles and charters, this book paints a clear picture of the place of the Earthly and the Heavenly Jerusalem in Latin Christendom.

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Routledge

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1351934902

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9781351934909

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