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Mondadori Il corsaro nero
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Sturm & Drang Marilyn
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) The Death of the Soul in Romans 7: Sin, Death, and the Law in Light of Hellenistic Moral Psychology
The monologue of Romans 7 has proved central to the Christian West, where interpreters such as Augustine and Martin Luther have made the text into a paradigm for the plight of mankind, torn between the demands of God's goodness and its own sinful nature. Emma Wasserman argues that the monologue can be better contextualized within certain intellectual discourses alive in Paul's day. In light of certain Platonic traditions about the soul, the monologue emerges as the voice of reason or mind describing its defeat at the hands of passions and desires represented as sin. Especially as developed by Philo of Alexandria, Platonic traditions of representing extreme cases of immorality account for a number of difficult features of the text. Such traditions can account for the metaphors of enslavement, imprisonment, warfare, and death; the representation of the passions as sin and the association with the body, members, and flesh; the Platonic language about mind and the speaker's role in reasoning, reflecting, and judging; the problem of the law in the first part of the monologue (verses 7-13) and the plight of self-contradiction in the second (14-25). The reading thus finds that the speaker is reason or mind, recounting its discovery that it cannot put any of its good judgments into action because of the dominance of the passions.
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The Sutherland House Inc. Hunting Monsters: An Officer on the Trail of the World’s Worst War Criminals
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Otago University Press Landfall 236
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Lockwood Press Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Volume 57 (2021)
The Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JARCE) was established in 1962 to foster research into the history, languages, social systems, and archaeology of the Egyptian people. It aims to foster a broader knowledge about Egypt among the general public. The journal welcomes article submissions on all periods and aspects of Egyptian civilization. JARCE publishes articles in English, French, or German.
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Monash University Publishing John Jefferson Bray: A Vigilant Life
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Hungry Tomato Ltd KIDS AUTUMN CRAFTS: Kids Seasonal Crafts - STEAM
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Salamander Street Limited THE SH*T
A play about youth work. In one of the thousands of forgotten youth centres across our country, Eric works for a single hour each week to break Daniel out of his spiral towards jail or the grave. But what happens when the work itself becomes a matter of life and death? The Shit by Kenny Emson is an honest, unflinching examination of the relationship between those on the margins of society and the people employed to help them.
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Hungry Tomato Ltd Orangutans: Animals In Danger
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Hungry Tomato Ltd Seasonal Crafts: Over 30 inspirational projects for winter, spring, summer and autumn using nature finds, recycling and your craft box!
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Hungry Tomato Ltd Light and Sound: Stickmen Science Stars
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Hungry Tomato Ltd My Favourite Dinosaurs
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Aurora Metro Publications Ada
To coincide with a tour of the play in 2018-19 • Play about Ada Lovelace, the first computer and AI today • Suitable for schools, colleges and youth groups. • Offers good roles for girls/women to perform relating to STEM subjects
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Gwasg y Bwthyn Cyf Mefus yn y Glaw
A lively and sensitive novel about friendship and the lives of older women. We follow a day in the life of Lili Daniels, a 50 year old authoress who is having difficulty in finding inspiration to write her fifth novel.
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Everything with Words Notes on my Family
Family isn't a word, it's game with too many players. Lou's world is changing, breaking down, chaos is seeping in. Dad is having an affair, Mum has 'an episode', nan's communicating with angels, brother Mikey, struggling with his sexuality, covers every kitchen surface with cakes, her friend Faith discovers the importance of Nietzsche and Fleetwood Mac, then Mikey disappears... Emily Critchley's touching, unsettling and darkly hilarious novel is a hymn to the absurdity and surreal undercurrents that lie beneath ordinary suburban lives.
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University College Dublin Press Shadows from the Trenches: Veterans of the Great War and the Irish Revolution (1918-1923)
Approximately 150,000 Irish officers and men joined the British Army during the First World War. What happened to them when they returned home? What determining role (if any) did they play? Most importantly, did they fall victims of selective revolutionary violence and face the wrath of the IRA for having fought for the British Crown in 1914-1918? As steamers anchored in Dublin Bay and men disembarked, they began to follow different paths according to their expectations, political beliefs, and often according to the possibilities their mother-land would consent to offer them. Transfers of loyalty and transfers of military skills characterised the demobilisation of those Great War veterans. Hundreds pledged allegiance to the Irish Republican Army while thousands joined the ranks of the Royal Irish Constabulary and the British Army. After the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, ex-servicemen consolidated the institutions of the new Irish Free State whereas a minority remained loyal to the idea of an Irish Republic. Those who refrained from taking an active part in the transformation of Ireland found themselves in a society plagued by unemployment and ongoing unrest. Largely forgotten in history, their stories beg to be heard. The centenary of the War of Independence and the Civil War represents an unexpected yet welcome moment to challenge traditional narratives and shed light on the contribution of Great War veterans to the Irish Revolution. What happened in Ireland was far from being an isolated case in European history. Re-mobilisations and re-engagements of Great War veterans characterised the internal dynamics within other European countries and states undergoing post-war transformations, revolutions or civil conflicts. Drawing on archives in in England, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and on hitherto unsolicited testimonies, Emmanuel Destenay tracks the trajectories of these shadows from the trenches, unveiling their hopes, expectations and uncertainties.
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University College Dublin Press Signatories
2016 marks the centenary of the Easter Rising, known as "the poets' rebellion", for among their leaders were university scholars of English, history and Irish. The ill-fated revolt lasted six days and ended ignominiously with the rebels rounded up and their leaders sentenced to death. The signatories of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic must have known that the Rising would be crushed, must have dreaded the carnage and death, must have foreseen that, if caught alive, they would themselves be executed. Between 3 and 12 May 1916, the seven signatories were among those executed by firing squad in Kilmainham Gaol. Now 100 years later, eight of Ireland's finest writers remember these revolutionaries in a unique theatre performance. The forgotten figure of Elizabeth O'Farrell - the nurse who delivered the rebels' surrender to the British - is also given a voice. Signatories comprises the artistic responses of Emma Donoghue, Thomas Kilroy, Hugo Hamilton, Frank McGuinness, Rachel Fehily, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Marina Carr and Joseph O'Connor to the seven signatories and Nurse O'Farrell.They portray the emotional struggle in this ground-breaking theatrical and literary commemoration of Ireland's turbulent past. A performance introduction on the staging of the play is given by Director Patrick Mason, and an introduction by Lucy Collins, School of English, Drama and Film, UCD, sets the historical context of the play.
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Prospect Books Cooking Up History: Chefs of the Past
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London Publishing Partnership Britain's Cities, Britain's Future
Britain invented the modern industrial city in the nineteenth century. But by the late 20th century most British cities had become basket cases. Today London overshadows the rest of the country, as the UK's only 'world city'. No other large country is anything like as economically and politically centralized. This concentration of power damages Britain's economy and fuels the sense of discontent felt by the millions of people for whom the capital seems like another planet. Yet it is cities that are fuelling economic growth around the world. Mike Emmerich looks at the DNA of cities and how it expresses itself in their institutions, governance, public services, religion and culture. He argues that the UK needs a devolutionary ratchet, allowing major cities the freedom to seek devolution of any area of public spending that is not inherently national in nature (such as defence). Cities should have powers to raise some of their own taxes including business, property and sales based taxes and to increase them. He calls for sustained investment in transport and infrastructure, and also training. An innovation-centric industrial policy would also have an emphasis on the social fabric of cities and - crucially - their institutions.
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Quality Chess UK LLP Grandmaster Repertoire 16: The French Defence: Volume 3
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University College Dublin Press Reds and the Green: Ireland, Russia and the Communist Internationals, 1919-43
In August 1922, at the height of the Civil War, when the Communist Party of Ireland could count on barely 50 activists, two agents of the Communist International held a secret meeting in Dublin with two IRA leaders. The four signed an agreement providing for the transformation of Sinn Fein into a socialist party. In return, Moscow was to assist with the supply of weapons to the IRA. The incident illustrates what made the Comintern a beacon of hope to beleaguered revolutionaries or an object of sometimes hysterical suspicion. From February 1918, when over 10,000 thronged central Dublin to acclaim the Bolshevik revolution, to July 1941, when the Party in Eire was dissolved by the votes of just 20 members, communists were involved with every radical movement, and demonised in every pulpit. Based on former Soviet archives, Reds and the Green shows why Irish Marxists and republicans turned repeatedly to Russia for support and inspiration, what Moscow wanted from Ireland, and how the Comintern was able to direct an Irish political party.
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Wellhouse Publishing Ltd Irritable Bowel Diet
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Capital Transport Publishing The Underground Pioneers
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Ashgrove Publishing Ltd The Inbetween People
'I am writing this for you Saleem. I am writing about us, about how I loved you, and how I killed you.' As Avi Goldberg, the son of a Jewish pioneer, sits at a desk in a dark cell in a military prison in the Negev desert, he fills the long nights writing about his friend Saleem, an Israeli Arab he befriended on a beach one scorching July day, and the story of Saleem's family, whose loss of their Ancestral home in 1948 cast a long shadow over their lives. Avi and Saleem understand about the past: they believe it can be buried, reduced to nothing. But then September 2000 comes and war breaks out - endless, unforgiving and filled with loss. And in the midst of the Intifada, which rips their peoples apart, they both learn that war devours everything, that even seemingly insignificant, utterly mundane, things get lost in war and that, sometimes, if you do not speak of these things, they are lost to you forever. Set amongst the white chalk Galilee Mountains and the hostile desert terrain of the Negev Desert, the inbetween people is a story of longing that deals with hatred, forgiveness, and the search for redemption. The haunting poetic tone is not unlike that of Ben Okri's 'The Famished Road', whilst the themes examined are similar to those dealt with by Pat Barker in 'The Ghost Road'. The simplicity of the tone is unflinching throughout, and depicts the eternal search for a home and a sense of place.
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Andrews UK Limited The Giant at Number Two
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Y Lolfa Trigo
An epic, fantasy story about revenge and justice, corruption and power, loneliness and friendship. We learn of the obstacles facing the inhabitants of the Four Islands. On one of the islands, called Trigo, lives Calrach, who is locked in the Dark Cave, and is looking for a way to escape.
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Octopus Publishing Group Make, Stitch & Knit for Baby: 35 Super-Cute and Easy Craft Projects
This contemporary craft book is packed with easy, affordable projects to help you make unique baby gifts with a French-chic twist.From simple cotton bibs, shorts and soft toys, to a basic cushion and straightforward knitted blanket, the projects are clearly explained and easy-to-follow. Other crafty step-by-steps include a hanging mobile, finger puppets, soft rattles and sensory toys. Whether you're expecting a baby and want to add a personal touch to their bedroom, or you'd like to make something special for your grandchild or friends' babies, Make, Stitch & Knit for Baby is the go-to book for creating handmade, stylish baby items. Each project is set out with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and range from curious beginner, to providing inspiration for the more experienced crafter.
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Indie Novella Dial One For Revenge
Cassie Richardson wants revenge. She's angry. And dead. Like, murdered dead. Working for Dial One for Revenge - an afterlife vengeance for hire, she remains top of the leader board and powering through her cases to get her hundred file. Inside it - her killer's name. A few rules - work hard, no distractions and no contact with the unnecessary living. Stay detached from who you once were, keep the Miseria away, the Board happy, don't give your Nem any trouble and you won't be taken. Easy, right? Alongside Cassie, her PA and Doorkeeper work with her to keep her on top of her game, in between her situationship with Elodie and meetings at the Nutmeg Cafe, things seem to be going in the right direction. However, when Cassie stumbles into Perrie in the outside world, a very much alive psychic girl of her dreams, everything changes. Can an un-bucket list be just what Cassie needs? And is the vengeance she's been dreaming of really what she wants?
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North Star Editions Travel Bucket Lists: Animal Encounter Bucket List
Animals come in all shapes and sizes. There are many incredible ways to encounter animals, from hiking at parks to visiting a zoo. Animal Encounter Bucket List examines some amazing ways and places to see animals in person. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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North Star Editions Weird and Wonderful Animals: Blowfish
This title offers a compelling look at the behavior, habitat, and life cycle of blowfish. Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text aid comprehension for readers. Features include a table of contents, two infographics, fun facts, a sidebar, Making Connections questions, a glossary, and an index. QR Codes in the book give readers access to book-specific resources to further their learning.
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North Star Editions Manners All Around
Offers a friendly explanation of good manners to use in daily life, such as meeting new people. Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text aid comprehension for early readers. Features include a table of contents, Making Connections questions, a glossary, and an index. A QR Code in each chapter gives readers access to additional online resources further their learning.
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North Star Editions Star Athletes: Serena Williams, Tennis Icon
Serena Williams: Tennis Icon examines the life of the most successful female tennis player of the modern era, a woman who redefined greatness on the court while balancing a career in fashion design and raising a family off it . Features include a timeline, a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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North Star Editions Inside the Military: Military Aircraft
This title provides readers with a fascinating look at military aircraft. Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text aid comprehension for readers. Features include a table of contents, two infographics, fun facts, a sidebar, Making Connections questions, a glossary, and an index. QR Codes in the book give readers access to book-specific resources to further their learning.
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North Star Editions Ocean Animals: Octopuses
Introduces readers to the life cycle, behavior, physical characteristics, and habitat of octopuses. Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text aid comprehension for early readers. Features include a table of contents, an infographic, fun facts, Making Connections questions, a glossary, and an index. QR Codes in the book give readers access to book-specific resources to further their learning.
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North Star Editions Invasive Species: Tiger Mosquitoes
This title explores the role of tiger mosquitoes in introduced environments, how humans helped spread the species, the threats they pose to ecosystems, and efforts being taken to manage them. This book also includes a table of contents, two infographics, informative sidebars, a “That’s Amazing!” special feature, quiz questions, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. This Focus Readers title is at the Navigator level, aligned to reading levels of grades 3–5 and interest levels of grades 4–7.
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North Star Editions Biggest Names in Music: Shawn Mendes
This title introduces readers to the life and music of Shawn Mendes. Colorful photos, fun facts, and a timeline of key dates in his life make this book an exciting read for young music lovers.
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North Star Editions Superhero Superstars: Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson captivated audiences as Marvel’s Black Widow. With compelling images, fun facts, and an Inside Hollywood special feature, this book provides an engaging overview of Johansson’s life, acting career, and experience playing Black Widow.
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North Star Editions Life Skills: Writing a Letter
This title introduces readers to the parts of a letter and encourages them to try writing a letter. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts and an infographic, this book provides an engaging introduction to this important life skill.
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North Star Editions Life Skills: Planting a Seedling
This title introduces readers to the steps involved in planting a seedling and encourages them to try growing a plant. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts and an infographic, this book provides an engaging introduction to this important life skill.
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North Star Editions Superhero Superstars: Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett Johansson captivated audiences as Marvel’s Black Widow. With compelling images, fun facts, and an Inside Hollywood special feature, this book provides an engaging overview of Johansson’s life, acting career, and experience playing Black Widow.
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North Star Editions Life Skills: Planting a Seedling
This title introduces readers to the steps involved in planting a seedling and encourages them to try growing a plant. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts and an infographic, this book provides an engaging introduction to this important life skill.
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North Star Editions Life Skills: Managing Money
This title introduces readers to the idea of money management and encourages them to try making a budget. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts and an infographic, this book provides an engaging introduction to this important life skill.
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North Star Editions Travel America's Landmarks: Exploring the San Antonio River Walk
Gives readers a close-up look at the history and importance of the San Antonio River Walk. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts, sidebars, a labeled map, and a “That’s Amazing!” special feature, this book provides an engaging overview of this amazing landmark.
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North Star Editions Travel America's Landmarks: Exploring Independence Hall
Gives readers a close-up look at the history and importance of Independence Hall. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts, sidebars, a labeled map, and a “That’s Amazing!” special feature, this book provides an engaging overview of this amazing landmark.
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North Star Editions Travel America's Landmarks: Exploring Ellis Island
Gives readers a close-up look at the history and importance of Ellis Island. With colorful spreads featuring fun facts, sidebars, a labeled map, and a “That’s Amazing!” special feature, this book provides an engaging overview of this amazing landmark.
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