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The ancient civilizations that form the basis of our modern world first sprang up in the Eastern Hemisphere, in an area of the Middle East known as the Cradle of Civilization. Through project-based learning, this insightful book examines the history of the Eastern Hemisphere and how it was shaped by trading, wars, and colonialism.
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"A panoramic, eye-opening history of the vast migration of Eastern Europeans to the West by a recent winner of a MacArthur Fellowship. Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas, irrevocably changing both their new lands and the ones they left behind. Their immigration fostered an idea of the 'land of the free, ' and yet more than a third returned home again. In a groundbreaking study, Tara Zahra brilliantly explores...
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In The Great Divide, acclaimed author and historian Peter Watson explores the development of humankind between the Old World and the New, and offers a groundbreaking new understanding of human history.
By 15,000 BC, humans had migrated from northeastern Asia across the frozen Bering land bridge to the Americas. When the last Ice Agecame to an end, the Bering Strait refilled with water, dividing America from Eurasia. This division continued until...
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This book will help you: • to appreciate the depth and beauty of the dominant form of Christianity in Greece, Russia and much of Eastern Europe • to understand the tenets, nature and holy days of Orthodox belief • to recognize the physical features of an Orthodox church, and the spiritual significance of icons • to know what to expect and how to conduct yourself during Orthodox services and ceremonies. Orthodoxy is the dominant form of Christianity...
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Finally-an approach to meditation especially for women!
The benefits of meditations are manifold-but so few practices are tailored to the special needs and interests of women. Now, with Meditation Secrets for Women, you can discover how to love your body and find a time and place to tune into yourself and restore inner balance. Get in touch with your body's natural rhythms. Honor your instincts, and tap into your feminine power so that you can...
67) Making tea
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"In this story featuring carefully leveled text and vibrant illustrations, a boy and his grandpa make tea, showing younger readers how the different states of matter interact in everyday life"--
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Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic manual on the art of living and one of the wonders of the world. In eighty-one brief chapters, the Tao Te Ching llods at the basic predicament of being alive and gives advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit. This book is about wisdom in action. It teaches how wo work for the good with the effortless skill that comes from being in accord with the Tao (the...
69) RISING TIDES
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Chesapeake Bay saga volume 2
Quinn brothers trilogy volume 02
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Quinn brothers trilogy volume 2
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Quinn brothers trilogy volume 02
Thorndike large print romance
Quinn brothers trilogy volume 2
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The second novel in the captivating saga of four brothers living on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay finds Ethan Quinn determined to make the family boat-building business a success. But amidst his achievements lie the challenges of a boy who needs him, a woman and child he loves but never believed he could have, and his own dark past.
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Vladimir Lossky established himself as one of the most brilliant Orthodox scholars in the years between his departure from Russia in 1923 and his death in 1958. His uncompromising faithfulness to Scriptural and patristic tradition, coupled with his constant concern for an articulate Orthodox witness in the West, makes his works indispensable for an understanding of the theology of the Eastern Church today.
In this classic study of Orthodox theology,...
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The Ukrainian-born chef presents "a gorgeous love letter to the food of her homeland" with this vibrant and varied collection of recipes (SAVEUR).
In Mamushka, Olia Hercules takes readers and home cooks on a culinary tour of Eastern Europe-from the Black Sea to Baku, Kiev to Kazakhstan. This beautifully illustrated cookbook features more than one hundred recipes for fresh, delicious, and unexpected dishes from this dynamic and often misunderstood...
73) Planet Earth II
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This 2016 follow-up to the 2006 documentary mini-series "Planet Earth" examines the natural features and wildlife found in various parts of the world, each of the six episodes corresponding to a different category of natural or man-made terrain (e.g., island, mountain, jungle, urban area, etc.).
74) Flight lessons
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When Anna's mother lies dying, Anna learns that her beloved Aunt Rose betrayed both her and her mother in the worst way. Now an acutely mistrustful adult, Anna suffers yet another betrayal, at the hands of her lover. Looking for an escape, Anna returns home. Although Rose has struggled for twenty years to regain Anna's trust, Anna's feelings are as frosty as ever. And Anna is so dead-set on leaving, she fails to recognize true love, even as it reaches...
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Although he was alive around 300 BC, Chinese philosopher Mencius helped pave the way for future generations of Chinese thinkers and theologians. He is best known for his work with Confucianism, and his interpretations of Confucius' sayings shaped the way that the religion is now practiced. He also was one of the scholars at the Jixia Academy, a prestigious school for philosophers. His status allowed him to be one of China's most respected officials....
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The Sanskrit for Patanjali's Yoga Sutras has existed unchanged for more than 2000 years. Purported 'translations' and interpretations do exist, but they are robustly entangled with and distorted by the influence of personal beliefs and the continually accumulated teachings of yoga cultures and religions. This Yoga Sutras book is unique: it avoids those errors by using definitions contemporary with Patanjali, deliberately shunning modern influences....
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A collection of vegetarian dishes influenced by Middle Eastern flavors from Salma Hage, author of the bestselling classic, The Lebanese Kitchen, also published by Phaidon. A definitive, fresh and approachable collection of 150 traditional recipes from an authoritative voice on Middle Eastern home cooking, Salma Hage's new book is in line with the current Western trends of consciously reducing meat, and the ancient Middle Eastern culture of largely...
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To many in the West, Orthodoxy remains shrouded in mystery, an exotic and foreign religion that survived in the East following the Great Schism of 1054 that split the Christian world into two camps-Catholic and Orthodox. However, as the second largest Christian denomination, Orthodox Christianity is anything but foreign to the nearly 300 million worshippers who practice it. For them, Orthodoxy is a living, breathing reality; a way of being Christian...
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