Herbert Allen Giles (8 December 1845 - 13 February 1935) was a British diplomat and sinologist who was the professor of Chinese at the University of Cambridge for 35 years. Giles was educated at...
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This is the first book on the history of Japanese theology written by Japanese theologians. Editor Yasuo Furuya and four other eminent Japanese theologians - Akio Dohi, Toshio Sato, Seiichi Yagi, a...
Angielskie wydanie popularnej książki, która w przystępnej i atrakcyjnej formie opisuje dzieje Krakowa. Książka opisuje tysiąc lat z historii Krakowa od czasów przedhistorycznych do ...
Discover the beguiling history of witchcraft, magic, and superstition through the centuries in this stunningly illustrated title.A History of Magic, Witchcraft and the Occult charts the...
Exhilarating . . . a work of scholarship, but also inspiration. . . Go and read Jablonka and change the world' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times'An unexpected bestseller in France. . . ...
The first English translation of part one of Li Anshan's seminal work Feizhou Huaqiao Huaren Shi, A History of Overseas Chinese in Africa to 1911 explores early Chinese knowledge of and contacts wi...
George Eastman's career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak progressed from a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, and a crucial ...
Four women, unknowingly bound together by one man's violent past.Johnny Wharton is a history professor and descendant of a Texas "planter family" - a legacy that's followed him...
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This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never f...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and r...
After Poland was wiped off the map of Europe in 1794 and divided between Russia, Prussia and Austria the found some redemption with Napoleon. While the Russians attempted to integrate the Poles ...
A History of the Popes tells the story of the oldest living institution in the Western world-the papacy. From its origins in Saint Peter, Jesus' chief disciple, through Pope Benedict XVI today, the...
A Holy Haunting aims not only safeguard a Christianity under assault, but to present the beauty of the gospel by revisiting modern misunderstandings of faith and prayer.
Blair's wonderfully sensual poems teem with animals and insects who soothe and torment, whose lives and deaths complement and foreshadow joys and sorrows, as the speaker copes with the decline a...
Forbidden Magic. Shadowy Intrigue. Heart-Pounding Action. Slow-Burn Romance.Eira is now a champion of the Solaris Empire. She's off to a land she's on...
A bold, provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes - and what we can do about itWe are living through the most prosperous age in all of ...