From Long Ago and Many Lands

From Long Ago and Many Lands
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Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 1558966579
ISBN-13 : 9781558966574
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis From Long Ago and Many Lands by :

A collection of folk tales, legends, fables, and religious stories from around the world.

A Child's Book of Stories

A Child's Book of Stories
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 508
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ISBN-10 : PRNC:32101063603847
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Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis A Child's Book of Stories by :

Folk tales from England, Norway and India, as well as fairy tales from Grimm, Andersen and Perrault, fables from Aesop, and tales from the Arabian nights.

Peeps At Many Lands Ancient Rome

Peeps At Many Lands Ancient Rome
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Publisher : Lulu.com
Total Pages : 109
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ISBN-10 : 9780359931859
ISBN-13 : 0359931855
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Peeps At Many Lands Ancient Rome by : James Baikie

An introduction to the ancient city of Rome, its early history, and how its geographical position helped it become the seat of the Roman Empire. Traveling to the city in A.D. 71 we witness the triumph of Vespasian and Titus as well as the games in the Colosseum and the Circus Maximus. And finally we learn that the secret to Rome's greatness is discipline, inculcated in her citizens by military training and held up as an ideal in both home and civic life

The Invention of the Land of Israel

The Invention of the Land of Israel
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9781844679461
ISBN-13 : 1844679462
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Invention of the Land of Israel by : Shlomo Sand

What is a homeland and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land? Following the acclaimed and controversial The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the mysterious sacred land that has become the site of the longest-running national struggle of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Invention of the Land of Israel deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the Holy Land and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it. Sand’s account dissects the concept of “historical right” and tracks the creation of the modern concept of the “Land of Israel” by nineteenth-century Evangelical Protestants and Jewish Zionists. This invention, he argues, not only facilitated the colonization of the Middle East and the establishment of the State of Israel; it is also threatening the existence of the Jewish state today.

Folk Tales from Many Lands

Folk Tales from Many Lands
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 286
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ISBN-10 : 1429786396
ISBN-13 : 9781429786393
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Folk Tales from Many Lands by : Lilian Gask

Originally published in 1919. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
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Publisher : DigiCat
Total Pages : 157
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ISBN-10 : EAN:8596547087366
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Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by : Mary Seacole

Mary Seacole (1805 to 1881) was an amazing woman, in many ways way ahead of her time. She was a free black woman born in Jamaica of Scottish and Creole descent. This is her autobiographical account of her colourful and brave life. She was named 'the greatest black Briton' in 2004 and also posthumously awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit.

The Many-Colored Land

The Many-Colored Land
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 435
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ISBN-10 : 9780547892474
ISBN-13 : 0547892470
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis The Many-Colored Land by : Julian May

In the year 2034, Theo Quderian, a French physicist, made an amusing but impractical discovery: the means to use a one-way, fixed-focus time warp that opened into a place in the Rhone River valley during the idyllic Pliocene Epoch, six million years ago. But, as time went on, a certain usefulness developed. The misfits and mavericks of the future—many of them brilliant people—began to seek this exit door to a mysterious past. In 2110, a particularly strange and interesting group was preparing to make the journey—a starship captain, a girl athlete, a paleontologist, a woman priest, and others who had reason to flee the technological perfection of twenty-second-century life. Thus begins this dazzling fantasy novel that invites comparisons with the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ursula Le Quin. It opens up a whole world of wonder, not in far-flung galaxies but in our own distant past on Earth—a world that will captivate not only science-fiction and fantasy fans but also those who enjoy literate thrillers. The group that passes through the time-portal finds an unforeseen strangeness on the other side. Far from being uninhabited, Pliocene Europe is the home of two warring races from another planet. There is the knightly race of the Tanu—handsome, arrogant, and possessing vast powers of psychokinesis and telepathy. And there is the outcast race of Firvulag—dwarfish, malev-o olent, and gifted with their own supernormal skills. Taken captive by the Tanu and transported through the primordial European landscape, the humans manage to break free, join in an uneasy alliance with the forest-dwelling Firvulag, and, finally, launch an attack against the Tanu city of light on the banks of a river that, eons later, would be called the Rhine. Myth and legend, wit and violence, speculative science and breathtaking imagination mingle in this romantic fantasy, which is the first volume in a series about the exile world. The sequel, titled The Golden Torc, will follow soon.

Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt

Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt
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Publisher : Good Press
Total Pages : 93
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ISBN-10 : EAN:4057664627056
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Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt by : James Baikie

Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt by James Baikie is a journey through Egypt and a sensitive and comprehensive look at Egypt's geography and people. Excerpt: "If we were asked to name the most interesting country in the world, I suppose that most people would say Palestine—not because there is anything so very wonderful in the land itself, but because of all the great things that have happened there, and above all because of its having been the home of our Lord. But after Palestine, I think that Egypt would come next. For one thing, it is linked very closely to Palestine by all those beautiful stories of the Old Testament, which tell us of Joseph, the slave boy who became Viceroy of Egypt; of Moses, the Hebrew child who became a Prince of Pharaoh's household; and of the wonderful exodus of the Children of Israel."

Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt

Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt
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Publisher : Good Press
Total Pages : 90
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ISBN-10 : EAN:4057664568922
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Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt by : R. Talbot Kelly

"Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt" by R. Talbot Kelly is a short travelogue of Egypt from a famed English orientalist landscape and genre painter, author, and illustrator. The antiquities found in this exotic region, Cairo, travels on the Nile, the people and customs, the monuments, and the desert landscape are all described in concise but fascinating detail. With this book, readers across the globe were able to live a fraction of the experience of visiting Egypt.

Isabel: Taking Wing

Isabel: Taking Wing
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Publisher : Turtleback Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0613462203
ISBN-13 : 9780613462204
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Isabel: Taking Wing by : Annie Dalton

Dreaming of adventure, 12-year-old Isabel Campion faces a future that seems dull and limited. Then, on the road from London, Isabel survives an attack by brigands and ends up traveling with a band of actors who left London to escape the plague. When given new choices, Isabel must decide what direction her life will take. Illustrations.