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A history of the Catholic Church

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Are you ready to join Oliver, on an epic magical adventure and discover the true meaning of friendship? "Oliver's Magic Watch:Making Friends" is a heart warming tale of adventure, courage, and the power of friendship. One day, while exploring his Gramps' dusty old attic, Oliver stumbles upon the very watch from his Gramp's stories. A mysterious, sparkling portal appears and in the blink of an eye, he's taken to a land filled with wonder and my...

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Internationally renowned journalist, Gerald Greene, postpones his retirement in order to travel back in time to interview the greatest writers, fighters and thinkers that have defined and shaped the 21st century.Assisted by a temperamental time, machine, a short-tempered Doctor and dysfunctional webcam, Greene records:*The biggest (and wettest) copyright case in legal history: Be Like Water my Friend, featuring Lao Tzu, Bruce Lee and David All...

Do you want to start a Tai Chi class - but have a few questions you would like answered first? How long does it take to learn? Is it a martial art or health art? Is it better for your knees or your nerves? How is it useful in your daily life? Find out everything you need to know about the history, the different styles and what to look for in a class - 50 Questions and Answers is the essential book for anyone interested in learning the basics o...

The majority of people learning Tai Chi Forms never finish them. Some are too long, others are just too complex. Fortunately, there are a series of postures that are common to all Tai Chi Schools, and these can be learned quickly and easily in this introductory book. This book takes you through the footwork, the arm positions and then introduces each posture, linking them slowly into a flowing and beautiful short sequence that will serve as a ...

This book provides information on the techniques needed to analyze foods in laboratory experiments. All topics covered include information on the basic principles, procedures, advantages, limitations, and applications. This book is ideal for undergraduate courses in food analysis and is also an invaluable reference to professionals in the food industry. General information is provided on regulations, standards, labeling, sampling and data hand...

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The book outlines why a fundamental paradigm shift is needed in the way these systems are designed and operated, and illustrates how a wide range of accepted human-factors approaches can be applied successfully to road transport to revolutionise the countermeasure design process.

Dai guardiani del Santo Graal del "Parsifal" di Wagner a Brian di Bois Guilbert, il diabolico antieroe dell'"Ivanhoe" di Walter Scott, i Templari, ovvero i Cavalieri del Tempio di Salomone, hanno affascinato l'immaginario occidentale. Ma chi erano davvero? In questo volume Piers Paul Read ripercorre, distinguendo tra storia e leggenda, le vicende del più celebre ordine cavalleresco. L'autore ci mostra come la forza militare dei Templari fosse ...

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The gripping true story of courage, adventure, endurance, and sacrifice.

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For use in schools and libraries only. Records the struggles and sufferings of a group of young Uruguayans during the ten weeks following an airplane crash in the Andes.

When his estranged father dies in perplexing circumstances, the discovery of a long-forgotten diary soon plunges a pharmaceutical worker back into the events which lead to his family's collapse.

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True story about how a group of people who survived an airplane crash in the Andes had toresort to cannibalism in order to stay alive.

Piers Paul Read was born in Buckinghamshire and studied History at Cambridge University. His books include the novel Monk Dawson, for which he won a Hawthornden Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award, and A Married Man which was dramatised for television in 1984 with Anthony Hopkins in the title role. A work of non-fiction, Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, documented the story of the 1972 crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 and was ada...

On October 12, 1972, an Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying a team of rugby players crashed in the remote snowy peaks of the Andes. Ten weeks later, only sixteen of the forty-five passengers were found alive. This is the story of those ten weeks spent in the shelter of the plane's fuselage without food and with scarcely any hope of a rescue. The survivors protected and helped one another, and came to the difficult conclusion that to live meant ...