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The author's story begins in 1946. He recalls a UK canalside cottage and an early family crisis. He moves rapidly onwards to his sporting school years and forward to his active service at sea from age 16. His narrative includes accounts of early worldwide voyages as a Cadet Officer in the British Merchant Navy. Here is an 'all oceans' story. The author credits his own survival to 'the Grace of God and the kindness of strangers'. His account al...

Hill contends that French officials in the postwar decade had already perceived a deep-rooted Amer. indifference, even hostility, to a number of vital French nat. interests. The author examines the harsh disappointments & frustrations these officials experienced in their dealings with Amer. in the 1780s, whether on the high seas, or in U.S. courts & customs houses, in the halls of Congress, or in their encounters with Amer. attitudes. These es...

An eighteen-year-old reads Voltaire and Volney and loses his religion. It’s 1818 in Ottoman Damietta and Muslims and Christians are questioning everything. Mikha’il Mishaqa walks away from the Catholic Church. Thirty years later, he announces his new faith: Evangelical Protestantism, scandalising his community and kicking off a battle of polemics. He soon has bigger problems to contend with: Mishaqa barely escapes death in the most notorious e...

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As soon as I meet Cooper Haywood, my heart starts to open. How is that possible? He is affable and breathtakingly attractive, and before I know it, he has me completely won over. It is then too late. We fall too quickly to consider the repercussions. We love so deeply that being apart makes us hurt. While we're together, it doesn't matter that I still struggle with the ghosts of my past or that he may have a dangerous future.

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It is the year 2204, and things are not quite right at The Bibliotek - the world's largest library and the last hope for the books stored in its 75 subterranean levels. Mads Ingridson, the Bibliotekar, or the 'Keeper' as his staff call him, is facing a hidden threat on several fronts. His best friend and colleague, Rafe Nagy, the most senior and best Finder of books for The Bibliotek, is also a target. But why? Is the sect that is determined t...

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Examining the massive social changes that reshaped the Middle East over the long nineteenth century, this study of the 'Nahda', a cultural renaissance in the Arab world, presents a crucial and often overlooked part of the Arab world's encounter with global capitalist modernity.

Civil government is what we often call the state, which shares characteristics with other institutions. But unlike any other institution, the state can encourage or compel people to do certain things.It sometimes has the legitimate authority to deprive us of life, liberty, and property. The Bible tells us that it and our human governors are ordained by God.The key question this book asks is, "What has God taught us about the state?" The author...

Als die Schnecke Gary entführt wird, machen SpongeBob und Patrick sich auf den Weg in die verlorene Stadt Atlantic City. Unterwegs erleben sie zahlreiche Abenteuer, welche die wahre Kraft der Freundschaft unter Beweis stellen.

Civil government is what we often call the state, which shares characteristics with other institutions. But unlike any other institution, the state can encourage or compel people to do certain things.It sometimes has the legitimate authority to deprive us of life, liberty, and property. The Bible tells us that it and our human governors are ordained by God.The key question this book asks is, "What has God taught us about the state?" The author...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.